LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 53, 31 August 1925, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Lecturing at Masterton, states the "Wairarapa Age," Mr. Frank Tato (Director of Education in Victoria) referred to the School of Agriculture at "Victoria College, Wellington, as most remarkable. They had appointed a professor of agriculture, and, apparently, thought that was all there was to do. Professor Peren was not satisfied, and Mr. Tate said ho hoped the people would not be satisfied either.

The visiting and New Zealand cross-country teams were entertained at dinner at Barrett's Hotel on Saturday evening by the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, and afterwards at a dance at the New Century Hall, Kent terrace. Yesterday tho teams were motored through to the Wairarapa, returning to Wellington late in the evening. 1 The members of the New South Wales and "Victorian teams leave for Sydney by the E.M.S. Tahiti to-morrow. The Victorian captain, Mr. W. M. Whyte, may stay here for a few days and proceed to Sydney by the Maheno on Friday.

A start has been made in preparing the place in the Square at Palmerston where the railway deviation will be made to permit of the work of erection of the Soldiers' War Memorial being proceeded with. The shrubbery on the eastern side of the lino through the-Square has been removed, while, the rail fence is also in process of being dismantled. This deviation, will cost the Memorial Committee £350. The idea is to place the memorial in the centre of the Square so that if can be seen from the four arterial streets, radiating from that centre. The memorial is to be a replica in marble and granite of that at Folkestone, England, and has been done by the same sculptor. It will be one of the finest memorials in the Dominion.

Docs advertising, coupled with good organisation, pay? asks the >"Taranaki Daily News." The answer is to be found in the response made this week to the New Plymouth Tourist and Expansion League's call for funds with which to advertise New Plymouth. In past years the league made its appeal in a more or less spasmodic fashion unheralded by any publicity to prepare the ground, and the amount raised annually was somewhere around £125. This year, however, eight days of concentrated advertising focused public attention on the league and its work, and prepared the ground for a well-organised team which recently brought the total receipts for this year to date up to £542, with every expectation that the final total will be £600. The net cost of the campaign is less than 4 per cent.

"If this proposal goes through and a united Taranaki Cricket Association is formed, the time will be ripe and the- opportunity afforded to make a big feature of school cricket," said a delegate at a conference between representatives of the North and South Taranaki Cricket Associations hold at Stratford, reports tho"Nows." Mr. H. J. Grayspn pointed out that the schools were the source from which future cricketers must be drawn. Once Taranaki bocame a united province as far as cricket interests were concerned, it was to bo expected that greater interests would be taken in the game, and in the near future it might be possible to ( engago the services of- a competent "cricket coach, whose services during week days could be devoted to the coaching of schoolboys, with particular atten tion to primary schools.

Land speculators, when cutting up land in the past, have beea required by the Chief Survyeor to set aside a proportion of the subdivision under review as public reserves, states the '' Auckland Star.'' In many cases in the Waitemata county these reserves are generally of no value, and become a nursery for noxious weeds and ■vermin. The local body has no functions in regard to the reserves, nor, indeed, does it apparently desire them. Adjacent to the Titirangi School road are several of these rights-of-way of half a chain in width and mostly on steep grades. There has been much controversy of late years as to whether or not these lands are public roads, and different land registrars have ruled different ways. In order to obtain a definite ruling of the Court that these rights-of-way are not public roads, a property holder applied to the Waitemata County Council last week as a precedent act, for a certificate to the effect that no public money had been spent on them. The request was granted. . ■

The presidents of the industrial associations throughout the Dominion at a recent meeting approved of the following questions for submission to Parliamentary candidates at the next General Election: —(1) Are you in favour of the policy of preference to New Zealand - manufactured goods, all things being equal? Koto-that the value of the goods manufactured in New Zealand for the. year euded April, 1925 (excluding meat, butter, and cheese), was £44,807,489. (2) In the event of your being elected, will you use your influence to ensure that tenders for all Government supplies are advertised in New Zealand? (3) Do you favour an alteration in taxation In the direction of Government Departments being charged Customs duty and harbour taxation on goods ordered from overseas, in view of tIJC fact that Dominion manufacturers have to pay those charges on their imported raw materials? (4) Do you favour preference to Dominion industries by the Service Stores Board and other Government Departments so that they ma}' use every effort to secure their requirements from manufacturers within 11m Dominion before placing t!u>ir orders overseas-; (5) 'Will ynu, generally, during your campaign, express your views conci'Vuiug Hie duly iir' Parliament In the secondary and i,'.:iiin!':u:turijjg industries. !m r.onipliv ini'iiiary to tin 1 primilry industries of the .Dominion, ■■mil will you set out such views in tuisu'cring this circular,'

A small shipment of Clipped Wool Tiirnmiiißs just rf-ccived. ■ Wool trimniin« is the latest for (lie fitmhin^ of coats juirl costumes. Eight fasliif.ui (■Ml.mrs at Y.s 11.3 :i yiinl. " There is n lm: demand fur this trimming. Order uiii-l.v, lihUyMUliy and Slutii*, kid.ArJvl,

A stop towards improving a portion of the main Napier-Hastings road is shortly to be made by the Hawkes Bay County Council, and tenders are now being invited by that body for the construction of one mile of concrete road between Napier and Awaloto.

Amongst the visitors to the reception tendered Dr. Bartolo, of Malta, by the Wellington Eeturned Soldiers' Association, was Sergeant-Major E. Bezar, 88 years of age, one of the few remaining Crimean War veterans, who first landed in Malta in 1855, and returned there, after serving in the Crimea in the famous 57th Kegiment, "The Diehards," in 1856, forming part of its garrison till 1857.

Pear growers in the Auckland district have suffered considerable loss through the ravages of the pear midge, and the Department of Agriculture has been giving some attention to the matter of fighting the menace. Advice has now been received by tho Department at Auckland that the first consignment of a parasite to eradicate the pests will shortly arrive in the Dominion, states the "New Zealand Herald." Tho biological laboratory is making preparations to breed .the insects so that they may be tested out during tho coming summer.

The Wellington Industrial Association is endeavouring to arrange with the Eailway Department for tho running of a commercial train of fourteen carriages throughout the North Island to display the wares of local manufacturers. The carriages are to bo fitted with shelves and showcases. Arrangements are to be made for tho public to enter the train at one end and pass right through on the oneway traffic principle. Tho train will stop at every important town on the line, and will be run on to a siding so that tho ordinary traffic will not bo interfered with.