INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1921, Page 5

INGLEWOOD.

THE BOY SCOUTS. August 9. The Inglewood Boy Scouts have a strong claim to a premier position amongst the Scout troops of the Dominion. They have on more than one occasion proved their efficiency, attained, no doubt, to a large extent owing to the troop having had in the past, as a leader, organiser and guide, such an enthusiast as Mr. Humphrey. There are still enthusiastic leaders amongst us, and it is sincerely to be hoped that their spirit will spread amongst • the grown-ups here and induce them to keep the good work going. On Thursday evening a squad of the Scouts are to meet at the railway station in time to give a suitable greeting to Captain Cosgrove, the Chief Scout Commissioner of New Zealand, who will then be passing through en route to New Plymouth. He vzill be accompanied by the Commissioner for Taranaki (Major Sandford). GENERAL NEWS. Mention has been made lately of Mr. Harold Bro-admore, for whom the distinction of having been the first born male in the Inglewood district, was claimed. Now, however, your correspondent has been told that there is another claimant to that honor. Mr. George Lawson says that he has it on the best authority—viz., his own mother -that he was born in Inglewood, and as his birth took place in 1876 he must, if his statement is correct, have seen an earlier sunrise here than did Mr. Broadmore. Your own has interviewed both of the gentlemen named, and found that they are entirely indifferent about the issue. They seem to feel that if the other was born here first he i» older, but nothing attaches to the fact, and it is not worth arguing about.

There was a large gathering at Newton King, Ltd.’s mart sale on Saturday, and though the competition amongst pig buyers was not so severe as it has been lately, nearly all lines offered were sold. Quite small pigs realised from 9s Gd to 16s, larger size from 23s to 30s, stores from 32s to 4Gs, good-sized sows, empty 455, well-bred Berkshire sow in pig 85s. Calves dropped 2s for bull, 10s for heifer with Jersey characteristics. The poultry pens were not well patronised. Cocks sold at from 2s 9d to 3s 9<i. ducks Is 9d, geese from 3s Id to 4s. A consiginment of fruit and forest trees and shrubs old at fair rates without trouble, and Burberry plants at Gd to lid per bundle of 25. Apples in boxes made ss, onions 5s per sack. Cabbage ' and cauliflower plants, as well as vegetables for immediate culinary use took very little of the auctioneer’s time to sell at good prices. The cF&aring sale of Mr. J. Perrett’s dairy, which was held on Monday by the Inglewood branch of Newton King, l td., at Upper Norfolk Road, was a distinct success, and at the some time a pointer to the favor in which the .Ter- ; sey breed, even if in ever so slight a j degree evident, sways the market. The cows, non-Jersey, sold at from £ll to £l7, while those in which the favorite | breed was in evidence made from £l9 to £3O. A newly-calved cow was sold for £25, and the average price for the herd ( £lB 12s Bd) was not a bad one. The Jersey bull was knocked down at i £l4, and the cans, milking machine, etc., sold at satisfactory prices.