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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16840, 11 September 1920, Page 2

A cable from London reports that the Earl of Dudley has sold Wit-Icy Court and 9000 acres. It is unofficially stated that the British Government has decided to impose a tax on racecourse admission tickets, which is expected to realise revenue of £250,000 annually, a cable reports. , The re-marriage of war widows is a remarkable feature of the matrimonial market in tho United. Kingdom. Of 233,700 war widows in Great Britain 85,000 have .already married, again, and these marriages are going on at the rate of 2000 a month. The Whiteley spring flower show was well patronised on Friday, during both afternoon and evening. At night a small orchestra arranged by Mr. Bosworth contributed an enjoyable programme of selections. Tho takings amounted to about £62, making the total for the two days £lßl. The show concludes at 4.30 to-day. The immigration and emigration returns for tho month_ of August show that 4143 persons arrived and 2443 left Now Zealand. For the corresponding month of last year the arrivals were 886 and the departures 1285 During tho past month 193 Chinese arrived in tho Dominion and 23 left the country. The gentle warm rain which fell on Friday night and to-day will gladden tho hearts of Taranaki farmers, who have found their paddocks barer of grass this spring than ever before. Tbe value of these showers may be estimated at many thousands of pounds, and it is to be hoped that there win ho no strong winds to prevent the Tull advantage of tho milder conditions being gained. Ladies! Throw away old-fashioned methods that spell drudgery. Do your washing with “No Rubbing Laundry Help” and “Golden Rule Soap.” , Economical and labour-saving.*.

The Victoria. League (literary I ■branch) will meet at. Mrs. Burgess’ rooms, Devon Street, on Monday at 7.30, when Mrs. T. A. B. Bailey will give a talk on Doulton china.

The postal authorities advise that the e.s. Port Alma, which sailed from Sydney for New Plymouth on September 6, and is duo at 8 a.m. to-morrow, is bringing a mail of 136 bags of letters and parcels. The Tofua is due at WelImgtou from San Franoisco on Monday evening with 1362 bags of parcel mail for the Dominion.

At the last meeting of the Hawera Borough Council notice was received from tlio executors of the late Mr. W. A. Parlfinson that he had left a bequest of £3OO to be spent on the King Edward Park as the council might direct, In expressing thanks for the gift it was pointed out that Mr. Parkinson just before ho left for England had given some land to the town in order to make the corner of Wilson Street and Glover Road safe for traffic.

The series ofj euchre parties arranged with the object of raising funds for improving the Vogeltown school grounds was continued on Thursday evening. There was a good attendance and another very enjoyable evening was spent. The prizes were won as follows ; _l,adies, Miss Fuller first, Mrs. Boswell second; men, Mr. W. Healy, first, Mr. T. Boulton second. At the conclusion of the card tournament supper was served. A West Coast correspondent of the Press writes: —A recent visitor from Canterbury, a practical bushinan, who lately visited Mr. William Farrell’s farm at Ikamatua, states that lie saw growing on the property a red pine tree which ho considers the largest red pine tree in the South Island. He estimated the girth at the ground at 17ft or over, and the Jength to first limit 80ft., and so even that ho estir mate® the tree to produce 6000 feet of milling timber. Tlie tree can bo seen about a mile from the railway station.

Mr. K. S. Williams the Government candidate for the Bay of Plenty seat, was one of four gentlemen- who subscribed £IO,OOO each for the purcliaso of laud for soldier-settlement purposes, the deed of. gift stipulating tliat the interest derived from the capital investment of £40,000 should form a fund for the assistance of incapacitated moil. Mr. Williams, in addition, has personally settled about a dozen returned men on the land, and arranged to finance them in their farming enterprises. Ho has throughout displayed a kodn interest in the welfare of returned soldiers, and has been an outspoken advocate of then- claims to generous consideration. Mr. J. B. Merrett, of Christchurch, who is in Wellington en route for Melbourne to investigate the sugar beet industry at Matfra, Victoria, is a provisional director of the company to bo formed in Canterbury for manufacturing sugar from beet. Mr. Merrett states that recently, while in California, bo passed through thousands of acres of beet that kept ten refineries constantly at work manufacturing sugar. In California, says Mr. Merrett, the farmers have to rely on an expensive method of irrigation. Much bettor crops could be grown in Canterbury, and there should be no. difficulty in encouraging farmers to grow beets. It is proposed to form a company, and to induce the Government to foster the industry on similar lines to those recommended by the English Commission. The cost of a refinery will run into £200,00(1.

On tho Main Trunk lino many and varied discussions take place between tho passengers, and many opinions of different schools of thought are expressed. “I’ve got a poser for you,” said a Scotchman to a whole carriageful 'of passengers in a smoker the other evening. “I’ve just finished a brick house for a man who drove as hard a bargain with me as any man ever did during the thirteen years I have been on my own. I agreed to do- the job for £800," and work as hard as I could I did not average more than £1 per day. The clay after tho place was finished the owner sold it for £1750, and, allowing £250 for the land, he made a clear profit of £7OO without doing a tap to the place with his own hands. Now -what do you fellows think ought to bo done in a case like that? Don’t you think I ought to get a hundred or two out of it?” “That’s easily .settled,” replied a keeneyed well-known horse trainer. “Why didn’t you buy the section, put up the house, and pocket the whole lot?” At the sitting of the Stratford Licensing Committee on Friday, the chairman (Mr* T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) sa:d a habit seemed to have sprung- up among licensees along the railway lino of supplying liquor to people travelling on the trains. As to adults nothing much could be said, but boys were so supplied with liquor, which was a serious offence. Personally, he would deal severely with any case which came under his notice. In Patea there was a disgraceful case where four youths under 20 (two of them under 17) went to a football match and got drunk, and a serious accident happened, as .a result. The circumstances came under his notice too late to allow of proceedings being taken. He just wanted to warn licensees. Tho Toko train, he said, was worse than the other trains. Sergeant Dale said it was a great pity the Rugby Union did not make arrangements to obviate football teams going to a hotel after a match for a bath.—Pest. ■

Instruction in poultry farming is in very keen demand among the at the Trentham Military Hospital, Earticularly those men whose disability as incapacitated them from resuming their pro-war vocal ion. To meet this demand an arrangement has been made with the Government poultry expert to visit the hospital periodically for the purpose of addressing tho students. Mr. Brown, the expert, w«nt to Trentham on Tuesday morning, and his remarks were listened to by a class of 20 who displayed the keenest interest throughout. In response to overtures made by tho vocation officer, tire Hon. C. H. Izard and Mr. Mumby, who own poultry farms in the neighbourhood of tho hospital,' have consented to hold their plants and tho experience of their respective managers at the disposal of the patients. Since the commencement of the current month students have attended these farms daily for practical instruction. The vocation officer says that commendable readiness is shown by various business concerns in this district in co-operat-ing with tho efforts of the Department in its endeavour to grapple successfully with the rehabilitation of tho disabled soldier.

Tho theory of reincarnation is that man is a soul and has a body, and what is usually termed 1 his life is but one day in the true and greater life of the soul. That ho again and again revisits this earth to loam more and more, and so evolution proceeds. “The Evidences for Reincarnation” is the subject of a lecture to be delivered in the Theosophical Hall to-morrow evening, as announced in our advertising columns. Stony River Horse Fair, advertised for 15th inst., has been cancelled. For Influenza take

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/9. 2/9,

A partial tram service was resume'd in Wanganui on Thursday. Seed wheat may be purchased in Masterton at 8s per bushel (says the Age). Fowl wheat costs about 11s per bushel. The number of poultry-rais-ers who are growing wheat this season is surprising. It is possible, however, that a good deal of it will be scratched out by the fowls. The Tainui’s 500 immigrants include 170 New Zealand soldiers’ fiancees. Sir James Allen,, interviewed by the Australian Press Association, stated that large numbers of British exservice men and women could not be dispatched owing to a shortage of shipping. Meanwhile, Now Zealand is selecting the cream of the immigrants. The magnificent work done by the British and Foreign Bible Society, which has translated the Bible into 450 languages and circulated it all-over the workl, is well known and needs no word of praise. The local agent of the society, the Rev, A. T. Thompson, will visit New Plymouth on Sunday and Monday and gives addresses as advertised. Mr. Thompson is' an excellent speaker, and is well worth hearing.

Discussing the appointment of an architect for the Education Department, Mr. G. Witty (Riccarton) complained in the House of Representatives on Friday night that it would be a waste. The Minister stated it .was not proposed to dispense with hoards’ architects, -whose plans for new schools would bo scrutinised by the department’s architect, and improvements made where necessary. One man could not do the whole architectural work. Even college professors are apparently feeling the pinch in connection with the advances in the cost of living. At a recent meeting of the Canterbury College Board of Governors, a deputation consisting of Professors J. Hight and J. P. Gabbatt, representing the Professorial Board, waited upon the Board of Governors with a request that the salaries of professors should be raised. The matter was dealt with in committee.

Good progress is being made with the pise do terre house being erected in Newmarket, the first of its kind to be ouilt in’ Auckland (the HeraTd states). Bad weather greatly hampered the work at first, but a good' start has now been made. A concrete foundation has been laid, and the walls are now being set out and carried up to a level preparatory to laying a dampproof coujrso. The walls are setting well, this being shown by the fact, that,, although the earth has only recently been rammed in the frames, it is already quite hard. The earth has been procured by levelling the section itself. The Union Steam Ship Company has decided to discontinue the DunedinAuddand passenger service, which the general manager of the company main-tains-is being run at a heavy loss. “There is,” he said this wegk, “a disinclination on the part of th.e - trayelling public to patronise the boats _on this service—Monowai, Mokoia, and latterly the Navua (which has replaced the Mokoia) —and they, prefer to leave these steamers at Wellington, take the ferry steamers to Lyttelton, and come south by train and vice versa.” The passenger sendee is to be replaced by two cargo' vessels, but it is unknown when this service will be commenced, as so many of the company’s boats are at present"engaged in the coal trade.-

“For the second time within three weeks the Commonwealth Defence Department has issued an appeal to. the country to furnish cadets for the Royal Australian Military College at Duntroon,” said the Sydney Morning Herald recently. “There is apparently some anxiety among the military authorities about the future popularity of the college. There is so far hi dearth’ ot competitors for this year’sentrance examination, which the authorities consider to be due to the general re-action in the world from the war. So, in part, it may be. It is also due unquestionably to a general uncertainty about the career in front of the young Australian military officer.”

A meeting of Fitzroy ladies interested in the erection ot a bathing-shed on the foreshore was held on Friday afternoon in the schoolroom, when it was decided to make a house-to-house canvass of the district on Friday, 17th inst. for the purpose of collecting funds. The following ladies were appointed to canvass tho part ot the district in the vicinity of their homes: Mrs. Hill, Sackville Street to Fitzroy Road; Mrs. Chivers, from the Waiwakaiho Bridge along .Devon Street; Mrs. Day, M‘Leau Street. Beach Street, Ronald Street, and Baring Terrace; Mrs. Parkin and Miss Harding, CSS- - Volunteers are asked to send in their names to the secretary of the Ratepayers’ Association to work any part of the district omitted from the above. Collection boxes may be obtained at the school on Friday morning. When dealing in the court this morning with a youth who pleaded guilty to the theft of £7 10s from a billiard saloon in New Plymouth, Mr. T. A. B, Bailey, S.M., took the opportunity , of commenting to the effect that he thought the trouble with boys at the present time was that they got too much money. Want of money should not bo an excuse for stealing money in New Zealand, he said, as boys could earn more money than was really good for them. He said that the Government offered 27s 6d per week for telegraph message boys, which lie thought was an unreasonable wage for a boy. There was no occasion for any youth in this country to be short of money. The trouble was they got too much money and then went wasting it in hotels and billiard saloons, and when they lost it they were tempted to steal.

The Minister for Public Health'.' the Hon. C. J. Parr, lias announced that provision has been made by the Department, in conjunction with tho Defence Department, for the reception of crippled children in need of orthopaedic treatment in the Lowry wards at King George Hospital at Rotorua. It is anticipated that it will be possible to accommodate about 60 crippled civilian children needing treatment. At present there are some 200 soldiers under treatment in the institution, but the Public Health Department is ashing the Defence Department to hand over the hospital, together with the staff, so that it will be possible for the Health Department to take over the institution as a going concern. By this means it is hoped to give children suffering from infantile paralysis and similar ailments treatment at the bands of the best specialists in New Zeeland. Come and hear “Cairo” Bradley, who went through Egypt and Palestine with our troops. He speaks with vivid recollections of the tragedies of Cairo and Alexandria. Season, September 14 to 19. Members of the Equitable Building Society of Now Plymouth (Second and Third Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable on Monday, September 13, at the Secretary’s Office,‘’Currie Street, from 9 a.m. to i 2.30 p.m., from 1 p.ra. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.—Advt,

• At Messrs. Newton King, Ltd’s. Haymarket to-day, store pigs realised £3 2s 6d, slips 21s, 30s and 325. The Star Football Club’s annual ball which is to be held at the East Ena Pavilion on the 23rd inst., promises to eclipse that of last year, which was a great success. Mrs. George’s orchestra will provide the music, and the supper arrangements are in the hands of a strong ladies’ committee. During the evening the trophies won by members of the club and the Carbine Shield will be presented. There is every indication that, the second annual dinner under the auspices of the Returned Soldiers’ Association, which is to be held next Tuesday at New Plymouth, will prove highly successful. Admission is by ticket only, and tickets may be procured from Captain Hartnell Messrs. A. L. Humphries, W. Southam, W. Roch, S. Higgs, and Arthur Worsep. , Waiwakaiho Horse Fair will be held on Thursday next. Those in search of horses should note. At Urenui sale on Monday some very fine quality dairy heifers are to bh disposed of. Ladies willing to join a first aid.ambulance class are asked to send in their names to the secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association (Mrs. Dockrill, Eliot Street). Applications are invited by Messrs. E. C. Hurrey and Co., Auckland, for the Taranaki agency of. a well-known two-ton motor truck. Particulars on application.