LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LII, Issue 187, 11 September 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

m There are bow 467 connection* wU"h the municipal electric lighting and power By stem. The directorate of the Mangorei Dairy Company has decided to instal a pasteurising plant, and will pasteurise their milk all the year ronnd for buttermaking purposes. .The Electric light Committee of the Borough Council will recommend to the Council that applications be called for the position of meter-reader at £2 a week, Mr. West to continue in the posi^ tion until a permanent appointment is made. The Hurworth Co-operative Dairy "Factory Company has decided to amal gamate ■with the Mangorei Dairy Company. The scheme ha* been under consideration for some time, but the arrangement was only arrived at conclusively during the current week. The Hurworth factory will be run as a creamery, probably from Ist October next. It is understood that an effort i« to be made to have the road opened out for .wheel traffic between the Carrington and Mangorei roads for the convenience of cream cartage. The 1 Reserves Committee of the Borough Council- on Thursday dealt with the application of the Xew Plymouth Horticultural Society for the use of the old reading-room for the rose show. The committee decided that,, provided no charge is made, the room should bv> placed at Iheir disposal ioi half-a-crown. Should, however, a charge be made, the by-laws require that a license fee of £1 must be paid. The committee further decided to complete the plans of the new Anglican portion of the cemetery and to accept the tender- of Mr. F. P. Corkill for the lease of the grazing rights of the south paddock on the Avenue road. The Patea Harbor Board at its meeting ou Monday briefly diacuased a motion in regard to wharfage on frozen meat, tabled by Mr. Button. Mr. Mr.Kwin* pointed out thajf the wharfage at Wanganui on frozen meat was Is per ton, and the local company should be put on the same footing as those at Wanganui. Several members concurred in this view. Mr. Chris tensen said thai there was an extremely high wharfage on hides at Patea, nam«3y, 5« per ton. Thia made it useless to expect Stratford ihide-exportera to ship at Patea. At present all the trade from StVatford went to New Plymonth. The wharfage at 'atea on a single hide was l%d, and the earne charge was made on a bag of hides as on a bale of wool. The secretary was instructed to procure information in regard to wharfage rates at Wanganui and Kew Plymouth. Further consideration of the matter was deferred. Mr. Pearce said they must aot reduce w&aTfage* to an Unreasonable extent, or they would not be able- to pay their way. f At a rose exhibition af Paris recently sixty-nine new varieties of roses were exhibited. ' For Influenza take Woods' Great Pep- 1 permtei Curt. Ntver fails. l s «d and j U 6& I

Yesterday the Hawera Acclimatisation Society forward 10,000 fry to Tariki Society. la Mr. T. garden at Yogeltown are gweet peas in iull bloom. What is more the vines have been Drofusely producing flowers for a month past. A startling proposition was made yesterday afternoon by the bankrupt licensee of the Opunake Hotel. The D.O.A. had been cross-examining him concerning the amount of his takings, aad having gathered in a series of replies that the average weekly receipts were only a little over £23, he produced a coud'o of bankrupt's letters that would have completely "floored"' the average witTiet-s on oath. In these letters he had represented *<o the hotel-broker* that the average takings were about £55 a week. "Do you consider that straight!" asked Mr. Medley. "Yes," said the bankrupt. "From the seller's point of view it'§ a'l right. I've never heard of a hotel keeper yet who sold out without doing tl>« sort of thing, saying he was taking £j!)0 or £t2O a week when he was only doing £30 or so. But I don't sec why a pri vate letter ". Mr. Watt, acting for the recipient of one of the letters, interrupted: "This ient a private let'er. It was a business letter to us. and you asked us to find a pit render for you on that basis of £50 a w. -ek. Do you c.nl that straight business .'"" "Yes. thai" what over\ hotolkeeper does. The.* re all the same. It's the same every wheif. You' always say land i- worth €40 a foot, while it isn't worth anything ol the kind." The D.O.A. quietly addoi: "Evidently a man need" to be careful when he's buying a hotel.'