General News.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19317, 23 May 1928, Page 8

General News.

On Friday morning The Press will publish a special Jubilee Supplement containing interesting historical articles telling of the City's difficult times in the past sixty years, and also of the much more frequent good times of remarkable progress of the City and province. As Lyttelton is also celebrating its Jubilee, articles have been included in the special number relating to the growth of the port. Thorrington street, off Colombo street South, in the Heathcotc County, at present is closed absolutely to traffic, and is being regraded. metalled, and rolled preliminary to being put down in a sealed paving. The work will be finished in ten days or so. All Government offices will observe Monday as a holiday, that being the principal day of the City Jubilee celebrations, and the Mayor (Mr J. K. Archer) has asked the citizens of Christchurch to follow suit. He has also requested business firms to decorate their premises by.-, flying flags from Saturday till Tuesday. Writing in the "Railways Magazine," on travel amenities in Australia, Mr G. S. Lynde, Chief Mechanical Engineer, says: "In the observation car by which I travelled it was a great asset to have a telephone placed on a writing table connected up with the city exchange right up to the moment of departure. This is now a common practice in Australia, and is greatly appreciated, particularly by business men, as it gives them an opportunity to keep in touch with their affairs. '< 1

Yesterday morning the heaviest frost so far this winter, was registered, there being 10.7 degrees. The previous heaviest was 10.3 degrees on May 7th. A social was held last week to bid farewell to Mr F. W. Jones, on the occasion of his departure from New Zealand. There was an unexpected surplus of £7 6s 6d. The committee has forwarded the money to Mrs J. C. Holmes, to be used for the Children s Fresh Air Homes on Cashmere Hills. For the last two years the depression in the timber industry has been felt very severely in the King Country, During the "last few months, however, the condition of the industry has improved considerably. _ Of the mills in the Taumarunui district, 31 are working full time again. One at Ougarue is working for five days in the week, and one at Raurimu is working half-time. Cathedral square is quickly donning its Jubilee robes, and long festoons of electric globes of many colours have already been placed in position. Over the tram shelter the world in miniature occupies a post of honour, and when the word is given the globe will spin merrily throughout the celebrations. The Government Buildings in the Square will shortly b© decorated, and greenery, flags, and other drapings will add to the joyousness of the occasion. On Saturday night the people of Christchurch will be given an opportunity of celebrating vocally the Jubilee of the City by community singing in Victoria square. The Mayor (Mr J. K. Archer) will preside and he will be sunported by Crs. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., H. T. Armstrong, M.P., J. W. Beanland, and'E. H. Andrews. Derry's Band will play the music and the leader of the band will officiate with the baton. Several members of the City Council inspected an area of 69 acres yesterday, proposed to be used in connexion with the Bromley Cemetery. The pro-, posal was, it is understood, the subject of discussion at a meeting of the Reserves Committee yesterday afternoon. City Councillors also inspected the banks of the lower part of the Avon yesterday in view of the boulevard scheme. The Commercial Travellers' Association has completed arrangements for the purchase of the modern brick building adjoining the New Zealand Express Company's block fronting Bond and Crawford streets, Dunedin. Many things have to be done, however, before a move can be made from the Dowling street quarters, amongst them the remodelling of the interior of the newly-acquired building, so as to turn it into an up-to-date clubhouse. The preisent club premises, which are verv large and commodious, are considered by many to be in an unsuitable position, hence the change. ■ —Pbess Service. "There has been a big change in the conditions of taxi proprietors. Our cars are heavily taxed and then, two or three months ago, came this 4d per gallon tax on petrol," said Mr W. Hayward at a sitting of the Conciliation Council yesterday. "We do not get a penny of it back," he added. "With the meters the charge is the same at 2 o'clock in the morning as at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. We used to have to pay £1 a year tax on a car. Now it is from £l2 to £l4. We are in the same position as the trams, which suffer from the huge numbers of bdcycles used." For the week endied on Monday afternoon there were 119 new registrations at the Labour Department's unemployment bureau. The total is now 355, making an increase of 28 on the previous week's tally. The Department has in the past week placed 22 men in employment—ls with the Public Works Department, two on other Government work, and five privately. Sixty of the total on the register are fit only for light work. Yesterday eight married and five single men registered, and work was found for three, who were privately placed. One hundred children from Christchurch schools are to be entertained at an Empire Day dinner in the Y.M.C.A. to-morrow night. The dinner, which will include an Empire plum pudding, is being given by two citizens who are Empire enthusiasts, and the children have been selected and recommended by their teachers. The object is to give the children some idea of what the British Empire is and what it stands for. There will be on exhibition some of the posters being used in connexion with Empire Shopping Week, and an appropriate address is to be given by a lady well qualified to speak on Empire subjects.

Shakespeare said: "Diseases desperate grown, by desperate remedies must be relieved." Don't let your rheumatism grow "desperate"; relieve it promptly by taking Hervea, a simple, but effective remedy, which when taken regularly for a few weeks,' drives the uric acid , out of the system. Equally good for sciatica, Neuritis, Sleeplessness, and all nerve trouble. Sole New Zealand importers, The Hervea Agency Co., Box 1154, Christchurch. A special window display is being made this week by Barnett and Co., Chemists, Cathedral Square. —1 In cultivation of land the plough share is a highly important item. We supply of our own make every variety in chilled cast iron to fit Hornsby, R.N.F., and Reid and Gray heads, to suit every sort of land, boulder country to soft swamp, also wrought and cast steel shares of all sorts and sizes. For prices see our 1928 catalogue. P. and D. Duncan, Ltd., Tuam street, Christchurch., —6 The 1928 model of a universally known receiver in kit form has just landed in Christchurch. Tlv ' the old type was acclaimed the last word in kits, the new type, with a change in circuit and apparatus, is even better than its famous predecessor. We refer, of course, to the Bremer Tully Power six kit. —6

Winter under modern conditions at very little expense can be made the most cosy and comfortable time of the year. A good hot water bag or bottle can be purchased for a few shillings from Messrs Ashby, Bergh, and Co., who specialise in winter comforts for the home; such things as:—Electric Badiators, Fireplace Kerbs, Fireside Companions, Pokers, Coal Vase and Buckets, Fire Screens, Hearth Brushes, Electric Lamps, all add to our comfort, and the cost is negligible. Ashby, Bergh, and Co., also show fire screens, spark guards, and nursery guards, necessary adjuncts at thia time of the year. —6 Mr A. W. Martin, the well-known Rupture Specialist from Dunedin, is now on his twenty-third annual visit to the centres of New Zealand. He is now at the White Hart Hotel, Christchurch, and may be consulted free until further notice, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. —1 J. Johnston and Son, Hardware Merchants, Rangiora, established 1863, solicit enquiries for all classes of General Hardware for household and farm? City prices guaranteed. Inspection invited. P.O. Box 1. 'Phone 4. —6 Made in New Zealand —also designed in New Zealand—the Claw Harrow has proven one of the greatest developments in modern agricultural practice of modern times. It embodies all the efficiency of earlier inventions, and embraces quite a lot of quite new ideas, valuable and very practicable, tool The Claw Harrow will do all that the_ usual cultivators and harrows will, do it better, and, moreover, will penetrate the hardest ground—ground that no other implement —plough, cultivator, or harrow—will touch. Of this we have indisputable testimony. Let us send you fullest detoiU. Booth, Macdonalu and Co., Ltd. — 8