LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1934, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Liverpool mine will be working on Monday, but the James mine will be idle. * i

The fire at Armstrong and Party’s coal mine at the Ten Mile, caused, it is believed, by spontaneous combustion, has now been practically isolated by the use of stoppings. It is expected that the mine will be producing coal again by the middle of next week.

This week there is some excitement in hospital circles, (says the Christchurch Sun). Five girls, students in the probationers’ class, received summary notice of dismissal on Monday after tw’o months’ trial, instead of the usual three months. Much feeling, it is said, has been aroused among hospital nurses at the action, and the girls themselves ■ have lodged complaints with members of the Hospital Board.

Eight members of a Wellington goldmining syndicate, E. N. Sutherland, R. C. Salmond, J. B. Williams, A. D. Kerr, J. Redpath, H. E. Combs, S G. Cresswell, and C. C. Richardson, are to pay £lO3/8/2, to the former manager of their mine, Charles Diamanti, as the result of a judgment given by Magistrate Page, to-day, arising out of a clainjt by Diamanti for wages, disbursements, and damages, in Respect of wrongful dismissal. —Press Assn.

An increase of half-penny an hour in the wages of tailers-out in timber yards, and of yard labourers, has been awarded by the Arbitration Court, at Christchurch. The rates of other workers under the North Canterbury Tim-ber-Yards, Sawmills and Coal-Yards Employees’ award had already been increased by the same amount by agreement, but the other question had been referred to the Court.—Press Assn.

The Coasters who backed Steeton in the Cup are. set for the Barrytown Ball, to-morrow night.—Advt.

It is an old saying that the true sportsman never complains when things go wrong, but at least one party of Devonport bowlers should be permitted to air their complaint (says the Auckland “Star”). It happened to be a very close head, and the rule was already being used when a cricket ball sailed over the hedge from the adjoining cricket field) bounced, and, rolling along the green, took kitty with it in a perfect trailing shot. Record states not what the sedate bowlers said. While the cricketers cheered an excellent sixer, no doubt the bowlers themselves wished that that particular ball had taken the middle stump for its kitty.

A special court, consisting of Mr. Walker S.M. and a nominee of each party, is hearing at Ashburton, to-day, the appeal by R. J. Thompson, principof the Ashburton Technical High School against his recent suspension for a month. The case was a sequel to a conference between the high school and Technical School Boards, regarding .amalgamation ' following which Thompson published letters in the “Guardian,” criticising the statements made. Mr Thompson refused to accede to the Chairman’s request to desist and the Board suspended him. The grounds of appeal include that the Board had no authority to suspend the Principal as he had not disobeyed a lawful command in relation to his duties; the Board exceeded its powers, the .punishment was unreasonable and out of all proportion to the alleged offence, and the attitude of some members of the Board prevented a settlement. Press Assn.

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Kawhai, as usual about the end of the whitebait season, are plentiful in the Grey River at present and are . providing abundant sport for anglers. Taken on minnow tackle, they are excellent fighters. One party of three, casting from a boat, on a recent afternoon landed thirty-four between the Cobden Bridge and the mouth of the Cobden lagoon.

The executive of the Trentham Scholarship Fund considered 444 applications for bursaries for 1935. Fortyfour applications were declined, and the 400 awards made .totalled £4338. This amount is greatly in excess of the amount available annually, but it was considered by the executive that even at the risk of shortening the life of the fund, it was better to meet the claims of the children of deceased and disabled soldiers requiring assistance at the present time. Since the inception' of the fund, ■ £60,591 12/6 has bedri applied to provide secondary education for children of deceased and disabled men who served in the Great War. —Press Assn. *

Traffic on the main highway between Christchurch and Nelson is frequently held up because of flooding on the road. Recently the South Island Motor Union, wrote to the Main Highways Board, asking that alterations be made at certain points in Rai Valley, at Canvastown, south of Seddon, south of Kaikoura, and at Ferniehurst. The Motor Union at Christchurch last evening had before it the reply of the Highways Board, stating that plans had been considor were under-consideration, for all of the points mentioned, and it was hoped' that all the works would be commenced, if not completed, during this season.—Press Assn.

Application for permission to erect a block of forty flats in Rolleston Street, which came before the Wellington City Council last evening, gave rise to a debate on the future of community housing in the city. The legal and by-laws committee of the Council reported adversely on the proposal on the ground that the flats were a radical departure from the building by-laws and that sufficient air space had not been provided. In a general discussion, members of the Council expressed the opinion that a common courtyard within the planned block would make for undesirable conditions. The application was finally declined. —Press Assn.

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