LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dairy factories with offices in New Plymouth have pad £68,229 ISs ad this week as advances for October butter-fat supply. A few bonuses from last year were included in the total. Advances were from lOd to lUd for cheese and 9d or 9Ad for butter.

The eampcraft training course fo’’ guiders of the Girl Guide movement commenced at the Scouts’ and guides’ reserve, Avenue Road, New Plymouth, yesterday, when about 20 guiders went under canvas. South Taranaki, A\ airanlpa, Wanganui and the Auckland province are represented. The camp is to be open to the public to-morrow afternoon.

Many W’aitura telephones were temIporftrily put out of commission on tV'edliiesday night by a thunderstorm accom- ■ panied by hail of a size not experienced in Waitara for many years. High tides and heavy rain inland combined to raise the river to within three or four feet of I the wharf deck. The coastal vessel iKapui was held in port owing to heavy sea on the bar.

“There is very little drinking done in this Parliament,” stated Mr. E. J. Howard, M.P., Ohristchureh South, at a meeting the other night. “In my eleven years of Parliament 1 ..have seen only two members drunk. I don’t want my remarks about haphazard methods during the last session to be. misconstrued into meaning that anyone was not able to carry on through drink.”

The faith that the average layman has in the powers of a solicitor was described by Air. H. P. Richmond in the Supreme Court. Auckland. “One is amazed and humbled,” ho said, “at the way in which the average layman looks up to a solicitor for advice on every subject under the sun, from marriage to death and all that goes between. The average layman thinks that a solicitor knows everything about how to make money, but in fact he knows how to lose it much better.”

An illmatured hoax’ was perpetrated on a Christchurch man on Wednesday, says the Times, when he received a telegram advisipg him that lie had drawn a horse in the Manchester November Handicap, on which the Irish Free State lottery depends. If the message had been genuine he would have received about £3OOO if the horse did not start, a greater sum if the horse did start and £185,000 if the horse won. The telegram was signed with the Christian name of a man in the city from whom the ticket was bought, but the addressee discovered that he had been hoaxed, the alleged sender knowing nothing about the message?

What is considered to be a record weight for spring lambs at this time of the year was attained by a draft of 50 shipped off Mr. L. G. Crosse’s property at Oringi last week, which tipped the scale at 38,851 b, states the Dannevirke Evening News. This is also the first consignment of lambs for export to leave the district.

A number of pupils of St. Andrew’s College attended a sitting of the Arbitration Court at Christchurch op Wednesday. At the conclusion of the hearing of k claim for compensation, Mr. Justice Fra?,er explained the reasons for the establishment of the Court and detailed the procedure adopted in settling industrial disputes and claims for compensation.

The bonus of 2s a tail for deer destroyed, formerly payable in certain parts of the South Island, is now payable ip the whole of the South IslanJ, and persons forwarding the tails to the appointed receivers will obtain the bonus, according to a letter from the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle), received at a meeting of the council of the North Canter? bury Acclimatisation ’Society, To ascertain 'whether there is any market for deer skins, the secretary of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation. Society has been instructed to write to the Department of Industries and Commerce, asking it to inquire as to a market through its trade office. The AVoolston Tanneries, says the Christchurch Press, are prepared to experiment with IGO skins.

Speaking of .enthusiasm for cricket at the annual meeting of delegates to the New Zealand Cricket Council, Mr. E. Heathcote Williams said that he had spoken some time ago to A. Kippax, the. Australian cricketer, asking him when he would get. in his cricket if, as he intended, lie went into business. “We are out on the Sydney cricket ground at 4 o’clock every morning,” was Kippax’s reply. “There is real enthusiasm foi you,” said Mr. Williams. Strange tasks are included among the duties of the staff of the public library, says the ’Christchurch Press, and one of them is to set poison and traps for rats before the library closes each evening. The librarian said that he found the rats very troublesome, particularly with respect to the damage they did to the backs of magazines and of books that had been repaired. What attracted them was the paste used in repairing the books and in putting strong covers on the magazines. The voracity, in fact tlie cannibalism, of the library rats, was shown by the fact that op Wednesday morning all that remained in the trap of a rat caught in the course of Tuesday night was the, head, spine and tail. Two examples of cases in which cir? cumstantial evidence was just, as cogent as direct evidence were given by Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Napier. “If you find a trout in your milk-jug,” said His Honour, “yop are fairly safe in assuming that there is something more than milk there, that there is water. That is purely circumstantial' evidence. Take another case. If a man sees a cat take a canary and eat it, that is direct evidence 1 . But the circumstantial evidence is just as strong if the man comes into a room, finds a cage empty, feathers lying around, and a cat wiping feathers off, its whiskers — and no eanary.” A local married man returned, to his home the other evening, says the Wanganui Herald, his wife being away on holiday. When nearing the premises he noticed a woman placidly picking a substantial bunch of his choice roses; “Nice roses, uiadam,” he remarked. “Yes,” she replied. “Do you live here?” remarked the man. “No,” replied the woman, “but the owner gave me permission to pick any flowers I wanted.” “Very kind of liini,” said the owner, as he walked inside the gate- “What do you want here?” queried the woman. “Well, see? ing that I happen to be the owner, I think I am entitled to come in,” said the man. Exit the daughter of Eve, as she dropped tlie Toses on the path.

The annual visit of the New Plymouth harriers to North Egmont has been postponed until November 29, Members will be advised during the week concerning the arrangements for the trip, Attention is drawn to the concert to be given in St. Mary’s hall, New Plymouth, to-night at 8 o’clock by the orchestra and concert party of the Boys’ High School. Those who heard a recent performance at the school will realise what strides have been made by the boys in their musical education, and especially in their singing. There will be many who will value the opportunity of hearing them, and they may be certain of listening to a programme full of good things.

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