General News.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18525, 29 October 1925, Page 8

General News.

Complaints hare been made recently with regard to the- food provided in the Nurses' Home at the ChiLstchuic'u Hospital. At yesterday's meeting of the Board, the" chairman (Mr H. -I • Otley) .said that he had made a visit of inspection., and found that thS menu was quite satisfactory. Mrs Bishop, who suffered a fracture of the. skull and other injuries in a collision at a railway crossing on Tuesday night. at Hamilton, when a horse bolted into a train, succumbed at an early hour yesterday morniun. Mr Bishop escaped with severe Vtliscs. Mr and Mrs Bishop had been •married only a couple ot months.

The Tost and Telegraph Department was paying its way handsomely, and the telephone side was paying nearly G per cent., the Prime Minister said at Marton yesterday (telegraphs our correspondent;. The P. and T. Service was a very fine one, and was as cheap as any other such service in the world, far cheaper than Great Britain or Australia. Perhaps America was the only country which could compete with New Zealand in this respect. There is every prospect that strawberries will be plentiful during the corning season, states the "New Zealand Herald." A few crates have already reached the markets, but they will not come in in any quantity for two or three weeks. Last season the strawberry crop was very poor, owing to floods' and the extremely severe spring. Although th© weather conditions have not been good this season to date, the plants in most are bearing up well and look very healthy. The superintendent of the Sohvyn plantations reported to the meeting of the Board yesterday that fair progress had been made with the various works during the month, and n total of 325,705 trees had been supplied to the various plantations and to local bodies. Lin-ing-out work had been hurried on, and some 428,000 seedlings were removed from beds to the nursery lines. The propagation of hard woods would be carried out at a later date.

At a meeting of the Otago Cricket Association, a letter was received fjom the Canterbury Association in reference to an invitation to visit Dunedin during the season, arid stating that the Association would send a team provided satisfactory financial arrangements could be made. The secretary was instructed to reply that the Association was prepared to give the Canterbury Association 50 per cent, of the net profis for a match to bo played in Dunedin.

"There are only 2000 Maoris in the South Island, and they are not Maoris,''' said the Rev. J. T. Mac-William at the Auckland Anglican Synod. The South, Island Maoris, ho adder!, lived, likd p&kehas. At the time of the visit of the Prince of "Wales to llotornn. he ga/vo a sermon in Maori and in English. A party of South Island Maoris showed no interest in the Maori version, but followed the translation. They Ir.ter admitted that they knew very little Maori.

Recently the Amalgamated Engineering Union wrote to the Hon, G. J. Anderson, Minister, of Labour, urging that legislation should be passed to give effect to the recent pronouncement of the Court of Arbitration increasing the basic wage. A reply has been received from the Minister, who suggests that the Union should approach the employers concerned, and endeavour to arrive at an agreement with them in the matter of an increase in wages. The Union intends to giVo effect to the Minister's suggestion immediately. A peculiar after-effect of the war exists in Austria to-day. That once n_owet'ful Empire now finds itself over-sup-plied with medical practitioners, and is anxiously seeking an outlet for them. It is understood that the New Zealand Government has received an official communication enquiring whether it would be possible for these medical men to be admitted to the Dominion, and, if so, whether they would be eligible to accept public appointments in this country. The matter is at present receiving the attention of the Government.

Last year Anglicans in tho diocese of Auckland, which comprises 76 parishes, gavo iii offertories tho sum of £53,728 3s 3d. In the ordinary collections they gave £20,959 for the support of their pastors and tho Church generally. Subscriptions totalled £7652. .For missions and the -fighting fund of the dtoceso they gave in. all £5635. Had the plate- collections, mad© from seat to seat, been, given in nothing more, than threepenny pieces, some 4,208,253 coins would haive been counted by the wardens during tho twelro months. All but six churches* in. the diocese have abolished pew rents in favour of tho system of free and open churches, so that pew rents for the year ended March 31st, returned the comparatively insignificant sum of £687.

That the copra industry in Fiji is very good was stated by- Mr J. I>. Canning, of Suva, during a visit t»Wangaiiui. Copra,, ho added, was p, safe I investment, and always had been, al- ( though a. post had done some damage to the- plantations in one. island. An. introduced parasite had successfuily combated t3ie disease, ami it was probable that coconuts would again l>e planted in this particular place. In referring to fruit growing, the visitor explained that bananas were tho only block at tho present time. Australia \vrs not. now taking Fiji bananas, and New Zealand) could not consume all the fruit grown. The time had come, he considered, when Fiji would have to grade its bananas, and he believed the Government was taking steps in this direction.

Travelling throush New Zealand/' said Si r Finest Rutherford, while speaking at the Wellington Town Hall, "I have been more v.i\d more impressed with the great fertility of this country. New- Zealand is a 'land of promise such as I know- of nowhere, else. There is a great opportunity for young people to live a more prosperous life than in any other Dominion, and I hope that young people will appreciate that fact. One hears a great deal of criticism, perhaos not exactly criticism, of New Zealand bv New Zealanders. For instance, I ami told that New Zealand railways are a, long way behind those of other countries. I/ad.v Rutherford and I have .lust travelled down by the Limited, and we can say that; wo'have never had' a tnoro comfortable night's rest and journey. I will make no comparisons, tor comparisons are odious, but I have recently been travelling in Canada and Australia/■

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