LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev. Father Doolaghty and the Rev. Harkness will take part in the unveiling ceremony at Rahotu on bunday next, says a correspondent.

The meeting of the New Plymouth War Memorial Committee called for yesterday to consider the resignation of the chairman, Mr. C. H. Burgess, lapsed for want of a quorum. Another meeting will be called for Monday afternoon at 4.30 at the Borough Council chambers.

As an illustration of how playing on certain musical instruments runs in families, it was stated by the conductor of the Male Choir last night that in the ease oft the visiting flautist (Master Frank Poore) that hi<s father, grandfather, and great grandfather were all flautists of outstanding merit.

Maoris in Taumarunui were considerably excited over the sale of their properties. A young Maori, the centre of an admiring crowd, was seen attempting to start a new motor-bicycle. A bystander inquired what the trouble was about, and the general exclamation from the Maoris was: “He’s sold his freehold!”

“It is seldom that this court finds work for people outside.” observed Mr. A. M. Mowlom, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth yesterday, in response to the suggestion of a young man that he would go to any work the court could find for him.

New Plymouth has a company that has never earned a shilling since its incorporation, yet has in three years reduced its bank overdraft from £1728 to £423. It is the Ngamotu Seaside Resort Company, and the seeming paradox is explained by the fact that the seaside committee of the same name makes the money out of its seaside cottages, bathing, and holiday functions and hands the profits over to the company by way of loan, which no doubt later on will be wiped off. The company has assets amounting to £3sol—buildings £2846. furnishings £205, plantation '£l32, bathing costumes £34. A meeting of the New Plymouth branch of the Young Citizens’ League was held in the Victoria League rooms last night. The Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilson), who presided, explained that the meeting was called to take preliminary steps to further the interests of the league and be in readiness for the coming year. Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., was elected president, and the election of oflher officers was held over until a future meeting. The Mayor and Messrs. H. Dempsey, P. J. H. White, and Freeman were appointed a committee with power to add to organise and take p?<liminary steps.

To-day, at 2.30 p.m., L. A. Nolan nnl Co. will offer for sale 'by auction Mr. Andrew Smith’s fine house in Liardet Street. The house is a large one, and it is ideally situated for a private boarding establishment.

Comisky, accountant, of Wellington. When thanking the audience at last night’s Male Choir concert for their attendance and warm appreciation evinced, the conductor (Mr. F. W. G. McLeod) referred to the exchange of visits with the Hawera Choir, and the probability of “The Desert” being again presented. He also alluded to the high standard of visiting artists engaged by the society, and intimated that next year a still further upward move would ne made, while the choir items would also be in the same direction.

Speaking at a meeting of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce, Mr. A. Harris said he had no reason to modify his previous opinion that power from the Wanganui steam plant would cost at least £2B per horse-power compared with £8 per house-power from the Government hydro schemes. Some sturdy seedlings of stock taken from the Garden of Gethsemane have been reared by a resident of Napier. These plants will be very valuable if successfully grown for they are rarely known to exist except in Palestine, where the climate suits the special variety.— (Daily Telegraph.) “If the people in the position of authority were all of the same opinion as I am, we should have got some of the money that is due to us from Germany long ago,” said the Prime Minister at Lower Hutt. “I think that the British Empire has been too soft with the Germans. The sum of £26,000,000 whjch Germany owes New Zealand would be a very nice Clwistmas box, but I don’t think we are going to get it.” A good deal of activity is being displayed on the farm lands between Wanganui and Patea. Cultivating operations were well advanced until the recent rains and then temporarily suspended. Farmers are now pushing ahead with their planting. The areas under cultivation are usually small, but well distributed. The early crops are showing vigorous growth, and likewise the fieids closed up for hay. The latter crop will be readv to cut at an early date.

Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, told what he is going to do with all his money. In an interview given the Wall Street Journal, Ford declared he intended to employ his money. in industry to provide work for thousands of additional men and to increase the wealth of the country by a larger production. “The Rockefeller and Carnegie distributions are all right,” Ford said, “but I don’t believe in that method.”

Keeping London clean is a very costly business. Every year 1J million tons of refuse are gathered up from London’s 117 square miles of streets and houses, or. to put it in another way, 5000 tons per day. The vehicles used in this very necessary service are 1204 single horse vans, 38 pair-horse vans, 61 motor-lor-ries, and 47 trailers, or 1320 in all. The average cost of disposal, exclusive of the cost of collecting, is 8s per ton. Thus it costs London £600,000 per annum, or, to put it another way, £2OOO per day, to dispose of its dust.

Consternation reigned among the members of a wedding party in Hawke’s Bay last week, a few minutes prior to the time fixed for the ceremony (states an exchange). A fierce squall of wind blew up suddenly from the west, threatening to demolish the canvas marquee under which the wedding banquet had been set out. Bridesmaids, groomsmen, and wedding guests in al) their finery joined their efforts to hold down the billiowing canvas, while extra guy-ropes and timbers were added to the reinforcements. On the way to church, the bridal party had to proceed carefully on account of the limbs of trees which had been hurled down upon the road. Fortunately, the squall died down during the ceremony, and the wedding banquet was celebrated in calm weather.

People who have received telegrams in the big cities during the past few months will have noticed that often they are nqt written or typed on the form in the usual way, but arc printed on narrow strips of paper gummed on to the form. These messages are the product of the high-speed automatic telegraph system recently installed on the main lines. As was staged by Mr. A. Gibbs, assistant cnief engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department in a lecture on telegraphic methods, the system has an enormous capacity for traffic. Messages can be sent at the rate of 100 words a minute or more; and four messages in each direction can be eent over a single wire at the same time, so that one wire can handle traffic at the rate of 800 words a minute.

“You people out here are becoming more American every day,” an English visitor to Auckland stated. ‘You rise in the morning to use Yankee shaving soap and tooth paste, because an interesting advertisement has convinced* you of its superiority to the English and local article. You ear patent cereals because another brightly-coloured advertisement says ‘food shot from guns is more digestible than .any (New Zealand) rolled oats, and so on through the day this colossal campaign of super advertising materially affects the choice. And we find old and young singing praises in popular ballad to the beauties and sentiments attached to Dixieland, Carolina and Tennessee, while the ro-. mance and glories of your coast, island and gully go unsung,” added the traveller. “The ultra modern youth jazzes on and wails about some grrl in Indiana while the Cones of intrepid ancestors and their romances lie forgotton beneath his feet.” The decorative section of the prize schedule for the New Plymouth horticultural show contains 13 classes, including tables, baskets, boqueta, etc., hats, mantelpieces, floral wreaths, and bowls. Man can grow flowers, but it requires the deft hand of a woman to utilise them for decoration Ample scope for the exercise of this talent will be afforded on Thursday next, and it is hoped that some new competitors will come forward. Entries close on Monday at 8 p.m. See advertisement in this issue.

Many weddings take place at Christmas time, .which means that many couples* are now buying homes. Sullivan has furniture which makes home a true home, direct from the factory at factory prices. We’ll guarantee the quality and save you money. Sullivan has a small showroom in Currie Street. Three great lines of men’s working trousers are selling freely at the Melbourne, Ltd. These are. the famous Palmer Napp cotton tweed trousers, hardwearing, soft finish, and easy to wash, at 9/6 pair; Nelson 9oz blue deniin trousers, best denim on the market, 7/6 pair, and the well-known Boz. grey and striped denims, also 7/6 pair. These goods are right.

In the Supreme Court calendar published yesterday the name of Thomas Pole Hupson w n -s published for Thomas Pole Hughson.