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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 136, 10 June 1924, Page 4

i A decree nisi in divorce, on the ground ! 'of mutual separation for more than " tlirec yeirs, was granted Annie Florence .' Mem (Mr. West) to-day by Mr. Justice j Stringer. The husband, John James ; Mean (Mr. de la Mare) also filed a peti- ' j lion on similar grounds, but it was withdrawn. The parties were mirriej at ! X-oweastle-on-Tync in 11)04, and the wife I still lives there, her evidence being j taken on affidavit. Husband and wife , .had lived apart since 1913. j The Onehunga Borough Council decided I last evening, on the motion of the Mayor ' (Mr. <1., E. Co well), to tender hearty con- \ j gratulations to Sir James Gunson ou the j occasion of his being honoured with a '< } knighthood. Mr. Cowell made reference ,! to the valuable assistance given to Onehunga by Sir James, especially at the I time when the borough proposed to pave 11 the main street with concrete, and also .- in connection with the excellent tram j service between Onehunga and the city. j The announcement that the Royal ' Horticultural Society intends to ban 1 onions from the Chelsea flower snow, s | says an English paper, has produced a | crop of letters to the ■ Pre&> from lovers of "the most communicative and com- ' panionable of vegetables." One corres- ! pondent, after remarking that the ■ Pyramids were built on Egyptian onions, gives Dr. Josiah Oldfield as his authority 1 for this statement. He could have ■ quoted -an older authority for th.s , statement, for Herodotus mentions hay- ' ing seen an inscription on the Great : Pyramid to the effect that .1600 talents ■ went spent in the purchase of onions, : garlic, and radishes for the workmen t . who erected it. i "~ An accident, occurred at the . Newmarket Railway Workshops this morn- ' ing, resulting in injuries to an employee ; named Robert Pearson, aged 27, residing • at 6, Shoal Bay Road, Devonport. Pear- . son slipped between two lathes and ■caught the bottom = of '» one. which in- [ flitted a deep cut on his right knee.

! In discussing the proposal to construct j a waterfront highway via Kobson's Bay ! to OFakei. the Prime Minister yesterday • agreed that a scheme apportioning the , prospective cost of such a road should . be prepared and submitted to the Government- It was mentioned that a highway : 100 feet wide would tost £200,000. and tfotild take about three years to construct. Sir James Gunson informed the' Premier that provision for the necessary financial authority would be included in the City Council's Empowering Bill next session. To indicate the somewhat deplorable j state oi ailairs existing in some homes jin Christchurch, .Mrs. A. E. Herbert ji narrated, at the annual meeting of the j i Social Welfare Guild, the case of a small j I boy who. being ill, was given a. tem- | porary home with some kindly-disposed i people. When the time came for Jim ! to retire his hostess left him in his room, j and after an interval returned to make sure ail was right. Asking him where I his clothes were, she was astounded to 'i get the reply that he still had them on, j having put the suit of pyjamas provided j him over them. He had iiot been accus- j j tomed at his own home to take off his { clothes, but slept in them. He did not, know the taste of any other food hut bread and butter, or bread and jam, and it took him some time to get used to the liferent dishes he was offered- '"The unfortunate part,"-Mrs. Herbert added, "is that he goes back to the same surroundings a? before, the only difference being that he goes back in better health/, l '•How long may a. suit of clothes he | I worn'"' is a problem with as many answers as _ tailor's pattern book: "The ! glass of fashion and the mould of form" j with sartorial assessments for every 'occasion douotless scorns the year man, who clings to his homely tweeds as exterior adornment for weekday and Sunday alike, and only [ replenishes his wardrobe when baggy knees and worn elbows prod his pride. There was a distinct sigh of envy last night at the Devonport Fire Brigade inspection when the superintendent proudly pointed to one of the uniforms on parade as having seen continuous service for twenty-six years. Scatheless through fire, and unfaded by water, the j fabric was apparently as sturdy as when it left the loom, and, in comparison with other uniforms present, looked equally well. The superintendent -made the garment a. text upon which he based a plea for new equipment, comparing presentday material with the genuine old Bradford weave, greatly to the disparagement of the former. In support of ■ both his example and conclusions councillors present referred fondly to the corduroy and moleskins of their youth, as being likewise resistant of both wear and time, . with their protective virtue forever cherished as the schoolmasters' despair and the schoolboys' closest friend. "A few day 3 after the termination of the railway strike Messrs. H. T. Armstrong, D. G. Sullivan and J. McCombs, M.P.'s, telegraphed to the Hon. J. (_¥, Coates, Minister of Railways, regarding the non-employment of certain men in the Christchurch goods sheds" (says a Christchurch paper). "Mr. Coates promised to make inquiries into the matter, and Mr. Armstrong has received a fur(ther letter from the Minister stating that inquiries had been made and instructions had been given that the men concerned were to be considered for employment in the ordinary course as work became available. Commenting on -the Minisi tor's reply, Mr. Armstrong stated that I tlie inquiries seemed have taken, a j very long time to. make and meanwhile j the men had not been employed. He understood that one of the men. had been taken on last Week, but'in view of the Minister's reply they-all should have been considered for employment weeks, ago. At the meeting of the Auckland Institute in St. Andrew's Hall last evening Mr. Gilbert Archey, who recently took up the position of secretary and curator of the Institute . and ■ Museum, was introduced to members by Professor Segar. Mr. Archey, who was received with applause, expressed his appreciation of the honour of being associated with the citizens of Auck' | land in the various community services I wlu'ch would arise out of the activities of the Institute and the establishment of the Museum. A pin was dropped on a desk by a speaker at the dedication of the new building of the National Academy of Sciences and the Xational Research Council in Washington. That pin-fall was perhaps the most significant ana widely heard of-any in all history, j Without being warned to silence, every person ,in the high-domed, wide-winged: hall plainly heard the pin as it struck the woodwork. Thousands of 'radio listeners hundreds of miles away also heard. Specially designed artificial stone walls made the sound, dear, distinct, without those hollow echoes . which characterise high vaulted buildings of the past. That pin-fall sounded an engineering triumph in the longneglected science of acoustics.