General News.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 6 September 1930, Page 14

General News.

Work lias been commenced on the rebuilding of the railway goods shed at Hornby.

A report from Arthur's Pass yesterday stated that there was a small sprinkling of snow, and that tho weather was perfect. The Bealev Glacier was in good order.

Several unemployed returned soldiers were given work by the Municipal Electricity . Department yesterday morning m distributing to shopkeepers in the City 4000 circulars appealing for economies in the use of electric power.

The Canterbury Public Library suffered to some extent recently from the attention of book thieves and despoilers. The latest development has oeen the theft of copies of newspapers from the files. Many of the files, which are kept on the desks in the reading-room foi a month or two. are now incomplete, with resultant inconvenience to anyone desiring to refer to hack issues.

Letter-heading with tho fullest directory seen bv several commercial men come to Dunedin recently as a circular from a Chinese business house. It gave the firm's telegraphic and cable codes, P.O. box and telephone numbers, telegraphic and cablo addresses, and the registered radio address.

The three weeks' camp, conductod bv the Canterbury College School of Forestry, on the estate of Mr James Deans, at Homebush. concluded yestex"day, when the party of students rereturned to Christchurch in time for the commencement of the third term's lectures at the College to-day. The camp has been a decided success, and results of the investigations carried out in the plantations are expected to prove of considerable value in tho forestry work at the College.

To-day will be the last day ou which the Railway Department will run its 10.55 a.m. Darfield-Whitecliffs and 3.15 p.m. Whifcecliffs-Darfield road motor services. From Tuesday next passengers will be allowed to travel in the guard's van of the 11.25 a.m. Darfield-Whitecliffs train, and the 2 p.m. train running in the opposite direction on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. At a meeting of the Paparua Licensing Committee, held yesterday, Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., presiding, one application for a transfer of a license was granted. Plans for the rebuilding of tho Itolleston Hotel, which had boon destroyed by fire, were submitted by the architect, Mr C. Dawe, who attended the meeting and explained them. Tho plans were approved by the committee, subject to minor alterations.

"There are 270,000 boys and girls m tho Dominion, and £l2 10s a head a year is spent on the education of those in primary schools and £26 a head on those in the secondary schools." said the Minister for Education (tlie Hon. H. AtmoreJ in opening an exhibition of boys' hobbies at the Y.M£.A. in Wellington recently. Mr Atmore said it was clear that the present age belonged to youth,, and it would not bo surprising if New Zealand were to regain the lead in education it held in 1904. Four millions were spent annually upon education in the Dominion, and the boys and girls of today possessed greater advantages than their parents had enjoyed.

"Ridiculous," Mr C. W. Hervcy, secretary of tho Waimakariri River Trust told a reporter yesterday whon liis attention was drawn to published statements that 120 men wbo had been workinc for the Trust for the past eleven years had been paid off; that another batch of 80 would be paid off about a fortnight hence; and that total of 200 men would then bo thrown on tho labour market. Tho actual position was, Mr Hervey said, that up to last pay the Trust was employing 184 men; at last pay 2i men, who had been employed temporarily, were paid off; and there were now 160 men employed. The statement that a batch of 80 men will bo paid off in a fortnight was incorrect-. The Domains Board, at its meeting yesterday, set up a committee consisting of the Hon. D. Buddo, Messrs G. rliirper, W. 'L' Foster, W. H. Winsor, and H. Kitson, to enquire into and report on the question of providing a superannuation scheme for tho Board's permanent employees. It was explained that the idea was that the employees should contribute to the superannuation fund, and that legislation should be passed authorising the Board to subsidise these contributions. Mr W. T. Foster suggested that group insurance would be preferable to a superannuation scheme. Mr R. B. Owen thought that the committee should lake into consideration the staffing of tho Gardens, and the question of apprentices.

"There is a prevalent notion that food kept in an open tin cau acquire injurious properties, and that once opened the contents of the tin should bo emptied into another vessel," said Dr. E. B. Gunson, in addressing the members of the Civic League at Auckland. "THis however, is a fable, like the souring of milk by a thunderstorm." On tho other hand, Dr. Gunson said, food might become contaminated or infected after opening, and the same care as to cleanliness and refrigeration was necessary as with fresh or cooked food. The process of canning did not interfere seriously with most vitamins, and tho widespread belief that tinned food* had lost their dietary essentials was. generally speaking. without foundation. The common method of preserving canned goods was in tin and poisoning from Mn did not occur.

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