LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1931, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“He knew too much for me,” said a farmer witness •in the Supreme Court yesterday. He had lent the man money. ‘‘He -was educated in the law and knew too much for a poor cowcocky,” he added. Wage tax stamps were wanted by a woman who went to the Christchurch Post Office, says the Sun. She said so in a brisk, businesslike manner of a woman who knows what she wants. “What denomination?” asked the clerk. “Presbyterian,” said the customer, promptly.

“Let me admit right away that the presence of .a landlord's bailiff should have sounded a warning note,” 6aid counsel in the Supreme Court yesterday when discussing a man’s financial position. “A little more than that,. I think,’’ said Mr. Justice Blair. “I should have thought it was a clarion call, as loud as the firebell.” The usefulness of the Canterbury Automobile Association’s road patrol may be gauged from the fact that 28,629 miles were covered during the past year and 171 ears were assisted. New members gained by the patrol totalled 387 and the subscriptions amounted to £73'B 15s (id. The expenses of the patrol have been xS2? 4s 2d.

“An option to purchase is the most valuable thing you can have, it is so valuable that nobody but a lunatic gives one,” said Mr. Justice Blair in the Wanganui Supreme Court the other evening during the hearing of a case concerning a leasehold farm. It bound one party and did not bind the other, he said. One man only eould profit and not lose, the other not profit. No sign" of the shining cuckoo been, seen in Auckland this season, states the New Zealand Herald. According to one well-known bird-lover, it is a little early to expect an appearance of the cuckoo, but by the end of this mouth it is anticipated the birds will begin to arrive from overseas. The first cuckoos were heard last year at the beginning of December. The Hamilton Town Hall has been purchased by the Hamilton Picture -Corporation, Limited, proprietors of the Civic Theatre. The price was £2500 for the building and £6O a year rental for the Glasgow lease of the land on which the building stands. With the proceeds of the sale, the borough council proposes to erect municipal offices in a more central position in the town. Before a jury retired in tile Supreme Court at Christchurch on Friday the foreman asked if he might have a copy of the evidence. Mr. Justice Adams said that at the last trial for treason iu England the Court refused to hand the evidence to the jury. There was a danger that a jury might fasten upon some particular point, concentrate on that and ignore the rest. It was better that the jury should retire witli the atmosphere of the whole of the evidence.

“The work done by me on unemployed schemce meets with a lot of criticism, but I am satisfied, that in the work put in on. the Miool farm, we have obtained great value,” said Mr. J. S. Connett at the New Plyinouth High Schools’ Board meeting last night. In praising the work of the unemployed Mr. Connett said the farm had been brought into a much better condition than it had previously been. The benefit tp the board of the unemployment schemes was very great, Mr. L. A. Nolan said, and the board would never again have the work done so cheaply. Rapid progress is being made with the laying of the main sewer through Pukekura Park to Brooklands Road. This work is being done by day labour by the council's permanent street staff, and is advanced as far as the pavilion alongside the sportsgrotrnd. From this point the sewer will be laid through a tunnel under Cannon Hill, and later will pass through another small tunnel before emerging from the southern end of the park. Provision is being made for the connecting of the sewer to the new tea kiosk. The trenching in the neighbourhood of the epoi'tsground pavilion has been a very wet job owing to the seepage of water from the lower lake and other sources.

The Arbitration Court will sit at New Plymouth on Thursday. There is a fairly lengthy calendar for consideration, including applications for exclusion from the wage reduction order by the Waterside Workers’ Union, the borough labourers, and builders’ and contractors’ general labourers. Five actions claiming compensation are set down for hearing, and there is a motion to allot compensation already granted. There is a reference from the Conciliation Council in connection with the employment .of dairy factory workers, and an application for interpretation regarding cheesemakers as affected by the dairy factory employees’ award. Another application is for an extension of the award for motor and horse drivers.

A respected New Plymouth resident ■was surprised to find himself arraigned before Mr. Justice Blair, convicted and fined heavily yesterday. He could have been no more surprised, than His Honour himself when he found that he was expected to fulfil judicial duties far from the scene of the .Supreme Court. The ‘‘prisoner” was a member ox the New Plymouth Rotary Club who was charged at the weekly luncheon yesterday witli having committed an offence against the code of the club. He pleaded guilty and threw himself upon the mercy of the court. After taking into consideration the fact that the offender bore a Scottish name, which, he said, weighed with him considerably, His Honour fined the prisoner £lOOO, to be reduced to 2s Cd. if paid within 24 hours.

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The Melbourne’s show windows are inkeeping with the beautiful Spring weatlier now being experienced. Each new season brings its problems to wholesale buyers of ladies’ apparel, but judging from the models now showing the Melbourne’s buyers have excelled themselves. Prices on the whole are lower than at the corresponding period of last year.* We' cannot worry over a 10 per cent, cut. Stocktaking is due and stocks must be reduced. We have made amazing sacrifices on all goods. McGruer’s Sale is now on. See windows.*

Keep a few of my special After-Caly-ing Drenches handy, for bad calvers or premature calvers. 2/- each, 20/- dozen. Macgrcgor, Chemist, Eltham.*

One of the measures of the extent of distress in the country is provided by the social service of the Salvation Army, and at present these are all creating fresh records of activity. In its relief work the army is now providing about 30,600 meals a week and finding sleeping accommodation for thousands weekly. At the moment it has 500 children under its care in its various homes throughout New Zealand. Showing in a Dunedin drapery firm’s window last week was an enormous hat, size BJ. It is claimed that it is the largest hat ever made in New Zealand, and, when one considers that the size of the average man’s head is 6f to 7, such a claim is easily credible, says the Dunedin Star. This hat is a special order from one of the firm’s North Island customers. It was made in Dunedin.

“I have always held, and still hold, the opinion that the driver of a ear should not touch liquor of any sort,” said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Police Court at Christchurch last week. “It is a very foolish practice. This man has been foolish, and he must pay for it. He can’t expect anything else. Drink must affect a man's judgment. I don't care who the man is, whether he is tised 'to it, or not. I have said t-h e 6:111,6 thing before, and I repeat it now.” Daffodils and many similar flowers are growing profusely in Auckland this year, says the New Zealand Herald. Not only are the windows of florists’ shops attractive with these emblems of spring, but the barrows of street fruit vendors are frequently to be seen bearing a quota :o£ yellow blossoms. One city florist .stated that every day a large numbeof growers called at her premises seeking to- sell their flowere, but so ■waj the growth this year that most of them had to leave without doing business.

The opinion that the principle of giving free medical treatment to the hospital -staff was not right was expressed by Mr. A. E. Hansford at a meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board, when it was recommended that accounts for treatment of the staff, amounting to £2024, be written off. The secretary. Mr. A. J. Phillips, in reading the board’s rule in that connection, said that during his eight years’ association with the hospital it had been customary for those working in the institution to receive free treatment. -

“The farm dairy instructor is as essential as the policeman,” stated Mr. P. Hansen at the annual meeting of the Awahuri Dairy Company. “Some companies originally resisted his introduction, but they are now very thankful that they were farced into line,” added the speaker. In upholding the necessity for tae employment of instructors, the manager of the company (Mr. W. S. Death) stated that z t ll6 dairy industry was faced with a difficult situation as the result of the low prices, and the only way to -overcome the difficulty was to improve the quality of the produce. “People are apt to forget that there is a great art in listening,” said Mr. W. H. Dixon, judge of the vocal section at the Wellington .Competitions. "Musical art is not like water that trickles forth. People must se£ their minds, as it were, to listen for a specific atmosphere, and ‘specific points for listening requires considerable intelligence.” Mr. Dixon added that the true appreciation of singing was in discovering how a singer told his story and created- his atmosphere. It might be considered part of the function of the competitions for a judge occasionally to point the way to the audience in the art of listening intelligently. The difference between the English and New Zealand systems of fixing periods for compensation claims to be brought was defined by Mr. Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court at Auckland last week. His Honour said in England notice of the claim, which ,amounted to a mere formality, had to be given within six months of the accident, while under th-e General Statute of Limitations the action could be brought at any time within six years. In New Zealand no notice was required, but, unless there were reasonable grounds for a- delay, action must be taken within six months of the accident.

A suggestion that the system of paying three dividends should be introduced by the Auckland Trotting Club received ■short shrift from the president, Mr. J. Rowe, at the annual meeting. Mr. Hally burton Johnstone said that power to pay three dividens was recently given to clubs by the New . Zealand Trotting Conference, and the system was -very successful in Australia. Mr. Rowe said he was very surprised at. a moneyed man like Mr. Johnstone wanting a third dividend. Mr. Johnstone replied that he had heard many people say they were in. favour of it. Mr, Ro-we: -They can go to the Charitable Aid Board and get help if they want it. The various ways in which the surname of Sir Otto Niemeyer is pronounced caused a speaker at a meeting of the Auckland Economic Society to be ultra-cautious. Dr. E. P. Neale, who opened a discussion on the Niemeyer report, pronounced the financier’s name as “Nee”meyer, but the next speaker preferred “Ny”meyer. The third speaker accordingly felt some discretion was called for. “I will refer to Sir Otto’s report,” he said. "I always dodge using his surname, and I notice two diffcient versions have already been given.” Dr. Neale cheerfully interjected, "Don’t go by me.” Preserving his judicial manner, the speaker replied: “Yes, I think I had better just call him Sir Otto.” An Otago man who has been farming on good land for over 50 years, said, in liis contribution to a discussion on the world slump, that wheat was just now the only agricultural product that gave the New Zealand farmers any profit,and that profit accrued, not from market values, but as a result of the sliding scale of duties, reports the Dunedin Evening Star. Asked if he had calculated the cost of growing wheat, he replied that he had carefully gone into that question and reckoned that including overhead charges, interest, and all incidentals, wheat cost the New Zealand farmer ss. per bushel delivered on trucks, and he estimated that it cost the -Australian farmer 4s.

The Pensions Board will hold a sitting at New Plymouth to-day. Udder complaints. Lissaman’s mammitis Paint quickly applied gives relief in all cases of hard quarters. Send ss. 6d. to S. Lissaman, Box 63A, Kaponga*. Now our winter sale is in full swing it behoves you t- call in when passing and secure bargains in the crapery, 6uch as have never been offered before. The Hustlers, Devon Street, New Plymouth.

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