GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16313, 10 September 1918, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

1 The following stock were slaughtered at the City Abattoir last month, tho figures in parentheses representing those condemned: —Cattle 992 (14), sheep 9088 (18), lambs 503, pigs 890 (6), calves 223 (6). In this week's issue of the "Referee" there is some interesting comment on thfe matches played by tne Canterbury Rugby football representatives in Wellington and Dunedin. The review of tho past season's League football in Christchurch is concluded, and there are also 6ome notes on the Canterbury v. South Canteibury representative hockey match. Fourteen building permits, representing £8185. were issued by tho City Surveyor last month. Seven permits, representing £6215, were for the Central Ward, three, representing £1650 St. Albans, two, representing £450. for' Linwood, and two, representing £170, for _ Sydenham. For the corresponding period of last year 30 permits, representing £19,755, were issued. Reference to the widening of Stanmoro road at its junction with Cashel street was made last evening in the City Council. _ Cr. Fleshor remarked that it was quite clear that not enough j land had boen secured for the purpose. Cr. Boanland said the land had been taken by the Council and Tramway i Board jointly. Later in the evening Cr. Ell urged that the Council, wherever possible, should widen tne ap- 1 proachos of narrow streots. "Soon the Mayor will have to rise to roceive the councillors," remarked the c Mayor of Christchurch (Mr H. Holland,) ■ to Cr. Williams a& a number of coun- *• cillors filed into the Council CJiamber * two or three minutes after the appoint- J ed starting hour Inst night. At half- : past seven the Town Clerk had flung ! wide the Council donr and announced 1 "His Worship the Mayor,'' but there*- e was only one councillor present (Mr E. 5 J. Howard) to receive him. It has been. J noticeable at pevor.il meetings of the Council lately that the majority of the c Council troop in after the Mayor ar- f rives. t At the meeting of the Council of the a Chamber of Commerce, held yesterday, -j a letter was received from the town if clerk, Lyttelton, asking for the sup- £ port of the Chambor in urging the Rail- p, way Department to have the Lyttelton k tunnel made available for use by tho t, public at night. It was regretted that f( the Council could not sunport this sug- o gostion, as it was considered not ad- f visable that unauthorised nenpTe should f, be allowed to use the tunnel after tho f ] last passenger train had gone through, h In addition, gjoods and special trains <:' travelled during tho night, and the use di by pedestrians of tho tunnel -would be , r dangerous. > • The City Council last ovopi' n g received w an application from tho "Our D.iy" tf Amical Committee for permission to 111 utilise th.it portion of Hereford street a between Colombo street and the Avon ns a site for stalls on Wednesday. On- 0 j toher Ifith. It proposed that tho stalls be erected either on each side or 0 f in the centre of tho roadway, and that that portion of the street l)e closed to all vehicular traffic, etceptine that cnnnectcd with the Pc«t Ctico. the hours of 8 a.m. and 7 n.m. The reason t t". for asking that a portion of the street should bn blocked was with a view to ' turning the street into n Red Cross fair. This it was thought wo».H attract more people into the <Tty. w uld be mere con- i venient for buyers, and would simplifv ! the decorative scheme. Tho Council • ar granted the request. . I ot The Mayor (Mr H. Holland) inform-' mi ed the City "Council Jast evening that ed ho had made enquiries regardiii j tne sei coal and firewood quesliun, which was fo; discussed by the Council a fortnight aii ago. He had communicated, he said, mi with the Inspector of Weights and wn Measures, but they said they had to tu jurisdiction except to see that the trc weights were correct. He had com- tot municated with the police, but they te« stated, that they had no jurisdiction, hif He had communicated with the Under- in* Secretary of Internal Affairs, and / e effi had received a telegram from the deHon. G. W. Russell stating that tne oa? question was bei:i : ; considered, and he res hoped to be able 'shortly to announce res remedial measures. Something, there- pri fore, his Worship said, was for done, at any rate. He ■ was now tea communicating with the Health De- of partinent. , dcr\

at I The City Council's Reserves Com e-' mittee reported last night that th 30 track proposed to be formed at the bac a{ j of Victoria Park, to enable picknicker : to got down to the adjacent gully, wil i be put in hand as soon as the plantin, at Bottle Lake is finished. '<3 Entries for the Canterbury Hort rh | cultural Society's Spring Show clos 10 . with tho secretary next Monday over j ing at 8 o'clock, at 7 Baker's Builc ings, Manchester street. The men I bers of the Societv have been invite ig jto visit the president's garden c > Otrhuna. Tai Tapu, on Saturday. IS ladies of the New Brightoi ie Methodist Church, after months of pre [S paration. arc advertising a salo of worl :1 t the Pier Hall. _ The proceeds are ti T* existing interest-bearing liabilities on tho church and parson I age. iln this worthy object thev hav! i- been assisted by the Men's Guild.' Then will bo various attractions for old am voiin-g, the Mayor (Mr F. Kibble s white) will open the sale of work at : ;S p.m. to-morrow. Mr J. A. Frosticlc. Canterbury Com i- missioner on the National Efiinenn e Board, informed a reporter yesterdnj u that in tho morning he had fixed un satisfactorily, details in connexion witl a soldier's business. This involvec e making certain suggestions to tho<=e on •f gagod in the same trade as the soldier t j and Mr Frostick expressed the opinior , that when the suggestions were, formally submitted to them they would 1 adopt them. Territorial officers, whether voluncl teers or balloted men, who have not t gone into camp, will be sent in as noncommissioned officers in batches, the selection to be made by District Headquarters. _ The first bateh from Canterbury will leave Christ-hurch for s Trcntham on September 17th, and the r second on October 18th. Those whesr P commissions aro dated prior to Scptem- . her Ist, 1916, or hold the rank of cap--1 tain in the Territorial force, will be s posted a>s temporary sergeants, and tho i others as temporary corporals. 1 The City Council were discussing b amendments to the by-laws last night j and Cr. Flesher was speaking, when Cr. Jill made an interjection. "Cr. ' Ell has nothing at stake; if he owned 1 land he would know better," was Cr. i Flesher's method of dismissing the 1 interjection. Cr. Ell said he did noi . see why personal matters should creep > in. Cr. Sullivan rose to a point of order. It did not matter, he said, ! whother Cr. Ell possessed or did not ■ possess land, Cr. Flesher's remark .vas , quite irrelevant to the debate. The Mayor (Mr H. Holland) said ho could hardly rule Cr. Flesher's remarks out 1 of order. An interesting experiment in connexion with the organisation of agri- * cultural work among comparatively un- • skilled toachers has been made in Vic- . toria (says tho Melbourno "Argus"). Groups of teachers who have shown special aptitude have been brought into schools of instruction in agriculture of a few weoks' duration. Each teacher has then been appointed an adviser to a group of about ten neighbouring schools. He suggests experimental work to be carried out in all tho school gardens of the group at the same time and ' under tho same conditions. Ho pays occasional visits to each of the other schools, tnd can be consulted by tho other teachers on any points that present difficulty. The results are considered so good that the system is rapidly extended. The recent conference of Directors of Education considered that the practice might be adoptod with advantage wherever settlement is sufficiently close to make it practicable. Tho system has the great advantage that the adviser is actually a teacher who is himself carrying out, under working conditions in his own school j and school garden, all tlmt he advocates.' Several affairs of Now Zealand and local interost that were suitable subjects for the camera have occurred since the last printing of the "Weekly Press,' 1 and aro reproduced in the issue to be obtained to-day. Chief -.among them is undoubtedly the pictorial representation of the officers a net's noncommissioned officers' refresher, camp for Senior Cadets, at Burnham, which was inspected by Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Sleeman, I.G.S. An attractive array of photographs is engraved that will bo seen with pleasure, especially by men at tho front, who have bßen associated in some way with the schools concerned. An energetic committee successfully conducted Violet Day in Christchurch, in aid of the Red Cross Hostel, and tho scenes of activity in the city provide a pago of pictures. The Ladies' Walking Race, to boom the Tramway Copper Trail, is recorded in the •illustrations. and a page each is gfver. to the interprovincial hockey match, Canterbury v Auckland, and the League football match, Ponsonby v. Sydenham. There aro a good number of war pictures, the most notable of which is asketch of the one-time German liner Vaterland converted into an American transport under the name of the Leviathan. The superannuation of its employees was again discussed by the City Council last evening, when Cr. Taylnr moved - a motion(1) Authorising the Town Clerk to distribute among the Council's employees the National Provident < Fund's circular setting forth tho bene- ( fits to local body employees; (2) ask- ] ing each employee to signify his will- . mgness to join, or otherwise, in tha , event of the Council adopting the scheme; and <3) arranging for Mr R. * E. Hayos, Superintendent of the Nation a] Provident Fund, to address a 1 combined meeting of the Council and J employees. In seconding tho motion, J the Mayor (Mr H. Holland) suggested u that other local bodies the Drain- i agtf Board and the Fire Board might i join in with the Council in a scheme. 1 discussion ensued. Cr. r Burgoyne epitom-'sing the views of soma i councillors by sr.ying that ho wanted to c know fir c t what ilie scheme was going J te cost the ratepayers. If thrv waited l v For other local bodies tn" join* in s might have to wait indefinitely. Cr. 11 raylor, in reply, stated that in regard m r-o the National Provident schemo ib iid rot matter whether the other local iqdios came in or not. He bad not the ~'j tfst <Jf"ibt that if the City Council t hd adopt the scheme they could easily n nako" reciprocal arrangements with w )the r local bodies. Cr. Tnv'or's nr-tion p .vns earned, with an addition by him << hat Mr Sroft Baker ho invited to sub- o nit his schome along the same lines ab & i later date. i The ro-ent conference in Melbourne t >f Directors of Education discussed the luestion whether tho present .systems if education were calculated to produce u he elucient citizen that was noeded in t uccnocratic community (savs tho tfelbourne ".Argus"). It was suggest- W d that the man who had not acquired 1U lie habit of independent thinking, and i-as easily influenced by any specious 1 rgunient, was not a satisfactory citi- a on in a democratic State. Read-Tv-vrayed masses of men who had no d'e- C ' nite opinions of their own, and were crustomed to have their minds made r p for them, and to repeat tho viowfi of , thers. were a real dancer to tho com- m lunity. President Wilson had point'l out that the great obioct of tho pro?nt war was to make the world safe ir democracy, and it should bt> the im of oducation in the meantime to tako democracy safe for the world. It • as felt that in schools as consti- |i 1: ited at present there was too much •c-atment of children in the maps, and I t, io little study of the individual. Class I mching had been doveloped to a very I J. 1 - igh pitch of excellence as a means or J istruction. but was not bv itself an oa Ficient instrument for assisting in the ! In f ( jvelopmont of the individuality of j ich pupil. Its deficiencies in "that ispcct were accentuated by the un- ' lasonablo sn2o of the classes in most •imary schools, and bv the fact that, r the_ majority of children, schooling ased just at the ape when the power <%oi independent thinking -was rapidly as ►voloping. (do

n- j Tho Electricity Committee reportod ie I to the Citr Council Inst evening that -k it liad received a fresh set of demands rs I from the Christchurch branch of tho ill Amalgamated Society of Engineers reig lating to rates of pay, conditions of labour, etc. The matter had been roferred to the Conciliation Council, so which would sit to-morrow, 11th inst., n l nnd a sub-committeo had been appointcj_ ed to deal with tho matter. 11- Complaint was made in tho City ?d Council last night bv Cr. Loasbv rest garding what he to;-mod tho abuse of shop blinds by tradespeople in the city. n Ho considered that they should bo better controlled by the by-laws. At pre!jT sent it was possible to liavo a coveredin walk without one being able to see „ tho other side of the street. This, he , £ claimed. wns not right. A tradesman . g could just as easily put the blind on his window instond of on the verandah. ( | The Mayor (Mr H. Holland) agreed with Cr. Loasby that the use of shop o blinds bad been abused, and he I thought, sppaking from memory, that the by-laws provided that they must I>~< at such a height that a person could v pass ninlcr them without stooping. Cr. y Loasbv said one could go down any street in Christchurch and find n dozen i h cases of the sort complained of. All coughs, recent or chronic, in I" young or old, yield to Loasby's Stop It. Grocers and chemists. 1 i- Quick Optical Repairs—When your d eyeglasses get broken, it is most important that you shou.d got the correct lenses titled again. We have the ranl" chinery ami large stock essential for eorreot optical repairs. Waiter J. Watson, D.B.U.A. (London), Expert Optician. 3 ® | Yon can depend up.n everything ~ being done pi;u.i.ptly and well if you only hand your shipping documents to 'J. M. Hey wood and Co., Lid, They are recognised as experts at this work. Telephones '250, 1241, nnd 2174. 6 '•Thinker's'' favourite and "Golden e Iiulo" Writing Tablets. Splendid value. 0 Is each. Whiiconibo and Tombs, Ltd. 2 WANTED—SECOND-HAND ? "TiUI'MPH" AND "U.S.A." * MOiOR-CI'CLES. We are prepared to make particularit ly good allowances on second-band . Triumph, U.S.A., or Excelsior niotore cycles, taken in part-payment for the t latest model B.S.A.'s and Excelsiors, p We have just received good shipments r of tho latest military model 4i h.p. ifj speed B.S.A. (single cyi.), and of the t powerful twin-cylinder three-speed Exs celsior. Further shipments of either P make are unlikely in the present con--1 dition of shipping facilities, and prices t will undoubtedly rise. The price today for either B.S.A. or Excelsior is £105, with lamp and horn complete. < Purchase now, before the price goes up. Adams, Ltd.. High street. 6 FOR SALE—FOUR. SECOND-HAND ; MOTOR-CYCLES. ; ! Here are four real bargains: 3j h.n. , , Triumph (1394), £16; 3| h.p. Norton , (1016), £15; 4 h.p. 3-speed James, . countershaft (1182), £45; 3J h.p. ■ Triumph, recent model, free engino , (1397). £30. On view to-day. Adann, i Ltd., High street. g | (