General News.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18400, 5 June 1925, Page 8

General News.

J v The District Health Officer, Dr. T. F. Telford, was notified of a further suspected case of infantile paralysis yesterday. Tho patient is a girl of 19 years residing in Thorrihgton street, Cashmere.

The Labour Department's figures show.that last week 20 men registered in Christchurch as unemployed, as compared with 25 in tho previous week. Of last week's quota, 11 men were found employment. For the five weeks ending Juno Ist, 112 men hqve registered in Christchurch as unemployed. After an armed neutrality which has been in existence for Bome months how, thero will' bo a revival of open competition to-day between tho Tramway Board and the inter-city service. A tramway bus will bo. placed on the Brighton service to-day, and a further vehicle will join it in the service next week. In addition, rover cars will be placed on the lino. These will iiot keep any special timetable, but will run when there are. sufficient passengers to warrant it.

One of the Christchurch Tramway Board's new Tilling Stevens buses was run for the first time on the Shirley route yesterday. The other vehicle 6f the same make will probably be ready for service next week. The new bus is of the one-man type, and can be operated solely by the driver who controls the mechanism for opening and closing the door in the front of the bus. An emergency door is also situated at the rear. > The motive power is provided by an electric" petrol engine and two powerful brakes give adequate control in case of emergency. The maximum load at the Lake Coleridge power station during the week ended May 31st showed a decrease on the maximum of the previous two weeks. The maximum last week was 13,200 k.w., registered between 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, as compared with 13,480 k.w. for the previous week. "At tho Addington sub-station the maximum load last week was 11,340 k.w., registered between 4.30 and 5 p.m. on Tuesday, as compared with 11,080 k.w. for the previous week. The lake level was 1670.25 ft last 1 week (previous week 1670.35 ft), and the average inflow from the Harper Kiver wns 237 cusccb (previous week 274.2 cusecs). All equipment in tho service was in good order. . • If a car belonging to a member of a local body is used for the business of that body, the maximum payment is sixpence per mile, and the maximum payment cannot exeeed £lO jter annum. This information was conveyed to the Waitemaia Electric Power Board recently in a letter received from the Government Audit Department (reports tho Auckland "Star"). The Board's committee has replied, pointing out that this imposed a great hardship, inasmuch as it cost three times as much, to use hired taxis, but the Department's answer to this wai that the Department was not concerned with economy, and recommended that the Board should advise boroughs interested that they should refer their accounts to the Audit Department before making payment. The chairman (Mr Haydeh) considered that it was absurd that in a case of urgency when a member's car was ÜBed for the Board's business he could only charge sixpence a mile. "Why, the Board cannot pay him 30s for what a taxi-driver might want £3O for." Mr Greenslade pointed out that the law had to be complied with, otherwise it meant the disqualification of & member. The matter dropped with the remark of the chairman that any member who provided the use of his car in future could receive only sixpence a mile.

By proclamation in the "Gazette," April 21st, 1926, has been fixed as the date for taking the next census in New Zealand.

The "Gazette" announces his Majesty's assent to the Shipping and Seamen Act Amendment Act, 1924, which was operative from June Ist, 1925.

After a long and memorable record of service in connexion with the affairs of the New Zealand Law Societies, Mr Francis Harrison, of "Wellington, is about to retire.

At a meeting of the trustees of the Dunedin Savings Bank held yesterday, it was decided to make the following donations out nf profits:—£7no to the Patients' and Prisoners' Aid Society, and £7?O to the Dental School in connexion with Otago University. Three nominations have been received for tho position of Commissioner representing the southern district on the Waimnkariri Piver Trust. The election is necessitated through the retirement of Mr C. H. Opie, and the poll will take place on Wednesday. Those nominated are: James Arthur Flesher, Henry Paterson, and Henry Edward Pcryman. Only one candidate will be elected.

Auckland is going ahead rapidly from a telephonic point of view. Some seventy applications on the overage are being received weekly for installation of telephones, and the anticipate the completion of a scheme of telephonic communication early next year which will give Auckland the most comprehensive telephone system in New Zealand or Australia. The number of applications for telephones in hand on March 14th, tho date of the cut-over from the. old manual system to the automatic, system, was 1060, all for exclusive lines. Up to the end of, May, 929 of these had been joined up. At the present time there are some 500 people waiting for telephones to be installed. The rush of applications has greatly exceeded expectations, and is greater than at any previous period in the telephone history of Auckland. Two runaway horses and a van managed to smash into the telephone box at the corner of Colombo street and Bealey avenue yesterday afternoon. Hugh Arthur Yardley, employed by MeClatchio and Co., coal merchants, was driving the van north along Springfield road at about 4.30 p.m. when one of the horses stumbled, and caused the driver to lose the reins. In an attempt to recover them Yardley fell between the horses, but h© was lucky enough to escape serious injury. The horses bolted, and Yardley picked himself up and followed them. The van was brought to a standstill by colliding with tho telephone box and trees at the corner of Colombo street and Bealey Avenue. The horses were uninjured and the van undamaged. Yardloy was treated at the Christchurch Hospital' for abrasions, and allowed to go home.

There was quite a stir last week at McArthurs, the Chemists. The recent cold, wet weather had caused a large N number of coughs and colds, and crowds just naturally came in for their usual boWle of "Stop It" —the mighty cough remedy. The wonderful confidence in "Stop It'- shown by thousr ands proves its excellence. Buy your bottle to-day—2s. 6d and Is 6d everywhere. 2 Ladies will welcome the news that Armstrongs have purchased the complete- stock of beautiful model hats of Eosina Price. This was bought at a ridiculously low price, and the savings are handed on to our many customers. Beautiful Imported Model Hats that were usually marked 45s to 49s 6d are now all offering at 7s 6d. These really highrgrade hats from Paris and London are the last word in cxclusiveness. Also a number of dainty, untrimmed hats ranging from Is lid. Pay an early 'visit to the millinery showroom, and see for yourself the' great savings. —6