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Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1924, Page 4

The meanest thief has been located in Christchurch (says an exchange). A young woman fell in a fit in a tram shelter and while she was unconscious somebody stole her purse. The proposal to erect an undenominational church at Uruti is being w’ell-sup-ported by the surrounding districts. It is understood that the Uruti committee has about £2OO in hand, while the funds will be swelled to the extent of £74 4s as the result of a bazaar organised by Urenui sympathisers and held at that centre on Monday. As it is intended to proceed with the work when £3OO is in sight, the new church at Uruti should soon be an accomplished fact. “Out of the 329 men in Mount Eden gaol to-day,” said Mr. J. Stewart, official visitor to the Auckland prisons, “no less than 60 ner cent, have had secondary education, and some are university men.” Dealing with the work of the institutions now operating for the assistance of men who have fallen temporarily into evil ways, Mr. Stewart told of an Oxford B.A. who, after having served a term in prison, is now living a clean and straight life in the country, thanks to the assistance given to him by the officers of the Prisons Department, and is now making more money than ever he made in his life. The success of the excursion to New Plymouth, in which the Hawera and Tawhiti schools joined, seems to indicate that regular excursion trains to the beach at New Plymouth would be well patronised (says the Hawera Star). It should be quite possible to do the journey, even with a reasonable number of stops, in two hours, and this would permit of a sufficiently long stay on the beach to warrant the journey. At present Hawera people have a horror of the slow train journey to New Plymouth. The train from Hawera leaves at 7.10 a.m., arriving at New Plymouth at 10.20. In the evening the train leaves at 4.20, arriving at Hawera at 7-46 o’clock, so that it is necessary, in order to spend about six hours in New Plymouth, to travel for about seven hours, which seems most unreasonable, seeing that the distance is not more than 48 miles. Gradually the motor cars are capturing the passengers. The fares are not widely different, and the saving in time, to say nothing of comfort, gives them an advantage over the train which travellers have been quick to appreciate. Lady breeders of sheep are not very numerous in New Zealand, but at the ram fair in Hastings there wa<s one, Mrs. Eglington, of Featherston, who was exceptionally proud of the fact that her Rommey floidk rams realised the good price of 9gns. Mrs. Eglington, in conversation with a Telegraph reporter, remarked that although she was working on her late husband’s stock, she was Jsolely responsible for the entries she had brought forward, and for three years she had been breeding rams. The consignment she brought to the fair were dipped, and treated for all ailments by heraelf alone, and she reported herself ns very pleased at the fact that her work had merited such good prices.

It is doutful if any other part of the world possesses such a wonder as the- hot springs located on the ocean beach at Kaw'hia, a couple of miles from the township. These springs are found bel'oiw the high-water mark. When the tide recedes a little the bather has only to dig a hole in the sand, and it soon fills with hot mineral water, while a few yards away huge breakers roll in toward the shore. The mineral wtere possess the curative properties for which New Zealand’s thermal regions have 'become famous.

Dockrill’s Shoe House, Devon Street, New Plymouth, and corner Main and Napier Streets, Opunake, invite inspection of their sale bargains. Why punish your feet with cheap and shoddy footwear when you can get Quality Shoes at the price displayed in our windows. There is every possibility of N. Dowsett, the Wanganui intermediate swinjtaer, who put up the fastest time for the 100 yards events at the recent New Zealand championships, competing at the New Plymouth carnival on Saturday evening. An endeavour is also being made to arrange a polo match between the Hawera and New Plymouth Clubs.

There have been a number of articles in the papers lately in reference to “Daylight Saving,” but the biggest saving can be made by purchasing your Footwear from Dockrill’s Shoe House during their Bargain Sale. Note addresses: Dockrill’s Shoe House, Devon Street, New Plymouth, and corner Main and Napier Street, Opunake. The Clifton Rowing Club’s carnival will be held at Waitara to-morrow, commencing at 1 p.m. Details are advertised in this issue. FILMS DEVELOPED AND PRINTED. Country clients will receive their finished prints return mail (postage free). H. J. Abram, “Quick Photo Service” Chemist, New Plymouth.