LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 101, 26 October 1925, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

, A hui fit Tikitiki to commemoxato the opening of the memorial carved church and tho unveiling of the solddiers' monument will be hold on 14th February (states a Gisborno correspondent). T!ie Bishop of Waiapu, Dr. Sedgwiek, will perform the ceremony of consecration of the church. The Governor-General will be present, also the Prime Minister and Sir Maui Pomarc. Provision will be made for the accommodation of 2000 popple. The church is slowly approaching completion, and it will stand not only as a memorial to the Ngatiporou boys who fell in the Great Wai-, but also to the patient toil of Hone Ngatoto, tho man who is doing the carving. To ensure the completion of the church before tho opening day, two men are being sent from Eotorua to do the minor carving. The carved pulpit, the work of Botoma people, has arrived, aud the stained windows are ready at Wellington. It is understood that arrangements have been made for a party of American tourists visiting the Dominion early next year to attend tho function.

"Some people never come to church and they nevor give a penny, and yet wo are at their beck and call," said a speaker at the Anglican Synod at Auckland. "We marry them, we bury them, but wo are bringing up a. largo number of people only to sponge on the faithful few."

Complaining at tlio Auckland Diocesan .Synod about apathy in the Anglican Church, Mr. C. I<\ Bennett contrasted the very energetic way in which the Salvation Army was tackling the problem of boy 'immigration from the Old Land and training thorn at tho Army farm at Putamru. Then he turned to Archdeacon MucMurray, chairman of tho Dilworth Trustees, and wanted to know why something was not being done with tho property at Pnpytoetoe, on which the trustees lisul spent thousands of pounds in laying it out and putting up elaborate buildiugs'J To-day the place was lying idle "as far as 'training boys was concerned. Tho public wanted to know why? Archdeacon MacAlurray did not satisfy Mr. Bennett's curiosity.

A member of the staff of the NewZealand Pavilion at Wembley, writing to a friend in Auckland, lias something interesting to. say with regard to our products in "the Old Country. Ho writes: "You will be surprised to hear from me that 1 fool that the agitation in favour of Empire products is beginning to show signs of life. If that surmise is correct I think New Zealand stands to gain as much as any other Dominion, if not move. I feel that our credit is very high, not only from sentimental reasons, but also because the British people believe that wo arc making practical efforts to keep our .standard of quality in foodstuffs- as high as possible. The number of people, even in. the. Labour movement:, ivlm arc beginning fo veer lowards preference is growing. I t.hinlc that, while thi! Protectionist policy will not In; acceptable for somo lime, there will be very little opposition (except from Hit- case-hardened Freetrader) to preferential treatment; within the Umpire. This, in my opinion, is largely due to (he efforts of tin: Dominions and their displays at Wembley."

At the Magistrate's Court this morning Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., deult in the usual manner with four men, first offenders, charged with drunkenness.

A correspondent, in a letter to "The Post," puts in a pica for more .seats for old people. The writer particularly stresses the necessity for additional seats round about Courtenay- place.

A sentence of ' twenty-one days' imprisonment was inflicted by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., this morning upon James Francis Ford, charged with failing to report in accordance with his probation order, and also with a breach of the prohibition order he had been required to take out against himself.

A man floating some three hundred yards off the Queen's Wharf and a skiff upside down in the vicinity of the Lyttolfon ferry boat caused some excitement oil the waterfront this morning. A member of the Wellington Boating Club had the unenviable experience of being capsized with a fair swim to shore ahead of him in very cold water. Fortunately he could swim, and managed to regain land with little trouble, the skiff and oars being retrieved later.

Following a meeting of the Kawarau claim holders held in Cromwell on Thursday evening at which a, Kawarau Mining Claims League was formed, a meeting of Dunedin claim holders was held on Saturday evening (states a Press Association message). Representatives- of seven-, teen claims held in Duuediu agreed to join the league, and Messrs. J. A. Brown and. Thomas Ritchie were appointed Dunedin members of the provisional executive. They will cooperate with the Cromwell and North Island delegates in making inquiries with the parqnt company with a view to carrying .out further negotiations, in the claim holders' interests.

"We-have written to them asking how the leopard got out, but we hay el not got a reply yet," said the Hon. K. F. Bollard at Tuakau, in referring to the multifarious duties which fell to Ids lot as Minister of Internal Affaire. "Unless they give us a satisfactory reply they will not be allowed to. bring any more leopards into the country." Someone- mentioned snakes. "Yes," said the Minister, "I will not allow snakes in the country. Even if a showman came to travel the Dominion to exhibit snakes I doubt if I would allow them to land, because one might get out. They say they are harmless, but let them keep those harmless animals in other countries.".

"It is very wrong indeed that there should be any stigma whatever about cases of this kind," said the Official .Assignee, Mr. "V 7. S. Fisher,- at a bankruptcy meeting at Auckland in reply to a remark by counsel for the bankrupt that it was a cruel thing the stigma of bankruptcy should rest upon a man of his client's age, sixty years. "It is putting quite a wrong interpretation on the purpose for which the Bankruptcy Court was designed, which was for the protection of people in misfortune quite as much as for the protection of creditors. The protection aspect seems to have been lost sight oi: altogether, and a cruel slur is often oust on unfortunate people whoso only sin is that they have have been the victims of sheer misfortune."

As an outcome, it is said, of disagreement with the headmaster (the Kcv. E. C. Orossc), a well-known member of Oys teaching staff of Christ's College, Mr. J. G. Deuniston, has handed in his resignation to tho board of governors (states a Press Association message from Christciiurch). It is stated that the trouble which has arisen, and -which concerns a question of policy, formed tho subject of a meeting of masters, s.t which an attitude was taken up that was critical of Mr. Crosse. Mr. Denniston, who. is a son of the late Sir John Denniston, had a distinguished career as a pupil at the college. He held a commission in King Edward's Horse in tho war, and graduated as a master of arts at the Cambridge University. He is also .a barrister -at-law of the Inner Temple, London.