Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 121, 23 May 1919, Page 4

Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The prompt appl.cutiou of knowledge trained as a Girl Guido has saved the life of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s twelve-vear-old daughter Cicely. The child, who is at school near Brighton, wt’ s , out for a walk with her school companions, when she noticed an adder struggling in a bramble bush. She stopped to assist the reptile to free itself, but it bit her on the arm. Remembering what she had been knight as a Gvri Guide, she promptly sucked the wound. She was then taken as quickly as possible to a d■ A, or. Bv this time her arm ha-ci swollen greatly, and for two hours her life was in danger. Lady SlDckloton was summoned hastily from Eastbourne. The doctors were able to overcome the effects of the poison, but it is statec, there would have been no hope 'if Hie. child had not sucked the wound. Lady Shackletou is the Commissioner for the Girl Guides in the Eastbourne area. Sit Ernest Shackleton has been serving ns a staff major with the Russia Expeditionarv Force. An effort is to be made in the near future to establish a branch of the- Girl Guide* in Wellington, and a lady who lias recently returned from England, and was • impressed with tbe’r value and efficiency, hopes to convene a meeting of patriotic folk who will assist -in starting the movement, sayg the Post.

It has been/ s*-id that an ounce of practiro is worth a ton of precept; and certainly in the matter of town-planning actual examples of what has been done, here are more valuable than- pictures of what has been accomplished elsewhere. In the' Town-Planning Exhibition, says the Post, there are two -photographs which should, remind Wellington citizens that this city has a, few ‘things of wlncn to be proud. One photo shows the grounds of the Wellington South School as they were when the school was completed—bare and uninviting. The liext picture shows the grounds as they are now—planted and beautified with a mas* of shrubs,. Wellington people- probably puss the grounds by with little thought ] but maiiy visitors to the town &re struck by what has been accomplished by an energetic chairman and committee. Beneath these two pictures are two others equally striking. One is entitled “How. the City Council Beautifies,” and shows an ugly rubbish t;.p : with the -usual odds and ends of tin ware. .“The remedy,” suggested by an other picture, is a corner in the Botanical Gardens.

A meeting of the Nelson Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Association is advertised in this issue, when the second scries of tho score card judging competition Kvill be held. The subject chosen Is Old English Game, and should living forward some keen discussion. A meeting of the committee will bo held at 7 p.m. .sharp to deal with the special prize lists also Show business. A cordial invitation is issued to the public to attend the judging competiion and an interesting evening is promised.

The Plunkct Society is arranging a Children’s Fancy Dress Ball in aid of their funds, on Friday, May 30, in the Provincial Hall. The Committee will be pleased to receive contributions of apples. Tickets may 'be obtained from the ‘Committee,, Mesdames Robison, Squires, Pharazyn, K. Fell, and pho Misses Lodger, Clark, and Bisley.

Dr. Diamond Jenness, son of Mr C». Jenness, of Lower Hutt, is about to return home for a. brief stay before re •mining work with the Canadian Government, Dr. Jenness, though quite a ■ young man,*# has had a remarkab'e career. From an English University In -went to study anthropology among th wildest tribes of the Pacific Island' then he went to the Arctic with 81/ fansaon to study the Eskimos, and it i interesting, to note that he had be n ’ two years with that people before hj tnpw that, the rest of the world was ■ i st ite of war. On returning to eK ’mation he enlisted in the CanadiArmy as a private, and is now und an a n onf to the Canadian Gove l ■ ment’to write- the result of his. exnevi F is an “old bey’’ of Wellingt n C Je e e,

A writer in the Scarborough Mercury is responsible for the assertion that a Yorkshiremau, who went out to Nev, Zealand before the war, declared that 'when war broke out he had conscientious objections to fighting, “but Uu colonists are a rough and ready lot, and with ropes they dragged the Yorkshire man to the docks and put him on board ship, bound for the front. They respected his convictions; so far that they made him a stretcher-bearer. However he caught the war fever, and proved himself quite a hero, so that he war awarded the Military Medal.”

The reserved judgment of Mr. J. S

Evans, S.M., in the cases in which C L. Diamanti, licensee of the Pier Hotel was charged wrih employing -an cm Joyce, Emma Woodward, on the weekh i .f-holiday, and Emma Woodward wa 6 charged with making an incorrect entrin the holiday book, was delivered to lay. The case against Emma Wood ward was dismissed, it bo’ng held that the record was correctly made. Th Tcensee was convicted, and fined 2Cvith 7s costs.

Tho secretary of the Christchurch Bowling Centro (Mr D. E. Wood) stated at a meeting of the centre last week that the cost of putting down a green for returned soldiers, as had recently been proposed, would be at least £IOOO. Ho suggested that the Returned Soi ■diers’ Association, instead of doing this, should pay £SO per annum to cover returned soldiers’ membership in the various chibs. It was decided, on the motion of Mr C. Allison, to write to the clubs, inquiring whether they would oe willing to cater for returned soldiers it the reduced fee of one guinea per annum; also to send a deputation to the executive of the Returned Soldiers’ Association to discuss the matter.

Mr R. W. Dalton, British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, in the course of an interview at Wolverhampton, said that a feature of the New Zealand market was that Americans supply attractive showcards with their goods, this constituting a factor worthly of being taken into serious consideration. By far the greater proportion of the hardware trade in New Zealand is British, yet the goods shown in shop windows are largely American, simply because the articles arc more attractive. The New Zealand market generally has grown very, prosperous since the wav, and a great increase in the buying oower of tho country may be expected during the next couple of years.

Tho Director of the Dominion Museum, Dr. J. Allan Thomson, has just returned to Wellington from the Marlborough district, where in some way rough country he has been conducting investigations in regard .to oil. To' a Post representative, Dr. Thomson said that in the particular district where he carried out’his geological survey work, in tho neighbourhood of Benmorc, there did not appear to bo any prospect of establishing a commercial oil field, mainly owing to the extensive “faulting” the rocks have undergone. i

‘ Recent ocrurrerices have indicated turn, the robberies committed in the, streets of the city of Melbourne and suburbs at the point of a revolver were not the work of well-known' criminals, whom the police had under suspicion, but of a bandof callow youths—many of whom are not more than 1-6 years of age. In such circumstances the culprits are dealt with in the Children’s Courts, and unless they are guilty of offences which warrant the Magistrate’s committing them for trial, they are usually lightly dealt with. With tile best of intentions, the presiding Magistrate gives, the youths some sound advice on. the lines of “honesty is the best .policy.” but in most cases the embryo ■criminals listen with ill-concealed impatience, and before leaving the court have been, heard to comment - mi the ‘penile imbecility” of the speaker. That was not the expression used on one occasion, but it conveys the exact meaning of the foul language used by an incor-' rigible youth of under 16. It has also been noted that when allowed “out on probation” these youths openly jeer at their probation officers, and _it is , u Question- now whether the kindly, but mistaken, leniency exhibited by Mags, trates of the Children’s Courts should not he substituted by sterner measures of correction. It is evident, (says the Melbourne Argus) that there is a dangerous “crop-” of youthfk’.ii cil/ininals growing up in our midst. A veteran member of the Criminal Investigation Department stated that fully 60 per cent of the house and shop breaking cranes in the metropolis was the work of youths of about 16 years—and in his minion the most'effective way of checkjiyr their evil career was a course of •pdiiiUhment whidh )includ|ed private whippings.

For the year ended March 31, the Wanganui municipal electric trams carried, 3,247,555 passengers. Financially, the year showed a deficit of £917 3s 9d, a. loss which was brought down/ to £271 19s 7d, when certain items were deducted which /should have been paid for out of capital expenditure: and not. .rdinarv revenue. The loss attributed to tho breakdown at, tho power-house was £I6OO, and, in addition, a ■ considerable loss was- entailed through the tonnage of the cars during the height af the epidemic in November last, under these circumstances the year s working is considered satisfactory

The National Reserve Band, which is organising a carnival for the purpose of securing new instruments, has placed- an order for a set of the London firm of Hawke and Son’s Excelsior Sonorous instruments through Messrs Page and Sons, local agents for. the Bristol Piano Company.

The Telegraph Department advises that the following vessels are within wireless range to-day :~Maori, Mararoa, Pateena, Poti Sydney, Papaioa, Kan konra, of Wellington; llimutuka and Tofua, of Chat hams.

Mr J. G. Chr-pcai-ler has an announcenren/t re the Oakland Ck-r in our advertisement columns. The showroom and service garage is. next to lost Umce, Trafalgar -street.

The second term at the Nelson School -f Music will commence on Thursday, the 29th inst. Particulars . regarding ‘■he enrolment of pupils are given in the advertisement.

Tho s.s. Kaitoa, will -.withdraw for overhaul, including annual inspection, on arrival Freni Wellington on luesday, \27th hist., and will be laid up for about 10 days.

The s.s. Nikau is at present on the Patent Slip. She will leave Wellington for Nelson to-morrow, and resume Tier ordinary running on Monday, 26th hist.

Ever you notice how a bad fitt ng ■ollar and' a tacky tie spoils a mans tppea,ranee. We have. The Boys are omiug home fast, and want you to look •our best. Dec‘and Sons’ .stock pirn s year leaves you no excuse.*

Notice the difference in comfort qf •oys these cold mornings qf boys w’.tli n’d without -Jerseys; Dee and Per s ig stock leave you no excuse. Prices mom 4s 6d to 7s lid in Navys end Greys,*

In the discussing, that followed Mr. -Isdon Best’s paper at Wellington, reference was made to the many fatal acciients that occurred in bush-felling. One speaker, however, spoke of the large rrruber who lost their lives in crossing lie rivers and creeks, and -stated that t was thou- suggested that death from drowning should be regarded as death rorn natural causes.

The Loudon Daily .Mail say & that «n imazing number ot English women have leaded to continue land work, largely .is the result of the improvement in the amenities and liveliness of village life sinrce the war. Women’s clubs and institutes, which will soon be numbered oy thousands, have produced almost a social revolution The women are developing a practical bent, they have established co-operative jam factories, and are going in for vegetable growing and needlework. A great campaign to extend this combination of “food- and am” is proceeding all over the country, aided by Agricultural and Education Departments.

Finding that they cannot afford to uav the' existing rate of wages, the flaxmill owners have given notice to the Employers’ Union to cancel the agreement of December, 1917 ((states the “Mandwatu Times”). _ The agreement in Question was substituted for the award, which, is sb-ll in foi'.e, hut its operation wa-s suspended by mutual agreement between the employers and union. There is a very material differoTU'c in, l v o Ti'i’r'S of pay provided id in t.,;0 av.'tid and a _obtain-i.n-g under the agreement. 1 axing the minmuin wage as a basis, the men- are gt present being paid from 4s 6d to 5s per day more than the award stipulates, tor instance, under the award the minimum toi‘ the lowest paid labour was approximately Is per hour. The employers poriit out that when the agreement was come to the .price of fibre was £65 f.o.b, Wellington. ‘The market is now dowivto £3O a ton; On top of. t-hik the shipping freights continue abnormal, uotwithtainting the absence of war risk. Before the war, the rate was 84s per ton, plus 10 per cent. It hja fi now gone op w £ls -a ton, plus 10 per cent,, and- other charges have run the pr.ee up to neauy £2O a ton. It is understood that the millers are prepared to resume operations if * satisfactory arrangement dm be come to ; otherwise not. ihe flax* .vomers are to hobb-a meeting on -Saturday to go into the whole, question.

“The question confronting ns here is exactly the same at that which confronts other centres of population,” Said All'. S. Hurst Seager, when addressing the Tovvn-Pliumin-g Conference, says the Post. “The housing problem is extremely acute, but the question is not whether the number of houses which must be erected should bo allotted to one or other of the existing cities, but whether the congestion of the c’tic g . should not bo remedied by taking from them all those industries which cun be moved into the country where the work can be carried on under better conditions, and take with those industries the -surplus population which now crowds the cities. In tide way the congestion problem in cities will right itself, and there will be no room for expansion .within the cities so that they may become both convenient and beautiful.

The object of an invention which has been patented, by Mr J- Robson, a well-known sawmiller of Stratford, la to conserve the Dominion’s white pine reserves by substituting “tlqee-ply for whole timber in the boxing of buttey and cheese. A “three-ply” keg is the, idea and the main arguments in favour of its., manufacture and use are that ■the “three-ply” can be made without wasting any portion, of the log, as is inevitable with sawn timber, that logs as small as six inches in diameter can be used compared with a minimum ot 12 inches for sawmills, that the amount of wood in, the “three-ply” required for one keg is less than in the sawn timber required for one box, and that there..will,, be a saving, in the cost of packing dairy produce, as it is claimed that the kegs cap: be manufactured for half the cost of boxes and crates. The facts being as stated, it is clear that the use of ~ kegs woiild- conserve the fast diminishing supply of white pme; less wood would be used in packing a given quantity of ■■ produce and; millions of feet of small logs which have been left by the sawmills could be used.

It’s not patriotic for. men to dross shabby now, it was during, the war, it’s dross up now to please, the boys coming home. Look your besL De« and Sons’ big stock sure to satisfy.*

Stone Footwarmers and I.R. Hot Water Bags just opened.—R. Snodgrass and Sons.*

Never let a day pass without telling someone about the, wonderful laboursaving and perfect cleansing qualities of “No Rubbing” Laundry Help. Is packet sufficient for seven weekly farm v washings-—Ex M. Edwards*