LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 July 1925, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

During llie past fortnight the Nelson ('it v Engineer ha - issued 13 building pi emits for work of the estimated value of (j 6682. Included were two new dwellings iit I one new business place. Owing to the unsettled state of the weather the local Plunket Society will In;',| their annual lair this year in the Y.M.C.A. Building. It is hoped that all friends and supporters will patronise ;7u' fair. The prize winners last Thursday at the Elite i i ill 1 fancy dress carnival were; Miss Coleman (Carrotts) 1; Miss Amos (lion Bon) 2; Miss Smith (Jockey) 3. Mi- McKenzie 1; Mr Amos 2; Mr Keep,l' 3. The following were chosen for the Muni filial in the fox trot competition, (irs! stage; Miss Baxter and Mr Cowdray, Miss Ricketts an,j Mr Talbot, .Miss Heed and Mi- McKolkir, Miss Fear ami Mr Lee. The names of those judged in the -second stage, next Thursday, will appear next Saturday. Three judges for the semi-finals will ensure all styles of fox trotting to have an equal chance. \ eiidors of cigarettes ami tobacco are invited to attend a meeting in the National Bank Buildings, (upstairs) on Monday evening next, at 7 p.m. to discuss a proposal to seek legislation for the licensing of vendors of cigarettes and tobacco.*

The Exhibition Buildings, which have l, (>■•11 taken over !>v the Exhibition authorities from the contractors, have iieen insured for Lbb.UUO, states a Dunedin Press Association telegram.

In regard to an application made to the Pity Council by the Mnilai Howling Club for a rebate on their rates, the Committee reported to the Council last evening that they had no recommendation to make; and the clause- was adopted.

Mr Atmore. M.R., has again been placed on the Education, Library and Industries and Commerce Committees of the Mouse of Representatives.

The. introduction of unauthorised hook's into schools by teachers was dealt with in a letter received by the Auckland Education Board from the department, says the New Zealand Herald. It was stated that inspectors had been instructed to ascertain what hooks pupils had been required to buy and to rep-.r t to the board any infringement of regulations relating to the authorised list of hooks. A suggestion that, difficulty m securing the authorised text hooks might he responsible for the teachers’ requiring pupils to buy unauthorised hooks was put forward by a member,

the opinion also being expressed iln/ inspectors might be asked to asceittun from head-teachers what difficulty there was in this direction. The suggestion was adopted.

Numerous articles of apparel v.v.v produced in the Auckland Arbitrati >n Court, says the Herald, to shew the cl feet of acids on clothes worn by employees in chemical manure and * acid manufacturing works. .Many of the exhibits were bady burned by acids ami were considerably stained. Several witnesses for the union thought some provision should he made for the cost of clothing when the Court fixed the wages. A witness described the conditions at one works as ‘ a perfect purgatory," hut -Mr Justice Frazer said he thought the reference was rather inept. He understood purgatory was a place where there were demising fires, and from which one came out cleaner than one went in. Judging from the state of the clothing exhibited that was not. the ease."

At the last sitting of the Supreme Court iit Blenheim, before Mr Justice Alpers, Peter Christian Paid, of Seddoit. petitioned for the dissolution of his marriage with Amy Elizabeth Paid, on the grounds that they had been separated by mutual consent for upwards of three years. The respondent was not represented at the hearing. After hearing evidence His Honour remarked that it wits apparently a ease of incompatibility. A decree nisi was issued, and may be made absolute in throe months.

A number of New Zealand ladies obtained prizes in the international needlework competition in Condon recently. The names are:—Mesdames J. B. Robertson (Wellington), Lind (Hnwern), C. 1. Bather flehoro). S. -M. Header (Havelock, Marlborough). R. E. Hewat (Palmerston North), L. J. Watkin (Wellington). Also -Messrs ('. Wilson (Bulls), A. Carpenter (Wellington), L. Beck (Morrinsville). The championship went to Mrs Tyndall, an invalid English lady.—Press Association. War ’

When the main screen counter-weight at the Eltham Town Hall crashed through the weight weil and landed on the staircase last Wednesday night (states the Argus), it missed three-men by about two inches, they declared. The weight, which was of lead, was well over a hundredweight. During half-time the. audience heard a crash as the northern end of the curtain dropped when the screen was being lifted. “Somebody’s fallen,” was the cry which went up. the conjecture being that some stage worker had fallen from the platform high above the stage. The trash was that of the counter-weight smashing through one of the steps which lead from the main door to the auditorium. On the steps three men were standing. It sank into one of the steps and smashed it. The three men had a. miraculous escape from injury, nerhaps from death, for if tlie counter-weight bad struck them the consequences would have been very serious.)

In tlit* days of long ago a well-known personality in Invercargill was -Peters the Painter, a Liverpudlian who came from Tasmania (says the News). There was at the time in Tav Street a canny Scot, who owned a shop there—taking to grocery after he had lost am arm in a mill accident. Peters was very partial to the cup that cheers—and does several other things too. “Man,” he said, “why dinna ye gie it up. It 9 iiae guid to ye.” “Look here,’ 'said Peters, “don’t you take any whisky?”

“Well,’ ’said the other, “I lost my arm ve ken, and the doctor tauld me to •ake one glass a day—just'one glass rae mair. "Well,” said Peters, “the doctor told me to keep my two arms, and take two glasses, see?” And Peters kept on Lis way to the end.

During the vist of the American fleet to the Dominion efforts will be made in Wellington and Christchurch to beat the Americans at. fTteTr national game of baseball. The proposal is that these two centres should combine to put in a New Zealand team against the fleet’s crack combination, and play a lest match at each centre. The Auckland committee had put before it- a proposal that the New Zealand baseball team should also play a test match at Auckland, but the committee could not see its way to have this fixture in the Auckland programme. Speaking to a Star reporter to-day, Mr W. J. Heslehurst, of Christchurch, who had been pushing the idea along, expressed keen disappointment that a game of the kind will not be plaved in Auckland as he stated that in Christchurch and Wellington they had some fine exponents of baseball. and lie felt sure that the fleet team will have the greatest difficulty in beating (he New Zealnders. A keen competition of the kind would have much greater interest, he felt, than merely an exhibition game by the fleet teams, and much more educative value.

“The five-year-old youngster,"’ or transformations under prohibition, is the subject of a lecture by Dr. Van der Las in the Empire Theatre on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr Van der Las in conjunction with the lle\-. S. Robertson Orr, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, is a pioneer in the movement, for the exchange of ministers between New Zealand and other countries. Mr Orr lias gone to Seattle and the Rev. A. Van der Las, who has been for 11 years pastor of St. Bethany's Presbyterian Church, Seattle. U.S.A. lias come to St. Andrew s for six months, lie lias seen Seattle under license and also under five years of prohibition. Mr A. Could announces an auction sale for Tuesday next, at 1.30 p.m., of freehold residential property, also housebod furniture and effects, on account of Mr Harold llowe 31 Tasmnn-street. to his annuo* report, tin, t hainoan of the Rank of New Zealand sounded a warning note to wool growers against expecting a continuation of the present high prices of wool, owing to the increasing use of wood fibre a« a niixturin many cloth materials. The day is coining when «'c will be dress materials largely manufactured f:-.m wood More rliis an ir ms •••liio. ment of timber values. In the ineantbnr plant l’inus lnsnmis. R Iviiigsland, Forestry Specialist, Wake t'ie'n. A The Anchor Coinmnv notify intending passengers for Wellington to-night that the Nikau sails at xx'p.m._ jiul t p.tn., as previously advertised.

Flying fish are not unusual visitors to tlie Hauraki Gulf and at times- can he seen in fair numbers. The fish, which are seldom more than eight incites in length, are attracted bv the lights of passing ships and on occasions will rise from tin* water and dash them selves on deck. When rising the fish make a very gradual ascent and usually swerve to leeward at the top of thenrise. While the stea/ier Whitemata was entering the Gulf on Sunday evening a particularly large and healthy looking living fish came aboard. It was found next morning lying on the vessel s deck and measurements showed it to be lis inches from nose to tail and 22J. inches across the wings. Hie fish was dark blue in colour and in appearance was not unlike the common sprat.

Today there is a very slight change for the better in the condition of the youth Geo. Campbell who was seriously injured on .Sunday Inst.

There are triangles that may or may not. be eternal, but they are none the less intriguing, as the picture "puffs nave it (remarKs the Dunedin Star). Importation of gold from America to Australia, in settlement of debts in Great Britain, was mentioned by Professor -V. G. B. Fisher, in a lecture on the gold "Standard, as one. "Then, ’ asked one nt the professor’s listeners, "it is pose.hie flint in importing from America we are helping British trade?” The professor answered that -it was possible, with certain qualifications. It was certain, ho added, that the number of American motor-cars sent to New Zealand. <ntt of proportion to the money flint win? going hack to the country of their manufacture, was not sent in the nature of gifts. 1 his bartering, he said, was of a triangular oat mv. though it was sometimes even mete complex.

According to Dr. Julian, the famous hymnologist. (here are four hymns that stand out above the rest in our English language. At the Congregational Church to-morrow night, Rev. Frank Dicker will speak on the hymn which Dr. Julian cuirjidef.s the greatest of those four.

Charges of taking or killing more than 2d head ot native game were preferred in the Police Conn against Stanley Raynor, a farmer at Bluntly; D .A. Peckitam. a farmer at Ohinewai; Duke Hughes, a dealer i f Auckland ; and Dr. F. G. Raynor, of Auckland, by the Acclimatisation Society. Dr. Kavner and Hughes were also charged with being in possession of protected birds, leal and duck. Counsel for the defence saul defendants shot 23 brace on Ist: -May ami 28 brace the following day. No doubt- they under estimated the number they were shooting. Mr Boynton. 5.. M., fined Stanley Raynor, and Peekham £lO each. In the second case the Magistrate held that there was no prima facie case for a conviction and dismissed the charge.—Press Association.

Something new in the way of hunkers and hazards was experienced last week on a country golf course, says the Taranaki Herald. The club is indebted to a pair of prominent farmers for the use of their paddocks as a course, and in the field where the first hole is played graze a number of prize Snurihoin cattle. The shot- from the first tee was a good one, but- on going on to play again neither the hitter nor his partner could locate the ball. The herd was peacefully chewing the cud, and gave no indication of anything amiss. Another Du 11 was produced and the game progressed until the spot was again visited, when the spectacle of a cow vigorously masticating something round and white aroused suspicions. A stern chase was set up and the cow, evidently thinking discretion the better part of valour, dropped the missing ball. This contingency had not been allowed for in the rules, and members are wondering what the exact position is.