LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A sitting of the Native Land Court commenced at New Plymouth yesterday morning.

The quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth were concluded yesterday before Mr. Justice Blair, whose final business in the afternoon was to hear in chambers applications under the Mortgagors’ Relief Act.

On the originating summons of Robert H. Donald against George C. Simpson, there being no opposition, Mr. Justice Blair yesterday made a formal ordeifor possession of land under a mortgage, to be given within seven days of service of the order. Costs £5 ss. were allowed the solicitor for the mortgagee. The total outlay on newspaper propaganda for the small farm scheme was £l2OO, stated Mr. W. J. bolson, M.P., at Stratford last night. Newspaper proprietors had given a greatly reduced rate, and the immediate effect, had been excellent. In one district alone 15 sections had been offered free and othei' offers more than paid the cost of advertising.

It has been the practice in the past, on occasions of representative football matches, for the Poverty Bay Rugby Union to entertain the teams at dinner after tha matches, .This season is one of enforced economy, and by arrangement between the Poverty Bay and the Wairoa football authorities, the usual complimentary dinner was omitted from the arrangements for last week’s visit of the WairOa team to Gisborne.

A Wanganui lady returning home by train was taking with her a. bottle of wine which had been given her. During the journey the bottle was broken, and the sight of the wine trickling away where all could notice caused her some discomfort. She was a total abstainer. Slowly the fumes filled the carriage, and with their advance other passengers became curious. Rising to her feet, the lady decided to carry the bottle out and throw it away, but while she was making her way down the carriage the lurching of the train caused her progress to become most unsteady. The looks of other passengers obviously connected her style of walk with the wine.

A small parcel of ambergris scut to London recently to the market resulted in an offer of 35s an. ounce for highest grade grey ambergris, reports the Stewart Island correspondent of the Southland News. This is a marked decline from £4 4s which similar ambergris was fetching before the depression.

Australia’s first “flying padre,” the Rev. L. Daniels, was recently appointed rector of Lithgow, and the Bush Church Aid Society is training a successor. After four years of constant flight the engine is being thoroughly overhauled and the aeroplane modernised. The cost of running has proved to be no more than that of a six-cylinder car. In spite of a reduction of £3OO in the expenditure a loss of £685 on the year’s working is shown by the balancesheet, states the annual report of the Canterbury Aero Club. The general reserve had to be drawn on to the extent of £209. The deficit is attributed to a falling off in subscriptions and instruction fees and to a reduction of £2OO in Government subsidies.

A case of infantile paralysis was discovered at Reefton a few days ago, and has since proved fatal. During the recent epidemic the West Coast of the South Island was practically immune from the trouble, and the Reefton case is the more noteworthy because it occurred in mid-winter, when infantile paralysis is generally unknown. This makes 51 cases in Canterbury and the West Coast this year, of which six proved fatal.

Some of the people living in the vicinity of May’s Road telephone box have been paying twopence a time for their calls lately, says the Christchurch Sun. The directory has been missing from the box since Friday, so that in many cases “information” has to be rung- to get the number, and then another call has to be made for the wanted subscriber. When, as happened the other afternoon, " information” gives the wrong number by mistake, the Government reaps a little more revenue.

“The police report is that during the past year the hotels in Dunedin, with few' exceptions, have been well conducted,” said Air. J- R. Bartholomew, S.M. (chairman), at the annual meeting of the Dunedin Licensing Committee. It is stated, however, that betting has been carried on in hotel bars fairly extensively,” he continued, “and although there was insufficient evidence to support' a charge against licensees, it is difficult to believe that the licensees were ignorant of what was going on, particularly in a case where a servant was the offender.” Numerous counterfeit shillings have been passed on to the Sydney public in the last six months. A squad of police, under Detective-Inspector Miller, was detailed to make inquiries. A man for whom they were searching proied particularly elusive. Some days ago they received certain information, as a result of which a continuous watch was kept on a house in Clovelly. Last week De-tective-Inspector Miller, accompanied by six other detectives, visited the house. A room was searched, and, it is alleged, 350 one-shilling coins were found, together with a complete coining plant. A man was later charged at the Paddington police station with having had spurious coins in his possession. Members of the Christchurch Ski-ing Club, in co-operation with the Arthur’s Pass National Park Board, hope to erect a hut about 1500 feet above the road, on the spur of Mount Temple, over the head of the Pass. On Friday members of the club and the board visited the site, says the Christchurch Times. The hut, it was stated, would provide accommodation for 12 persons, and was intended mainly for the use of ski-ers, but climbers also could avail themselves of the shelter. The club would control the hut, but would bo assisted in its erection by the board. Members of the club will undertake the building of the hut, and it is hoped to have it ready for the winter sports season next year., The club suggested that the board should establish a toboggan track near the railway station.

The volume of correspondence handled by the Unemployment Board’s staff is very considerable, stated Mr. P. RClimie, in reviewing the work of the board at a meeting of the executive oi the Canterbury Progress League. _ “An idea of its extent,” he said, “will be gathered from the fact that on May 23 a total of 3000 letters was handled, while the average is from 1500 to 2000 per day. But this, and administration generally, is so very efficiently dealt with that the administration costs of the board do not exceed 3 per cent, of the total expenditure. It has not been possible to obtain comparative figures of the administrative cost in other parts of the world, but it is known that in Queensland the cost worked out at 4.4 per cent, of the total expenditure/’

Two of the Government parties which have been engaged on deer destruction for some months have concluded operations and met at Hamner Springs, says a Christchurch newspaper. The parties have covered a large area of country. One, headed by Mr. J. McNair, worked on the north-west side of the Spenser Range; the other party, headed by Mr. K. E. Francis, worked on tho south side of the same range. McNair’s party penetrated some rough country, the men carrying tentsi and supplies on their backs for the greater part of the trip. The other party was more fortunate, being enabled to use pack-horses, between them the shooters accounted for about 4000 deer, in addition to the bad-ly-wounded, which got away and would ultimately die. As was to be expected, the deer were more numerous in the country least accessible to the tourist stalker, this being the ease on the area at the head of the Alfred River in the Manila country. Where it was possible io do so, the skins were saved and brought out where opportunity offered.

A start is to be made this week with the remodelling aitd enlarging of the Brooklands cheese factory, Puniho Road. Messrs. Boon Bros, have secured the contract.

Mr. A. W. Martin, Rupture Specialist, from Dunedin, is now on his twentyseventh annual visit to the centres of New Zealand. He will be a.t the Centra! Hotel, Hawera, from 2 p.m. on the 9th, to 5 p.m. on the 10th of June; Stratford Hotel, Stratford, Saturday, the Uth, to 4 p.m. on Monday, the 13th; Imperial Hotel, New (Plymouth, 14th, 15th and 16th, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Consultations free. Why suffer when you can get immediate relief from a. treatment that has cured hundreds in New Zealand without operation or loss of a day's work. Men are availing themselves of the opportunity to economise by buying their winter requirements at, the Melbourne s Closing Down Sale. Here are a few examples of the many savings to be had: Luvisca shirts, 15/6. now H*/flannelette pyjamas, 8/6. now 5/11, 10/6, now 7/11. Bruce all-wool shirts and pants 8/6, now 5/3. Navy Doctor flannel, 11/6, now 8/6. Strong knitted wool socks, 2/11, .for 2/3. Shirley Roman Braces, 5/6, for 3/3. Pyramid handkerchiefs, 1/3, for 9d.*

Do you know “Bill Saver” and “Miss Economy.” They are the persons who have their garments dry-cleaned or steam dyed and thereby save pounds. At tho cost of a few shillings your suits, costumes, dresses, coats, felt hats, etc., can be successfully renovated. We have been renovating garments for over 20 years and our address is J. K. Hawkins and Co., Steam Dyers and Dry Cleaners, corner of Devon and Liardet Streets, New Plymouth. ’Phone 685. Stratford depot, Mrs. Rudkin’s, “Everybody’s,” Broadway.*