General News.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 9 September 1930, Page 10

General News.

Arraiißemcnts have been made tor this afternoon's meeting and future meetings of the Health Week executive to be held in the City Council's Electricity Committee's room in the M.E.D. building. The main roll to be U3ed at the election of members of the Tramway Board in November next has closed, but an opportunity still exists for thoso who possess the necessary qualifications to enrol, as the supplementary roll does not close till November 13th. A welcome gift of vegetables for the unemployment relief depots was received vesterdav by Cr. Annie I. Fraer who is in charge of the distributing depot. The gift consisted of parsnips, leeks, and all readv bagged, and were sent in by Mr E. Jones, Lincoln road tramway terminus. The Selection Committee of the Society of Arts met yesterday afternoon for the purpose of going through the work submitted for the arts and crafts exhibition of the Society. The exhibition is to be hold at the Art Gallery, beginning on Tuesday, September 16th.

A Maori mat once used by Queen Aotea, the second wife of King Tawhiao, who was at one time a king of tho Maoris, succeeding his father in 1860, has been purchased by the Canterbury Museum. It is regarded as a valuable addition to the Maori collections there. Sumner is to be supplied with accurate information as to the rise and fall of its tides, the Surveyor-General having arranged to have the levels taken and computed m comparison with tbese at Lyttelton. Such data will be useful in future to ascertain whether the beach has subsided. The Bailway Department advert'so alterations in the running of tho 8.20 a.m. Christchurch-Otira train and particulars of an additional train, Otira to Grcymouth, on Monday, 15th instant, in connexion with a pleasure tour organised by the Department to Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers from September loth to 20th. The meeting of creditors of Leslie Flintoft, farm labourer, of Botherham, which was to havo been held at the office of the Official Assignee, Mr J. H. Kobertson, yesterday afternoon, lapsed for want of a quorum. The statement of bankrupt's affairs showed that he owed £IOO 7s 8d to unsecured creditors, and that that was his total liability. Ho bad no assets. Tho statutory notices preparatory to the application for an Ordcr-in-Coun-cil authorising the discontinuance of tramway scrvico betweon Burwood and North Beach have been given. Tho authorising order will be applied for at the proper time. Arrangements are now being completed for a trolley-bus service to take the place of the present tramway service. Owing to bad weather conditions in Christchurch yesterday, a proposed commercial flight to Wellington l>y FlyingOfficer Money had to bo abandoned. The pilot, with a passenger, flew from Wellington early in the morning, but landed at Kaikoura at 9 a.m., and did not come further south, returning immediately to Wellington. The passenger came on by service car. In addition to the men on the unemployed relief works of the Works Department of the Citv Council last week, there were 57 men employed on the relief works under the Reserves Committee of the Council. As the result of a vote of £SO, made by tho Finance Committee of the Citizens' Unemployment Committee yesterday, these men will be retained on the reserves work this woek. There were 45 cases of infectious and other notifiable diseases reported in tho Canterbury and West Coast Health Districts for the week ended noun yesterday, as compared with 26 tho previous week, an increase of nineteen. Canterbury-.—Scarlet fever, 5; diphtheria. 2-3; tuberculosis. 1; pneumonia, 5; ervsipelas. 1. West Coast:—Scarlet fever. 4; diphtheria 2: tuberculosis. 2. Deaths in the West Coast district were two—one each from tuberculosis and pneumonic influenza. When accounts amounting to £907/ 4s 6d were beforo the Christchurch Tramway Board yesterday, Mr H. Pearce queried an item for £B2 18s 3d. New Zealand Railways. The chairman (Mr W. Hayward) told him that this represented the payment of signalmen at two of tho railway crossings. "Privato bus and taxi-owners are exempt from tho payment of crossing-keepers," commented Mr D. Sykes. "That's one of the good things that come our way," replied the chairman. The motion to pass tho accounts for payment was then carried An outbreak of diphtheria in one of the institutions in tho Canterbury Health District was responsible for the total of infectious and tiotifnble diseases in the Canterbury and West Coast districts showing an increase of nineteen for tho week ended noon yesterday, "as compared with tho previous week. There were 25 cases of diphtheria in the institution in question. Dr. T. Fletcher Telford. Medical Officer of Health, told a reporter that all reasonablo steps had been taken to prevent further infection in the institution. There is no official confirmation of tho report that a gift of £ 15,000 has been made to the City for the erection and stocking of an orchid house in the Botanic Gardens, although this was freely rumoured in tho City yesterday. It is* stated that a resident of Christchurch on his return from a world tour was so struck by the lack of an orchid house in Gardens otherwise so comprehensive that he decided himself to make provision for ono. The gift is not that to which the Mayor (Mr J. K. Archer) referred in an address before the Canterbury Veterans' Association somo months ago. At tho annual reunion of tho Dunedin section of the Post and Telegraph Employees' Association, Mr Harrison, Chief Postmaster, referring to adverse comment on the army of public servants, said that though the work and revenue of the Postal Department had increased by 100 per cent, in twelve years, the staff had increased by only 28 per cent. Moreover, the Department had to do much work for other Departments. For instance, 219,000 motor vehicles had to be relicensed every year, and 80,000 new licenses were issued last year.—Pross Association. Regarding the recent Access to tho Sea Commission's report, the Mayor (Mr J. K. Archer), speaking at tho annual banquet given by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce last night, stated that the report had not settled the question. He was not going to suggest what should be done to deal with it, but it was certain that the province could not stand still and that improvement in communication must be brought about. It was therefore open to the people to discuss the ways and means of achieving this end. Speaking at the banquet given by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce last night, the Mayor (Mr J. K. Archer), in proposing tho toast of "Tho Province of Canterbury," said that . there was a great need to-day for tho town and country interests to be made one. When there was an agitation somo vcars ago for the electrification of the Waimakariri it was suggested that the scheme would be for the benefit of the City of Christchurch and that it would be against the interests of the country. However, he would state that had the efforts to obtain a hydro-electricity scheme at Waimakariri been successful it would have been a benefit to the whole of the community. Motorists, buy your petrol at the Gold Band Service Station at Gold Band Prices; open night and clay. Have your car greased also by our expert. 'Phones 34075 and 35572. -7 Babies will grow, and every stage of growth is charming Have your baby photographed ofteu at the Bteffano Webb Studio. His baby pictures are the very personification of babyhood 252 Higl) street. -—6 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 Tudor Tea Rooms. Hicb street. —6 Motorists, bring your cars along and have them greased by the latest system at the Gold Band Taxi Garage, 142 Tuam street, at Gold Band Prices. "Phones 34075 and 35572. —1 1