LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No fewer than nine swaggers called in for meals or a night’s free lodging at one North Taranaki farm last week. On the 20th instant the Midhirst Dairy Company will pay out a bonus of Ijd per lb. on all fat for the season, bringing the total pay-out for the season, including casein, to Is 5.32 d. The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., is making an advance payment of Is 4d a pound butter-fat on July 20 for the June supply of superfine milk and cream for butter and cheese making. An important step in educational matters at Wanganui was taken last week when the Wanganui College Board «f Trustees accepted the tender of J. C. Coppeth, at £19,891, for the erection of a new preparatory school in connection with the Wanganui College. Business men at the extremities of the North and South Islands suffer inconvenience owing to the length of time mails take to reach them. A suggestion has been made by the Otago Expansion League that an aerial mail service between Auckland and Invercargill should be considered. Judgment for £5O was given to Philip Aylward, entertainer, Mount Wellington, who sued the Passenger Transport Company in the Magistrate’s Court, Auckland for £9O damages for the death of a performing dog, run over by a bus belonging to the defendant company. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., held that the bus had been driven negligently. Sixteen representatives of English butter merchants attended a meeting of the directors of the Morrinsville Dairy Company, when the disposal of next season’s output was being discussed. This number creates a record for the Morrinsville factory, and, it is believed, for many factories in the district. The meeting commenced at 11 o’clock in the morning and continued until 6. o’clock in the evening, each of the re;. :entatives speaking for 20 minutes.

As the result of the Star v. Stratford match on Saturday it is expected that the Stratford unemployed fund will benefit to the extent of £l4O. The gate charges, at the suggestion of the Stratford Club, were doubled for the occasion, and the whole of the extra revenue received over and above the ordinary charge goes to the unemployment fund. A match in aid of the New Plymouth unemployed fund will be held later, the arrangement being left in the hands of the New Plymouth members of the Rugby Union. There’s infinite pleasure to be had in the satisfaction that comes from a genuine bargain. New Plymouth women are fortunate in this respect at present for the bargains at Besley’s are worthy of the name. They have a specially interesting lot showing this week.

Fer the half-year ended December 31, J. and P . Coates, Limited, cottonthread manufacturers, earned profits of £1,220,151 after providing for depreciation, taxation, and writing down of stocks. The distribution for the term is 8f per cent., or at the usual rate of 17i per eent. per annum on the ordinary capital of £14,750,000. “In one part of Africa the natives never kill snakes, because they believe the spirits of their ancestors live in snakes, and that in killing one a man may be killing his own grandfather,” said the Rev. F. H. Wilson, the other evening in a lecture on mission work in the Soudan (reports the Waikato Times). "But in our province,” he continued, "the people know better. They kill and cat theml”

“That there is something wrong with civilisation is proved by the fact that the great public does not cry out for philosophy as it does for novels and picture shows. In the large, it is true that philosophy pipes to a generation that will not dahee, and the same must, of course, be said of the present position of' both art and religion,” declared Canon H. K. Archall, headmaster of King’s College, speaking at the University College at Auckland recently, A Wanganui resident who has been touring the United States, in a letter to a friend, states that one seldom sees an article in any store that does not bear the imprint “Made in U.S.A.” In one shop, however, he noticed a tin of 50 cigarettes made in England—a brantF popular in Wanganui. The price asked for the "smokes” was 10s; the New Zealand retail price is 3s 9d. The storekeeper explained that the tariff imposed by America on foreign goods was so high that few retailers stocked them. "Needless to say,” continues the writer, "I did not take the English cigarettes.” An audacious case of obtaining, money under false pretences is reported from Ponsonby, Auckland. Early this week a man went into a shop and asked for change for a£s note. The woman behind the counter handed him five single banknotes and the man thereupon put them in his pocket and threw an envelope on the counter, stating that the note was enclosed in it. On opening the envelope the woman found a black piece of paper, and rushing to the door discovered the man had disappeared. This is the second case of this nature that has come under the notice of the Auckland police lately. Flogging is not resorted to very much in the Navy these days, but when RearAdmiral Eardley-Wihnot first entered the service it was common, unnecessarily severe, and very much dreaded. In his memoirs just published the old admiral says: “On one occasion a man brought up for punishment exclaimed that he would rather go overboard and drown. Unmoved, the captain ordered the gangway to be cleared away, and told the man he could go. He went to the gangway, looked at the sea, and then came back and took his flogging without another word.” ’

"I have before me a copy of a scheme proposed by Mr. Mair to borrow £225,000 to tar the main roads in the Patea, Wai totara, Wanganui and Rangitikei Counties,” writes Mr, G. V. Pearce to the Wanganui Chronicle. “As regards the Patea County they will finish tarring the twentysix miles of main road next year and have improved all bad corners, on the 60 per cent, maintenance subsidy and 50 per cent, improvements from the Highway Board. I cannot understand why the three other counties cannot do likewise. As the Patea County has a longer length of main road and a lesser rate, it must be the excessive cost of this so-called “ball-bearing” policy that wants renewing every month. The nine counties in the Taranaki province have tarred all their main roads.”

The Wellington Post’s representative in America gives the following among a number of gross misrepresentations perpetrated on the people of the United States: “The American people are being advised just now by posters and advertisements in the American papers to see a certain film, that contains, among other thrills, the operations of the American Fleet at the Battle of Jutland. Probably not one in a thousand in the United States knows that the American Fleet did not operate at the Battle of Jutland. Sir Esme Howard said rightly that Americans were so engrossed in the affairs of the forty-eight States of the Union that they had not time for the consideration of events happening abroad. Denials are regularly sent to the sources from which these misrepresentations emanate, but it is difficult to overtake an announcement made in a thousand or more newspapers. If the denial is published, it never receives the prominent notice that is afforded the original misleading statement.” The unsolved mystery of the Burwood murder and the robbing of Peter to pay Paul style of drawing detectives from other districts where they are already overworked through shoitage of staff in the police force, again brings under notice the advisability of the police being supplied with properly trained hounds for tracking purposes. The use of these animal®, by police in Queensland, South Africa and other parts of the world for tracking down criminals is convincing proof of their utility, and yet New Zealand lags behind in this respect. The police as a rule are the first to be supplied with information when a crime is committed, and if the hounds wer® used before the public get time to congregate and obliterate the trail, there is every reason to believe less criminals would escape. There are two murder mysteries yet to be cleared in Wanganui, namely that of Chow Yat at Tongarere and Mrs. Oates at Aramoho. In each of these instances trained dogs would have been valuable. New Goods for Winter Wear continue al buying combination McGruer’e have our McGruer’s. They comprise goods for every department and with the exceptionprices for quality offered are exceptional. W e have something you require. Call today.

Do not fail to get your share of the many savings now to be made at Messrs. C. C. Ward Ltd.’s great drapery sale. Each day brings forward fresh bargains from all departments. The hundreds of satisfied customers on opening day are the best judges of good values —that is why our sales are always successful.

ANOTHER CONSIGNMENT of Jersey Butter-fat producers went forward last week through the agency of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile to the order of Mr. C. Hazelton, of Waihou. The consignment comprised two pedigree bulls from that veteran breeder of Jerseys, Mr. August Uhlenberg, of Waipuku; also a nice line of 2-year springing heifers from Mr. F. J. Hopkins, of Stratford.

Fresh and more sensational bargains being daily offered at the Melbourne’s Great Winter Sale. Here are a few of the many money savers: Men’s Wool and Cotton Sipglets, usually 5/6 for 3/11; Men's Genuine Palmer Nap Trousers, 9/11 for 8/6; large Bath Towels, 5/6 for 3/11; Ladies’ Fleecy Bloomers, 3/11 for 2/6; Men’s. Saddle Trousers, 17/6 for 15/6; Men’s Knitted Wool Socks, 1/9 for 1/6.