LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 July 1925, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stock auction advertisements appear on pages T 9 and'2o of this issue. It is expected that the new Colosseum Theatre at Auckland will be opened before the end of the year. The estimated cost of the structure is between £140,000 and £150,000. That arrangements were being made for parties from the American fleet to visit Mount Egmont was announced by ■ Mr.-. A. H. Messenger ' (officer in charge of the Government ■ publicity office), who was entertained by the Hawera Rotary Club yesterday (writes our Hawera reporter). A request for a contribution of £l5 aa its share ot an annual subsidy of £5OO to the Egmont National Park was received by the Clifton County Cotihcil- yesterday. The majority of t’.>e councillors expressed the opinion that the council was not in a position to provide a subsidy for such a purpose, and tlie council decided not t.> grant any subsidy. A request) that every endeavour should be made to include Taranaki in the itinerary, of the British and Canadian delegates to the Empire Press Conference in Australia during their tour' of New Zealand in August, with the special object of allowing them to visit Mount Egmont, was made to the Publicity Department at a meeting of the Hawera Chamber of Commerce last night. The police are looking, lor a practically new five-seater Ford motor car wjiieh, was stolen during Thursday niglilt. from Mr. I. Preston’s garage on the Kent Road, The car wae put in the garage at 9.30 p.m. and was missing when the garage was opened at 6.30 yesterday morning. The car is painted grey, has a brown hood and has a spare wheel attached to the back. The number plates are N.Z. 57-304 and the engine number is C 423,468. One of the back stays is broken and is held together by wire. All police stations throughout the district have been advised of. the theft. That delight of the small boy’s heart, a tea party, made St. Mary’s Peace Memorial Hall. a. .scene of juvenile gaiety .yesterday afternoon and evening. The tea party was a recompense for the loss of the annual Sunday school pienie, which had to he abandoned owig to the infantile paralysis epidemic. The party was organised by the teachers of the morning and afternoon Sunday schools, the younger children attending from 4.30 to 7 and the older ones from 7 to 9.30. Organised games were played ami tea was provided for all the children.

One of the most common excuses of absconding seamen was advanced by /ohn William McDonald, when he was ordered by Mr. A. M. Mowlem, 8.M., yesterday, to be placed on board the schooner. Holinwood, from which he deserted “on Thursday. McDonald alleged that the vessel was unseaworthy and that she had practically no gear worth the name if it came to a matter of life saving. As he left the dock he remarked that lie would sooner go to gaol than on board the Holinwood again. McDonald was advised to make his complaint against the schooner to the collector of customs. The master of the Holmwood (lOaptain Stanich) and Messrs. Holm and Co., the owners, stated yesterday that the schooner had been given the usual survey before leaving Newcastle for New Plymouth and that the vessel was sailing under Government certificate. Jack Harrigan, who deserted from the Mamari on April 27, and was arrested at Motiirqa on Thursday, pleaded guilty and was convicted and ordered to' pay costs amounting to £2 7s, in default 10 days’ imprisonment. Matchless. Shoes are stylish and they’re so made with such high-grade materials that they retain their shape throughout an exceptionally long period of service. The new models now. showing at Deare’s Boot Arcade, New Plymouth, are really worth your inspection