LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Governor-General (Lord Jellicoe) took part in an interesting cricket match at Wanganui yesterday, making ten and seven. His Excellency also visited the various schools. —Press Association.

The Patea borough authorities set a trap for motorists who were exceeding the speed limit through the borough en route to the Waverley races on Monday, and as a result some thirty motorists from various parte of Taranaki will be called upon to appear before the Magistrate.

The absence of a Justice of the Peace in the southern portion of Westown was commented upon at last night’s meeting of the Westown Progressive Association, when a resolution was passed recommending the Minister of Justice to appoint Mr. W. H. Haddrell in that capacity.

A public servant who has been retrenched in Wellington, after being over quarter of a century in the employment of the Government, is eking out an existence by mending watches and clocks.

No fewer than' 1029 deaths from cancer were reported in New Zealand last year. This represented 8.50 per cent, of the total deaths recorded from all causes.

Resolutions were passed by the Westown Progressive Association last night favoring the proposed loans of £lO,OOO for water works and £140,000 to pay off loans falling due, but no opinion was expressed in regard to the proposed expenditure in connection with the hydro-electric works.

The new safety tramcars which were recently purchased by the New Plymouth Borough Council so as to enable the tramways department to more efficiently cope with the increasing traffic which the system is now handling, and to assist in dealing with the holiday and rush hour demand that is made for accommodation, were put into commission yesterday. The Mayoi' and councillors were given a trial run in one of the cars last week, and since then the cars have been officially inspected and tested by the Public Works Department, which has now issued a certificate to the Borough Council authorising their use. A prominent South Taranaki dairy factory director, in the course of a conversation with a representative of the Daily News, commented on the scarcity of cabled information concerning the condition of the dairy produce market at Home. Dairy produce, he said, must be considered the most important industry in the Dominion at present, and while cables were appearing in the papers very frequently regarding other New Zealand primary products dairy produce reports were not forwarded more often than weekly. He considered the dairying industry of sufficient importance to warrant even daily cables in the present state of the market. At a meeting of the Eltham Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday the secretary reported that the canvass for signatures to the petition for a continuous telephone service had proved very successful, and already more than the necessary number of signatures had been obtained. There were 99 business telephone connections in the town, of which 66 were required to obtain the service, and 83 had been procured. The private ’phone connections numbered 141; the number of signatures required was 94, and 100 had been obtained. Members expressed satisfaction with the result of the secretary’s efforts, and it was decided that the petition should be forwarded to the department as soon as completed.—Argus. At the recqnt meeting of the New Plymouth Carnegie Institute a vote of thanks was accorded recent donors for the following gifts:—Mrs. T. A. Taylor, two petrified shells and a meteoric fragment found in Hawke’s Bay; Mrs. A. M. Wilks, a native’s travelling permit used during the Boer war: Mr. AV. J. Gray (Okato) an ancient Maori hapara or wooden “spade”; Mr. N. Christenson, a hookah or Turkish “bubble-bubble” tobacco pipe and a cannonball found on site of battle of Waireka; Mr. C. J. Strong, a relic of wreck of ship Lord Worsley near Opunake on September 1, 1862; Mrs. .Evans, a miniature of Mr. Leech, who was born in England in 1798 and who was postmaster at New Plymouth from 1850 to 1860; Miss Free, a copy of appointment of Mr. Wm. Free to a lieutenant in the Taranaki Rifles in 1864; Mr. W. H. Skinner, a Maori sleeping mat of old-time manufacture.

The New Plymouth Caledonian Society are determined to make their Halloween function as huge a success as their opening Ingleside held some few weeks ago. The committee have all the arrangements well in hand and all those who attend on Monday, the 31st inst., are sure of a real good Scotch night. The pipers will be there again, and the programme will include dancing, interspersed with songs, games and stepdancing. This function will also be open to the public and not to members only, as originally inteded. There will be no charge for ladies, but they are asked to contribute towards the supper. Men are notified that only a few more suits at 69/6 are left at the Melbourne’s sale of salvage goods. These suits are in quite a good condition, and are guaranteed to be all pure N.Z. wool and made and finished in best colonial style. These suits cannot be duplicated under £4 10s.

“Sinus” is recommended by all dairy factory managers for use by farmers for cleaning buckets, pans, milking machines and separators. It is positively non-in-jurious to rubber tubing or cups, and is guaranteed to remove all bacteria, thus ensuring clean, sweet milk. Purity Products Co., Hawera, sole manufacturers. On sale everywhere.

“Whit wey is’t thet sa mony folk are gaun intil th’ Workers’ Ha’ th’ day fether ” says Wee McGregor. “Div ye no ken, laddie, that the Provost is openin’ the muckle Scotch. Fair at twa o’clock ? Ye’ll ha’e tae get a’ th’ bawbees out o’ yer thriftie an’ gang along. Dinna be sparin’ wi’ th’ siller, ma son.”

Do the people of New Zealand walk correctly? No; the reason being that they are subject to corns of malignant type. These corns should be removed without delay, or they will assuredly cripple. Corns should be removed with Nipsem Corn Cure, thus ensuring foot' comfort. Remove that malignant corn at once. Nipsem Corn Cure is obtainable at all chemists and stores, or 2s post free from “8.A.8.” Co., Box 219, New Plymouth.

Come out io the Smart Road works and inspect the manufacture of “T.F.M.” Canned Meats: —lib sheep tongues; 3 lb. and 6 lb. ox tongues; lbs. and 6 lbs. corned muttoij and beef. AA’lien you have inspected you will ask your grocer for no other brand but “T.F.M.”