General News.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20045, 29 September 1930, Page 10

General News.

Tho Gazette notifies the formation of the Canterbury College Defence Rifle Club.

The erection of tho poles to catry the power lines oil tho trolloy-bua route to North Beacb will bo completed, it is anticipated, this week.

Summer time comes into force in Now Zealand from 2 a.m. on Sunday, October 12th. This mean# that clocks will be advanced half an hour until March 15th.

Tho four score excursionists who travelled to Arthur's Pass yesterday by train, had to endure steady rain for the greater part of the day. There is no snow left on the low levels.

Mr W. Williamson, to whom the contract for the High street Post Office has been let, will put in hand the demolition of the present buildings on Tuesday morning. The construction is expected to be finished in 16 months. An appreciated gift for tho relief of sufferers from unemployment was received on Saturday at the Central Depot in the shape Of a large case of biscuits from Messrs AulsobrOok and Co. This is the second similar gift received from thr firm. As soon as the reconstruction of the City Council's portion of Lincoln road is completed, which will be in a week or ten days, the men will be put to work on the reconstruction of Colombo street, Sydenham. On this work will be employed also the twenty men recently put off the Lincoln road job.

Differences between red and white manuka from a commercial point of view were described by a valuer giving evidence in the Supreme Court at Auckland: Most of the firewood seen in timber yards. was white manuka, he said, as the red manuka was of little value for firing. The white manuka had a rough stringy bark, whereas the bark of the red manuka was smooth. Large white manuka was very rare now, as it was of very slow growth.

A special feature of the Canterbury Horticultural Society's Spring Show on Wednesday and Thursday will be an exhibit of pansies by a Christchurch grower, which are said to be the best raised in the Dominion. The exhibit will consist of four dozen of tho best in his garden. "We are turning out lawyers and other professional liien ad lib. We give £SOO a year to a man to teach Latin and Greek, and £250 a year to men to teach agriculture, and this is an agricultural country. The system is wrong. When we train a boy for the land wo have to lind him land, but what do we do with the hundreds of boys we pass through Mie schools trained for the professions? Do we find them work to go to?" Thus Mr A. T. Cavcll at the meeting of Wangahui Technical College Board last week in defence of the proposal to keep agriculture in the forefront in prec-cnt day scholastic training.

"I know of several instances where purchasers of corner sections have bought those properties for the purpose of erecting shop: thereon, and not until they have made application for a building peimit, have they bocomc aware of the fact that a building-line restriction is imposed on one of the streets," said Mr T. O. Fox, Engineer to the Timaru Borough Council, during a lecture to the Canterbury College Engineering Society on Saturday evening. "In one or two cases this has been a serious matter, but unfortunately the purchaser has no redress, as everyone is supposed to be conversant with the law and bylaws. " Tho work of lenewing the train way tracks on Colombo street, Sydenham, is to be'started this morning. The work is to be done in two sections; (1) From Carlyle street to Wordsworth street, (2) from Wordsworth street to Brougham street. It will be started at Carlyle street and the eastern track will be done first. The tracks are to be relaid in concrete, with a bituminous top, and the Gas Company intends installing a new main. As soon as the work on tho tracks is sufficiently far advanced the City Council will start on the reconstruction of the remaining portion of the highway. When finished the street will be similar in character to the portion of Colombo street in the City which has been reconstructed.

"The climate was responsible for the lack of enthusiasm in matters artistic tha' prevailed in England in the 17th century. There were no spacious houses, but only dark interiors; hovels predominated, and how could a man paint a picture in a gloomy interior?" Speaking to a vote of thanks to Mr James Fitzgerald, for a lecture on "Art in the 17tli Century," which he gave before the Society for Imperial Culture on Saturday evening, Professor James Shelley used these words. He went on to expatiate on his thome. The English climate was also responsible for English morals. "But after all," he concluded, "we did evolve the art of the stained-glnsE window. We could not see our pictures in our gloomy interiors, so wo had to fix them in the windows. The sun would then permit us to see what wo had painted." A suggestion that a ceremony for children lk; held annually on Armistice Day qt the Cenotaph vvas made by General bir George Richardson at u meeting of the executive of tho Auckland lieturned soldiers' Association recently. Bir George said that as Armistice Day was not a public holiday, a public function could not very well bo held, but it would l>e of educational value to children if each school were represented by two pupils at a ceremony. At 11 a.m. the children would lay wreaths at tfie foot of the Cenotapli, an appropriate hymn would be Bting, and a * short non-sectarian ceremony would be conducted. tuo children would then bo taken throuph tho Hall of Memories of the Memorial Museum. Hcadmasteis would also be invited to address their pupils at the schools on the meaning of Armistice Day. The proposal was approved by the meeting, and it was decided to circularise the schools, seeking their co-operation.

Accidents oil golf links arc comparatively rate, especially on well laid out courses where the fairways are well separated, but golfers sometimes accomplish well-nigh the impossible (states the Wellington "Post"). At Miramar recently a player and his partner were approaching the eleventh green, and just at the same time a player was on the twelfth tec. It would seem incredible that the man on the eleventh fairway was in any dangor, but the golfer on the twelfth tee sliced and skied his ball, losing sight of it. From the general direction of its vanishing, however, ho judged that It was wise to call '.'fore," but ono of the approaching players wearing a cap, dropped as though shot. It was found that the ball had struck him fairly In the centre of the pate, and for a while the man responsible was very anxious, but the injured one was able to resume his game. The wonderful part of the accurrence remains to be told. After a painful session with-, his head clasped ! n both hands, the struck player, a long handicap man, developed a wonderful rtfn of golf, and finished liis round much better than he started it.

"There might be room here for a purely academic school governed by the University Council." said Mr F. A. Garry at tho Auckland Educational Conference last week. Schools of that type, although not mentioned in the Recess Education Committee's report, existed in some parts of tho world, and were known as junior universities. It similar institutions were introduced to New Zealand they would provide many of the opportunities which u large number of advocates of -academic schools now desired. He felt it wduld be unwise for the various high schodls and grammar schools now established throughout the country to enter into Competition with academic schools of the type he had in mind. The recommendation of tho committee suggesting further consolidation of schools and classes where practicable seemed to make room for such academic, schools within the system recommended by the committee.. All the fifth and sixth forms of the grammar schools in the city might be concentrated in otie school in the same way as the fifth -and sixth standards of the primary schools were to be grouped in the proposed intermediate schools. Mr Garry also suggested that if it were good for purelv academic schools to be closely allied with the university, such an alliance would bo equally good for the technical schools. The lowest taxi fares in Christchurcli to-day are those of the Gold Band Taxis; onlv Cd per mile, so why pay more? 'Phones 34075 and 35572 Ring lis and get satisfaction. open night and day. —0

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Mr F G. rSowden, Aylesbury says the following regarding our K G Grubber —1 cross gruboed a twitch paddock that had been skim ploughed, it made a great job 1 am quite tor tain that no other make of Grubber would have gone v ards in the game paddock without blocking. I then tried it in a verv had paddock of old man, twitch. This time 1 put it into the solid then crossed it. and made a splendid iob. It misses nothing. After trying ftll other grubbers I am satisfied that this is the Ornbber we have been looking lor and it will Iftst a life time. "P and D. Duncan. Limited. 19G Tuam street, ChristChurch, and at —6