LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The cost of running the musical and elocutionary competitions in Masterton last week was between £4OO and £5OO.

A picture theatre was closed down in Invercargill last week. Two of these theatres are now empty in the southern centre.

The tariff proposals were mentioned in the House yesterday. Replying to a question. Mr. Massey said the policy which would underlie the tariff proposals of the Government would be a policy of revenue first. —Press Association.

A French fashion writer records in L’lntransigeant that recently she took a census on the sidewalk outside the Cafe de la Paix, in Paris, of long skirts and short skirts. Long skirts, she declares, have won by inches. All the new frocks are down to the ankles, and it is now the exception to see stockings displayed nearly to the knee. With the passing of the short skirt, Parisian girls have become women again, and already the fashion of the last two years which was hailed, as the beginning of a new era is labelled ridiculous.

Exports of the value of £507,332 were made from New Plymouth to the United Kingdom during the quarter ended September 30. For the same period Patea’s exports were valued at £421,501. New Plymouth’s exports to Australia were valued at £1278 and Patea’s at £4059, while New Plymouth also sent exports to the east coast of America valued at £10,684, and to the west coast of America £B6B. New Plymouth’s total exports for the quarter were £520/203, compared with £493,481 in the corresponding quartey of 1920, while for Patea the totals were £425,560 in the 1921 quarter and £515,376 in the 1920 quarter. No exports are credited to Waitara for last quarter.

Owing to Monday (Labor Day) being a holiday the departure of the Rarawa from Onehunga was delayed a day, but advice was received yesterday that the Manukau bar was .too rough and that the trip would be abandoned. The Rarawa will now take up her usual running, leaving the northern port to-mor-row afternoon and arriving here on Friday morning. The Rarawa will leave New Plymouth to return to Onehunga at the usual time, after the arrival of the mail train on Friday night. “Millions of rabbits are being bred (one might almost think being actually farmed),’’ write farmers from the Moawhanga district to the Minister of Lands, “upon the pastoral lease country at Waionui Crown Land. .... Country that used to carry 28,000 sheep •low carries none. No steps are being taken to cope with the rabbits, and the petitioners, as adjoining owners, have been put to expenditure amounting to £3OOO a year to protect their own properties.” Complaint is made that the pastoral lands are the subject of speculation, while the rabbits go on multiplying to the danger and detriment of adjoining properties. The Land Board is asked to exercise its statutory power to compel its tenants to fight the rabbit pest. A full meeting of the committee in charge of the Citizens’ Ball is called for this evening at 7.60 o’clock at the Coronation Hall. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., wish to draw clients’ attention to their supplementary bull fair, which they are holding in their Stratford saleyards on Saturday, November 5, 1921, at 12.30 p.m.

The euchre party and dance to have been held in the Workers’ Social Hall, New Plymouth, to-night in aid of the New Plymouth Coursing Club has been postponed owing to the hall not being available. The date of the function

Cabinet had a long sitting on Monday for the consideration of details of the Financial Statement. The Prime Minister stated subsequently that the Statement was assuming its final form, but he was not prepared to fix a date for its appearance in the House of Representatives.

A girl, seventeen years of age, had a beautiful head of hair ruined whilst leaving a picture theatre the other evening (says the Lyttelton Times), by someone cutting half-way through the plait apparently with a pair of scissors. The girl visited the theatre in company with two friends, and at half-time they left to go home. On her way out the girl felt a tug at the plait, but she did not pay much attention to the incident. However, on arriving home she found a cut half-way through the plait at about a level with her shoulders. The girl’s hair was particularly long and beautiful, and it attracted the attention of two ushers at the theatre, who distinctly remember her visit. They state that a man and. a woman were shown into seats immediately behind the girl and her friends, and went out just behind them at half-time. These two people did not return to the theatre after the interval.

It was expected in America that when prohibition came into force, the grape-growing industry would die a natural death. This, according to Mr. Alfred Seifert, of Palmerston North, who has just returned from that country, is far from being the case. For a short time after prohibition came in, grapes were a drug on the market, and it was practically impossible to sell them. Now there has been a tremendous revival in this particular industry, and with a huge demand for them, dried grapes are selling at the highest prices which have ever been known in the country. This is account'-J. for by some people as due to a big demand for fruit loaves, but others maintain that the large enquiry is for purposes of “home brewing.”—Times.

The annual clean-up day for the New Plymouth borough was conducted yesterday, and proved very successful, the opportunity of making an extra tidying up of properties being even more generally availed of by householders on this occasion than in the past. The Work of collection was carried on under the supervision of the borough inspector (Mr. R. Day), and with the exception of about six loads, all the rubbish was removed. Seven motor lorries with special frames were used for the purpose, and yesterday’s total was 70 pll-ed-up loads. One or two enthusiastic residents were somewhat surprised when called upon to pay for the removal of their collection, the grounds of the demand being that the load was too big and should have been removed before* The majority of people were thoughtful in putting out collections of rubbish by using boxes or tins convenient for handling by the collectors, and also by depositing fine rubbish in sacks. On the other hand there were some who used receptacles too heavy to lift. At the instigation of the Public Health Department, it was also decided by the borough authorities to urge upon people to lay poison for rats, in conjunction with the clean-up effort. Last night was fixed as the date -for this purpose, and it is understood that a number of business people and others adopted the policy. The annual steeplechase in connection with the Boys’ High Schoo] will take piace to-day, on the Waiwakaiho golf links. The junior event begins at 2.30 p.m., and the senior at 3 p.m. Parents, old boys, and friends of the school are cordially invited to be present. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., wish to draw clients’ attention to their Tarata salp, which they are holding in their Tarata yards on Friday, 28th inst., at 1 p.m. Full particulars of entries will be found on page 8 of this issue. “B'airy Wonder” Dry Soap loosens the dirt in soiled clothes like magic and thereby obviates the necessity of rubbing on a washboard. This in itself is a big saving in time and labor without counting the saving in life of the fabrics. “Fairy Wonder” bleaches harmless to the finest fabrics. On sale at all stores.

Friends of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild arc reminded that gifts may be left at the Workers’ Hall this afternoon between 2.30 and 5 o’clock, when the committee will be in attendance to receive them, and again in the evening.

The pretty, seasonable frocks for children are wel 1 worth inspecting at Morey’s. The daintiest styles, carried out in the most durable yet light fabrics, are featured throughout the display. A reminder is given of the address on the future of the bacon industry to be given at Omata Hall this evening. The address will also be given at Warea on Thursday afternoon and at Okato on Thursday evening. A sale of timber and iron will be held at the Bell Block factory to-day, commencing at 1.30 p.m. The subscribers and all those who have helped in any way with the Girls’ Hostel are reminded that tickets of admission to the official opening by Her Excellency Lady Jellicoe on Friday, October 28, may be obtained from Messrs. Hugh Baily, and Ambury’s, Ltd., Mesdames Walker, C. Weston, W. Ambury, O. Blundell and McDiarmid.

Your soiled or faded suits, costumes, and dresses can be successfully drycleaned < r dyed and made equal to new at the cost of a few shillings, by J. K. Hawkins and Co., dyers and dry cleaners, Dev t Street, New Plymouth. We also renovate felt hats, Panama hats, furs, etc. Now, it does not matter where you live; just post your goods to us, and they will be returned in a few days looking like new. Do it now.

Choice, fragrant, freshly-manufactur-ed State Express cigarettes at specially reduced prices. Look! We offer you these high grade smokes at a wonderful reduction—so for 2/6. Smokers, you cannot get better treatment than this offer gives you. And remember, we guarantee these are fresh new stocks. — W. H. Preece, Devon Street Central, New Plymouth. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. The visit of Lord Jellicoe is of great interest to the people of Taranaki. All will be turning out to do honor to our sporting Governor-General. To enjoy yourself fully, free your feet- from eorns before his arrival. Nipsem Corn Cure will do it in two days. Buy a bottle from your chemist or store, or 2s post free from 8.A.8. Co., Box 219, New Plymouth.

Tackle tl'at fresh cold in the head by inhaling freely “Nazol.” Also take a few drops on loaf sugar, and allow the sugar to dissolve verv slowly by placing it be-