Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 25 May 1939, Page 2

Points From The News

Rev, Professor J> Baillie for N.Z.— A message from Ashburton states that the convener of the Life and Work Committee of the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. R. S. Watson, has been advised by the Rev. J. MacDonald Webster, general secretary of the Colonial and Continental Committee of the Church of Scotland, that the' Rev. Professor John Baillie, Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh University, will be the delegate from the Church of Scotland to the Centennial Assembly at Wellington next February.

Twice a stowaway.—Handed over to the police on the arrival of the Awatea at Wellington from Sydney on Tuesday, John Richard Anderson, aged 40, a labourer, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labour. He told the police he went to Sydney in the Awatea a week ago as a stowaway, but was not detected on that occasion. This trip he reported himself to a steward after the vessel had left port.

Spirit still near Invercargill.—An early morning journey by Invercargill police to the Longwood Mountain Range, near Fairfax, resulted in the discovery of a still working, and in a nearby tent two men were fast, asleep. Sbsequently in court, Alexander Mcßae and Harry Barnes, both labourers, appeared before.Mr C. R. Abernety, S.M.. charged with unlawfully making spirits. At the request of the collector of customs the case was adjourned to May 31. Each accused was allowed bail of £2oo, with two securities of £250 each.

Hospital financing unfair.— The Wellington Ratepayers Association is sponsoring a petition to the Government, to be signed by ratepayers and citizens, urging that the whole basis of hospital administration should be reconsidered so that the burden of hospital expenditure may be more equitably shared. Protests at continued increases in hospital levies on county councils were also voiced at the annual meeting of. the Hull and Makara County Councils yesterday.

New Tasman Llnei*. —A suggestion that a new Tasman liner should be built shortly and placed on the run between Melbourne, Milford Sound, and Wellington was mentioned at a meeting of the Bluff Harbour Board last night. A member said it was rumoured that this would be done, the vessel replacing the service at present provided by the Maunganui and so cutting out all South. Island ports except Milford. This would be done after the road to the Sound had been completed.

China Clipper’s End.—Tongues of flame and clouds of black smoke near War Island towards noon yesterday heralded the end of the old China Clipper, William Manson. after 40 years’ service in the port as a coal hulk. The vessel was towed to the island this morning, where she was beached and later set alight. She was soon blazing from end to end, says a message from Wellington.