LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1929, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Suppliers of the Newall Co-operative Dairy Company on Saturday decided to vote £5 5s to the earthquake relief fund. The New Plymouth Savage Club held the third korero of the present season on Saturday night, Savage A. L. Moore being rangatira in charge. There was a large attendance and an excellent programme was rendered.

At a meeting of the New Plymouth Kennel Olub on Saturday night Mr. A. T. Moore (president) and Mrs. Peters, Messrs. A. Roberts and P. T. Hawkins (committee) were elected to fill positions recently vacated. A vote erf thanks was- accorded to the retiring president and committee, and appreciation of the efforts of the ladies’ committee in arranging a dance and a dog parade was expressed. By the efforts of the ladies, the funds of the club had benefited to the extent of £8 10s. A sentence of detention for two years in a Borstal institution was passed at Christchurch on Friday on Sheila Carr Bush, aged 20, who was charged with incurring a liability to William Andrew Hurdley, general importer, to the extent of £so,* and with obtaining credit by fraud. The accused obtained five frocks, stating she was a relative of a valued client of the firm. It was stated that she was earning £3 a week and paid £2 10s . a week for a flat.

Dairy farmers should not take the past season’s prices as a standard for the future but should be prepared to meet lower prices, said Mr. R. Cassie i.t the annual meeting of the Newall Dairy Company on Saturday. The trend of the market at the opening of the season that has just closed was' not co bright as at the commencement of the previous season, he added. . Suppliers, therefore, would lie well advised to make provision against possible lower prices by putting aside a little money for top-dressing, etc., while times were good. A reception was tendered by members of the New Plymouth Orchestral Society on Saturday, night to Miss Edna King, Wanganui, who is singing at the society’s concert to-night. The function was held at the residence of Miss Dowling, Mr. F. Butler, president of the society, extending a warm welcome to the visiting artiste. Subsequently a short musical programme was rendered, trios being given by Misses Dowling, Coleman and Ross, and a violin solo by Mr. R. George. Gramophone items, cards and supper concluded a very pleasant function.

Injuries to the head were sustained by John Cecil Kendall, aged 23, yesterday when the motor-cycle he was riding struck a telegraph pole in Westown. Kendall, who was riding along Morley Street towards New Plymouth, collided with the pole on the wrong side of the road about 60 feet from Wallace Place corner. His cycle then apparently mounted and ran across the footpath to strike a gatepost, where it stopped. Kendall was attended by Dr. Leatham and removed to the New Plymouth Hospital, where he was stated last night to have regained consciousness. No waiting, no delay, commencing at 10.30 sharp and continuing throughout the day—J. F. Stevenson’s Annual Heifer Fair. Remember the first are the cheapest! Further startling bargains have been brought forward for the Melbourne’s great winter sale. Read these: Large red or blue spot working handkerchiefs, 3 for 2/6; natural brushed cotton singlets, 2/6; men’s flannelette pyjamas, 5/11: children’s combination sleeping suits, 3/9; ladies’ fur-trimmed coats, 35/-; ailk. blouses and jumpers, 4/11 to 9/11, worth treble. . ,

Birmingham girls can now become engaged and married on the “easy payment” system —at least so far as the symbols of these blessed states are concerned. For this they have to thank the jewellery clubs which have been formed in many factories of the Midland metropolis. Tho girls themselves form and run these clubs. Membership is usually limited to girls who have reached the “walking out” stage. Each girl pays into the funds a fixed weekly sum, and at the end of the week lots are drawn and the lucky maiden receives a chit which entitles her to choose a ring at a local jeweller's. Each girl in turn eventually gets a ring, but it is in the lap of the gods whether she receives it next week or next year. Dr. Fernando Perez, the Argentine Ambassador to Italy, who has for many years been experimenting on a process to establish' the authenticity of Old Masters, has traced finger-prints on five paintings in the Royal Museum at Venice—two of Giovanni Bellini (15th century), and one of Francesco Bissolo (16th century). The finger-prints on the Bellini pictures are identical. The scientific section of the Venice police has checked the discovery by Its own methods and confirmed the exactness of the results. Dr. Perez’s process, which is being kept secret, has aroused very keen interest in official artistic and scientific circles, as it is hoped it will serve to set the authenticity of Old Masters beyond dispute.

A resolution placing on recard appreciation of the action of Mr. A. J. Skelton in his endeavour to save the late Mr. J. C. Rimmer from his terrible plight when he was attacked by a bull on his farm .at Helensville, was passed by the Helensville Co-operative Rural Intermediate Credits Association, of which Mr. Rimmer was . a member, at a. meeting held last week. “Most of us .know, something of the almost irrisisti'ble power and fury of a maddened bull, and we can visualise wha’t an unequal battle it meant for one man, practically unarmed, to attempt to avert the tragedy,” said Mr. James Mackie, who proposed the resolution. “Without a moment’s hesitation or regard for his own safety, Mr. Skelton seized what came first to his hand and did all that was humanly possible to save Mr. Rimmer, unhappily without result.”

Referring to the recent submarine disturbance off Farewell Spit, a Wesport correspondent recalls an incident which occurred in the same part of the ocean about six years before the war. The lighthouse keepers stated that they noticed a red glare on the clouds out at sea, and at first though a ship was on fire. No ship was to be seen, however. The glare increased, and the sea below was noticed to be violently agitated, as though it was boiling. Then a huge luminous mass was seen to rise up out of the waters and remain for sime time before subsiding, when the glare faded out of the sky. There u T ere no shakes on the land, and no terrestrial disturbances accompanied the strange phenomenon.

North Auckland possesses the only known payable mercury deposits in the British Empire, and as time went on it would prove to be one of the most valuable assets in the world, declared Mr. Frank Bird, in the course of a send-off at Whangarei. Mercury v r as one of the most valuable ingredients of medicines, and was extensively used in the manufacture of high explosives. At Ngawha this deposit was being-work-ed by Industrial Chemicals, Ltd., which manufactured something like 990,000 tons of product per annum. Of' this output 70,000 tons consisted of explosives. Foreign countries were dependent on Britain for all the mercury they required. The price of mercury had risen in recent years from £0 to £8 10s for a bottle of 7olb. The firm of Rothschilds, sinco 1902, had controlled the output from Spain, the only other mercury deposit known. At Ngawha, Industrial Chemicals, Ltd., was erecting a very extensive works, and when completed they would be the biggest of their kind in the British Empire. The output would be in the vicinity ofloo tons per day. This would mean a . big thing for the North Auckland district. Judging by the enormous demand at leading booksellers, Christchurch citizens seem determined to read Remarque’s much-discussed book, “All Quiet on the Western Front.” “The demand has been tremendous,” said a representative of a leading firm of booksellers in Christchurch. “In the last few days we have sold about 300 copies, and are not able to cope with the rush. Further copies have been ordered, and when these arrive many of them will be distributed among the many people om our older lists. Scores of inquiries are received every day, mostly from men.” An assistant in another shop said that supplies were being rationed. They had received only fifty copies, which had gone to the libraries. “The book is selling at the rate of 10.000 a day in England—what a fortune for the author,” he said. Mr. E. J. Bell, librarian to tho Public Library, stated that 185 subscribers were waiting to read the book and inquiries had been streaming in. When Canberra is completed it will, in the opinion of Sir George Fowlds, be the most beautiful city in the world. Telling the Auckland Rotary Club about his recent trip to Australia, ho said the Government had already spent about £10,000,000 on the new capital. There was a good deal of criticism of Canberra, especially in Melbourne, -whoso citizens would not have to go further when they wanted to bring pressure to bearon Federal Ministers, but all the same it was right that'the capital should be thus separated from tho rest of tho cities. Tho site was a glorious one, the planning had been admirable, and there were simply millions of trees planted. Canberra had a magnificent climate aud a splendid water supply, which could be increased to meet growing demands with a minimum of expense and trouble. Altogether tho new capital was born under most favourable auspices, and he was sure it would in time become a very beautiful place—none more so in the world.

“Heigh-ho, come to the fair.” What Fair? Why Jas. F. Stevenson’s Annual Heifer Fair on Wednesday, July 24, at 10.30.

The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of special trains in connection with Australia v. Taranaki Hockey Match at Eltham, on July 25, 1929.

“What is the sense of sitting on the fence all by yourself in the moonlight.” Follow the crowd and come along to Stevenson’s Heifer Fair on Wednesday, commencing at 10.30 sharp. .

The largest sale of its kind south of the line—J. F. Stevenson’s annual Sale of 400 heifers and 50 cows on Wednesday next, at 10.30 sharp.

In order to raise funds for necessary matters at the Westown School a sale of old clothes and produce will be held in the Workers’ Social/Haj}.; New. Plymouth, on Friday ..afternoon.