LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 18255, 20 April 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Canterbury Jockey _ Club was held responsible at the' Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, yesterday for a fur .coat, owned by Mrs tlcrtrndo Freeman, and lost by her from the cloak room at the Iliccartdn Racecourse during the race meeting held on ..February 3. For the defendants Mr I). E. Wanlclyn alleged that the coat had never been left in the room, an attendant' stating that she had received coats from two other women, but not from plaintiff. The Magistrate, in giving Ins Judgment for plaintiff for £2O, said that he was satisfied the coat had been left in the room. What has become popularly known as the 11 affijir of honor” case was settled at the Magistrate’s Court, New Plymoutn, yesterday (states a Press Association message), when Mr A. if. Mowlern, 13. M., inflicted fines of £2 (with costa £2 7s od) on Joseph Henry Pickering, £1 (vvil.i dosts £l7s fid) on Charles Howard Moore, and £1 (with costs 7s) on Bernard Walter Moore, for an assault on Gilbert Edward Jago. ' All are well-known citizens. The charge arose from a horse-whipping that had been meted out to Jago in Queen street on the morning of Tuesday,'March 13. Alleged impropriety by Jago with the wife of Pickering was stated to bo the occasion.

The Wellington Hospital Board has re- ! ccived a letter from the Department ol Health, requesting it to consider a proposal that the and Otaki sanatnriums shall bo maintained by the joint hoards of the North Island. The department is willing to hand over free of charge the land and "institutions as they at preson!, stand. A conference will be called, when the question of the management and control will be considered. Tho_ annual maintenance and expenditure for the Ctaki institution is estimated at about £5,750, and that for Pukeora at £34,000, which is reducible by the receipts. 'I he letter stated that the receipts should be about £26,000, leaving a net cost of about £13,750, to be divided amongst the boards in proportion to their rateable value. The chairman (Mr F. Castle) said this was following the departments procedure in the South -Island. The matter was referred to the Finance and Policy Committee. The Board of Managers of the Feilriing Agricultural High School and College resolved that a-'letter be written to Sir Walter Buchanan congratulating him on his magnificent gift of £IO.OOO to Victoria, University College. A public-spirited act like that (it was stated) will at length enable students from the secondary schools and colleges of New Zealand to continue the study of agricultural science in the University. Before many years have elapsed (says the ‘ Argus V the full-blooded Victorian nboiigino will have become, a figure of the past. According to an official statement there are now only eighty-four _of them in the State. Under a policy decided upon some time ago by the Aborigines’ Protection Board, the majority of the aborigines have been concentrated at the station a-t Lake Tyers, in Gippsland. Hitherto the aborigines have been quartered in four districts—two “stations,” one at Lake Tyers and the other at Coranderrk, near Healesvilio; and two reserves, at Condah. near Hamilton, and Purnim, near Warrnambool. When the new policy was announced, a number of the older aborigines objected to being removed from the districta iu which they had spent inoat of their lives. It was therefore decided to permit them to remain. Thera are about thirty living at Gorandmk, and a similar number at Condah and Purmm respectively. The number of aborigines (the majority of whom are half-caste) at Lake Tyers is 220. There nr© also under the Cal« of the Aborigines’ Protection Board a number of aborigines who are below the half-caste standard. i It is not often that tho seagull develops the tendencies of the kea, but such 1 would appear to be tho case on farm adjacent to Levin (says tho ‘ Chronioie '• For some days a large grey-and-white gull has been a frequent visitor, while marry of the sheep have been found wandering about minus their eyes. The owner killed some of the unfortunate beasts, leaving one unburied, with poison applied to rim sockets. Next day tho gull was found not far away a victim to its own greed. 1 Tire financial year just ended has been a record one as far as New Plymouth is concerned for building. In his monthly report to the New Plymouth Borough Council recently tho chief inspector (Mr It, Day) stated that during March buildinn- permits amounting to £15,540 were granted, making a total of £184,939 tor the year. "This is a record,” Mr Day said. “ and, with the expenditure on Government buddings and schoois, easily reached'over £200,000. During tho year 133 houses were (built. This is also a record.”

The monthly. meeting of the Board of Directors of the Y.W.C.A. was held ui tho Y.W.C.A. on Wednesday, Mibb Ferguson (vice-president) presiding. Deports from departments showed satisfactory progress. Service of 168 girls with 'lunch on one day constituted a record in the cafeteria department, A letter of congratulation was sent from the board to tho members of the girls’ department in recognition of their raising over £7O for the conference fund. Tennis and Swimming Club affairs were being wound up, while threo basket ball teams and two hockey teams were taking their _ place. A new feature was the organisation of a leaders’ training course, consisting of twelve girls prepared to take a forty-weeks’ course of training in order to cpialify as leaders of clubs or other groups both within the association and beyond it. A scheme for welfare work in industrial plants, businesshouses, etc., which had been initialed by Miss Black (national girls’ work secretary) during her recent visit, was being de- ... veloped. J A- letter was read from tho World’s Y.W.C.A. Office, in London, giving an interesting account of money ex pended for extension in nnaffiliated countries, migration budges (including research work), industrial budget, _ publications, conference fund. The chairman of -ho World Fellowship Committee also wrote asking if tho association was prepared to receive a visit from Miss Brentnall, 8.A., association secretary in Trevandrum, S.W. India, later in tho year. _ Faced with the prospect of the work being closed down In Trevandrum, the members of the hostel there have agreed to do without one meal a day in order that they may subscribe something towards the maintenance fund. It was resolved that tho Dunedin Association do its utmost to help, and that the executive (consisting of -Mrs J. J. Clark, Mrs J. S, Boss, Mrs E. E. Nicolson, Misses Ferguson and Dunlop) act as a special committee to prepare for -Miss Black’s visit. The fortnightly meeting of St. Joseph’s branch of the Hibernian Society was held on Tuesday evening. Bro. J. J. Marlow, jam, presided over a large attendance of members, and read an invitation to a social evening to be given by the Port Chalmers branch on May 1. Bros. P. Walsh, P.P., W. Simpson, V.P., W. O’Connor, and A. Gillick were appointed to represent the branch at the function. Two new members wore elected, after •which the secretary reported that the jubilee souvenir was now ready, and he urged all members to procure a copy. Those present then took part in a question tournament arranged by tho Social Committee, which deserves thanks for the way in which it caters for members. The prizewinners Vore Bros. P. Walsh, P.P., and W. J. Morris. An election debate was chosen for the next meeting. Two young boys were charged in the Juvenile Court yesterday morning with the theft of an electric bulb, an electric torch, 2s worth of stamps, and 19s in money, the property of the Shell Oil Company; also with wilfully breaking a pane of glass in the company’s premises in Anderson Bay. They pleaded _ guilty, and Mr J. Lock (juvenile probation, officer) said both tho boys had poor homes, and were cut a good deal at nighte. Tho Magistrate (Mr Bartholomew) decided to give the Eds a chance, and adjourned the matter for twelve months, the boys to be under the supervision, of Mr Lock, in the meantime, and the mother of one of the boys to make restitution ol 15s 9d,