LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tho Professorial Board of Canterbury College Las decided to nominate two candidates, Richard John Seddon Bean and James Esmond Farrell, for Rhodes Scholarships. Both aro taking law courses. A saving of ,£250 in sessional printing costs by reducing tho number of copies distributed has been effected by tho new system inaugurated this year in the issue of ‘ Hansard,’ tho official record of parliamentary speeches. Hitherto (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington) 1 Hansard ’ has been issued twice a week, but under the new arrangement it appears in daily numbers, which are bound into small indexed volumes at the end of each week. By a majority decision tho Compensation Court awai-ded Fadlalla Khoun, merchant, of Wellington, a gross sum of £4,200 in respect of a claim against tho Wellington City Council for £9,560 compensation for land in Thorndon quay which had been taken by the corporation for street-widening purposes. The Chief Justice (Sir M. Myers) said that although the amount was £1,700 more than was offered by tho respondent, inasmuch as tho amount did not roach half tho total sum claimed, tho court was precluded from ordering the corporation to pay costs. Tho new convent building attached to the Homo of Compassion at Island Bay, Wellington, was officially opened yesterday afternoon by Archbishop O’Shea. Tho building, which is practically completed, cost £25,500, of which £IB.OOO |s already in hand. Archbishop O’Sltoa, in his address, said that Catholic Eeoplo were engaged in a very large uilding programme, and buildings to tho value of over £200,000 were being erected throughout New Zealand and the diocese during the present year. An institution such as the Homo of Compassion was a concrete expression of solicitude for the poor, the needy, and tho unfortunate. , That solicitude had been shown right down through the ages, and from her very beginning the Catholic Church had enunciated the great principle that underlies her social and charitable activities, namely, that what tho rich gave to the poor was only a return to God for the worldly possessions with which they were blessed. Mr R. M'Keen, M.P., said that the work of the home was undenominational in that' no differentiation was made as to the religion of the different inmates. Tho home had nothing to equal it throughout New Zealand and Australia. Commissioner Cunningham, of the Salvation Army, and Brigadier Walls visited Mosgicl and lectured in tli<e Army work in the Far East. Tho deputy-mayor, Cr Wright, presided. Tho lecturers covered mission work, work amongst the . lepers, and Dr Willie’s work in his eye hospital. A short musical programme was gone through, and the Revs W. E. Lambert and Bayliss gave short addresses.