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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 78, 1 April 1922, Page 6

Some interesting reminiscences in con--1 nection with the growth of the sugar , industry were given by Mr. Fred. Hubble ! yesterday on the occasion of the presentation to him of a wallet of bank notes from the employees of the Colonial ; Sugar Refining Company on his retire- , ment on superannuation. Mr. Hubble remarked that he had seen many changes during the thirty-six years he had spent in the company's service, both in the operations of the company and its staff of workers. When he joined t*e •New Zealand Sugar Company in 18S5, be 6aid, the works at Chelsea were a comparatively small concern, producing about 180 tons per week, most of the sugar in consumption being imported trom Mauritius, Fiji, and China. It was ; not until the amalgamation with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company that the business became prosperous. started, the company had never ceased I to expand, and in 1920 the weekly output had increased to over 1400 tons". Mr - Hubble added that the provident fund! instituted by the company in 1890 was '. considerably more advantageous to the subscribers than the National Provident Fund under Government control. Th-> presentation was made by Mr. AsVcy Campbell, works manager. Mr. Hubble has been in the company's employ for 36 years, and is retiring on the com- | pany's superannuation fund pension. i The educational experts who are con-! j sidering the proposals of the Minister cf Education for the reconstruction of the education system approve generally of tbe shortening and simplifying of" the primary course, and of the establishment of intermediate or junior high schools as a link between the primary and secondary courses. They believe also that increased attention should be "iven to vocational direction in the later stages of school life. They arc disposed, however, to suggest caution about the introduction of the new system, lest ; (here should be too sudden adisloeation of the existing arrangement-. The scheme will involve substantial'additions to staffs, and while there will be large drafts of young teachers coming from tbe training colleges within the next two years, it would not be safe to lean very heavily on inexperienced teachers in the operation of a reformed system. The Mini-ter has already met these suggestions to some extent by-proposing that the new system shall be applied first to the larger centres, but he is not disposed to move hurriedly. The steamer Moeraki, which left Sydney for Auckland at 4 p.m. on -Thursday, has 837 bags of mail, including 214 bags for Auckland, comprising English. Eastern and Australian mails. The Moeraki is due to arrive next Friday. In Hobson Street yesterday afternoon a motor car owned by Dr. Ussher caught fire;-but no great damage was done before the flames were extinguished. - , The Devonport steam Ferry Company ; announce that the 6-30 p.m. trip to Rangitoto will be discontinued on and ' after Sunday, April 2.

At a well-attended meeting of the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society reference was made to the difficulty of finding work for men on leaving prison. Numbers of "short timers" appty for assistance, but with a very limited income it is quite impossible to give more than a few meals or one or two nights' lodging. Many who get in trouble are quite decent, industrious men who have made ii mistake or taken too much liquor. It should be known that whilst men with long sentences receive quite a fair wage when in prison, those with sentences of three month* and under receive little or nothing. Money and clothing ire greatly needed for this humanitarian work, and may be sent to the hon. secretary at 24 Seccombc's Road, Newmarket. Apparently somo men who are out of employment object to leave the town vlicn work is found for them. Yesterlay the secretary of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association, Mr. G. l-.llioi, and Mr. E. Phelan, a member of «he Patriotic Association, waited 'ttitm he Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, with a ■equest for assistance for 4b married non to proceed to Government work at Coromandel. Mr. Gunson placed £100 rom the City Council's employment und at their disposal to procure outfits or the men. The Government arranged or the men passages to the job, and Mr. Vhelan bought the outfits, but the men efused to go, stating that the wages iffcrcd by the Government were insu.iiient. In the end the work wna declined. •Ir. Gunson said while the citizens ir'ould assist genuine cases they* would tot be exploited by those who would not vork. At a time uike the p-esent men eeking employment must take any lonest work offering. Later in the day Ir. Elliot sent 2" single nun to the cork rejected by the others. Mr. Justice Reed is to sit at the Aucfcxnd Supreme Court on Tuesday mornrig. The members of the Bar intend 0 irark the event by tendering him a 'elcome. His Honor is well known in .uckland, where he was in practice for iany years before he was elevated to he Bench. Arrivals in Auckland last month from verseas ports totalled 1584, and the deartures 1339. One Chinaman was among he arrivals,; and the departures included 1 Chinese,, and 15 Hindus. The only /feaure about the passenger lists of recent lonths is the diminution of the Asiatics, ho have been arriving—doubtless the :sult of the restricting legislation of ivo sessions ago. It is one of the good things of life to m> how some, of the poor people of the ty help one another, and this is often rought out at the relief committee's leeting of the Hospital Board. A man ith a very large family who had been ■ft with no one to look after his offering, because his wife had deserted im, took on as housekeeper a woman ho in turn had been deserted by her nsband and left with an almost equally ig family. The man struggled along an fully to provide for all the children id denied himself many little luxuries necessary nowadays, till an L'cident befel him, and he had to get ioil allowance for the children till he icovered. He was complimented on the ay he tackled the big burdens he cared. All sides of life are seen at the Relief ommittee meetings. At the meeting lis week it appeared that a good deal ' distress was caused innocent people y the action of bigamists. More than ie case was investigated where it was iown that the trouble had been caused irough men who had forsaken their .vn homes, and, posing as single men, id broken the law as well as attempted ) break unsuspecting women's hearts, he members of the committee put this ass of person in with the wife descrx, and the only solution suggested was lat branding would be the best cure, ) that they would be known as in--man parasites to those with whom ley lived and worked. "One outstanding impression received s a result of my six-weeks' visit to the ills along the Main Trunk and Rotorua nes was the scarcity of milling tim?rs," said Mr. Arthur Seed, secretary of ie Sawmillers' Federation for New ZeaI land, in the course of an interview with a "Dominion" reverter. "The timher along the Main Trunk line has been cut out at a very much greater rate than even many of those in the industry realise, and a very few years will see the majority of the mills in this district cut out." I "The position is very acute," said the Mayor of Wellington (Mr. R. A. Wright) on Thursday, discussing unemployment. "All day long the people stream up here looking for work, and willing to take anything. These include clerk 6, storemen, and labourers. There are a great many people out of work in Wellington just now, and something will have to be done for them." Two examples of children wandering away and by prolonged absence causing their parents considerable anxiety have occurred this week. On Thur-'rlav" morning three youngsters, one aged five and the others three, strayed from their home in Wallace Street, Ponsonby, at nine o'clock in the morning. The hours passed, midday came, then the afternoon and evening, nnd search nf th neighbourhood by the parents, neighbours and Tr>Vc nvndnred pn -do" (o 'h n whereabouts of the three little adventurers. Finally they were found at six o'clock in -fb" evening, it ATn—iin-?"do There is no direct road between the home they left and the pace they were found, and they have not been able to explain how they managed to get so fir away. The other instate was at "Mount Eden, and was much le-=s dramatic. A small boy went away' from home at three o'clock and did not appear at tea-time, nor yet at bed-time. Neighbour-' chi'dron "-ere questioned nnd sn'd they haa =oen him on a small reserve at Dominion Road. The wnrred father went there, nnd found him cnnf-enie'Hy playing, with no idea of anything but h',3 solitary jam. Firths rer-iste'-ed in Auckland last month totalled f>-?f\ t - s against SR a $_ tho *„-c month !a.=t year. Deaths numbered "40. as against 318 ir- March, >P>l nn'! the marriages were 50-2 and 516 respectively. Figures for the first quarter of the present yptr compnred with i'-o same perio.l = n 11)21, *h ow fe«"er borths, two fewer deaths, and 14 fewer marriages. Customs receipts in Auckland perked tiT) considerably during the month of A.arch, but even yet we are over £ISO--000 behind last year's figures for the quarter. A total of C 143.403 was collected last month as against £J3-?(;o4 in March of 1921. but this in no way compensates f Pr the big drop durmo- the two first months of this year. The increase for the month, however, is encouraging as it proves that trade is at last on the up grade. A unique achievement has been accomplished by the Te Awamutu Borough -ouncil, which for three years in succession has collected all the rates and other revenue. The year just closed again shows a clean sheet, every penny of over E12,000 in revenue having been paid

It is a sad feature of the Hospita Relief Committee work that so manj peopie are -brought to ask; for heq through the ravages of cancer. Manj of those smitten with the disease appeal personally before the members, ano these are urged to take full advantage of the facilities offered at the hospita for treating the early stages of the dis ease. The chairman mentioned at the last meeting a number of cases that hac come under his own notice and said thai the only hope was to get early treat ment. The majority of the cases seem to be men and they are very frequently attacked on the head and face. Harold George Sayers (25), a single man, was riding a motor cycle along Mountain Road yesterday afternoo:: when he collided with a motor lorry, and sustained a compound fracture oi the left leg. The victim is now under treatment in the Auckland Hospital. In view of the Animals Protection Act, 1922, prescribing among other things that it is necessary to take out a £1 license to shoot native game, the Auckland Acclimatisation Society advertised for rangers, and has received some 200 applications. These will be de.Jt with and a decision made at a committee meeting to be held on Tuesday next. Tho reason the society de?ires to see the regulations of the Act carried out is to protect sporting and to protect the sportsman who is quite willing to pay for his sport against the poacher, who is a person who shirks responsibilit3". An important new department, to be known as the Cradle Roll Department, was inaugurated at a representative meeting of Sunday schools held last night in the Beresford Street Congregational Church. Mr. J. W. Court, president of the union was in the chair, and addresses were given by Miss Warner, demonstrator to the union, Miss Farley, the newly-appointed Cradle Roll superintendent, and by Rev. L. B. Busfield, general secretary. An interesting display of Cradle Roll material was on view, and the hand-made charts and birthday cards were much admired. It is the purpose of the uriion to foster Cradle Roll work in all Ihe schools of the union, and an effort is io be made to link up every baby in the province with some Sunday school. A meeting is to be held on Monday next at the Pitt Street Methodist schoolroom in the interests of the junior department teachers of the city and suburbs. The suspension of the New Zealand member of the Australasian League football team which recently toured England is referred to in an English exchange as follows:—The Australasian subcommittee practically completed their duties during the week, when at the final j meeting they suspended Robert Taylor,! Hull's international forward, and B. Lamg, the only New Zealander included in the touring team, for two matches. As the offence for which they were reported took place at Hull on December 24, the suspensions are rather belated. Provision, however, has been made for the New Zealand League to be admitted into full membership of the union, and presumably Laing will need to "rest" for three matches when the New Zealand season opens. A resolution, "That a conference of representatives of all organisations and agencies engaged in operations for the uplifting of the young be called," has been carried at a meeting of representatives of the Y.M.CA., Young CitizensLeague, Auckland Methodist Mission, Methodist Church, Presbyterian Social Service Association, National Council of Women, Auckland Play Association Sunday School Union, Devonport Community Club, and other bodie ß . A second re.-olution provides "That a preliminary meeting for the purpose of setting the machinery of the conference be held on the evening of April 6, at 8 o'clock, in the V.M.C.A. Buildings. The question of preference to unionists provoked som e rather warm discussion at the Conciliation Council sitting in Uellmgton on Thursday. Mr. Grenfell j on behalf of the master"bakers, strongly! opposed any form of preference. He said ! that if the Court put in their clause that! was their affair, but the employers would not agree to it unless they "were com-! pelled to. It was objected that the ' effect of the system had been to make i the unions close corporations shuttin"! out from work men who did not see eve to eye with them. Mr. Grenfell added that if the workers insisted on prefer- ' ence it was only natural every effort' would be made to prevent injustice. Mr ! Collins said that if the Court deleted the clause the unions would have to i reconsider their position. • He contended that the object of Mr. Grenfell and the employers was to smash the unions. Thk Mr. Grenfell strenuously denied, and the subject dropped. "The Poetry of the War" is the subject of the address to be delivered by Mr. J. A. Lee at the La_our party's Sunday evening concert-lecture in the Strand Picture Theatre. The orchestra will render selections from 7 to 7.30. The Christchurch Tramway invite applications for the position of per-manent-way foreman. The opening debate of tho newly formed Auckland Parliamentary Assembly win take place in St. Andrews' Hall on Monday night. I Regulations under the Land and In-! come Tax Act are issued in this week's Gazette. They are the old regulations to a very large extent, but contain certain amendments made necessary by recent legislation. They do not appear to impose any new duties on ordinary ta v payors. J The Post Office, by means of a conspicuo_s notice p.aced over every po-t----ing-box m the Dominion, cautions the public against sending money and valuable articles in unregistered letters, this warning, money c °, n< ;! nueS .. to ue sent by post in unregisner. Within the last few'davs. an ordinary letter that burst open in the post was found to contain the sum of £70 in bank notes. This happened in Wellington. ° The Gisborne waterside workers' dispute u» yesterday- adnmnica .-• ;ui - Itin-- ~f ,h, Pcneilia' ;■•-! Council. The representatives of the shipowners of Gisborne asked that the dis- , pute should be passed direct to the \rbi- ; i tr_tion Court. The union officials on , the other band, d'sired an adjournment , to a conciliation council at Auckland, i Mr. T. Harle Ci'es remarked that the , national dispute would be one of the i '••«?nw< :.'.!.-.,, over broughT; before i the Arbitration Court. The Auckland City Band will play a special programme in Albert Park tomorrow "afternoon and give a r-acred i concert to-morrow evening in the same s place. The Auckland Caledonian Society pur-! a pose holding monthly socials in the h Masonic Hall, Belgium Street. The I opening night is on Tuesday, April 10. n With the Caledonian orchestra and a s good floor patrons of the social should have an enjoyable eveuinsj. ' T ■Big selection at Firm of Fowlds.—Ad _ |Big selection at Firm of Fowlds.—Ad j c 'Big selection at Firm of Fowlds.—Ad. i t