LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1932, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Through falling into a "fit’’ a hoy named Zinsli, one of the cyclist messengers under Adjutant Green’s scheme at New Plymouth, swung across the road near the kindling wood factoiy in Devon Street yesterday and was struck by a car driven by Mrs. K. West. The boy was carried a few yards on the bumper of the car and suffered abrasions.

Tho Kaimata Dairy Company has established a record that is creditable, to the suppliers for the care bestowed, on the production of the raw material and to the manager (Mr. G. Gibbins) and his staff for its manufacture. For the sixth year in succession not one crate of second grade cheese has been manufactured. This year no less than 67 per cent., or over two-thirds of the output, was finest, the balance being first grade. This announcement was greeted with applause at the annual meeting last night. Considerable increase to the available flying ground at the New Plymouth aerodrome at Bell Block will be given when the filling in of the gully ground is completed. The main gully cuts into the ground for a length of about ten chains, and has an average depth of six feet. The turf is being removed from the neighbouring ground, soil is being shaved evenly off to fill in the gully, and afterwards the turf will be replaced. It is expected that the new area ultimately brought into use will be the favourite landing place of pilots because it will, be perfectly level. The appointment of committees 'by a public meeting to push forward a scheme for the growing of vegetables by relief-workers for their own sustenance was tho subject of a circular letter from the Minister of Employment received by the New Plymouth Borough Council last night. The Mayor said it was not a matter for the council but was a'subject for the unemployment committee to deal with. If the council were to call public meetings every few weeks it would have no end of applications. The letter was referred to the unemployment committee. “Although women were nearly always more nervous than men at weddings in the old days the position is reversed now, and men nowadays' are usually more nervous than women,” said the Rev. J. D. Wilson in the course of an address to the New Plymouth Rotary Club yesterday. It might be that women were more or less acting the part in former times, added the speaker naively, and perhaps the same was equally true of the men to-day. The fact remained that on one occasion the speaker knew of the bridegroom, instead of turning to the left to put the ring on the finger of his bride, turned to the right and struggled with the task of putting the ring on the finger of his best man.

In connection with fishing on Lake Mangamahoe the New Plymouth Borough Council last night approved tho Taranaki Acclimatisation Society’s recommendations regarding management and. sanitary safeguards. It was decided to inform the society that the council’s opinion was that a restriction should ba imposed, upon the number of fishermen licensed to fish in the lake each year and that the council would like the society to suggest how the restriction should be made. The electrical engineer was authorised to interview the tenants of the hydro lands and suggest to them the desirability of applying for an Order-in-Council exempting their properties from the operation of the open season for game. Just before tho declaration of the poll for the election of four directors at the annual meeting of the Moa Dairy Company yesterday one of the scrutineers returned to the hall and secured from the secretary three of the printed ballot papers. That action caused one shareholder to be suspicious that all was not well and he at once heatedly drew the chairman’s attention to the fact that the poll had been declared and therefore it was not right that further votes should be cast. He had, however, discovered a proverbial “mare’s nest,” as the ballot papers did not contain the secretary’s official mark and so would have been invalid at the poll, being merely required by the scrutineers, four men of substance in the district, to record the total votes received by each candidate prior to handing the paper to the chairman. Listening-in on a short wave set on Sunday, a Wanganui man “picked up” au American station and heard the announcer commenting on the Los Angeles Games. He stated that there was a queue of 20,000 people waiting for admission and gave a description of the march past of the athletes. Unfortunately the listener did not hear the broadcast from the beginning, but he received the most interesting news as far as this Dominion was concerned. “Here comes the Canadian team, 150 strong,” said the announcer. “Now the Italian team is passing, 128 men and one woman, followed by a Chinese, with two trainers and two newspaper men. .Then there is a small but stalwart band of 25 from New Zealand, a small country from across the other side of the world. There is one girl ■ with the®.—Mis* XlmW KencK”

Through the courtesy of the principals of the New Plymouth Boys’ High School and Wanganui College the proceeds of the match between these two schools at Pukckura Park on August 10 will be devoted to the funds of the New Plymouth Relief Association.

The New Plymouth borough engineer was instructed last night to furnish from time to time to the certifying officer for employment relief information tabulated in the circular forwarded by the Commissioner of Unemployment regarding work on private properties under scheme No. 5. “It costs as much to install a new churn in a factory nowadays aj it does to build a new house; there must be something wrong somewhere,” remarked Mr. R. B. Sutton, chairman, at the meeting of the Moa Dairy Company yesterday. “There's nothing wrong .with the churn, anyhow,” remarked a fellow director.

Referring to an alleged obstruction to visibility at the junction of the stock route and Frankley Road, the New Plymouth Borough Council decided last night to send the Taranaki Automobile Association a copy of Inspector Day’s report, with an intimation that the council did not consider that the visibility was so affected as to require action.

Suggesting that in view of the present financial conditions it would be inopportune to arrange any form o! official entertainment, Commander G. Burges-Watson, commodore of the New Zealand naval station, in a letter to the Mayor asked if it would be convenient for H.M.S. Diomede to visit New Plymouth from October 8 to October 13 The council decided the dates suggested would be suitable.

The Moa Dairy Company has a record of steady progress. During ( the past seven years the output has shown an increase from 669 tons to 1177 tons, and the number of suppliers has increased from 218 to 339. During the same period the cost of production to f.o.b. has- decreased from 2.53 d per lb butter-fat to I.Bld per lb, or from £l9 to £l3 17s per ton. The factory topped the average grade at the Moturoa freezing works with the grade of 94.47, and 98.6 per cent, of its output graded finest. That relief worker® might ba usefully employed in painting numbers on the gates of houses in New Plymouth was a suggestion made to the Borough Council last night by Adjutant Green. He said he was prepared to undertake the organisation, ’ the proposal being that the number should be painted on the gate for, say, a charge of Is. The Mayor pointed out that the matter had been before the council previously and that the proposal presented difficulties. The letter was referred to the works committee.

“I might say that in the matter of .weddings Taranaki is considered to be the least generous province in New Zealand —and that’s praising it,” said the Rev. J. D. Wilson, speaking to the New Plymouth Rotary Club yesterday on the subject of marriages. “Ministers of other churches will tell you the same thing. It was not so long ago that I drew a blank for performing one marriage ceremony, and 10s for a double event. People arc inclined to look upon their presentations to the ministers as gratuities, but as a matter of fact there is a legal charge payable which is not usually enforced.” As far as it purported to bind the council to a fixed policy, the New iPJlymouth Borough Council last night decided to rescind its resolution of October 21, 1929, “that it was the policy of the present council that no further hoardings should be erected in the borough.” The works committee was authorised to frame a resolution enabling the council to define its policy in regard to hoardings in a more elastic form and in such a way that while permits should be sparingly granted applications for suitable hoardings for business purposes might be dealt with on their merits and not automatically refused in accordance with a fixed policy. During the 25 days on which the New Plymouth Public Library was open preceding July 20 there were 11,890 issues, including an issue of 995 in the children’s section —a daily average of 476. During the period 50 new subscriptions were registered and 46 subscriptions cancelled, a net increase of four, and a net total of 1284 individual subscriptions. Accessions to the library totalled 163 volumes under tho following classification: 'Sociology 5, science 1, useful arts 1, fine arts 1, literature 5, history 6, travel 13, biography 16, novels 108, children’s 7. The returns for the first quarter of the year showed an increase in issues of 1453 compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. While approximately half of the increase was in the children’s and magazine sections, the increase in issue of general literature was a decided one. Fiction showed a small decrease.

To enable the piercing of the walla of the concrete culvert and the insertion of a 10-inch concrete-lined steel pipe, the Mangotuku stream, where it crosses Belt Road, was being dammed by the sewerage contractors yesterday. The pipes subsidiary to the main sewer are at this point being laid over 12 feet below the road surface and six feet below the bed of the stream flowing under the road. The damming is being effected by driving a wall of morticed boards into the ground on the western side of the bridge. It is anticipated the insertion of the pipe will take about four days, as a considerable thickness of concrete has to be pierced. In addition the work will be interrupted each time the water reaches the top of the dam, which will then be opened temporarily till the stream resumes its normal level; after that the dam will again be closed and work will go on once more, until the time returns for another release of water.

Subject to formal application being made by the contractor, the New Plymouth borough engineer was last night authorised to permit the contractor to suspend work at the outfall sewer until the warmer weather, probably at the end of. November. Expressing the opinion that “it is better to wait until the outfall is completed rather than take any chances of pollution taking place on the beach,” the council answered accordingly a letter from the engineer pointing out the possibility of the eastern liquefaction chamber being put into operation and the liquified sewage discharged from the point at which the outfall was now laid, approximately 20 feet on the shore side of the original point of discharge. Mrs. C. C. Jackson, Dominion president of the W.D.F.U., will address meetings at Matapu and Kaponga to-mor-row and at Pihama on Thursday. Particulars are advertised.

A happy time was spent by those who gathered in the Baptist marquee at New Plymouth last night in singing and listening to the Gospel message. “Wonderful Jesus,” the campaign chorus, was sung. It has gripped men and women and they are finding themselves singing it through the day. The preacher spoke on the subject, “A Smile That Won’t Wear Off,” following which Mr. Smith sang, “I Will Give You Rest.” M>ss D. Elliot was at the piano.

It was not J. Kinsella, of the Star team, who collared G. Sullivan when that Tukapa player had a collar-bone broken pt iPukekura ‘Park on Saturday.

Over 70 children of unemployed workers were entertained by a resident of Waterview, Avondale, on Saturday, in celebration of his birthday. A liberal spread of delicacies and confections was provided and the children were, kept amused by games and novelties, including an exhibition of juggling. The prospects "for the coming dairy produce season are greater now, states th > Manawatu Standard, than they have been during the past six months. It is stated on fairly good authority that a further increase in the price of butter on the London market may be expected shortly. The fact that it had proved almost impossible to sell debentures at 5£ per cent, was brought to the notice of the North Canterbury Hospital Board last week by its finance committee. Since it was imperative that money should be raised, the board decided to make further representations to the acting-Minister of Finance for permission to increase the rate offered.

Counsel engaged in a civil case in the Supreme Court at Wellington last week was at some pains to get from a witness who had just been sworn his correct designation. “You are a battery expert, are you not?” he asked. “Is that the correct description or should it be ‘electrician?’” Mr. Justice MacGregor (dryly): “It sounds more like a prize fighter.” A claim that he was the originator of the present system of highways, finance was made by the Acting-Minister of Public Works, Hon. C. E. Macmillan, in replying to a deputation in Wellington. He said that from his first speech in Parliament in 192 he had advocated the introduction of the petrol tax being applied to highways purposes. He thought the motorists had received value for the money spent out of the petrol fund for road construction and other purposes.

Cheese crates made of willow timber are used to a large extent by dairy companies in South Canterbury, and with a view to reducing importations a start has been made in Timaru with the production of cheese crates from willow transported into town from the Raincliff estate. Up to the present 60,000 feet of crating has been asked for, and it is anticipated that before the season closes the demand, in South Canterbury will bo increased to from 80,000 feet to 100,000 feet.

A lady visitor had cause to regret her visit to the Auckland dog show on Saturday night. While admiring a Spaniel she was bitten on the arm by an Alsatian which was in the next pen. The Alsatian caused a painful wound. The victim stated subsequently that there was nothing to indicate that the Alsatian was savage. In the interest of children, particularly, she considered that Alsatians should either be excluded from the next show or be displayed in such a way that they could not harm the unwary visitor. “The dawn of a to-morrow which may bring with its birth brighter things for our country seems not so far distant as the clouds of yesterday threatened,” comments the Public Service Journal. .“No one thing, no one set of circumstances caused our depression and general financial chaos, and no one thing can restore full prosperity. In the meantime it is a question of faith—faith in the future, in ourselves, and in our ability as a combination of self-respecting citizens to ensure that the sorry position of public servants is improved step by step with any forward movement.” A slip by counsel appearing for a prisoner caused some laughter in the Supreme Court at Wellington on Friday. In concluding his plea for leniency, counsel said that the prisoner had been up to Point Halswell. “He has investigated up there, and does not want to go there again,” counsel added. Point Halswell is the women’s institution, and Mr. Justice Reed, enj’oing the faux pas, said to counsel that he did not think the prisoner could have been to Point Halswell. “Mount Crawford,”, whispered another counsel in a stage whisper. “Oh, yes, Mount Crawford, sir,” said counsel for the prisoner. “I am not well acquainted with these places, sir.” The opinion that the prevailing financial depression has made the boys at present at school the finest type since tho war is held by a master at Rougotai Boys’ College, Wellington. When conditions were normal, he states, the boys had too many diversions; they had a fair bit of money to spend, and much of their time was taken up in spending it by going to pictures and other' places of amusement or instruction. Now that money, is scarce the boys, after taking part in the college activities, go home and put all their attention on their work, which in consequence is done exceedingly well. They go to bed earlier than was once the case, and in the morning are fresh for another days concentrated study.

Why buy new clothes when the old ones can be renovated equal to new at the cost of a few shillings? We have been dyeing and cleaning garments for over 20 years. Let us have your soiled or faded suits, costumes, dresses, etc., to renovate and you will be surprised at the result. We also renovate and re-block felt hats. Why not have yours done at J. K. Hawkins and Co., corner Devon and Liardet Streets, New Plymouth. ’Phone 685. Mrs. Rudkin (Everybody’s) is our Stratford agent.

The bargain wise shopper will readily recognise the splendid values that The Hustler® are offering in every department. Come early and secure your share of bargains. Our lay-by system will help you these hard times if immediate payment is not convenient. A small deposit and monthly instalments will secure the goods

A going concern lease of 54 acres in the Matapu district is advertised by W. H. and A. McGarry, Eltham.

It was once said that humanity. was divided into three classes —men, women and parsons,” said tho Rev. J. D. Wilson in .an address at the New Plymouth Rotary Club yesterday. The idea seemed to be, he added, that parsons were neither man nor woman, but an unhappy combination of both.

Excellent values in ladies’ and children’s raincoats are advertised in this issue by Manoy’s, Stratford. A great opportunity for the thrifty is the last two weeks of the Melbourne’s closing down sale. Stocks throughout the company’s store have been very drastically reduced in price for the final clearance. In the showroom costumes, three-piece suits, day and evening frocks, coats, etc., are being cleared at half the original cost price. As lots are mostly small, be early)

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