LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A special train brought 169 passengers to New Plymouth yesterday from Tariki and Norfolk Road for school picnics. The Tariki party went to the East End beach and the Norfolk Road party to Ngamotu.

Offers of lljd per lb for butter have been circulating freely in North Taranaki during the last few days, but so far as is known no factories have made sales. The offer is equivalent to a price of about 108 s or 109 s on the London market.

Blackberies spilt on the roadway at the intersection of Eliot and Courtenay Streets, New Plymouth provided a feast for a numbei- of children yesterday. Two cars driven by Messrs. E. Haine, Waiongona, and E. Hastie, Norfolk. Road, had collided, and a supply of blackberries in one was upset. A back wheel ol Mr. Haine’s car was smashed.

New Zealand butter 3s 6d per pound! It is not the tale of a dream of the dairy farmer, but a fact. Miss Fenwick, an ex-resident of New Plymouth, now teaching in a school in Bangalore, India," relates in a letter to a friend in New Plymouth that she saw New Zealand butter on sale in India at the price stated.

Two handsome cups were received by the Taranaki Agricultural Society yesterday for competition at its stock shows. Mr. W. Roberts has presented one trophy for the hunters’ champion jumping competition. It is to be won outright at the forthcoming show. The Cambrian Engineering Company has presented the second trophy, and the section for which it is to be awarded has yet to be decided.

Rapid progress is being made in the development of the lemon industry in the Tauranga district. New Zealand growers are now winning appreciation for their citruj fruits, with the result that markets are improving. A representative of the Rotorua Post was recently conducted over one of the best groves in the district and was greatly impressed with the results achieved. The fruit was in splendid condition and the shape excellent. The difficulty of thick skin is now being overcome, which will mean a great advantage to exporters. It is estimated that a properly cultivated orchard of nine acres will return the grower a profit of £6 per week.

A well known Manawatu farmer, when in conversation with a Standard representative, stated that he had been farming his present property for 32 years and had never known so dry a season. While he had experienced, dry periods in February and March, the present sustained spell was exceptional in that it had set in so early as December. As a result, some dairy suppliers had experienced, a decline of from to 30 per cent, in their milk returns.

An ice-chest caught alight at a cabaret in Karangahape Road, Auckland, on Thursday, states the Herald. The icechest was one of the mechanical type and the fire was caused through the ignition of inflammable liquid in the machine. The alarm was answered by the City Brigade, but the fire was suppressed by means of a chemical extinguisher. The interior of the ice-chest was damaged.

A lively appreciation of a woman’s viewpoint was shown by Mr. Justice Smith during the hearing of a divorce case in the Supreme Court at Auckland on Thursday. Commenting upon a letter written by a woman to her husband, a clothing manufacturer, and containing the words “Much love, your loving pal—”, His Honour said there was no evidence of reciprocation ou the husband’s part. Moreover, the woman was making a request about a jumper and that might account for extravagant language.

For the first time in their history, the annual parliaments of the Presbyterian and the Methodist Churches in New Zealand will meet in the same city at the same time. The Methodist Conference began in Christchurch this week, and on Tuesday the Assembly of the New Zealand Presbyterian Church will open. It is anticipated that well over 100 ministers and. 100 elders will attend the Presbyterian Assembly. When welcoming the Press delegates to Auckland, the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, said they might be inspired to publish on their return to the places from which they came their impressions of the Queen City. Then Mr., Hutchison, with a smile, remarked: “I hope our visitors from Dunedin will have decided that we have not expended in a profligate manner the money that we are reported to owe investors in that city.” The point was quickly realised, and it was greeted with laughter and applause.

An Auckland schoolmaster has effected a saving of over £2O to the parents of the pupils of his class by his adoption of a suggestion made recently by another teacher. Instead of requiring the children to purchase four text books at a cost of 7s 6d. he has made his own, from which the children will be instructed by addresses, blackboard work, and note-taking. Newspapers, the “School Journal,” and the school library are drawn on for studies in English. A question was asked at a Gisborne Borough Council meeting as to whether chlorinated water would have any detrimental effect on the meat at the freezing works. Dr. H. B. Turbott, medical officer of health, stated that the chlorinated lime was not introduced into the water in sufficient quantities to do any arm either to meat or butter treated with it. The quantities of chlorinated lime he had instructed the council to use comprised only half the usual dose, and he pointed out that chlorinated water was used in other parts, of the country without any detrimental effects, either to industry or as drinking water. A freak which should prove of great interest to all gardeners has been grown by Mr. A. Brown, of Courtenay Place, Wellington, says the Dominion. It is a sunflower which stands about six feet high, and has a total of twenty-eight flowers, evenly distributed on the one stalk. It grew from a seed which was in a packet of parrot food, and which was accidentally upset on a piece of soft ground. Other sunflower plants have also grown, but are as all sunflowers should be.

D. G. Bradman, the New South Wales batting marvel, recently created another world’s record by hitting up a century ofl’ three eight-ball overs in a club game in Sydney. He and his partner hit 102 off the three overs, of which Bradman claimed 100. They hit 33 off the first over, 40 off the second, and 29 off the third. In the innings,. Bradman hit fourteen sixes and 29 fours, and brought his club average up to 149. Riding bicycles with children perched on a seat attached to the handle-bars is a dangerous practice, as one cyclist found to his cost on Sunday, says the Southland News. He was riding along the North Road, with a passenger seated in this fashion, with a leg dangling on either side of the wheel. Suddenly one foot was caught up in the spokes and rider and passenger were given a nasty spill. In order to extricate the child’s leg one of the forks had to bo bent back, a proceeding which was very painful. The child’s leg was lacerated and medical attention was necessary.

Hailstones measuring up to one inch in diameter fell during a cloudburst which occurred on Mr, Hunt’s farm at Te Tipua, near St. Rowan’s,, on Tuesday afternoon, states the Southland Times. Between claps of thunder and flashes of lightning, huge hailstones fell. The house of the manager of the farm, Mr. Ritchie, had two inches of water inside it and a porcelain plate, which was lying outside, was broken by the stones. A. crop of turnips was beaten flat and stripped of its leaves and a crop of oats in the vicinity was severely damaged. The locality of the storm was limited and it was of brief duration.

The wandering propensities of potato roots were exemplified in an exhibit taken to the office of the Waikato Independent, Cambridge, on Tuesday by Mr. E. J. Baltimore, of Carter’s Flat. In an ordinary 11b jam tin were two good sized potatoes, the root of the potato having entered the tin through the partly closed lid, and the tubers had formed and matured inside the tin. It might be explained that the particular potato plant was a self-sown one that had grown on a rubbish tip. Mr. Buttimore also stated that from another plant nearby he had found a potato growing inside a bottle, the neck of which had been broken.

Attention is drawn to the auction sale of men’s and boys’ clothing being conducted by Messrs. Newton King Ltd. to-day at their Mart in Inglewood, on account of Mr. W. T. Hookham. The sale commences at 11 a.m., and provides an excellent opportunity of procuring good quality clothes at a low cost.*

Moreys Ltd. Diamond Jubilee Sale continues to show a wonderful opportunity for money saving. Advertised on page 14 of this issue are Silk Brocades, new stock at 1/6. Fadeless curtain nets, 11-Jd. Hemmed , sheris, 6/6 pair. Everything is now reduced.*

The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of train arrangements and cheap excursion fares in connection with the Hawera Borough Jubilee from February 24 to 27, 1932.*'

Here are bargains at the Melbourne’s Sale, which you cannot afford to overlook. Kiddies’ cream Pilchers lid pair. 30in. Printed crepe, 8d yard. 80in. White sheeting, 1/11 yard. " .thing costumes and bathing caps, half-price. Hundreds of samples and remnants greatly reduced.

Miss Leslie Mac Diarmid, announces by advertisement in this issue that die has opened business in Opunake as a maseuse.

During the hearing of a claim against the Solicitors’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth last night it was mentioned that the fund had already paid out £4200 to reimburse clients for defalcations connected with thefts of trust funds by H. J. M. Thomson (solicitor) and S. R. Darlow (liis managing clerk) at Inglewood. A Te Awamutu High School boy, Noel McMahon, scored 109 runs not out and Later captured eight Puahue wickets for 13 runs when playing in the Waipa Cricket Association championship matches last Saturday. McMahon, who is 14 years of age, plays in the Waipa senior cricket competition and has been included in Waipa representative teams. Included in his century on Saturday were two sixes and eight fours. Reference was made at a meeting of the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board to certain unidentifiable bugs found in some poles lying in the board’s grounds. The bugs had been sent to the Dominion Museum, where they were being kept under observation. Mr. E. F. Hollands, engineer and general manager of the board, said the bugs were 1J inches long and five-eighths of an inch across. Although they had been in the poles five or six years they were still alive. They were peculiarly shaped and it was almost impossible to tell which was the front or back. .They were slate-coloured. When the Finnish full-rigged ship Grace Harwar sails from Auckland she will have on board one passenger and two apprentices signed on at that port. Visits of large sailing vessels to the port are all too rare in these modern times, says the Star, and it is many years since a man booked a passage to Australia by a full-rigged ship. It has been arranged that the passenger shall pay 10s a day for the trip. Although this rate is very much cheaper than that charged on the regular inter-colonial steamers trading between New Zealand and Australia, the passage may prove expensive., as sailing ships have often taken several weeks to battle across the Tasman.

Despite the difficult conditions Ngaliiwi pedigree Jersey cattle and Tamworth pigs command a ready sale. This week’s sales include two choice, in-calf pedigree heifers to Mr. D. Inwood, Inangahua Junction. These arrived safely on Friday, via Greymouth. A very fine Tamworth boar went to Mr. Gordon Salway, Waitoitoi, and a show sow to Mr. Emery, Tekere, Opunake. Mr. Freeth reports a keen, inquiry for butter-fat bulls, five being booked already for next season.

Farmers are advised to attend: the Inglewood Supplementary Sheep Fair next Wednesday when they can fill to advantage their requirements of ewes, lambs, and wethers. An excellent entry is advertised consisting of annual draughts off hard and hilly country, and in consequence the sheep thrive wherever taken. The fair also affords an opportunity to secure either Southdown or Romney rams. Strikingly beautiful decorations and a sumptuous supper will be features of the Hawera jubilee ball, but all other arrangements will be in keeping with the importance of the occasion, including the latest and snappiest music by Wills’ orchestra. The committee has concluded preliminary arrangements. It has been decided to offyer prizes of £1 Is each to the lady and man wearing the best fancy costume. Tickets can ba obtained from all members of the committee. The ball will be one of the outstanding features of the celebrations and the programme will include numbers to suit dancers of the present and other days.