LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1924, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The. committee- appointed to inquire into,'the question of ; the besf methods of care of the feeble-minded, - arid of con-, trol of sexual > degenerates, leaves Wellington for New Plymouth'-on Monday next,., returning, to; Wellington on. the following Wednesday. . The committee will , visit''the South Island during the subsequent week,, and) after taking evidence "in. various centres will return.'-"to Wellington foe its final sittings. "> -'-: .

To-day is the 109 th anniversary of, ,the: Battle of Waterloo, when\ the Allied' armies, under the-'Duke of Wellington, defeated the French, army s commanded By Napoleon, Bonaparte, thus bringing peace to Europe, which had been distracted by Napoleon and his;'wars for about twenty-five yeai-s. '.'■.':■. . "I'-am-very" sorry I took the clotting/ It was a'despicable thing, but I had', nothjng to-eat 'for close on: forty-eight' hours," stated a.ybung man, 24 years' of age, named Allan: Charles Mann, who pleaded' guilty to the .theft of a serge suit and a tweed overcoat, before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day. According to thel police," the i. *\ Was committed : from a rfellowboarder, and the clothes were then pawned. The overcoat, had not been traced. The accused arrived from England about twelve.months ago. He was' a musician, though he, had recently been engaged in sawmilling. i "I would be grateful-'for a chance to go into the coun;.iy j° f et a i°h>" re Peated Mami from tlie dock,- "and I would1 make restitution as soon as possible." The Magistrate remanded thei accuped till' Friday for sentence^ pending the report of the Probation Officer: .. ■ -„, - I,■ . ■ ■ . In reviewing:-'the\ conditions', under which the'dan-y industry was carried oh during the past year, Mr. R. W D Robertson, • New, Zealand representative " ofMessrs. A.- Clenißnts and Sons, London,1 speaking.at a meeting of shareholders of the North Taranaki Dairy Company, 'said that the season had been a most difficult one: The markets from a merchant's point of ■ view . had been ■ exceedingly troublesome owing to abnormal fluctuations m prices at.Home, due directly to war ( conditions. The only way to!'o,veraome these fluctuations was io pursue the sound policy of selling at the prevailing market price. This practice ;had' been followed by the directors' of the i North Taranaki' Company with complete success, and though bedrock, prices were interspersed with top prices ; the average had been better than would be obtained by gambling on the market. Apart from the,' question of market fluctuations, the quality of the produce was Jipt pleasing, the public at Home.' Certainly part of, the r«ason .lay in , the excessive heat of the summer, which iliad affected the cream. Cream which was two or three .days old was neutralised with soda and pasteurised, after which it was itreated like fresh cream. Home-separated cream/ had been the*pride of the companies for a .number of years, but conditions would have to be overhauled, especially during the hot,,seasons. Suppliers must keep up the quality of the cream they sent t'o'the factories. \ *

The .Postal authorities have received tether advice that 340 bags of mail from the United' State's of America for New Zealand have been taken on board the Niagara at Honolulu. . ■ :

Support was given by the Education Board this morning to a proposal by the Wellington School Committees' Association that'; the* staffing of, schools should be based on the^ actual number' on the roll. - 1 •■-.- ' A change from the usual order adopted by proud parents in notifying' relatives of a "hew arrival was adopted in. a "telegraphic message toy a welttnown' local Rugby official. -: From: his brother he received the following telegram: ','ls it. too late to nominate 'full-back for the' All: Blacks?" . , -.

In the Juvenile Court at Wairoa yesterday » small boy, eleven years of age; was .charged with negligently: driving a motor vehicle recently without lights, thereby causing injuries" to a police coni stable. The boy was severely admonished by the Magistrate; states a Press Association message, and the-.lather: was ordered to give an undertaking that he would 'not allow the boy to drive a. car for, five- years. The Borough Council ■■vas censured for not having bylaws prohibiting anyone under the age of "16 driving cars. ' '

) According - to.a Eress Association mes- ■■ sage from Opotik], a motorist had an' alarming .experience on Monday even-, ing.. He. was proceeding -along a road ■ a few miles from town when he encoun-i tered^ wild bullock-with horns two-feet" long The bullock charged three times. ■ almost overturning the car, knocking a child out, smashing,the-windscreen, and a mudguard, and "damaging the mechanism. One of the bullock's legs -was injured . Near-by residents arrived to assist",the motorist,,and the bullock" was1 confined, m a paddock. . :;■■■"'■--.' { -■ _ Referring to the recent meeting'of the Republican Party in the United States to settle_ nominations for the- positions of; President", and-^ice-President of the Re- J public, the New;; Zealand Alliance' is in i' i^ceipt pf.a, cablegram '/from "W. E. ! ] Pussyfoot '■) Johnson, /reading as foll™s--~ Movement led 'by President '• i , sxt °°lumblV University, far 'wet' Blank National Republican platform'col- i lapsed entirely. Convention ignoreo- pro-' nosal,' declaring iinanirnously for strict i enforcement: Cpolidge and Dawes both jbone dry.' . "" . ,

' Miss Ada Reeve, who assisted mater■iv yT!° *i?' mg fun<Js for.thte erection ofthe Dunedia Returned' Soldiers' Associa-' l-tionjs Club, was entertained by r members joi .the dub yesterday, and presented with; a marble inkstand arid 'silver! cigarette case -and chain (states "The : Post'sI. |-U£medm ; correspondentj. . Miss Reeve ;in thanks, v said it had beenoverlooked that she-was a member of the.: a^ociatioq.'and had a gold badge wife; ...f 0-; 1, engraved on.-it. • The";association ■ Ixad, raised £1000 in Dunedin, and' TV, W 6-j 'f lf d ib a "Scotch" city. ■ They had a .'splendid club, ana she hoped l +%T?,^ «>nt ™>ie to use it, and not: let it fall; into disuse* In other towns '■ membership^of associations had fallen j"l y¥ d clvn S together: in j war/ and she urged thejn to ding together in"! K^efe r^. a^:-^ii v - The question'arises, now that the^Go'v-1' ernmenthaagiven its assent tS the erec-,| tion of Wellington's memorial to the fallen, on the, triangle in ,front 'of the Par-' liamentary grounds, asTtowhat is to be' 5 n t e uWl^. the ManQers street site grant-'----fj p? * Cl%* ens': Memorial ■: Committee by: the ■ City Council. .Undoubtedly, this' site has a : very great; value -as ii [building' block, pne of the most valuable and, were • it to be. offered for sale -or lease, a keenly -songht-area, but .in a growing city already short of breathing spaces such an area may have a greater value as the years go by from a true city point of r/ W'-n' -lhe option °f the Mayor, Mr." R, A.-*Wnght, who has-further ex-' pressed_ the hope that the. council will, deal /with the question immediately inorder that a'starf ; may be -made this winIterm laying out: and planting what is now,,m spite of its value to the city as ugly a triangle of land as .might be' It was : some years ago , suggested that | the city should later on, take over again the whole area bounded by. Manners Cuba, and Dixon streets, the hotel standing on land: leased from the Corporation but that is another and bigger question' though as' • Wellington City crowds- in ■ more densely it is at the least a possibility. : Older corporations in older countries have found -it necessary to purchaseland.and bnildingk outright to nro-: vide a breathing space in mid-city.; .Wellington has. in some future-year,* more than a possibility of such ia restifag place.