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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 178, 27 July 1923, Page 4

Refusing to take the dangerous possibilities of women Justices of the Peace eeriouely, the Hon. W. H. Triggs provided a humorous interlude in the Legislative Council on Thursday afternoon. "Let us suppose," he eaid, "that a lawabiding but genial citizen has dined not wisely, but too well, and on his way home meets, not the rotund and jovial policeman of tradition, but a stern and unyielding guardian of the law, and commences a little persiflage of the after-dinner kind. He might find himself in the Police Court called upon to answer a charge of drunkenness. What would be the consternation of euch a worthy citizen if he had to appear before a lady of austere mien in the morning? One could imagine hie feeling of horror while submitting to the grim, stern scrutiny of the lady on the benefl. He would feel the futility of placing the facts before her. Vet nothing very terrible could "happen to the worthy citizen, and if his uncomfortable experience was such that he resolved never to do it again, surely the best justice is that which is a deterrent?" A plea for the retention of "Arthur's Pass" in preference to "Otira" as the name of the big tunnel in the Midland «ailway line was made by Mr. P. R. Minnie at a lecture he gave at Chrietcmirch. The name Arthur's Pass was associated with the discoverer of the pass, Mr. Arthur Dudley Dobson. Otira was merely.the name of a river. Mr. Y«mie hoped the public would get into the habit of calling the tunnel the H bh out of reipect for

The new factory erected by Toneon Garlick/Ltd., in Lome Street, will be running in about fortnight* time. It is on a freehold section fronting the rear of the Queen Street premise*, and is three storeyed, constructed of concrete blocks, at a cost of about £4000. The , machinery will bl run on the group system by eight electrical motors, and everything has been arranged to minimise the cost of handling and production. 'All shavings and sawdust are conveyed by air fans, directly away from the machines, and burned in a furnace, which is designed as a central heating apparatus. Waterless electrical glue pots are installed, so that each workman has one at hie bench. Two new machines have been added to the plant removed from the old factory. The furniture is made on a system by which operations start in the bottom storey, and gradually work upwards, tmtil the .finished article is ready for delivery from the lift at the front door. Mr. C. M. Rhodes was the designer and abo the contractor for this building. The crematorium ie completed and may now be put into use, etated the Mayor at a meeting of the City Council last evening, when the by-law relating to it, which will come into operation on August 6 was confirmed. Application for cremation have to be accompanied by two medical certificates, and muet be sanctioned by the medical referee appointed by the council. Directions are given as to the class of coffins to be used, and as to the disposal of the ashes the by-law provides for plain terra cotta urns or caskets. The urns .may be left in one of the nichee in the [ chapel for fourteen days, but after that a fee will be charged. The council will not hold them for more than three months. A special portion of the cemetery haa been set aside for the burial of urns. The charges include: —For cremation, including use of chapel and all attendance after the 'body has been placed upon the bier inside the chapel, £4 4/; niche in the crematorium, £1 , 1/; burial of urn in grave already owned by relatives of deceased, 10/6; plot of ground 4ft by 2ft, half price of ordinary grave. The Auckland Astronomical Society intend to erect the University College telescope on a site at the edge of the Domain, and suggested to the City . Council last evening that a suitable position could be found near the bend lin George Street, about 500 ft from the ! museum. The Council agreed to allow, the use of the site subject to the building .being removed when required. The number of people supplied with water in Auckland from the City CounI cil'e mains is, over 124,000, and they consume 0,610,000 gallons per day, according to a report presented to the City Council last evening by Mr. J. Carlaw, waterworks engineer. In April, 1904, he reported to Sir Edwin Mitchelson, who was then Mayor, that in twenty years (or in 1924) the consumption would be 6,580,000 gallons per day, a difference of only 30,000 gallons in the forecast made 19 years previously.' If he might be permitted to make another forecast of 20 yean hence he would not be far wrong in saying 14,000,000 ' gallons per day. Consequently mains capable of delivering at least that amount must be provided. - The longest in the British Empire; the longest in the Southern Hemisphere; the seventh longest in the world. That is the position of the Arthur's Pass Tun- - nel, as Kr. P. B. Climie told members of I the W.E.A. at Christchurch. The cost of the tunnel was about £1,300,000. Its length is five miles 25 chains 12 feet, and it represent* perhaps the greatest I engineering feat ever attempted in New Zealand. A request that children's play grounds in the city parks and appliances thereon should be available for use on Sundays, the same as on week-days, was made to the City Council last evening by the Amalgamated Society of Carpenten and Joiners. The Parks Committee could not see their way to recommend the granting of the application, as they considered it involved the whole question of the use of parks and domains for games and sports on the Sabbath Day. A request for (ports and field games would follow after the recent precedent abroad. If agreed to it would- change the whole character of the use and quiet enjoyment of these areas both by adults and children on Sundays, as well as be unacceptable to a large section of citizens. The report was adopted. , . Discussing cures or deafness made by broadcasting, Or. O. A. Pfister, in the "Sackbut," says that it ie not univergaily known that for some time past deafness has been either cured or lessened by the scientific application of sounds to the ear. This discovery is due to M. l'Abbe Rousselot, director of the Phonetic Institute in Paris. Most of the cases are people who have been deaf and dumb since birth, not shell shock or similar cases of temporary deafness. Dr. Pfister explains that Dr. Rousselot uses a set of large tuning forks set in front of a metal sound-box and attached by rubber tubee to ear-pieces. One note after another is transmitted to the patient until'his expression shows that the sound has been heard. The same sound is produced for a short time every day and then gradually higher or lower sounds until the patient can hear them clearly.. Dr. James W. Robertson, oTmirman of the executive of the Canadian Red Cross Society, etatcd recently in the course of 'an address to the New York Canadian Club* that for the past four years Canada had made more real progress than any other nation along the lines of child welfare. He added that six Canadian Universities are giving courses to women to fit them for the work of saving the babies. The Ministry for Munitions explosive store and refinery plant at Chester (England) has been cold for £30,000, which is estimated to be the original cost of the brick wall round the factory. The purchasers are the Anglo-Scottish Finance Corporation. Seven years ago this property cost the Government £500,000. It is situated by the side of the River Dee. It is complete with Its own railway sidings, storage, buildings, pumps, engines, etc. The cite of 30 acres is freehold land. The following resorption was passed at the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce: "That this council regrets that the shipping companies have not yet made any announcement of special fares to England during the British Empire! Exhibition and trusts that a satisfactory 1 announcement will be made at an early date." In a maintenance case that came before Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., this moraine at the Magistrate's Court, the wife etated that when her husband separated from her he went to live at her mother's house. Evidently the traditional mother-in-law jest did not apply in the instance. One complaint made by the wife was that her husband went to the ; races to try and make money. The members of the local branch of the H \CB Society will be entertained by Bishop Cleary at the Pa Orphanage !as final to the jubilee celebrations of jthe branch.