LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dried milk, which was worth £IOO a ton two year 3 ago, is now quoted below £IOO a ton on the English market. Sir Thomas Lipton has presented the Ponsonby Cruising Club, Auckland, wicb a handsome silver cup for competition (says a cable from London). The population of Napier, says the Telegraph, consists of two classes, those who own motor ■ cars, and those who dodge them. A penny with 'the date 1820 clearly distinguishable, was dug up yesterday by a workman employed on Webster Bros' new building in Devon Street. Eltham business men are endeavoring to "boost" that town by calling attention to its advantages by means of posters, etc., which are to be erected in the neighboring country districts. According to the Manawatu Daily Times, Wanganui is again agitated over a scandal involving a highly-placed individual. The birth of twins to a single girl let daylight into an unsavory position.

The Maori Entertainers succeeded in raising £4O 2s towards the Widow Fund, a result to which they attribute the support rendered their efforts by the Press, and the public, for which they express their gratitude. Influenza is still prevalent in the Waverley district, and there are. a large number of local residents laid aside on account of it (says the Press). In some cases as many as three and four in one family have been down at the same time.

The inquest into the circumstances of tho death of Mrs. Laura Ansford, who<¥»death occurred on Tuesday as the result of a motor accident, could not bo held yesterday owing to the Coroner being fully occupied with the Teachers' Appeal Court, but it will take place this morning.

At the annual meeting of the Taranaki branch of the Friesian Breeders' Association, held at Stratford on Tuesday, Mr. H. Johnston moved as a recommendation to the annual conference to be held at Palmerston North, that only first-class certificates of merit cows be admitted for competition in C. of M. classes at A. and P. Shows.

The Teachers' Appeal Court, which was occupied yesterday in hearing the appeal of H. V Searle against his dismissal by the New Plymouth High School Board, was the second court of its kind set w> in the Dominion. The previous case was heard in Dunedin last December when tho appeal was also granted. Mr. F. 11. Campbell, who appeared for the appellants in both cases, is first assistant master at the Otago Boys' High School. "I am grateful to New Zealand," said Ccnera,l Booth to a reporter at Cliristehurch, "for its monetary help during the war. You'helped me in comparison with your numbers out of proportion to any other part of the world, I have use! your fine example to stir up the slowgoing people of other countries; yet mixed with my gratitude is the feeling that the end of your help is not yet." CONCERNING SUPERFLUOUS HAIR!

Merely removing the hair from the surface is not sufficient—you must kill the roots. KUSMA (Reg.) will permanently destro, all superfluous hair without inconvenien'e and pain. Write dept. N, Mrs. Hullen, 3A Courtenay Place, Wellington.

Owing to Town Boards having no power to sell houses erected under th> Housing Act, the Man'aia Town Board decided on Friday last to abandon taking a poll for a £IO,OOO loan, in the hope that the Act would he amended in the required direction. A resolution that the Government b.> requested to endeavor to secure the services of Dr. J. A. Gilruth as bacteriologist for the Dominion was carried by the provincial executive of the Auckland Farmers' Union. Mr. J. Boddie, who moved the resolution, referred in eulogistic terms to Dr. Gilruth's work on behalf of the farmers of the Dominion when 'ie was previously in the service of the Department of Agriculture.

At the conclusion of the Teachers' Appeal Court at New Plymouth last night, Mr. F. H. Campbell, who appeared for the appellant, thanked the court for the courtesy extended to himself and Mr. Sladderf. The chairman (Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) thereupon expressed the thanks for the able manner in which the advocates had conducted the case. Considering that neither of the gentlemen was experienced in that direction both had done particularly well, and though they had made a few mistakes he was vety favorably impressed with the way they examined the witnesses. '■'■

A meeting of the New Plymouth branch of the Labor Party was held in the Workers' Social Hall last night, Mr. G. fl\ Langley presiding. Arrangements were made in connection with Mr. H. Holland's visit. Mr. Holland will speak at Inglewood on Saturday night, and at Everybody's Theatre, New Plymouth, on Sunday night, the subject being "Labor'i Challenge to the Massey Government." The meeting decided to send a remit to the National Conference, urging that capital punishment should be abolished. Numerous remits for the conference were considered, the majority of which were endorsed. Mr. W. H. Fitzpatrick was nominated by the branch as its representative at the conference.

The proposal to give Hospital Boards authority to pay their chairmen up to £2OO per annum was touched on by the chairman (Mr. M. Fraser) at yesterday's meeting of the Tavanaki Hospital Board, when he stated that at the recent Hospital Boards' Conference he had opposed a remit to that effect. He considered there should be some one in every community public spirited enough to undertake the work withqut encroaching on funds set out for charitable, purposes, and though he was the only delegate that opposed'. It, he hoped the Board would endorse his action. This the Board unanimously did, members complimenting the chairman on the action he had taken. Mr. Fraser said that a statement had been credited to him that he was opposed to working men sitting on public bodies, but his remarks had been misrepresented. What he said was* that working men could not spare the time—, he did not reflect on their ability—and he considered, that the. public should be served by men with more leisure.

The Melbourne's great winter sale starts to-morrow In this issue the firm advertise the 'sale lines and they arc worth careful perusal by everyone interested in reducing the present high eost of living, the majority of the bargains listed being of the useful everyday sort. The first general meeting of the Whiteley Club, which was well attended, was held on Tuesday night, when the Rev. J. F. Martin delivered an address on "Dante." At the close of the meeting, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the speaker. Attention is directed to a sale of furniture advertised by L. A. Nolan and .Co. The catalogue is a large one, and the sale commences at 12 30 p.m.