Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume L, Issue 5139, 3 April 1919, Page 4

Local and General.

It is intended to have extra poKagt. m Gisborne during the liui. To-morrow afternoon Mrs. Kineton Parkes will deliver an address on the responsibility of the vote. The meeting is open to all though the speaker addresses herself more especially to the women of Xeir Zealand. Mrs. Parkes is described in southern papers as a clear and fluent speaker, well acquainted with her subject. The meeting will he held in Findlay’s tea rooms at 3 p.m. Mr. W. D_ Lysnar wired to a friend yesterday that be bad a very good meeting at the Wellington Town Hall on Tuesdav evening, when he addressed the electors on the Liquor question. The New Zealand Times, in its report, estimated the attendance at 2000. Mr. Lysnar adds: “My address lasted until 10.40 p.m.,. which is considered late for a M eilington meeting.” An extract from an article in. an American journal on “Who Raised Prices” reads: “The farmer raised the price of wheat which raised the price of flour and that raised the price of bread. When the street-ear motormen realised the price of breid thev struck for higher wages—diis raised street-car fares. Then the workmen in the mills wanted thirty cents an hour more and when they got it that raised the price of rails, which in turn, boosted freight rates and that added a little more to the cost of bread. Then everybody struck—struck for more pay—and that raised the price of everything and made everybody strike again.’ One of the most striking developments in industrial Britain during the war has been the enormous development in electricity supply, and with a corresponding development in electrical manufactures as relating to the industrial applications of electricity, whether for lighting, heating, or power. Between 50 and 100 electricity stations might be cited in which, the plant capacity has been more than doubled dnrmg the past four years. The electrical energy has been increased to nearly the 'same extent. Unparalleled demands have been made upon manufacturers of lamps and lighting fittings, of motors and power auxiliaries. of electric furnaces and welding equipment, for munition purposes Despite the many responsible and complicated characters of the duties which have to be carried out by the local Registrar of Electors. Mr. H, E. Hill, that gentleman has certainly lost no opportunity of affording every facility tp the Maoris soldiers who are to arrive shortly, to vote in connection with the forthcoming special licensing poll. As an instance, of this, a Gisborne Times representative ascertained yesterday that Mr. Hill had wired to the authorities in Wellington iu regard to the matter, recommending that a booth should be established ut the Park racecourse, where the liui is being held, so that all the Maori soldiers who care to do so may record-their votes, as provided I>y law, and promptly received an intimation that his recommendation had been approved. He has decided to have two booths on the course.

Amongst the fascinating problems which make engineering science at once a most exacting and. most truitfui studv, the characteristic behavior of metals under varying conditions provides many curious cases. For example, grey cast iron grows appreciably in volume when exposed to high temperature. This characteristic, which causes, much trouble in cast dies, valve seatings and other parts, is believed to be due to in-

ternal oxidation caused by tbe penetration of bot gases into tbe _ m ®tal. A remedy recently suggested in England is to eliminate free graphite from the surface of the metal, this being the cause of its porosity. Successful results have been obtained bv annealing the parts for several days in iron rust at a. temperature of from 1050 to IS3O deg. Fahr. - Very special values in boys’ shirts can be obtained just now at Messrs. C. Rosie and Co.’s. This firm have a splendid variety of boys’ white, striped, or grey shirts .all siirafL ranging in price froraS, 3d to rsoms\o the requirements Hofafternion VKitors without reducing; the ti|ie allwved for luncheon.

A Vho is “Morig On, and what has do e to bring upon lnm the wrath ’1 the Government? A notice in the intimates that the letters G f mSiirahsation with this flowery<U IrllS Sne on the 7th October, 1905 have been cancelled, and that , ’ Mono- On ceases to be a Set. The Government . offers no reason for their action.

The London Express publishes the. , , ‘' Major-General Poole, the ° f the North Ev» •in front, states, ill a message dated i ia T r 8: The evidence shows that It Vwree' for natifnalisation of wonn lms been put into force, and that commissaries of free love have in established in several towns. £ectablc women have been flogged for' refusing to’ yield . Several experiments have been made m the nationalisation of children.

floes not matter what Ministry kin power,” said the Hon.. A. M. Mvers at Wellington last week,' “it k clear to me that> n 0 Ministry cafrioossess sufficient experience to .j 0 Vnsticc to the various problems that are presented from time to time without seeking the advice of experts from outside . I trust that the example shown by the Munitions and Supplies Department will be followed in future by whatever Ministry is called upon to sit on the Treasury Benches.”

A meeting which should prove of interest to the general public will be held in Findlay’s tea-rooms on Friday afternoon. Mrs. Kineton Parkes, who lias taken a prominent part in the Old Country in all recent women’s movements, will speak on the value and responsibility to New Zealand women of the vote. The Dunedin Evening Star, in a report of one of her meetings, says: “Mrs. Kineton Parkes is a well-trained speaker, educated and well-informed upon the details of her subject—and of gracious presence and manner.”**

The ovster season will open in a few weeks, and Mr. A. J. Rusher, of the Cosmopolitan Cafe, who does practically so much of the local trade in 'oysters, is already making preparations to cope with the requirements of his customers. To meet the demand for oysters in bottles, which is usually very heavy, large quantities of certain kinds of battles are required, and to procure these in sufficient numbers Mr. Rusher is offering good cash prices for large or small quantities. Enos’, currie or bottles of similar make and size are the kind required.*** The opponents of prohibition in Canada are being heari! from vigorously. They are malting arrangements to bombard Parliajqaent with what they defiim as a%,‘ ‘saie alternative to total pssbdbitiafc’|f This alternative will baialong fallowing lines: — Provufcial coljkrol/of the. wine and spiritf businessmwjph a zone feys'tem jjtScfer Jfrhich regliglred persons riijsy obfiaijp certain quantities of fad beers oF'particuiar brands’ fom Consumption in their own homesWaii the penalty for misuse of the 'Cancellation of their personal license %hich would permit the legitimate holder to purchase from provincial stocks in the zone in which he is dmuified attempt to offer what both labor and the business world believe to be a possible and popular alternative to prohibition. The tions will unanimously be rJVf vo Of complete abolition of the hart other drinking places, fof.ee Mr yiew? on the gptag is an lrannge rights and ufso the piPSTright under the British

Norfl/America Act. interesting information was imparted by Mr E. , G -, L ? t „ e 1 n^ n tor on manual and technical mstruc Hon in discussing last week s visit to Gisborne of Mr La Trobe Superintendent of Technical Education m New Zealand, which was made with the object of inquiring into the P OB - itv of the establishment of a technical high school m Gisborne. :v Loten said that the new Act made A compulsory for children to attend school up to the age of 17 years arm those apprentices in trades will be required to be released by their employers to attend the technical class in that particular vocation once or twice each week as the case might be The main difficulty ahead is that of securing a site for the erection of a college. Once the site was obtained the Government would provide the building and necessary equipment. The area necessary for such an jn- , stitution would be about five acres as a minimum, so as to provide a ground for recreation and annexe departments such as engineering, plumbing, cooking and other buildings. the system of payment by the Government, he continued, enabled the ap pointments of capable men as instructors at good salaries, while the instit&or; would be controlled by a board'" consisting of representatives of contributing local bodies. if sue a school was opened in Gisborne pupils from Te Karaka and other places could come for instruction, as children come to Napier from Hastings and other places. Another thing l favor of the technical colleges was the fact that whereas only pupils wum proficiency certificates were entitled to two years’ more free educational training, those with endorsed competency certificates were entitled to receive free* instruction. Mr Loten said that enquiries made by him in this direction while i n this distric had satisfied him beyond doubt or the necessity in Gisborne of an institution of this type for the improvement and general welfare of the future citizen, and lie felt that the size of the town and importance of the district warranted such in institution. 4