LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1926, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A barrel of dressed sausage skins was found in the tank of the tar boiler at the Hawera county’s depot on Saturday, the foreman reported to the council. How it got their is not known. A sum of £l4 was the amount collected by members of the Citizens’ Band in the streets of New Plymouth on Friday night for the fund for Christmas gifts at the publie hospital. Something of a record for small scores in cricket was created in Waitara on Saturday when Band (New Plymouth) were dismissed by the local side in their second innings for a total of three runs, three players making one run each. The bowlers responsible for Band’s downfall were I. Taylor, who took five wickets for two runs and Wilkins, who took five for one run. An extraordinary accident befell a New Plymouth motorist on the Opu-nake-Stratford Road on Saturday. He wae driving a light car in the direction of Dawson Falls when a bee flew in between hie spectacles and his eye. He involuntarily shut his eyes for a moment, with the result that he drove into the ditch. Apart from a buckled wheel no damage was done. Twenty-five stalwart volunteers set to work upon the Salvation Army citadel on Saturday afternoon with hammers and crowbars, and after four and a-half hours’ toil its demolition had progressed far. The work ie to continue throughout this week and is expected to be completed by next Saturday. The old building is to be replaced by an entirely modern concrete structure, tenders fol which have already been called. The Salvation Army band and orchestra are giving an entertainment in the Mangorei Hall to-morrow night for the Mangorei Sunday School. The varied programme and the distribution of prizes will no doubt attract a large attendance.

A Wanganui crossword puzzle enthusiast who saw a competition advertised got to work with his brains and a dictionary, completed the puzzle, and sent it in to win the £lO prize. A few days later after a period of anxious waiting he received the magnificient sum of 7%d, along with the information that 378 others had discovered the correct solution.—Chronicle,

The December pay-out by the Eltham Dairy Company will be at the rate of Is 3d for butter-fat for cheese and Is 2d for butter. A total of 341,0231'b5. of butter-fat was received and £21,243 will be pant out, compared with 310,3661bs of butter received for the corresponding period in 1925, when Is 6d was paid for both cheese and butter, with a pay-out of £23,244. This means an increased production of butter-fat for November as compared with last year of 20,6571 l bs. or 9 per cent., and an increase in butter-fat for the five months eliding November as compared with last year of 11 per cent. The payout this year shows a decrease of £2o9l.—Argus.

During Christmas week the port of New Plymouth will again be as busy as ever, for besides the usual coastal shipping between December 17 and December 22, four large overseas vessels are expected to call. The first, the Mahaua (11,796 tons) will discharge 1450 tons of general Loudon cargo, while the Port Melbourne (9152 tons) will discharge 1390 tone of general merchandise from th® same port, and will also load 6000 boxes of butter and 8000 crates of cheese. The Gallic, direct from Australia, is to load 10,060 boxes of butter and 16,290 freight carcases of meat and the Dewey (5930 tons) will discharge 1050 tons of general Pacific Coast cargo. This week a total of 8000 boxes of butter and 9000 crates of cheese are to be transhipped to Wellington for the Tonga’riro and immediately afterwards a further allotment is to be dispatched for the Huntingdon. Whilst in Australia investigating problems in connection with Scientific and Industrial Research, Dr. E. Marsden saw the Great White Train, an advertising medium which it is proposed to introduce into New Zealand. He aleo saw the “better farming” train, which travels to remote places on the railway, and which endeavours by means of displays and lectures to assist the farmer in adopting the latest scientific methods on his land. Distances from civilisation in Australia are giggter than, they are in New Zealand, and the farmer in the latter country has more chance of keeping in touch with things. But these "better farming” trains have been a great success in Australia, and it may be that the idea will be tried, in the Dominion.

There are fifty black eamped tn a waterhole by a N.S.W. sheep station., and recently a lubra who is a housemaid at the station invaded the eamp. Being an admirer of Miss Beryl Mills ’ (“Miss Australia”), she held a beauty show. This lubra had been given a discarded bathing dress, and each successive lubra was to retire into the scrub, assume the costume, and parade before the eamp. The station lubra offered half a dozen sticks of black tobacco as the first prize. One-eyed Charlie and Big-toed Tommy, who had had much experience of marriage, were the judges. It is no use pretending black gins are beautiful, and Charlie, seeing the first skinny lubra, said she looked “like a native companion with a shirt on.” A contemporary says that one of the ladies was handicapped as to figure by having consumed a fullsized bandicoot, two goannas, piece of snake, and some eooked yams before entering. Lucy, one of the ladies, was of rather plump Sure, and weighed sixteen stone. The costume had been made for a slender white woman. The result was amusing. StiM, the black fellows were sportsmen. No prizes were awarded, and the whole camp smoked the tobacco. Speaking at the fanners’ meeting at. Wanganui on Thursday, Mr. W. B. Mathieson, of Eketahuna, vice-president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, advocated free trade, and criticised the imposition of protective tariff's. He pointed to the tariff against imported footwear, for the benefit of the New Zealand footwear industry, as a glaring example. Rather than keep the operatives in employment by such methods, they should eend the employees out into the open spaces, to develop land and increase primary production. Mr. A. Stuart (Marton) said the Arbitration Court had outlived its usefulness. It was reducing the best man to the leyel of the worst instead of raising the worst man to the level of the best. He thought New Zealand was living just a little too high—too much sport, and too much pleasure. It was the fpuit of a lot of farmers that they were in difficulties. Too many farmers were encumbered three or four times over. Another farmer moved an amendment that the Arbitration Court be abolished altogether. Speaking as an ex-shearer, he said in the old days rates of pay were arranged with the “boss.” His own son, now a shearer, told him ft wae a bad day when he did not make £3 a day. Yet he himself, now a farmer, did not make £3 a month.

The Melbourne for Christmas Presents at attractive prices. Lots of fancy napery in lace, embroidered and eyeletted work in d’oyleys, table centres, tray cloths, etc., at prices ranging from 1/9 to 13/6. Grand assortment of ladies’ and children’s plain and fancy handkerchiefs in pretty boxes at from 1/- to 7/6 per box, and single handkerchiefs at from 3d to 3/6 each. See special window display. Overcrowding at a public bar is not really an offence, but merely the desire of people to congregate. Overcrowding in a tramcar is caused by the impatience of people who want io get home without waiting another ten minutes. The Inspector may, however, be called upon to intervene on Friday next, when there will be overcrowding at the Horticultural Show. Keep the date open. See advertisement in this issue. The annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be he'd on Tuesday next in the Soldiers’ Club at 8 p.m. The excellent work done by the Society entitles it to the hearty support of the whole community. It is therefore hoped that all lovers of animals will show their sympathy by attending the meeting and thus encourage by their presence those earnest members who year after year carry on the work. Cut on lines to accentuate slimness and to add grace and charm to any figure, the showroom models at Besley’s are indeed a revelation to the woman who is seeking for exclusiveness in the clothes. For the summer holidays, or that specially nice Race Frock, you’ll be sure of achieving correct styles in a dainty frock with Ensemble coat to match. In Besley’s showroom there is a veritable galaxy of summer style and beauty. Come in any time you're in town.