General News.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19971, 4 July 1930, Page 12

General News.

The report of the dobate in the House of Representatives on the No-confidence motion of the lit. Hon. J. G. Coatea appears on Page 17. It is reported that during the past two months eight bodies have been sent from ChrLt-hurch to Dunedin for cremation, ±hc cost is estimated to have been about £4O in each case. In apologising for his absence and that of Mrs Dobson from the Municipal Electricity _ Department's function last night, ivlr A Dudley Dobson wrote that they regretted being unable to accept the invitation "owing to their octogenarian limitations." C'r. Annie I. Fraer has arranged, on behalf of the Citizens' Unemployment Committee, for collectors to be at the entrances to Lancaster Park to-morrow morning and afternoon on tho occasion of the second football Test match. Several ladies have undertaken this task, but Cr. Fraer says that she would be glad to have a few more helpers if they would communicate with her at the City Council Chambers. It was decided at last evening's meeting of the Canterbury Branch of the Navy League to forward the original copy of a song, "Keep Watch," with words and music by Mr C. E. Ferris principal of Dunelm School, Christchurch, to Lord Jellicoe. Mr Ferris, who was present at the meeting, said that the song was one of the Navy and was prompted by a visit to a lantern lecture given by the League entitled "Keep Watch." At the request of Mr A. F. Wright, the Bills Committee was given permission by the Council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce last evening to co-opt other members and representatives of interested bodies with a special knowledge of the subject for a thorough examination of the Transport Bill, now before Parliament. Mr Wright said the Bill proposed the extension of a Government Department, and should be carefully considered. Yesterday one of tho District Nurses left her bicycle outside the Nurse Maude Association's rooms in Madras street for a few minutes and on coming out of the building discovered that the bicycle had been taken. This is regarded by the owner of the machine as a particularly mean theft as the nurses have to provide their own means of transport. Unless tho bicycle is recovered the nurse will have to walk to her duties or be put to the expense of buying a new machine. Entries closed yesterday with tho secretary (Mr G. L. Donaldson) for the practical examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music, London, to be held in Christchurch about November. The entry in the different classes is as follows:—Primary division, CG; elementary division, 68; lower <flivision, 53; higher division, 42; intermediate, 21; advanced, 20; final, 4; leachers* L.A.8., 3; and solo performers' L.A.8., 20. The total of 303 entries compares favourably with that of previous years. A strong protest against tl»e proposal of Victoria University that the scope of the Tarannki Scholarship Endowment should be widened so a» to include students from outside the province, was made by a deputation to the Minister for Education. The deputation was representative of every local body in thoTaranaki province. It was urged that, «r the funtf was accumulating, wider facilities jtfiould be given to students of the district to continue , their studies in the higher branches of j education. In reply, the Minister stated that ho would place tho reprej of the deputation before Cabinet.—Press Association.

"Some of the carjfing snipers of the Press," remarked Civ H. T. J. Thacker at the Municipal Ijleetricity Department's function lasJt night, "have got on to the department for its supposed treatment of the poor add unemployed who, it was said, had been compelled to nse candles. There has been no persecution by tie Municipal Electricity Department. There are hundreds of accounts not paiad and not expected to be paid by venr poor people who cannot pay them. The Municipal Electricity Department is holping the unemployed just a» much as any othor institution in tihe City."

Lack of ljjsponse to the appeals of the Napier Hospital for persons willing to give blood for transfusion is aii incessantly disturbing question to the authorities (states the "Daily Telegraph"). Patients to whom extra blood is all-important are frequently tying in the hospital, and the location of persons willing to transfer blood is a serious problom. Public appeals, more often than not, have produced a disappointing and disquieting response. This unwillingness to give blood, says a Napier newspaper, can be traced to only one cause—an unconquerable thought that it involves a paincful ordeal. This is not the caso, the inconvenience being but trifling. Moreover, a reasonable fee is paid for th« blood. There are now 471.000 brown trout eggs in the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society's fish hatchery at Temuka. The eggs put in the hatchery 44 days ago are now commencing to hatch. At a meeting of the Council of the Acclimatisation Society in Timnru yesterday the ranger (Mr R. W. Pellett) said that in Scotland there are fish hatcheries where trout are bred in ponds, from fish that have never been in salt water. These fish were sold to private land-cw'ners, who stocked rivers with them. The Otago Acclimatisation Society imported ova from these fish, which were of the Scottish burn type, and only grew to a weight of about three pounds. Mr Pel lett said he considered that these fish should do well in the upper roaches of South Canterbury rivers.

One of the municipal election pledges made by Or. Annie I. Fraer was the provision of creches under municipal control. She told a reportor yesterday that she was hoping to have a creche included in the new Women's Best Boom to be provided in Cathedral square in the building in the southwest corner (once the offico of the Harbour Board) recently purchased by the City Council. The special committee sot up to deal with matters relating to the Best Room has not yet met, but a tentative scheme showing how tb<* accommodation is to be utilised has been drawn up. Cr. Fraer said that her idea was that the creche should be in charge of a trained Earitane nurse and should be availablo for use by mothers of little children, who would be able to leave them at the creche on payment of a am all charge. Football Test Match—Wear goloshes for foot comfort Men's 7s 6d, women's 6s 6d. Hannahs, High steet. —6 Dance-goers all go to dances nnd home again in either Gold Bands or lied Bands "WhyP" Because fchey know their onions, and everybody else does, and they keep on 'phoning 34075 or 35-572 Thank you. —lO Hear the second Teßt in comfort—at the Tudor Tearooms —you'll enjoy it fai better. Besides, a Clip of delicious tea will moke a world of difference. Tudor Tearooms, High street. t —6 The 'most popular taxis io Christchurch to day are the Gold Bands. WhyP Because they are the best in every way, they have a continuous sorv'ce, a day shift and a night shift of drivers and office staff —in fact the Gold Bande never sleep and are always waiting for you to dial 34-075 or 35672 at an; hour, and we charge no •air*. —1