General News.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19669, 12 July 1929, Page 10

General News.

Two eases of scarlet fever hi the Waimairi county and one in the Wainiate county were notified to the Medical Officer of Health yesterday. A contract has been let to Messrs J. and W. Jamieson for the erection of the new block of sis class-rooms at Christ's College. Robert McMillan, dairy farmer, of Kaiapoi, has been adjudged bankrupt, and a meeting of. his creditors will be held in the Official Assignee's office, Christchureh, at 11 a.m. on July 22nd. The dogs of the Bvrd Antarctic Expedition, which are to bo used in transporting the materials for the erection of the new Malte Brun hut, have arrived safely at the Hermitage, Mount Cook. The centenary number of the " Western Mail," Perth, a copy of which we have received, was delivered in Australia by air mail, the most modern means of transport, which brings East and West within a day of each other. The method, however, is expensive, for postage on a single copy amounts to 7s lid. The Highways Committee of the Canterbury Progress League expects to be in a position in about a week or ten days to issue a full report on the proposed Lewis Pass highway. One of its features will bo a map on a large scale which has been prepared setting out-the highways systems on the east and west coasts. The route of the proposed new highway is shown in striking colour. The largest and most valuable- consignment of poultry imported into Australia or New Zealand was brought to Auckland by the Port Dunedin last week. There was 60 birds in the shipment, all utility birds, oomprising Sussex, Rhode Island Reds, White and Bull Orpington, and White Wyandoltes. The birds were consigned to Mrs W. Warren, of Henderson, and the value is stated to run into several hundred pounds.

On behalf of the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council, of which he is secretary, Mr W. J. Green has written to the New Zealand Ironmasters 1 Federation and the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association forwarding a copy of a resolution of protest passed by the Council at its last meeting in reference to importations of engineering materials. New Zealand firms, the Council contends, should be give-n a chance to tender before the orders are placed. Only about a dozen butchers are now employed at the New Zealand Refrigerating Company's works at Islington, as compared with 70 or 80 in the busy time. The freezing works at Smithfield, Pareora, and Kaiapoi have all closed down for the season, and it is only a matter of a short time before the other works in Canterbury will also cease operations, throwing more men out of work.

The view that the license fees paid by sportsmen for the privilege ot fishing and shooting are not high enough was expressed at the last meeting of the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, and it was decided to take the matter up with other societies. The present fee of £l, it was stated, was not sufficient to meet tlie expenses incurred by the Society, and the view was taken that the Government should permit societies to fix their own fees up to a limit of £2. Rabbi Cohen, the leader of the Jewish community in Sydney, is authority for the statement that the word "cobber" is simply a corruption of "chaber" in Hebrew, meaning companion or mate. The word "cobber," by the way is not the only homely Australian word that has its genesis in Hebrew. Take the word "shicker," for example. Everyone knows the meaning of it. It is derived from the Hebrew "skikur," which means the same thing—intoxicated. —Sydney Correspondent. "There are boundless opportunities for New Zealand to attract more tourists, and money spent in advertising the Dominion's attractions in the United States would be amply repaid," said a Californian visitor, who arrived m Auckland this week. Thousands of Americans made annual holiday pilgrimages to England, Europe, and the Far East. They went there year after year, generally to the same places, and drawn there by the power of advertisement. If some other place, equally attractive, was brought before their notice in a compelling manner, they would change their custom. Tho traditional view that the pick-and-shovel man who toils with his coat off and sleeves rolled up is the hardest worker in the community was challenged by the Rev. D. Gardner Miller in an address before the Canterbury Advertising Club yesterday. He maintained that the man burdened with the heaviest labour was he who had to sit down and scheme in his office. He had to sweat his brains, meeting present difficulties, planning for the future and thinking of those who were to come after him. His burden was with him night and day, and he could never lay it aside. The courage of some business men was astounding.

Some remarks on internationalism were made by the Rev. Dr. Ranston during an address he gave at the Auckland University College to a gathering of graduates. Young students and graduates, he said, often talked about the necessity .for an international outlook and sympathy, but he would like to utter a word of warning. The person who did not love his country could not really advance the cause of true internationalism. Only one who knew through his own experience what nationality meant could appreciate what nationality means to others. Only as we loved our own nation and Empire, and had absorbed the significance of her institutions and traditions, could we understand the attitude of others to their own institutions and traditions. Without that understanding no internationalism oould be surely grounded; it would be superficial and transient. In the end it would lead, not to true peace, but to more strife and misunderstanding. On Saturdays, too, you can hare several hot luncheon specials or a joint and vegetables at the Tudor and Cooke's Tea and Luncheon Rooms, High street. ~ 6