LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 17927, 24 March 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

i'Regarding the complaint of Bishop ’ iWliytc at the Irish national concert in this city on St. Patrick’s Night as to the attitude of tiro New Zealand Government towards Horn.in Catholic dnlilron who had won scholarships. the Minister of Education (Hon. C. ,1. Pavx) remained, when the matter was brought under his notice, that the, statement- made was clearly a peiveraion of the facts. .As the law stance, Said Mr Parr, nnv Homan Catholic child fljwho wins a scholarship has the same right "as .a child of anv other religion to take nn •the scholarship in ablate secondary school. as is sometimes the case, a child ot the Roman Catholic religion is not allowed l>> its parents to take nn the scholarship ui ii Shi- retinol, the Kdin.iition Department cannot )«• Warned. It was certainly incorrect, nuflev such circumstances, to wy ■Writ (he New Zealand Government did not nan! !h-o brilliant children.” As a matter of fr t. Mid Mr Parr they would fee onte to.. plea M-d to aeo them taking 11 n sehnlm.-ltips in the Piute schools.

In the Ruinemo Court action at Gisborne in winch Mr George H. Lysimr nlimis that the harbor scheme prepared Ihim coi’l"ns nil Cement of novelty en titling h'm In compel,.'ition at the hamC of the .1 inri.nr Foard, Mr Myers for 1m; hoard, i ■ (eiii.iv .liteinum suggested tlm. Ills Honor should refer (be ca-wAn tea Amvnl ir-urf., r.nhjecl to l » P amt.h s Tic Id in i Ik; hk mtimo evidonre in Wellington. This course was agreed to. di-Co.-, o united yesterday show that, ,x lading ninli .p 1 ' i h'ug.s, P1,.079 persons i;4h <ii v, bom '.veil' women, were aiTcsleu mid de.dl. . itli at the Magistrate’s Courts 4 it the Dominion ditnng the year 1991. Ui th,..-., 31 r-;V ! mmi and 749 women were f;sl rlv convicted, while 91/1 men and oq nvi'e commit u*d to the Hu promo Coiiri. a-r sentence, and 48V men and 22 vvnmrnvte Wrt/i.il. No lower lm,„ op, v,;o dic-tim-t cases, or which l,ote» v ' oi . n v,. -■■ d 'ait with on summon--11- i 1- T . ; 'VMO MU n and 1,050 women . r-nvicted, and ono woman a „ ; j'/,i v-1-.v committed for sentence, ivbi-" 55 Mien end 15 women, were eomr,V„. Of 59,0.15 civil eases dealt ...:n, i, v t t,„ ij.nri draffs’ Courts. 34.588, ji’vo'vin r teVLV-te, concerned Europeans 1).',. E ,,iui iiinounfc recovered being ■05: :, V05. 'Cm nmuber of ruses in which "Miivjs vi c 1 i;igkvimkm!, v/livtiiov ns piHinnjj, i,r tipfrmhnK was 4,425. iho total muon.,t .M 4v d i„ im 577,126. ami t)u> amount r.-i-uvcivd b Iteo-.0.

In com n-sluii u-i.li Mm collodion of tho pie"t BVi'it !i‘V v liv auctioneers at Adding--t’-m' ilav,' .Mv 0. V. Pearce telegraphed remll t- .‘.-J- to Mr Davul Jones, fkalnuau oi in.- Meat Pool Hoard, j,,.' follow “ 1 Ti;c tho board to protest :r n)i , t| y r ,A)iM Pie iU'lio’.i of the auction-ie’-s in deducting the export levy, evidently done lo , ido producers aguiiint the hoard. The Hon. .). (I. Coates, who arrived at Tim am yesterday from the .south and dispue-ed with tdio Borough Council the question of the suonly of electricity, said Hint if his otlieers figures were correct Smith (lauti-e/miry could Ire supplied from Lain' (Vln’idge 'within a comparatively .short time, ilc urmi tho formation of a power hoard to reticulate and retail the supply.

The Pm ret ait to the Treasury acknowtiif receipt of £ICO forwarded anonymously to the Land and Income las Department as cuiiatleixe. money.

i Tho reception given to the president of t the Australian Methodist Conference, in ’ the .South Sea. hlauds. related tho Rev. ! A. M'CaUum at the Wesley Church, 'Wellington, on .Monday nignt, was wonderfully line. At one island they brought i a brass band along and played 1 "God Save , iho King ’ as he arrived. At Samoa three ; canoes with ninety men dressed in white 1 Join e.lolhs came on lo meet the steamer, 1 and. an they rowed him back they sang i ‘Hock of Ages.,’ their voices sounding out ■ over the waters with indescribably beauty. I At Navna there were 178 Methodists, of i .whom fifty-four were local preachers, i 'When they left Tonga tho natives came . out in their canoes, and as tho steamer left they sang ‘ Cod Bo With You Till ’ \Vo Meet Again ’ so feelingly and so , pathetically that ho was not ashamed to ; fay the tears came to his eyes, i At a meeting of tho Otald Borough i 'Council it was .dated that the reticula- | iion of the Horowhenua district was going ■to Lo a big job, and would run into • something hire, JS3CO.GCO, Applications ■ yvero to be called for an engineer for tho county; but if the borough did its own , reticulation it would be necessary to use Oil' pay the county engineer. “Pakaloa. is waiting for you if you 'don’t mcml vour wavs/’ said' Mr Hunt, S.M., lo a man who appeared’ before him at Wellington charged with drunkenness and breaking tho terms of his prohibition order. “This is a man who earns £I,OOO or 4J1,5C0 in two years, and then starts 'drinking,” said Sub-inspector M’Namara, “and he does not slop until every penny is gone. Drink is his only trouble ; but . jt is likely to lead to other troubles if it, 33 not stopped.” in addition ho administering tho warning given above, tho magistrate! fined Taylor 2l)s. A Vt hatigarci resident wending his way to bed mistook his place of abode; so much so, in fact, that strange surroundings had no effect on him (relates the ‘ Advocate J. His slumbers were disturber! in a, radier forceful manner by <i young Indy, v/Ik> found him ownnving her bed. The sequel was heard at.'the Magistrate's Court, when the wanderer yv.ia .fined ijs for insobriety.

Short! v after her denarturo from Pa nan in the Siuir,-Eavill iini;i,’ Corinthic. Bov.' in ’Acilington, travelled 350 jnilco in one day. tins is a .record lor tin; company’s Um>o shipr---lonic, AthonJe. and Corinthic--ami by her smart timo the lastnamed "vc.v-el has juvcicd flic previous Ivcord he'd by Inn - Tl 5 miles. i UfjJiavc to no In tlu' 1 mom periods of idfl-to and .UJio-i.il/ (o find .in excess m arrival;, uu<f d-qmi uivs ;i(. tho rate of : '-10,000 a yi.eir, and many of those people vh’i'o .-tot-lms in ;ii,o sirict scn.se of inn "iVor-C note;, Hie Auckland ‘ iStar ’ odi- • tori.iU . Ine highrst migration in a qnini (jtmnnitmi since I,lieu was 45,000 in the ! period I!J01 to 1005. However, though tiu> i programme i, comparatively ambitious, it is quite fe.iKime ir there is sUderrinnship iin the • Vivocmnont. A country like ; 'tuia ab.aild lie able to absorb 10,000 oet--5 tic’s wdn ease. In the last few years i the whole of the energies of the Governf. incut hate been aJjsmdxid in settling tc- \ turned .'-oblku.-; on (lie land; the civilian i land-seeker lias been shut out, and for a j time at any rate tin? .settler from overiSeost was positively discouraged. If 10.000 ■ Petti cits a year me going to bo absorbed comfortably. the Government must have a i policy. It uiurt have land available on at- ; tractive terms. and a, public works pro--I.gramme tiiat will open it up. ' The subject of the importation of glass IboRle;:. w;v; dmoussed by the committee ;»f the Auckbiiid Provincial Industrial As•jnciation. A lullin' was received from the Auckland Aerated Water Manufacturers’ Aesoclati on drawing attention to the action of an An i Lilian firm of bottle jnannf-actnrcu., coiiU'in.plating establishing , a branch in >,cw Zealand, asking for the imposition of _ a duty on all imported bottles, including (base of English manufacture. A letter bn;; been forwarded to the Prime Minister asking that before the Gov eminent committed itself to inipose u daily on the English article there I most conecinod should be consulted. It was maintained that the freight and .-charges on English bottles constituted sufficienij [irotcoL-on, The support of the a r -,mention was a.d:od irv Uiis action. The •chairman (Mr P. M. Hills) remarked that the aerated water manufacturer® were themselves proler-led by a tariff, yet they Were ashing that bottles should be admitted free (hat, in fact, no glass bottles should bn tnanijfiictimid in New Zealand. Xfe doubled whether the association could g<» so uir as to hack that up. After <iisc.ur.sion it was decided l to write support [hr the view that those concerned (should' dive their views, but pointing out I that in ' tlr; materials for the making of t j’-oiih-f wine available in Now Zealand it i.jrnight be a proper case for a.protective ■' klduiy.