LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 129, 3 June 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tenders for the City Council's loan of £125,000 at 6 per Cent, are coming in steadily. The Mayor stated yesterday afternoon that it was anticipated the tenders would close in about ten days' time. ..'■•. Hearing of the related printing trades dispute was resumed before the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. W. Newton) yesterday, when a settlement was reached on minor points. In the afternoon an adjournment was made until Thursday nest iri order to see whether a complete settlement can bo made. "I believe in working class education, and the W.8.A., both in the Old Country and in New Zealand, is doing an extraordinarily valuable work, but classes of tihat kind do not go to the root of the matter. The root of the matter is research, investigation, and power to think and develop one's originality."—Professor Pringle at the Palmerston North Lunch Club. A lot of slaughtermen are looking for a job, says -the Pahiatua Herald.. A local butcher wanted one, and he advertised. The Tystman commenced daily to leave bundles of letters at hi\ shop,: till .he got 94 replies. This;, was not all. There were rings on the telephone from Napier and other places, and personal •callers. So he had to advertise again, and stop the inrush. He did not make a selection, for the man who had threatened to quit wisely decided to stop on. "Seeing that the Moderate League has thought it necessary to send to individual members of .the, committee, a copy of their criticism on Special Education Report (No. 13), dealing with the teaching of 'Alcohol in Belation to the Human Body and Mind,' we unanimously and strongly state our opinion as being in favour of the" views expressed by the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education."—Test of a resolution passed by the Mount Cook School Committee this week. With reference to the restrictions on the use of electric power decided upon by the City Council early last month, a correspondent ("Chilly") writes to The Post pointing out that a big saving in current might be made if shop window and verandah lighting were forbidden between the hours of .4' and 7 p.m. ' Were this done the correspondent considers that it would enable employers to provide heating for their employees during the coldest period of the day, as well as keep working factories which might have to close during the hours in which the power restrictions operate. A public meeting was held at Eastbourne last evening in connection with the Sir Arthur Pearson appeal for funds to assist the blind people of New Zealand. The attendance was not -large, the Mayor (Mr. F. H. Mather) occupying the chair. A-committee consisting of the following was set up to-carry out the necessary arrangements :—The Mayor, Messrs. Bennett, Giles, Shortt, Hartridge, M'Gill, -Pilcher, ■. Marquis, Witty, Turner, Hills, Lewis; Eev. 0.. M. iStent, Mesdames Giles, Hills, Monkhouse, and Barnes. The committee was given power to add to its number. Mr. 6. Hartridge was elected hon. organising secretary. "A regular traffic has grown up as a result of the resolution abolishing public taxi stands and creating piivate stands," said counsel during the hearing of an appeal at the Supreme Court yesterday. "Some of the drivers say that it amounts to a Tatt's sweep, and others talk about selling the King's highway. There is no doubt that the City Council knew that car stands were changing hands, for a noto appears on the minutes to the effect that £25 was paid by one driver for a stand in Brandon-street." Counsel for the corporation answered that that was not quite. correct, as the minute was to the effect that the committee had been informed that £25 had been paid by one driver to another. "A change from one stand to another," continued counsel for the appellant, "may appreciate or depreciate, the running value of a taxi by £200 or £300 per year, and the changes resulting from the ballot for places on private stands have meant bankruptcy for many taxi drivers. • It has made for-Tlifferent rights and different opportunities for members of the same class." . A novel attraction at the Auckland Winter Show,-will be a series! of wireless telephone concerts. By arrangement with the management of Fuller's Opera House, transmitting apparatus will -be installed at the theatre, and on each evening of. the show and two afternoons, the musical portions of the vaudeville programme will bo reproduced at the show.

The work of laying down new tram traik in Manners-street has now been completed. ■ The local Defence authorities notify that Senior' Cadet training in the Wellington area is to be resumed nest week. - "We use our cars for business purposes, and must have the right to leave th^m opposite our premises during the time they are not in use," ran a letter received by the Mayor of Christchurch (Dr. Thacker) from a business man mi Lichfleld-street in connection with thn parking of cars. The Mayor's comment was terse. "As long as lam Mayor," he said, "I will not be a party to the. use of the streets for free garaging apart from the proper parking places. These firms built right up to the street line, and they cannot claim the right to obstruct the traffic." .The Superintendent of Police i-eceived word from Timaru this morning that the police there had recaptured Mervyn John Cudby, a prisoner, nineteen years. of age, who jumped from a window of.a railway carriage as the train in which .he was being taken to Invexxargill was i drawing out from Waihola, south of' Dunedin, on Tuesday evening. Cudby was the youth who was found guilty at Wellington a week or so ago <5n charges of breaking and Altering. He" had a bad record and the police were decidedly ■ uneasy over his escape. ' An unfortunate lapse of memory brought a car owner into the Magistrate's Court at New Plymouth, says the Herald, charged with having left his car standing unlighted in a street all >. night. The solicitor who appeared on. his behalf explained that the car had' been left on the King-street stand while the owner transacted some business. It was unusual for him to take his car into town at night, and the. result was he walked home, leaving it behind. Tha lights went out; and when the police made inquiries next morning the owner was at first quite indignant when it was suggested that his car was. anywhere but in the shed. He was about to go away to Wellington for a week, and might nev«r have seen the car again, but for the kindly intervention of the police. .'',.. At the Supreme Court in Christchuich, before -Mr. Justice Adams, Albert Cundy, aged 21, who had pleaded guilty to theft of a motor-car, came up for sentence. Counsel asked' for leniency on account of the youth of prisoner, who had served during the war in the Royal Navy. Accused had been lent a motorcar and had sold it; acting on the advice of bad companions he fled to Sydney and there his "friends" deserted him. "He apparently left his wife in England,", remarked the Judge. On examining prisoner's discharges, his Honour found that an entry about the "D.S.M." was not properly. recorded, and seemed to have been added a long. time after the issue of the discharge.. "I cannob attach value to the entry," said his Honour. "The honours;of the Empire should be jealously guarded. Ido nob think I have power to impound the book, but I think, pending evidence that tha entry is genuine, something should be done. I have great doubts as to■ its being genuine." The prisoner (reports the Press Association) was remanded. Inquiries as to the decoration having been awarded will be made at the Admiralty Office* in "Owing to the financial depression experienced during the year, iwith the consequent scarcity of employment, it has, been a matter of some difficulty' to ascertain in what measure the applicants were suffering as a result" of their war service, and how far the trouble was due to the abnormal conditions in the labour market.". This statement is made in the annual report of the Otago Soldiers and Dependents' Committee, The report proceeds: "In many cases it was apparent that men assessed as Buffering a partial \ economic loss as a result of war service ' were ney«rtlieless suffering a complete economic loss through being uriSble to secure the lighW employment for' which .. they were fitted, and unable, owing to their war disabilities, to perform the only / class of ■' work available—viz., heavy >' manual labour. Another class of case' which is, unfortunately, increasing throughout New Zealand is that of men discharged fit, who subsequently break down in health. These cases require a considerable amount of attention, for unless the men suffered from this or a kindred ailment while on active service, or immediately after discharge, it is a matter of considerable delay and difficulty to prove that the disability is due to war service, and to secure pensions. Where the sufferer is the breadwinner the effect on the home is immediate, and, while awaiting the decision.of the Pensions Department, assistance from the committee is urgently required by wife and little ones."

Comparisons between Wellington and Auckland in the matter of municipal amenities are made by a correspondent ("Civis") in a letter to The Post. In the correspondent's opinion the advantages lie with Auckland, where he s,ays the roads are wider and better maintained than in Wellington.' In cleanliness, ventilation, and selection of books, he considers that the Auckland Public Library is better than Wellington, while the Auckland Municipal Art, Gallery is also very fine. In front of St. Paul's Church in Syraonds-street, there is a small stone tram shelter designed in perfect taste. In Auckland the public conveniences are not closed so early as' in Wellington, and there does not ap- > pear to be anything there so insanitary as the convenience in Courtenayplace. In the matter of swimming baths, the correspondent says that in. winter time the Auckland baths aro not closed between 12 noon and 2 p.m., as is the casein Wellington, and the charges in Auckland are lower. "Civis" thinks that th!e custodian at Te Aro /Baths has to work unduly long hours. \ and maintains that He should be relieved for part of the time, and the houre correspondingly extended. Afteu remarking that "Auckland's street fountains differ from those of Wellington in that they contain water," the correspondent says that Auckland appears to have more public-spirited men than Wellington, while the Auckland councillors seemed, to be more progressive than the local City Fathers,