GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16852, 4 June 1920, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

A meeting of the War Memorial Executive Committee will be held in the City ConncH Chamber this afternoon, at 4 o'clock.

A sitting of the Magistrate's Court was held at the Police Station .yesterday, when three first offending inebriates were each fined ss, in default, 24 hours' imprisonment, by Mr J. H. Seager, J.P.

About the only public office that did not observe a whole holiday yesterday was the Canterbury Education Board. This was due to the fait that thuf monthly meeting of the Board is to bo held to-day, and it was found impracticable to postpone it, or the meetings of committees which are held before the monthly meeting. The hol:day is to. be made up to tho members of the office staff.

A donation of £25,000 has been voted to the Auckland Museum War Memorial Fund by the Trustees of the Auckland Savings Bank. This brings the total amount presented to the fund to date to £52,000, the Government having granted a £25,000 subsidy and the Racing Club having given £2000. It is estimated (telegraphs our correspondent) that the cost of the new Museum, which is to be erected on Observatory Hill, in the T>omain, will be between £100,000 and £125,000, according to the prices wliicli will have to be paid for building materials, labour, etc.

"I am sorry to say that the secondary schools have not entered into the spirit of taking up the game with really more enthusiasm and vim," remarked the chairman (Mr Munckton) at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Football Association at Wellington on Tuesday night. "I am firmly convinced that the boy going to college should have a free choice as to which game ho is to play. We should have free trade as far as our games are concerned." In concluding his remarks on the subject, Mr Munckton urged that it should he made possible for a hoy to make his own choice, and play the game for all that it is worth.

Yesterday, being the King's birthday, was observed as a general holiday. The weather in comparison with its recent performances was good, cold, of course, as was only to be cxpeeted at this time of the year, but not wet. An easterly breeze blew througout the day. which steadied the weather conditions con ider. ably. Two open-air attractions were provided for the holiday, the Canterbury Park Trotting Meeting, and the hockey tournament in South Hagley Park, and both were largely attended. Many city people also took advantage of the tolerable weather conditions to make trips to the seaside and the Cashmere Hills, while the indoor entertainments at the various theatres, both during tho day and in the eveniilg were crowded. Otherwise the holiday held no outstanding features

Under the heading "New Church, the St. Mary's, Merivale, Parish Magazine for the current month states: —

"There has been a lull in our rainpaign. The rise in the cost of _ building, and event after event' in social life during the past three or four months have practically stopped all aggressive work. On June 14th, however, the Building Committee is to meet and make definite plans for the future. The first step will be the appointment of an architect who will be asked to prepare a plan. The plan will doubtless bo submitted to tho parishioners so soon as it is ready. It is unlikely, one imagines, that tho building will be begun within twelve months, but probably all will agree that we should gather in as soon as possible all the money we shall require. Tho Sooner we get the money, the more.wo shall have when we come to pay it out. In the meantime," adds the vicar, "wo wonder whether anyone would like to provide the paint for repainting the old church. The need is only too manifest."

. The 1920-21 edition of Stone's Canterbury, Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland Directory, a copy of which lias just come to hand, is an invaluable book, which must necessarily prove of the greatest u=e_ to all branches of the community. Now in its nineteenth year of publication, the directory, which emanates from Dunedin, has long heen an established asset of the majority of business firms, few of which can afford to bo without it. Its great value lies in its accuracy, and each year the greatest pains are taken by" the proprietors to preclude any possibility of errata. As usual, the latest issue gives a very complete record of all things commercial, municipal, and general pertaining to the Canterbury and Westland districts, names and addresses having been compiled by means of a house-to-house canvass, and other information having been obtained from official and other reliable sources. In order to facilitate the finding of names, a number of references, nc&rlv 1000 in all, are given throughout the alphabetical division, enabling a person looking for a name of which ho knows the pronunciation only, to find the information needed without trouble. Besides being a directory, tho publication is 'practically a year book, and contains a New Zealand Annual,, consisting ot a comprehensive and useful almanac, and a vast amount of commercial, statistical, and general information relating to the Dominion as a whole, uoii bound in green cloth and gold, it is a welcome and necessary addition to any up-to-date library.

The increased cost- of _ living affects the members of the medical profession in common with all other of the commuTiity, and the Otago division of the British Medical Association, New Zealand branch, have decided to increase professional fees. The increase takes effect forthwith.

The Rev. W. A. Keay, vicar of St. Sepulchre's Church, Auckland (formerly of Wellington, has announced that he will relinquish his duties as vicar on Sunday, 13th- He said he had handed his resignation_ to the B-shop about a year ago, and owing to ill-health he could no longer continue in charge of the parish.

Dt. F. W. Hilgendorf. of Lincoln College, delivered the third of his series of five lectures on "Grasses." in the Biological Department of Canterbury College, last evening. Notwithstanding the holiday, there was an attendance of ever 30, and the lecture was listened to with the greatest attention. Dr. Hilgendorf continued his account- of different grasses, explaining the peculiarities atid general aspects of a number of varieties suitable for Canterbury and various other parts of New Zealand, and pointing out the effect of climatic conditions on their'suitability for local purposes. He also mado a number of suggestions as to grasses suitable for the foothills, end for growth amongst tussock, etc. Dr. Hilgendorf's lectures are proving very beneficial to all interested in pastures, in seeds, in Gardening, and in agriculture generally.

"'On one occasion, when I was visiting a hospital/' 1 said Dr. Valintine in his address to the Hospital Conference at Wellington, on Tuesday, "I noticed a man under treatment in the institution who. from my personal knowledge, was worth a considerable sum of money. On his expressing his irreat satisfaction with the _ treatment that had been afforded him, I sup-gested that he should give tho Hospital Board a handsome fee for his maintenance. I was very much surprised to learn that he had only paid a maintenanee fee at the rato of £1 a week. As a Hospital Board is entitled to make patients pay for their maintenance, according to their- means, the Hospital Board,. very naturallv, sued the patient for a larger fee. The Masrist-ratc ruled that, as the amount under tho by-laws of the hospital concerned was £1 maintenance fee, the patient could only be made to pay that fee."

A stuffy feeling in the head, accompanied by a general depression of the spirits, is jrenerallv the first symptoms of a cold. Tiitf safest course is to always keep a bottle of Lc- >y's "Stop It" in your home, and so check both cold and courrh at its onset. Is 9d, 3s, and 5s Gd, all chemists and stores. Lonsbv and Co., Chemists (opp. Uallantyne's). G

A land sale of more than ordinary interest will be conducted by Messrs 11. Matson and Co., in conjunction with I'vne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., in Messrs Matson's sale rooms on Wednesday next at 1.30 p.m. The property to be offered by auction js the well-known "Park View'' farm, situated within two miles and a half of the Waikari township. The land is admittedly of very fine quality indeed, and is worth an"-,xwp-tionalJy large sum per acre. It will be offered in nine subdivisions, and the terms arc most reasonable, being 10 per cent, on the fall of the hammer, 10 per cent, on possession, and tho balance in five years at 5A per cent. It is anticipated that much interest will be taken in the sale, and that such a valuable property will bo much., sought after. 0 Pilkington's Motors are now running, Christchureh-Akaroa, at 30s return. 6 Christchurch husbancTs seem to have taken a fresh lease of life since .their wives commenced "jumping for joy" because "No Rubbing" Laundry Help washes all clothes clean without rubbing or injury. 6 Here is evidence that Armstrong's mean business when they say millineryprices shall come down. X isw examples will prove to anyone who calls how drastic are these reductions. No half measures at Armstrong's solid prices slashinsr. Smart Trim nod Millinery for ladies, well worth 425, cut down to 21s, the very latest for present wear. A bargain in young ladies' Ready-to-wear Felts, in all the new shapes and colours, worth easily 295, going for 12s Gd. At Armstrong's only. 7

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