General News.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19949, 9 June 1930, Page 10

General News.

A start has been made with the bituminous surfacing ot luccarton road. A ballot is being conducted by the Canterbury General Labourers' Uhlon on the question ot contributing £IOO to tho unemployment funds* Tho Council of the Now* Zealand Alliance of Labour in calling a national conference of trades unions and federations, to discuss, afiioitfc other Mlters, the Unemployment Committee 8 'report. Samples of concrete naturally made by water compacting Band and gravel, were exhibited by Mr H< Packwooa during the course of hi& address to the Canterbury College Engineering Society on Saturday night. During piledriving operations on the Wait&ki scheme areas of this had to be pierced, when it was found that natural processes could make a very hard and duralbe conorete indeed. There is sufficient water power available in New Zeaalnd to over 760,000 h.p. in the North Island and over 4 000 000 b.p. in the South Island, according to an estimate given to the Canterbury College Ktifnnerine Society on Saturday night by Mr R. H. Packwood, engineer in charge of the construction of the Waituki hydro-electric power station. Crossings of Cook Strait on Friday by air constituted a record for a day, no fewer than six Marlborough aeroplanes being busy (states the Wellington "Post"). In one case the time saved in making the crossing was brought home in a novel way. An aeroplane left Blenheim at 3 p.m., and landed at Rongotai just as the Tamahine, which sailed from Wellington also at 3 p.m. for Pictod, was off tyall Bay. A deputation of business men representing' the four main centres of the Dominion, who waited on the Minister for Defence recently, and asked for a State subsidy for an air servioe linking Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dtinedfn, have had their request refused. Nevertheless, organisation is continuing. It is proposed to use four machines, each seating ten or twelve passengers, which would maintain a daily service between the four main centres. Canada did its best to make the New Zealand delegates to the Empire Press Union feel at home in that country (states the "New Zealand Herald"). The menu at a banquet tendered by the Powell River Paper Company, Vancouver, was headed "Tenakwa," evidently intended as a phonetic renderii of the greeting "Tenakoe." The Mani» toba Free Press, in a cartoon, has the "Golden Boy" on Parliament Buildings, Winnipeg, dancing a "kaka" and utter' ing the words "hare-ma-i." "Substitute 'Dominion' for 'Christchurch,' " suggested Mr 0. S. S. Kyle, JI.P., On Saturday evening at tho annual meeting of the Ricearton CitS' «eur Association, when the report was being considered. A oleosa expressed the wish that Riccarton would Become one of the most up-t<wiate boroughs in Christchurch, but Mr Kyle stated that Christchurch Was not enough, and Riccarton should be one of the beat boroughs in New Zealand. The suggestion- waa Jrell -received. .

The Christchurch tramway authorities have received advice from Messrs CoryWright ftiid Salmon, of Wellington, the representatives of the British Eleetric Co., the successful tenderers for the tr&lley-Bus chassis required for the North Beach line, that the .first of the six ordered will be shipped front Eiig' land early in July. It will accordingly arrive in Chflstchtifch in Atigust. The Tramway board will call for tenders for the bodies, When the chassis'arrive here. A Wellington cyclist Who was holding bn to the back of a tfauicar and allowing himseif to be drawn up a hill had a harrow escape from serious injury the other 1 day; The car had reached the top of the hill, and the cyclist was no doubt congratulating hihiself on teaching that point with the iiiinliriuiri of exer'tiofl when flic ffont wheel of his bicycle hit a large stone. He was thrown from his seat on to the road and just cleared the front wheels of a motor-car. He was so shaken that he preferred td continue his journey on foot. Some person or persons unknown broke into the Btfsh Inn at Riccarton on Friday night. Mr A. Rattray, the manager,' told a Pb4b = rf porter yesterdav tllat one of the windows of the bar had been broken, ahd it was evident that ingress had been made thitt way. As far as could be seen, however, the marauders took nothing, although there was H that they had helped themselves to liquid refreshment. They also entered the office, but Mr Rattrav said that he did not know anvtliing about their taking money from tho till, as had been stated elsewhere. A complaint that the Arbitration Court did not sit often enough in ChristchUrch was made at Saturday's opening session, by Mr 1 Is). C. Sutcliffe. Mr Justice Frazer remarked that this was only one of many similar complaints he had heard. According to the Act the Court should come to Christchurch every three months, but it was actually Seven since they last sat here. There had been a big increase in the Work under the Workers' Compensation Act, but it was.hoped that this might be ealod as the result of the deliberations of the committee now sitting in Wellington. The Shops and Offices Act Committee which recently sat in OhristchWch, took the final evidence in Wellington at the end of last tfeek. The committee will re-assemble in Wellington on Friday next to prepare its report. With intervals, tho committee has been taking evidence since April 30th, Mr H. Holland. M.P.. « Ineuiber, told a reporter of Th« on his return from Wellington vesterday. The report; Which will be started on Friday next, is expected to take fife Of six days, and is unlikelv to be made public until it has been put before the Government and Parliament. The mystery surrounding the origin of the largest and most elaborately carved figurehead in tho "Field pf Memories" at Calliope Dock has been solved by Mr T. Walsh, of Devonport, after a lengthy investigation, states tho "New Zealand Herald." It was originally supposed that the figurehead had come from tho ship Constanco Craig, but further investigation has shown that it belonged to the ship America, which put into Auckland in distress in 1903, and was condemned here. The America was originally named the Mornington, and was built at St. John, New Brunswick, by Ruddock, in 1868. She was a full-rigged ship of 1280 tons. Yesterday being Whit Sunday, the offerings in many Anglican churches were devoted to Various missions, notably the Melaneslan Mission. The practice which prevailed a few years ago, however, when every church set Whit Sunday aside as a day on which the collections were taken up on bohalf of that particular cause, hits now been allowed to lapse, and the matter is left to the discretion of the individual parishes. Precisely 800 years ago, in another June, the great cathedral at Canterbury, in Kent, was completed. It became then one of the chief outward signs of the power of the Church in England, and still remains a monument to its creators. "In many respects the bunking laws were suspended at the beginning of the war by war regulations." said Mr B. C. Ashwin, M. Comm., when addressing a meeting of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand at Weiliugton (states the "Post"). "These regulations are still in force. Obviously the present situation cannot remain indefinitely, but economic conditions have so filtered since tfi]4 that a return to pre-war conditions is not advisable and in fact bardlv fensible. For instance, a retnrn to a gold circulation would bo n luxury for which there is no need and no demand, nnart perhaos from those who imagine that tho nifht of gold sovereigns circulating from hand to hand ?» the unnaowt for nil our economic ills. It may be noted that Great Britain found that she "ould dispense with a gold circulation." , Dance-goers all go to dances and home again in either Gold Bands or Red Bands "Why?" Because they 1 know their onions, and everybody else, does, and they keep on 'phoning 84076 0rv.35-572. Thank you. -10 Don't forget to stop a Gold Band or a Red Band Taxi if you see it returning to town empty as we only charge Gd a passenger. We lead, others follow, so patronise the firm that brought the fares down and 'phone 84-075 or 86-572. Thank you '-11 Cold Days v. Cooke's Hot Meals, and there's no doubt that Oooke'a will win. When you're feeling cold, call and have some hot tea, chocolate or cocoa at Cooke's or Tudor Tearooms, High street. -*-o The most popular taxis in Christ- I church to-day are the Gold Bands Why? Because they are the best in every way, they have a continuous ■erv'ce, a day shift and a night shift •of drivers and office staff—in fact the Gold Bands never sleep and are always waiting for you to dial 84-075 or 35572 at any hour, and we charge no i extra. —1 "When ordering a grata and seed drill, be sure you get the best. drilling- being the vital operation in planting any crop The Agricultural Departmimt, after trying all other makes both local and imported, found onr "Star" drill the only make competent to fulfil nil their reQuiremente. and to give the neces sary accuracy in drilling test plots During the last ten years, the Department has purchased six seveneotilter drills from us fo» that purpose- They know <be best I P and D Duncan. Ltd.. Tuam street, Cbrlstchnreh _<j Have vsii Anything to sell—Do you wish to lmy p If so, a small advertisement in the classified section of The Press will be all you need. 12 word? Is. three insertion* 2s 6d. —0