LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

:. The monthly meeting of the Society for the" Protection of Women and Children was' held yesterday afternoon, Mr J. M. ;■ Callaway presiding. Archdeacon Curzon■'.■Biggora was welcomed .back after a long absence. Sympathy was expressed with the Rev. V. G. Bryan King in his illhealth, and it was hoped that ho would enjoy his well-earned holiday. .Several : social questions were discussed, and the society passed tlio followjag resolution: "That this. Society is strongly of opinion ■that a Royal .Commission advantage be sot.up during the 1 ) try inquire into all the facts connected' with venereal diseases and their treatment and the safeguards necessary for the protection Of the public." - : The Recess Parliamentary Committee on Licensing Laws mot at Wellington vester- ',' 'day to hear evidence as to what amendments may be necessary in tlio event of National No-license not being carried in December next. A representative from tlio Moderate Leaguo and representatives from the King Country were hoard at the morn. ing sitting. Tho committee, met again in the evening to hear a representative from tho Auckland brewers. Witnesses from tho King Country urged that tho question as to whether there is to bo No-liconso or License in that district should bo decided by a poll of the electors, as iu (ho rest of tho Dominion. Tho Auckland witnesses gave evidence in regard t° ■ ■"-.>< ons relat-^ j ing to hotel management By the will of Mrs Mary Kennedy (widow of Mr Martin Kennedy, of Wellington) tho sum of £II,OOO has been bequeathed to Catholic institutions and charities, tho bequests in chiding £I.OOO for high altar, new St. Mary of the Angels (Boulcott street); £2,00 for Masses; £250 (given prior to death) to (lie new St. Patrick's College building fund; £250 {given prior to death) to the now Marist Brothers' Novitiate for New Zealand. Sums placed in trust, which will receive the income therefrom, include tho following:—£l,ooo,' Marist .Seminary, Greenmeadows, for educating candidates to tlie priesthood; £I,OOO, for the personal benefit and comfort of the Marist Brothers in ■Wellington; £2,000, primary education, Wellington (Catholic Education' Board); - £250, "for education of poor children Sacred Heart Primary School, Island Bay. Tho annual meeting of the Otago Association Football Referees' Club advertised to bo held la3t night, was postponed <,; inu; 'to the inclemency, of the weather and ic absenro from Du'nedin of several members. It was decided to hold the meeting next Monday night. The mayor (Mr J. S. Douglas) presided •yesterday"over a meeting of the Council of the Young Citizens' League, at which the following office-bearers were elected: President, Mr R. CJilkison ; vice-presidents, tho mayor and Professor Strong; him. medical adviser, Dr Macrcdy; organiser, Mr J. M. Lines; hon. secretary (pro tem.), Mr Carringtou; treasurer, Mr P. B. JYiote; executive committees-Mrs Macfic, Misses M'Kenrio and Runciman, Messrs J. J. Clark and S. Dunkley. At the Hokitika Supreme Court yesterday Mr Justice Adams heard an interesting.; claim* by Robert Alison against tlio Diggers' Saw-mills Company for £4OB for a dishonored promissory note. The defence set up alleged irregularities by which tho ■bill was obtained by J. D. Lynch (Greymouth) under unusual circumstances. Mr Lynch agreed to use it for security purposes only, but passed it on to plaintiff in settlement of a. debt due. Tho defence held that the bill showed, at tho time it was due, that it was in the custody of the police, wliilo the stamping was done some time later, so that tlio plaintiff was not the holder when the bill was due. His Honor upheld tho defence, and gave judgment for tho defendant company, with costa. Alfred Miners was sentenced to three

years' imprisonment at Gisborne yesterday for tho theft of £6l and declared an habitual criminal; and Wi Turei Hauiti was sentenced to two years for indecent assault. At Auckland yesterday Thomas Doolan,

ttged thrrtv-six, was committed for sen-

teh.ee on two charges of obtaining sums of £so' by false, pretences. Tho money was lent oh representation that accused had

fttnda in the bank. Catherine Angus, aged thirty-three, admitted a charge of bigamous marriage. Tho evidence showed that accused was married at Pctone in December, 1909) and recently went through tho form of marriage at'Whangarei, stating that she was a widow. Li a statement acetified- said her husband deserted her and went to the war. As she heard nothing of'him she, presumed ho was dead. After remarriage she left her second husband, and then met Angus, who said it was his fault that she believed him dead, as he had changed his name. She was committed for sentence.

A speakorfvith a deputation from Maramarua, at the meeting of the Auckland Education Board, stated that for the past miiro.months tho children in that part of .the. district had not -received any schooling, ' It appeared that there was a local conflict of opinion regarding the site. Tho inspector said tho district was a widely scattered one, and that one school would hardly serve tho purpose. Of all the nuta he, had had to chack this was the hardest. (Laughter.) On visiting the district telephones were immediately set to work, arid hetwaa waylaid at every point.' (Laughter.) It,was a country sciuabble. as to site, and

he predicted that an. opposing deputation would wait, on the board if any decision waa arrived at; (^Laughter.)—' vS'tar.' 'A notable landmark on the Otaki beach —ih«-last mast of the wreckcd.Hydcrabadi •—has fallen during the recent heavy gales The Hyderabad was wrecked on the beach in'lß79, forty-three years ago. She was an all-steel boat, and' had two hollow steel masfa.

-Two hard-looking men, who went to tho house of the caretaker at the Hurimui Rabbit Gate in search of a little gramophone music, but who stayed, assaulted the' caretaker and his wife, and drove them into the scrub, appeared at the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, on Friday, before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M. They were John Taylor M'Dougall, aged twenty-seven years, and George Fixe lie, aged, twenty-eight years. After hearing tho evidence the magistrate said the men's conduct had been shocking. He considered M'Dougall had been tho worse offender. He was the elder, and had been in similar .Stable before. Tlie men had carried on iii a cowardly fashion and had used abom-inable-language. What would have happened had not assistance been obtained he did not know. Theso men had driven Mr and Mrs Miluer out of their home, and police came and removed the intruders, who had gone to bed. M'Dougall was sentenced'to'six months'.imprisonment and Fizelle to two 'months.

i »! Approximate Joss of wages through ifn[idustnal disturbances in New Zealand dur:irig 1921 amounted to £90,477. The Government Statistician (Mr Malcolm

IVaser), who i 3 the authority for the iigiores, also adds that there wero seventy - • seven disturbances, of which thirty -seven ■ -were in tho coal-mining industry and twenty-three connected with shipping and cargo.working, and the-losses of wages* by mine workers was £40,332 and by shipping workers £46,321. These disputes involved 9,676 workers in these two industries, out of a total of 10,433 of all workers affected. The smallest losses of wages'caused by. disturbances were. £6 by hotel workers and £lO by agricultural workers.. The total duration of idle days. was 769, of which 459: were mines.' and 162 on tho ships. The average duration of periods of idleness in various disunites and in days were aS follow: —' Coal-mining 12.41, shipping and cargo 7.07, metal working and engineering 13.00, agriculture and pastoral 1, meat freezing 2.70, wool manufacture 12.50, gas manufacturer 20.00, oil industry 3, hotel 'workers 2.

' The Wairarapa ' Age's '' travelling reTOrtei* states that a> buyer, secured 4,000 fat sheep in the Lower Valley on Monday and just about cloaited the disou't. Shrewd dealers predict" that jprtoeu harden during the next couple of months, and that the rickety market j expeiienced of late will assume eOme farm |(tf stability.