LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Dewar Fund will benefit to the extent of £2 10s lid, which was the total amount of the collection taken at the football match 011 Thursday. The Railway Department lias installed automatic warning bells at six level crossings, and the work for 50 more is in hand.

A Wellington message states that produce entered for export last week was valued at £!W7,272, including butter ■C15.U43, cheese £57,241, meat £238,'.28. hides £50,170, flax £-18,280, tallow £31,287, wool £477,584 All incipient fire in the rooms occupied by Mr. Cattley, tailor, Brougham Street, was the cause of the Fire Brigade turning out yesterday afternoon, but it was extinguished before the Brigade's arrival. A small cottage on the Smart Road was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday night. The property • belonged to the estate of the late Mr. James Bellringer and formed part of Glenavon. The cottage was untenanted, and was insured in :!he Royal office for £IOO. The reduction of one penny per loaf in the price of bread, decided upon at the instance of the Board of Trade, will represent, a saving to Xew Plymouth of £'.>ooo in the course of a year. The lowering of the price of coal will represent a similar saving. The visit of the Board of Trade to Xew Plymouth should be remembered with gratitude by X'ew Plymouth housewives.

The Tututawa Dairy Co., which has a one-vat cheese factory 18 miles to the eastward of Stratford, held its annual meeting last week. The suppliers receive Is Od per lb for their butter-fat, and in three years have paid for the factory and plant, except for about £2.">o. A donation of £lO wa,s made to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. The grass is, for mid-winter, wonderfully green and plentiful in the sheltered valleys of our back country.

Mrs. Burgess, president of the Women's Patriotic Committee. Xew Plymouth, has received a letter from the Premier acknowledging receipt of bank draft for £720, collected bj the Mayoress' Fund 011 behalf of the sailors and dependents of those lost in the late naval engagement in the North Sea. Cn behalf of the Government ho expressed appreciation of the generous response of the citizens of Xew Plymouth to the appeal for help.

How it feels to he struck by a bullet is described by Private W. Shirley, late of the mechanical staff of the News, in a 'etter to his mother at Oaonui. "I was always under the impression,' he says, "that when you were struck you could not feel anything, it happening so sudden; but this idea was soon dispelled. A '/. it,' a thud, and 1 was doubled up in a heap in the trench. All onlooker would have thought I was some double-jointed acrobat going through Some marvellous contortion's. It was a chance shot that got me when we were all 011 the qui vive, standing to arms, with bayonets fixed, in readiness for a Hun nocturnal onrush: I was the first casualty of our section. This parapet was seven feet high and three feet thick. The swampy nature of the ground makes it impossible to dig here, so we have to go upward with sandbags, etc.". Private Shirley is now in hospital in England and doing well. The bullet caught him in the chest, but happily touched 110 vital part. He speaks in terms of praise of the kindness shown at the hospital by the English nurses nd lady visitors.. .

Tn speaking of the picture, "The Dawn To-morrow," the New York Telegraph ■ ill:—"Hiss Pickford's portrayal of cle 'Glad', is one that will make a en impression. The atmosphere of the dure is truly Dickensouian. Apple iuisom court, a dirty alley in the East 11.1 of London, is a marvel of what can i'accomplished in the way of realistic i-ttings. Those who witness 'The Dawn ■j : To-morrow' will want to see Mary .ckford in many more such roles." The Mure will be screened at the Empire I! Holiday and Tuesday, for two nights i'y. The supporting list comprises ex- • dlent humorous and topical subjects, fecial music accompanies the unfold-

Tile New Plymouth Fire Brigade acknowledges a donation of £1 Is from Mr. A. Forbes. An Adelaide cable states that the Royal Agricultural Society has decided not to hold a show this year. The Attorney-General is to bring in a Hill providing that after a hard-labor prisoner has served half his sentence his case should come before the Prison Board for review. The Minister for Education (the Hon. J. A. Hanan) hopes to be in a position to make appointments of school nurses early in the recess. A Rakaia bird-trapper received £22 for birds -trapped between July 8 and IT, says an exchange. Another party trapped £2O worth of small birds during the same period. The Board of Trade (Messv-s W. G. MeDoy.ild, J. R. Hart, and P. Hallv) concluded its sittings at the Courthouse. New Plymouth, yesterday. In the morning the Board took tile evidence of Messrs Gadd (groceries), It. J. Deare (retail boots), and W. Ambury (retail clothing). In the afternoon the chairman (.Mr. McDonald), Mr. Hally, and the secretary (Mr. ,T. W. Collins) were interested spectators at the ironsand demonstration, leaving by the afternoon train for Hawera, where they remain the night, leaving for Wellington in the morning. Mr. J. S. Hart, the other member of the Board, left for Wellington by the mail train yesterday mailing,

The film censorship Bill provides for the censorship of cinematograph films from Ist of October next by censors appointed by the Governor, to hold ofliee during bis pleasure, Every film, before being exhibited in New Zealand, shall lie submitted to the censor for approval. The Bill states such approval should not be given in the case of any film which, in tile opinion of the censor, depicts any matter that is against public order or decency, or the exhibition of which, for any other reason is, in the opinion of the censor, undesirable, in the public interest. Such approval may be given generally, or subject to a condition that ibe film shall be exhibited only to any specified class or classes of persons. The Bill empowers charging fees for censorship, and for a fine up to £4l), and the forfeiture of a film, for breaches of the law.

More inquiries wore made in tlie House 011 Thursday by Mr. 0. V. Pearco about Hie Luckenbarh Line of steamers, which is entering; the trade between the east coast ports of America and Xew Zealand. Mr. Poaree asked whether the Government was aware that Mr. Harold Ebey, who recently visited Wellington and appointed Messrs Dalgety & Co. agents for the Luckenbach Line of steamers from Xew York, is the same Mr. Ebey who is agent for the interned German steamer -Scrap is at San Francisco. and if the Government find this to be the case, whether they will ask the Australian Government to interrogate Mr. Ebey on arrival in Sydney. The Prime Minister said that the Government was being put in a difficult position by questions in the House ;n this subject, and a serious mistake was being- made in asking them. The Government was making full inquiries, but the mutter presented certain difficulties making it 110 easy one to deal with.

At the Dominion Conference of the Xew Zealand Fanners' Union on Thursday, Mr. W. -J. Birch (Marton) moved: "That this conference would enter a strong protest against the passage of the clauses of the Finance Act, which provide for the compulsory acceptance of debentures in payment for land purchased bv the Government, as that entails a direct hardship on the individual which should be borne by the general public." Mr. J. Begg (Otago) seconded the motion. The proposal of the Government was simply confiscation, as the land was to be paid for out of debentures, which might not he worth their face value. Mr. E. Maxwell (Taranaki) said that not only was there no certainty that a £IOO bond would be worth £IOO, but there was a strong probability that it would not. The motion was carried unanimously. ''lf. the State took up the manufacture of bread and installed the required machinery it could provide the whole of Taranaki with bread at Gd the 41b loaf, wifh_ wheat at £l3 a ton,'' said an export to a News' reportei the other day. Tic showed the huge loss incurred by the duplication of bakeries, deliveries and management. The State could put in a plant like that at Buchanan's, of Auckland, and manufacture, say, at Xew Plymouth, sending bread by train, etc., right through the province, with depots in eTich centre. The deliveries could be systarnatised, and the overlapping done away with. The cash system could be introduced, and people would buy their bread like they bought, railway tickets or picture tickets—by paying cash. Our informant was satisfied from careful investigation that the cost of living could be substantially reduced if necessary articles of consumption like bread, meat and groceries were put on a more efficient and economical footing. If the present increase in cost turned the attention of people to this better system, the increase, he said, might not prove an.unmixed evil.

The attention of townspeople is directed to H>'. L. .tannins' clearing sale, whic-h is to be lield by Mr. Newton King at Waitara Road on Monday, commencing at 12.HU. Some splendid furniture will be disposed of. Men's and boys' apparel of every description very much reduced is being offered at sacrifice prices at the Melbourne's great winter sale. As there are only seven more days of- sale, the f.ublic should not ignore the oppovtun'ty of saving money.

A reminder is given of the important sale of property which is to be held at Mr. Newton King's mart, at '2 o'clock to-day. Three Oakuia properties will be sold by order of the mortgagee, and a farm on the Carrington Road will be submitted on behalf of Mr. R. G. Marsh. The town property known as Nathan's Buildings will also be brought under the hammer. The following programme will bo submitted by the Citizens' Band at Kawaroa Park, to-morrow (Sunday), at 2.45 p.m., under Mr. McLeod's direction: Quickstep, "The King's Guard"; overture "The Pied Piper"; grand selection, "Sullivan No. 1"; inorceau, "Pomona"; cornet solo, "The Rosary," soloist, Musician N. Lovell; hymns (a) "Aberystwyth," (b) "Nearer My God to Thee"; march, "Loyal Hearts"; National Anthem. These are days when every woman's duty is clear. Economy is a great watchword. Morey's sale, advertised in this issue, points the direct route to sensational economies. Wise ladies will not neglect thk opportunity. Turn to Morey's advertisement now*