LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Plymouth Choral Society decided at a meeting last night to take up a parcel of shares in the new theatre. A new mechanical fire-ladder costing £2BOO arrived in Wellington last week on order to the Wellington City Council. It is mounted on a motor truck, and can be raised Soft. in 20 seconds.

The contract for extensions and alterations to the Criterion Hotel, New Plymouth, on behalf of Mr. Walter Graham, has been let to Messrs. J. T. Julian and Son at the price of £10,500. Building operations will commence next week.

Messrs. Boon Bros., of New Plymouth, are the successful tenderers for’ alteration of premises for the Hawera branch of t-ho Commercial Bank. The contractors have commenced work, and it is anticipated that the premises will bo ready for occupation in about five weeks’ time.

Two men were arrested by the police in St. Aubyn Street yesterday afternoon and they will appear in the Magistrate’s Court this morning to answer charges, in one case of drunkenness and breaking a prohibition order, and, in the other, of drunkenness and using obscene language.

A Sydney paper, referring to the extravagance and waste in the Post and Telegraph service in Australia, states that there are something like 100,000 man and women in the service who could be dispensed with in the interests of the taxpayer and efficiency. A Maori family who had received a substantial sum on account of the freeholding in Te Kuiti went to Auckland and purchased a Player piano. On the instrument arriving, ' however, it was found that it would not pass through the doorway, and they had to demolish the side of the house to provide egress.—Chronicle.

Arrangements to include in the New Zealand section at the Empire Exhibition in London next year a representative exhibit of work done by pupils in New Zealand schools are beilig made by rhe Government. An invitation to submit articles for approval was extended to the New Plymouth Technical College Board of Managers last night. The director (Mr. A. L. Moore) intimated that he would forward specimens of the work of the engineering students. A resolution protesting against the system adopted in elections for members of Hospital Boards and Harbour Boards, whereby every resident in a borough over 21 years of age, whether latepayers or not, has a vote, was forwarded to the Egmont County Council yesterday by the Waihemo County, Otago, for approval. It was contended that the present system gave undue advantage to the towns in the election of a representative, and the council considered that some amendment was necessary. The resolution was received.

The New Plymouth hospital was visited yesterday by members of the Wanganui Hospital Board, in company with members of the Taranaki Board. The visiting party consisted of Messrs. Leithbridge (chairman), Roger*. Ritchie, Fletcher (members) and L. V. Kerby (secretary), those accompanying them being Messrs. M. Fraser (chairman), F. J. Hill, E. R. C. Gilmour (members) and E. Holden (general manager and secretary) of the local board. This morning the visitors will inspect the Hospital Board’s farm and the Rangiatea Home. A correspondent informs us that there is no warrant for the statement made in our columns yesterday by a contributor that cull animals are being sent from Taranaki to the Waikato. From personal knowledge, he says that the heifers going North are “good stuff” and are guaranteed by the vendors as to their soundness, etc. Buyers also have the option of returning the animals after a given period if they do not turn out satisfactory, so that northern farmers take little or no risk. Our informant affirms that the statement given by our correspondent can only emanate from a “disgruntled dealer, whose own operations have been affected by the success of others in the game.”

The annual meeting of the Taranaki Local Bodies’ Association will be ‘ held at Eltham on June 25, and at yesterday’s meeting of the Egmont County Council the chairman (Councillor W. C. Green) and Councillor J. S. Tosland were appointed the council’s representatives. Councillor Tosland moved that a remit should be sent to the effect that all County Councils in Taranaki should pay a uniform rate of wages to its outside employees. 'Councillors agreed that there should be uniformity among local bodies in regard to different matters, but that in arranging wages the distance from centres and other factors had to be taken into consideration. Councillor Tosland withdrew the remit. Councillor Ferguson considered that the council should take steps to ensure that counties that had already made their roads were not over-looked in connection with the allocation of tyre-tax. Men’s hardwear trousers are only 8/6 a pair at the Melbourne’s great June sale. Other great bargains for men arc wool knit socks 1/3 a pair; strong Harvard shirts 5/11; genuine Pennine shirts 7/H; men’s Petone tweed overcoats 55/-; Maclogn oily canvas coats 75/-; boy’s Kaiapoi tweed suits, sizes 3 to 6, 28/6; sizes 7 to 12, 33/6; sizes 13 to 16, 38/6; boy’s Le Roy oily canvas coats 27/6 to 47/6. Small profits and quick returns are what Amesbury’s look for. Read their advertisement on pace 6 and then to secure the smartest coat shop early. “Silks and satins for evening wear.” Naturally what else would my lady fair think of using for her own beautification for the dance, or the theatre. In a gorgeous not of color and charm Morey’s i offer “the very latest” in silk and satin materials for evening and formal occasions. Elsewhere will be found a few prices which are a guide to the keen ; prices at which they are offering.