LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1924, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

following a sharp fall of the barometer, rain commenced at Rotorua on Sunday and 24 inches had fallen by 7 o'clock on Monday evening. The weather is still threatening. Thermal activity is considerable.' ■'■■•, ■ ■

Mr. A. Duncan, building inspector, foreman, and ranger to the Eastbourne Borough Council, has' submitted his resignation, and will sever his connection with the borough at the end of September, Mr. J. Walker, who has been acting as wharfinger to the borough for some time past, has also; resigned. The Timaru Borough Council has unanimously pasaed a resolution in favour of an increase in the tire tax instead of a flat tax on all motor-cars, a s proposed in the Motor Vehicles Bill- and asking that the revenue therefrom be allocated to the local authorities for the upkeep of all roads used by motorists and others.

Mr.-L. Gwilliam, -who for the past twenty years filled the position as head gardener at the Prime Minister's residence, and has served during the terms of the late Right Hon. Richard Seddon, Sir Joseph Ward, and Right Hon W £. Massey, has been retired on superannuation. • Mr. Gwilliam' was a lar»successful exhibitor at the Wellin"ton Horticultural Society shows in the eighties and ■'nineties.

.' People- say that the Salvation Army can reach people the Church of England _ can't, ' said Canon Carr-Smith. in opening his mission at Christchurch on Sunday evening. "That's all wrong, out wJiat I do admire about the Salvation Army is the spirit which, enables those people to go out into the streets and testify to God. That's what "we want more of in the Church of Eneland." • . 6

_ Ihe folly of this Court: is that one Magistrate makes an order and another: is. asked to vary it,": said Mr. F, K. Hunt, S.M., when dealing with an application for the variation of a maintenance order in the Magistrate's Court at Auckland. "The proper course," the Magistrate continued,; "would be to apply for the variation of an order to the Magistrate who heard the facts, and made the order." *

In the Supreme Court at. Hamilton yesterday John Henry Maries, piano "tuner, of Te Kuiti, claimed.£soo damages from William Stanley Clark, music dealer,: for alleged libel contained in an advertisement inserted by defendant in the Te'Kuiti paper,saying that he refused to be, associated in any way with, plaintiff. The latter claimed-that -defendant by the advertisement intended that plaintiff was an incompetent piano tuner, and of . such' character that reputable persons should refuse to associate: 5™ ¥ m- The July awarded plaintiff £200 damages. . •

The appeal of Frederick Rule Neil Lai-sen and Charles Strickland, who were sentenced to a month's imprisonment by the Magistrate (Mr. Stout), for wrongful conversion of a motor-car, was' -dismissed yesterday at the Supremo Court, Palmerston North, by My. Justice Reed/ His Honour expressed the ''opinion that the sentence had been imposed more as a deterrent for an increasingly frequent oHence ■ than as individual, punishment, and he did not feel disposed to disturjp t\iS" decision. Police evidence was given that since the sentence was imposed, in July there had been a marked decrease in cases of joy-riding. .:.-■.■-.'■

At the Wanganui Police Court yestarday, Edward O'Meara, Geoffrey- Holley, and Philip Flood were charged, in connection with the recent- Catholic carnival of disposing of chocolates by means of a ballot-box. The police stated that they had given'warning early in the carnival that spinning jinnies and other devices were not. to be. used. O'Meara accepted the blame of having charge of the stall where the ballot-box and marbles were used, and claimed that this class •of device had been used for., years past in Wanganui, and they had "never received any warning that it was illegal. The Magistrate said this' fault lay at the door of the members, who had failed to, pass on the police warning to O'Meara. He "inflicted a nominal penalty of 10s each, with costs.

An important piece of business in connection ' with . the.' Exhibition was settled in Dunedin yesterday, states "The Post's" ; Dunedin correspondent. Mr. E. J. Gravestock, who introduced Charles Hackett and .many other notabilities to New Zealand, made final arV rangements .with the directors whereby he is appointed special commissioner to proceed to London and endeavour to secure one of the crack military bands, or, in tho alternative, a leading symphony orchestra. Mr. Gravestock also hopes to-arrange for a visit to New Zealand/ and particularly to the Exhibition,' of notable; concert artists,' and if during Jus peregrinations ho comes across anything in the musical line that ho thinks would be an attraction, he is to advise the directors. . ; :

Mr Alex. Juriss, the Royal" Humane Society sDunedin representative, is re-" porting upon the plucky action of a Duuedin lady iir rescuing a child recently. It appears that Vera Berlind, aged five years, who resides with her mother at •rurakanui, was playing with; some other children at Fogey's Bay on Wednesday afternoon (27th August!, when she slipped into the wa;ter unnoticed. Mrs. George Lawrie, . wife of the assistant city building surveyor, who resides at 34, Albany street, was sitting on (he boacli with" some members of her family, when sho saw the little girl being carried out to sea, states the Dunedin "Star." Mrs. La\yrie ; fully dressed, and' wearing a heavy tweed coat, though unable to swim, jumped into over six feet of water and succeeded in rescuing the child] wlio was very much exhausted when brought ashore. Mrs; Lawrie was successful in reviving her, and then carried her to her home, which' was about haJf a mile distant. Mrs." Lawrie sustained a nasty cut on one of her legs, apparently from a sharp rock, and is still suffering from shock. . .

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