LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4592, 18 May 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

THE BAND CONCERTS. The Feilding Borough Council lias granted the Feilding Brass Band permission to give sacred concerts during the winter months. The first recital will be given in the Drill Hall on Sunday next. The programme to be rendered is a good one. Watch the Star for details. HOW TO BACK THEM. Honi sat on the river bank yesterday (says the Wanganui Herald) basking himself in the sun at Kaiwbailee pah, reading a newspaper, and when lie noticed a Wanganui pakelia business man, he dropped Ins paper and said: “Pv kdrry. I like to read le sporting. You know, tc paper fellow he tell you all you want to know about the game.” Then Honi rolled his eyes, straightened himself up, and suiting the action to the words, remarked:, “You remember to big fellow Paddon. I see him ill te boat go past. I say to myself ‘by korry, he te chap, he pull like hell.’ Then I read le paper, and to paper fellow he say ‘Paddon no good, lie have te crook hack, he too heavy, lie sink to boat. Hadliekl lie te fellow.’ Te big fellow, lie row again, oh, very, very fast, and I tell te missus, ‘he going to win.’ T hen she say, ‘got te paper.’ I look at te paper, and te paper follow say, ‘te hack still bad, and had rig to boat,’ and I put te pound on Hadfield, all because to paper follow lie know. Now 1 want te tip for tc races. Te paper fellow he say ‘ wants te wind up, can’t jump, is lame. Very good to paper man, I go hack all these crook horses on Thursday; then, by korry, tc missus and mo take te long, long holiday.”

WAGES-AND PRICES. Beyond the announcement already made, there are few signs of an immediate rail in prices in Wellington following on the cut of 5s per week in the wages bonus reports tile Post. It would appear that the following .resolutions of. the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, affirming the need for a reduction in prices, following the reduction in bonus, had in mind a greater cut ill wages than the Court made. It is argued in many quarters that “it is absolutely impracticable to pass on the recent 5s sut in wages.” It was gathered yesterday that some trades, therefore, are not making the cut in wages, and, instead, are awaiting an opportunity to make new agreements with their employees, Others are making tlie cut, and expect it to have “a tendency to bring down prices.” TEACHERS’ RESIDENCES.

Tlie policy of the Education Department in regard to teachers’ residences (states the Auckland Herai . was explained b y the Minister in liis interview with the Stanley Bay School Committee in Auckland, when in reply to a suggestion that a house on a site that was desired ns a new playground might be utilised ns a teacher’s residence, Mr Parr said the Department did not favour the provision of more residences for teachers. There were at present he said no fewer than 160 teachers’ residences empty in various parts of the Dominion. SOUR SAINTS AND SWEET SINNERS. “I would sooner trust myself at the judgment seat with some sinners than I would with many so-called Christians,” was what the Rev. J. Lamb Harvey said last Sunday when speaking in Auckland on the subject of “Nice Sinners and Nasty Saints” (states tlie Star). Many Christians •were so hard that to get any of the virtues out of them was like pressing a millstone to got water out of it. Sinners, on tho other hand, were often very lovable men, who were full of the milk of human kindness.. But having said so much he would like to add that some of the most lovable and attractive people ho had ever known were followers of the lovely Nazarene.

Following on the March' Gras held in Levin recently, prosecutions are being brought against two of the committee secretaries—Sports and YVoraroa—in the Magistrate’s Court at Levin to-day for having conducted illegal raffles. In 1920 New South Wales _ spent 23s 7d per bead of the population on education. In tho same year New Zealand spent 42s 4d per head. A mild epidemic of gastric influenza is being experienced in Palmerston North at the present time. It is stated that the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. are negotiating to take over the Orepuki shale works. A remit was carried by 21 votes to 13 at the Farmers’ Union Conference at Wanganui yesterday, that the Manawatu and YVanganui sub-pro-vinces be given provincial status:

'flic Farmers’ Union Conference at Wanganui unanimously passed a remit, urging that the protection on hares ho removed. One of tho delegates stated that hares destroyed fully 25 per cent, of the carrot crop in his district.

It was stated by tho engineer at a meeting of the Horowhenua Electric Power Board on Tuesday that if material, and particularly hardwood poles from Australia could be shipped direct to Foxton, the Board would bo saved thousands of pounds at the outset.

The construction of the world’s biggest hotel will begin at Chicago on May 1. The structure, which will contain 3000 rooms and baths, will reserve 2000 rooms at 34 and four dollars daily, and 1000 at seven dollars. Its features will include a convention hall, seating 4000 people, an exhibition floor of: 35,000 square feet, and a banqueting hall adjoining a private dining-roof and lounge, which, when thrown open, will seat 3600- people. The b lidding will cost 15,000,000 dollars (£3,000,000 nominal). “Among the progressive countries in the world New Zealand probably has the unenviable distinction of having the highest average of entry upon secondary education.” —Mr I. E. Newton, M.A., Director of the Napier Training College, speaking at the Technical Education Conference of Directors and Boards of Managers yesterday.

Respecting tlie picking up of a drifting boat at the entrance to the harbour on Monday, and the circumstantial evidence therein pointing to the suicide of one Frank Graham, a clerk in the rates office of the City Council, the suicide theory is doubted in some quarters. It is true that Frank Grahatn is missing, but it is not certain that the young man in question liasput an end to himself. — Dominion.

Community singing is starting in Masterton, the first “sing” taking place in the Municipal Hall to-day.

Tho Postmaster-General (Hon. J. G. Coates) stated yesterday that an arrangement had been made for tho extension for one year of the contract for the carriage of mails between ' New Zealand and San Francisco and Y’anoouvcr. The contract would expire in the ordinary course at tho end of June.

YVorking to rhythm is a study now being taken up in British industry; by it all the workers on tlio same job do their work in special movements, cutting out waste of energy and increasing their output and consequently their earnings.