LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1929, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Taranaki Daily News will not be published on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year’s Day.

The Mt. Egmont Park Board rangers shot 122 goats on the Pouakai ranges during the last fortnight, making the total number destroyed to date 1102.

The estate of the late Mrs. Helen Baird, of Otahuhu, who died on December 2, leaving a number of bequests to Presbyterian Church organisations, has been sworn for probate purposes at £7C,CQO. *1 was driving down Symonds Street in Auckland last week and was told to hurry tip as it was not a funeral,”- Mr. F. Amoore during a discussion by the Taranaki Automobile Association last night on the low speed limits in some small towns.

“May I have an order for the publication of my name?” was the. unusual request of a youth who admitted having committed theft in the Hamilton Magistrate’s .Court recently. The youth had evidently made a mistake in the wording of his request. No notice was taken of it by the Bench. “I am firmly of the opinion that ears should be allowed to be parked, anywhere except in the. main street,. said Mr. F. H. Blundell at the Taranaki Automobile Association meeting last night, “The whole question of parking is a- nightmare and •is ’ becoming worst? and worse every . day,” Mr. F. Amoore, a member of the New Plymouth Borough Council. . -

The permanent line between i'ahora and Tangarakau Flat - was completed yesterday. Up till now a “jig ’ line over, the old road in . most places has served to carry the Public Works stores, On this four-mile stretch..are. .two .trim, nels, which' were, .completed, some, time ago. The work of completing, the. .per.-, manent way has been .expedited in order to cav’y the coal from the Tangarakau mine, the tramway to which will be finished before the Christmas . holidays.

“If prayers are-to go np for -t-he-suc-cess of our farmers,” -said- -t-he -Hon.- A.D. McLeod, Jii the-course-of an-mldress. at a recent meeting of the Greytown branch of the; Farmers’ Union; “then prayers must also go-up-for-the-success-of the British inti-nufaeturers. The success of the former depends entirely upon the success of the latter. If farmers will only sit down and think, they; must come to the conclusion that were it not. for England and -its great consuming population, they would have no open door for their produce. The prosperity of England is reflected in the prosperity of our own country,”. - To-morrow at II a.m. and Saturday at 10 "a.m. Webster Bros, are selling a quantity of very useful Oregon pine just freshly landed. This is only slightly marked by bitumen and is of very fine quality and length. -■ . . , Your boy or .girl will, soon be going to school —growing up—but you can keep the memory of childhood days in picture?, always. You will, be delighted with pictures made at Oakley’s, Upstairs, Kash Buildings, Devon Street “New Plymouth. 23.'

believe that gradually the tendency will be to substitute the income tax for the land tax,” said the Hon. W. Dbwnie Stewart, M.P., when speaking at Day’s Bay the other night. “At present it would not be politically feasible, although two commissions have recommended it.” The land tax, said Mr. Stewart, was a tax on capital. Instances, had been pointed out to the late Government by farmers who were paying land tax l , not out of revenue, but out of capital: they had no revenue out of which to pay the tax. The small farmers preferred the land tax, because it was fixed, and not very burdensome to them in normal, years, and saved them the trouble of'keeping books for income tax purposes. They also knew that their neighbours could not evade paying the tax.

Injuries to his head and back were •received. by Mr. William Murray, a Tarurutangi farmer, when' he was thrown from his dray on the Upland Road about mid-day yesterday. Apparently'thefbit became dislodged with the result that the ; blinkers opened out and the horse became frightened and bolted;. As it passed Mr, J. Giddy’s gate it. swerved on tof the grass on the roadside, and continued on until horse and dray toppled over a cutting six feet high and landed- on the road. Mr. Muir ray was tumbled out before the dray went over the bank and so escaped more serious’ injury. Though dazed, he managed to hold - the horse’s head down while some children went for assistance to Messrs Stanley and Spence Giddy and T. Potter. . They arrived shortly after the accident and took Mr. Murray to his home. The dray was badly smashed, but it is understood the horse escaped injury. . • ■

The Dunedin Star recalls that a chance encounter with Father Cleary (late Bisliop Cleary) moved Mark Twain to a tribute of admiration not often to be found hi his mirthful pages. Mark Twain was travelling in Victoria on the tour of the Colonies, including New Zealand, which lie made in’ the late ’nineties, and Father Cleary was his cliance com•pafiion on a railway journey.' The hunlorist wrote: “Waited several hours for train. Left at 3.40, and reached Bendigo in an hour. For a comrade, a Catholic priest, who was better than I was, but didn’t seem to know it. ; A man full.of graces of the heart, the mind and the spirit; lovable man. He will rise. He will be a bishop some dayj later an archbishop, later a cardinal, and finally an archangel, I hope, and then he will recall, when I say, .‘Do you remember that trip we made from Ballarat to Bendigo, when you were nothing but Father Cleary, and I was nothing .to what I am now?”’ At the close of its tribute the Star says: “Mark Twain was not wrong in his quick judgment M him.”

The audience at the Little Theatre Society’s triple bill presentation at Auckland on Saturday night, says the Star, were treated to a glimpse behind the scenes. Complaints ‘ having- been made of the length of..“waits” between the scenes, it was suggested by the president that "the stage hands should perform their scene-shifting duties with the main curtain up, so that the world could see whether or not time was wasted. The task was to transform the'reception room in a luxurious home to a room in a humble Cockney dwelling. It took the same ten minutes that seemed interminable the nights before, when the face of the plush curtain had swayed monotonously, and it showed to what extent the hands behind have .to work and how fast they actually did work. After a great deal'of hurrying, scurrying, “narrow escapes from death” through whole walls trembling and shaking, the call “all on” was sounded. The stage v was set. “And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how We waste our time,” said the producer very neatly.

Mr. A. C. Blake (retired headmaster of the Lyall Bay School), giving evidence at Wellington in a headmaster’s dismissal appeal case, said that he would not have entered one- ent with the strap in the “log book.” He would not inflict corporal punishment, except for serious offences, and for such offences he would not give only one cut. Mr. T. C. A. Bishop:. “What would be the minimum number of cuts you would inflict ?”—“Three or four; perhaps only two.” Mr. Hislop: “In my school days the minimum was six cuts, and the maximum 24. (Laughter). Mr. Blake, added that for the last five years of his headmastership, he-had found no occasion whatever to punish girls. His practice had been, <as advised by the bylaws, to delegate the punishment of girls, when necessary, fo a woman teacher. Mr. T. Forsyth: ‘‘You were given the ‘blue riband’ for management and discipline in your school, Were you not, Mr. Blake?; That is, you received from the bdard a letter of thanks and congratulation on your management of ;tiie school?” . Mr. Blake: ‘■•'Yes.” ' '7-7’

Mr. Levvey, the Christchurch magistrate, lias expressed . the unspoken thoughts of every decent citizen,, aiid his utterances bn the subject deserve praise, (states the‘Christchurch Star). Night after night girls are followed and tormented by these motor’ cycle “sheiks,” these “pavement pirates,” and these motor car “buccaneers,” who think that they are bestowing great honours upon the girls by. offering them lifts and safe escort. These scoundrels are not inspired by thd?desire to play the gallant,to protect our women from the dangers that lurk by night. How could they be, when they themselves constitute the biggest and gravest menace ? One hears, almost .every day, of the almost unbelievable happening. How many girls have walked homo from_ New Brighton or Sumner,-having foolishly accepted a ride bn a motor cycle or in a motor car, aiid then been • callously Stranded there’ through their failure to be “sports?” This goes on very, very often, and it is about time that the police interfered.* The- police hold the remedy in their hands, and should hand it’ out in large doses •to the culprits. In. America “shelving” is a serious crime. ■ - -

At Broome’s Corner you will find a l<jt of .useful presents for men and boys. Initial handkerchiefs at 1/-, coloured bordered handkerchiefs, 6d, lOd, 1/- and 1/3; men’s fancy socks 1/11; 2/11, .3/11 and 4/11; men’s silk ties, 1/11, .2/11, 3/11, 4/11; men’s garters from 1/6 . to -4/6; men’s .silk scarves from 2/6 to 10/6; men’s felt hats from 8/11 to 37/6; men’s Fuji silk shirts at 13/6 and 18/6; men’s'tennis shirts at 6/11, 7/11 to 10/6; men’s neglige shirts, 5/11, 6/11, 7/11 to 15/6; men’s dressing gowns, from 37/6 to -97/6. Get your Christmas requirements from W. H. Broome’s Corner, Devon and Liardct Streets, New Plymouth. Adjutant Sowton . will lecture in . the Salvation Army Citadel to-night on “All About China.” The adjutant is a son of Coitfmissibner Sowton who has just been transferred from Eastern Australia to London. Adjutant Sowton is the daughter of Colonel Carmichael (divisional commander). Thq (eeture .wilt be illustrated by 70 lantern slides.