LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 268, 25 August 1949, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotary Club’s Lunch > At the weekly luncheon of the Ashburton Rotary Club to-day, Mr W. B. W. Bell read a paper on Democracy in New Zealand, which had been compiled by the club’s International Committee. Ashburton Bankruptcy Ashburton’s first bankruptcy for a considerable time occurred on Tuesday, when James Curie, motor mechanic, filed his petition. The first meeting of creditors is set down for September G at the Courthouse. Women’s Branch ol Labour Party There was a large attendance at a meeting yesterday of the Ashburton women’s branch ot the Labour Party. Mr W. E. Rose, the party candidate for the Ashburton seat, addressed the meeting, and Mrs Rose was introduced, after which she was presented with a spray. Timaru Competitions Ashburton placings at the Timaru Competitions yesterday included the following: Song and dance solo, under 16 —Elaine O’Grady (70pts) 3; Highland Fling, under B—Pamela Childs v h c, Patricia Arnst h e; clog dance, under 12—Marie Kelly vMi e. Death of Youth Collapsing while playing .with a tennis ball with a companion, Keith Raymond Edward Gooch, aged 17, farm labourer, of Hunter Road, Eltham, on being medically examined was found to be dead, says a Press Association message. He was the only son of Mrs IC. M. Gooch. The two boys were hitting the tennis ball to and from each other, and it is understood that Gooch was struck by the ball and collapsed.

Telegraphing of Bets At a meeting of the Ashburton subsection of the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association, held last evening, the following resolution was passed: “That as an outcome of a statement made bv the press recently by Mr J. A. Betts (president of the Masterton Racing Club) in respect to the telegraphing of bets, this sub-section is very strongly opposed to the suggestion should it apply to the (telegraphing of money-order telegrams to racing clubs on Saturdays.” Health Services

A proposal to establish health services of preventive and educative character under college authority in all university colleges was approved by the Senate of the University of New Zealand in Wellington yesterday. It was decided to ask the Government to provide the necessary finance, and a deputation was appointed to seek an interview with the Minister of Health (the Hon. M. B. Howard) and the Minister of Education (the Hon. T. H. McCombs).—P.A.

Novel War Memorial Fiji’s war memorial is to take the novel form of an intensification of the attack on tuberculosis in the Colony. Announcing this, the Governor (Sir Brian Freeston) stated that during last year 1000 new casies were discovered in Fiji. It is hoped to raise £40,000, which will be subsidised pound, for pound up to £20,000 by the Government. The minimum initial capital expenditure required for new hospital beds and staff quarters is £33,000. The balance will bq handed over to a board of trustees.

Religious Instruction The Church should be the centre of life in a big school, ana religious instruction was an essential part of a child’s education, skid the chaplain of King’s College (the Rev. C. H. Sinclair) in an address on church schools at the opening of the fourth Dominion conference of the Guild of St. Mark in Auckland yesterday. Religious education from the third to the sixth forms, which church schools gave, could not lie undertaken in State schools, therefore church schools must continue to give it, he said. P.A'. . .

Decision To-night A final decision on the question ot his resignation will be made by the president of the North Canterbury Labour Representation Committee (Mr John Roberts) at a meeting of the committee to-night, says a Press Association message. Mr Roberts tendered his resignation two weeks ago, his reported grounds being his uneasiness at the result of the on compulsory military training and concern at the submerging of many of the original planks of the Labour Party platform. His resignation was not then accepted.

Ar ehbishop ’ s Jou rn ey The Coadjutor Archbishop of Wellington (the Most Rev. P. T. B. McKeefry), who is going on a brief overseas trip on church business, will leave Wellington to-morrow for Auckland on the first stage of his journey, says a Press Association message. Archbishop McKeefry will leave Auckland by air early next week, and will travel 'via America to England. He will spend about four; weeks in England and Ireland, arid later in Rome before returning to England. His journey to New Zealand will be via America, and he expects to return to Wellington by the end of October. Wrongful Eviction A young Wellington married couple, Mr and Mrs A. E. Curd, were yesterday awarded £SO damages and costs against Sadie Romanos, married woman, proprietress of a Wellington boardinghouse, for wrongful eviction. Mrs Curd said in evidence that she had been evicted a fortnight before the birth of her child. Plaintiffs claimed £125 damages. Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., saying- he had no hesitation in finding for plaintiffs, added: “Defendant objects to babies in her boardinghouse, but if plaintiffs elected to remain in their room with the baby it was not the business of defendant to interefere.”