General News

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20988, 17 October 1933, Page 8

General News

Closing of Training College. One of the effects of the closing of the Christchurch Training College next year was mentioned by Bishop West-Watson in his address to the Anglican Synod yesterday. He said that the Bishop Julius Hostel had had a good year, but that the closing of the Training College would cause serious concern for next year, as they would miss their usual contingent of from 25 to 30 students, and they would have to rely on those who would be studying at the university or the school of art. Need for Assistance Decreases. Reporting on the applications for assistance at the Central Relief Depot Mr George Harper stated, at a meeting of the Christchurch Unemployment Committee held yesterday, that they had decreased slightly. The staff at the depot was occupied at present reconsidering the various cases on the books to see if any could now do without assistance. The depot would have no difficulty in carrying on. Mr Harper added that the director of the depot was to visit Wellington at the request of the Prime Minister to discuss and explain the methods of organisation for relief of distress in Christchurch before the Unemployment Board.

"The Politician and the Parson." Cr. J. K. Archer, Deputy-Mayor of Christchurch, said yesterday that the paragraph in "The Press" of yesterday under the heading "The Politician and the Parson," was set out, quite unintentionally by the reporter, in such a way a;-; 1o appear to cast a reflection on his friend Ihc Mayor (Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P.). There was no intention on his (Cr. Archer's) part of suggesting that Mr Sullivan as an individual trifled with the truth for the sake of popularity. The remark made by Cr. Archer at the opening of the Edgeware Bowling Club on Saturday, which was said by him in a. playful mood, was; "There are some differences between Mr Sullivan and myself . . . he is a politician arid I am a parson, and while politicians are supposed to say what people wish to hear, parsons are supposed to speak the truth."

No Religious Order tor Men. Regret was expressed by the Rev. C. E.'Perry, who was the preacher at the Synod service at the Cathedral last night, that the Anglican Church had no religious order for men. There was an order which young women could enter, and he believed that New Zealand was the only province where there was no order for young men. Such a thing ought not to be, lie said.

An Extensive Claim. It is essential for every prospector working under the gold subsidy scheme to forward to the nearest Labour Bureau a plan of the claim he proposes to work, and he cannot move off the claim as given on the plan without giving notification. One prospector, evidently desiring to keep on the one claim, and yet apparently anxious to prospect more widely, recently surprised a West Coast' Labour Bureau official when he sent in his plan. It embraced Kumara, Bell Mill, and the Knpara. an area of many sciuare miles. It. might have been difficult to move off the claim to another on (lie West Coast in less than a week. The only drawback was that no claim under the subsidy may be'more than 10,000 sciuare feet in area. Trams in Napier. The long-debated question whether Napier should restore its abandoned tramway service will soon be decided. The tramway subcommittee set up by the Napier Borough Council to enquire into the financial and general position of the system has had several meetings recently and has decided to take evidence from those persons who have expressed themselves as being desirous of stating the case for and against the rcintroduction of the service.

Not Negotiable. It will probably surprise many to learn that unemployment wage tax stamps are "not negotiable," and cannot be sold in any circumstances. Unlike ordinary postage stamps, they cannot be sold by private persons. This fact has been demonstrated to a Dunedin resident who found a sheet of these stamps, which represented several pounds in money. He took them to the police and explained how they came into his possession. The usual enquiries were instituted by the authorities and every effort was made to find the owner of the stamps, but without success. After a considerable time had elapsed and no one had come forward to claim the lost property, the matter of their disposition arose. The finder, a married man looked forward to capitalising his find by selling the stamps to someone who could make use of them, but to his ehagnn he learn' that thev could not be sold, and thai if they were the police would be asked by the postal authorities to take action against the vendor.

Theft of Radiator Cans'. A prevalent n/r<net in Wellington at present is the stealing of radiator caps of motor-ears and the handsome caps of a particular make of car are being given special attention. Recently an owner of the make of car concerned had his radiator cap stolen, and when lie applied lo the agents for n new cap lie was informed that they had received six similar requests from owners who had had their radiator caps stolen, but no new caps were available in New Zealand, unless they were taken from new cars. The offence is hard to detect, as the thieves are known in some cases to work in couples, one man taking the cap from the car and passing it on lo an accomplice, who quicklv makes off.

"Danger"' in Holidays. "It would appear,"' said counsel in the Arbitration Court at New Plymouth, "that walersiders should never take a holiday, because of the danger of becoming unfit through inactivity." The question which was being discussed was the effect on the heart of inactivity to a person usually engaged in heavy work. It was stated by a medical witness that such inactivity tended to a deterioration of the heart muscles, which would not be fit for taking up the same class of work immediately after a "spell."

Farmers going to the Sale Yards on Wednesdays note that in future Taxis will leave the Bank of New Zealand, Hereford street corner, instead of Cashel street, and the fares will be 2s for five passengers, but only by the Cold Band Taxis, whose fares are the lowest every time. 6