LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1926, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

After a special meeting of the Opsnake Harbour Board, the tenders received for the construction of the wltarl were forwarded to (he board's consulting engineer, Mr. Vickerman. The nucleus of the new Motnroa wharf in the form of an imposing concrete approach, is now well under way. A large number of concrete blocks have now been laid and the construction oi steps to the beach is well in hand. A further draft of 378 immigrant® from England arrived at Wellington by the Mataroa on Tuesday. Ninety-five were booked for Auckland, 125 for Wellington, 29 for- Lyttelton, 7‘3 for Port Chalmers and the remainder for various other parts of New Zealand. The 30 boys who arrived by the Mataroa for Flock House bring the number who have now been brought out under this scheme io 270. One man could not get a job at the Gisborne Freezing Works during the hold-up. He was a strong looking sixfooter not long out from the Old Country, and the only suitable vacancy when he applied at Kaiti was in the fellmongery. The only gear he would require, he was told, would be a pair of clogs. Therein lay the difficulty, however. He ngeded size 14’s, and there was not a pair In town to fit him. With the object of forming a branch of the English-Speaking Union in New Plymouth, Mrs. De Castro is at present visiting the town. Earl Balfour is president of the movement in the British Empire and Mrs. De Castro possesses a letter from him wishing her every success in her work. Mrs. De Castro is to address the Rotary Club on Monday, and it is probable that she will speak also to the members of the Victoria League and the Taranaki Women’s Club. The Egmont County Council yesterday resolved unanimously to accede to the request of the Dobson relief fund committee to assist in raising funds for the relief of dependants of those killed in the recent mining disaster, and it was decided to have several eopies of the appeal printed and forwarded to the various centres in the county. Ct. Tosland, whilst sympathetic to the ap peal, deprecated the tendency to always appeal to local bodies, considering that the emergency should be covered by insurance or in some other way. A firm which recently took over a large bacon curing concern at Elthaw intends, it is understood, to commence operations in the near future. The activity will be on the lines of a freezing works, where beef, mutton mid Jamb will, be handled, and not those of a canning concern as formerly. Foi' some years the works, which at one time employed a good number of hands, hare been idle and the re-opening will be good news to the farming community and the townspeople alike.

The matter of cbnstructing new tepid bathe in New .Plymouth was diecussed' at length at a meeting of the Taranaki Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association last evening. It was finally decided to obtain from Auckland and Christchurch facts and figures with reference to the tepid ba I.he in those centres. A deputation will wait upon the Borough Council on Monday evening to set the views of the association before the council. The Taranaki delegates who attended the consecration of the first Bishop of Waikato and the first synod of the new diocese returned from Hamilton yesterday. In conversation with them it was gathered that the first impressions of Bishop Clierrington were most happy. He appears to be a man of strong character with a distinct personality, a faculty for prompt decision, yet with a marked strain of sympathy. As a preacher he is distinctly forceful. He has a strong voice and a broad outlook, and has apparently had a wide experience of men and affairs. He expressed himself as being very keen on getting to work and being of service to the diocese. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, etc. (per Mamari from Dunedin) now close in New Plymouth on Saturday December 18 at 7.45 a.in. A London niesage reports the death of - Lord Emmott, aged 66 years. Lord Ernmott, who was given a peerage in 1911, was member of .Parliament for Oldham from 1860 to 1911, and was Under-Secretary of' State for the Colonie® from 1911 to 1914. Lord Emmott, apparently in robust realtli, presided at the dinner of the Manchester Reform I'lnb on the 11th and eiieeumbed to angina pectoris.