LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 126, 31 May 1920, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

A social Avill be held in the Hillers-ck-n Hall on Thursday niglrt.

The Renwick Defence Rifle Club commences its trophy shooting matches on Saturday next. Dance at Renwick to-night.—Advt. A limited supply of the book ''Marlborough the Golden" is to hand, and will be on sale in the bookshops iii Blenheim and Picton tomorrow.

The annual general meeting of parishioners of the Church of the Nativity will be held in the Central Sunday School at 8 p.m. on Wednesday next.

The back pages to-day contain' reports of Saturday's football matches, "'Country Workers," Commercial, "Anglo-Japanese Alliance," and cablegrams.

The rain that fell on Saturday night was followed by frost, ten degrees being registered. This morning the thermometer showed a minimum temperature of 20 degrees, being twelve degrees of frost. Mr W. Pcrano, of Blenheim, is averaging thirty miles per gallon of benzine and a thousand miles per gallon of lubricating oil with his new Overland 4. Is it economy you're laoking for too?—'Advt.

All Marlborough jteochers are invited by tlie committee of the Marlborough branch of the N.Z. Educational Institute to morning, tea at the Loloma on Saturday , morning, when Mr Sturrack, iiispector, will ,be present.

There was" a good attendance tat the Salvation Army Citadel yesterday to hear Staff-Captain Greene. The meeting were, of a bright and lively character, arid the Staff-Captain's efforts were highly appreciated. Tonight the lecture "Travels with the N.Z.E.F." tvill be 'givTen. This will be the nnalyineeting of; the visitor.

■; v'■ . • ■>'< ■ ■■■" ■' j•• i. A Napier« Press Association tdleTgi;am ■ states that the Ohurakura Estate, 30 miles, from Napier, on- the Taupo Roads, the property of Mrs Peirry, daughter of the late G. "P.. Donnelly, \yas sold at . auction '■ 'on Saturday by . Messi-s ; • Hoadley ajnd Son and Stewart. The total area was 13,320 acres1, 12,230 being sold for £102,932,105. /The smallest■ se6r. tion, subject* to timber -restrictions, was passel in. No I/block, 6f'3550, acres,, was1 bought by C. J. Parker, of Hastings, at £10 10s, per ■. acre, , a total of £37,275: No.-2« blqok, 3^30----acres, C. J,-Parker, , Hastings, £7 jOs. total £27,357 .fOsI: No. 3 block, o'l6o acrea, P. Peattallo, Napier, £7 10s, £23,700; No. 4 block, 2000 acres?, M. F. Bpurke, Napier, £7-ss, £14.----000. . . .. '. '..:.■■ ~.., •■:.. ■• ;' ■•

"Mr Brooks says that New Zealand i£ no 'rood for a tennis tournament, ais the conditions are not favorable," vrrote lMr George Irf>gan, secretaiy of the Marlborough Lawn Tennis Association to the New Zealand Avssociation in a note road at Wednesday night's meeting of the council of the Dominion body .at Wellington. "I am. sending you a photo which I took while in Sydney last January." The photo which accompanied the letter depicted a portion of toe rounds and a section of the crowd at the ,last Davis Cup contest m Sydney. The sectators' stand was «. sea, of umbrellas; it was obvious that they were not in us« as sunshades. , ■

The generous action of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company m purchasing a sports ground for its employees at a cost of over £1000 was warmly commended by Mr W. A. Veitch, M.P., speaking at a reoresentative of Labor at a social gathering in Wanganui. Mr Veitch said 1 he felt convinced that the company was really trying to develop good feeling with its staff. He contended that the thing required in Now Zealand to-day above all else was a better understanding between employers and employees. Until employers placed the position of their men on a sound and satisfactory footing, there could bo no confidence between Capital and Labor. Proceeding, the speaker declared that the action of the company in purchasing a cricket ground for its employees was going to do good and promote an exrcllpnt feeling amongst the. mer\ "I am afraid," continued Mr Voitch, "that we do not attach sufficir^t importance to the social side of lifp Wb want to get together more, nvd T ho!><vce it is a really wise action on beba.iF nf the compnnv to-spend +b;* considerable sum of money in t^f manner it proposes doing. This acti^ll-: will he highly appreciated by 71 siooftr,. The sporting spirit, doe= mo^ priori than all the howling 'n ': 1 " world."

The Hawke's Bay Education Board has decided to take out an accident insurance policy for each child in the education . d.istriab. The pojlicy will cover ail accidents which occur in school playgrounds.

Illustrating the neglect of parents for their children's teeth, it w as_ reported at a meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board that a patient, aged fourteen yeais, attending the dental departihent had had every tooth in his jaws iemoved on account of extensive caries.

Human vanity is one of the most potent causes of profiteering (says the Melbourne Argus). It people would buy lower-priced goods, instead of expensive, showy ones they would frequently obtain better value for their money, and would do something towards lowering prices. It # is in the vanity market that exorbitant prices are charged and paid.

A remit passed, by tho Kailm Farmers' Union reads" as follows: "That 'this -branch deprecates the fact that so many of the Auckland Provincial Executive are gentlemen farmers, and strongly urges that working farmers bc> voted to the next Provincial Executive."

Public borrowing from the United States lias commenced in Australia,, recent issues of Sydney papers stating that the corporation of the city has accepted an American tender of £30O.O(K) towards a municipal loan-of £580.000 recently offered. The terms do not as jet appear to have been made public.

Over £1000 has been received by tho Auckland Zionist Society as the contributions of the1 New Zealand Jewry to the Palestine Restoration Fund, .and lias beeiv remitted; to London. Of this amount £560 was subscribed in Auckkind and-the remainer in Wellington and I>uned-in. The collection-in Chi'istclnxrch i& still proceeding. ' ! !

:; .The; Charitable Aid Cpmniittee reported "(to tllie Wellington Hospital and Charitable , Aid Board that during the? past month 107' new cases had teen dealt with, as against 71 for the corresponding period' -of last year. The daily average. number o£ persons receiving relief was 405.2,' as compared .with 258,8, a "total of 908. rations-.were gr.an^edi.,,. The, sum of £273 was -advanced by way of cash grants. dni£T2 for the maintenance of cliildren, as against' £189 \and £67. The daily average number of persons receiving indoor relior Was 92".8 as

against 94

1 'The pre-eminence of electricity as the motive power ihi industry,"' saSd Sir ■•.Arnold Gridley at; Auckland, ' 'was brought home: fr» BritislV, maitufaeturers during the. war;"' Just lin the sahle way as ste'am> \wis tne miK>i.tivjß power during our, w,ars,of' 50) and1' 60 years ago, an<d! therstfeam/age' wa«s 'the -gjeiiesis ifef ;Bt^^^ain':■s4eno^;mo:us;■ "dn-. :;du&trial :x e«:^ansion,'"';SO"'. now Rafter ' tlie. ■gVe&t;;:-war vthe .country Hen|tering' upon the electricar age. The manufacturers, of electricaf appliances in Great Britain have never been co busy. " ''' ''• ■"' ' •',.'■ ,' ,' ~ .., : :

We have received a copy of Mr I Will Lawson's book "Maa-lborough 1 the Golden,'" which has been .-prepared I for the Marrboroijgh Cliamber of i Commerce to be used in connection < with tho Onward Marlborough move- ; ment. While the publication has merit of a high order as ;x "boost" book, its value from a literary and a,rtistie point of view transcends its propagaaidh. value; and eveiy phase Of the province's scencio, industrial, and farnving attractions and opportunities ore ioiutehed upon, and a comprehensive ma>p ndds to its value. We understand- that lO'jOOO copies of Ihis booik have been publivshed, and ■>-"fch,a.fc it is to be sent 'nil over the world, with tho object Of advertising Marlborough So ably have the TYiwinoe'.s possibilities been depicted in Mr Lawso-n's book, we venture to ■fiay that it behoves 'Marlborough. to g-et ready for the influx of visitors . ncl .-iett.!ors which is bound to follow 1 the book's piublioation.

"Can the channel of L^'ttelton Harbor be deafened to 40 feet ; if to, would it be do&* by blasting or dredging, and what would be the cost for the work?" This question was put to the engineer of the Lyttelton Harbor Board recently at the meeting of the Board by Eh- Thacker, M.P. The engineer replied to the main question in the affirmative. The work could be done by dredging, and the only new plant required would be a bucket dredge. The. cost would be £200,000.

Chatting with a Post Reporter, Mr Gordon Boundy, of the Motueka Star, mentioned the intersting fact that of a total export shipment from the Dominion of 'M,585 cases of fruit, no less than 18,644 cases were shipped from Port Motueka. In pre-war, times, when shipping- facilities were normal, Motueka exported 78 ncr cent, of the fruit sent overseas. With the expansion of the fruit industry and the development of the mineral resources, notably the opening up of Parapara, it is safe to predict that in the near future both the Motueka and Golden Bay districts will be carrying double* the present population. . ■ ■ ' . .

"Residential buildings in most of the American towns axe generally of wood,"/ says Mr W. H. Morton, Wellington Oity Engineer, in his travel report, "and frequently have great ivrehitectural merit, in the designs. In New York City such is not the case, and the great majority of the population appeared to live in apartment houses, which were generally about seven or eight storeys high. The use of apartment houses such as these would not, I venture to believe, be looked upon with favor in tins country. There are,-however, apartment houses, or flats as they are sometimes called, which are in every way satisfactory, with sufficient air sptice about them for the lighting and ventilation of the various rooms. In many of the older blocks of buildings to be found in America built as apartment houses, it is impossible to believe that satisfactory conditions in regard to ventilation and lighting can be effectively provided."

For children's backing cough — Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 9d 2s 9d.—Advt.