LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1930, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

■ The Education Department has approved of the establishment of a household school at the Noi’th Egmont mountain house.

' The Taranaki Education Board yesterday granted permission to the Girl Guides to attend the rally at Wellington at the end of February in connection with the visit of Lord Baden-Powell. Application is to be made through the respective school teachers. Decoration of the main street of Waitara with five strings of coloured electric lights from December 23 to January 3 was agreed to by the Waitara Borough Council last night in accordance with a request from the Retailers’-Association. The retailers’ offer to pay a proportion of the co&t was accepted. '' '

One of the trolley poles of a Westawh tramcar broke while the car was negotiating the loop at Wallace Plhce about 2.30 yesterday afternoon. Another car was quickly requisitioned and the service was; carried on without any disorganisation, save the few minutes’ delay ocasioned the passengers in the car concerned. , - . '

A light motor-truck with a pronged hay sweep attached in front was seen working satisfactorily on a farrii at Bell Block yesterday. A youth at the aerodrome nearly used one of the cars packed there to muster the cattle which threatened to invade the landing ground when the Auckland aeroplanes were due to arrive. ■ . '

Some splendid attendance records were, reported to the Taranaki Board of Education yesterday. A pupil from the Finnerty school, whose name had not been sent, had six years’ unbroken attendance to her credit, whilst Elsie and Joyce Herbert, Korito, and /Leonard Crosby, Croydon, each bad five years’ continuous attendance. The board decided to forward the pupils special congratulatory certificates.

With both legs fractured, Mr. 17. Hurlstone, Egmont Village, is in the New Plymouth hospital, his condition being reported as satisfactory. He was admitted on Tuesday following an accident while preparing to make ensilage. With neighbours he was erecting a hoist when one of the guy ropes broke and the gear crashed to the ground. In attempting to get clear Mr. Hurlstone tripped and one of the heavy beams fell across him.

Even plus-fours and open-necked shirts arc now worn in the theatres and best restaurants in London, according, to Mr. R. W. D. Robertson, who gave to the New Plymouth Round Table Club yesterday some- impressions of his recent tour "abroad. In these places, he said, evening dress was now rather the exception than 'the rule. The soft felt hat was the vogue and university men, formerly recognised as dandies, appeared in old shooting jackets, preferably with a hole in them, and grey flannel trousers.

Graziers wanting good paddock cows should read with interest the advertisement for the Hawera sale, to-day. Some very fine lines of well-bred station cattle are" to be offered, and anyone wanting this class of cattle should be able to secure them at reasonable prices.

“I ’have been waiting 14 years for a road and the council should now .be gentlemen enough to make a decent job of it,” wound up a letter from a woman ratepayer to the Waipa County. Council. “Be sports and make a decent road as I am really not in need of a duckpond at present.” The riding member was instructed to interview the petitioner.

As showing the trend of the times, consequent on the existing financial depression, it is interesting to record, states the Otago Daily Times, that one of the largest office proprietaries in Dunedin has reduced the rentals to its occupiers by 10 per cent. The reduction was made without any request by the occupiers. A warm tribute io Sir Charles Statham was paid by the Hon. L. M. Isitt, M.L.C., when speaking at a Christchurch gathering. “In the House of Representatives we have one of the ablest Speakers in the British Empire,” said Mr. Isitt. “I'don’t believe that in the Empire there is a Parliament ruled as rigidly and as ably as ours is by the present Speaker, Sir Charles Statham. Though times are hard, more people than usual are marrying this year. This is revealed in the monthly abstract of statistics for November, which states: “The somewhat unsatisfactory state of affairs disclosed by the various business indexes is not reflected in the marriage, statistics.' Indeed, for the first nine months of the year of 1930, the number of marriages recorded (8428) shows an increase of 181, or 2.2 per cent,, over the corresponding period of last year.” It has been reported that certain vendors of wares recently doing the rounds in Wanganui are in the habit of first finding out the name of the occupier of the premises and then making a call with certain articles. If. says the Wanganui Herald, a woman happens to answer the door the vendor informs her tliat Mr. —— ordered these articles and there is half a crown or more to pay, on them. Naturally the woman thinks it is a genuine deal and parts with the money. “Other charges are pending against accused, in connection with offences alleged to have been committed at New Plymouth and Hamilton,” said DetectiveSergeant Kelly, when George Hicicey, aged'2B, clerk, was charged in the Auckland Police Court on Tuesday that on April 1, with intent to defraud, he obtained from Richard McLeod £1 Us by means of a valueless cheque for £2, drawn on the Union Bank of Australia at" Te Awamutu. Accused pleaded guilty and was remanded for a week for sentence.

“You ought to be hanged,” was the remark addressed by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., to a defendant in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court, who pleaded guilty to three. charges of breaches of the by-' laws, in that he rode his inotor-cycle at a dangerous speed, had no lights on itat night, and had not equipped it with a silencer. Defendant was taken aback for a moment until the magistrate smiled, and the Court smiled with him. “It shows a lack of consideration (for the public,” said Mr. Mosley; “noisy exhausts.create a distinct nuisance to residents, and you should be ashamed of yourself.” Defendant was fined £3 10s in all. . .

Somewhat similar in appearance to the Desoutter cabin' monoplane flown by Major G. A. C. Cowper, the Puss Moth three-seater enclosed monoplane in which Flying Officer D. M. Allen led the flight of six Auckland Aero Cluo aeroplanes to New Plymouth .yesterday, was examined 1 with keen interest by experts and amateurs at the Bell Block aerodrome. The.machine was taken over by the Auckland club at the beginning of this week, and yesterday’s flight was a''satisfactory trial. The comfortable interior of the cabin appealed to travellers; as did the neat semi-stream-lining.* T'he inverted engine interested the mechanically-minded. This feature assists ( in making the machine particularly low-built. The silver grey fuselage" and the cantilever wings make it as°handsome arid graceful as a swallow in flight. The Puss Moth is capable of a top speed of 130 miles an hour. It is not a training machine, as it is not fitted with dual controls like those of the Gipsy Moths. A fihe selection of six Christmas hamper prizes for ladies and men will be given at the monster, euchre party, at Waitara to-night. A bus will leave New Plymouth, returning after the party. The public meeting Called in Waitara last night "to make arrangements for the annual regatta run in conjunction with :the Clifton Rowing Club- lapsed for the want of a quorum. A meeting will be held next Wednesday.

The annual meeting of the Fitzroy Seaside Park Society was adjourned last ni'ght for want of a quorum of 11, there being only five members present. It was decided to hold the meeting next Monday. ■ " ’ y ■