LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 September 1935, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Justice Northcroft and his associate. Mr A. Hill, will arrive from Christchurch, by to-morrow’s express.

At. a sitting of the Children’s Court, Greymouth, to-day, a boy was fined 2/6j for riding an unlighted cycle after sunset. 1

» The Railway Department has given permission for the Karoro Sports Club to run an excursion from Hokitika and Greymouth to Christchurch on Labour' week-end, October 2,7.-

A sitting of the Supreme Court will be held at Greymouth, on- Wednesday. The only case on the list is the retrial of Sydney Judge, on a charge of alleged assault, causing actual bodily harm.

Owing to the increase in demand for chilled beef for export, reducing the supply for local consumption, stock prices have increased. Wellington retailers have been obliged to pass on the increase of a penny per pound in the wholesale price.—Press Assn.

The strictness of the regulations under the Arms Act is shown by the fact that the line-throwing gun used by the Harbour Board is registered as a firearm. Conceivably, it coujd be used as such, with live ammunition,but the result probably would be more disastrous to the holder of the gun than to anyone at which he aimed.

From time to time, sporting bodies insure themselves against wet weather, and the facilities have been taken advantage of by a racing club in Taranaki, while a general scheme of insurance is submitted to the Racing Conference, without, however, being adopted for clubs as a whole. The only instance on the West Coast of a sporting fixture being insured was on June 26 of this year, on the occasion of the visit of the Indian hockey team.

o The Arthur Pass National Park Board is not satisfied with the steps being taken, by the Government for the destruction of deer in the National Park and adjacent areas. At a meeting held last week, It was decided to make further representations for a -more intensive programme. The Waimakariri River Trust is also to be approached. Mr. S. A. Darby, for the deer sub-committee, said that in 1922 the estimated number of deer in New Zealand was three hundred thousand. Allowing for natural increase at the rate of 25 per cent., the number in 1939 might possibly reach even ten million, provided food lasted. Those figures were probably fantastic, hut even if they were halved the position was still serious.

Strong criticism of the existing social conditions, and some constructive suggestions alleviating unemployment, were made by the Bishop of Waikato (Dr C. A. Cherrington) in the monthly parish letter. The suggestions embody doing away with the Unemployment Board, and the responsibility of the unemployed being placed on the shoulders of Borough Councils and County Councils, who could look after the unemployed in their own boroughs or counties. The administration would then be free of the charge that the taxes collected do not go to the people for whom they were collected. There was something wrong when a man was expected lo maintain a wife and family on 27/6 a week. Further. Dr Cherrington advocated a law forbidding what was a glaring injustice, “a week's notice," supposed to be attached to the weekly w-age. All workers should have reasonable notice. "1 suppose there is nobody who knows anything about it who is satisfied with the way our unemployed in this country have been looked after. We pay large- enough taxes and would willingly pay more if it were wanted, but the huge surplus in hand and the fut ihcr lowering of this particular tux. surely shows there is something wanting somewhere." —Press Assn.

Balancing the Budget is always a knotty problem especially for the woman. So many things wanted, and only a restricted income. Here’s where ('. Smith’s eonte to the aid. No need this summer to go without that frock or hat you wanted so badly if you take advantage of C. Smith’s low prices. Besides, lower prices, C. Smith’s are featuring a bigger range than ever. —Advt.

Spring is Here: —Do these sunny days reveal unexpected shabbiness in yoiir Carpets and Curtainings? If so, view the display in White’s windows this week. There yon will find the latest and best designs for the coining season, and guaranteed to satisfy tin* most critical housewife.—S. Burnett White, High-grade Furnisher. —Advt.

Throughout the British Empire, and particularly in New Zealand, the performances of the All Blacks constitute the most-popular subject of conversation wherever men gather together. There is a reason, of course — the merit of the All Blacks is recognised everywhere. For the same reason —genuine merit —Dewar's Imperial Whisky is always found circulating among discerning men, and this first-quality product is gaining fresh conversions every day. Dewar’s is j obtainable at all leading hotels. Griffen and Smith, Ltd., Agents, Greymouth, Hokitika and Westport.—Advt.

The art union conducted by Station 3ZR, Greymouth, in aid of station funds, was drawn under the supervision of Sergeant Tsbister at the studio on Saturday evening. The winning ticket, No. 1900, is held by Mr J. Walker, C/o Hannah’s, Greyinouth.

A disconcerting occurrence befell a New Zealander "Who recently sent her brother in England a greenstone tiki ornament as a curio. In the course of his letter thanking her for the gift, her brother saici: “Did you notice, by the way, that the ornament was made in Birmingham.” >

Shortage of water is reported at Cobden and Runanga, owing to the spell of dry weather, 1 the rain-water tanks being at a low ebb. The absence of rain is also affecting the water supply for the goid : mining industry. The Bundi dredge' closed down on Saturday, until rain falls. There is reported to be ample water in the dam, but difficulty has ,been met in keeping the boilers supplied with clean water. Rain is. forecasted, and will be welcomed throughout the West Coast.

The anomalous position that the Government put every obstacle in the way of the sale of tickets for art societies’ 'art unions, whereas those for which the prizes were alluvial gold had sellers at every street corner, was emphasised at the annual meeting of the Auckland Society of Arts, states the “New Zealand Herald.” Thd art unions conducted by >the society were purely to assist the artists in selling their works. It was decided to protest against the disabilities, of societies in this direction, and recommend to the incoming executive that (the matter- be taken up through the associated societies of arts.

Speaking at the Rotary Club luncheon at Nelson, the Commissioner of Taxes, Mr. C. fc. Dowland, in referring to the Income Tax Department’s office work, said that it had been found as a general rule that a boy just left school did faster and better typing than a girl. \As time went on, the girl, however, overtook and passed the boy, who rarely kept to this kind of work, apparently becoming fed-up with it. The girls worked for three weeks typing land and income tax Idemdnds, and the record-holder was a girl who got through 705 in a seven hour day, and later, suffering strain, which commonly occurred, resigned and got married.

Though it has been noticed in New Zealand that a number of returned soldiers are only now beginning to feel the full effects of their war service, there has been a distinct improvement in the health of “nerve” cases among English returned men in the last few years, Dr. D. Arnold Lyndon, 0.8. E., who was medical officer in charge of one of the war hospitals from 1914 to 1918, told a “Dominion”, reporter. There was certainly a very large number of men who would never be able to work again, said Dr. Lyndon, but there had been a distinct improvement in the condition of many “nerve” cases, and it had been noticeable that an encouraging proportion of them had been absorbed into work. The worst period for these men had been the first 10 years after the war.

An incident which will be appreciated by New Zealanders generally and especially by any American visitors who happened to be in Napier at the time, oaccurred in a Napier hotel recently, states the Napier “Daily Telegraph.” Dinner was over and the chairs and settees round the fire were comfortably filled with male guests at the establishment. Precisely at 7 o’clock, as the wireless in the lounge boomed for the commencement of the National Anthem, a party of American tourists, comprising mostly women, entered’ the lounge, their entry being marked by the immediate rising of the mere males seated round the fire. The sequel came a little later in the evening when one of the Americans was chatting with the hotel proprietor. “Say, there’s one thing I sure do admire about you folks, and that’s your patriotism,” she said.

Have you planned your summer wardrobe? Never mind, if you have or have not, you’ll find the very things you wanted for those smart summer rig-outs at C. Smith's. Ffocks! Fabrics! Hats! Gloves! Bags! They’re all here! New! Novel! Unexpected! A delight to the eye and the purse of the must-be-fashionable miss or matron.—Advt.