LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1929, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr. J. S. King, of New Plymouth, has been chosen by the Canterbury Rugby Union to referee the football match between Taranaki and Canterbury at Stratford next Thursday.

Bankruptcies in the New Plymouth district were exactly halved for August, 1929, compared with the same month last year. The figures are four for last month, as compared with eight in August, 1928.

Information that all the New Zealand Scouts who entered for the Gill'well course in Scouting in England had passed was contained in a cable received by Mr. A. Milne, New Plymouth, yesterday, from his son, Scouter Noel Milne. The New Zealanders would sail for home on September 28, the cable added. “At a reception for the Scouts given by the High Commissioner for New Zealand,” runs a note in the diary of Scouter Noel Milne, who left New Plymouth to attend the jamboree in England, “Earl Jellicoe singled me out and asked specially after New Plymouth. He would like to go back, he said, and stop there.” Scouter Noel Milne, of New Plymouth, who attended the Scojits’ jamboree in England, tells in his diary of a Belgian custom noted during a trip by the New Zealand Scouts to the Continent, "All the Scouts assembled at the hotel, marched to the Menin Memorial Gates, and stood at the salute while the Last Post was sounded,” he says. “Every evening at 0 p.m. the Belgians sound the Last Post under the Memorial Arch in honour of 45,900 British soldier-3 whose names are engraved on it.” William Claude White and John Mullally, who were charged in the Court at New Plymouth on Friday with participation in the recent robberies from Messrs C. C. Ward, Ltd., and C. W. MacDonald respectively, appeared on remand before Mr. R. W- Tate, S.M., at New Plymouth on Saturday, and were again remanded until September 6,. on the application of Detective Meiklejohn. White was granted bail on his own recognisance of £2OO and one surety of £2OO. No application was made on behalf of Mullally for bail.

The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of special train arrangements and cheap fares in connection with football match, Canterbury v. Taranaki, at Stratford, on Thursday, September

In the course of his address at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board last week, Mr. D. Jones, M.P. (chairman), said that the London office of the board was continually watching out for any cases where other imported meat was wrongly retailed as "New Zealand.’’ On three occasions the board had been instrumental in securing convictions. The board had also taken further steps by advertisement and circular letter to over .300 butchers’ associations in the United Kingdom to do everything possible to stop this practice, and it had been supported by the trade at Home in this' matter.

"Without being pedantic, I would like to comment on the pronunciation of the word ‘England,’” said Mr. Farquhar Young at the competitions on Saturday night, when referring to the recitation, “ ALittle Bit of England,” for boys. 12 and under 14, heard during the morning session (reports the Poverty Bay Herald). He said the word ‘‘lngland” and others England”; the former was correct. This matter’ was thrashed out recently in the London Times, the consensus of opinion being for Ingland, while this view was also supported by the leading dictionaries. "Anyway,’’ he added, "Ingland is good enough for me; England is affectation.”

An Auckland retailer has received the following interesting documents from one of his Indian connections: —‘‘A word of grave warning to our patrons. Imam Din and Co., the oldest and best polo makers, of Sialkot City, hereby warn customers that Imam Din has expeld out his younger son, Nabi Bux,, from the firm. Now Khuda Bux, the elder son, has been appointed to supervise. He has promised to meet custom r.- with entire pleasure and utmost satisfaction. In my opinion Khuda Bux is rtliao e and altogether honest son. Nabi Bux has been disobedient and impertinent to his father, and possess similar bad habits. He has brought forth great losses to the firm. Our must not deal with him. Your valued orders must reach us directly please. Yours obediently, Imam Din.” ‘‘These interchanges of visits between elub teams do more to make and cement friendships between separate towns than visits by representative teams ever can,” said Mr. D. N. Campbell, president of the Kempthorne, Prosser Association Football Club, at the dinner given the visitors by the Caledonian Club in New Plymouth on 'Saturday night. One never found quite the same spirit between representative opponents, he said, and he did not think they could expect to find it. There was not the same club organisation ready to make the social arrangements, or the same team spirit among the players. He was sure these matches had done a great deal towards creating a really friendly feeling between Wanganui and New Plymouth, and ho suggested that feeling might be further developed if other teams arranged for similar interchanges of visits.

“The profession of secretary is by no means new,” said Mr. Cyril Mackley, president of the Institute of Incorporated Secretaries, at the annual meeting of the New Zealand division last week. “An instance showing the age of secretarial work was the message that Antony had carved out on the obelisk in which he praised Cleopatra, and which now stands on the London embankment. I would quote that most painstaking man, Samuel Pepys, who recorded affairs so minutely that in his diary he reports such events as: ‘During the night, in turning over’ in bed, I accidentally struck my wife on the nose with my elbow, and so woke her up. I kissed her, and so to sleep again.’ As a matter of fact, Samuel Pepys, the secretary to Lord Sandwich (the Lord of the Admiralty), was acknowledged as having laid the sound financial and administrative foundations of the British Navy, which anybody would concede after reading his minute descriptions of his transactions.”

The annual report of the Health Department contains a statement by Dr. Morris N. Watt, of Dunedin, based on an investigation made by him “upon wind-borne pollens, in order to correlate the atmospheric pollen content and hay-fever symptoms, upon the distribution and relative aboundance of atmospheric pollens, other than grasses, which might be influencing factors in the patients in whom desensitisation to grasses give only partial relief, and to determine the factors influencing pollination. It was clearly shown during this investigation,” states Dr. Watt, “that hay-fever symptoms bore a direct relationship to the abundance of pollen (chiefly of grasses), in the air. The chief factors concerning this are, first, abundance of the particular plants; second, the intensity of pollen-production; and, third, the , length of season of bloom. These are in their relative order of importance.” The writer adds that it appears that cocksfoot is a more potent factor in the production of hay-fever in the South Island than it is in the North Island, whilst timothy is of far greater importance to the North Island than it is to the South Island, similarly perennial rye. The recently-established Ministry of .Transport has been engaged in consolidating motor legislation, and in addition to this changes in highway administration are expected to be embodied in the Transport Bill which the Government is bringing down this session. At present motor licensing is undertaken by the Post Office) the Public Works Department attends to road classification, while the new Ministry of Transport has been assuming various responsibilities from the vetoing of undesirable bylaws to the gazetting of traffic signal devices. Some time ago the Prime Minister promised a Main Highways Board for the South Island, but there has been such unanimous opposition from the counties that it is hoped the problem will be solved by appointing a second motor association representative to the board. Although the Main Highways Board must continue to use the Public Works Department’s plant and staff, it is certain that the new legislation will deal with a rearrangement of the board to ally it with the Transport Department.

Among the many bargains to be had at Broome’s Corner are men’s holeproof it W. H. Broome’s, Taranaki’s finest working trousers at 7/11; men’s dark grey suits 37/6; boys’ jerseys in navy, brown and dark grey, sizes l’e to 8 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/G to be obtained only price store, Devon Street, New Plymouth.

Attention is drawn to a notification appearing in our advertising columns that rock oysters are in good supply at the Government„ Oyster Depot, Auckland. It is perhaps not generally known that supplies of these oysters may be ordered through the local Collector of Customs, who arranges for the delivery of the oysters to ship or rail at Auckland.

In the course of a short address at the Rotary Club’s luncheon yesterday on “Printing—The Art Preservative of All Arts,” Mr. L. T. Watkins said that the pioneer printer of New Zealand was the Rev. Mr. Colenso, whose press and type arrived at the Paihia mission station in December, 1834. In the speaker’s opinion, New Zealand’s most distinguished printer was Mr. R. Coup-land-Harding, of Wellington. The imagination of the average commercial man, said Mr. Watkins, could hardly grasp the magnitude of the newspaper press or As immense power.

A piece of timber about 18in x 1 4in was exhibited at the Canterbury Winter Show, and the public was invited to examine and name it. Out of the many thousands who examined the wood, only 13 named it correctly. It was a piece of gorse. The following is a list of woods given in the order of choice, handed in by the public:—Akeake, white, red and blue gum, manuka, kowhai, konini, white and red broom, lupin, tree lupin, African lupin, lancewood, ribbonwood, elderberry, mountain pine, honeysuckle, hawthorn, spruce, maple, elm, purir.i, rata vine, cedar, holly, laburnum, jessamine, acacia, titoki, willow, pear, liinau, black pheno, and tamarisk.

A cottage in Fenton Street, Stratford, was completely destroyed by fire about 9 o’clock on Saturday evening. Following the alarm the brigade was quickly on the scene, but was able to save only the adjoining building. Just behind the cottage was a big pine tree. This became ignited and added greatly to the spectacular effect of the fire. The cottage was occupied by Mr. A. Marr, a drover, who -was away at the time, and the origin of the fire is unknown. All Mr. Marr’s personal effects in the cottage were lost, but the adjoining stables, containing a trap, saddle and harness, was saved. It is understood the cottage was insured with the Atlas Company, but the amount is not known.

From a discussion at a meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board ’it would appear as if there is a scarcity in New Zealand of doctors who will

take up positions as house surgeons. The board had advertised and made inquiries at the Dunedin Medical School without result. The medical superintendent (Dr. F. Ward) stated that Australia

was "apparently in the same position. The recent decision to increase the medical course from five to six years had also acted as a deterrent to those likely to take up the profession. There was a general shortage of doctors. The board decided to bring the matter before the Director-General of Hospitals, pointing out how unfair it was to have to overwork the present staff. The remarkable changes which have occurred in the past few years in methods of communication were referred to by Mr. A. Gibbs, Chief Telegraph Engineer, at the farewell to Mr. M. B. Esson, says the Wellington Post. In his term of office, he said, Mr. Esson. had seen the advent of automatic telephone exchanges, wireless stations and breadcasting stations, and now the latest development—carrier current longdistance telephony; and Mr. Esson was aware that he would find, when he arrived in London, that the age of electrical development in connection with communications had not yet ceased. At the present time, radio-telephone experiments were being carried out between the officials of the British and

Australian Post Offices; and only last

Saturday, when he had been listening to those conversations, Mr. Gibbs said he had been very interested and surprised to hear the voice of one of the British Post Office officials, speaking from his home in one of the suburbs of London, whom he had met at the Radio Convention in Washington two years ago. The speech was so good that he had been able to recognise the’ voice. He knew that a lot of experimental work had to be done before commercial service could be established between Australia and England, just as

was the case in connection with the trans-Atlantic radio-telephone system. One wondered how long it wo.uld be before we would be able to exchange

conversation with subscribers in England, or how long it might be before Mr. Esson, in his office in London, would be able to take up Iris telephone and speak to New Zealand with just the same facility as he could now speak to Auckland or Dunedin. The gardens are showing their new blooms and the spring, feeling is in the air. Now is the time to prepare for your new goods. McGruer’s windows and inside display will make buying a pleasure. Be sure and ask for the Nancy Lee Silk Rayon Bloomer, for 4/11. Ladies’ Rain Coats, smartly cut, all sizes, at 12/6. A staggering offer of Ladies smart frocks, in flannel, repp, assorted styles and colours, from 16/6. Balance of Ladies’ and Children’s Felt Hats to clear, 4/11. Take advantage while sale lasts, to renew your window and wardrobe curtains. Good quality Cretonne, at 1/- yard. The Hustlers, Devon Street.

It was remarked in an advertisement that “It is not often that a Tailor makes a bargain.” That Besley’s, Ltd., made a good buy is undoubted when one actually sees the fabrics and learns the price of the measured and fitted suit from one of those materials. There is no doubt that it pays handsomely to take advantage of an opportunity such as this as Besley’s we know are offering the whole of the discount ,to the men or women who take these fabrics.