LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A party of 161 assisted immigrants arrived in Wellington last night by the Rotorua from London. Four men, two women and one child were booked for New Plymouth. It is understood that Mr. Pemberton Billing, of London, who is greatly interested i n the gramophone business, intends to set up a factory in Wellington for the manufacture of gramophone records.

A resident of Ashburton, writing to a friend in Wanganui, states that the dry weather has commenced to set in i n the South Island. Th e ground, he points out, is as dry as it can be, and there is comparatively little snow on the back hills.

The increasing trade, by water, with the Waikato is attracting considerable interest at Onehunga. Cargo is being shipped fairly regularly to Waikato Heads, where it is transferred to the river steamers for towns on the Waikato and Waipa rivers.

“Your Majesty,” said a councillor in addressing the Mayor at a meeting of the Wanganui City Council 'recently. When the laughter had subsided, the Mayor said that on the occasion of the recent ViceRegal visit one of the speakers welcomed “Lord Jellicoe 'and Lady Plunket.”

•In the Legislative Council yesterday the New Plymouth Borough Council Empowering Bill and the New Plymouth Borough and New Plymouth Harbour Board Exchange Bill were put through their 'final stages and passed.—Press Association.

"During the years that are before mo I shall feel my mind somewhat Lxe a barometer,” said the Governor-General (Viscount Jellicoe) at the New Plymouth farewell yesterday. “When the price of butter and cheese—l (laughter)— rises in t-hq Old Country I shall feel pleased, pleased indeed that the dairy farmers of Taranaki are having a good time. (Laughter and Applause.) Whether Her Excellency, as housekeeper, will have the same feelings of pleasure, I am not able to say. When the price of butter and cheese falls my heart will fall with it —(renewed larghter)—and I shall picture the dairy farmers of Taranaki selling their motor-cars. Her Excellency, on the other hand, will go out and buy all the butter she can lay her hands on. When prices rise I shall call for drinks and toast Taranaki and its dairy farm-

in connection with the ceremony of turning the water into the new 9in main at St. K'ilda (Dunedin), Mr. W. G. Griffin (town clerk of th e borough) prepared the following interesting return of the value of private dwellings erected in the principal cities and towns of the Dominion for 1923-24:—Wellington, £649,000; Auckland, £002,000; Christchurch, £545,000; Mount Albert, £230,000; Dunedin, £218,000; Hamilton, £192,000; Mount Eden, £141,000; Palmerston North, £139,000; Tima.ru, £120,000; New Plymouth, £118,000; Invercargill, £117,000; Takapuna, £119,000; Wanganui, £95,000; Onehunga, £92,000; Lower Hutt, £86,000; Napier, £82,000; Devonport, £68,000; Whangarei, £64,000; Hastings, £63,000; St. Kilda, £52,000. There were 98 others on the list, all of which were lower.

A tribute to the beauty of New Plymouth is one of the places which we Governor-General (Viscount Jellicoe) in the course of his reply at the official farewell tendered him yesterday morning by the people of New Plymouth and the surrounding district. "New Plymouth is one of the places which we shall remember, I am sure, as long as we live,” His Excellency said. “It is indeed a beauty spot, with its great mountain watching silently over its destinies; with its beautiful gardens, from which one catches glimpses of that splendid mountain; with its Harbour, which is doing so much to increase the prosperity of the town, and which in its development will do so much for the primary producers in getting their product® away to th® Old Country and other markets of the world. (Applause.) As a sailor <1 am naturally greatly interested in the progress of the harbour.”

A case came before the Supreme Court in Invercargill recently, in which a doctor claimed £lB9 from the executors of a deceased person for operations performed upon that person, who was a lodge patient. It was contended by the plaintiff that anaesthetics had been administered in order to perform operations, and that these were excluded from the lodge agreement. The Judge, in giving his decision in favour of defendants, stated that the anaesthetics administered were only of a local character, and were part of the duties of a lodge doctor. The esteem and affection in which their Excellencies Viscount and Lady Jellicoe and the Hon. Lucy Jellicoe are held by all sections of the community was strikingly illustrated at the New Plymouth Savage Club’s vvahines’ korero last night. Mr. Atua, of Moturoa, took advantage of the opportunity to present His Excellency with a moa bone au re’, or pin, which is over 150 years old and had been a treasured possession in Mr. Atua’s family, while, on behalf of Mrs. Atua, he presented Lady Jellicoe and the Hon. Lucy Jellicoe each with neatly worked native baskets and poi balls. Later on in the evening the Misses Falwasser also presented Lady Jellicoe with a flax mantle shade and the Hon. Lucy with a feather basket. The making otf the presentations was warmly applauded, and their Excellencies expressed their very deep appreciation of this further illustration of the good feelings existing between Maori and pakeha. An early start is evidently being made with cricket in North Taranaki. One club has already called its annual meeting, and the Western Park Club advertise that their meeting will be held to-night at 7.30 p.m. at the offices of Messrs. Duff and Wynyard, Brougham Street. All members and intending members will receive a cordial welcome, and the business to be discussed is important. The Melbourne, Ltd., have opened out a special line of boy’s extra strong dark grey saddle tweed shorts at an attractive ; price. The material is genuine all wool I colonial saddle tweed, made of hard twisted yarn and absolutely guaranteed to withstand the hardest wear. All strongly lined and they are well cut, having plenty of length from the fork to the top of waist. Prices, size 4, 10/6 to 16/11 for size 1