LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1930, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Widespread interest is being taken by Taranaki in the fourth Rugby test at Auckland. It is stated that already seven carloads of people have left Inglewood for Auckland and large numbers are going from other Taranaki towns.

The use of obscene language in Devon Street on Wednesday was admitted by Harold Neaves Austin In the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday. He was fined 20s, in default 14 days’ imprisonment. He consented to take out a prohibition order against himself. The first complete length of the New Plymouth Borough Council’s sewerage scheme will be finished on Monday. On Monday next the laying of the concrete pipes from Hobson Street to East-End will be complete. The total length is 600 feet.

. That the legitimate stage is again coming into its own, at least for plays of quality, is the belief of Mr. Richard White, who is in New Plymouth making arrangements for the appearance of two J. C. Williamson comedies, “Love Lie's” and “So This is Love.” These will be the first plays presented in New Plymouth for many months. The new football ground in the gully at the New Plymouth Boys’ High School was used for the first time yesterday in the annual match between New Plymouth and Stratford, school fifteens. Any rainfall soaks away quickly owing to the camber of the ground and the .drainage system, resulting in a field that plays fast and does not easily cut up.

After 24 hours of hard cruising into a strong southerly and heavy seas, the coastal motor vessel Hauturu arrived at New Plymouth late yesterday afternoon, seven hours after her scheduled time. Leaving Onehunga at 4 p.m. on Wednesday the vessel crossed the bar, which was slightly sheltered from the southerly, at 6.40 the same night. Then started a hard fight with the rough head winds and seas. When the Hauturu arrived at New Plymouth the lower decks were drenched with the waves that had come aboard.

In view of the present appeal for contributions for the unemployment furnl the Western Park Board has decided not to prosecute this year a big scheme for raising money. The proposal was made originally by Mr. R. O. Ellis. The chairman (Mr. F. Hartnell) reported to the meeting of the board last night that owing to the present condition of affairs it was recommended that the scheme should not be launched this year. It had been hoped, he said, to have raised about £490 through an effort culminating in January.

Having examined some materials in the manufacturers’ section at the Belington Winter Show, a well-known business man told his wife to order a winter dress of New Zealand materi&l, intending also to have a suit for himself. When his wife returned he found that she had selected an imported cloth. The husband rang up the tailor to ask why he had not shown his wife New Zealand cloths to select from, speaking of the excellent examples he had seen, iu the exhibition. The tailor said he could not get them, whereupon tho would-be client promptly set to work to put him in touch with the manufacturers, being determined to have the order fulfilled in New Zealand-made material.

A Christchurch boy who is not yet seventeen years of age has indicated to the Mayor that he is willing to be a “nice male companion” to the English girl who wishes the Mayor to introduce her to a young man on her arrival in Christchurch shortly. Th© application from the youth was' received by the Mayor through the post on Saturday morning, says the Times, and he commented on the fact that the girl is twenty-one years of age, compared with the boy’s age of sixteen. Mr. Archer did not state his intentions in regard to the matter.

At the annual meeting of the Lepperton Dairy Company yesterday the chairman (Mr. H. B. Lepper) remarked that during the last nine years the but-ter-fat production had increased from .171,6981 b to 609,6331 b per annum, having more than trebled, while the number of suppliers had increased only from 46 to 72. The company was one of the oldest, if not the oldest, co-opera-tive dairy concerns in Taranaki, having been established 38 years ago. With the exception of one year during which he discontinued dairying Mr. Lepper has been associated with the company the whole'time, either as a director or chairman. No more than the shell was left of a five-roomed house in Doone Street, Veale’s Estate, after fire had attacked it early yesterday morning. Helped by the breeze the flames secured a good hold and when the brigade was called little could be done. The place had not been occupied for three months, but the owner, Mr. L. Deighton, Mangorei Road, was in the habit of visiting it once a week. Nothing was amiss at his last inspection about a week ago and the doors were all locked. Mr. Deighton was first aware at nine o’clock that his property had been destroyed. He holds an insurance policy for £6OO from the Phoenix Company, but considers he will be a heavy loser. The construction of a one-way motor road around the hill in Western Park, New Plymouth, passing the croquert green and returning to the Cutfield Road gate, is an ambition of the park board. At the meeting of the board last night a preliminary estimate by tjie boroug'h' engineer (Mr, C. Clarke) gave the cost of a minor scheme at £5O and that of a major scheme, which would be an extension of the other, at £l5O. It was Mated the board was prepared to vote £25 and that on condition the work was done by unemployed ex-servicemen the Returned Soldiers’ Association had agreed to give another £25. It was decided to approach the Taranaki Automobile Association for a contribution, and the chairman (Mr. F. Hartnell) was authorised to ask the works committee of the Borough. Council to sanction the scheme. It is intended to use the spoil from necessary excavatione to fill the old sunken road higher up the hill. Mr. J. Lobb suggested that that part of the road near the Cutfield Hoad gate should be widened sufficiently for two-way traffic. A grant of £75 to the New Plymouth Tourist and Expansion League ie included in the Budget which was submitted to the House yesterday. At the Kawaroa Park euchre party on Tuesday evening the prizes were won by Mrs. May (14) first, Mesdames Eva and Morgan (133) equal second; Mr. Maine (143) first,. Mr. Eva (133) second. Aggregate ; Mrs. Oliver 67; T. R. Julian '673. ' . -