LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The offices of the Taranaki Daily News will be closed this afternoon from 2 o’clock until 4 o’clock o n -the occasion of the unveiling of the New Plymouth war memorial.

The playing of tennis on school courts on Sunday is not approved by the Taranaki Education Board. The board decided yesterday to inform the Omata School Committee that the board cannot see its way to approve of the playing of tennis on school courts on Sunday.

Sixteen applications for work -were received at the New Plymouth office of the Labour Department during, the week ended yesterday. They comprised:—Four labourers, one bricklayer, one boot repairer, one plumber, two drivers, one fitter and turner, one ploughman, one motor mechanic, one storeman, one clerk, one hotel manager, and one gardener. An idea of the steps taken to provide plenty of light and air in modern schools was provided in the report of the architect presented to the Taranaki Education Board yesterday. He stated that there would be 82 windows in the new Eltlram school and 61 in the Westown school.

Although fine weather has prevailed during the lamibing season, there lias been a very heavy mortality among ewes in the Hawke’s Bay district, and it is not expected that the .percentages will be so high as last year (says the Dominion). Against this, however, the prospects of the wool clip are distinctly favourable.

It has now been finally arranged to hold the Dominion conference of Justices of the Peace at the City Council Chambers, Town Hall. Wellington, on Tuesday, September 30, at 2.30 p.m. The mayor will preside, and the conference will be addressed by the Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister for Justice). The Taranaki delegates are Mr. W. J. Chaney and Mr. Harold Trimble.

Practically ail the material for the new school at Westown is now on order, stated Mr. C. H. Moore, architect to the Education Board, in his report to the board yesterday. As grants had been made both for the Westown and Eltham schools, he continued, a commencement of work at Westown would have to be delayed a short time until the mixer and boxing material could be freed from Eltham.

The proposals of the New Plymouth Harbour Board in connection with the harbour development scheme were briefly placed before shareholders of the Ngaire Dairy Company yesterday, at the annual meeting by Mr. W. C. Clement, representative of the Eltham County on the board. He asked for their support to a loan of £600,000, which it was proposed to obtain consent to raise. He pointed out the development that had already taken place and the advantage that the district derived through direct shipping.

“We have not come to complain or grumble,” said Mr. J. Corkill (Mayor of Wairoa), a member of the large deputation that waited upon the Prime Minister and the Minister of Railways ' la«t week; “in fact we have never had ! such a spin in Wbiroa as during the ■ last ten years Owing to the exI tre-mely good roads, thia is the first i time we have been able to make an ! appointment to be in Wellington, and feel that we would be able to arrive there on time” i “I withdrew the information,” re- | ported Mr. G. Pascoe, attendance officer to the Taranaki Education .Board yesterday, when referring to a summons issued against a country resident for the irregular attendance at school of Ins children. Inquiry had shown, continued Mr. Pascoe, that there were 14 children in the family concerned, ten of them -bedug at home. 'Both parents had to go out to work to keep things moving, and a girl 13 yeans old had been kept at home at times to mind a child some months old.

While listening to the claims of a deputation who urged the speedy prosecution of the Napier-Gisborne railway last Thursday, the Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) said that in spite of the regard in which New Zealand was held by Home financiers, it was not desirable to rush the London money market. He had an idea of the limits to which borrowing should go, and he intended to keep within them. During last year Mr. Massey placed a loan of £15,000,000 in London, of which was for public works, £1,000,000 for advances to settlers, and £1,000,000 for advances to workers.

The box plan for “Gushing Bores” opens on Thursday. We are glad to hear it. We hope the traffic will not be unduly congested in the vicinity of Collier's on that day. Anyone who has witnessed a performance of “Gushing Bores” will not n eed to be told to get in early if a good seat is to be secured. This comedy, now performed for the first time in New Zealand is not merely sparkling humourous dialogue. It has elements of mystery, and it is perfectly safe to say that no member of the audience, not knowing the plot, could successfully guess the termination of the action three minutes before the final curtain. The programme offers a novelty in that it is printed showing the names of the characters entirely apart from those of the players. It is left to the audience to determine whether any or all of the characters are what they represent themselves to be on their first appearance. There is more fun in “Gushing Bores” than in anything seen in recent years—either on the stage, or in the pictures. It really is “the laugh of a lifeline”