General News.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20214, 17 April 1931, Page 10

General News.

"■ .. ♦ * For sonle reason so far unexplained only 112 men out of tho 500 wanted by the Cbrjgtchqrch City Conpcil for unemployment relief works reported for work at noon yesterday. Several of the Canterbury Aero vmb'« «&<#opl£»ee vi&jt Timsrij to-ipofrpyy, 'and free flights will be iiven to H)9T7 members of thp club. Ir H. QvilJey wij} gjve a denjonof jumpjng." W Tuesday next.Dr. J, Restell tnqmas, on behalf pf <he St. Association, will ask tty* Mwpr(Mr <f. g. Afcber) tf» accept % tbp eemce of the C*ty thg A#BQciat}op'fi ' new ambulance. Tup function ig to tske pwpe 'outside the pity Coupdil Chambers, where the pew jupoylanee will dfavn op. The "level of Lake Coleridge yesterday was at' 1668,82 ft, or nearly' Ift higher than it was a week ago. In ?wo tbe level of the laTke has iisen by almost two feej;. present it is 3.18 ft below oversow level, which is 1672 fe§t. Qn April 18tb, 1930, the jakp w W . at imwn, or 2.05 ft overflow level., 1

from the' area, I'm fecwfly had to f»pe caltiei},' Ji£f Geprge JifpLood, the manager of the Christshu?ph of t|ie Union Bank of , Australia, Ltd., at a gathering' of bank's clients yesterdays ''On® 'morning," he eontifiueA) f 1 woke up to find that 76 acre? of my good security had flipped into,the sea. I hope you won't play ariy of those tricks on me here." A start "was made yesterday J>y the Mr Victor J.' Moir. v?itk the work connected with Of the tramway " shelter jft Cathedral Square and its -fe-ppjction, part, at the pprfjh side and part at the sopth side of GfjdJey ptatue' 'reserve. The shelter on the south side is to oe erected . and. yesterday preparations were made for' the foundations. , . JPfmJty headlights .on Vere at Jftst iug fif the South Island (N.Z.) Mqto^r JJnion. It v?j|g to recopifneqd Automobile tq reqnes| Cliristphurph,' City Council to capry 2, periodical inspection of lights.' ' One member remarked that there would be many ! docilities for the inspectors. So instanced the raqt that if the lights on I %n empty ' car '' were_ adjusted, theyI yronld shine at a higher angle when there were passengers in the rear seat. fhe Benevolent Committee <?£ t}i© ,Nqr% Canterbury Hospital had )l, busy pinp ifegterday interviewing applicants for relief. About 200' of g»| uiiemployerf-sorted "off from the Trades Hs|i ; in the niorning to march to thq BEpppital, but on the way a number ttebpped , out... and abqut 10D areived at the Hospital, whpre representatives pf the men asked the Hpspit*! authorities for work ap<J weve Informed that the Hospital Board h«d no work tq give anybody. The fffd of ftpplicffnt.? for relief, parted to at 8 a ; m., stjy/ t« 600. They crowded the msido of thfi pffiee, the 'being' aqcommofl&ted on the footpath and part pf thp FfipdWt ' s ' The totteltqn Bqraugh CpmpU hw ioined Town Panning of Nqw land as an honorary membsr. The |Hayor (Sir w. T t was apfinted to represent; the Connpjl op i.'hTfweh. At la«t nights meting the branch Q , &< $• Hridge) reputed tJIP the Council v A 8 .'?H p tqn ppr r 1 Qugh Cpunail also ha®, 3 ap hpnop- | ary. ?riembera,' sT|}e fihairmap (Mr | ft.' GrtWWW). 1 .^.F? B very satisfactory that Jocfil . Al wprp (i#@iating them?plyes wrfh the |n t\k v?qy\ Z ll3 I 5? I'Pped that other local bodies would fqllqw iijgir esuwpls.. .

' "The Railway Department seems to gq PU SPSf hoardings and the p&MM4&g °£ bridges," said the president (Mr Crosby Morris) at the annual Ainenities and jW# PMipty. Reference to the same subject was made by the Mayor of Dunedm (Mr E. S. Black") who expressed pleasure that the Society wa? homering away at the Railway Department concerning the hoardings. He coulfl, ®®t understand why peo >le did not gpe that newspapers were the best pJjMsps i- n which to advertise. v ' . Classifying the men sent to him nncler the No. 5 Scheme of the Unemployment Board, the Paparua County Clerk (Mr G. Maginness) stated in a report that 25 per cent, of the men were really good honest workers, fit for permanent work, and not requiring <an overseer standing over them; 40 ppr cejjt, of the men were fairly satisfactory; and. the j>alttnee were almost useless. "It was not entirely a question of unaccustomed work," proceeded Mr Mapupesi?, "ag some who had no? previously done heavy manual labour produced better results than a certain class of the pronavvy.?' Indignation was expressed by members of the Petone Technical Sclteol Board at tho fact that girl students had been compelled to travel in a smoking carriage for the whpjo or part of the journey from Upper Uutt- to Petone. The principal of the school stated that he had reported the matter to the stationmasster (it Petone, but that the school prefects still reported that they had to travel in a smoking car. A protest h&d llpw bepn made to the general manager, who had promised to have the matter investigated. • On two successive days {ifter thp protest had been made sonio of the girls travelled on the c4T" riage platform. The text of the motion regarding tbe reduction in tlto salaries of members pf thp Christchurch City Council's staff, of which notice was given yesterday by Cr. If. T, J. Thacker, is as follows: —/That the resolution adopted bv the Council on March 30tji, 1931, to rodiipf! salaries paid to its staff by 10 per cent., be amended in the direction of providing that tho 10 per cent., reduction shall only apply to its highest paid /oflicpr aii4 that a graduated SCfilo resJuCtioijs commencing with the highest paid officer at 10 per cient. and reducing by 1 per cent. fQr each hundred pounds of salaries paid, be adopted" The motion is to be considered at tbe meeting of the Council on April 27th. , It. is unlikely that art unions would prove the success that a great number of tljeju hftVO hee^' if ■ iftJiuy people had as little confidence in ' the honesty of their promoters "as »■ woman who" recently had a proposition to make to a Dunediu agent. On opening rijs cprreinondenqe one morning ho was uetoniippfl to Jf«c§jve an offer of £SOO from a if he arranged for ber tp win the first prize. She knew, sh© confidently addpd, that it could be done, tfbe'agent's reply tyas couched in kindly terms, hut his assurance that art unions were conducted on strictly honour||ile lines failed to impress her. She seemed 'to detect in tno letter a suspicion that she might; not fulfil her part of the bargain, npd it was not Jong before the agent repeivod a further note, obviously written in a state of indignation, assuring him that she had evejy intention of paying him his share if h© open to persuasion. '

Tho results to date of the annual appeal on behalf 'of tho pt, Johp, Ambulaqce showuthat after have bp?} deducted there will {m3 added tp tho Association's funds ,£428 17s. At Right's meeting of tho General Coinmittce of the Association it was stated that the expenses .amounted to £l4? 3s Id*, but it is explained that £57 of this amount was tor advertising not tdirectly connected witli'ihe appeal and'riot pppperJy chargeable against the receipts from tlw» appeal." 'With regard to the estimate' of receipts and expenditure for twelve months fjrbm Ijfarcli B}&t'last J it'showed that the receipts friere estimated to be £470, apd that the sum required to balance' the expenditure (estimated at £1709 7s) was £1239 7s. - .

During thfl past twelve mpntM the Auckland Acclimatisation Society pqndpa £Sfs9 in the destruction of }1,562 hawk?. Since 182S np iewiar than 100,8p0 hawjca haye been pai4 for by the Society, apd th« figure doe* not include th« thousands destroyed by people who did n>t Tbothe* >bq«t elajm|ng the royalty. Ifow that the £awk ip Relieved tP bp under control the Bqpiety Trill hgvp tq pay wfjra njqney % of ground vern^n.' ITot 90 lqng ago the Council of the Society prepared a petition for the removal'o| protection on stoats and wepael? for signature" by farmers, and a very, Iftrge amount of support was received. The pepartment" of 'Agriculture has now recommended ' that the protection hitherto afforded to the' vermin' be removed in all fireas containing not' less than 5Q acres in natural forest," 'The Council proposes to give a reward.of 2s 6d each for the destruction'of stoats find weaaolp. ,

Borne vimusing letters from clients •of the Union £>ank of Australia, Limited, who contributed. towards p premutation po 'the retiring inanager (Mr A. H, Glasgow) w6re read at the'fare? fall yesterday by, Sir W. $. New* burgh. Onq man wrote: "I have already . exceeded my bauk limit, but I don't oare. I intend to bo in on Glasgow's presentation, po I enclose a cheque on behalf of my wifo ans self. It is up to you to gst the to- honour jt." Another letter reacl i "Whether t thp Ui)lon flank lijies it' qr t'ot, I am IpcveJwingJ our overdraft for Mr Glasgow's presentation. 4 faoer Ranker waujd bo har<J tjj find, &n4 I, sincerely trust tjiat His pu& censor will"be something similar, 1 ' "Jiff Nawbvirgh teplietl that, liis successor (Mr George McLeod) was Quito up to stnin|an}.. y .

I £fS?jty op the part, pf thp qrristcfyjrch City Council's inspector? and the health Jp perni}tt}pg the g&lp of Wpt in- dirty % p£ uphysppic place?, wpg alleged pt p pieptipg lpgt gypping ? j Butchers' Ipdpstripl Union of Epiploypfs, protested. strongly p'gpjnst t}ie sale pf meat ip public apptlop apd W«JftPPW pnder spell ponflitipng, and c;tqd one gqlproopi m (it was pieat waq disposed ,pf "in a ppigpneup atpp&pfeere of 1 dirty bedding apd dirty hprnow." The scprptpjy of the Canter: Apapcwtion (Mir JX I, said that jfo a Sbdieal Qffic<# fi f.Health (Br, T. Telfqrd) pap jnentxonpd, this partieplpr case. Ho had polntpd put tLt hi »iiQ W od some in hig jptprp?ptatiQn qf the ,oo#itipp«, apmefimeg K pe'mittipg awcK p Shop to oppratpjvhprq \% (,qld pply pipat thpt hpd to bq cqekpd, wa?, ypw meat. "I kTWY eopip of ypn ivi]J spill ¥ e Macdqpaldj "but thpt is what lie ?aid tq- me, wheyp there or iivlipre t]4e yrqpld hpyp to be plterod, as lpng ps thp has tp be pqqked thpy will allow it." '

Hpilway pasjsengera he wave >vhep ypp pnapgP a t.ufi at jthq Hallway Stptipju, |t' jt -»s not q. Golf} Bppq yqii will bp chargetl Cppflpu fpre?, ip sq?po pases morp tlmn fp Wr timfs tlig aipoimt qf f??i pljgrgp?, SQ why Ri\T more, you ppn gqt p gpJd Bppd Taxi »t the garage jjugt pcrppg the' road,' opposite tpe stptjgn: gpvq your" irionpy ana be nappy. Thqnea 34-075 or'3s-572. Thank,yop. ' T-fl