General News.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18369, 30 April 1925, Page 8

General News.

During the pait week 32 men registered with the Labour Department as being unemployed, as compared with 22 the previous week. The registrations last week comprised 15 labourers, 3 storemen, 2 each electricians, drivers, farm hands, fitters, shop assistants, and 1 each clerk, mattress-maker, porter, and salesman.

The New Zealand Government has informed the Secretariat of the League of Nations of New Zealand's willingness to contribute timber for the panelling of one of the rooms in the new Assembly Hall of the League of Nations, which is yet to be built. This 'is the first offer of the kind received from any Government. "I am pleased to tear that the leagues of the South Island are in the future going to work closer together," said the Hon. A. F. Hawke in the course of his reply to the toast of Parliament at the League dinner at Invercargill on Tuesday evening in honour of the visiting delegates. "We have a long way to go to get abreast of the North Island, ond we need all the help that we can get from all parts of the South Island."

Typists, office-boys, telegraph messengers and business men stopped suddenly in Worcester street, by ' v i'he Press" office, shortly after five o'clock last evening to gaze at a No. 7 tram, the front step of which was dangling by a piece of iron. "The crowd pressed round, possibly hoping for a topic 10 brighten tea-table conversation. On investigation they found that a threeseater Ford car, driven by an Auckland visitor, had collided with the tram and knocked the step off. No one was hurt.

High maximum loads at the Lake Coleridge power staci'm and at the Addington sub-station continue to be recorded. For the week ended April 26th the maximum at the power station waß 12,980 k.w. (9SO k.w. in excess of the nominal capacity of the generating plant), and was recorded between 5.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. last Friday. On the same day, between ,6.30 p.m, and 7 p.m. maximum recorded at the Addington "stib-station was 10,380 k.w., as compared with 10,640 k.w. recorded between 4.30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on the 15th —the day of the "recent Btorm. Last week the lake level was at 1670.4 feet, and the inflow from the Harper river averaged 341 cusecs. Some interesting statistics with regard to the value of a tourist traffic to a particular country was afforded to the delegates at the Conference of the South Island Progress Leagues at Invercargill by Mr H. J. fought, who was one of the delegates for the Canterbury Progress League. In the course of his remarks, Mr Knight mentioned that the tourist traffic was worth some £27,000,000 to the Hawaiian Islands, while before the war, France benefited to the extent of over £100,000,000 arid Switzerland to some £66,000,000. So beneficial was the traffic to Switzerland that the inhabitants there paid no taxes, all of which were provided out of the 'money spent in the country by the visiting tourists. New Zealand had many attractions which were not to be seen in any other part of the world, and while he did not expect the tourist traffic to be as beneficial to the Dominion as in l the countries he had mentioned, they could do a great deal to build up the prosperity of New Zealand by attracting tourists here from year to year by an active policy of propaganda. Under the Apprentices Act, 1923, employers of skilled workers (other than in factories) were served with notices on the first of the present month to forward to the Labour Department certain information as to the number of apprentices employed By them. The form to be filled in calls for information as to tho number of owners personally engaged in the control or work of the occupation; the number of male apprentices (bound for a specified term to learn and bo taught the trade) as at April Ist; and.the number of journeymen employed for at least two-thirds full time during tile six months preceding April Ist. The object is to ascertain whether each employer has the full quota of apprentices permitted under awards and orders of the Court of Arbitration. The information was to nave reached tho Labour Department by April 24th. and as a number of employers have failed to forward it, action is contemplated. Tbc Act provides that an employer is liable to a penalty of £SO for Jailing to comply with the Department's re'auirements.

A start has been made with the ] structural alterations and additions to the Canterbury Automobile Assoeia- j tion's building in Worcester street. I The Christchurch Firo Brigade received a false alarm call to the corner of Durham and Salisbury streets at 10.40 p.m. yesterday. A Wellington telegram states that Captain Badcock, the coach brought out last year by the Wellington Cricet Association, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The patient who escaped from the Sunnyside MeDtal Hospital on Tuesday morning was arrested on the Rakaia railway station platform last evening by tho Ashburton police. Pinal notices have been served on factory-owners in and about Christchurch who have failed to register their factories as required by law. Proccedings are being instituted by the Labour Department in case;; where registration has not yet been made. An ounce of prevention . . . MeArthur's "Stop-It" prevents small colds from becoming big ones. This is "Stop-it" weather, so don't forget it. A few doses will loosen the cough find give instant relief. Sold everywhere in Is 9d and 3s bottles. McArthur's, Ltd., Chemists, McArthur's Corner. —1 Whilst in town call at Reid aud Gray's Showroom, Moorhouse avenue (near Railway Station), and inspect newly-design-ed Combined Drill, Tractor Ploughs, and display of modern Farm Implements 6 Ashbv. Borgh and Co., Ltd.. have just landed a full range of new Winter Sports Good? • Footballs, both Rugby and Association, Golf Clubs, Hockey Sticks, etc., From the world's leading markets, together with all accessories. Give us a call and compare our prices, you are sure to be satisfied. —6 Farmers are invited to inspect display of latest and best Farm Implements at Reid and Gray's Showroom, Moorhouse avenue (near Railway Station). See the newly-designed Combined Drill, Tractor Ploughs, Disc Harrows, etc., etc. Reid and Gray, Ltd. 6

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