LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

e The Napier municipal baths receipts fc for June were £l3 3s Gd, being 10s less than the takings for the same period of - last year. B Great Britain, it is estimated, could 1 raise a revenue from taxation of bet- . ting amounting to £15,000,000 a year. P Use of the totalisator on the 'basis of the revenue of New South Wales would - bring in about £6,000,000. The Hon. W. Downie Stewart, Minis- , ter for Internal Affairs, states that it . having ‘been found that the question of the calorific standard of gas can 'be , dealt with by regulations under the 5 Board of Trade Act, regulations have i been drafted and it is hoped to issue L them at an early date. ; When filling a petrol tank of a motor . car by lantern light Mr. John Lambic, , a settler of Kyle, was astonished by the sudden ignition of the tin of petrol, says a Press Association telegram from > Ashburton. Despite leaping flames he ( grasped the tin and hurled it out of the , car, saving the latter from destruction, but sustaining severe burns to his hands ! necessitating treatment. Mr. Lee, M.P., intends to ask the Min--1 ister for Labour, whether, he is aware that an advertisement, inserted by tio Auckland Returned 'Soldiers’ Association asking unemployed returned soldicts to apply for work, brought nearly one hundred applications in the first day, sixty of whom were married men; an.l whether he will state what he is doing to meet the unemployment situation in Auckland ? The Hon. D. Buddo (Kaiapoi) has given notice to ask the Minister for Defence whether he will have an inquiry made into cases of nervous breakdown of returned soldiers whose pension has been stopped when they are quite unable to work? Many are, indeed, quite unable to look after themselves t and should be treated generously in regard to pensions, urged the hon. member. A striking statement of the monetary results accruing from afforestation was made by Mr. James Deans, who addressed the executive of the North Canterbury district of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Mr. Deans said no farmer grudged paying £2O a year to assure an assurance of £.lOOO at death or after 50 years. Farmers did not seem to realise that for an expenditure of £2O on trees they could probably assure a similar amount, and this without the necessity of paying the £2O every year. The Wanganui Chronicle says: All is fish that comes into the local borough inspector’s net. Amongst a number of cyclists prosecuted this week for riding without lights was a boy who worked in the same office as the inspector. He tried to borrow a torch from the inspector, but without success, and he was advised to take the risk. As the result the risk proved expensive to the extent of 10s and costs. A coal seam 19 feet in depth was struck in the fourth bore-hole in the Dobson field on the Greymouth Harbour property last Thursday (states the Christchurch Sun). When coal was last struck in another bore about 2,000,000 tons were proved and this find seems as though it will yield an equal quantity. Great praise is due to the Government borer (Mr. W. Warburton) and ; his staff for the efficient way in which they have carried out the work. The amount of unemployment among carpenters in Gisborne has been somewhat reduced recently from two causes, first, that there has been a slight improvement in the building trade within the last few weeks, but chiefly, perhaps, because many more carpenters have left the district. Most of these more recent migrants have stated that they have no intention of returning, and so are permanently lost as residents of the town. Deserting husbands will receive a 'Ous check if the Hawera Hospital Board has its way. The board yesterday passed a resolution recommending that the question of the compulsory remuneration employment of men failing to comply with maintenance orders and the application of their earnings to the support of their wives and children be discussed at the proposed conference of Hospital Boards at Wellington in the near future. A large waterspout was sighted by the steamer Port Macquarie last week about 450 miles east of Cuvier Island. The steamer, which arrived at Auckland from New York recently, reported that she parsed within a quarter of ] a mile of the waterspout. To avoid the , huge column of water the vessel was , compelled to make a slight deviation j in her course. The weather was par- ( ticularly boisterous in the neighbour- f hood of the phenomenon, but moderated j soon after it had been passed. c The port of New Plymouth is being i well advertised by the Commonwealth i and Dominion Line. Cards announcing I c the departures of the Port Chalmers ■ 1 and Port Kembla have been printed for c distribution amongst shippers in Eng- | land and Antwerp and included in the | s list of New Zealand ports of call the ] name of New Plymouth is set out in f bold type. For instance, in the case of s the former vessel it was stated that j. she would call at “Lyttelton, Port I Chalmers and ]or) Dunedin ( at ship’s c option) and New Plymouth,” while *] “Auckland, Wellington, Bluff and t New f Plymouth” were scheduled for the Port t Kembla. jf

This case shows the necessity for a “half-way house,” said Mr. J. W. Poynton,' S.M., at the Auckland Police Court, when a young man, who was described as a “border-line” case again appeared on a vagrancy charge on which he had been remanded several times while efforts were made by Captain Davies, of the Salvation Army, to find suitable employment for him. This had been obtained. “There is no institution which would receive him,” said Mr. Poynton. "He is not fit to be locked up and not fit to be at liberty.” Accused was released in the care of the Salvation Army, with a warning not to wander away again or he would have to be sent to prison. The young man promised to behave.

At this time of the yeai it is quite the thing to see in various parts of the paper expressions such as “booming values,” “stupendous bargains,” ‘’blue-pencil busy,” and so on, but for real reductions don’t miss Morey’s great winter sale which commences to-morrow Wednesday, July 11th. See this firm’s bargain offers in this issue.

An important sale o( pedigree Jersey stock will he held at Waitara on behalf of Mr. T. W. Perger, on Friday next, July 13. Mr. Perger has only been breeding purebred stock for a very short while and has been most successful in putting an excellent line of cattle together and it is solely due. to ill-health, which necessitates him relinquishing farming completely, that he has decided to have the sale. In addition to the purebred stock, there will also be sold a small number of grade cows, two extra good stamps of horses and a full range of farm implements, all of which are in good repair. An advertisement appearing in the auction columns gives full oarticulars of thia sale,