LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1929, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The earthquake relief fund will benefit by £2O as a result of a vote from the Omata Dairy Company yesterday. A general knowledge question in a Christchurch girls’ school tho other day produced an answer reflecting on tho sanity of politicians. Tho girls were asked what was No. 10 Downing Street. Ono girl replied: "A well-known lunatic asylum."

The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Cleaver, Hunter Road, died in his sleep by asphyxia caused by vomiting, stated the coroner at the inquest in Elthara yesterday. The child, aged three months, was found dead in liis perambulator on Thursday morning. He was tho third child of tho family. A further remand till August 2, at Stratford, at 10 a.m., was granted in tho case of a young man, whose name was suppressed, charged with the theft of moneys from the Bank of New South Wales, Stratford. The accused appeared before Mr. J. R. Hill, J.P., at New Plymouth yesterday. "I had an idea that President Hoover’s private residence would be a very palatial building,” said Mr. F. J. Needham, of Christchurch, who has just returned from a visit to the United States, “but there is nothing elaborate about it.’ It is in the grounds of the Stanford University, and is just an ordinary concrete house with eleven rooms and a flat roof."

Success in the examination of., the Associated Board of. the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, held on June 15, was gained by tlie following New Plymouth candidates: Ila Horne, Lois McLoughlin, A. R. L, Young (Miss 1. B. Henderson), Nancy C. Smith (Miss Coleman), Monica Thorne and Doreen Watson (Convent).

Planting operations on the State Forest area at Tangimoana will begin in August, when a commencement will be made with the 180,000 trees which are on hand. Similar activities will be undertaken on the plantation at Karioi, where a further 2500 acres will be dealt with.

A movement is afoot to link up various parts of the Dominion with air-ser-vices, and the scheme under consideration is to include the East Coast, with Gisborne as the centre. It is proposed to carry passengers, and mails also if contracts can -be secured. It is hoped to make a start next February (states the Hawke's Bay Herald).

‘T have never bought a pair of braces

in twenty years,” said a defendant in a civil court the other day when the plaintiff in the case stated that he had sold various articles of clothing, including braces, to the defendant. “Well, how do you keep your pants up, then?” asked the magistrate with a puzzled air. "I make my own braces,” was tho unexpected reply of the defendant, and he unbuttoned his coat and proudly displayed the results of his handiwork to the magistrate.

The new complete automatic telephone svstem in Christchurch will be brought

into use in September, if all goes well. The material has practically all come to hand, and up to the present at least 95 per cent, of the automatic telephones have been installed and tested. The Strowger automatic equipment that has supplemented the manual system for a number of years is altogether different from that manufactured by the Western Electric Company, and will be entirely replaced at the cut-over. "What is the attitude of the directory towards the new marketing scheme ? asked a supplier at the annual- meeting of the Omata Dairy Company yesterday. Mr. G. H. Bell said that up to the present the directors had not looked upon it very favourably. He urged that when any of the leaders of the dairy industry gave addresses suppliers should attend the meetings whether they agreed with the scheme being propounded or not. “But we read ail abou'; them in* the newspaper,” interjected a supplier.*

A spinning wheel, over which women of an> earlier world bent for hours at a time to weave their blankets and their clothes, has been presented to the New Plymouth museum by Mr. and Airs. H. Karsen, Matau. Tho wooden wheel, which is about two feet in diameter, is perfectly set and worked with remarkable ease and rapidity by the treadle. With the spinning wheel are two flat pieces of wood, shaped like butter pats and studded with hundreds of tiny steel wires, using for teasing the fleece. The few spinning wheels in New Zealand were mostly brought by early Danish emigrants.

Among the many bargains to be had at Broome’s Corner are men’s holeproof working trousers at 7/11; men’s dark grey suits 37/6; boys’ jerseys in navy, brown and dark grey, sizes I’s to S’s, at 4/6; men’s English saddle tweed trousers at 9/6; men’s odd coats 17/9; men’s odd vests 7/9; boys’ brushed Cotton singlets 1/6 to’ bo obtained only at W. H. Broome’s,' Taranaki’s finest price; store, Devon Street, New Plyniouth;- ' •'

Most imported animals seem to thrive in New Zealand, but curiously enough’ hedgehogs have never become very plentiful in any district,. while they are quite rare visitants to Taranaki. However, a dairy farmer on the Arawhata Road near Opunake states that recently, ho found the body of a full-grown hedgehog which had evidently been trampled on by some passing animal.

A witness in the Supreme Court at Wellington this week informed Mr. Justice MacGregor that he was formerly a 4 Baptist, was married in the Unitarian Church, and after his marriage had attended the Christian Science Church with his Wife. He had since divorced her, and was shortly to be remarried intho Wesleyan Church. His Honour remarked that tin man appeared to bo somewhat catholic in his religioustastes, but, on witness looking slightly bewildered at having what appeared to bo yet another religion accredited to him, supplemented his remark by adding: “I meant catholic with a small _

A proposal has originated from branches of the Farmers’ Union in the coastal districts that they should combine to engage a veterinary surgeon, for the locality. Another suggestion is that instead of tho union branches making themselves responsible for the necessary guarantee, this duty should fall on a group of dairy companies. The schemo was, not supported at tha meeting of the Omata Dairy Company,

"Our sailors are as well paid as anyone else, and if they paid in a little themselves they would be able to bear their own burden," said a supplier at tho Omata Dairy Company’s meeting yesterday when tho New Plymouth Seamen’s Rest Committee wrote asking for a donation. It was pointed out that the rooms at the port were visited on the average every month by 700 seamen, while during the evenings there were often 50 and sometimes 100 present. Mr. T. Telford, senior, considered this was a worthy object for a donation from the company, and he mdved a vote ol £5. He had been in ports abroad and knew how these social rooms were appreciated by those away from homo. They had to remember, too, that these men took their produce Home. Mr. Telford’s proposal was lost on a show of hands, whereupon the chairman (Mr. G. 11. Bell) suggested £2 2s. "That would be better than nothing," he said. His suggestion was agreed ■ to. Tho sum of £2O was raised for the Westown School from a second-hand, clothes sale held in.the Workers’ Social Hall yesterday. The following ladies assisted: Mesdames W. A. Brown (chairwoman), Vai. Smith, Murphy, Turnbull, Marsden, Frethey, Greig, Garcia, Vealei, Martin, Darby, Deare, Green, Murray, Harnish. Deacon, Baldwin, Hull, Epping, and Drake.

Colonel Gunn, field secretary of the Salvation Army, is expected to arrive from Wellington this evening to conduct the 45th anniversary services at New Plymouth to-morrow. At the homestead of Mr. J. F. Y T oung, Lincoln Road, Inglewood, on Tuesday, Newton King, Ltd., is holding an unreserved dispersal sale of the Lincoln Dale stud of pedigree Jerseys. This is perhaps this season’s last opportunity for fanciers of the breed to fulfil their requirements at an absolute dispersal, and farmers requiring pedigree stock have been recommended to attend the fixture. Catalogues are available from the auctioneers.

A special cattle fair has been pencilled by Newton King, Ltd.,' to be held at Awakino on Saturday, August 17. The present entries comprise 700 head of cattle, full details of which are displayed in our advertising columns of this issue. This fixture is undoubtedly the leading sale of its kind in Taranaki and prospective purchasers of store or station cattle can attend this sale knowing that their requirements can be fulfilled with well-bred cattle.

Two pieces of puketea wood and a small slab of leather, dug up recently on the site of old pits of Gledhill’s tannery, established in 1853 on the corner of Kin" and Dawson Streets, New Plymoifth, have been presented to the New Plymouth museum by Mr. J. Therkleson. Tho wood, which is a soft wood, is wonderfully preserved and has been polished to show a pretty grain. The leather is stiff, but as tough and strong, as it was when it was made three-quarters of a century ago. Another acquisition:.)® » Maori adze m good condition, found on the Wai mate Plains near Hawera vi 1880. The adze was rooted out ol uio ground by pigsThe Hustlers’ sale which is now in full swing are now offering bargains at pncca far lower than cost. Grasp your opportunity by securing some of these snips fol yourself, and benefit by dur loss.