LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 195, 15 May 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Shaw, Savill Company’s liner lonic, which was dispatched from' Southampton on April 6, arrived in the stream at 11.30 last evening. After pratique has been granted this morning the vessel will berth at toe King’s Wharf to disembark her passengers, which total 523, including 305 assisted immigrants. A civic reception is to be accorded by the Mayor (Mr. R. A. Wright) and the City Council to Miss Rosina Buckman, who returns to-day from England after nearly ten years’ absence. “Nearing home. Greetings to all friends,” was a message that was sent by Miss Buckman from the lonic on Saturday. The reception will take place at tho Concert Chamber at' 5 o’clock to-day..

Speaking at the celebration of Mothers’ Day yesterday, Dr. Truby King stressed the need for conditions which would make for earlier marriages, between the ages of 20 to 30 years, instead of the tendency to delay [marriage till after 30, which was detrimental to the best interests of the race..

Thieving is reported from the Duppa Street football ground on Saturday last. The ground, which is under the jurisdiction of the City Council, has two dressing-sheds, which are unable to be locked while the players are on the field. Ono player lost 275., and others smaller sums, together with tobacco, cigarettes, eto. The players expressed indignation that no provision was made for locking the dressing sheds, Js i hey were required, to pay 9d. per head for their use. The total amount received for the Mayor’s Russian Famine Relief Fund is £1447 14*. Bd.

I “We could destroy the existing system in threo months, said Mr. A. C. Willis, secretary of the New South Wales Miners’ Federation at the Paramount Theatre last night. Our difficulty is in raising a constructive organisation, capable of carrying out the affairs of the country. Spend less money on the folly of bread-line strikes, and more on educating the masses.” A very fine photogravure of the landing at Gallipoli has been sent to the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association by the Australian Sailors and Soldiers’ League. It is a copy’ of tho original, the work of Charles Dixon, R.I-, in tho National Art Gallery (London), and was presented to the Commonwealth Government. The engraving, which is a graphic picture of the incidents connected with tho landing at Anzac, is at present exhibited at the Returned Soldiers’ Club.

A public meeting will bo held at the Khandallah Hall this week to discuss the proposed new roa<l and cable tram service to that suburb. The Mayor and Councillor Dale have accepted an invitation to be present, and they will explain fully the proposals of the City Council. In the course of a lecture at the Trades Hall on Saturday night, Mr. F W Vosseler stated that recent reports on the Tongariro National Park stated that heather was spreading rapidly and taking charge of largo areas io tho detriment of the Alpine flora. It was a great pity it should be allowed to grow unchecked, and he .urged upon everyone who had the true 'New Zealand instinct to make the strongest possible protest against the desecration of the National Park by the introduction, of such exotics. At the lecture on Saturday night, by Mr F AV. Vosseler to the Workers Educational Association, he (stated that in tho Botanical Gardens a Now Zealand section had been established In the fernhouse, where a large num her of mature plants had been grown, labelled with their scientific, Maori, and some with their local, names. The section was an admirable one, and full of interest to those' who took an terest in oux* florae The Auckland Harbour Board have rest of production of steel in Ausura £ to ‘to ■'>««»« of works there, to cease getting the steel from this source They have lately called tenders for 1624 tons or c+ppl This was required by the board for their extensive whaiwes Which .r. 1 totaL “.“bio bS SS Corv AVright and Salmon, engineers, of Wellington their tender price being 4*19 800 The steel being supnfied fs from Messrs. David Colville Pj a = Ii d of Motherwell and Glasgow is one of the biggest Si orders that has gone out of toe H tender w ™the'Uest amongst Sny ethers, including American and Continental steel companies. Mr Loo Du Chateau, representing the Sistine Choir in New Zealand, has received the following cablegram frojn Ils principals in Australia: “Due to X Vehement of Monsignor Peres , tho late composer maestro of the S tine Choir at the Vatican Rome, recorded in recent Pre f 3S Choir Australian season of too Sistine unm has to be curtailed and the New Z-ea land tour abandoned as Monsignor Bella, Pcrosi’s deputy, has been r called to the Vatican. This ment has caused con , ! i ldcra ? °ltdTuspoin'tment and regret throughout Aus tralia but in order to give the INOW Zealand public an opportunity of hearing this famou/ choir .negotiations are Sd^/in^^^. 1111 covey our profohmd and respectful r®c r o ami appreciation to Archbishop Redwood the Press, and the many ladies and gentlemen who so kindly ?olunteered their personal help and terest.”