LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 June 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Onions are quoted at 9s to 9s 6d per cwt. in Wanganui and potatoes at £6 10s pei" ton wholesale. Stamped and guaranteed eggs are being sold in Dunedin just now at 2s per dozen wholesale. Judgment for plantiff by default for £8 15s with costs was given in the case Bahay Saraty v. Charles Mayo at tho Grey mouth Magistrate’s Court, today. The Greymouth and Blaketown Fire Brigades played a return euchre tournoy at the Fire Brigade Station last evening, the Greymouth Brigade winning by 611 points to 590. Coal shipped by the "Westport G< X — .X 1 N ,x xxx wx n» » 1 n r-i w.r/X, .1 r 4- l<-k X 1 Trl

Stockton Company last week totalled 1926 tons 17 cwt. The Westport Coal Company shipped 7272 tons 18 cwt of coal and 42 tons 10 cwt of coke. Frequent complaints have been received in Palmerston North of late of an early-bird sneak thief, who has increased the financial stress by descents on tho money contents of family milk-jugs before the milkman arrives.

A Hawke’s Bay resident says that in spite of anything that may have been said to the contrary, the unemployment difficulty is most acute in the district extending from Danne.virke to Napier. The effect upon trade, he says, is very marked in the larger towns. Complaints have been frequent during the past few weeks regarding the removal of refuse in the town, it being stated that the work has not been regularly carried out. Enquiries show

that the Borough Council is responsible for the removal of household refuse at least once a week, but t 1 1 ’ tradespeople must make . their own arrangements for the disposal of rubbish. Borough officials state that it is hoped to effect an improvement in the household service at early date.

A gentleman who waited upon the City 'Schools Committee in Auckland to advocate a reduction in the amount of home-work given to children, said that the following question was sot to pupils of Standard IV, at a particular school : “If King William I. came to life and met King George, on wliar lines would their conversation be?” The committee promised to make inquiries into the matter. “Meccano,” the engineering game for boys. Prices range from 8/6 to

72/6 a set. All spare parts and sundries are procurable from B. Dixon, Tainui Street. —Advt. A letter -was sent a short time ago to the Engineor-in-Chief, Public Works Department, Wellington, requesting that the Department allow one of its officers to supervise the erection of an X-Ray room at the

Greymouth Hospital. The reply read at a special meeting of the Hospital Board last evening stated that the Department could not comply with the request, unless the Board was willing to pay ’in advance to the Public Account'a sum equivalent to the value of the time which it would be necessary for the overseer to put in in connection with the supervision of the work The Board appointed Mr. H. Bignell as overseer. '

Skating races held last evening in the Star Shed resulted as follows: — Couples Race (six laps): Mr. Rugg and Miss Sinnott, 1; Mr. Clisby and Miss R. Deere, 2; Mr. Thomas and Miss Ashton, 3. Boys’ Race: J. Hogarth (4 yards), 1; N. Keily (scr.), 2. Eighteen others started. North Island mails for the West Coast which left Wellington by the ferry steamer Maori last night, did not arrive at Lyttelton in time to allow of their connection with the Arthur’s Pass train this morning. They were sent on by motor-car catching the tram at Springfield. In the absence of counsel application was made, for the adjournment of a judgment summons at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Mr. W. H. Bundle, S.M.-, stated that in future such reason for adjournment would be taken as insufficient, and that a judgment summons being a penal affair would have to be heard on the day cst down.

The noon train to Temuka last Thursday being inconvenient and the express being too late, Mr. T. D. Bur nett, M.P., who was down for one of the principal speeches at an important function in the capital of his con stituency, made his way thither by air. Engaging one of the New Zealand Aero Transport Company’s machines, he was over Temuka in less than ten minutes after he had left the Washdyke aerodrome. Mr. Burnett considers his constituency, after seeing it from aloft, one of the most picturesque districts in the Dominion. The latest knitting and crocb book is on sale at A, E. Kilgour Price 3/9, postage 3d extra. Only - limited supply on sale. —Advt. Amended regulations,/ gazetted under the Explosive and Dangerous Goods Act. provide that the annual fee for a license to keep a private magazine for the storage of explosives shall be as follows: —Up to 300 pounds capacity, ss; between 300 and 2000 pounds, £1; between 2000 and 10,000 pounds, £2 2s; 10,000 to 20,000 £5; over 20,000 pounds, £lO. The fee to be charged for each importation license is to be £1 for every 2000 pounds or portion of 2000 pounds gross weight, of explosives specified in the license. Ladies’ Writing Tablets Cambric linen paper, assorted tints, 1/. and 1/6, obtainable from A. E. Kilgour,

Wholesale and Retail Bookseller and Stationer, Mawhera Quay.—Advt. How a rabbit trap may cause much unnecessary suffering to other than rabbits was instanced at a meeting of the Canterbury Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to A tiimals. Tho society’s inspector stated that a woman residing in Sumner reported having discovered a cat <jg.ught in a rabbit trap fastened to a small bush. She had been drawn to the spot by faint cries and found the cat in a most pitiable condition. It had evidently been in its predicament fol some time and was more skill and bone. Its trapped leg was in a revolting condition. It was decided to investigate the case. Solid leather school bags 10 by 8, 8/6 and 9/6; 10 by 12, 12/6 to 15/-; Hamper straps with cane handles, 4/6 and 5/6; Book straps 1/6, on sale at A. E. Kilgour’s, Bookseller and Stationer, Mawhera Quay.—Advt. In the current issue of the “Police Journal” a new beat system for police is advocated (says the Melbourne “Age”). The men, it is stated, regard the present system of street patrol at niirlit as obsolete, and not productive of the best results. 'Hit. suggested system entails the provision of one man for every street, and in cases of the larger city thoroughfares one man for each side of the street. The scheme provides also for quarterly or half-hourly points, arranged so that the man on the beat could jro in any direction, in his own time, within his own section, making it difficult for thieves to learn his movements. At the Warden’s Court to-day presided over by Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., the following applications were granted : —Hugh Keenan, application for protection (for 12 over sawmill lie. 49/20 and reservation No. 50/20, both situate in block 15 Arnold Survey District; John Henry Lester, application for ordinary prospecting license, 100 acres situate in block one, Otira Survey District; R. W. Englajid and Sons, Ltd., and John Waller and Sons, Ltd., application for protection rciv months; over sawmill lie. 123714,

timber reservation 13/16. Timber reservation 24'20, timber reservation 25/20, license for tramway 45/11, license for tramway 42/14, all situate in blocks three and seven, Hohonu survey district. An experiment in the building of earth houses in Auckland has proved unsuccessful, the climate having been found to be unsuitable. Some nine months ago the Campbell and Ehrenfried Company acquired a section at Newmarket, and engaged an architect and a foreman with experience of the same class of work in other countries, and a commencement was made to erect some houses. The walls were constructed hi layers of earth, but although all means were employed to bring the experiment to a successful issue the material absorbed so much, moisture as to jeopardise the safety of the walls, which shrank to such an extent that it was found impossible to obtain adhesion in them. Even a porI* 1 • _Y — ___ — — «XXl> XX >3 XX Xlx xx ( XOA x>

- tion WHICH Wets 111 LOILVU. <JII LIJ.W VAItAIVL - side -with plaster could not bo relied upon for stability. W',t- weathef irei quently interrupted tho work and tills ' rendered progress slow. In the end the ; work had to bo abandoned.

Charges of failing to stop before crossing a railway hue, and of failing to observe whether the line was dear were preferred against Henry Baker, Rutherglen, at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M. Mr. A. H. Paterson appeared for defendant and after hearing evidence, decision was reserved. In giving judgment this morning, the Magistrate stated that he had inspect-

ed the railway crossing at the Southern end of the railway station and found that it would be, for all practical purposes, impossible for a motor lorry to stop before crossing. \ Before any view was obtainable a driver had to be almost on the line. Fortfailing to stop the information was dismissed. When, however, Baker crossed the line without observing whether a train was approaching he had failed to carry out his duty. The Magistrate, taking into consideration the fact that defendant

followed another vehicle over the crossing, merely convicted and fined him 10/-, with costs. School bags for the boys and gfrls in strong cloth, canvas-lined 2/6 and 3/6 each. Leather 7/6 to 12/6. Solid hide bags 14/- each. Hamper straps, with stretcher and handle —new line 6/6 set. Dog collars in all sizes, price 1/3, 1/6, 1/9, 2/-. Procurable from B. Dixon, Tainui Street.— Advt.