LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Daily News will not be published on Friday (Good Friday). It will appear as usual on Saturday and Monday (Easter Monday), At the monthly social evening in the . ctoria League room last night songs were given by Mrs. Bulmer and Mrs. Shipton, a violin solo by Miss Kirkland, and a recitation by Mrs. Kircher. Supper was served afterwards. The Taranaki school holidays this year have been extended in accordance with the wish of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York. The schools will be closed from Thursday, April 14, until Wednesday, April 20. both days inclusive. Mr. J. Jemison has been chosen by the New Plymouth Labour Representation Committee as their sole nominee to contest a seat on the borough council at the forthcoming municipal elections. The committee decided not to cont 1 seats on the Harbour Board and Hospital Board. Some heated argument was caused at the meeting of the unemployed at New Plymouth last night when it was announced that two days’ work could be given to a single man. For this preference a number of married men strongly protested, saying that this was very unfair to them and their families.

Coincidence surely in the strangest form was present in the figures supplied the directors of the Taranaki Producers’ Freezing Works yesterday. Exactly the same number of crates ol cheese were received at the Moturoa works between March 12 and April 9, 1926, and March 12 and April 9, 1927. The figure was 20,322! The monthly meeting of the New Plymouth Amateur Photographic Society was held last evening. The advanced competition was won by Mr. Hellyar and the novice competition by Mr. Stevenson. The president (Mr. Swainson) gave an advanced demonstration on printing papers, and Mr. Butler gave a talk on the art of mounting pictures. While a window cleaner was attending the outer side of a small pane on one of the upper stories of Collier and Co.’s building in Devon Street Central yesterday morning, he accidentally put his hand through a larger pane of glass below, which he had to open. He escaped injury fortunately, and the broken glass fell either inside the building or on to the verandah above the street.

There were 45 applicants for work at the New Plymouth branch of the Department of Labour at the end of last week, including 19 labourers, 3 clerks, 3 grocers’ assistants, 8 farmhands, 3 painters and paperhangers, 1 fitter and turner, 4 carpenters, 1 butcher, 1 plumber, 1 radio operator and linesman, and 1 engineer and motor fitter. The rather remarkable fact that in certain parts of Taranaki the earth is a very poor conductor*'of electricity and the usual safety “earthing” devices are of little or no avail, was discussed at a meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council last night, when the problem of electric shocks experienced by users of the telephone was before the council. The electrical engineer (Mr. W. H. Huggett) explained that sometimes a fallen high tension wire burn a smoke like trail in the grass, but lost little of its current by contact with the earth. Preaching at St. Mary’s Church last night in connection with Holy Week services, Bishop Cherrington took as his text, "God forbid that I should glorv, save i.n the Cross of Christ” (Galatians VI, 14). The crude, false theory of the atonement was what made men hold aloof from Christianity, he said. Instead of the picture of an angry Deity being implored by His Son to forgive the world, tho Cross revealed the magnitude of the love of God, who so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, and that the sinfulness of sin was in the perversion ot the human will. There was far more goodness in the world than evil if only men would let it out of their hearts.

Tho parking of ears in the centre of the business portion of New Plymouth formed the subject of a protest to the New Plymouth Borough Council last night by the secretary of the Tramway Employees’ Union (Mr. V. George). The parking of cars in Devon Street between Eliot Street and the post office, and also in Egmont and Liardet Streets, nrt only made it dangerous for tram and other drivers, said Mr. George, but often held up the whole of the traffic of the street. “To keep the streets clear you have got to live there,” observed the borough inspector (Mr. R. Day), after, considerable discussion on the matter. The Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilt said it was a common complaint in all towns. He had not known, howc.eT, of any holding up of traffic in New Plymouth through such parking.

When the buying of the 22 McGruer’s branches is bulked together, they are able to make Special Purchases through their own London Office, and this last week has seen some exceptional- values come into New Zealand on their behalf