General News.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 8 September 1930, Page 10

General News.

On Saturday there were 45 men on City Council unemployment relief works, as compared with 74 the previous day. It is probable that the number will be increased this morning. The foundation stone of the new stone church, which Sir R. Heaton Rhodes is erecting at Tai Tapu as a memorial to Lady Rhodes, will be paid by Archbishop Julius on September 26th. The tender of Alan Moore, at £2817. has been accepted by "the Drainage Board for the construction, in concrete, of four pumping stations in the Shirley, Dallington, and Wainoni districts. The proposals in a Bill before Parliament to extend the operations of tho Scaffolding Act to excavations are not looked upon favourably bv the Christchurch municipal authorities, who are protesting against them becoming law. It is tho practice of some members of sailing clubs using the Avon-Heath-eote estuary to put down fixed moorings in tho fairway of the Avon. This is contrary to the law which imposes a fine not exceeding £2O on those placing such obstructions in navigable waters. An Order-in-Council is published in tho Gazette validating proceedings in connexion with the proposed loan of £SOOO by the Christchurch Tramway Board for the purpose of contributing to the cost of constructing the new bridge over the Avon at New Brighton, and the necessary alterations to its lines. 'T do not liko to hear of a case like that," said the Minister for Education (the Hon. H. Atmoro) yesterday, when a reporter mentioned to him the plight pf settlers at Lees Valley who wero unable through their isolahon to give«their children an adequate education. The Minister signified that he would visit tho district after tho session. "Undoubtedly the schools now being built are immensely superior td the old type," said tho Minister for Education (the Hon. H. Atmore) yesterday. "Without the specification of any particular stvlo _ of ■- open-air school. general opinion in New Zealand is in favour of a more open typo of building than was once thought necessary. The structures which being built are immensely superior to those in which ventilation was a secondary consideration." Tho postponement of the Church Congress until May, 1932, is referred to in the latest issue of the "Church News." "There were certain difficulties in the way of getting leading clergy to come from England next year, and the absent Bishops themselves wero reluctant to commit themselves to attending the Congress in January when they will have heavy arrears of episcopal work to catch up with' on their return from England and before general Synod." It is customary for the Mayor's Coal and Blanket Fund Committee to cease its operations for the year during this month, but according to a remark made on Saturday to a reporter by Rev. Frank Rule, chairman of tho committee, the state of things existing in the City at present is such that it stems likely that the committee will have to continue its activities beyond the usual period. The demands on the committee's funds this year have been very heavy. An indication that there is still money seeking investment in local authorities' debentures is given by the fact that though tho Drainage Hoard's notice calling for applications for £50.000 worth of_ its debentures, bearing 5} per cent, interest, appeared only on Saturday by middajr a number of enquiries had been received These debentures represent the balance cl the Board's loan authority in respect of the works in th 6 special loan urea. Tho Sisters of the Church, who recontly intimated to the Bishop of Christchurch their intention to withdraw from St. Margaret's College, have also decided to withdraw from St. Hilda's Collegiate School in Duncdin, states the "Church News." Arrangements have been completed whereby the school will be conducted as a diocesan school, as St. Margaret's is to "be in Christchurch. The Duncdin school was the first New Zealand venture of the Sisters. Bince St. Martin's House of Help in Salisbury street was Opened, food or clothing has been given to over . 900 families, states tho Rev. P. Revell in the current number of the "Church News." There have been times when the needs of from 70 to §0 families have been met in one day. An appeal is made to the women of Christchurch to proffer their services in visiting the homes of applicants for relief. "Too often we cannot find out their real needs," states Mr Revell. "They are shy of asking. Once or twice I have been horrified, when I got in touch with their homes, to see what was needed.'' In the vicinity of the South Brighton bridge some keen whitebait fishermen, whose operations are being eonducted on the lower reaches of the Avon, are rendering themselves liable to the pains and penalty of the law by constructing what may be termed groynes,' made of brushwood and stakes, in the fairway of the river. Tho. object is to divert the whitebait into the fishermen's nets, to the detriment, possibly, of other fishermen. Uufortunatcly these groynes are likely to cause serious obstruction in the river and also the diversion of the current towards the adjoining banks. These are both contraventions of the Harbours Act, and unless the groynes are promptly removed mav land those who constructed them in Court. "It is hard to draw any safe conclusions from the newspaper cablegrams as to the resolutions of the Bishops s,t Lambeth, and comment in the absence of fuller particulars is better withheld," states the "Church News." "On tho birth control question, opinion must be suspended until the full text of the resolutions is available. It is nonsense to assert that tho Bishops intended to encourage the practice, which even under the most favourable conditions for excuse by conscience must labour under the stigma of impropriety. What the Bishops appear to have said is that interference under any circumstances must be suspect of sin, throwing the onus of proving the contrary ®n the conscience of the individual."

An inspection of the Middleton railway marshalling yards, which were closed down for four months on Saturday night, will be made to-day by Mr M. Dennehy, Assistant General Manager. Members of the Arbitration Court will leave Christchureh for Dunedin tomorrow to attend tho sitting which ctfihmences there on Wednesday. The next Christchureh sitting will be held early in Novembor. The Railway Appeal Eoard has completed its Christchureh sitting, but no docision has not yet been reached in the two cases heard, which were claims for reinstatement by two workshops employees dismissed for alleged breaches of discipline. The collection boxes by tho doors of St. Michael's Church wero again rifled recently. "The mentality of thieves who would rob the Church boxes is nearly as degraded aB of those who rob children's savings boxes," states the "Church News." "Of necessity thq building must bo left unguarded for some part of the day, but the boldness of thieves who will go into tho building and wrench open tho boxes is remarkable.'' Writing to tho editor of tho "Church News," from the Red Sea, Canon Mutter states that ho is much improved in health. In Australia ho visited Goulburn, attending a retreat of the Brotherhood, of which the head, Father Homersham, is a New Zealander. At Melbourne, he met Mr Tahu Hole, son of the Canon's warden at Sydenham, and, at Adelaide, renewed acquaintance with Mr Dennistoun, formerly of Christ's College staff. An appeal by tho Templeton Bus Company against tho City Council's action in granting tho Tramway Board a license for the running of motoromnibuses between Sockburn and Templeton will be heard to-day by the Transport Appeal Board, which will sit in the Provincial Council Chambers at 10 a.m. Mr Justice Frazer (chairman) will preside. The other members of the Board are Messrs W. Hayward, C. P. Agar, F. Langbein, and a representative of the motor transport services. Chrysanthemums in Japan are not frown in tho same way as in New ealand, said 'tiss Carol West-Watson during the course of a locture on Saturday night. They are not cultivated in beds, but in small bamboo shelters. Miss West-Watson went to, a garden party given by tho Emperor of Japan at Tokio, the capital, and the appearance of the bamboo shelters, with the flowers inside, reminded her of a flower show at home. The blooms were magnifies t and numerous, and on one stalk she saw eighty-five. Many of the blooms resembled nothing more than large saucers. j The results of the efforts of the Membership Committee during tho year have been successful and encouraging, states the annual report of the Canter- I bury Chamber of Commerce. Tho total membership of tho Chamber is approaching the COO mark, and the committeo looks forward to a still further increase in tho future. Not only does tho Chamber, by additional members, obtain a larger incomo which is necessary for the carrying out of its everincreasing activities, but tho wider membership which is aimed at will increase its influence and usefulness, in addition to widening tho ramifications of the Chamber. The larger tho membership the more valuablo the services of the Chamber can be mado to each individual member. "Australia is our nearest field for tourists, and will show quicker results than further fields," said Mr R. L. Wigley, managing-director of tho Mount Cook Tourist Company, in an interview. Mr L. J. Schmitt had been sont over as commissioner, and he had already mado his presence felt, tluring tho financial year 1929-30, Mr Wigley said, 8.5 of the * Hermitage visitors had como from Great Britain, and although it took only a sixth as long to cross the Tasnian, Australians only numbered 10.9 per cent. "It has always seemed to me," he added, "that if most of tho money spent had been put to giving free or subsidised pasRages from tho Commonwealth, we would have had far better rosults." , For a woman to have to work for less wages than a man is a dishonourable practice, in that it introduces cheap labour, which is abhorrent to any sound Government, according to Dr. Violettc Borgere, a noted woman physician, who is touring the world and studying the effect of the lato war upon human character. In tho course of an interview with The Prksi yesterday. Dr. Bergere said that a great many things dear to the heart of women had faded away on account of the huge production of materials by machinery. "All tho little delicate things which gave such a great deal of employment have lost their interest," sho said. "There is a saying in America now, 'lf the can opener is lost, how can the dinner be made 1' A woman must always be regarded as the element that makes a home." In the course of his address to the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Historical Association on Friday evening, the Hon. W. Downie Stewart, M.P., after referring to tho statement that Major Atkinson, a prominont political figure in tho 'eighties, was really "a Fabian Socialist before his time," quoted the following Interesting recollections of Sir Edwin Mitchelson, a colleague of Major Atkinson: "Atkinson thought in 1890 that tho time was ripe for Socialistic measures to be brought before the House, and accordingly he, with the late Thomas Hislop, ret to work and prepared a number of measures which were embodied in the Financial Statement of the year. Atkinson being at that time very sick, I was Acting-Prime Minister, and at my suggestion, tho whole of the reform measures were cut out of the Statement. When ho was told of this, he said, 'I am sorry Cabinet refused to carry oat my wish. Our politica l successors in office will take up anrt pass every tme of those measures.' This the Balance and Seddon Governments actually did." Mr Downie Stewart said he had confirmed that stntenirmt from other sources, but he had not been able to obtain a copy of the draft Budget, which would bo of great historical interest. Motorists, it you run out of petrol on the road, 'phone for a Gold Bnnd Taxi at any finur and have a supply brought to vou Bring your car in and have it greased by us 'Phones 34075 and 35572. —4 It's now possible to have a hot tea — if you go to Cooke's. Delicious threecourse dinners and teas, on every day at Cooke's and Tuclor Tea Rooms High street. —6 The lowest taxi fares in Christchureh to-day are those of the Gold Band Taxis; only 6d per mile, so why pay more? 'Phones 34075 and 35572 Ring us and get satisfaction. open night and day —6 Mr F G. Sowden. 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