LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1930, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

•During the three weeks that he has had control’ of the New Plymouth Aero Club’s plane, Flying-Officer lan Keith has taken over 186 flights. White swan, StcwSrt - Island shag, and bronze shag are given absolute protection by declaration published, in the Gazette.

An egg 4| inches long, 7 inches in diameter and weighing 4-Joz was laid yesterday by a White Leghorn hen owned by Mr. R. Jordan, Brooklands Road, New Plymouth.

“The house is too small and too far away from the church,” said the Rev. W. S. C. Stephens, in urging the sale of the vicarage at the annual meeting of parishioners of Holy Trinity Church at Fitzroy on Monday night. The meeting decided to take steps to sell the old vicarage and build a new vicarage on the grounds adjoining the church. By means of wireless the Rev. H. A. G. Clark, minister of the Dominion Road Church of Christ, Auckland, conducted the service from Wellington last Sunday evening. The service was broadcast by 2YA, and. several churches in both islands installed radio sets. In most cases the experiment was entirely satisfactory. As most of the preachers were at tho conference in Wellington, the necessity of securing substitutes was avoided.

What appears to have been a clumsy attempt to break into the Grand Hotel, Auckland, took . place shortly before 4 a.m. on -Sunday, states the New Zealand Herald. The upper pane of glass in one of tho windows of the public bar, which fronts Princes Street, was broken. An intruder had been trying either to make his way through the window or to climb up to the second floor. As soon as the window was broken, the man made off, and although a search was made, no trace of him was seen. Nothing in the bar was disturbed.

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Going away this Easter I Then call to-day and secure your travelling needs from McGrucFs Easter Specials, See windows and inside display.

If farmers were organised as they should be, remarked Mr. H. E. Blyde, North Taranaki provincial president of the Farmers’ Union, at Kaimata last night, it would not matter to them what political party was in power. They would then be strong enough to dictate to the country—not in any high-handed manner, but in a fair way—and have a fair share in any legislation. ’

A small dinghy, which had been tugging for hours at its mooring rope in the New Plymouth harbour, broke loose yesterday morning and drifted idly alongside the Newton King wharf. All might have been well and the small boat would probably have reached the beach had not the Shell Company’s oil tanker, the Paua, chosen that moment to sidle into the wharf. There was a splintering crash, a different sound to the wheezing of the fenders, and the dinghy w’as no more. The Anglo-Australian wireless telephone service will be formally opened tonight. At 7 p.m. New Zealand time 2BL, Sydney, will broadcast the conversation Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Britain, and Mr. J. H. Scullin, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, will hold between London and Canberra. This was announced by 2FC, Sydney, last night. Serious injuries were escaped by the occupants of a car driven by Miss M. , Oxcnham. While turning a corner on the Mimi Gorge the car skidded and ran into a hank and capsized. The occupants received minor cuts about the face an.l legs and several had to return to New Plymouth for medical attention. •

A mart was being held in a northern centre not long ago and a woman went to the produce stall to inspect the jam displayed for sale. Picking up a bottle she thrust her fingers through the parchment covering the top, tasted the jam, and with the lordly exclamation: “Only fit for puddings,” replaced the jar and stalked calmly away, leaving a stallholder too nonplussed to demand payment for the article thus rendered unsaleable.

Some Poverty Bay farmers have not taken kindly to the proposed farmers’ tour from Hawke’s Bay and the East Coast to’ the South Island, and the material support has not been considerable, states the Poverty Bay Herald, for so far only one man- has actually booked for tilie trip with Mr. C. Blackburn, Poverty Boy secretary of the Farmers’ Union. The proposed tour of Auckland farmers has been abandoned for want of support, but so far as local information goes arrangements are continuing in connection with the East Coast effort.

In connection with the adoption by the New Plymouth Borough Council on Monday night of a new by-law dealing with gramophone music, Or. G. M. Spence has stated that though he championed the passing of the by-law on' the grounds that a public nuisance was being created, he did not wish it to be inferred that he desired a complete restriction on the playing of gramophone music. On the .assumption that the primary object of the playing of the music is to induce people to buy records, he suggests that certain gramophones should be played -further inside the ships, where people who wished to listen to them could congregate and hear the music without annoyance to other people outside and near the shops.

Disappointment is in store for horticulturists who have been hoping to receive £lOOO from a London newspaper for the discovery of a musk plant with the genuine old musk aroma. Some time ago a statement was made at a meeting of the Auckland, brancn of the New Zealand Horticultural Institute to the effect that the London Daily Mail was offering such a prize, and tfor some time the institute was bombarded with inquiries. ’ Eventually about 40 musk plants were transplanted at’ Hay’s nurseries in order that a test might be carried out. However, a letter has been received from the Daily Mail saying that it has never offered prizes for musk plants.

A large blackberry bush growing just over a bank on the Gisborne-Napier road saved a car, whose front wheels had left the road, from a considerable drop. The car, whose occupants were four . young men, motoring to Napier on Good Friday, says the Dajly ..Telegraph, had to wheel to the extremcj side of the road to pass a service, car.® Little difficulty was experienced, in getting the front of the car back on to the road, and the remaining 20 miles of the trip were covered without any further mishap. One of the officials employed at Wellington in the tests for qualifications to hold motor driving licenses stated that in the .tests for drivers’ licenses the women’s work compared, favourably with that of men-. The women displayed quite a good knowledge of road usage, observing the signals and traffic signs. Failure to do so would, of course, mean disqualification. The sight test is a strict one, and includes reading of colours, but the number of colour blind applicants is very small indeed. Candidates are examined as to their knowledge of traffic regulations and bylaws, judgment of speed, starting cn- . gine and driving ahead, turning in a narrow street, driving in traffic, driving in reverse, starting on hill, knowledge of gears and braking, while the examining officer also notes the general demeanour of the candidate while confident, nervous, and so forth.

Although there nave been large, withdrawals from tho Napier wool sales of Poverty Bay and const clips, approx.mately the same quantities of wool were exported from those districts aa last season. In -some cases wool-has been held on farms and some in store at Gisborne, but apparently most of the usual exports have gone forward, for 28,484 bales were shipped on overseas vessels from Gisborne and Tokomnru Bay for the nine months ended March 31 compared with 29,000 bales for the. corresponding period the previous season. The Napier and Wairoa shipments for tae same periods were 71,161 bales and 106,976 bales respectively, but the position there was affected by the largo quantities held from the sales this seas- it. The Dominion totals were 425,667 and 548,093 bales respectively.

Following London’s lead the fashion for wearing the new leatherette coats promises to be a great vogue here this winfer. The Melbourne, Ltd., as usual is well prepared to meet the certain demand for these smart useful guaranteed waterproof coats. Prices are from 32/6. See window display.

The donor of the silver cup as a trophy for. the New Plymouth Gun Ulub’s championship was Mr. Jn JteP'' n°tt, New Plymouth.