LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

During yesterday afternoon Mr. WStauton in the Western Federation aeroplane A.C.R., with Dr. D. E. Brown as a passenger, made a flight over Monut Egmont, The snow-covered peak presented a wonderful sight, and Dr. Brown took a series of photographs. Among scraps of advice tendered to Stratford and New Plymouth unemployment relief workers playing football at Pukekura Park yesterday was one remark which it was hard to say was gentle sarcasm or earnest suggestion.

8' The voice said, “Feed your forwards 1” Already the people df New South Wales are betting freely on the results of the forthcoming election. “At present tl:e odds are ten to one against Mr, J. T. Lang and in favour of Mr. B. S. B. Stevens, said Mr. G. F. Davis, of the Davis Gelatine Company, who arrived in Wellington on Tuesday from Sydney. Mr. Daviss said that interest in the State election was becoming intense.

Tlie Waitara Borough Council has been so zealous at its meetings recently that they have not ended until a late hour. At the commencement of last night’s meeting the Mayor asked councillors to be brief and to the point and thereby enable the time to be "shortened. The meeting, which began at 7.30, reached a conclusion at 10.30 p.m. The men leading the cow-testing associations throughout New Zealand are mostly doing so by using pedigree Jersey bulls from high-testing dams, Ngahiwi Jerseys are famed for their wonderful tests. Fortytwo so far tested have an average of 6 per cent. fat. Twenty-one averaged 6.2, 12 averaged 6.4, 1 averaged 7.2. Buy your next sire from these wonderful cows. Mr. W. J. Freeth reports sales during, the week: One to Mr. Stringnell, Tapranga; one to Mr. Tracey, Kaitaia, North Auckland; one to Mr. W. Wright, Okoke. This is Mr. Wright’s fifth bull and Mr. Tracey also purchased a bull five years ago and this is his repeat order.*

No shortage of ready money was apparent in Dunedin last week, when £l2OO was taken at the Amateur Operatic. Company’s production, “The Arcadians,” leaving a profit of £4OO. The sum of £ll2O was taken at the winter show, against £986 last year.

A circular concerning drinking at dance halls had just been the subject of a long discussion at last night’s meeting of the Waitara Borough Council. The next letter on the correspondence file dealt with sinking fund. “But haven’t we just dealt with sinking fund’” queried a councillor. Floral adornment played no small part in a recent country wedding. The principal members of the party little know, however, how close they were to having to carry on without the bouquets. On his arrival at a township on route the driver of the conveyance transporting the flowers discovered that the packages had fallen off the bus. After a hasty retracement of the journey for about three miles he discovered th© packages—intact in the centre of the road.

Not for many years has a greater number of quinnat salmon been seen on the spawning beds in the vicinity of Peel Forest and Mount Peel than there have been this season, says the Christchurch Times. Hundreds of fish have even found their way up the small shingle creeks on the Mount Peel Flat. This season’s run of salmon in the Rangitata has been exceeded only once. Many years ago trout were liberated in both the Ohekia and Rakiahua Rivers at Stewart Island. Both these rivers are navigable for some miles and should have been well stocked with trout, but unfortunately the trout were placed at the mouths of the rivers where they are muddy and where cels abound,. and no one has ever seen a trout in either stream. If the liberators had only gone some miles up the rivers to where it is gravel bottom the trout would no doubt have thrived.

A fruit which has met a very good market iu the selling centres of New Zealand in recent seasons is the quince, says the Napier Telegraph. One Hawke’s Bay orchardist states that a row of quince trees that he had on his property yielded the best return in his orchard, the centre of demand being Auckland. Numbers of Hawke’s Bay orchardists have recently planted out quinces, in an endeavour to assist in fulfilling this demand, but on a Dominion basis inquiry must be limited.

The meat freezing. season is nearing its close, and it is probable that several of the works in Canterbury will close before the end of this month, while others may work on into July. Only one company is now operating with a full board. The works in the south are busier than those in Noth Canterbury, owing to the relatively later season and the drought some time ago in South Canterbury having checked the quantity of lambs brought forward at that period.

■ Employment for a number of men in Dunedin is being provided by a large oil-importing company, which has decided to import all its petrol and kerosene in bulk, and to have a large proportion of it cased locally. Contracts have been let with a New Zealand firm for the supply of tins, and a Dunedin' firm has secured the contract for providing the cases, which are to be of New Zealand timber. A plant for the carrying out of the work —the only one of its kind in Otago—is now being erected on the company’s premises alongside the tanks, and it is expected that the new procedure will he put into operation in about a month’s time. “I think efforts should be concentrated not in opening up fresh districts, but in increasing the density of our present dairying districts,” said Major R. A. Wilson in his presidential address to the annual meeting of the New Zealand Friesian Association in Hamilton, He was discussing unemployment, and had expressed the opinion that the solution would be found in increasing the number of dairy farms. “By cutting off portions of farms not now being fully utilised, I consider wp could find room for a great many more families than at present. There would be very little extra expenditure required for roads, railways, post offices, power line.s or dairy factories, as the only •considerable capital expenditure would b© for buildings and extra fencing necessary.”

What he described as the wholesale slaughter of ducks op private ponds was the subject of comment by the president of tho North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society (Mr. (?. H. Lawrence) at tho annual meeting. Mr. Lawrence said it was very difficult t© define what constituted a pond. He believed that tire society would have to restrict in some mariner th© hug© 'bags taken on private ponds. In the North Canterbury district there would be about 100 private ponds, at a conservative estimate. It was' probable that 100 ducks were shot on each of those ponds annually, making a total of 10,000 birds. It was not possible for the society to provide sport when ducks, were taken in such numbers, and it would have to consider some means whereby there was no wholesale slaughter.

Commenting op the low prices for fat stock realised at the Otago Winter Show, a leading pastoralist said: ’‘The thing works round by reactions.. One of the main causes of the slack bidding is that the freezing companies’ chambers are full and buying is restricted. The stock has accumulated 'because of the lack of space on the overseas ships. The reason for that hick of space is that the vessels coming here from Home have 'to come out in ballast, not much caigo for New Zealand offering in I.iigland, and no more steamers are laid on than can find freight for the return trip. And it is easy to see why the imports into New Zealand have diminished—we have no spare mopey for anything but necessities. Thus the circle is complete. But it will not hold together much longer. It will break when we have more faith in ourselves.”

In pre-war days the tortuous methods of the War Office were a frequent source of comment, and such. terms as “red tape” and “circumlocution” were by no means unknown in connection with the stately stone building in White, hall. The war made a vast difference, however, and a striking instance of of’ fieial promptitude is 'borne witness to by Major Wallingford, superintendent of the Veterans’ Home at Three Kings, says the Auckland Star, One of the inmates of the home is ex-Corporal J. Thompson, who served in the Now land Forces during the Maori War. Sixty-seven years after the campaign bad ended Mr. Thompson entered the home. His record of service was well authenticated, but he had never received his medal. Major Wallingford wrote to the War Office about it, and the medal arrived by return of post. Jft had been waiting for him for nearly <0 years'

Mr. A. W. Martin, Rupture Specialist, frrom Dunedin, is now on hi? 27th annual visit to the centres of New Zealand, He will be at the Central Hotel, Hawera, from 2 p.m, on the 9th, to 5 p.m, on the 10th of June; Stratford Hotel, Stratford, Saturday, the 11th, 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.*