General News.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19665, 8 July 1929, Page 8

General News.

We have received os fro-n '-Help'-' foi the Coronation Hospital Wireless Fund. There ware no fresh notifications of scarlet fever made to the Christchurch Health Office on Saturday. The "Church Ne*s states that the Provincial Council Chamber will again be placed at the disposal of the dioceso for tlie Synod in October. The Synod will open on October 22nd. While playing football on Saturday afternoon, a youth, residing at 242 Stanmore road, W Seymour, sustained a fracture of the left leg. He was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital.

The Mam Highways Board having decided not to increase its subsidv to meet the cost of drainage necessary to make a reduction in the crossfnll, the reconstruction of Page's road has been held up. So suitable was last week's weather for flying that the Canterbury Aero Club "was able to give flights to new members every day. The actual flying time for the week was considerably more than has been enjoyed by the club since its commencement. The Waikato Synod was concluded on Friday night. A motion of censure against. Canon Kayll for writing an article in "New Zealand Truth" was allowed to lapse. Canon Wayne announced his resignation of the eanonry, but he will retain the vicarage at Waihi.—Press Association. Nine men's coats were stolen by a thief who broke into the premises of the New Zealand Clothing Co. in St. Asaph street some time on Friday night. The goods, which were valued at £l3 or £l4, are in an unfinished state, and will therefore be of little use to the thief. Entry was effected by forcing a side door which opens from an alleyway. It is probable that a party of school children from the West Coast will visit Christchurch next month to attend the Winter Show and Exhibition. It is thought that the Railway Department would be prepared to grant concessions to the children and adults accompanying them, and that the visitors would be billeted for one night in Christchurch, returning to their homes the following day. It was decided some time ago by the executive of the Christchurch real estate agents that from June 30th last no more 'For Sale" boards were to be erected, except in respect of empty sections and unoccupied " houses. Mr C. E. Jones, president of the Real Estate Institute, stated on Saturday that all the firms concerned were doing their part in observing the new rule, and that he understood no further boards had been erected, while many had been removed. Since the last cataloguing, about twenty volumes have been stolen from the reference section at the Chri.-t----church Public Library. Tins fact wvs revealed to the librarian, Mr E. J Bell, during the past week, when the hooks in this section wero being catalogued. Books on mechanics, busmrss, advertising, home science, and other subjects have disappeared. One book taken during the last week is Kingsford Smith and Ulm's description of their Pacific flights. Another aviation book nissing is an American textbook by Page. A youth aged 16 years appeared in the Children's Court on Saturday on two charges of riding a bicycle on the footpath, and also of giving a wrong name and address It was stated that he had knocked down a small girl. He had been fined for a similar offence before. The Magistrate (Mr H. A. Young) said that if it were not for the fact that the boy needed the bir cycle for work he would have stopped him from riding it altogether. For giving a wrong name he was fined ss, and on the other two charges he was convicted and discharged. Possibly the person who told the world that "love is blind" had in mind a newly-married couple who have their home at Pakowhai, near Napier. They were married recently, and left their new home on an extended honeymoon tour. On Wednesday evening several Pakowhai residents noticed that the electric lights in the house were burning, despite the fact that the place was supposed to be untenanted. All doors and windows were locked, so that there was no way of forcing an entry. All day Thursday the lights again burnad brightly, and further efforts on the part of neighbours to extinguish them were fruitless. The lights were still going strongly on Friday, and the question exercising the minds of the neighbours was whether it would be cheaper to get the Power Board authorities to make a sj>ecial trip to Pakowhai to cut off the current from outside or leave the lights going and the young couple to face the bill on their return.

A striking exhibit in the Franklin court at the Auckland Winter Exhibition is a pure white stuffed pheasant, an extremely rare bird which periodically makes its appearance when the sporting resources of Franklin County are displayed. Pheasants of pure white plumage in New Zealand are exceptional, although albino birds are occasionally seen. At an Auckland Winter Exhibition nearly twenty years ago Whangarei had a court, and managed to stage a pheasant which was, with the exception of a few grey feathers, nearly an equal to the Franklin curiosity. Tn hi living days it was well known in the Whakapara district, and for several seasons sportsmen pursued it in vain. Up at fcaihu, in Hobson County, a hotelkeeper, who has a museum on the premises as a hobby, also possesses a freak pheasant. The stuffed bird measures 4ft from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail. It was shot near Kaihu.

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