Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 10 March 1939, Page 10

Personal Items

The Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) yesterday inspected Government housing schemes in Dunedin. He will leave for Queenstown this morning, where he will spend a short time before returning to Wellington.—Press Association. Mr D. Hope-Johnston was a passenger from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr H. B- Duckworth, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Association, returned to Christchurch yesterday morning from the north by ‘the steamer express. • Mr J. J. Brownlee, president of the Canterbury Amateur Athletic Association, returned yesterday morning from the North Island. Mr A. H. Nordmeyer, M.P., was an arrival by the steamer express from the north yesterday morning. Mr Frank E. Graham was a passenger from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning. Sir John Flett, of England, arrived from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning. The Rev. O. FitzGerald returned to Christchurch from the north yesterday morning. Mr E. J. Riches was a passenger on the steamer express from the north yesterday morning. Captain David Kee, of the Church Army, returned to Christchurch last evening by the Tees from the Chatham Islands, where he had been conducting a mission. The appointment of. Mr S. M. Macalister as Crown Solicitor at Invercargill during the absence from New Zealand of Mr J. H. Macalister is announced in the New Zealand Gazette. The appointment took effect from March 1. The City Engineer (Mr A. R. Galbraith) is at present attending the Municipal Conference in Dunedin at the request of the Minister for Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan). Mr Galbraith’s presence was required by the Minister during discussions into which questions of standards entered, as Mr Galbraith is chairman of the New Zealand Standards Institute council. Mr A. E. Flower, chairman of the Canterbury University College Council, travelled to Wei-. lington last night by the steamer express to attend a meeting of the University Senate. Dr. James Hight, rector of Canterbury University College, and Dr. H. G. Denham were passengers for the north by the steamer express last night. They will return on Saturday, after attending a meeting of the University Senate. Mr J. H. Cunningham, general manager of the. Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd., was a passenger by the steamer express for Wellington last night. “After all you are in control of your establishments,” remarked one of the assessors for the workers while the timber workers’ dispute was being i argued in Conciliation Council in Wellington. “Not a bit of it,” replied Mr G. Trippner, a timber merchant of Auckland. “All we do is to supply the plant and capital.” An unusual visitor to Narrow Neck beach, Auckland, was a penguin, which came ashore. It was captured by a resident, who intends to send it to the Auckland Zoo, as it is injured and in need of attention. One of its flippers appears to have been broken. The captor of the penguin, who stated that it would have been killed by a dog if allowed to remain on the beach, thought that the injury might have been caused by a bullet from a small-bore rifle. “I have come back from the country rather disgusted with the state of things I have seen on small farms, both in the Wairarapa and the Manawatu,” said Mr R, A. Nicol, inspector for the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “I have seen small paddocks with two, three, or four cows in them, with'every vestige of grass turned up, leaving no food at all for the cows. Not only this, but these farmers, who should more than anyone else be aware of the situation, are neglecting to feed the animals otherwise, so that they are gradually starving to death. The poor beasts may be able to pick up a little sustenance from dried-up tufts of grass, but that is only prolonging their agony. These people should be made to feed their cows on hay or bran, or get rid of them.” No action was taken by the Birkenhead Borough Council this week when it received a letter from the Waitemata County Council regarding the proposed Auckland harbour bridge. The letter stated that unless concerted action was taken between the four North Shore boroughs and the county of Waitemata, little headway could be expected. The council was asked to pass a resolution urging that proper access to the borough across the harbour by means of a fridge be provided without any further delay, either as a national undertaking or by private subsidised enterprise. The Mayor (Mr E. J. Osborne), who is the president of the Waitemata Harbour ’Bridge Association, said that body was advocating the construction of the bridge as a national undertaking straight out, and was supported in that attitude by 23 local bodies. Until something definite was decided; there should be no deviation from the advocacy of a national undertaking. ■ . _ „