QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY, MAY 1 1923

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume 3536, Issue 3536, 1 May 1923, Page 2

QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY, MAY 1 1923

The Oamaru by-election takes place to-day. The result of same will be posted on the Mail board to-morrow: morning. The monthly district courts are set down for Thursday lOith '"May. The football season will open with the first Cup match between Queenstown and Arrowtown on the local ground on Saturday next. The annual meeting of the Referees Association will be held in the Council Chambers this evening at 7 o’clock Several district people who were held up in Dunedin by the floods and consequent interruption of the railway "service returned to Queenstown on Friday evening. “Poppy Day” was observed in Queenstown on Tuesday last when the sale of poppies resulted in the sum of £7 8s being raised for the relief of unemployment among returned soldiers. The Public School children, collectively, were responsible for £5 3s of this amount. Two or three sporting parties left the town yesterday fully equipped for an onslaught on the feathered game in the back country to-day, the beginning of the duck-shooting season. Anziac Day was quietly observed in Queenstown. A “Service of Memories”, was held in St. Peter's Church in the morning, when the preacher, Itev. J. N. Goodman, gave an eloquent sermon, taking his text from Romans 8, verses 38 and 39. A very beautiful wreath of laurel and white dowers encircled the tablet which hangs in the church to the honour of those church lads who fell in the Great War. Several wreaths were als|o laid on the Memorial gateway opening into the Marine Parade. In Arrowtown .a .united service was held in the Athenaeum Hall, and this was largely attended. The very narrow escape New Zealand had from a crisis through shortage of wheat some little time ago was referred to by Mr Massey when addressing a meeting at the Kaimakarua School recently, says the ‘Christchurch Press.’ Wheat had to be borrowed, he said from Australia, under pladge to return it when required, and this was fulfilled by golfing wheat from Canada at nine shillings a bushel to honour the bargain. It was a pretty close thing. When the first whe ; a.t of the season came in New Zealand had only ten days’ supply left. Ho did not wish to have to face such a position again. Mr Massey was at 'the time deploring the fact that wheat growing was becoming less profitable and therefore less popular in New Zealand. The Southland Education Board has received a communication from the Education Department with reference to the observance of Empire Day. The Minister asked that all teachers should join, heartily in celebrating the day and striving to carry out a programme consisting of lessons in history and geography, addresses, readings, recitations and songs of an Imperial and patriotic nature. “Empire Day” stated the communication,' ‘is an occasion for giving a succinct and dignified review within the compass of the youthful' - intellect, of the ideals-of the British people. It should indicrate how they, beginning as a nation on islands in Western Europe, hjave by their strength of character, love of adventure and power of adaptability, become a predominant influence, in the Seven Seas.” The sculling race between Felton, and Hannan for the Australasian. ohia.ni pious hip was rowed on Saturday afternoon last in Nelson Harbour. The. distance was three miles, and Felton passed the finishing post about 3ft in fro nit, but Hannan claimed a foul and got the verdict. Speaking to a press representative after the race, Felton said no doubt there was a foul, but, he would sooner not discuss it. Time, I ■J3min 57sec.

The monthly meeting of the local j Borough Council will take place in- the 1 Library on Thursday evening. The combined County Roll 1o be used at the election of a member of | the Southland Hospital Board and one j on the Bluff Harbour Board contains ; 544 names. The Queenstown Borough ; roll contains 401 names. j The Hoods in and around Dunedin , last week seriously affected the transport of the malls to this district. All mails were held up from the Mon- | day until Thursday, when Mr W. > McLaren’s motor brought through j from Dunedin all correspondence and ; papers which had accumulated up till | Wednesday morning. Mr McLaren j left Dunedin on Wednesday morning i at 10 o’clock and after an adventur- 1 ous journey arrived here at a.m, 1 The journey was not without mishap, for at the Swineburn Creek, about a mile and a-half from Kyeburn, Mr McLaren’s car met with, a slight mishap. However, Mr- Stewart Rutherford, another mail carrier, came to the rescue and-brought passengers and mail through. His action was much appreciated. After delivering the Arrow town and Queenstown mails Rutherford, accompanied by Mr McLaren, went back to Ranfurly and the Latter returned to Arrowtown in his own car at (5 a.m. Mr McLaren is to he commended for having' tackled the journey under such e,adverse circumstances as prevailed. Pew indeed would ■ have essayed the* task. Taking advantage of the temporary, absence from home of a,.local resident, some young reseat or rascals visited, the place on plunder bent. The circumstances, as related by the owner, seem to indicate that the guilty party is of the male persuasion and something worse than the sneak thief, being burglariously inclined. Unable to hud easy entrance to the house, a pane in a bedroom window was broken and a box from a dressing table close by extracted. Disgust at the fact that nothing of any intrinsic value was found therein was evidenced, by it he broad casting ol the ribbons and such like contents over the ground. A man’s bicycle also engaged attention, several nuts being removed from this. Possibly the thief was startled, during the course of his depredations and he decamped at this stage. The. ]volice have been informed of the occurrence and a sharp look-out is, being kept for the offender, who, if (lie; does not mend his ways, will find him--self reaping the result of his misdeeds in the local court. A new light on the character of “Pussyfoot” Johnson, the Prohibition advocate, was supplied (says the Auckland ‘Herald’) by the Hon. 0. Samuel, M.L.C., 'who returned from the United States by the Niagara. Mr Samuel said that Mr Johnson was a shipmate with him on the way to California last December, and when the ‘‘dry’s” champion joined the ship he was regarded by many of the passengers with a certain amount of aversion. He, however, proved himself a jovial companion, with a fund of witty and illuminating stories, and his descriptions of life among the Indians on the great reservations, based on his experiences among the Red Men, proved an irresistible attraction. At the conclusion of the voyage, said Mr Samuel, “Pussyfoot’ was the ship’s favourite. The mpst recent reform in the Anglican Church ol New Zealand is of wider scope than some persons may have imagined. Until this year women could not even vote at parish meetings. It was realised that as a large amount of the financial burden of churches fell on the women, it was but fair that they should have legislature and executive rights. The'question of granting the full frachlse to women first came before the General Synod over thirty years ago. The Rev. Bryan King, then vioai'i of Cavers ham, introduced Che proposal, and it was supported by Sir John Hall. Several synods have since debated the matter, and now itis the law that women are entitled not only to vote, but also to be eligible for seats on vestries and to become churchwardens and members of synods. The effective legislation to that end declares that the terms “layman,” “vestryman,” “synods man,” “parishioner,’, and “man” shall be held to include persons of either sex. It will be interesting to note how the enfranchisement of the women is made use of at the approaching Church annual meetings.—Dunedin Star . A chronic cold poor Peevcr had, And in a most despondent mood He hied to town with anxious frown. “In search of Something Good.” A chum exclaimed—“ Cheer Cp, Old Top!” ’ “Your fears are quite absurd be sure — Just try the nearest chemist’s shop For Woods’ (Jrcat Peppermint Cure. As showing what a hold the opossum now has in the Wellington region, a return presented to the conference of the State Forest Service, held in ’Wellington last week, showed that 21,411 opossums were trapped during the past season. “Evidence’“bl' their appearance in widely separated forest areas proved that these animals have definitely established- themselves,” stated the report. , A careful study of the trees most frequented Ky the opossums proves that no damage is being done beyond the eating of leaves and fruit, and it is therefore considered that they can be liberated in new areas with advantage. The and- j mat is readily trapped and it in I danger of becoming too numerous in any Locality, could be easily brought , under control.” i A proud resident of Pukekohe at [the, show gathering emphasised ((plates an exchange) that the chief wealth of the town was its great potatoes,! onions, and other vegetables, and hedid not see why these cattle enthusiasts. with their “Jerseys, Shorthorns,, 'Black-and-White,’ and delimited Angus, and other Hash cattle, should get such a fuss made of them when they cannot spare time to go through the hail to see home industries and produce. They little realise, perhaps” he added, “that we grow parsnips six feet long, potatoes that you have to cut in halt before they can lie bagged, and mangolds that have to bo. handled by crane. (Roars of laughter). Aes, and let these cattle kings know that we grow potatoes and onions lor j < which wo will take on any part ol , i New Zealand.” 1