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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 185, 4 August 1923, Page 6

There has been no appreciable difference in the numbers registered at the Labour employment office this week.Last week the total number registered was Irtl. nnd this week 149. During the week seven workmen have been placed in private employment, and twelve in the pirblic works. The building trade is exceptionally busy, and the department cannot meet the requirements of employers in Auckland. A number of farm hands are required, especially boys and youths. There are applications on the Looks by 102 labourers, four farmhands, three storemen, three blacksmiths, three gardeners, three motor mechanics, two fitters, two electrk-al workers, and a tinvber-worker. A report received by the Auckland Automobile Association giates that two motor cars which attempted to cross the Rangiriris last week got bogged and had to be pulled out with the aid of the horse. A local cart also got stuck and was dug out with considerable difficulty. Motorists will therefore be well advised not to attempt to cross these hills until better reports regarding the condition oi the roads are received. The Rangitikei County Council has re ceived tenders for the erection of a bridg* over the Rangitikei River at Erewhon which will be an important link in tht line of communication between Taiha.pi and Napier, as the erection of the brid£< will enable the journey from Napier tc Taihape to be made in a few hours. Tin tenders received for the erection of th< bridge have been left for the chairmai and engineer to deal with. Arrangements are now being made bi the Piiblie Works Department to com mence the metalling of the new scctioi of the Rangiriri deviation during Sep tembcr, by which time it is estimate! the formation will be finished. The worl designed to improve the worst portion o the Great South Road between Hamiltoi and Auckland is rapidly nearing com pletion. At present there are about fift; tnen employed on the new work. T!u new section should be in good order fo traffic next winter. The Te Araroa correspondent of th "Poverty Bay Herald" writes: There wa consternation among the children th other day because our bird-catching tre (para para; Piseonia Brunomana) lia< with one hit, captured no fewer tha twenty little pihipilu, or blight birds. O one small twig there were four, stuc close together. When the children foun the little birds helplessly enmeshed i the sticky berries of the tree some wer dead and some still alive and strugslin; Since this interesting discovery the littl boys now break off a twig of the part para and stick it on another tree whic little birds frequent. In this wa sparrows and fantails are caugh* The Citizens' Intercessory Service being held every Tuseday in the Coneer Chamber of the Town Hall, from 12.3 to 1.30 p.m., are attracting a larg attendance of citzens. These service are non-sectarian, and are conducted b laymen shades of thought an opinion. They are purely intercessor on behalf of our city, country and natioi and consist only of song, reading an prayer. Citizens may enter or retire a any time during the servics. wheh an therefore, suited as well for those wh can attend for a few minutes only a for those who can remain a longer perio( The sudden death of an ejderly widov Mrs. Janet McLean Richards, occurre ' at her residence, William Street, Taki puna, on Thursday afternoon. An ir ■ quest wan held this morning when i ' was found that the deceased, who wa 76 years of age, had died t>f senile deca ■ and heart disease. It was stated at Masterton at a coi ; ference of local bodies that the cost c ) constructing a concrete road IS feet wid ' was about £§000 a mile, whereas a biti ' men road of the same width costs approx mately £1500 per mile.

Two shipments of raw sugar will arrive at Auckland during the coming week. The first will be a small cargo of 1500 tons of Fiji sugar from Lautoka, g which is being brought by the Union Company's steamer Kaikorai, due here to-morrow afternoon. Next Tuesday the Dutch steamer De Greve, which has been somewhat delayed by having to put into Sydney for repairs, will be due with a shipment of 4700 tons of sugar from Java. She left Sydney at 3 p.m. on Thursday. T n about a fortnight's time the Colonial Sugar Company's steamer ' Rona will be due with a full cargo of r, sugar from Fiji. She left Auckland on Wednesday evening for the Islands. f The farm lands adjacent to Matamata t: continue to draw favourable comment n from visitors. A party of American I 1 doctors who are on their way to attend [ o the Melbourne Scientist' Conference, in | ' passing through this week, were heard to | a compare the outlook to that of Illinois. I f< Tn conversation they said that they had r travelled both Islands of New Zealand. | a but had nowhere seen the growth of grass as on the country between Morrinsville and Matamata. "New Zealand is a marvellous-country, but with one outstanding bad feature," they said. Needless to say the latter was the railway facilities. The new courtroom recently built at the ftiprntne Court has some features advantageous in comparison with the old lone below. In particular does it get a j little sunshine. However, a jury this morning that had sat for an hour and a f half on a c-arse commented upon the un- t comfortable Beating accommodation, and c His Honor, Mr. Justice Herdman, said t that he would bring the matter before t the -Justice 'Department. ' A slight interruption in the running of the suburban train traffic occurred last evening through one of the engines of the 3.13 p.m. train from Auckland to ( Swanson breaking down near the Parnell signal box. The train was delayed about twenty minutes, during which ter- j porary repairs were effected to the engine, which was taken off on the eventual arrival at Newmarket. The only ( other trains affected by the accident ( were the 5.18 p.m. train to Papatoetoe, ( and the 5.42 p.m. to Mercer. . Asked as to the origin of the Basin ' Reserve sports ground in Wellington, Mr. 1 H. R. Baillio, chief city librarian, eaid that many years ago the intention was to , construct a canal from the sea right up | to that land, with the idea of making a - dock there. It was swamp land, but the , earthquake cau.-ed it to drain away, and it became the ißasin Reserve. The value of Canadian seed wheat is shown by the fact that recently half a million bushels were purchased by buyers in the Argentine Republic. A large quantity of seed wheat was recently sent from Saskatchewan to Russia, where it will be sown on the tievcrnment experimental farms. Mr. A. 0. Dickson. who judged the bagpipe music at the Dunedin competions, stated on Thursday that he understood the champion of Scotland bagpipe. I player was coming to New Zealand shortly, anJ would be present at the meetings this coming season, and players may confidently expect a revelation as far as the style and interpretation of Highland bagpipe music goes. A successful rabbit poisoning venture is reported from a Manawatu locality. The method employed was to spread carrots for three days and then set out further quantities of the vegetable im- ! pregnated with poison on the fourth day. J The result of one night's operations was : the death of ninety rabbits. Five miles from Perth, in "Lanark County. eastern Ontario, a deposit of high potash feldspar has been located, which gives much promise. Operations to date have been confined to a phenomenal dike of feldspar 1,000 feet long mid 30(1 feet wide. This mass risee to a height of from 40 to 60 feet above ihc main highway that intersects the property, and contains many thousands of tons of marketable feldspar— sufficient to supply the ceramic industry of America for a long time. The deepest mine in the world is in Brazil, at St. John del Rev. It has attained a vertical depth of 6726 ft. At , that depth the temperature of the rock is 117deg. Fahrenheit, necessitating a system of artificial cooling. The goldbearing ore at the bottom shows no signs of decreasing in volume. 'During a lecture on "The Dairying Industry in New Zealand," at Wellington, Mr. T. C. Brash (National Dairy Asso- , ciation) said that at the present time there were 500 dairy factories in the ', Dominion, and of these 450 were run ,on the co-operative system. He con- , sidered that the co-operative system had , been a great success, and he did not . think there was any likelihood of a . change. 1 Letters of naturalieation have been granted to eight foreigners including - three Serbians, and one each Russian, Greek Danish, German and Norwegian. ;i ' :