Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 237, 19 September 1922, Page 4

Local and General.

A Wairarapa sheep farmer (states the “Daily Times”) has sold a line of f.f.m. ewes (delivery in January) at 28s per head. The Shaw-Saville liner Corintliic, which arrived in the stream at Wellington in the early hours of yesterday from Southampton, brought a total of 320 assisted immigrants. Eleven were booked for Napier and Gisborne. There were also on board 37 domestics. The Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister for Marine), states that in connection with the fund established by farmers from their surplus wool profits for disabled seamen. Mr. E. Newman, one of tho committee, would regard it as a favour if anyone could bring under his notice canes of distress among seamen caused by war disabilities. The recent cold snap was responsible in the Taranaki district for a very heavy fall of snow on the mountain and its lower foothills) (states the “Daily News.”) The Lowgarth, Mahoe and Rowan districts were covered with a mantle of snow three inches deep. It is rarely that snow falls on these levels and coming at this season of the year Fill mean a severe check to growth in tho gardens and pastures. A lire in Christchurch yesterday afternoon did damage to a building occupied by the Pioneer feports Club. The secretary’s office was gutted and the contents destroyed while the social and reading rooms were considerably damaged. The insurance on the building was £2500 and on the contents £550. The secretary, Air P. R. Harman, is also secretary of the South Island Motor Union, and all its records were destroyed. At an inquest in Christchurch, on a boy named Mayo, who was drowned in a bath, the coroner brought in a verdict of accidental death. “I wish to draw the attention of the public to the great necessity of knowing the principles of first aid,” he said “and of restoring the respiration of those apparently drowned. From the evidence if some of the witnesses had had a knowledge Of resuscitation the boy’s life would have been saved.” The average person does not know what he can get in the way of trees from the State Forest Department, and at a tenth of the cost frq/m anywhere else, remarked Councillor C. Smith at a meeting of the Waitotara County Council, in regard to a communication received (remarks the Taranaki “Herald.”) The department raises between five and six million trees annually for poles and timber purposes. A number of the local bodies have taken advantage of the department’s offer, particularly in regarding to the planting of eucalyptus. Sir James Allen has addressed a letter to Mr. Massey, pointing out the mistakes and misconceptions that result from the use of the name “Australasia,” in referring to Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, writes the “Post’s” London correspondent. He maintains that the use of the word in newspapers and public documents perpetuates the old delusion in England that New Zealand is politically and geograhpically merely an adjunct of the Commonwealth. The High Commissioner has addressed the editors of the various daily newspapers in London, requesting them to make use of the phrase “Australia and New Zealand” when referring to these two parts of the Empire, and several of the editors have intimated their intention to give instructions to their staff accordingly. Sir James also points out to the Prime Minister that m many of the official | documents and pamphlets printed m the Dominion the name objected to is frequently used, s

A reminder is given of the Labour Party’s dance in aid of the head office funds which will come off in the Hastings Assembly Hall to-morrow night. A Sydney Press Association cable states that a furiously-driven motorcar dashed among people alighting from a tram at Petersham and killed Robert Thomas and his wife and injured five others. The flnver of the ear disappeared. Subsequently the car was identified as one stolen just before the smash. The election for five members to form the Omaranui drainage district will take place on October 4th. Mr. A. G. Pallet, of Napier, has been appointed' returning officer Ou October 10th. at 2.30 p.m., the first meeting of the board will be held in the Hawke’s Bay County Council chambers. The usual monthly meeting of the Farmers’ Union will he held in the Old Library, Market street, Hastings, on Thursday, 21st inst.. at 2.30 p.m. ’ All members of the union are invited to attend and take part in the discussion. A retired British admiral told Mr. Duigan, president of the Wanagnui Acclimatisation Society, during a conversation at Tokaanu, that it was cheaper for him to come out to New Zealand to indulge in his favourite sport of fishing than to go to Scotland. He said that the wealthy Americans who cross the herring pond have erven away the British sportsman of noderate means by simply outbidding him for positions and by raising the cost of fishing on the Scotch lochs. The annual meeting of the Wairere Croquet Club was held in Napier yesterday afternoon. The report and balance-sheet showed that the club was financially strong and last season proved a most successful one. The election of officers resulted as follows:— Captain, Mrs. T. Hutchinson; hon. secretary. Mrs. Bayliffe; committee, Mesdames Kohn, McGregor, Black, Bendall, Chetwin, and Thomas. The club will open the season on October 7th. The season is expected to be most successful and the lawns are in/perfect order. The annqal meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Highland Pipe Band was held at Napier last evening. Mr. J. A. Louis Hay presided. The following officials were elected: —Pipe-major, Mr. C. McCartney ; drum-major, Mr. L. Stewart; pipe-sergeant, Mr. R. Mclvor; drumsergeant, Mr. W. Stewart; pipe-cor-poral, Mr. Lawson; drum-corporal, Mr. Mcljachlan; secretary, Mr. E. B. McKechnie; treasurer, Mr. Bald. The Highland Society extended an invitation to the band to attend a meeting on October 18th, and also to the Scottish re-union at Westshore on September 28th. The newly-appointed pipemajor expressed his thanks for his election and hoped that the band would be een more in the streets. It was deseen more in the streets. It was deof the members. At the monthly meeting of the Napier High School Board yesterday, Mr. W. Dinwiddie presided. The secretary reported on the steps taken to form a High Schools Association which would meet in Wellington on 29th instant; the chairman and Mr. Roach with the secretary were appointed to represent the board. The reports <4‘ the headmaster and headmistress were read. It was decided to congratulate the headmistress on the result of the recent concert and to thank all those who assisted to niajce it a success. Miss Lock’s appointment was confirmed, recommendations of the principals with regard to reference libraries were accepted. Accounts amounting to £2257 17/2 were passed for payment. Without expressing any opinion nn the form of the Auckland War Memorial Mr. C. Reginald Ford, architect, of Wanganui, at Auckland on Friday declared that such a memorial must be so designed as to inspire reverence. “It has been a vexed question whether a war memorial should be utilitarian or purely symbolical,’ ’said Mr. Ford. “I find it very difficult to say one way or the other, and particularly in view of the fact that I am here as one of the judges of designs for your memorial, which is not to be purely ideal. But the first principle of a memorial, and the most essential factor, is that it should inspire a feeling of reverence. It should d>e something trhicli impels a man instinctively to take his hat off—to inspire a sort of ‘this is holy ground’ feeling. That is my opinion of a war memorial.” “A swindle perpetrated by the economic laws.” That was the description which Dr. Mcllraith. M.A., exaiuiner in economics to the University of New Zealand, gave of the following:— If a person deposited £5OO in the Savings Bank in the year 1895, and let it remain there till 1922 at compound interest—perhaps 3} per cent—that person would not be able to purchase the same value to-day for the £5OO and the additional interest as he would have done for the £5OO alone in 1895. That was to say, if commodities of a certain quality had been purchased for £5OO in 1895. commodities of a similar quality could not be purchased in the same quantity for £5OO, plus the comDound interest, to-day. Thus a man who banked his money in the manner mentioned really lost part of the capital and the whole of bis interest by reason of the fluctuations in the value of the pound sterling. It is a disconcerting fact (says the Melbourne “Age”), that the average arbitration agent of industrial unions, who is paid a salary and gets nothing extra for arguing at great length, can, figuratively speaking, knock the average lawyer into a cocked hat for verbosity. Not that many arbitration agents are not good or even interesTlng talkers. But frequently he is only an enthusiast, impressed with the idea of exposing to the Court everything he knows and a good deal that he knows very little about. The result is that, in both arbitration and industrial courts of appeal, many cases that ought to occupy a day or two at most, run into weary weeks, *unti! judges and counsel, witnesses and public alike, are bored to death, and sometimes thoroughly. disgusted with the court and everything associated with it. This failure on the part of quite a number of arbitration and industrial agents is probably responsible, in a greater decree than in anything else, for the increasing welcome given in these courts to professional lawyers. The spirit of Legislatures has been to keep lawyers out of arbitration and industrial courts; but it would seem as if the inordinate loquacity of the “bush lawvers.” which, like the brook, seemeth to have no ending, is slowly breaking down an idea whose conception was more admirable than its consequences are proving to be.