LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1926, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Motors carried large numbers of patrons to the Stratford races yesterday. Parked in the enclosure were 853 motorcars and 26 motor-cycles and others were parked outside.

In continuation of her voyage around New Zealand the launch Raumano, with an Auckland party on board, left New Plymouth at 6 o'clock yesterday morning en route to Wellington. Charged with stealing a case of tomatoes from a cart outside the Nelson Fruit Co.’s depot in Currie Street, New Plymouth, Thomas Duffin, labourer of Ng:imotu, was arrested by Detective Meiklejohn on Thursday. Duffin was brought, before Mr. J. Therkleson, J.P., and was remanded until Wednesday. Bail was fixed at one surety of £25.

The spell of fine weather during the holidays swelled last month’s receipts al the New Plymouth municipal swimming baths. The takings for the month amounted to £4B 12s sd, of which the sum of £25 17s 8d was taken during the last ten days. In the corresponding, month of 1924 the receipts were £34 9s Id. The tickets issued last month comprised 1692 adults, 2696 children, 158 hot salt-water baths, 22 season and nine monthly. ,In addition the revenue was slightly increased by a small commission on a carnival.

Newton King, Ltd., wish to draw attention to their replace “Property Guide” advertisement in this issue.

A Wanganui motor-lorry driver and his wife had a narrow escape from a serious accident near Silverhope. The lorry was laden with bezine and when rounding a dangerous bend in a very stiff hill climb the vehicle went over the back. The occupants Were thrown clear, fortunately escaping without injury, the lorry capsizing with its contents, some 10 or 15 feet below tlio road.

“Don’t turn out those lights!” It was Bishop J. Taylor-Smith, of England, who spoke before beginning his sermon in the All Saints’ Church, Sumner, when the verger switched off the electric lights. I like to see the faces of the people to whom I preach,” he added. “i\o doubt it is economical to turn down the lights, but it is also a great loss.

In the course of a. sermon at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin, Bishop Richards referred to the shortage of clergy and made an eloquent appeal for help. “At present,” he said, “ through no fault of theirs, many of our people are in a state of spiritual destitution, and we do pray earnestly that we may be enabled to fulfil our ministry so that tlie children of the Church may be brought up in a knowledge of the love of God, and that grown up people with their families who are in remote and scattered districts, may have the means of grace within their reach, and that the message of the gospel may be so brought to the nation that our social and political life may be ennobled and purified. And for this we need more clergy and the means to support them.”

The appearance of three Chinese in the Auckland Police Court on a charge °I having attempted to enter the Dominion without paying the poll tax recalls the fact that some years ago there was hardly any restriction on the number of Chinamen corning here, and that •they were arriving in such numbers that they threatened to flood the country. But although race aliens now comprise a comparatively small proportion of the total arrivals, they are by no means unimportant. “As a matter of fact,” says the Government Statistician, in the last issue of the New Zealand Year Book, “the entry of race aliens, notably Chinese and Indians, into the Dominion has been regarded with concern for some years. In 1924 a total of 93 Chinese and 44 arrived, whilst only 17 Chinese and one Indian departed, leaving a gain to the Chinese population of 76 and the Indian population of 43. In the ten years to 1924, 518 Chinese and 128 Indians arrived.

Opportunities for trade with the Far East were discussed by Mr. John G. Ihimmeling in a lecture at the Y.M.C.A, Christchurch, last week. Mr. Hummeling has spent some years in trade in the East and knows the needs of tho natives there and the possibilities of trade with them. Mr. Hummeling said that most people thought that New Zealand was too far away for trade with the East, but the main trouble was to find ou't the products which the East needed. The myriads of the East were rapidly becoming westernised. They were adopting western articles of diet. Thus the Japanese were becoming a meat-eating nation. From the observations he had made, such articles afl dried fruits, jam, butter, ham, mineral waters, apples, pears, bot'tled squashes, and beer would be readily saleable. There were no preferential tariff’s in the East, so that all nations could have equal chances. The yellow man did not care where (he goods were manufactured so long as he got the goods he wanted.

The many friends of Mrs. Lily Hope, the well-known Flower Phenomena Medium, will be pleased to know and welcome her back to New Plymouth. As her stay will be short, a series of lectures and circles will be held in the Spiritualists’ Church, Courtenay Street, New Plymouth. Everybody interested in psychology is invited Jo attend, and will gain much knowledge pertaining to the “Two Worlds” and the “Here after.” Comforting messages will be given to lhe bereaved ones.