LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A daring joy rider at Masterton appropriated the motor-car of the Stipendiary Magistrate from behind a picture theatre. It was found next morning some distance out of town.

“The Salvation Army will tackle a job that few people would do,” said Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., at the liltham Magistrate’s Court yesterday. “They are to be highly commended on their work.”

The New Plymouth Boys’ High School football team which played Nelson College on Monday, will return by the mail train to-night. Efforts to arrange a match in Wellington were not successful, and the team’s next fixture has not yet been arranged.

For using saccharine in the manufacture of lemonade, Goodwin, Davy and Co., of Hawera, were fined yesterday £lO. In iniposing the fine the Magistrate said that because sugar was short defendants had no right to use saccharine, which they probably knew to be harmful. It was recently announced that direct shipments from England to Taranaki, would be made by the Federal line, 'whose steamers leaving England monthly, would call at New Plymouth. The first vessel in the new service is the Dorset, now at Auckland, which is due here early next month, and her cargo for this port is 750 tons.

Marriage is a blessed state which evidently gives ample opportunity for the study of character. “I put it to you, Mrs. Blank,” said, counsel in a maintenance case at the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington the other day, “that if your liusliancl goes into the box and affirms the opposite to your statement, that he is telling an untruth?” “I. put it to you, that if my husband goes into the box he will say anything,” flashed from the witness.

A movement is on foot to establish a. branch of the Plunket .Society at Okato, and in furtherance of this object, a party of ladies from New Plymouth, including Mesdames W. Weston (president of the New Plymouth branch), Blackley, R. Cock, G. Home, T. Shaw, and Nurse Castle, visited the district yesterday and held a meeting in the Hempton Hall. Mrs. Weston delivered an interesting address on’ the objects of the society, ft was decided to hold a further meeting at a later date, when a branch of the society will probably be formed.

Some amusement was caused at the annual meeting of the T. J. .Toll Dairy Company yesterday, during the discussion on the directors’ honorarium, a supplier suggesting that the hmount should be reduced by Is per day, as the county council had reduced, its employees wages. As the chairman of the company is also! chairman of the Hawera County Council, some amusement was caused, but the suggestion was not taken seriously, and the proposal .that the directors be paid £ I Is for every meeting, instead of as formerly £1 Is for directors’ meetings and 10s fid for attending other meetings on company business, was carried.

In renlv to a question from a supplier as to what was beins done in regard to the producers’ Steamers proposal, the chairman of the .101 l Dairy Company said yesterday that the Premier was making inquiries on the subject at Home. It was-, however, <a matter of impossibility in New Zealand at the present time to find the £3,000,000 or £.4,000,000 that would be, necessary to finance a shipping company on similar lines to the Commonwealth one. Moreover, he had been informed on good authority, that a ship for which £150,000 would have been asked before tho war. would cost about half a million to-day.

A small batch of immigrants arrived in the Dominion on Tuesday by the Rimutaka, and they were all up to the standard type of settlers sent out from Home since the war. The newcomers totalled 120, of whom 70 were nominated by friends in the Dominion, the remainder coming out under the Imperial ex-service men’s settlement scheme. _AII ,the immigrants have positions and homes awaiting them in various parts of the country. No domestic servants coming out to the Dominion under special arrangements were included in the Pcimutaka’s passengers. The Kimutaka’s full complement of passengers was 80 saloon and 271 third-class. In the’latter category there were 151 full-fare passengers, mostly immigrants, but a fair sprinkling of returning New Zealanders.

A meeting of the Western Park Board was held last night, when Mr. A. L. Humphries presided over a good attendance. Advice was received, of a legacy of £l9 16s from the estate of Martha Rundle, which, was acknowledged vtfith thanks. It was reported that school football matches were played on the park' ground without permission, and it was decided to notify those concerned that, permission must be obtained. A committee was appointed to deal with work at the park and to go into the’ question of appointing a caretaker.

At the Hawera Court on Tuesday Mr. R. Masters, M.P., was charged wit!) having on July 9 at Hawera driven a car along Camberwell road <at a speed that was dangerous to the public, and also with having failed when meeting a vehicle coming in the opposite direction to keep as near as practicable to the left-hand side of the road. After hearing a great deal of evidence the Magistrate said defendant must be convicted on tlrn charge of having failed to keep as near as practicable to the left side of the road. The other information would be dismissed. In view of all the circumstances, he did not, think it possible that the speed alleged; could have been reached in the Tl\e defendant was as good a judge as an outsider of the speed, unless he happened to run into a police trap. For failing to keep as near as practicable to the loft side of the road defendant was fined £1 and costs. Tristram and Co., land agents, Eltharn, are advertising 2 cheap farms for sale, on very easy terms, on page 7. A final reminder is given Ingleside to-night, under the auspices of the New Plymouth Caledonian Society. at which a farewell will be tendered io Chief Meldrum. . There will be haggis and highland dancing and a guid Scotch nioht is promised.

The War Trophies exhibitton opens at the Coronation Hal), New Plymouth, to-morrow night, at 7.30 p.m. Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of trophies from every theatre of the great European war will be displayed, including a captured German aeroplane and thousands of other tropines of absorbing interest.

All housewives who enjoy a cup of fragrant tea should not be without Nelson Moate’s 3s blend, packed in half and one-pound packets, and 5 and 101 b tins.