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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144146, 16 July 1913, Page 2

A deputation from the Central School Committee will wait on tho Education Board next Wednesday jn connection with tlio erection of tile proposed sideschool at Vogcltown, and other matters. At tile meeting of the Central School Committee on Tuesday evening the headmaster (Mf. H. Dempsey) rejiorted tliat tho number on tho roll was 602 and tho average attendance for tho last four weeks 92.4 per'cent. Ho had just completed an exhaustive examination of the school and some of the results were exceptionally good. The teachers without exception wore working with groat zeal and the prospects for the year were good. Tho annual report of the Victorian Co-operative Butter Factories Association sets forth that, all things considered, the business of the London season had resulted iu satisfactory prices. The gross price realised camo out at 112 s 3|d per cwt., including all qualities. Tho reduction on tho year in tho value of butter exported was over £90,000, and the company's total reduction in trade for the same period was £136,000. Many of the Northeastern factories had reported a reduction of one-half of business for tho year, so tho company had not fared badly. Tho box works had boon affected to somo extent by the shortness of tho butter season', but had been duly profitable. The sister companies, Western District and Gippsland, had become sub-licensocs from the company of tho patents for Victoria of wire-bound boxes, and had’ installed plants and entered into tho business of bor-ipanu-facturiug. “You havo hoard,” continued tho chairman, “a good deal about tho competition of margarine and its probable effect on our industry, and wo must expect it to affect the sale of our secondary butters. I fear that wo will fail to got any adequate protection from the British Parliament in tho direction desired (as to the using of colour), and margarine will appear as butter on tho tables of refreshmentrooms, boarding-houses, and families, but I maintain that tho remedy remains with ourselves, namely, by producing a first-class butter, for which tliore is a good demand at a fair price. What will become of the secondary producers when deprived of their present privileges, when the projected now Dairy Supervision Bill comes into operation, I leave to your imagination. It is said that tho Danes export all their own make and buy Siberian for themselves, hence it would seem to ho rather hardlines that our dairymen should bo deprived of their Melbourne city market and driven out of tho business to find work for a "few inspectors.

, For frosty weather tho “Preatwcll” overcoat is a necessity. Made in tho latest stylo, in colonial and English tweeds, they aro tho finest overcoats sold in Taranaki, Tho low prices usually prevailing at Tho Kash apply to those overcoats too. Commencing at 255, they rango up to tho highest grade at 555. Call round and see our outside display.*

While in Wellington last week, Mr. B. C. Bobbins (Mayor of Tauranga) made satisfactory arrangements with the Public Trnst Office tor a loan of £30,000 for municipal improvements.

One hundred thousand rainbow ova arrived from Botorua on Tuesday night to the order of the Taranaki Acclimatization Society. A similar supply of brown sva arrives to-morrow night from Hakataramea. .

The Journal of Horticulture states that Messrs. Olivers and Sons, wellknown growers and preservers of iin't at Hinton, near Cambridge, England, have adopted a plan for coping with the' insidious attacks of woolly aphis, which, it is believed, will prove highly successful. A solution of carbon bisulphide is injected into the ground around the tree at several places, about two feet from the trunk. Vho preparation gives off fumes that bill the insects and destroy the eggs, iho treatment,is slra-.igly recommended by the Board of Agriculture.

“A most promising rehearsal” was the comment of botli conductor and stage manager at the conclusion of Monday night’s practice of “A Country Girl” by the New Plymouth Operatic Society. This delightful musical comedy is now assuming somewhat of a definite shape and the caste, which is almost complete, will be found an exceptionally strong one. No pains are being spared by all concerned in the preparation of the work, and its presentation at an early date may be eagerly looked forward to by theatregoers.

A lad with a brilliant scholastic record appeared in Christchurch Magistrate’s Court on Friday on a charge of theft. In describing the case as a remarkable one, Mr. Cassidy, for the accused, contended that tins was a case of education being unduly forced. The precocity of the youth as a child was exemplified by the fact that he had secured a junior Education Board scholarship at the age of 12, gained a senior scholarship at the ago of 14, and in his 15th year had matriculated, passing, as well, the solicitors] general knowledge and medical preliminary examinations.

Marriages at sight are not peculiar to Western Canada. In Bulawayo a young couplo presented themselves one Saturday afternoon on the magistrate’s tennis lawn and interrupted the game by demanding to 'be married. The magistrate refused; declared 1m would not have his only holiday spoilt, his office was closed for tho day. The lovers were insistent; they were trekking at once to take possession of a farm a hundred miles up country, and must bo married before they set off. “Why on earth,” said tho magistrate, “did you not como to see me this morning?” “But please, sir, we onljf met at lunch for the first time,” A lady who arrived at Wellington by a direct steamer recently had an unpleasant experience that, but for .the kindness of those in authority, might have resulted in a very awkward situation. She was tidying up her papers and letters just before tho boat reached port, and gathering up the pile <?f torn papers she throw it through tho porthole into the sea, unconscious that she had also cast away her purse with ail her money, a largo sum in notes, with tho fragments. She landed t in Wellington penniless; her destination was Christchurch, but some kindly persons in connection with shipping came to tho rescue and advanced her her passage-money for-the trip South.

Word has been received in Lyttelton from Colonel Cosgrove, head of the Scout movement in Now Zealand, that the Lyttelton Boy Scouts have been successful in winning the Sargood Otter Challenge Shield. This valuable challenge shield was presented by Mr. P. R. Sargood, of the firm of Son and Ewen, Dunedin, for competition among the Boy Scouts of New Zealand, the object of the competition being to encourage swimming and life-saving among the lads, Lyttelton entered a strong team, the whole of the_ No. 1 Troop having qualified in swimming and This team was awarded 330 points and thus won the shield, the next troop being the Stratford Troop, Taranaki, with 175‘points. “Apart from the repeated claims for reduction of hours and increased pay, a matter of even more vital importance to employers is the unquestionable tendency on the part of many workers to “slow-down” in their work and to manifest a careless disregard for the interests and property of tlieir employers,” remarked the report of the Auckland Provincial Employers 5 Association, presented to the association’s annual meeting on Friday. “Although tho wages of the average workers of to-day aro fully 25 per cent, higher than they were for the same class of work about fifteen years ago, the output of work has materially decreased. Ample and incontrovertible evidence of this fact is available from employers in almost every industry.” A cockatoo scared a burglar who had effected an entrance to a hotel at : Bulli (New South Wales) last week. The bird had been accidentally left in the hotel during tho night, and was perched on the railing on the stairs at the top of the landing. Having explored the open room on tho ground tloor and ransacked likely places for valuables, the burglar would appear to have started to walk up tho stairs to make further examination, as the landlord, Mr. Scanlan, together with the other inmates of tho house, were all suddenly awakened by the loud and frightened screeching of tho cockatoo, followed by a bumping noise as of somebody falling downstairs. The inmates were on tho scene immediately afterwards, but the intruder got clean away.

With reference to the timber which wafi discovered in the course of putting in the foundations for Mr. Veale s new building in Devon Street, Mr. John Black assures that the explanation offered yesterday is incorrect. His father lived in the early days m a cottage situated under the bank below ■where Ohatsworth House now stands. Between his cottage ana Devon Street was some swampy ground and a small stream from a spring coming out or the bank which is now Powderham Street. To cross this little stream Mr. Black, sonr., placed some planks, whether of puriri or of oak taken from the wrecked vessel Regina, his son is not sure, but the latter wo)) remembers the plank crossing and is quite certain that this is what lias now been,disclosed in the excavation that has taken place. The Mangotuku did cross Devon Street, it is true, but had been diverted before the time Mr. Black speaks of, and one of the culverts would probably be found now if excavation were made near the Criterion Hotel. The cottage mentioned w*as subsequently buried under many feet of eartu and the remains of it .might still ho found underground at the loot of the bank under Ohatsworth House.

Workingmen 1 Deal at the store where your money buys most. For instance: Painters’ overalls, 2s 6d, blue denims 3s Gd, blue and gold spring bottom pants 4s lid, cord trousers 5s 6d, moleskins 5s lid, grey denims 3s pd, double-fronted grey striped donims 5s 6d. Everybody’s going to the Melbourne.*