LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1928, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Daylight saving was favoured at a meeting of the Taranaki Amalgamated Society of Painters, Decorators and Leadlight Workers held in New Plymouth last night, and the officers were instructed to support any local scheme that might be brought forward. A splendid one-piece puriri slab, eight feet long and three feet wide, has been received for the New Plymouth museum and colonists’ room from Mr. J. 11. Lyon, Wiri, Auckland. The slab was hand sawn in the very early days. It has been placed in the hands of polishers for treatment.

Hospital charges in New Zealand had doubled since 1911 in proportion to the percentage of people using the hospitals, said Mr. S. Vickers at the Oakura settlers’ smoke concert last night. Board members were often blamed, but it behoved critics to remember that local bodies had increasingly less say in hospital control, which was gradually being taken out of their hands by the State. “A hearse is a poor thing to come to church in; why wait?” Thus reads a poster issued by the Waikato Ministers’ Association in connection with an appeal to the people of Hamilton to go to church yesterday and next Sunday, wires the Auckland errespondent of the News. The response was very satisfactory yesterday, and all the churches were crowded.

The Taranaki ladies’ representative basketball team leaves by the Rarawa to-night for Auckland, where it will take part in the New Zealand Association’s annual tournament, opening tomorrow. Twelve members are making the trip, with Miss Tarry, president of the Taranaki association, as manager. Miss Valentine, vice-president, and Miss D. Bocock, secretary of the association, are also with the party. The departure of the mail train from New Plymouth yesterday was some minutes later than usual owing to the exceptionally heavy booking of seats necessitating the addition of two extra carriages. Besides the Auckland Grammar School Rugby team and the Wellington girls’ basketball team, a large number of school children and people taking advantage of holiday excursion fares travelled by the train.

Motorists journeying between New Plymouth and Waitara last night were somewhat surprised to see the “wig-way” across the railway line working vigorously with its red light of warning showing up brilliantly. After a couple of minutes’ wait they adopted the precaution of getting out in the road and looking up and down the line. They saw no train and then continued their journey. Apparently the wigwag had broken loose in the wind and was working overtime on its own account. “Now that the time has expired in which motorists were allowed to alter the fittings on motor-cars, definite steps are being taken to prosecute owners who have not adjusted their lights,” reported Chief Inspector Day to the New Plymouth Borough Council last night. “The regulation is a particularly reasonable one and, if all ears were adjusted according to the regulations, there would be no of the glare of headlights. It is to he hoped that owners will attend to this matter without the necessity of costly court proceedings being taken against them.” Men! You’ll like the new indigo fine serge suits selling so freely at the Melbourne for 95/-. There’s nothing mean or shoddy about these suits. Well tailored, well cut and well trimmed they’re the equal of to-measure goods at double the money. Ask to see them. By doing your shopping at Messrs. C. C. Ward, Ltd’s. Great Winter Sale, you can be sure you are receivin' the utmost value in quality drapery for your money. When in town, do not fail to visit this busy store. The value cannot be equalled.

A prominent member of the Farmers’ Union stated at Oakura last evening that since January he had devoted 45 days to the affairs of the union. He willingly made the sacrifice, because he believed it was the duty of all to help in a. cause so pregnant with benefit to the farming- community.

Shop signs in Japan show a keen desire to use the English language. “Ladies furnished in the upper story” is the sign hung out by a maker of blouses. “Ladies have fits in the upper story,” means merely that the tailor’s fitting room for ladies is upstairs. The most startling announcement:—“Here ladies have coats made from their own skins” is an innocent way of saying that if ladies brought their own material it would be made up for them.

Recent additions to the collection of articles in the New Plymouth Museum include a card dealing with Von Teinpsky’s dog “Boxer,” donated by Mr. G. W. Browne, a greenstone chisel donated by Mr. Marrett, a copy of “Maui Te Demi-God,” donated by Mr. C. McAllum, Maori stone pounders donated by Mrs. Vickers and Messrs. C, Alleman and W. Maloney, Army and Navy visiting cards, 1860, donated by Miss J. Curtis, and the 1861 minute book of the Taranaki Club, donated by Mr. C. Weston.

Investigations into stock diseases were as far forward in New Zealand as in the older countries of Europe where these diseases had been longer known and where far greater resources were available for experimentation, said Mr. F. W. Sutton at the Oakura settlers’ smoke concert last night. Dr, Reakes, Director of Agriculture in New Zealand, had found on his visit to Europe that in Germany 60 per cent, of the cows were affected with mammitis. It was largely a result of the work of the department that stock in this country was in such a healthy condition.

Fifty-nine cases of scarlet fever were notified and reported on in the borough of New Plymouth during July, said Inspector Day at the meeting of the council last night. In addition, a number of eases of sickness had been visited with a view to isolation of possible fever patients. The fact that so many children were being nursed at home made it more difficult to isolate the cases, and, at the same time, it was undoubtedly affecting school attendance.

A pocket wallet which Mr. Claude H. Moses, an Auckland dentist, lost in London two or three months ago, has been returned by the Auckland Post Office to his brother, Mr. Harold C. Moses, wires the News Auckland correspondent. Mr. Claude Moses wrote to his brother recently, telling him that his pocket had been picked in London and the wallet was lost. Mr. Harold Moses was, however, notified that the wallet had been found in a London post office, his address being obtained from an invoice in the wallet. Now the wallet waits in Auckland for the return of its owner, having easily won the race home.

Twenty years ago on Boxing Day Tommy Burns met his Waterloo at Sydney in a pugilistic encounter involving world supremacy against Jack Johnson. Coming to Auckland en route to America after the bout, a well-known sportsman, Mr. J. C. Gleeson, tendered a banquet to the vanquished hero. History is about to repeat itself, for Mr. Gleeson intends to pay a similar compliment to Tom Heeeny, who is leaving America this week on his return to his native land. Gene Tunney's late rival in the boxing arena is sure of a great welcome on his arrival at Auckland by the Aorangi next month, wires the New's Auckland correspondent. The Salvation Army’s decision to observe “a day of mourning” for “the sins of Auckland” is defended by Commissioner Hay, in a letter to the Dominion, Wellington. The commissioner says: “The Salvation Army, true to its vocation, has, in endeavouring to appeal to the growing irreligion, spiritual decay and weakness in moral stamina, resorted to unusual methods to arouse public and individual conscience. About a year ago it did so in regard to ‘the damning sins of Wellington,’ and the result was, from many standpoints, gratifying. On August 31, the Army, in the midst of a full evangelical and teaching programme, adopts a similar method in Auckland.

Considerable discussion as to whether the New Plymouth Borough Council was justified in continuing to carry its own fire risk over certain municipal buildings took place at a meeting of the council last night. The town clerk stated that though the danger was small, owing to the careful selection of the buildings covered by the council, and the non-inflammable nature of their construction and contents, yet the aggregate value of the risks was very considerable. Cr. P. E. Stainton said that though he would be quite content to carry the risks if he were acting privately, yet his experience told him that as public trustees the council should play for safety and insure with the companies. If a heavy loss did happen to occur, the council would be sure to get into hot water at once. “I only wish we could insure the water race and hydro works,” ho added. The question was referred to the finance committee for investigation and a report.

“Quite a lot of New Zealand advertising and propaganda is seen in Australia, but it does not convey New Zealand’s proper worth. There is too much talk about earthquakes, geysers, All Blacks, kiwis, and strong winds. Earthquakes are stressed particularly, and I am amazed that I have not already been - shaken up,” said Mr. F. H. Moody, Australian and New Zealand manager of the advertising department of a well-known oil firm, to members of the Canterbury Advertising Club last week. “The same applies to the impression of Australia that seems to obtain in New Zealand,” said Mr. Moody. “I have been asked by New Zealand people how many times 1 have been poisoned by snakebite, bitten by sharks, or hit with a boomerang. And in New York the idea of Australia seems to consist mainly of bathing tragedies resulting from sharks at Coogee and Manly. I would like to pay my tribute to New Zealand’s hotel service. There is a remarkable cleanliness and up-to-dateness about it not necessarily immensity. And the service, th® waitresses. (Laughter.) Yes, I'm still sufficiently a romanticist to appreciate them too! Then the motor services strike the stranger as being very well organised, and I have never been in such a sportsman’s paradise, such a country for the line-and gun.” There are many good things you miss and regret afterwards, but you will regret it all you life if you are not at McGruer’s Sale on Wednesday, July 17, and later days. Bargains are just as numerous as ever this week at The Hustlers. Genuine reductions from genuine sale prices have created values which are undoubtedly the best in New Plymouth. Truth in advertising is your assurance that all goods are exactly as represented. The Hustle.’. Devon Street.