LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1926, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Arbitration Court is scheduled to sit in New Plymouth on Wednesday, September 29. It is understood, however, that there are no disputes for decision. An open-air radio concert was provided (he residents of Dartmoor on Saturday afternoon. A loud-speaker was placed on a verandah and the music could be heard for some distance around.

From the experience" of several Hawera tradespeople it would appear that half sovereigns are beginning to circulate fairly freely and'one business man states that this has especially been so during the last month.

Included in (be Supplementary Estimates are grants to the Egmont National Park Board for the cost of destruction of wild goats in the park, £250; general administration expenses, £500; Wainaate West agricultural demonstration area, £lOO. To open up a new car from its ease and find a. vat's nest in the springs of the back seat , was the experience, of a Hawera firm recently. ■ The paper lining of the case had been stripped off and a very comfortable nest had been made with the fragments of paper. Two of the rodents were killed but the death of a third rodent occurred during the voyage from America. John Wilson, the 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Wilson, of Christchurch, recently was playing on the motor road that leads from Sumner to Taylor's Mistake, when he lost his fooling, and after rolling, some hundred feet down the precipitous incline, went over the edge and fell thirty feet ou to a macadam road beneath. With the. exception of a few abrasions and the resultant shock, no injury was done, and he has now been discharged from hospital. St. Mary's annual bulb show next Thursday promises to be fully up to the usual standard of excellent, judging by the number of intending exhibitors. Besides the display of spring flowers in the Peace Memorial Hall, there will be several stalls at which various useful and ornamental articles will be for sale, inclluding produce of all kinds. Under the management of Mrs. Skinner, a most interesting and attractive feature of the show will be a “Shawl Parade,” illustrating some of the fashions and foibles of bygone, days. The show- will, be open from 2 till 5 p.m., and again in the evening. An abandoned soldier farm at Kortt.o is advertised for sale by tender in this issue by the Lands Department. It has only been vacant a. short lime and is in good condition. The usual easy terms ef ffhanee tan be'arranged.