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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 4

I The following tr Mr. D. C. Batee' I weather forecast for 2+ hours from 0 I a.m. this .laT: "The indk-atio-ns are for easterly winds. Tnodcnvte to etrong, [freshening and veering hy cast to north. ! Increasing haz/e aj)d cloudiness. Thfi i barometer has ,1 falling tcmicnry. Tides good. Pea rough on thp pnaet." Owinrr to the overetocks of r-oal in Auckland, through importation of coal supplies J.ipan s-.id elsevrhere, to , tide over :he late, inrius'trial troubles ; (writes our Hikurangi corrre-pondent) the local coal mineo are reducing hands at the mines for several months in order to permit stocks on 'hand to be reduc-ed i before further supplies are sent forward from Hik-urangi. This cossalion of work lat the mince, together with Hip closing .of tho Hikurang-i saw an.-l near i 00-mplpUrvn of the'wat<»rworke. will make busirie<=fi and the town qirret during th« coming winier.

In the opinion of 'the City £ngine»vr it i.s not adviiia-bte for the City Council to encourage the erection oi revolving electric fii«me. Mr. BuEh made a. etaieraent to this effect in reporting upon a.ir application for permission to erect &uch a sign (which wae in at the Auckland Exhibition) <m the roof of the Partridge building. The request was jrran'ted on condition that no portion .-.'hould project over the street, and that the roof should be strong enough to prevent the risk of accidents. SevPTal rerjueetß for permkh-ion to erect signs were referred to the. Streets Committee. (Since the. publication. yeMerdav. of the. Northcote School Committee's rcj>olution of protest the E\lucation Board's appointment of a miritret* of the infants' soliool. the following communication from the Secretary of 'the Board j has been received by the chairman of the [ Xorthcote School Committee: --•• I am I directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the I.lth intt.. regarding the proposed appointment of MUa Flatt ac assistant at the school in place ( of Mies Wilson, who will he removed at i the end of 'the prvsent month. ]n TP-plv i I I have to explain that, though Mies Flatt ! j .-tands highest in the graded list of the j j eligible applicants for the. appointment,! one other applicant U more highly I graded. That lady, however, under re- i gulation 58. is ineligible for the appointment, as she hae been leas than two years in her present position. With re- | .card to Jlitja Flatt, I have to explain that, on account of the exceptional cireumstanecs of her case, ehe ar-pliftd for and received permission to apply for advertised appointments. The Hoiird h.is | authorised thp appoimment of Mice I-latt as as.siftant .-it the school from June Ist." The chairman of the committee (■Mr. J. P. .MoPha.ilI points out 'tlidt i the Board's letter proves the Committee's contention, and that the lady appointed has only been in her present posi- i tion since Ist February last, whereas the '' highest graded npplican't nai= been in her position a yenr and eiirht months. He added that the Committee intended to visornti-sly pros forward the protest alrendy m:id e in the intcrc.sis of Up. and scholare. a*, an important prineinle wan involved in TPispect to the ;ippointment of teaehens under the ; Board's grading system. An inquiry .is to whether all traffic at etreet cro.-eingo could be temporarily .-Unpended when the syren alarm gave notice of the approach of the fire brigade was forwarded by the. Auckland Fire Board for consideration at last nigut's j meeting of the City Council. The Town Olerk drew the attention of the Council to the fact ;hat the by-laws already proi vided for all other traffic, lenving a 1 fair course for the fire brigade. Mr. A. ; ■I. Entrican remarked that the n :tter involved a very important point. Quite recently a wriotls accident 'had occurred in Queen Street, and he thought letter* should be sent to the Tramway Company and tbe police, pointing out that it lvaf , desirable for all traffic to stop when the , fire engine't pyren was heard. The sug- i frestion was approved. The aversion of the average mule churchgoer to pew rents wae prpltv clearly indicated at the C.E.M.S. diocesan i (•(inference last evening, when a. re-olu- ' tion "was carried unanimously favouring the principJfe of free and opeu churche-. A Kir.cc number of s-pcakee heartily condemned the pew rent system, and three of the clergy present descTibed the way in which they uad made all their church f-itting.s 'free without I detriment to ihp parish financoi. They oonsideml that lack of faith in their congregations was the only thing that made isome other clergy hesitate over the change. Bishop Averil] expressed himself strongly in favour of free churches, if only 'becauso it was useless to go out and invite people into church when there wptp no seats for them, "it to mc." he continued, "that the pew-rented churchw of Auckland ar<> not churches at all in thp strict j=ense—only i proprietary chaoels. T wish we bad "» i big free cathedral, into which we could invite everybody, without, restriction. ! Failini: that, I believe that we ought to j take the Town Hill and hold -big mission I services there. I know there would be an outcry from some quarters, but w< , want a big building of some kind, into ' which we ca n invite everybody." I The practice of locking up churches on I weekdays was heartily condemned by a i number of at thr CE.MJS. con- . terenep yesterday. Rev. 11. Mason, of ! OtaJiuhu. stated that his church was ■ always open. "The only time it ever Ruilered harm." he said, "was when it ■was locked "P- That was when some ; Orangeman—T mean Protestant- cele- ! brated the twelfth of July by breaking ' intu the church and stealing tlie altacrass, f recollect that when [ visited Malta I -went to look at the cat Tied™!. and found every door locked-" "Kxactly my experience." interpoepd Bishop Aye- ' rill. "A lady cunic up to mc." eontimn-d Mr Mason, "and Jc-ked mc if the build- ! .ing- was the 'Catholic cathedral.' No,' j 1 answered, 'you'll find th-at opposite, j with the d-uor open.'" I [daughter.) 'Riev. ' C A. B. Watson, vicar of St. Paul - !!. ?iid that 'his church wa<s always open in daylight, and little or no trouble -liad re- j Rulted, Once or twice people had re- | moved the candjes from the altiT candle- ; ttic.ke and thrown them on the floor, and the aims-dish and book-markers were removed by someone for a. few daw. Another time a drunken man got. into the church after choir practice, and ■was locked i n nil night, but ".hose were tbe I only • inconveniences he hiid suffered. An anomaly with regard to the naming of V.iiF'touLs Street \\ ret wjia drawn atj t-ention to in a letter received by the I City Council last nigtot from the HaVbour j'Bo;ird. The secretary of thr latter body (Mr. 11. B. TSnrnertl" wrote that as the new road acro.-e Hobson Street redama tion was a continuation of Gustoiw Stre.pt in a straight line, and as it would eventually extend across Freeman's Bay reclamation, the Bo.rrd suggested that the proper name for that thoroughfare wae Customp vStreet, and that the present Customs Street TVeet. from Albert Street, to Victoria Park, should be renamed Fannhawe. Street. This, would leave the portion to the eastward of Victoria Park to be re-named. The matter was referred to the Works Committee for consideration. A bottle containing a. memorandum tn the effect that it had been thrown into thp ,M-a on December 7. IDI2. at a point 400 mile- south-Past of Adelaide, where two rrvcal ocean currents meet, has bee.n found on the beach near Hawnra, The information in the battle indicates that it was cast into the ocean at the instigation of the Common-wealth meteorologist, with the object of ascertaining the flow of ocean currents. The finder i≤ communicating- with the Melbourne authorities. An offe r to present to the City Council the mallard ducks in 'the artificial lakelets of the Domain grounds, which were loaned for the Exhibition, has been made by thp Anekla-nd Acclim'atieaiion Society. In reporting to the Council on thp proposal, the City Engineer pointed out the necessity for snch ducks to "be l hand-fed. His suggestion that a three months/ trial \be given wae endftred by the Council. '

An application to erect a. brought iron | stair laiiding, with a shelter screen of poilite asbestos β-heete, at the rear of the Synagogue in Princes Street, nut re- j newed to the City Council last night by ; the architects for tip Auckland 'Hebrew ! congregation. The city Engineer, however, reported tha-t as -the . w;ls in the " brick area.," the addition | frhoiild be in .brick or concrete. It wae • decided that the Works Committee report upon the application. | Margaret Wilkie, with 130 convictions for drunkenness to her discredit, appeared at the Onehunga Police Court this morning, before Mr. J. Laking, ] •1.P.. charged with having been drunk j last night at Onehunga, and also with having broken hpr prohibition order. As she had been locked up all night she was I ponvicted and discharged on the first j offence. Thr. second charge was adIjourned until June Bth to be heard by Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M. The brotherhood of the 'three golden ■balls " who do business in Aucklund are !at one concerning a, proposal to close I their fhops at 6 p.m. A firm of solicitors [applied on behalf of two 'pawnbrokers i.for the certificate of the City Council, I fixing closing hours. When the application came before the Council last night. j however, letter* had also been received on behalf of thTee otiher members ot" the fraternity objecting to the proposed scale of hours. At= there were, stated to be five pawnbrokers in the city, the Council ruled that the applicants, being in a minority, coitld not succeed in their request. j Notice of intention was given by the Mayor of Birkenhead (Mr. \V. 'Wallace), at a special meeting of the Birkenhead Council laet night, to strike the rates on June ISth for the current ypar, namely.—The general special and hospital rates, amounting to 3Jd in the 1C; water consumers rate. 3d in th" '. £: minimum supplies, 10/; non-con-turners, ;d in the £; minimum. 5/. The whole of the Tating "will .be on the unimproved value, which was adopted at a poll of the ratepayers taken last year, all previous rates having 'been based on tbe annual value*. ; A letter ha* been Teceived by the City ', Council, conveying the best thanks of his Excellency ttac Governor and the Countess of Liverpool to the Mayor, Councillors and citizens of Auckland for 'the folicitude expressed and the kind message contained in a- letter from the Towd Clerk on the occasion oif the recent fire in Government House. I n the course of thp mevisajrp the Governor's private secretary (Mr. Gavin M. Hamilton) expressed their Excellencies' regret at the enforced curtailment of their stay in j Auckland. The inclusion of Onehunga. in the Greater Auckland sehem-e wao intro- '. rluced at a meeting of the Onehunga Borough Council last night by the chairJ man (Mr. John Rowe), who strongly advocated -the proposal. He Baid when i Greater Auckland was an accomplin-hod fact :-: ought to reach .from the \V-iitv-ir.ata Tv tho .Manu-fcau. Thau would mean one city, one Mayor, and one ■ central governing body. This larger I city would he bounded on i-he west by the Whan Canal, on -lire eaist by thi , Tanraki Canal, and on .the south by the Manukau Harbour. Mr. J. E. Cow i>11: And make an inland of it? The Chairman: Yes. that was always Sir George Grey's ideal. The chairman, continuing, iviid' there was a great future .before Onehunga. and if h "were included in a Greater Auckland that would promote a commercial and industrial development. Nothing 'but joining Auckland would get the main arterial Toad widened from The city to Onehunga. Thic remark r-.iur.ed great laughter. Th-o Chairman: 1 lriMii it. Why. <rhe Manukau Road wae Snst known as a Maori track, and it ha« neveT ibeeji an; thing p\ev. ' Mr. Geo. Fellow* said it seemed to him tha.t the chairman was prepared to give j Onehunga away to Auckland for the cake of getting the road past his house j made wider, and -all they -wonld- get in \ return would be a sh-are. of Auckland's ■ debts. fMr. T. Baeeett thought they vrerp starting at .the wrong end. Surely 1 the intervening road 'boards should , move iin the matter first, and <tlen Onehunga I would have more data to go upon. Mr. iC. A. Oeborne (secretary) said One--1 hunga had eorof very vahiable assets i such af- water, drainage, etc. Tho I chairman finally decid-ed to give notice. lof motion as follows: "That the One- , hnnga Borough Council be aek-ed to ooneider the question of tthe Greater I Auckland fwhpm'e as it ■would apply to j Onchunjra." I The Auckland city electrical engineer has reported to the Council, with reference to a {fiiggestion that the installation of electricity at a cheaper rate would induce more peoplp to use ft, Ihat a sys- ; tern of assisted wiring is worked favourably by the 'Wellington City Council. .The amount of money required to carry :it out if? email, and 'he to conj sider the advantages of eucll an arrangej ment for Auckland. It is expected that, further information on this matter will be obtainable at the municipal conference in Christchurch. j ;A Chinese witness appearing in a civil 'action in th-e Wellington Magistrate's I Court, on Tuesday evidently had a deeper respect for thi l oath administered to him than many a European who has occupied the box. In the .firtt place, rather an unusual procedure for i Chinese witness, h< , dispensed with the usual formality of blowing out a ma.lv.-h. am! toolc :he o.nh in the English fashion. "Whatever starU>me.nte he had '■ marie in t.iip he was evidently de tvrminp.i. while in the box, to tell the t "truth and nothing but the truth." Thi*. however. proved rather diseonceri - ing to hie solicitor. "t)id you not ;-ay that to m? on Moird-ay?" asked eouneei, referring to a certain statement tbe : t hinaman h-ad made -to hhn. "Yah," re- ' plied the Cplpstia] naively, "I say that • when 1 pee you last 'Monday, but when 1 come here I must telhrm mm." The drawing of the art. union for the new billiard table recently exhibited at the Exhibition took place yesterday at : the office o f >r r . Holmes. No. 841 was I the lucky number, and the table goes to Mrs. Guthrey, of Rawene, Hokianga. For the fortnightly period ended 17th I ins , !. iT2.7!10 units of electricity were i generated at the city power house. The ' wntfr consumed amounted to 220.1ti0 ■ gallons. nnd coal to 3f13 torn*. There are : now 1.5*11 contiiimers. IS 'having been j added during the above period. I The "Mercantile Gazette" reports the j registration of the. Xew Zealand Home Builders. Ud.. an Auckland company, with a capital of £250,000. The. objecls o fthe company are to purchase and deal in land and houses. j The Auckland Kauri Gum Lands Com- ! mission has had its term extended until j June 27 th-

A bad accident WS6 naTrow^ by • motor car cominj out of Fort S t * Lane. The motor driver trif.l * mimm wheel* being smashed.' as the tUme,. The tire , J t M spark from th-e hearth igniting 7 tll * woodwork on the floor. s a ° An accident of a peculiar nature befell a Kawakawa resident named W ti? cm Tuesday last, says our Mr. Wilson was going up when he tripped, and the jolt of so loosened his false teeth that M slippy down his throat and lodged there. Suffering preatlv. taken to the Whangarpi A.spltal wW the dislocated teeth were found witl t hel P;f tl.p \.r.y, apparatus, and „ moved by Dr. Frazer Hurst, ». ho p " ormed an operation on tho throat for the purpose. " "This i< the inSth time she's Ut „ with her bad temper." said in the Magistrate's Court & morning in contesting his wife's Jplf cation tor a separation order H, to leave." said the wife. «bee.« threatened to cut my throat." «i t ', all h.-r had temper." continued- thp l v ' band sorrowfully. "She gets it and Z keeps it for weeks. .She's really n:or« to be pitied than blamed." The wife. complaint was that her husband cam. home in a quarrelsome state product by beer, and damaged the furniture be sides knocking her about sometime Mr. Kcwle, 5., M.. seemed to f w l there might be faults on both sides, ami after urging the parties (who hadVen married 32 yearsi to try and natch tilings up be adjourned the case to give them a chauce of reconciliation. Local students of art will fi n d t j, e exhibition of the Society of Arts, vhkl in now open in the Coburg Street gallery, of much educational valu* Amongst the landscapes Spicer's "Venptian Waterway"' is cleverly cv. ecutpd. while Mm Hiccks-iPulleme has produced some subtle, atmosph-eric ef. feels. The coastal studies include several very commendable attempts, wVtfc in dp.pk-ting rural scenery Miss z m B-ill has produced come picturesque exhibits. Included in the exhibition ari> interesting examples of sketches and flower studies, which are well worth According to the Ohristelurdi motor by-la we any motor vehicle exceeding i five cwt nvuet be provided with two brakes and a reverse. Recently i large retail establishment imported » , three-wheeled motor delivery van which possessed onh' one brake and no reI verse, and which weighed seven eni Consequently, the vehicle cannot be used in Christohurdi until the Tequirements of the by-law are complied with. Id England the maximum weight ia serei cwt. and vehiclss.up to the* wiipht can be u~ed -without the necessity of beinj fitted with the double brakes and the reverfip. An _amus.jig circumstaaae occuirei >: Feilding on Tuesday. TeporU a Palinnston paper. A resident, off for a holiday, in hia natural elation boarded thi train, and left his overcoat on a sat in the station. Realising his forgetful-nco-s. he telegraphed back to the station to have the coat sent on, .but l>y tte time it had disappeared. "\Vhil« away, he purchased a similar coat, and on returning to Feilding, having occasion to go outside the otation, lie left the ne* onp on the P eat. While he was away a policeman came, along, and, noticing tie coat, a.-ked a bystander to whom it belonged, and wa» told it had been left by a gentleman. Thinking this -was the lost coat, the policeman took it into the parcels room, where it was found that the packets contained game, one bird of the collection having beta protected from slaughter by a fairly large, penalty, Immediately after the coat tad been taken into the parcels office tire owner of the coat arrived on the ecene, and asked the bystander what had 'become ol it. O n being informed that the poliM had taken charge of it, and that lie could get it by going into the parcels office, his anxiety with regard to it disappew' instantaneously. The. police now «c more desirous of restoring the coat ti»' the owner is of receiving it. " To ma,ke. th« most of life, live in th« country. in communion with Jfature, and live i n "a cottage,' , said » member of tbe Wellington Acclimatisation Society at » recent nrceting. " I have just, I regret to say." he added, " had to knock down my old whare of fern-tree and d*l I which has done mc for many years, and jit is possible that whares of that kind i may be cheaper and even better tihan tt- ; fkph houses that •Wβ are forced to pK up." "There was eoneideraile perturbstioi among residents of Sydeahwn, a «uto» of Christchurch. on Saturday, and v the afternoon several able-bodied Mil' residents w-sre to be seen industries cleaning out fowlhousee and draind, »M tidying up their premises generally. To* cause of all the bustle wae a dinrinutirt woman armed with a notebook and penoil, who had threatened all eorts opains and penalties if 'her inrtructioM 1 were not enrried out. To some people ;she has passed hsreaU off as a neal» ! inspector, to others as a City Cow^ 1 j inspector, and to others again as merel) J., City inspector. But she wae non« oi thesr. 'things. The municipal and heal" authoritn-s of Christchureh not «M? disclaimed any knowledge of *he woffl»n, ' 'hut were surprised -to find that euol » I inspection had been made." Chfldien, drains, sinks, backyards, chimneye, Jo»'--rutiß and oth»r deteik were diJJgeji". j examined, and in one honse the zeaMW ! health enthiifirast even arrested a p«* !of celery. e:i route to a soup pot. A"* I a 'brief inspection of the euepset eftea I loweil it to be used, while an 4 * e . I hotmewife looked on in wonderment »' to what might happen next. Tte ' ' plorer had «. very good morning's _«"• an-1 .it is uadewtodd that Sydeftto™ looks and smells eweeter for tbe ma tion.