LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 28 May 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Eight years under bond is the guarantee of our very fine Old Invalid Port Wine. Nothing better in the Dominion. Bell’s Special Reserve Scotch Whisky is paramount, likewise Lion Oatmalt Stout. Mark Sprot and Co., Ltd., Distributors.—Advt. Our Westport correspondent wires that the Admiralty collier “Biloela” arrived there yesterday from Australia. At Blenheim, following an address by Mr W. J. Polson, President of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union, a meeting of country settlers passed a motion in favour of the agricultural banking proposals. The member for the district, Mr. Jas. O’Brien, proceeds to-morrow to Hokitika, and will spend a couple of days in that locality, visiting also the surrounding districts. Members and those who intend to Ibe members are reminded that the general meeting of the Grey Labour Party will take place on Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. in the,Lyceum Hall. A leading Timaru citizen, Mr George Steven, a member of the High School Board, aged 70 years, dropped dead on Saturday morning. The most central, reasonable and convenient place for West Coasters in Wellington is the Grand Hotel conducted by J. A. Ross, who has pleasure in announcing ten per cent reduction in tariff, and increased efficiency. A wire from Coast will always command attention.—Advt. The Oceanic S.S. Co., which has had its contract for the ’Frisco mail renewed by the U.S.A. Government, has the intention of putting on two new liners on the Australian run designed especially for naval and military use in war time. Admiral Benson, of the U.S.A. Navy (says a cable) thinks very highly of the provision of new • •vessels of this type for the Pacific pervice.

A Press telegram states Mr Massey at Auckland refused to pledge himself to have Anzac Day celebrated in future on the Sunday before the anniversary of the landing, saying there were two sides to it, and he could give no pledge beyond a promise to see the matter was considered by Parliament. An Australian cable states that there the Premiers’ Conference has decided that Anzac Day shall be celebrated on the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli. On Saturday, for the first time since the recent floods, the express train from Christchurch ran right through to Arthur’s Pass. This was on account of the small locomotive that has been drawing a train between the slip and Arthur’s Pass having had a breakdown. The passengers, however, walked round the slip. To-morrow,however, the train will again come right through from the other side, and will for the future continue to do so as usual. A sensational experience was that of a couple of men employed at Warren and Feeney’s sawmill at Blue Spur near Hokitika, on Saturday morning. They were engaged with a couple of horses in conveying a steel rope, 20 chains in length, up the hill to the bush winch, the horses dragging the rope with chains, when lightning struck the steel rope. At the time one of the men was releasing the rope from an obstacle on the track, and he was thrown into the scrub in a dazed state, while a second flash then struck the rope, causing the horses to bolt screaming up the track. They were not stopped till they reached the bush, ■where, as soon as a bushman released them from the chains, they took again to their heels and disappeared into the scrub. The accident occurred at 9 a.m. and the mill management decided to cease work for the rest of the day. A reference, to the Dalton system of education was made by Professor H. S. Dettmann at the University capping ceremony in the Auckland Town Hall. The system, he said, was more or less in actual practice at tho University, where tho students decided themselves in what time and by what means they would get through the amount of study set them, whether it was to be three years, seven years, or whether they would simply take “pot luck.” The students themselves worked out lheir own destiny. The speaker, however, was convinced that while the raw material presented to the New Zealand teachers was the finest in the world, the crying need among schoolboys was first and foremost what he summed up as “discipline.”

Tn his address at the graduation ceremony at Auckland, Professor Dettmann, who is taking up an important educational appointment in Sydney, said he had been asked to give his conclusions about the New Zealand University student. Speaking only of his own students, he would say they w'ere not as able intellectually as others he had known, and not as well equipped or prepared. The trouble was. he felt, that they came to the University too young, not sufficiently matured, and not able to take things seriously. (Laughter.) In other respects they were as fine fellows as could be met anywhere. It seemed absurd to him that a man should enter a profession—say law—at the age of twenty. It would be far more preferable if the student came from the secondary school to the University at the age of eighteen, with his mind fullyset for University work. The Railway Department notifies that train usually leaving Hokitika for Ross at 2.15 p.m. on Fridays will on and after Ist June, leave at 4.0 p.m. We have now landed a new shipment of moquettes, mohair velvets in coloured designs, tapestry and shadowtissue coverings, from which we make chesterfields, divan, tub or any other ■ design chairs, box ottomans or sofas. We specialise in upholstered furniture and shall be pleased to quote you for your requirements. Harley and Co., House Furnishers, Greymouth.—Advt,

A London cable states Waihi shares are quoted at 24/4 and 25/-. At Wanganui a 10-y ear-old boy, Charles W. Crisp, fell off a motor lorry, one of the wheels of which passed over him, and caused severe internal injuries. Mr Buller Geddes, of Millerton, has forwarded his recently-purchased trotter (by Hal Zolock—The Linnet) to the well-known Christchurch mentor, Mr J. Messervey, for preparation for the Christmas meetings. A civic farewell is to be tendered Miss Kitto, matron of the Grey Hospital, in the Council Chambers, this afternoon at four o ’clock. Ladies are specially invited to be present. The ladies’ hockey match, Cronadun v. Blackball, which was to have been played at Reefton on Saturday, was postponed owing to the unsuitable condition of the ground. In the list of accounts passed for payment at the meeting of the Inangahua Hospital Board last week, that of Messrs Forsyth and Masters (£25/ was inadvertently omitted from our report in Friday’s issue. At the Victoria Theatre, at Devonport, Auckland, on Friday night, a fire that did considerable damage in the storeroom, under the operating box, filled the theatre with smoke, alarming the audience, but the manager reassured them, and the orchestra carried on till the Fire Brigade quickly put the fire out. How’s this for unco’ guid?:—“l regret nothing done or said in my long and busy life. I withdraw nothing, and am not conscious of any change in mind. In youth I was called a revolutionary, in old age I am called a reactionary; both names alike untrue. . . . I ask nothing, I seek nothing, I fear nothing. ... I am ready, and await the call.”—Frederic Harrison. What an extraordinary man!

At a full meeting of the executive of the Westland Timber Workers’ Union on Thursday the following resolution relative to the censorship was unanimously adopted: “That this full meeting of the executive of the Westland Timber Workers’ Union, resolve that we utterly condemn the attempt of the powers that be to decide what we shall read. We stigmatise the censorship of working-class literature as an insult to our intelligence and an attack on our class; and we pledge ourselves individually and collectively to work for its abolition.” You can now sit in behind the wheel, start your motor and go your way into the worst rain or sleet storm imaginable, with hands free to operate your car, with your mind on its handling and your eyes straight ahead through a clean, wind-shield. By simply turning a button the little vacuum motor of the Mayo-Skinner Automatic .Windshield Cleaner starts to work. Call and have one fitted at the Dispatch Motor Works.—Advt. This year there was a forfeit for the English Derby on the last Tuesday in March; previously the last forfeit was fourteen months before the race, so that few horses had even started at two years before their owners had to decide whether they were to be left in the Derby at a cost of £5O. When the forfeit was declared on this occasion. 87 remained in. Tho added money is £3OOO, and it has already been computed that the race will be worth £10,860 to the owner of the winner, and £5OO to be breeder. However, the share of the second and third horses is very modest, the former only getting £4OO and the latter £2OO. Added money for the next A.J.C. Derby is £BOOO. second horse getting £l6OO. and the third £BOO, which is better distribution than practically everything for first. “There are many houses at the present time in Wellington which have been condemned as unfit for human habitation, but they cannot be destroyed because there are no other houses for those unfortunate people to live in,” remarked Dr J. S. Elliott at the annual meeting of the Wellington Plunket Society. “But there is a silver lining to the cloud,” he added, “because it has been publicly announced that the Government next session is going to make very handsome proposals for dealing with th'S question of housing, which is one of the most important and most urgent public questions at tho present time.” (Applause.) Dealing with the same question, Sir John Luke, M.P., said that every member of Parliament realised the importance of providing more houses. He was sure that the necessary funds would be provided for this important work. More work in this direction, he said, must be done, and it must be done speedily. Let a visit to McGruer’s be the first memorandum on your shopping list, the visit will place you amongst the fortunate members of the district who

have profited by the truly wonderful value-giving “Inventory Sale.” This great Bargain Fair is nearing to a close. Further reductions for the remaining days. Visit early. McGruer’s, Where Value is Supreme.—Advt. Remarkable brisk selling every day at our great “Inventory Sale.” The reductions are genuine and apply to every item of merchandise throughout the store—nothing held back. We art out to considerably reduce stocks for annual stocktaking. Your opportunity to buy and save on every article is right now. McGruer’s, Greymouth, Reefton and Hokitika.—Advt.