LOCAL AND GENERAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 2260, 20 April 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■Members of the Te Kuiti Chamber of Commerce are reminded of tho monthly meeting to be held in tho Municipal Chambers this evening.

A special train conveying the J. C. Williamson English Comedy Company from Auckland to Wellington, passed through Te Kuiti on Sunday evening about 9.30.

The Waitomo Acclimatisation Society has received from The Auckland Society another 20 pheasants which are being liberated in different parts of the district.

"People come along and deliberately park their cars outside my office." said Mr J. A. Flesher, barrister and solicitof, to members of the Canterbury Automobile Association. "Yes, because it's the shady side!" a member interjected, raising a gale of laughter.

More tramps than usual are to be seen carrying swags through the Opotiki district this year." Some of them claim to be new arrivals in the Dominion (says the Gisborne Herald), and they ask for food directly, while the colonial-born tramp prefaces the request by asking for work.

A very interesting relic was shown to - a representative of the Northern Advocate by Mr G. Levy. It consisted of a copy of the of the burgess roll for the year 1843. The roll, which is remarkably well printed, contains 152 names. Many of the names have been perpetuated in street names in Whangarei.

Over 50 tons of old tin cans have been collected and sold to British firms by the Huddersfield Corporation during the past two years. In this way about £825 has been collected for the town's rates.

In the abstract of statistics for March it is stated that the gross indebedness of the General Government a at March 31, 1925. was £227,814,647. or £165 2s lid per head of population, including Maoris; the net indebtedness was £214,287,128, or £155 6s 9d per head

It is calculated that there is one doctor to about each 1000 people in the four chief centres of New Zealand. There are 448 doctors practising in the chief centres, of whom 153 are in Auckland (population 180,790), 105 in Wellington (population 118,490), 103 in Christchurch (population 118,270), and S 7 in Duncdin (population 77,480).

An indication of what results can be obtained by intense cultivation in Te Kuiti is shown in a small plot, at the rear of Mr J. W. West's shop in Rora Street. Mr West has scarlet runner beans measuring inches in length, while tomatoes weighed as much as 13 ozs. These results were obtained on pumice soil with manuring, the scarlet runner plants attaining a height of seven feet.

The London manager of tho Mew Zealand Co-op. dairy Coy. cables under date of the 17th inst., as follows: —Butter: Anchor, salted, 1765, Kangaroo 172 s 3d, Argentine 150 s to 162s', Danish 172 s f.o.b. Market still quiet but firm notwithstanding weakness. Danish, Dutch, Kangaroo firm owing short supply. Retail dropping next Monday. Cheese: white 955, coloured 965; market still quiet,' retail now Is.

Sir James Parr's appeal to buy Brij ish cars may bear fruit in the future, but appearances do not seem to indicate any gFeat demand for them at present. On Dnnedin wharf there are at present stored no few than 107 new cars which have been landed from overseas steamers during the past few days, and of this number it is rather significant that five only are of British manufacture. The remaining 102 cases bear the names of one or other of eight well-known American manufacturers.

"New Zealand has many advantages over Australia," remarked a Melbourne visitor to a Napier Telegraph reporter, "but there is one point on which we, in my opinion, score heavily." He went on to say that he referred to the objectionable habit of expectorating on the pavement. He had, he said, during his stay in Napier and other New Zealand centres, noticed that a good many men thought nothing of spitting on a concrete footpath. "In Melbourne," he remarked, "such a practice would be an expensive oue, as an offender in this direction would be liable to a fine not exceeding £20."

The jaws of the 4341 b mako shark caught by Mr W. A. Home off Piercey Island. Bay of Islands, form an iuieresting feature in the window of the Farmers' • Auctioneering Co. The two jaws carry in all '2BB teeth. Not all of this tormidable armoury are brought into action together, however, there being as many as seven rows of reserve teeth behind those on active service. The reserves curve back in layers, point down, on the inside of the gums, and while the top one of each iawer is nearly as fully developed as the tooth in use the one at the bottom is a mere baby, quite soft and flexible. Tlfus the fish has its jaw always fully equipped, a reserve tooth being ready to come to an upright position and take the place of one broken or worn out. Not only the points but the sides of the fully grown teeth are nearly as sharp and hard as raaors. By catching this fish, MY Home established the record for the season.