LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1930, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Spring smiles early on Gonville gardens, says the /Wanganui Chronicle. One enthusiast has potatoes arid green pea*/ in flower already, but it is admitted that there is considerable work entailed in finding adequate coverings each time the evening sky gives indicaton of a frost. An anonymous donor has notified his intention of presenting a serviceable car to the Rev. R. B. Gosnell, Fitzroy, to assist him in his church work. The donor, who is not actively associated with Mr. Gosnell’s church in any way, wishes to remain completely anonymous. In proportion to members treated, hospital contributions by the Friendly Societies were equal to the fees collected from the public, stated the manager of the New Plymouth hospital at the meeting of the board yesterday. Already 60 men are being given employment under the New Plymouth Borough Council’s relief system, and more are likely to be engaged shortly. Work has been completed in Turehu Street, Courtenay Street East and Downc Street, and-the men are now employed in Mangorei Road, Frankley Road and Woolcombe Terrace.

The earili work at the Mangamahoe dam has been somewhat delayed by rain this month, the amount of material handled being less than the average. The concrete work is advancing satisfactorily. During wet weather-the clay used in the earthwork becomes sticky and unworkable. Nevertheless the work is up to time and good progress will be made with the earthwork in the dry months.

A reminder is given of the Ingleside to be held at Hurworth to-raonow night. Judging by the numerous people who intend to be present there should he a record crowd, and as the members of the hall committee. held,, a, working bee on Monday night, i everything is now in l aadiiiesH f >r ,a ..tfveuii'ig.'’

A commission io execute a life-size statue in marble of the late Sir Joseph Ward has been received by Mr. W. H. Feldon, of Auckland, from a southern client, who is for the present anonymous. Mr. Feldon is already engaged upon life-size marble figures of Earl JeL licoe and the late Earl Kitchener, which are to be erected in Invercargill. He considers that at least 18 months must elapse before the statue of Sir Joseph Ward can be completed.

The next live days promise to be very busy at the port of New Plymouth, for during that period five overseas vesselswill berth. This morning a timber vessel from Australia, the Woolgar, will discharge a large cargo. To-morrow the Waihemo with a cargo from the Pacific Coast will commence to discharge, while on Friday the Port Fremantle will put in to take on some of the. season’s final exports'of dairy produce and meat. The Argyllshire will discharge and load cargo on .Saturday. Monday will see the arrival of a Danish vessel, the Astoria, with a cargo of phosphates from Nauru.

“I don’t think it’s a fair thing that the valuer should inspect your land without giving you notice,” said a member of the Waitotara County Council, He stated that the valuer paid him a visit recently and took only a- brief look from the top of a hill. He did not inspect one-third of the property. Other councillors were of opinion that the valuer should confer with the owner. One councillor said that the valuer usually rang when he intended to make an inspection, and he always saw to it that the valuer was shown the bad gullies as well as the good. ''“Before leaving Christchurch .1 was told that I would find conditions slightly different, for there was a peculiar atmosphere in provincial towns not found altogether in the .arger cities,” said Mr. A. M. Niblock, before beginning his lecture on “How to change yourself by right thinking,” in- New Plymouth, last evening. “That is true in a sense, but I find that as regards intellect- the level is decidedly high throughout New Zealand in city, town or village/ ’he said. The lecturer said that one had to travel before that could be fully appreciated. Cars driven by Mr. S. Vickers, Omata, and Mr. T. V. Simons, New Plymouth, collided at the intersection of Dawson and Devon streets early yesterday afternoon. A new five-seater sedan was being driven by Mr. Simons in a westerly direction along Devon Street. The car driven by Mr. Vickers was going down Dawson Street towards the sea. The bodywork of Mr. Simons’ car was dented, and the car driven by Mr. Vickers struck an electric light pole, damaging the front. Neither of the drivers was injured. The Minister had approved the expenditure of £19,487 on a children’s ward at the New Plymouth hospital, stated the chairman (Mr. S. Vickers), at the meeting of the board yesterday. The contract had been signed and the work was being put in hand immediately. The laboratory had been practically wholly removed to its new site. In the meantime laboratory work was being carried out in the front part of the old hospital building. The fact that clergymen’s sons so often “go wrong” was - put down by Mr. A. M. Niblock, himself a Church of England clergyman, in a New Plymouth lecture last evening, to the constant repression of thoughts during the early years of life. “Unless there is expression,” he said, “there will be explosion. Men ‘go off the handle’ easily through boyhood repression. Life must be enjoyed and thoughts given expression—that is everyone’s heritage. If things are kept back there will be a “burst” gome day and the boy will try to reestablish himself in his own mind, even if it entails ‘going wrong’.” Water-pipes 47 years old are being unearthed in Courtenay Street, New Plymouth, under the borough reticulation scheme. They will be cleaned and used again, probably hi “blind” streets, and the pipes are exjfected to last another 50 years. The pipes taken up, three inches in diameter, are being replaced by six-inch pipes. The sound condition of the pipes shows the freedom of the water in and around New Plymouth from chemical impurities. The reticulation, which is being done out of the £76,500 loan, has so far been within the estimates.

Annoyance was expressed by a motor ist visiting New Plymouth the other day. While loud in his praises of the excellent surface of Taranaki roads, he said that he was astounded at the number of . small primary school children who, at great danger to themselves, would run on to the edge of the road at the approach of motor-caw, seize stones and throw them at the cars as they passed. Although the children were small and had little strength, the moving cars made the stones a source of danger and possible damage. The visitor thought the teachers, should speak to the older children and impress on them the danger of the practice. - In outlining the different complexes that people are subject to, Mr. A. M. Niblock, in the course of a lecture in New Plymouth last evening, touched for a moment upon the curious case of a woman, normal in every other way, who became hysterical at the sight of a white cat. Black ones, grey ones and any other variety of cat affected her not at all. An eminent English mental specialist effected a cure by hypnotising her and placing paper and pen in her hands with the request that she write all she knew of white cats. She described minutely and most a.-.eurately a nursery, and told how, when a baby, her nurse had left her with a white kitten m the room. The kitten sprang in her face and scratched her when she tried to push it away. This had made •& great impression on her subconscious mind and, until almost 42, the sight of a white eat drove her hysterical. She did not remember the incident in the nursery, but recalled it after the doctor’s experiment, and then, by simple reasoning, lost her fear of a white cat.

The matron of the New Plymouth hospital acknowledges the following gifts: Books and magazines for chronic ward, anonymous; toys and uooks for children’s ward, Bertie Harris; magazines for children’s ward, Tommy French, Master Jack Campbell, Mr. R. Pepperill; books and' magazines, Mrs. A. R. Andrews, Mrs. C. E. Stronge, Mrs. Case, Mrs. Nicholls; books, Ron Downey; old linen, Mrs. Jackson, anonymous; flowers, Mrs. Hamilton, Junior Red Cross; vegetables, Fitzroy Methodist Church, per Mrs. Gosnell.

Record the childhood days of your children in photographs. Keep forever their beautiful baby fijniles—their irresponsible schooldays. You will appreciate such photographs in days to come when your family has grown-up and marriedBring them in year by year to Oakley s Studio, Knsh Building: (upstairs), peydn ’Street.