LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 96, 20 October 1924, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

To-morrow will be Nelson Day. It is being celebrated at the schools by salut- j ing the flag and by special lessons. The ! Mayor has invited citizens to hoist their flags, and the Government offices and shipping companies will display bunting. The Navy League is not holding a combined schools' demonstration because it is so near the 14th November, "hen the Navy League farewell to Their Excellencies will take place in the Town Hall, for which over 1000 applications for tickets have already been made. Admission is free by ticket. The Masterton Navy League will hold its Nelson Day celebrations on Saturday next, when Mr. Darroch will present Union Jacks to three schools, Rongokakako, Hukenui, and Te Whiff, these schools having enrolled all their pupils in the Navy League. A request has been made to the City Council by the Wellington North Rate"payers' Association that when drawing up the schedule of ( hours for the new Thorndon Baths the committee in charge should arrange for mixed bathing at all hours except during those hours reserved, for school children. "Anti Humbug" voices a protest against the practice of announcing that admission to Sunday concerts will be free, thus implying that a collection only will be taken up, and then charging a ,-fee. The correspondent states: "On Sunday evening, notwithstanding the advertised announcement tickets were being sold outside v the theatre, and the public were informed admission was by ticket." A resolution was passed by members of the Wellington North Ratepayers' Association at their, last meeting, urging the City Council to frame a bylaw requiring 'cyclists to carry • a red reflecting mirror on the rear of their, cycles, and Requiring motor-cyclists to carry a tail light. The association is of the opinion that these measures would make for greater safety on the roads. A correspondent ("Progress") expresses the opinion that the Hospital Board should appoint a masseur, "as there is quite a number of men attending the Out-Patients' Department. In the Old Country, all the big hospitals have 7' adds the correspondent^, "as: masseur as well as a masseuse, and I think it would bo an improvement to have both in all big hospitals." " The appeal of William Lamb, who was sentenced at New Plymouth to five years' imprisonment for indecent assault on a girl, came before the Appeal Court this morning. Prisoner appealed for reduction of/sentence ? on the.ground that ho was under the influence at the time of the offence, and did no damage. Mr. A. Fair, who represented ' the Crown, said the prisoner was under the influence of liquor on one occasion. There had been several offences. There appeared to be no mitigating circumstances. Decision was reserved, A sequel to a recent city' theft resulted in an. action in the Magistrate's Court on Friday for- the determination of the ownership of a length of material. Senior Detective Cameron explained that in June last some material was stolen from the premises of Joseph. Lewis, tailor. ' Frederick Courtney was subsequently arrested on another charge, and the material before -the Court was found on his sister's premises. Evidence of identification of the material was given .by Lewis. Courtney's explanation was that he had purchased the material at - a sale The Magistrate (Mr. E. Page, S.M.) held that the weight of evidence was in favour of Lewis, and made an order for the return of the material accordingly. Courtney^ was represented by Mr. VV. E. Leicester. An opportunity of inspecting the dental clinic established in Wellington 4sy the; Department of Health for the purpose of training dental nurses for work in connection with school children was afforded^ delegates to the hospital conference. The secretary of the Hawera Hospital Board (Mr. C. M. Haggettj was so impressed with the good work being done (says the "Star"), that he remained to pay another visit to the clinic, and to make further inquiries. Mr. Haggett is of the opinion that the people of Hawera and district would be well advised to urge the establishment of dental nurses in Hawera and Eltham at the earliest opportunity. The whaling steamer Sir James Clark Ross, which left Port Chalmers last fall for Europe with a valuable cargo of whale oil from the Antarctic, is returning south, and is expected to call at Port Chalmers on the lltli of next month for water (states "The Post's" Dunedin correspondent).' The Sir James Clark Ross is the mother ship of the expedition, and her fleet of small whale chasers wore left to winter at Stewart Island when she left these latitudes at the end of the last whaling season. Last season'.s expedition did not prove quite so successful as was anticipated, but it was an initial venture, and their experience then gained will be utilised to make, the ensuing season activities more remunerative. "Although New Zealand is, in many respects, an ideal country for sheepfanniug and although the immediate prospects for the industry are good, yet it would be foolish for Dominion fanners to ignore the competition "which they have /to meet and wh,ich. is constantly becoming stronger and better organised." These words prefaced a strong warning by the chairman (Mr. John Cobbe) to the annual meeting of the Ifeilding Farmers' Freezing Company on Friday regarded the rivalry of Argentina. Some I striking statistics were quoted. Mr. ! Cobbe said, further: "I have had the i opportunity of reading the report of the Special Commissioner for the Australian Meat Council, who recently visited ihe Argentine on behalf of that council. That report, like the report issued last year by our own Meat Producers' Board, shows plainly that, notwithstanding our many advantages of soil and climate, we will have to be constantly on the alert if we are to maintain our present place in the Home meat market." A correspondent (F. Warwick Pearce) directs .attention "to the acts of vandalism perpetrated by certain of the motor fraternity during their muchneeded respites from the law and order of the city." The writer states: "To a casual observer of the motor traffic on the Hutt. road, the sight of numerous cars decorated more or less with the j beautiful products of our native bush, is one to rouse the greatest indignation. I have seen strung along the whole leiiyth of the car the finest specimens of our graceful ferns picked in their prime, and destined only to be discarded at the journey's end. The most charitable explanation 1 can suggest is that1 these destructive pleasure-seekers, once free from the depressing effects of the city, and filled with the spirit of the open-air, desire to impress their less fortunate fellow-townsmen, for which purpose they wilfully ravage our fast disappearing native bush. I think thai the time has come when the powers that be should take some steps to put an end to this unnecessary spoliation."

I The Dunedin City Corporation's trading departments' returns for the past six months totalled £35,598, as against £39,----702 for the corresponding period of lust year. ,- At a, recent meeting of the Wellington North Ratepayers' Association it was decided to suggest to the City Council that Featherstou terrace should be re-named Newman terrace, after the late Dr. Newman, some time Mayor of Wellington, who, for many years, represented the City in the House of Representatives, and who married a Miss Featherstou. Remarks made by a young woman in the course of evidence in the Auckland Magistrate's Court on Thursday would suggest that there must be keen competition for situations as waitresses in some of the •'first-class hotels in Auckland (states the "New Zealand Herald"). The witness Btated that while in service in a local hotel she was in re« ceipt of a weekly wage of £1 17s 6d. This apparently mode3t income was, however, augumented by tips averaging between £2 and £3 a week. What was described by Bishop AVerill and another speaker as "a pious resolution" was moved by the Rev.'G.' C. Cruickshank at the Auckland Diocesan Synod last week, tile motion being "that the attention of the Synod be drawn to the trying conditions under which clergy are working in the baekblock areas of the diocese." After a, long discussion (reports the "Auckland Star"), Bishop Averill said it was unnecessary for him to express his sympathy with those clergy in the country who were having a very hard time in trying to work over large districts. One could not go about in the country districts and fail to be impressed with the work of the men in those districts. But the only solution lay in providing more clergy. With men and money the problem would soon be solved. It is not every day that an area approximating .half an acre practically in the heart of a city changes hands and consequently - more than usual interest attaches to the sale, completed last week of the block on the corner of .Manchester and Lichfield streets opposite the Clock Tower (states the Chnstchurch "Press"). In the early days this \yas known as Edwards, Bennetts corner, later as Hubbard, Hall's corner; m the very early days it formed part of the orchard of Mr. William VVison, familiarly known as "Cabbage". Wihon, the first Mayor of Christl mi's\ 6 b rlock has now b(*n purchased by Mr. Leonard B. Hart, chairman of directors of the Hereford Investment Company, Ltd., on behalf of the company. The purchase price, it is ""aerstood, Was' between £30,000 and ±-40,000. The area is, approximately, half an acre. It has a frontage of 90ft to, Manchester street, of 190 ft to Lichfield street, and of 30ft to Bedford row. "For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven" was the statement of the founder of the Christian faith when referring to children, but evidently there are landlords in * Auckland who have decided objections to letting tenements to married' people with young families .(states the "Star").' An application came before Mr. F.- K. Hunt, S.M., at the .Magistrate's Court for possession of a tenement. Adjutant Gordon, of the Salvation Army, asked forja few weeks' grace, as the woman, having four small children, found it almost impossible to get an "owner to let her a tenement. "I know," said Adjutant Gordon, "that people with families of small children have fearful trouble to get a house in the city. Landlords simply refuse to Jet them ha,ve a house. This tenant had practically got a house, only she was honest enough to admit that she had four little children. It is hard for people with families, because rents are fearfully high, and even then houses are difficult to * get. I have been looking for a house for this woman, and have found it is almost impossible to get one. for a tenant with ■ children." Mr. Hunt said : "I will allow three weeks for the tenant to find another house."