TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18575, 30 November 1920, Page 4

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Tho annual prize distribution in connection with the School of Art will be held on Friday, December 17. Financial assistance in connection with the erection of a new Boys' High School is assured. The Canterbury College Board of Governors has received tho following letter from tho Department of Education:—" In confirmation of my telegram, I have pleasure in informing you that Cabinet has approved of a grant of £25/000 for tho erection of a new Boys' High School. _ It is regretted that other ciaimß, i.e., new Girls' High School hostel, and Women Students' Hostel, must stand over in the meantime." A cast made of a choco-late-coloured shark, about two feet six inches long, found at Now Brighton by Mr C. W. Sherwood, is exhibited in the fresh acquisitions case at Canterbury Museum. Amongst other additions aro a young banded dotterel, found at White Rock, a black-fronted tern, and the head of "Deck," one of the dogs used oft Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition. Mr F. C. B. Bishop has presented war literature and pictures, and an Australian penny from tho Sydney Mint; Air G. F. Allen has presented a moa bone found at Redclifts • and Mr R. Kelflelier has presented diamondiferous earth from the Klmberley mines.

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The name of M'Fadden's Road was changed by the City Council last night to EOlerton Road, in acoordanoe with & petition of residents.

Increased takings at tho Tepid Baths were reported last night, tho figures for October bains; £221 12b 6d, as againßt £l6B 2s Id In October of 1919. The figured for the first seven months of tho present financial year were £7Bl 10s Id, as against £'s7l lTs 8d in 1919 and £3BB 6s M m 1918.

Entries for tho Rose Show in connection with the Rose Carnival to be held r»f. the Botanic Gardens next Saturday closed last night. A splendid entry was received. Tho roses should be the best aeon in Cliristchurch for many years. All classes are wall filled. The pictures for the art union are now on view at tho Gardens.

Commenting on the activities of the Progress League at a meeting of members of tho New Zealand Club laßt evening, Mr A. S. Taylor itiid that the league was doing a very valuable work in (riving visitors to the Dominion a full knowledge of the Canterbury province. " When Mr Lowell Thomas went back to America," Mr Taylor," he took back with him a set of lantern slides anc wan " coached up " with all poosiblo information about Canterbury. That was what tho Progress League was doing for tho province. In respect to widowed mothero' separation allowances and overseas gratuity payable on account of the service of men who belonged to the N.Z.E.F., a number of applications were declined by the Officer in Charge of War Expenses, as tho applicants were not to closely related to the soldier, or so dependent on him, as required by the regulations then in force. However, fresh regulations have since been brought into force, and many applicants who were refused in the first case have now had grants made. A number of these cases have been handled within tho last few months by the C.D.C., which invites persons who think they ore entitled to a grant to call at the rooms in Hereford Street and complete a form of application.

The Standing Sub-committeo of tho New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association has been instructed by the Dominion executive to make u protest to the Minister of Agriculture, on behalf of returned soldier poultry farmers of the country, against tho importation into New Zealand of Chinese egg pulp. It is contended that there ia praotically no cost of production of egg pulp in China, as tho eggs from which the pulp is made are collected from wild fowl. On the other hand, tha returned soldier poultry fanners of New Zealand do not object to the entry of egg pulp from the Commonwealth, as in Auatralia cost of production is entailed. No objection is raised to the price of eggs in New Zealand being controlled by the Board of Trade.

Danger to children caused by the driving of loose cattle near schools was the subject of a recommendation by the By-laws Committee of the City Council that the following by-law fehould come into force on Decomber 10::—"Loos© horses, cattle or sheep may not bo driven along Office Road, Rugby Streot, that portion of Papanui Road between Bealev Avenue and Loinster Road, Chancellor Streot, that portion of Slater Street between Guild Street and Shirley Bond, Warden Street and Guild Street, in St Albans War.! of the City of Ohristchurch." The report was adopted with the addition of St Albans Lane. In the course of a short discussion it was stated that Leinster and Aikman's Roads were already subject to the prohibition.

The fact that Woolston was not enjoying such favourable terms for electrical current as the City Council was brought to the notice of the Woolston Borough Council by Councillor G. T. Owen at the meeting of that body last evening. Tho subject was raised by a clause in tho report of the Electricity Committee, which recommended that consumers should be notified of the alteration in the agreement from Is to 2s and from 2s to 4s whore cross-over switches were used. Councillor J. G. Hobson however, assured Councillor Owen that tho increased rate would bo passed on to the City Council as soon as its present Agreement expired. " The engineer who came down here," ho stated, "assured us that the Department were losing money on tho City Council, but that the incren«e would bo pawed on as soon as possible."

The Gisborne Borough Council, in a letter rend before the City Council last night, urged the adoption of a system of nremium bonds in respect of locnl bodies' loans. As an illustration of tho possibilities of the scheme, it was pointed out that on a loan of £1,000.000 the interest, allowed bv the Act at 5\ nor cent would be £55.000 per annum. This would allow an assured nnnunal interest of 4 -per cent (or £40.000) to'investors, while the Temainin" H ncr cent (or £1.5,0001 would bo al'icated. sar > n * follows:—Fire cash Von»sps at £IOOO each, fifty at €IOO each and 100 at £SO each. The distribution could hardly be termed speculntive, as th<> investor would receive £1 per cent interest nnd would not run nnv risk of lostnc: his nrincinal. On Councillor J. A. Flesher's motion the letter was received without discussion. Councillor Fleshcr remarking that b(» did not think the time bad come when Ohristchurch should take up such a scheme.

"The Battlefields of France and the Pmcr> Conference " was the subject of on illustrated lecture given in _ the Workers' Educational Association's rooms on Saturday evening bv the Hon W. H. Triggs, M.'L.C. Mr Trigg* paid three visits to Franco last year, the first bfing for the purpose of seeing something of tho work of the Pence Conference ; on the second occasion he visited practically all the battlefields in France .and Flanders on which the New Zealanders distinguished themselves; he also visited Cologne during the period it was occupied oy British troops. In the course of tils address Mr Triggs took his audience over the regions he had visited, illustrating his remarks with a fine set of lantern slides. Tho ruination effected by thp German bombardment of the Cathedral of Rhoims was vividly shown in one series of views; others pictured all that remained of the once beautiful Cloth Hall at Ypres, of the cathedral in the same town, of towns laid waste where • one stone standing on another was difficult to find, and of many other scones chat brought homo tho ruthlessness of tha Hun armios. Other views shown illustrated the locale of tho Peace Conference and scenes connected with that great evont. Mr E. J. Howard, M.P., manipulated tho lantern. At the close of the lecture Mr Triggs wa R accorded a hearty vote of thanks.

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An appeal is to be lodged by the City Oounoil against the decision ol Mr V. G. Day, S.M., that tho council has no power to make a by-law making it an offence to give a wrong narao to the police.

Following on the request of the lire Board for an underground fire tank near the Clock Tower, or as an alternative ilio provision of more firo plugs in the business blocks of the city, the City Engineer is inquiring into the oo3t of providing twelve stnndposts and fountains combined, to be fixed on the edge of the footpaths.

An experiment in daylight-saving is to be tried lor three months in the working hours of the staffs in the city's municipal departments. They will now work from 5.30 a.m. till 4.30 p.m., instead of from ft a.m. till u p.m., on ■week-days, and from D a.m. to 12.30 p.m. on'Saturday. The time of closing! the offices for the public will not be altered.

The Tramway Board will shortly be moving its ticket office from the shelter to its new offices, and it is proposed to transfer the tramway inspectors from the presont, room at tho northern end of tho shelter to the room at present occupied by tho ticket clerks. When vacated the 'inspectors' room will bo used for the purpose of providing additional space for the council's parcels office, which is urgently required.

The saio of 17,000 second-hand bricks from the Canterbury Hall site was agreed to by tho City Council last night, the purchaser being the Canterbury Automobile Association, which stated in a letter to the council that it ha dreceivad permission to go on with the alterations to its new club rooms—the Caledonian Hnll—on condition that half of the bricks used were secondhand. Tho council decided to charge the ourrent price of new brioks, on tho understanding that _ the association would cart the brioks itself.

Street watering done by the Tramway Board for the City Council during the last fortnight cost £3<" Ms 4d, and approximately 150 miles of streets were watered. The importance of tho question was emphasised by several speakers in tha City Council last night, when tho question of watering more freely was commended to the Works Committee. In the course of the discussion tho valuo of torred macadam in abating the dust nuisance was admitted, and Councillor A. M.'.Kellar expressed the view that with more tarring and sweeping of roads there would he less dust. Tho request of the Woolston Firo Board as to the terms on whioh water could be obtained from city mains in Knsor's Road and Aldwin's Road was before tho City Council last night, when the Citv Engineer recommended that no person 6hould be allowed to touch any of the fire pings except by direction and under control of tho Superintendent of the City Firo Brigade. The Water Simplv Committee reported thnt it had notified the board that it could not see its way to supply water for the purpose mentioned unless the Superintendent of the City Fire Brigade was in oharge of the operations. Tho report was adopted.

An. interesting link with the past has been presented to Canterbury Museum by Mr R. O. Bishop. It is a rusty, bone-handled ol'asp-knife, found in Buxton's Nurseries, Opawa, in 1912. On a silver plate on tho handle there aro tho words: "From Rev W. Whiteleg to Rev W. W. Willock, August 12, 1850." Mr Willock came from England to Canterbury in one of tho first four shipß, which reached Lyttelton in December, 1850. Archdeacon Wilson lived at Opawa jn tho early days of the province, and it is thought that Mr Wifock dropped tho knifo in Archdeacon Wilson's garden while visiting his friend, and that it remained thero until it was dug up sixty-two years later.

Proposals for the erection of a substantial telephone cabinet on the south sido of the central grass plot in Cathedral Square were rejected by the City Council last night. The Works Committee reported that the Post and Telegraph Department had renewed its application for permission to erect a series of slot tele[>hone cabinets in Cathedral Square. The Department wished to place a building containing four telephones on the south side of the enclosure lately occupied by the Godle.y Statue, but kb the building is over seventeen feet in length nnd would obscure the view of a large part of the enclosure the committee reoommonded the council not to grant the request, but to suggest that single cabinets should be placed on tho footpath in the several recesses in the Post Office building. The recommendation was adopted. An- oflicer of the Postal Department, a- returned soldier with three _ years' service, and a married man with one chili, has appealed _to the Mayor for resistance in obtaining an increase on his present, salary of £2 17s 6d a week. He cannot get a rise from tho Department owing to the fact that he is only twenty years of age. The officer in his letter to the Mayor Fayu that ho icsigned from the service to enlist at the age of sixteen. He saw three years' service, and on his return married, and has one child. His application for an allowance in addition to salary had mot with a refusal. Single men in tho Department, doing the same work, wore drawiug £258 per annum, and returned soldiem who had been taken on temporarily during the war were now employed permanently at £258. The Mayor states that he intends to take tho caso up vigorously. In dealing last night with the progress of the city, the Mayor called attention to the congested state of the import and export facilities—in regard to warel«wses, Customs buildings, yards, railways and port facilities. Direct communication with the coal areas on the West Coast, he said, was necessary, and although the Government had tried to place the blame on the Otira tunnel, it was found that for six months past there had been an insufficient supply of cement. Every part of North Canterbury was taking a lively interest in the completion of the tunnel, and tho council, in every possible way, should urge the completion of the tunnel, to ensure a constant supply of coal and timber. Tho province was in the most tight and congested condition ever known, and it was not likely to improve unless tho council jurfctioned with industrial and commercial bodies. The cement supply of the Dominion was 50,000 tons short, and fho Otira. tunnel had been fifty tons short every week.

It is understood that the Minister of Publio Works is scouring data regarding a number of small hydro-electric schemes throughout New Zeaand, with a view to their adoption by local effort. They would provide adequate supplies of power for small districts, and be capable of absorption into larger schemes when these are carried out. This policy will not interfere with the large undertakings on which tho Government has made a start. Owing to some uncertainty regarding the holding capaoity of tho rook on which it is proposed to erect a largo hydro-elec-tric supply dam on the Waikato River at Arapuni, tho Minister of Public Works has referred the details of borings and other observations to a committee comprising Mr Furkert, Chief Enginoer of Publio Works, Mr Morton, Wellington city engineoi, Mr Marchbanks, engineer to tho Wellington Harbour Board, Dr Hcndcisoii, Government geologist, and Mr Birks. chief electrical engineer. Then report will be available at an early date.

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A lay-out of proposed new offices for the City Council, to be erected en the old Canterbury Hall site, was placed before the council last night, and adopted as the basis foi competitive designs. The special Building Committee recommended that competitive designs for completing the building should be invited, the author of the first selected design to 'be paid a premium of £IOO, and of the second selected design a premium of £SO, on the understanding that, if the work 'should bo proceeded with, the premium on the selected design would form part of the architect's commission. Councillor Flesher said that the committee only proposed to use at present the part "of the section occupied hv tho Canterbury Hall, leavingl the Alexandra Hall portion arailable for future use. The Mayor said that tie had that second portion in his mind for a hall of industries, where the Chamber of CoumiArce, Industrial Association and other bodies might concentrate. The Canterbury Hall site miffht be made tho hub of the oi'tv. The committ<>e's report was adopted. " 1 have it on the best authority," said Councillor J. W. Beanland last night, " that the Bank of New Zealand peop'le intend building on the bank corner. Flans have been prepared, and fchey intend to go on with them at any time now, and call tenders for the work." The matter of widening tho street, ho added, had been before the ratepayers for manv years, but he thbught it would be "criminal Jo-r the council not to give the ratepayers another opportunity of voting as'to whether tho city shpuld acquire, ton, fifteen or eighteen feet. source of my information," ho said, "is an inspector of the bank, and there is no hearsay about it. lam given full authority to mako this quite public." Councillor Beanland moved that the By-laws and Finance Committee ohoxilS Inquire into the matter and bring down suggestions for a poll. If the oity did not got the street widened now. it would never be done. Councillor 11. T. Armstrong, in seconding tne motion, said that it was a golden opportunity to do something with the bank cornor, which wag undoubtedly one of the greatest eyesores in the city. The motion was carried.

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