LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 234, 28 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It is stated that the Wellington School Committees' Association has /laid it down that no candidates will be nominated for membership of tho Education Beard unless they happen to be meiribers of tho executive of that association. This has caused great concern in some quarters, and is particularly resented by the fitting mombers of the board, who demand a fair field and no favour at the earning election, when half the board members retire and offer themselves for re-ctcc-tion. It appears that even the school committees do not approve of the idea of this restriction in candidates. At its lost meeting, the Berhnmporo (Brittomart Street) School Committee passed the following motion:—"That this committee ttrongly protests against the action of the Wellington School Committees' Association in limiting nomination ;>f candidates for tho Education Board to r. embers' of the association, such action, in our opinion, being ultra vires." Tho committee the sumo ovening decided to nominate Messrs. I?. A. Wright, M.P., and Mr. J. P. Rh.md, who are sitting member's cf the board.

The Petone police report that a man named Henry Lancely was found scantily clothed wandering along the Hutt Hoad at 6 o'clock on Saturday morning, 'Che man, who, as a consequence of his exposure to Friday night's rain, was in a dazed and exhausted condition, was taken by Senior-Sergeant Bird to tho Grand National' Hotel, where ho received attention. It is stated that he had no recollection of how he enmo to bo on the Hutt Road.

Tho annual church parado of tho St. Tohn Ambulance Brigndo Overseas was bold in St. Mark's Church Inst evening. I'lin Itev. A. Pago officiated, and gave nn mprcssivft address. Members of tho Wellington South Division, Wellington ■'i!:. John Ambulance Association, and District Nursing Guild of St. John were, also n attendance.

Tho Hoseneath School Committee is nominating Messrs. R. A. Wright, M.P., and J. P. Bhnnd for tho Education Board vacancies.

The Bishop of Wellington, Dr. Sprott, unveiled and dedicated an east memorial window at St. Mary's Church, Karori, yesterday morning in remembrance of those from the parish who had fallen in the Great War and in grateful recognition of. all who served at the front. Dr. Sprott was assisted by the Rev. G. Y. Woodward (vicar of Karori and the Rov. 0. J. Kimberley (secretary of the New Zealand Board of Missions). There was n largo congregation and the windows of the church were draped with thfe Union Jack. The National Anthem was sung after the Benediction. In an impressive sermon the Bishop said that it was well we should'hare such memorials of such services, so that tho children as they came to the church should be reminded of services rendered in the greatest war in human history, and of one of the greatest crises in the world. He went on to say that such material memorials were not the only memorial. Tho best memorial was that .those who remained should see that the services of the fallen were not rendered in vain. "My friends," he said, "you cannot kok round in_ the world to-day without feeling that it is just hanging in the balance whether that service shall be in vain or not. We had all hoped that as a icsult of the war there wou'd be a. happier, belter and nobler world. We trust we aro i.ot nto fall into the mistake so tragic )e years before the war, which hypnotised the people of the world, and none more deeply than those of cur own race—a mistake lx>rn of the faUaciouo idea, thr.t 'progress was «n inevitable thing, that tho human race advanced from one plane of happiness to another by tho itme im'stabf.o movement as that by which a seed grows and develops into a plant or tree. We did not ret Use that progress was not inevitable, we were dominated by that mistaken opinion. There is no such inevitable pi ogress in human affairs, simply because there is suck a thing as human will and human choice. Wc trust we will r.ot fr-I'. into that mistake again. We i;ave had a severe lesson; but there will ,1k ro better world as a result of the war, unlessl we Bee to it Hint thero is. We are co-workers with God, not mere spectators." Viscount Burnham, presiding at the annual meeting of the Newspaper Press Fund in London, said it was the belief of those who were seeking" to turn tho destinies of the nation into new paths that intellectual work was in itself inferior to manual work. Their intellectual workers wero supposed to belong to a parasitic and an altogether subordinate class—to be placed in the new class, tho "salariat," whoso standards reached certain levels but were considerably below those of manual workers. He was not complaining that manual workers had obtained new scales of pay, but he did not think there should be a disadvantage to the brain worker, and a profession could not bo properly established when such conditions existed. Such advantages

as undoubtedly did exist were based on

unreasonable consideration. A sense of fair play was needed throughout tho industry.

A statement recently made by the Prime Minister regarding ilie finance of tho Dominion And'the possible effect it will have on the present scheme of advances to returned soldiers, has caused a

good deal of anxiety to the Eetunwd Sd'.diers' Association. On Wednesday next all '.ocal returned soldiers' associations throughout the Dominion will hold general meetings to discuss the matter. The Wellington Association wffl meet in its own club roams at 7.30 p.m., .Mid all local members of Parliament have been invited to attend and listen to the debate. The president (Mr. W. Perry) will ii'ovb an important rcstf.ution, and the vicepresident (Mr. A. B. Sievwright) will second tho motion. . He turned soldiers are requested to attend this :nceting.

During the hearing of a case at th» Magistrate's Court in Auckland (saystho "Star"!), in which the quality ot ico used for packing fresh fish in. was the point in dispute, Mr. J, W. Poynton, S.M., asked tho manager of the Municipal Markets if ho had ever tried the Uullot system. Upon receiving tho reply that it had not 'been used, Mr. Poyntmi said it was invented by an Australian named Bullot, and had been experimented with for tho past ]ij months. with great success. It was claimed that by. thiß process mutton kept quite frc/m for seven days when Bent in to the freezers from tho interior. It was further claimed that the meat kept its original colour when «o treated, The system was to burn a powder in a chamber in which the carpasses ware placed, and tho gas' generated had tho preservative effect. One of tho constituents was sulphur dioxide, which alone was a strong preservative.

The Commonwealth Government has purchased tho famous Gullipoli pictures, tho work of Mr. lloraco Moore-Jones, the well-known Auckland artist (says the "Herald"). These pictures 6how really oioro of the New tfealanders' position! on Gallipoli than those of the Australians, and as they were the work of a New Zealander regret has been expressed in many quavters that they wero not secured by the Dominion Government, to whom they were first offered.

What has been predicted by regular London concert-goers for a long tinio has taken place—a protest from tho audience Against German music. In tho programme of nearly every orchestral concert of late German compositions have been prominent, if not in the majority, and although members of the audience held .strong views on the subject they have tolerated instrumental where they would not have tolerated vocal German. But the Gorman language was offered exclusively by M. Miseba-Leon in a classical song recital at the Aeolian Hall, in New Bond Street. He had repeated the first lin<* of his first item, Beethoven's "Adelaide," when a gentleman in the centre stalls rose and said: "I protest against, this abuse of a British hall." Cheers and hisses greeted the protest, but othor dissenting voices were heard from all parts of the hall. "Sing in Eng. lish—wo will not have the Hun lan. gunge here," shouted someone "You ougiit to be ashamed of yourselves," retorted a sympathiser with tho vocalist. "Call yourselves Englishmen? "What about fair play?" Appealing to several young men in the balcony, a man called: "Come on, the Highland Brigade." Sfrscnn-'Leon attempted to speak, but rll he could be heard saying was, "I am a Dane, and relatives of mine fought in the British Army. I sing these songs for the lore of art." Mme. JlisehaLeon, who got up to' remonstrate with interrupters near by was told to sit down and, fearing that she was to be molested, her husband leaped from the. platform crying, "Leave my wife nitnoi leave her alone." After' further spirited protests, the manager of the hall prevailed upon the interrupters to desist or leave, and the programme was continued—in German.

Onion growers in Victoria are pressing for protection against the importation of onions from Japan. A large deputation of growers pointed out to the Acting-Minister of Customs that Japan is sending extensive quantities of onions to Australia (the value cf the imports last year was something like .£34,000), and asked that the duty on onions, which was recently increased nnder the new tariff from Is. to Is. Gd. n owt„ should bo fixed at .£0 a ton. Tho protection was asked for only with regard to onions imported from Japan, and was not to he applied to imports from New Zealand or other countries employing white labour. It was urged that n number of returned soldiers had recently taken up onion growing, and that their efforts to make a success of the venture would be seriously „ handicapped unless tho industry was given protection against Japanese onions.

One feature of the New South Wales State Orchestra's concert in Sydney on Juno 7 was comprised in the prompt method adopted by Mr. Verbrugghen at the end of the evening to (;onl with tlm encore problem. Mr. Hubert Elsdell, tho new English tenor, was insistently recalled after the nriu, "Where'er You Walk" (tho. last piece but one on the programme), and then sang a ballad for the oncoro. But this did not satisfy tho audionce, who kept on applauding .oven after the tenor had again bowed his acknowledgments. It was then 10 o'clock; and Mr. Verbrugghen, waiting in the conductor's stand meanwhile to liegin tho performance of "The Hide of tho Valkyries," raised his baton. The applause, however, did not cease, and \iv. Verbrugghen thereupon beckoned tho mombers of the orchestra to their feet, and started tho National Anthem, as a sign that the concert was .it nn end. He thus out out the Inst orchestral piece altogether. '