LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The November examinations of the University of New Zealand, which have been in progress at various Dominion centres and at the Agricultural Hall, New Ply. mouth, sinep the beginning of the month, concluded this week. Mr. H. Dempsey was the New Plymouth supervisor.

' A cap that fell over a ten-foot bank on Junction Road near Kent Road on Wednesday evening was saved from serious damage by a wire which prevented the vehicle rolling further down the bank. Tbe occupants of. the car, Messrs. Lambert, Egmont Village, and P. Ulenberg, Inglewood, were not injured. The car was later towed to New Plymouth for repairs.

Postponement of the projected flight of five Moth aeroplanes from Auckland to New Plymouth was found necessary again yesterday because of the continued stormy weather. As the services of Flying-Officer Allen, instructor to the club, will not be available for several weeks, the flight will, probably not take place until Wednesday, December 10, telegraph’s the Auckland correspondent of the News.

Flames rushing, through the floor of his car could not be quelled by Mr. Les. Higginson, New Plymouth, with a mat so his car was practically destroyed about three miles from New Plymouth on the Smart Road earjy last nighi. After Mr. Higginson started his car, a five-seater tourer, he smelt burning and then the flames broke through the flooring. The wreck was taken to New Plymouth by Grundy’s.

The honorary organiser of the Porirua Mental Hospital Radio Fund, Mr. L. 0. Hooker, reports that at noon on Wednesday a sum of £lOO3 9s 7d had actually been received. Of the 8000 subscription lists issued 1569 had then been returned, 848 of these being accompanied by donations. These donations and other direct subscriptions, deposited with the Public Trustee at Hawera, total £lOO3 0s 7d, which is regarded as a very generous response to the appeal considering the present financial stringency. There are still 6431 lists to be accounted for, and the holders of t|iese will be asked on December 1 to return them.

Everything for yourself, your family, your home at prices that mean very considerable savings. See our windows, visit our store, make the most of this timely buying,'opportunity. 'The Hustlers, Devon Street. New Plymouth.*

The advance payment for butter-fat supplied to the Rapanui, Turakina. and Westmere cheese factories for the month of October was Is a lb. A final distribution on last season’s supply is being made to the Westmere factory suppliers of five-eighths of a penny/ per lb, making a total for (he season of Is 5.7-fld per lb. The prices now being realised for cabbage, cauliflower and new potatoes at the Auckland City Markets are the lowest for November since the establishment pf markets, says the New Zealand Herald. The recent warm weather has resulted in a prolific yield of these vegetables. Plentiful supplies of other vegetables are also available.

Among the 38 collections of articles received by the Auckland War Memorial Museum during the past month is a common cockle containing • a pearl, which was presented by Mrs. Mouat, of Devonport. The curator, Mr. Gilbert Archey, reported to the council that this was believed to be the first record of a pearl in a cockle.

Two bluebucks were born within a few hours of each other at the Auckland Zoological Park on Wednesday. The new arrivals are tiny creatures, no bigger than kittens, and belong tp the smallest species of antelope. The parents are only 15in. high. There are five bluebucks in the Zoo and they are the only specimens in New Zealand or Australia. The speejes is extremely rare and is peculiar to Natal, South Africa.

“And you could say that in the whole of the Rangitikei district every farm has Californian thistle?” asked a solicitor when a farmer was giving evidence in the Supreme Court at Wanganui. “More or less,” was the answer he gave. He did not agree with the next suggestion from the solicitor that the farmers “had to accept it and do their best.” He explained later that if the thistle were mowed at the proper time they could be killed, and that such treatment was the recognised remedy. The belief that the time could not long be delayed when Auckland would have its own independent university was expressed by the Rev. Brother Borgia, of the staff of the Sacred Heart College, Auckland, when speaking at a farewell gathering in his honour. He thought that an independent university, besides being a source of civic pride and likely to be richly endowed on that account, would react beneficently on the citizens themselves. Brother Borgia hoped \hat, when /that day came, the utilitarian purposes of the university would not be allowed to dull the higher ideals.

Recital of the varying characteristics of natives of West of England coujitieg wgs accompanied by a story froip Dean Julius at the reception to fiord and fiady Bledisloe in Christchqrch. The Dean said that the Somerset man was generally supposed to be “slow in the qptake.” One native, when asked by a stranger whither led the roads at a Somerset crossing, expressed entire ignorance on the subject. 7. The stranger, pursuing, his questions further, was informed that the man had been in the district all his life and that those particular roads had been ip the same place for forty years. . Humprpus reference to printers’ ink was made by Mp. A. J. Hqtchinspn at an Auckland Creditmen’s Club luncheon when introducing Mr.' G. C. Codlin, general manager pf the New Zealand H er ald, tyho was to speak on that subject. "I have fouqd it vtjry expensive stuff and very dirty stuff,” said Mr. Hutchinson. “On the other hand, I have always had good results from it, and, although this is not an advertising agency, I have no hesitation in saying that the man who spends money wisely in printers’ ink reaps a rich reward.”

The 67th anniversary of the Battle of Rangiriri, one of the most sanguinary encounters during the Maori wars, fell yesterday. After an engagement in which the British lost 35 killed and 93 wounded, General Cameron carried the Maori position and captured 183 prisoners. The Maoris were hemmed in at Rangiriri after having been driven from the Clevedon district. Attack was made on the fortifications by both land and water, but was held up by heavy fire. Lacking gunpowder, the Maoris surrendered the next morning. They had lost 36 men. The victory resulted in the subjugation of the Lower Waikato tribes. z

Farmers and others have a rooted aversion to tiffing in departmental forms of any description, and, perhaps for this reason, says the Wellington Post, many small refunds under petrol exemptions were not claimed. Now, however, the times are hard, and the refund is 6d per gallon instead of 4d, and a noticeable increase in the number of claims for exemption for small amoupts has occurred. Many of these are for amount from. 9s to 15s, formerly evidently thought not worth while. The Post Office reports the highest number of applications for exemptions in September of any month since the Act came into force.

You should attend the big furnituure sale to-morrow conducted by S. Hartpell and Co. at thejr auction rooms, Stratford. See auction columns for advertisement. “Your Mammitis Paint is the best cure for bad quarters I have ®VPr had. I have used it about a d°zep times and have never had a failure,” writes a dairy farmer to S. Lissaman, Box 63A, Raponga.*