NEWS OF THE DAY

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1933, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

The Taranaki Daily News will be published as usual on Monday (Labour Day). The attention of all advertisers and correspondents is directed to an advertisement in to-day’s issue regarding mailing arrangements for Monday.

The death has occurred of Mr. S. E. Wright, secretary of the Auckland Employers’ Association, states a Press Association message from Auckland.' Broken into early in the week, several of the rooms at the New Plymouth Girls’ High School, Mangorei Road, were left in a rather disordered, state. A small sum of money was stolen. A dog secured an entry into the fowlhouse at the residence of Mrs. Brash, Brougham Street, late on Thursday evening or early yesterday morning, and killed 11 fowls and four ducks. The matter has been reported id the police.

Degree examinations of t:he New Zealand University are now little more than a week away. The university, examinations extend over the. period between November 1 and 20, - and matriculation and entrance examinations last from December 1 to December 12. A record-holder for the port of New Plymouth as far as tonnage is concerned, the liner Tamaroa is due at daybreak today from Auckland. The vessel, of 12,354 tons, wrested the title from the lonic in January. She arrives at New Plymouth for the third time this year. She is to load 12,000 boxes of butter and 7000 crates of cheese, and is to sail on Tuesday for Wellington.

The breaking of a piston rod on the engine between Lepperton and Inglewood caused a delay to the passenger train that left New Plymouth on Thursday at 4.35 p.m. The damaged engine was able to push the carriages back to Lepperton, whence they left for Hawera about an hour late, drawn by the Waitara branch engine. In the meantime an engine was sent out from New Plymouth to take the branch train back to Waitara.

Delayed by a strong westerly gale and rough seas, the coastal vessel Canopus arrived at New Plymouth from Wellington nearly three hours late last night. 'Hie vessel left Wellington at 9 p.m. on Thursday, and arrived at 6.45 p.m. yesterday, a trip of nearly 22 hours. The Canopus, one of the fastest coastal ships in New Zealand waters, usually makes the journey in 18 or 19 hourg.

The consecration of the additions to St. Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton, is to take place to-morrow. The Rt. Rev. C. A. Cherrington, Bishop of Waikato, will perform the ceremony, and Archbishop Averill will preach the dedication sermon. A party from New Plymouth comprising Archdeacon Gavin, Archdeacon and Mrs. Evans, the Rev. Fordham Clark, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. M. Lysons and Mr. T. C. Fookes, will attend the ceremony.

“I like the country so much that I would very much like to stay here,” said Mr. C. K. P. Morriston, of London and Glasgow, who arrived at New Plymouth yesterday after motoring during the past month from Kaitaia to Invercargill and Bluff. He considered the Dominion was a place of wonderful opportunities. Mr. Morriston, who has recently travelled extensively in Africa, said that his impression of New Zealand Was that of an “Africanised England.” The scenery had tire English prettiness superimposed on the magnificence of Africa, with its splendid panoramas.

It is reported that farmers in the Urenui district have been offered Bd. per lb. for their early drafts of lambs, which are to be shipped away in two shipments early in November so as to arrive in Britain for the Christmas trade. That price, which is equivalent to £1 for a 301 b. lamb, is very encouraging to farmers, especially when it is compared with the opening price last year, which was in the vicinity of Ils. or 12s. With the warm spring experienced lambs have done well this year and already some are to be seen on the road en route to the freezing works.

The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that the due date of payment of Land-tax for the current year is on Tuesday, November 7, 1933, and that the demands will be posted on or about October 31.*

Sheep farmers are always apprehensive of the danger to flocks from worrying dogs, particularly in localities near centres of population where dogs of doubtful breed collect. A property owner told the Urban Farm Lands Assessment Court at Wanganui that he valued at £lO the fact that he had a house and 15 acres of land within the city boundary on which he had a shepherd who could watch the dog menace. The director of the Rotorua Maori Arts and Crafts School, Mr. H. Hamilton, and five Maori carvers, have left Rotorua for Tokomaru Bay, where they will be engaged upon work in connection with a large meeting-house in which Wiremu Potae, a leading Maori of the East Coast district, is greatly interested. A great deal of the carving for this house was done at the Rotorua school about two years ago, and it will take Mr. Hamilton and his party until Christmas to complete the carving.

\“The New Zealand University is not subject to Government control, although its . council includes nominees of the Government,” remarked the principal of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Mr. G. J. Park, at the last meeting of the college board. It did, however, derive a very considerable portion of its revenue from Government grants and there was no doubt a Government so disposed could indicate to the university council a policy which it desired should be adopted. Whether the Government could be induced to do so was another matter.

.‘‘lt is hard to describe it—it is simply awful,” Mr. A. L. Cropp, of Christchurch, declared of the American light beer when relating some impressions of a recent trip to the United States. He said prohibtion. was virtually a thing of the. past. It required only three more States to return the necessary majority in favour of repeal for the Eighteenth Amendment to disappear. Shipments of liquor were already on the way to the United States. The sales of the light liquor now permitted, however, had fallen off‘greatly recently. Following optimistic reports concerning the fat lamb trade, Wanganui farmers are anticipating good opening values. It is thought that prices will show a marked advance on those ruling at Xhe opening of the 1932 season, which were 4d per lb for prime lambs under 361 b. (firsts), 3Jd for 37/42’s, and 3d for “seconds.” A report from Hawke’s Bay states that 9d is anticipated there this season for “firsts” and BJd for “overs” and seconds. These values will be for first-of-the-season shipment, after which it is anticipated that the rates will recede. In Wanganui a rate of round about 7d is expected. A motion urging Mr. A. Stuart, M.P., and Mr. H. G. Dickie, M.P., to use their influence and their personal vote in Parliament against the Central Bank Bill, was passed by the Wanganui executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at its last meeting. Mr. C. Corliss, who moved the motion, suggested that the meeting insist that the members vote against the Bill. “You can’t insist,” said Mr. F. G. Seddon, the secretary, “you can only request.” “The motion that was sent to Mr. W. A. Veitch ‘insisted,’ and there were 4000 signatures on it,” replied Mr. Corliss. “It’s not much good being a member of Parliament these days,” observed Mr. J. R. Franklin -with a smile. Some excitement was caused at the Wanganui Girls’ College recently when a steer which was being driven along the road entered the property. The beast took charge of the grounds for half an hour. One girl was knocked over, but fortunately did not suffer any serious injury. Prior to entering the grounds the steer had knocked an old lady down in Dublin Street, but fortunately she too was unhurt, although badly shaken. Ultimately two drovers appeared on the scene, and the crowd of peering girls who watched the unusual visitor’s career were relieved to see the beast being driven away. Mr. Frank Milner, headmaster of the Waitaki High School, addressed a meeting of the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on his recent American and Canadian. tour, and was billed as “the Greatest Orator of the Greatest Empire.” Mr. A. L. Cropp, who has just returned from the United States, mentioned this fact to a reporter when giving impressions of his tour. He said Mr. Milner, speaking on internationalism from a modern point of view, had created a very good impression. The Hon. P. C. Chang, who addressed the same meeting, had made an even greater one.

A motorist from overseas whose car was landed from a steamer at Auckland on Wednesday was on the road within two hours and in the hands of the.traffic officers half an hour later, according to an amusing letter received from him at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Automobile Association on Wednesday night In expressing thanks for the prompt manner in which a patrol had prepared the car for the road, the visitor said he had never received service as good in any of the 16 countries in which he had driven. It was reported unofficially that the action against the visitor for an alleged parking offence was likely to be dropped. “Is anything being done to check the grass'grub. It is very much worse than it used to be?” said Mr. Gregor McGregor, of Waverley, at a meeting of the Wanganui executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union on Thursday: “Quite a number of people are of the opinion that the magpies are chasing the starlings away, which are said to be a good remedy for the grubs. The magpies will not check the pest.” Mr. T. Currie, president, replied that the Cawthron Institute and Massey College were taking steps to effect a check. Several members said that rolling was effective in some cases, while pigs or a topdressing with salt often had the desired effect.

Erinaceus Europaeus came in for considerable criticism at the last meeting of the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. Known more familiarly as the European hedgehog, the little prickly inhabitant of hedges and shrubbery has lately, according to Mr. R. A. Falla, ornithologist at the War Memorial. Museum and a member of the society’s council, become very much in evidence. “It is only in the past 10 years that he has been established in Auckland,” said Mr. Falla, “and there is reason to believe that he is increasing enormously. ” Mr. Harold Schmidt, of Mount Eden, in a letter, mentioned that lately four small chickens were destroyed by hedgehogs on his premises, and he disturbed another in the midst of a grand feast of eggs. Mr. H. C. Savage said the hedgehog was one of the worst enemies of native birds which nest on the ground, and he urged that the society use propaganda mong the public in an attempt to get rid of the pest. One member caused laughter when he compained that the hedgehogs regularly raided the cat’s milk in his backyard.

“Just what we have been wanting” was the comment of a country lady at Scanlan’s special October sale which commenced yesterday at the Melbourne comer. The customer explained that her purchases were the first she had been able to make for many months and the reduced prices had enabled her to buy much more than she had intended. On leaving she naively declared that she “wanted a lot more yet” and was going to it it “next twentieth.”*

Some splendid values in new season’s hosiery and gloves are to be purchased at Morey’s Ltd. Advertised on page 18 of this issue will be found some of these, as well as a cambric frock special, priced at 8/11. See advertisement.* _