LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1930, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Inglewood Borough Council last evening recorded its appreciation of the public-spirited action of one of its members, Mr. J. Gibbs, in making a gift of £lOO to the borough. The Mayor (Mr. J. W. Winfield) said the council and. the citizens fully appreciated the spirit which actuated the gift at a time when it was of especial vali.:.

In the Horowhenua County 916 dogs have been registered this year to date. <q think you could kill a thousand dogs in this county, and there would still be enough to work the stock in it, stated Mr. G. A. Monk, the chairman, at a meeting of the council at Levin on Saturday.

At yesterday’s meeting of the. Egmont County Council the clerk (Mr. G. W. Rogers) reported, that during the period in which tile. 5 per cent, rebate was allowed for the payment of rates £0374 J 9s. 4d. had been received. That, he said, was £382 3s. 3d. more than for the same period last year.

Work is proceeding on the New Plymouth (N.Z.) Oil Wells, Ltd., property near Ngamotu Road. A shed and boiler house have been erected, and the foundations laid for the derrick. The Hertford, which is due in New Plymouth about Monday, has aboard the company’s steel derrick, and the work of construction will commence immediately-

“I always think the members of the public are entitled to know who the convicted thieves are that are walking about among them,” said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court, when Charles Joseph McCabe, aged 23, who pleaded guilty to a Charge of theft, asked that his name be suppressed. The application was refused.

The appeal sponsored by Mr. L. O. Hooker for funds to provide £4OOO for the installation of radio at the Porirua Mental Hospital /as a Christmas gift fund found no support at the meeting of the Egmont County Council yesterday. Mr. G. Gibson moved that the council did not feel disposed to spend public money oh such objects. This was seconded by Mr. A. J. Lilley and carried unanimously without discussion.

Clearing for picnic parties during the summer months has been done by the Egmont Park Board’s ranger (Mr. R. W. Larsen) in a small hollow sloping down to the Ngatoro Gorge, a short distance to the east of the old North Egmont house. Mr. Larsen has been erecting a number of tables and seats, and plans to make a few swings for the children. The situation is just off the road to the hostel and is almost entirely surrounded by bush.

As the result of the success of the combined insurance, companies annual ball the dance committee decided to devote the £4 10s. profit to the children’s ward of the New Plymouth public hospital. Members of the committee donated a further 10s., 'making a total of £5. This, with the Government’s £1 for £1 subsidy, will make £lO, which will be sufficient for the installation of two cots in the ward.

A motor-cyclist, Mr. Frank W. McLellan, of Qtahuhu, was found lying n the roadside near the borough gasworks at Dargaville- on Wednesday afternoon, states the New Zealand Herald. He stated that while riding into Dargaville he was struck in the eye by a 'bee, and the next thing he knew he was receiving attention from Mr. W. Bagby, the gasworks manager. The patient is. in the hospital, but his injuries are not regarded as serious. There was a moment of perplexity in the Supreme Court at Auckland on Monday when, just as a prisoner for sentence had the charge agitinst him read out, two lawyers rose simultaneously to speak in his defence. “Which of you is it to -be?” asked Mr. Justice Reed. The prisoner was referred to and after a moment’s hesitation indicated one of the two as his choice. “You had better go on then,” said the other to his colleague, so the matter was settled.

That the time had arrived when more attention should be given to the byroads was the opinion expressed by Mr. W. C. Green, chairman of the Egmont County Council, at the meeting of the council yesterday. He said he hoped to see more money expended on the byroads during the coming year. He did not want it thought that he wished to starve the main roads that were subsidised by the Highways-Board, but these were in good order and should be kept up to that standard. He thought money was being expended on fences and improving corners on the main roads that could well wait until the by-roads were in good order.

“I say definitely that I cannot recall (having seen a cancer of the mouth, gullet or stomach in a patient with a clean, healthy mouth,” said Mr. Eisdell Moore in the course of a lecture .given under the auspices bf the Auckland Institute and the British Medical Association. “By that I mean one who does not -show either bad teeth or evidence of prolonged dental sepsis earlier in life. Cancer, of the tongue is amenable ,to treatment by radium needles, and its disappearance after treatment is sometime dramatic. In the case of cancer in the gullet and stomach this treatment cannot at present be applied and there is greater danger.” It required over four million -pairs of boots and shoes to cater for the population of New Zealand last ear. This fact is revealed in the monthly abstract of statistics, which makes special reference to the growth jof the boot and shoe industry in New Zealand. A table prepared for tho purpose of throwing some light on the Dominion’s annual requirements in the way of footwear shows that since 1919 the requirements have increased from 2,593,079 pairs of boots and shoes to 4,-695,473 pairs. Tho latter figure is made up zof 3,083,040 pairs of imported footwear and 1,612,433 pairs manufactured in the Dominion. Figures for the year ended March 31 last reveal that the value of manufactures in the industry during the year 1929-30 was the highest recorded since 1924-25.

Sixty bulls of first-class quality will be offered by Messrs. Newton King, Ltd., at the Kaponga bull fair and cattle sale to be held on Friday next. Some good springing cows and heifers will also be submitted, as well as some purebred fowls and ducks. Details are advertised in the auction columns.

The benefit evening for Miss Marj' C'rawshaw which is being arranged by the Central Home and School Association, New Plymouth, for to-morrow evening in St. Mary’s Hall, promises to be a great success. The Mayor will preside. The artists who are assisting are Mesdames Kircher, Hawkins, Jones, Connell and P. Allen, ' Misses McDonald, Coleman, Lee and Crawshaw, Messrs. Hay. Quinn, Edmondston,, Higginson. Hirst,- Bosworth and Edgecombe, so patrons are assured of a splendid musical programme. Supper will be served aiid the remainder of the evening spent in dancing, the music for which has been arranged by Mr. Renton. Miss Crawshaw has used her talents unsparingly on behalf of any public organisation in town or country, and the coin.-, mittee are confident that the New Plymouth public, as usual, will generously support to-mqrrow’s function.