LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1926, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The results of all the football matches in Taranaki will be posted by the Daily News in all the larger towns in Taranaki early on Saturday evening.

Forty-nine applications for the position of resident medical superintendent of the New Plymouth public hospital have been received by the board from all parts of New Zealand and. from Australia.

The introduction of heather into the Tongariro National Park has created a good deal of controversy, and the question as to whether the plant is to be allowed to remain in the park or not is to be again discussed at next week’s meeting in Wellington of the National Park Board.

A storm of pro-test has been raised in Hamilton by the action of the Railway Department in permitting the Claudclands subway bridge to be used for advertising purposes. The Hamilton Borough Council and the BeautifyingSociety have objected and have requested the department to have the sign removed, while representatives of other local bodies have also protested. As showing the wonderful results that are obtained by wireless transmission, Mr. Baird, of Frankley Road, informed a Daily News reporter that about a fortnight ago he was listening in on IQG (Brisbane) using a super tridyne. During the “children’s hour” the announcer in Brisbane stated he was about to drop three pins one after the other. The sound of each pin as it hit the floor could be’ heard I’2 feet from the loud speaker in Mr. Baird’s house. "People who are responsible for cideily> men should not allow them out by themselves on the crowded streets,” observed the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in giving his verdict regarding the death of Robert Thackeray Hudson, aged 84, who Was knocked down by a So tor-car at Auckland. The coroner found that the cause of death was shock following injuries received through being knocked down by a motor-car. No blame was attachable to the driver of the car. “I consider that most of the tar-boil-ing I have seen carried out on the Auckland streets is a positive ease of being 'burned to death/ ” declared Mr., YV. H. Cook, engineer to the Mount Albert Borough Council, at a meeting of ratepayers. The statement was greeted by cries of "Hjar, hear,” from several quarters of the room. Mr. Cook said he proposed to introduce a system of steam heating the tar, which system he felt sure would give very much better results. Mr. J. D. Hall astonished members of the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce when he told them of a farmer who had five sows, each of which yielded a profit of £6O (reports the Lyttelton Times). "That’s not a sow,” commented the chairman (Mr. YV. Machin), “it’s the golden calf;” Later Mr. Hall referred to complaints by the tomato growers. "Yet,” he said, "they made £lOOO an acre,” "Are there any poor farmers 1” queried Mr. Machin. “Oh, yes,” responded Mr. Hall, “there are those who grow wheat!”

“The witness who was missing yesterday has a perfectly good reason for his non-atitendar.ee,” said the . Crown solicitor, Mr. H. T. Gillies, in the Hamilton Supreme Court on Thursday morning, when the case which was adjourned on the previous day owing to the absence of the witness was resumed. Mr. Gillies said that owing to a clerical error the witness was summoned to appear on June 18 instead of June 8, as required. Mr. Justice Herdman accepted the explanation and cancelled the order made yesterday for the forfeiture of the witness’ recognisance of £5O. Good progress is being made with the additions in concrete to the Leppertou Co-operative Dairy factory and it is expected they will be completed in about eight weeks’ time. The present building was erected nine years ago and is now too small to deal with the milkoffering. In order to give more vat room the butter chamber is being extended and a new cream receiving stand and a refrigerating chamber are being erected. The present method of receiving miik is by hoists, but the grade of the stand is to be altered to enable direct unloading from the carts to the stage. Other improvements will be new salt and starter rooms. Mr. W. N. Stephenson is the architect and Mr. F. Amoore has charge of the work. A somersault over an 80ft. cliff’, while remaining at the wheel of a motor-ear as the vehicle plunged into the rocky gully below, was the thrilling experience of Mr. B.' Dawson, of Te Kuiti, when motoring along the Pirongia Mountain Road recently. Mr. Dawson was about to turn the car round when, owing to the greasy nature of the surface due to tile recent heavy rains, the car listed. It then moved bodily forward and sideways and, although the hand and foot brakes were applied, the car continued on its course and was precipitated over the cliff. Although the ear somersaulted as it fell Mr. Dawson was not thrown from the seat. When the vehicle came to rest he walked calmly from the debris feeling little the worse for his experience. The car was considerably damaged. A story described by Sub-Inspector Harvey as being rlather pitiful, was told in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court the other day, when a youth of 19 pleaded guilty to being an idle and disorderly person, with insufficient lawful means of support. “He was found the previous night sleeping in a motorlorry,” said the Sub-Inspector. “He says that he arrived in New Zealand from Home in April of last year, and secured work with a dairy farmer at YY’hangarei. At the close of the milking season jie was dismissed, and to find work he walked from Whangarei to Wellington, lie arrived here on Saturday, but had no money and no friends, and was forced to seek, a bed in the lorry. The Salvation Army authorities are willing to take the lad until he can find work, and I would ask under the circumstances, that the charge he withdrawn,” The magistrate agreed to this course, and ordered the youth to remain in the Army home until he found work.

On Thursday, Jun» 17, at Stratford, Messrs. Sturm, Philips and Co., Auctioneers, will conduct a clearing sale on account of Mrs. E. McPhee, when they will offer the whole of her Household Furniture and Effects; also modern 5-roomed House and Corner Section. Full particulars will be found on page 12 of this issue.

Why shiver these colds nights? When C. C. Ward, Ltd., Taranaki’s busy drapery stores are offering Blankets and Quilts at prices that cannot be equalled. If you cannot call mail your order to any of our branches at Eltham, Hawera, or New Plymouth. Satisfaction assured •» money refunded.