TARANAKI NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1940, Page 1

TARANAKI NEWS

Petrol Pricts Rise. Prices for standard grade petrol were , increased by id a gallon in Taranaki towns yesterday. Inglewood Highway Grants. All applications by the Inglewood County Council for main highways grants this year have been approved. Fitzroy Posting Eours. Present mail clearances at Fitzroy will be extended to an afternoon collection as a result of representations made by Mr. F. L. Frost, M.r. New Method of Finance. A new idea of financing good accommodation to attract r better class of farm worker to their district is being developed in a Central Taranaki district. Mainly Fair Weather. Although the weather for the most part will be fair and mild, intermittent and scattered falls will extend later into the Taranaki district, according to yesterday's forecast. Crops on Vacant Sections. Volunteers both to tend vacant sections and to prepare them for a crop are desired by the North Taranaki Council of Primary Production. Proceeds of the crops will go to swell patriotic funds. Eggs at New Plymouth. Because of the lack cf organised marketing eggs at New Plymouth tend to become a drug on the market. The North Taranaki Council of Primary Production has taken steps to draw attention to the position. Stratford Military .Camp? That there were facilities in the environs of Stratford that would make a good basis on which to pitch a military camp until Waiouru was ready to receive the men was the contention of the Mayor at a meeting of the Stratford patriotic committee Importancc of Youth Training. The importanc > of sound character training in the youth of to-day so that they would be able to solve the many big problems that would arise when the war was over was emphasised by the New Zealand commissioner of the Boy Scout movement at a' New Plymouth Rotary Club hmcheon yesterday.