LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1930, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL

/ Mr. J. Hirst, Tarata, was a competitor I at. the Ohura dog trials last week and ! with his well known dog Iweod. he '■Secured first prize in the short head event, winning £7 10s in cash as well as obtaining a. “leg in” in the 60-guinea cup.

While saying goodbye to a.member of the family on Tuesday morning, Alarie Wilson, aged four years, the youngest son of Mrs. F. E. Wilson, Hobson Street, New Plymouth, fell from a gate on which he was swinging.- Dr. JWadc ordered an X-ray examination, which revealed a simple fracture of both bones of the left forearm. ■. .

■During a deer stalking trip to Stewart Island tat Easter, Messrs.- A. ; E.. W. and D. McDohald, when -well back -in the rou*>h country, saw one of'those rare native -birds,- the yellow-wattled crow.' Sb tame was it that they were able .to obtain an excellent photograph of it.

A rather unusual, but none the less effective method of stopping a piice war is said to have been adopted by an Oamaru retailer, states the Mail. Two firms were competing in « similar line of woods, the price of which became so low” at one shop that the competitor went' along and ,ordered .the bulk of the stock ami resold it at tiie' price of his own goods. s ,

Opossums spread rapidly wherever there i cover, and there are quite a few now in the Botanical Gardens at Wellington, states'the -Evening -Post. Surrounding residents with gardens are beginning to find IL-b out. Trapping in a spot frequented by the public is risky, as there is always the chance of a lady putting her . foot in a. trap, but trapping at night, the tn-aps being sprung at daylight, will probably., meet the case. Several opossums, a bird, a cat and. a hedgehog have already found their way into traps.

The season which has just passed has ef feeted radical changes in the methods adopted for conservation of feed. Ensilage has to a very great extent displaced hay and it is therefore interesting, to know that the Hume Pipe Company Ltd., of Melbourne, have decided to manufacture their well known Humaco Portable reinforced concrete stave Silos in New Plymouth. A demonstration of. erecting one of these stave silos is to take place at Mr. biyles farm at Bell Block on Friday, May. 9, and all interested are cordially invited to attend. The company’s sil'o engineer, Mr. IV. M. Gimson, will be present and will gladly impart information on the subject. Farmers who cannot attend the demonstration can obtain full particulars from the local agents, Newton King, Ltd.

The Melbourne Ltd. have opened another bale of white blankets direct from a celebrated New Zealand mil] and the weight, size and finish combined make wonderful value. Colour is good too and the wool is clean and free of foreign matter. You’ll be delighted, with this fine blanket. Prices,- single bed size .23/6 pair; double bed isezs 33'6 and 42/6 pair..

Mr, D. Stewart Reid, who -was M.P. for Waika'-o from 1925 to 1925, and was defeated at the last election by Mr. F. Lye, M.P., will be.the Reform candidate at .the next general election, as his was the only name received by the party executive in the electorate. Approval of the proposed cave or hut on Humphries Castle, Mt. Egmont, was expressed at a meeting of the executive of the laranaki Alpine Club last night. It was suggested that club members should lend their help in construction work if the scheme is adopted. "If I were supplied with clicquo books on several banks I could collect more subscriptions,” stated Mr. E. J. Judd, organiser of the Taranaki Automobile Association, a,' the committee meeting last night. “Far_.ie-.-s are generally- -at one end of the farm when I call- on them, and as they have not their -cheque books on them they make promises which are rarely kept,” he added. Rats are often vieious when hunted and. will turn on their attackers, but it is seldom that they will attack a human being.without 'provocation. However, an Invercargill taxi driver had an unenviable experience The other night. He was on night duty and was sleeping on the rank premises. Feeling a sharp pain in his nose, he awakened and saw a large rat scuttling away. Bipod iwns streaming from a nasty bite' on the driver's nose, he found, when he switched bn the lights.