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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16900, 24 November 1920, Page 2

The committee of the Carnegie Institute will to-nigbt consider applications for the position of librarian, which was rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. J. Baillie, Their recommendation will he forwarded to the Borough Council.

Mr. Blair Mason, who lias been appointed consulting engineer to the Harbour Board, arrived in Wanganui on Monday in order to commence his investigations for a comprehensive report to the- .board on harbour construction matters. Mr. Mason is to be asked to report upon any method which lie could suggest with a view to expediting the Work.

A correspondent forwards the Napier Telegraph particulars of the achievement of Miss Chryssic Lee, a young Tarndalo girl, who is showing marked literary ability. She has entered several story-writing competitions, and In all has achieved signal success. She is now a member or student of tho Press Repotting Syndicate of America, and 1 has won her Card of Credentials without difficulty. Her one ambition is to be a successful story writer, and hei friends expect that her talent will. be recognised within a few years.

Schools under the Taranagi Education Board will close for the Christmas holidays on Friday, December 17, and will reopen on Tuesday, February 1. It may scorn incredible (states an exchange), but it is nevertheless a-fact that the boy who has secured the highest marks in the proficiency examinations at the Masterton schools this year is a full-blooded Chinese student.

Five hundred Union Bank unsigned pound notes have been stolen from the mails in transit. They are numbered 4/n 131,501 to 132,000. The hank wishes the public to look'out for these notes as thfcy will not be paid.—Press Association. i

Mr. G. B. Hutchinson, who was elected at the top o£ the poll for one of the vacant seats on the,Auckland City Council, is the first returned soldier to be elected to the position. He was congratulated on his success by the Returned Soldiers’ Association.

Twenty acres of Saxton’s Bush are to bo set aside as a public domain, according to advice i’eceived by Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P. Of this area nine acres will bo preserved in the natural state and 11 acres trill bo adapted for recreation purposes.

The increase in the revenue. of the Wellington City electric lighting department for the seven months ended October 21 was £5485, and the increase in the working expenses Vas £18,096. With seven months of the financial year accounted for, the credit balance is only £7475. compared with £20,086 at this time last year. As an illustration of the apathy of ratepayers in some districts, the result of the poll taken in the Kaitaia County will be hard to beat. The poll was to decide the question of whether £3500 should bo borrowed for metalling portions of a now road. The votes forme proposal totalled four, and those against eleven. '

' A charge of having wilfully mingled with the public while she was suffering from scarlet fever was admitted at the Auckland Police Court by a young woman, Elsie Babish. It was stated that defendant had gone to the Auckland Hospital for an operation. A rash was noticed on her body, and she was placed in isolation for observation. She left the hospital the same day, without permission, aud wont to her home at Henderson. _ She w<js convicted and fined £2, with costs 11s. Mr. M'Curdy, British Food Controller, says that the world’s supplies of butter are Jess than half the normal. Germany has been purchasing small supplies of butter already, and by agreement between Belgium, Germany, and Britain an arrangement has been, made for them to share the Danish output without,, forcing up its price in a mad competition. The price agreed upon is one which is to permit of a limited supply of butter to the people of Britain at 3s a pound. In the Arbitration Court on Tuesday, when the tramwaymen’s dispute was being hoard, and the question of Sunday work was under discussion, the manager said that Sunday work was looked upon as an essential part of tho operation of the system. Tliis "drew from tho union’s representative tho comment that if such overtime was to bo looked upon as compulsory, and not voluntary, as in other occupations, then that was all tho more reason why double time should bo paid for such work. He further suggested that it was not an essential part of the system but was simply provided for “joy riders, who ought to bo made pay.”

Sneak thieves have been busy in Napier of late,- and, during tho week-end committed a very mean theft (says the Hawke’s Bay Herald). The locality was Napier South. During the late hours of Saturday or early on Sunday morning a housewife, who had laid in a stock of provisions to tide the family over tho week-end, was disturbed hy the noise of something falling, Tho noise, however, w:ts attributed to the high wind. In the morning it was found that tho house had been entered during the night and the thieves had decamped with the* family’s stock of cakes, scones, biscuits, and oven butter and jam, in fact almost everything that was eatable. .

Despite higher fares and more passengers the financial x soS ition of' the Wellington tramways becomes steadily more unfavourable. During the four weeks ending on November 10 over 90,000 more passengers Wei'e carried than for tho corresponding period last year, yet instead of last , year’s credit balance of £1384 for the four weeks there is a deficit of £549. For the first 33 weeks of tho current year there is a debit balance of £9482 as against a credit balance last year of £4971 for the same period. Tho increased fares have resulted in a substantial increase in revenue despite tho decrease of 165,000 in the number of passengers carried during the period. Borne amusing stories have been told of happenings on the racecourse, and the following one shows that it pays to keep an eye on other things as well as the horses (says the "Mataura Ensign). A lady who was sitting in the grandstand on tho second day of the Gore spring meeting noticed something on tho floor whicli seemed to glitter, and bn picking it tip her lady friends said, “Ok, it’s a piece of glass,” to which the tinder replied that she would keep it for luck. Next day she noticed an advertisement in tho Ensign offering £5 reward for a valuable diamond which had been lost from a ring on the racecourse. She decided to make another examination of the “lucky piece Of glass,” and was amazed to find that it was the lost diamond. It was duly returned to its rightful owrier, and the finder was made the richer by £5. Tho adjournment of Parliament sometimes causes perplexity among the country clergy as to whether tho prescribed prayer for the Houses of Parliament, “at this time assembled,” should bo continued, [writes -tho Morning Post. A former warden of Morton College, Oxford, once attended the service at a remote moorland church where this difficulty arose. When he came to the prescribed collect the clergyman leaned over to where the clerk was sitting and asked, in a very audible whisper, “Is Parliament sitting?” “I don’t know,” replied the clerk. “Shall I say the prayer for them?” asked the rector. “Well,” in a confidential shout from the clerk, “I think you’d better pray for them, because they’re a bad lot!”

There is .now hope for the bald in a process 'invented by Dr. Raymond Passot. It consists of scientific scalping. Dr. Passot advocates that tho sections of the scalp which practically never, lose their hair—gt the temples and above the nape of the neckshould be transferred to the denuded wastes above. The operation is said to' bo painless,, thanks to the use of local anaesthetics. The patient remains indoors until his bandaged head lias healed aud the displaced hair cultures have taken root and grown long enough to mask the, mutilated areas which have been sacrificed lower down. Then the former sufferer from baldness, it is stated, finds himself the possessor of a head of hair which, if thin, is at any rate adequate.

Archdeacon Mae Murray wishes to go into the matter of tho Taranaki Bishopric scheme during his visit, and for this purpose lie will be glad to meet the business men of the town in tho Sunday school on Monday evening next at 7.30. Any men interested in the' movement are given a cordial invitation to bo present. Tho scheme is one that affects tiie status and progress of tho town, as well as that of the Church, and it is hoped that the meeting will he /representative.

“We slept in the scrub that night with only one rug over myself and four children,” was the statement by a wife iii tho Wellington Magistrate’s Court, ,when asking separation her husband and maintenance (reports the New Zealand Times). The wife stated that her husband came home, broke through the window and threw everything out of tho house. . They slept that night in the scrub. Next morning she found her clothes had been burned. Her husband tried to drag her into the house, but her sen fetched the police, who took him into custody , Needless to say a and maintenance order was issued.

Commenting on the Jersey section at the recent Waikato Show, the Waiaato Times remarks that in the pedigree J orsey heifer yearling class the winner was Viola’s Golden Fern, the property of Mr. E. Griffiths, the well-known New Plymouth breeder, who is farming at Foncourt. Viola’s Golden Fern is by the imported bull, Viola’s Golden Laddie, The judge in his remarks,upon the class, was greatly impressed, stating that it was a class “from which some fine cows may develop.” Viola’s Golden Laddie was also the sire of the yearling bull class wiplier in pedigree Jerseys. This was Bilberry’s Golden Lad, which was bred by Mr Griffiths, and purchased by Messrs. Win. Dunn and Sons at 250gns. Travellers are beginning to find a pleasant route to Christchurch via Picton. On arrival of tho Arahura_ at that port on Tuesday last no less than five passengers hoarded the through car which meets the steamer to carry passengers to Christchurch by Way of. Kaikoura. A short stop at Blenheim enables breakfast to be had. Then tho journey through beautiful, picturesque country begins, with the snow-clad FLaikouras as the ultimate goal of the first day’s run. The second day takes one down the coast road to tho Conway and thence by the rich North Canterbury lands to Christchurch, which is reached at 5 o’clock. The total cost of this run from Wellington to Christchurch is covered by a five-pound note. Next Sunday will be the 77th anniversary of Hit) arrival of the Rev. William Lolland at Now Plymouth, and of his appointment by Bishop Selwyn as clergyman in charge of Taranaki. The day will, as usual, be kept as tbe Dedication Festival at St. Mary’s; Archdeacon Mae Murray, who is acting as com-, missary to the Bishop of Auckland uu-’ til his return next month, is to preach both at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. The offerings throughout the day are to be given towards tbe repairs and alterations that have recently been made in tho older portion of the Sunday school building j the latter, like the church itself, has interesting historical associations, and has, it is to be hoped, many years of usefulness still to rub. ,

A sawmiller in a big way of business was asked the other day what he thought of Judge announcement -concerning the nine shillings a Week bonus. Ho replied; “It worry me in the least; nor Would it if a bonus of nineteen shillings were given. I simply pass it on to the public, plus a profit. Of course, the working man will have to pay more to build a bouse,, or a higher rent; but that’s his 'funeral, not mine. Every award that has yet been made I have passed on; and T shall continue to do so, and all the unions in the world can’t prevent me from doing what everybody else does.” This may be mutual frankness, but it is only (says the Taumnrtmui Press) a statement of fact.

The non-magnetic brigantine Carnegie left Lyttelton on Friday afternoon to continue the work off magnetic survey and ‘the observation of the declination of the magnetic compass (the Sun reports). The vessel is to'take a circuitqus route to Tahiti, where she is expected to arrive at Christmas. Then, iu the course of a week, she will proceed to Honolulu, where she will be, due in February. Afterwards she will take a circle back to Samoa. A short stay will be made at Apia to enable comparisons of records to be made with the observatory, which was built by the Gormans, but js now being taken over by the New Zealand Government. The Carnegie will finish her cruise about October, 1921, being then due back' at Washington. The euchre party held at the Kawaroa Pavilion on Tuesday evening was again well attended, 23 tables being engaged an play. For the ladies' prizes Mrs. Gilbert and Miss Wills tied with 13 games eachin the play-off Mrs. Gilbert won first and Miss Wills second prkio. Mr. Mason secured the men’s first prize with 12J games, Messrs. J,. Lye, Keating and Kawftri tied for second prize jnth 12 games each, in the play-off Mr. Keating won. After the cards, supper was dispensed by the ladies’ committee. There will bo three more evenings to finish the year. There will be lots of fun for tho children at the West End Gala Day on Thursday. December 9, the high slide just being erected by the Kawaroa Park Committee will be in use for the first time. Book tlie day for the school picnic at Kawaroa.

The adjourned meeting of the parishioners of St. Mary’s Church to go into tho question of the soldiers’ memorial which it is hoped to erect in the church wiii be hold in St. Mary’s Sunday school to-morrow (Thursday) at 7.30 p.m.

The display of motor-cars at the Melbourne Cup meeting was a sight in itself; the exact number of automobiles driven to Elemington is not stated, but it ran well into, four figures. There was another striking fact. According tc the cerisus taken by a large staff of checkers of all cars parked at Flemington on Cup Day, it was revealed that nine makes of tyres were represented on the vehicles, and that one make—the Dunlop—out-numbered the combined total of the eight other makes of tyres. What more need he said?* Tho new committee of the East End Bathing Reserve will open its programme on Thursday next with the presentation of tho Tabor Shield and medals won by the East End No. 1 team, at the swimming carnival held at W’aitara. A dance has been arranged by the committee for the occasion. The music for the dances will bo supplied by Mr.. P. Boulton, while the duties of M.C.’s will bo carried out by Messrs.- 0. Kinsella, A. Williams, and others, so that patrons can look forward to spending a very enjoyable evening. Arrangements for supper have been in the hands of the ladies’ committee. *

“The Thinkers” Pictorial Exercise Books arc having a distinctly refining and elevating influence on New Zealand school children. Ask stationers.*

Several Wairarapa Natives have gone to Ratana (states the Wairarapa Age), in the Wanganui district, to consult Wiremu Ratana, the Native faithhealer, in regard to their physical infirmities.

The Canadian Trade Commissioner, in reply to a query, received a reply from the Canadian Government that the importation of hides and sheepskins from New Zealand to Canada was not , nrobibited if accompanied by the usual certificate.—Press Association.

The overseas cargo steamer Walton Hall, which arrived at New Plymouth on Monday from New. York, via New Zealand ports, will have discharged the greater portion of the cargo consigned to this port when work is concluded to-day, and is scheduled to sail at noon to-morrow for Newcastle and Sydney.

Regarding the application for a goods shed at Lepporton Junction, the Prime Minister has written to Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., as follows: “With reference to your persona! representations regarding the erection of a goods shed at Lepperton. I have the honour to inform you that instructions have _ Been given for the erection 1 of a suitable building to he put in hand as soon as. •a suitable opportunity presents itself.” For the public service entrance, senior national scholarship and ' intermediate examinations; which are being held this week, there, are 84 candidates at tho New Plymouth centre. Thirty are sitting fov the scholarship, while only two are seeking to qualify for tho public! service. The total number of candidates for the public service examination throughout the Dominion /is 1076. • ' ’

A splendid line of men’s working shirty in a very dark pin-point cotton‘tweedi has just opened out at The Melbourne, Ltd. The material is Soft and free from “dressing,” and'is guaranteed to givo long Wear. Special price 15s 6d. Only a limited quantitydn stock.*

Here are good reasons why “Fairy Wonder” Soap is so popular. Bulk for hulk, it is more economical than other washing powders; it requires no extra soap to assist with the washing; it makes no nasty scum or offensive sudsteam; it cleanses without rubbing the life out of the clothes; it makes and keeps the clothes a good colour. Buy a packet to-day.- Of all grocers.* '

The Citizens' Band will give another of their popular recitals on Sunday afternoon, the concert ( Wi!l be held at the Kawaroa Park, which ,at the present time is looking at its best. A collection will be taken in aid of tho park funds. ,