CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 June 1928, Page 12

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

ELECTION CANDIDATES. (Special to “Star.”) CHRISTCHURCH, May 31. The advisability of a Labour candidate standing for Hurunui electorate will be decided at a meeting in Rangiora next Wednesday. The seat at present is held by Mr G. W. Forbes, acting leader of the United New Zealand Political Organisation. It is understood there is a movement on foot to approach Mr J. L. Danks, Cashmere, with a view to asking him to contest the Lyttelton seat in the interests of the Reform Party. Mr Danks is one of the representatives of the Cashmere riding on the Heathcote County Council, also a member of the Council of the Canterbury Automobile Association. He is well known in business circles. FOOTBALLERS’ “STRIKE.” Several boys, who were to lutve taken part in a school football game yesterday at Rangiora, notified their teacher prior to the game that they did not intend to play. Their defection weakened the team considerably, but the master sooner than withdraw the side from the game filled the vacant places with emergencies. By way of imposition, the missing ones were instructed to write a composition on: “My objection and reason for not wanting to play football.” ALLEGED PESSIMISM. The pessimism of several of the Canterbury Members Manufacturers’ Association, regarding the present position of Christchurch, in relation to other cities in the Dominion, is not shared by the Mayor (Rev. J. K. Archer) or the Deputy Mayor (Cr D. G. Sullivan, M.P.), whose views were sought this morning. “There is no need for any pessimism,” said the Mayor. “I think it would be more in the interests of the city, if th,e pessimists instead of grousing would get their shoulders to the wheel, and help to push the city along.” When the matter was mentioned to the Deputy Mayor, he said that members of the Manufacturers’ Association had caught the prevailing malady of talking down their city instead of talking it up. When leaders in industry, talked that way their pessimism helped to beget pessimism in the community, and tended to create the very conditions they deplored. He believed that when the tunnel was electrified, it would make a world of (difference to the trade of the port, city and province, though he was of opinion that ultimately a tunnel road would be constructed, giving direct access to the ship’s side. HOUSES ROBBED. Since the week-end five instances of breaking and entering houses and shops have been reported. A house in Barrington Street, was broken into and money stolen. In Holly Road, a house was ransacked but nothing taken. A tobacconist’s shop jn Bealey Avenue, and another in Stanmore Road were broken into, a quantity of goods being taken from each place. In Weston Road, the home of a solicitor was ransacked.