LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1929, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

As the result of a typographical error particulars of Messrs. Borthwick and Co.’s prices for bobby calves appeared in the Patea Freezing Company's announcement in our Saturday’s issue. The particulars appear correctly in the announcements in our auction page this morning. Needless to say we regret Saturday’s error and the inconvenience caused thereby.

Nearly £5 was cleared for the Parihaka pa sanitary improvement fund by the Maori street entertainers in New Plymouth on Friday, it was announced at a gathering held later, when thanks were accorded the Parihaka Hospitality Company and Messrs. Norman Parker and Cyril Irving for assistance. An epidemic of “chain-letters” has been raging in New Plymouth for some weeks. It is alleged they were started by an American officer and that unless each recipient posts copies to four friends dire misfortunes will follow. Curiosity has led most people to throw the paper in the fire and await the coming of the genii. They are still waiting! It may be that the correct incantations did not accompany the fluttering ash up the chimney, or that the fire-eating spirits of Arabian Nights fame are not as obliging as they used to be. At any rate, the nearest approach to a calamity that has so far befallen an addressee was reported yesterday. He was a thrifty man and he had to pay dearly for the pleasure of destroying his letter. The envelope bore a halfpenny stamp and he was mulcted in a fine of offe penny!

Tho attention of dairy farmers is drawn to an advertisement' in this issue concerning the formation of herd-testing groups for tho 1929-1930 season. The results of last season’s testing, together with other information, will appear in to-morrow's issue.

Taranaki Airways, Ltd., has decided to allot 125 more shares. At a meeting held on Friday night the purchase of a ’plane was considered. Major T. M. Wilkes, Director of Civil Aviation, bad written recommending two makes of ’planes. A decision as to the make of ’plane was deferred until a directors’ meeting to be held on Thursday, A car crashed into a stationary lorry owned by the New Plymouth Borough electrical department on Saturday night, near the corner of Smith Street and Carrington Road. The driver of the lorry, J. Copeland, had been attending to a transformer fault near the corner and had drawn his lorry up with the spotlight shining on the transformer. He then climbed down and had just placed his ladder on the lorry when the car crashed into it. The radiator of the car struck the ladder and was pushed backwards on to the engine. Beyond a bent radius rod the lorry was not damaged and the occupants of the car escaped without injury. Several tins of cigarettes were stolen from the shop of Mr. Newton Allen, Tukapa Street, Westown, during the weekend. An inspection of the premises and stock was made yesterday but it is not thought that anything else is missing and the stock was not disturbed. Apparently entrance was gained through the front door, for the door was found forced open about 10.45 a.m. yesterday. The police were communicated with and Detective Meiklejohn took charge of the case. The shop is situated on a corner and has a vacant section next to it, while the owner does not live on the premises but resides at Frankleigh Park. Dairymen are reminded of the entry to be yarded at the Farmers’ Co-op. Hawera sale on Thursday next. On account of Mr. S. C. Tonks one of the best lines of in-calf heifers to be offered this season will be submitted to auction. These heifers are all three-year-old Jerseys and over 60 per cent, are from tested dams, and were selected a.s calves from Mr. Tonks’ herd of 200 cows, which this season has averaged 3301 b. of butter-fat per cow. Also to be offered on account of Me. F. Reardon are 100 Jersey and Jersey cross dairy cows. These are young, good-coloured coys and are coming in early. Mr. Reardon’s guarantee of soundness covers all these cows, a fact which will be much appreciated, and will enable buyers to attend this sale with every confidence.

New Plymouth listeners-in on short wave have been taking a keen interest in transmissions from 2XAF (New York) and KDKA (Pittsburgh) to the Byrd expedition at the South Pole. Yesterday a programme was broadcast from WGY through 2XAF (New York), and the announcer stated, in reading private messages to members of the party, thatthe temperature in New York was 102 degrees on an office thermometer, while at the Polo the mercury read 30 degrees below zero, and everyone in the States was hoping for the happy medium. One private call stated that the mother of one member of the party had “made a grand slam at bridge” after the original call had been trebled.” Another parent wanted to know if her son had forgotten the taste of cream pie. When closing down the announcer stated:—? “This is Big America calling Little America. My friends at the Pole, in Canada, Dunedin in New Zealand and elsewhere, I wish you all good morning, good night and good afternoon.”

“Some concern has recently been shown in regard to the importation of jam and dried fruits from South Africa,” said the Minister of Customs in the House of Representatives on Friday. In view of the representations made to him, the Minister said, he had arranged for an officer to visit South Africa to investigate the position there thoroughly. When that officer’s reports were received, the Minister hoped to make certain recommendations which would be in the interests of local producers. The Minister said the value of jams and jellies imported into New Zealand during the • past three years had been: 1926, £11,589; 1927, £16,167; 1928, £23,827. The value of the South African exportations in the respective years was £3528, ,£3350 and £11,359. The total imports for the five months of the present year were valued at £22.769, of which £15,229 was from South Africa.

At the last meeting of the Wellington Presbytery, the Rev. J. E. Lopdell, convenor of the Presbytery’s Temperance Committee, reported that from information he had received there appeared to be a movement on foot to get the present Government to permit the introduction of liquor into the King Country. From sources which he felt had to be taken, notice of, he had gathered that it' was proposed to give a license to the Chateau Tongariro within the King Country. He held that strong objections should be made to such a proposal. In effect it would be the thin edge of the wedge for an extension of licenses to othei' parts of the King Country. Most serious of all, it would involve the Government in breaking faith with the Maoris. The Presbytery unanimously urged its temperance committee to be vigilant in regard to developments in the matter, and wholeheartedly to co-operate with the New Zealand Alliance in any action deemed necessary to -esist the proposal.

Few will dispute the fact that tho more successful a man is tho more evident it is in his clothing. There are but few unimportant exceptions. Counting the number of New Plymouth successful men, we find that for the most part they are a shrewd clever group of hard headed men wb.o have earned their laurels. Do you know that nearly every one of them insists on measured clothing? Ready-to-Wear is not in their scheme of things. It is just another argument in favour of Besley Tailoring which costs no more. Mr. A. W. Martin, the well-known rupture specialist, from Dunedin, is now on his twenty-fourth annual visit to the centres of New Zealand. He will be in New Plymouth on Wednesday and Thursday, the 17th and 18th of July, and may be consulted free at the Criterion Hotel. Hours: Daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Will be at the Central Hotel, Hawera, on Friday and Saturday, the 19th and 20 th of July* Wintry weather is likely to continue for some time yet, but tho problem of how to meet this weather will be solved if you buy now at McGruer’s Winter Sale.

Get your share of these sensational bargains at the Melbourne’s Great Winter Sale now booming. Men’s N.Z. wool socks, 3 pairs for 2/9; tweed suits, 26/9; warm tweed overcoats, 29/6; guaranteed oily canvas coate, 29/6; boys’ tweed sport suits 19/6; men’s wire tweed shirts, 3/11; hemstitched mercerised white handkerchiefs, 8 for 1/11. . Thousands of bargains. Everything reduced.

A car driven by an unknown person collided with a car driven by Mr. Charles Cottam, New Plymouth, on the Junction Road about 1.30 a.m. yesterday morning. Mr. Cottam was driving towards New Ply’ mouth and met the other car, which was travelling in the opposite direction, near the residence of Mr. J. Hale. The righthand mudguard was crumpled, the front axle bent and the front spring of Mr. Cottam’s car damaged. Speaking of the inter-colonial steamer service, during his maiden speech in the House of Representatives, the Minister of Railways (the Hon. W. B. Taverner) stated that the Government’s intention to re-establish the South Island-Austra-lia steamer service was of great importance as at the present time the great majority of Australians and visitors coming to New Zealand via Australia necessarily came into the northern ports. If they travelled to the south they were faced with the necessity of going back over the same ground and again departing from a northern port. Ho felt most strongly that a very great and widespread benefit to all concerned would be brought about when this service was functioning properly. It was essential, however, that the steamers provided should be modern and reasonably fast. The New Zealand warships, which have been engaged in naval manoeuvres off the Australian coast, will leave Hobart for New Zealand on July 25, the Dunedin to arrive at Wellington on July 30 and the Diomede at Auckland on July 30. Details of the movements of the vessels after* their return to New Zealand are:—H.M.S. Diomede: Depart from Auckland, August 7; Lyttelton, August 9-19; Picton, August 20-23; Pelorus Sound, August 23-24; Nelson, August 24-29; Wellington, August 30 — September 7; Auckland, September 9— October 1. H.M.S. Dunedin: Depart from Wellington August 20; Auckland, August' 22—September 3; Wellington, September 5-18; Auckland, September 20-30; October 24 —November 27; Auckland, December 6. Among the many bargains to b. had at the Palatine Salo are men’s holeproof working trousers, at 7/11; men’s cotton and wool socks, 3 pairs for 1/9; men’s d..rk grey suite, 37/6; boys’ jerseys in navy, brown and dark grey, sizes I’s to B’s, at 4/6; men’s English saddle-tweed trousers for 9/6; men’s all-wool one-piece bathing costumes, 6/11; men’s odd coats, 17/9; men’s odd vests, 7/9; men’s Merino finished singlets, 2/6; men’s all-wool singlets, all sizes, 1/3. The bargains to sports coats, 21/9; boys’ brushed cotton be obtained only at W. H. Broome’s, "Tho Palatine,” Taranaki’s Finest Price Store, Devon Street, New Plymouth. The Hustlers’ sale which is now in full swing are now offering bargains at .‘prices far lower than cost. Grasp your opportunity by securing some of these snips for yourself, and benefit by our loss.