LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 April 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

During the past few days there have been numerous wsils bv citizens to the reservoir where they have been able to witness’ a striking sight not very cornmoii even in winter. ’Lite water in the main reservoir has been overflowing in a miniature Niagara for nearly the whole width of the dam. and Tlie Brook, dry foT so long, seems to he levelling in in new leafe of life as the turbulent discoloured waters dash noisily over its stom lied.

Trathe returns c.-n the Xeismi section of railways lot the period ending 3rd just., 1928, and for the corresponding period of 1927, show that the passengers carried in the 1028 period numbered 5713 (M 7 first and 5.568 second class) i oti ipa red with 9250 (397 lirst ami 8859 sei end class), floods (live slock) carried totalled 2812. against 2175: and the ion nage amounted to 2379. compared with 2545. On the revenue side the figures wee ±12250 10s Id. as against ±12273 7s sd. The revenue from North Island hues amounted to £."> /1 ,002 9s 4d. imnpared with ±1383.254 lbs -Id; and trnrn the South Island £241.651 2s Id. and £250.997 15s 1.1

Twenty-one bankrupteies are notilied in the current issue of the "New Zealand Uazctte." Among the number were six fanners and two drapers. I Dairying is developing in Fiji and 'through iis two factories ii is now exporting butler to England. This in fortrout ion was given by Sir Evre Hutson. < Invernor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, who arrived at Auckland by the Anrangi this week from Sydnev. after a In.lnlay in Australia. Ihe 'financial stability of the country has been proved by the over-subscript ion in Loudon of a £750,000 loan for public works, including harbour extensions, said Sir Eyre. 11l the last few years dairy fanners had come over from New Zealand and settled on land originally leased by the Fijian t lovernment from the unlives for returned soldiers. Most of the farms, of good Hat pnspalum country, were about 150 acres in area, and they were proving highly productive since the importation of high-grade dairy cattle from New Zealand. The fruit trade was not going ahead rapidly because of the limited market. New Zealand was the main customer, Australia's protective duties hairing a large potential trade to the Coniinoiiwealt h. Further development. however, was ,-mt ieipaled. The natives of the whole territory of the Western I’acilic. including lie- Solomon, llillieri and Ellis I-.lands. New Hebrides and Tonga, had been la w a biding and peaceful. an l they were being persuaded io lake up agriculture extensively.

flic ti mlecs and matron of St. \u (how • <b plumage desire to thank llu 1 following hir gill o| various kinds for ihe ilc*' "I the Institution: Mewlaines In ('Water and i.iiun. An lim a- on Halt, M'i -so V . King. C. St. Ruffe!!. Marshall. T. Sc,H. T R 1... ii i s.,n. I’. I Inwcrnfi. Vienna Ca.ke Shop. St. dohn’s (Wake j;,!di. Sal v.it ion Army. Si. Ceorgc'

t Mol upipi). Rol l Sunday School

The closing I line I'm lec-ipt I,f iclidelS i’ll!' the I’ig Valley Slicain bridge, W.'ii is a I Jorge. lias been extended io 5 p.m. on 2411 1 .April.

A meeting of the Royal Arch Chapter, I’. A.l 1.1 ).. will lII* lieiil ill tile Orange Hall tomorrow evening.

Alfred < 101 lid advertises details of all :i• ict i• oi sale of oak furniture, etc., to be -old next Tuesday. 1 7t1 1 inst.. on aeeoun! , : f Lieut. Hairy, at bis residettee, corner t’ollingwoo.l street anil Selwyn I’lacc.

,f ll si opened at McKay's’ Ladies’ 3 pjece Woollen Smls. small cob 111 ings flolli 47/(1.”

'flirec piece Wi ol Suits for women, Jumper. Skirt, and Sleeveless Cardigan a. new lot. just opened, direct from Eng land, prices from 47/6. McKay’s.*

■ It is sometimes said that ministers •’..•ns .«(•• hud 'egg--.', and Ur.t they wilt tain out to t,e r,u good ' remarked the Re’, R liorlis amidst l.uighu-t at u inert iii:’ id the Wellington t'resbvfetv That

was riot the position, however, -a, j, u . as .Mi Justice MacGregor. the late 31/ ,Justie' Salmond, and Mr Justice Smith were concerned. They were sons ot minister?, and hail won high distinction

V fairly huge number of appeals have been lodged by members of tin* Kailwav Service as a result of the recent cxti-ii-sive re grading of positions. The chair man of the Railway Appeal Board, Mr J 1 1. 1.. Hewitt. S AL. is in Wellington m connection with the hoard’s business, but ir has been decided that the hearing of the appeals shall not take place foi another ten days or a fortnight. The sitting of the Appeal Board will be the (list held since the board was reconstituted under the Government Railways Amendment Act passed last- session. Representatives of the First. Division sit on the hoard when appeals are Vicing la aid concerning members of that division. and Second Division representa lives sit when cases affecting that division arc under review.

"I am travelling hack to Honolulu under my maiden name. 1 have not heard from my husband since lie left the Aorangi just, before she sailed for Sydney on 27th March. Have you heard how he got on?’’ The speaker gave her name as Miss Evelyn Anderson, and site was a third-class passenger by the Aorangi, which arrived at- Auckland from Svdiiev on Monday afternoon (states the

"New Zealand Herald"). A fortnight ago she was a through passenger with Basil L. Stanley, both of whom, lacking passport s, w ere refused permission t o land in New Zealand. But shortly he lore the Aorangi sailed Mr Stanley dis appealed, leaving his bride--tor they de elated they were married in Honolulu on 13th March to sail on alone t-o Sydney. ‘I have not heard from my husband since we parted in Auckland," said Miss Anderson, as she chooses now to be known. His plans had been indefinite, she said, but he had had the intention of proceeding to Wellington to get iri tom h with ;m acf|uain(aiH’e there. Miss An dersoii seemed relieved to hear that there

was little prospect of the Customs Do(laitmen! taking action against Stanley for landing in the Dominion without a passport.

Negotiations were completed mi Tiles day lot the taking over of the remaining Hun buses by the Government, which has assumed control of its latest purchases. The Government's total Wellington fleet will then number close on forty buses. The position now is that ail the buses operatitig in the Mutt Valley, with the exception of those owned by the Eastbourne Borough Council are now Government controlled. The public will notice little difference, as the Department will maintain the former timetable, and the buses will be worked under very similar conditions. Some of the repairs are being done in tli(> garages used by the former owners, and others in the railway shops, says

‘The Bust.". It. is understood that the. Railway Department is at present engaged on the taking over of certain of the hits services round Christchurch.

The district valuation roll for Nelson has been revised by the Valuer-General as at 31st March, 1923, under the Valuation of Land Ad. 1925. A notice to this effect appears in the current issue of the "New Zealand Gazette."

An American visitor to Wellington, who is closely connected with several big electrical firms in the United States, told a "Rost" representative yesterday vvha: struck him very forcibly in the Dominion was the state ot chaos reigning in the electrical business. In the States, he said, all electrical equipment, ranges, and whar not. was standardised, hut to him it seemed as it New Zealand was tin- dumping ground of unstundardiscd goods from all parts of the world. The result would inevitably lead to a disparagement of electrical contrivances with loss to business firms and users.

"Considerable astonishment, was oxpressed in Australia that irt New Zealiml so many hospitals had abandoned the honorary medical staffs system, aid appointed stip-'inliarv staffs instead. ' said Sir f .Oll is Barnett, of Dunedin, chain'" u

of the New Zealand delegation to the first congress of the Australasian Col lege of Surgeons, held at. Canberra, who returned to Auckland by the Aorangi on Monday afternoon (reports Iho "Star • This practice, he explained, was in' considered in tln> best interests of tic* | nb--1 it", as tlie only way to train competent surgeons was to give the young men an opportunity to learn from tin tr sed-.’s and attain gradually to senior rank themselves. "If the .stipendiary staff sy teiu is continued, there will fie imlv one nr two men doing all the wok, nod consequently the large body of mm will be debarred from the opportunities that should be given them to learn the responsible duties of surgeons,"

('in Wednesday evening next the N<*l soil Harmonic Society wui give its tiisi concert of the present year. The duel items on the programme will be Sit Hubert I ’arry’s magnificent, setting ui Milton’s well known poem, “Blest Bail of Sirens," and (lade’s work "The in King's Daughter." In view of t:o nearness of the concert, a full attendance of the chorus and orchestra is requested for the practices to-night and on I uesdav evening.

A visitor has very tactfully remarked that although the morals of New Zealand are high, so are the fire fosses (says a writer in the Auckland "Star”). And once an American, without any tact whatever, said, ‘Well, if you will nth a small clapboard eotlage against a large lire policy, something's gol to go.” Lint it- is remarked by this deponent that- a weatherboard house has just gone up in smoke after sixty years of lusty life Idle wonder is that dwellings so inflammable are kept whole so long. The time will come when it will be impossible to leave one's home, expecting it not to he there on one s return, for some day perhaps when the last kauri is cowed the official heads will demand non-inflammn-ble buildings. Official Doubting Thomases recently made the sinister suggestion that first aid was often given to spectacular collage fires, hut h-w believe o What may innocently happen is il hislrated by ihe story of the Auckland woman, who. having gone to Wanganui lor a lliree weeks holiday, exclaimed as she reached her sister's house. "Ob/Hear, I left, tlie electric iron on!” The cottager wbo said sadly dial bis bungalow had gone up because, a gentleman saved sixpenny worth of eeim-nr on a brick eliini m-y was obviously biased. Another ciiri (.us tiling is Hi,-it in Auckland there an"".•minted hundreds of old.lime wooden [daces (don t call them slums) inane of which are (in old fashioned English style) built right- up to the fool pat h”liiie and are therefore the tin.-si. food for path way smokers and winch never get burnt, but that modern detached houses Ire ipicntly end their life of usefulness in a vear or t wo.

Competitors are reminded hv advertisement in this issue that entries for the Waimen Collie Dog Trial Club's annual trials clos.. on Satin.lav next, at 8 p.m.

Arrangements are well in ham! for Ihe fancy dress tout'lament which the I'irnte football ( lull will bold on Saturdav I lucid entries have been received and a line all crn.n >ii s sport is assured. A weight-guessing compel it ion and niliei games will be held. Sheep and poult) v which have been donated will be sold bv a net ion.

water will fee rut on on ttie •■nut, ■!,(.' x.i Haul;. dieer. if.ciud.ng Britannia, Heights and 11. - E'orr. troiTi s Pn, u, midnight r., night Ul.h.'.Ugh I In- v.v-al iii-I r' t ill ilf.l led, there has been practieallv fin i.uth.-i rain since yesterday morning. At. a meeting of tin- Richmond Borough Council a re--olution was rained lilting tin' i esf ru t ions K,i tin- usi- ot tinla,sc. At ihc Sea Scouts races ai Wellington iiif final t.f ih,- Wa-difiourri Cup (five-oar whalt-rs| was wnn l,v tin* Iron Duke (Nelson I I loop, who heat tin- Uolhngwood 1 rooti hv !ln,,(' lengths. The names of tin- winning crew are: —K. Berry (stroke), (i. Naylor (4), 11. McNamara (ot. D. Cat ley (L’l. IT. Kinkanl (bowl. M. .Tones (cox).

A < aueus of the Reform members of Parliament is to )„• iiehl m Wellington fn-\t Tuesdav.

1 lie election ~,f a member of the F.du cation Board i,i repies.-nt the North Wa 1,1 in place of I In* late Mr C. B. Morris, result e,l in the i.-lmn of Sir i Hailes W. Thorp hv a niajoiitv of |,,u,' \iiies over \|i S. l’. flay. the ether eamli<late. '1 lie voting was: Mr Thorp 65. Mr Clay 61. Both earuliilates are residents of Mntueka.

A change in mellioil in the selection of managers of national football sides to go abroad was proposed at the annual meeting of the llawkes Bay ITughy Union. Mr N. A. McKenzie moved that in future managers should lie elected by a. postal ballot, among tin* unions. In the past managers of All Black teams had been selected from members of the management- committee of tin* New Zealand Union, who were elected piimnnly because nt’ l heir residence m or near Wellington. It did not necessarily Idlow that, these men were the best, in New Zealand to manage a football team overseas. The motion was carried unanimously, and is to be forwarded to (lie annual meeting ol the New Zealand Rnghv Union as a remit from llawkes Bav.

Dealing with the cancer scourge in an gddress before the conference of the National Association of New South Wales a few days ago. the Federal Minister for Health (Sir Neville llowse, V.C.) said that, the Federal Health department, was anxious to spend every available penny on cancer research, and already this year £135,000 had been appropriated for the purpose. The disease could be attacked b.v it surgical operation and by radiation. The ( oiveiTiment- had just, bought. 10 grammes of radium tit a cost, of £IOO,000. Ail-dr,dia must do more in cancer teseaieh if if, was to keep abreast, of oilier countries. Much had been achieved. 'Die problem of internal cancer was still unsolved, hut- he could sav definitely that there was a cure for every variety of skin cancer. It was tho duty of the (loverriinent to make expert treatment, available to every class of sufferer, irrespective of circumstances. If poor people iti outlying places could not receive treatment at home they should be brought, to the cities for treatment- at the <Government's expense.

In commemorate the achievements of those star footballers from (lie province Mici have gained All Black honours the llawkes Bay Rugby Union intends to strike an honours board, with the names inscribed of those who have worn the silver fern. The honours hoard is to be hung in the union’s registered office.

Visitors to Harden Week at Wirths’ Park (says tlio Melbourne “Argus”) iiavp shown much interest, in tho pitcher plant, which, in addition to gaining nutriment, from the. soil, adds flies, spiders, and other small insects to its dailv menu. One day recently its diet was varied. At the hack of Wirths’ Park two lions are caged. From the lions' meal of raw meat the owner of the pitcher plant. (Mr A. Nicholas, of Auburn) took a piece as large as a man's thumb, and placed it in the cuplike receptacle of the leaves from which the plant takes rts name, and in which its diet, is assimilated and digested. Less than .12 hours after the raw meat hail been given to the plant, it had been completely absorbed. Tho experiment was followed with interest from timo to time by hundreds of people. “Tho passage through the House of Representatives of a hill to grant an additional allowance, estimated at £IOO each, to members of the Federal Parliament, is an unpleasant, sequel t<> the ‘salary grab of a few years ago, and conflicts with repeated assurances that every eltort is being made to reduce unnecessary expenditure." said .Mr F. Knight, president of the \ ietorian Taxpayers’ Association last, week (states the Melbourne "Argus”). “Whatever variation there might have been in other salaries. ’’ continued Mr Knight, “the record of the allowance to members as disclosed in oflieial figures was one of steady and uninterrupted progress. 'l’en years ago the allowatuo to members accounted for £63.000. The ‘salary grab’ raised this substantially, and in 1926-27 the total sum was £109.000. and now there was to he a further increase. Leaders in the financial and commercial world, with a sense of responsibility, who had been urging the need for restricted expenditure and a policy of prudence in a time of stress, such as prevailed, futind Iheir iminsel largely negatived by ill-advised action such as that- of a majority of the members of the House of Representatives, which would he seized upon by extremists and irresponsible sections outside as justification for the most extravagant. demands. The measure had still to be considered by the Senate, and it was to be hoped I bat, the members of that- Chamber would place a higher const met ion on their duties and responsibilities as leaders of the community and trustees of public .Minds

The bequest made by the late Mr W. 11. Travis, of Christchurch, for research work into the causes and cure of cancer and tuberculosis will amount, approximately to £50.000 (states the Lyttelton "limes ). Of the total assets, estimated at £77.000. approximately £‘Booo was left in tlie form of legacies, while £14,000 went to the public account as death duties. In the terms of the will the residue ot tlii' estate is to be formed into a trust hind, the iuenme of which is to he used in conducting seientilie investigations in New Z< aland which mnv ameliorate. or are likely In resalt in the amelioration and cure of tuberculosis and

■aiiccr. A way is left open to the irus>'Cs in tie* event of tlie income being it-edcd lor research work into some other orm of disease for tlie money to hu apdied to this purpose, the only strict pro rision of the whole clause being flint he money must he used in New Zea

land. Tlie trustee's of the estate are Milt B. Bergh and Mr IlerherL Pearce. Speaking to a reporter on behalf of Mr Bergh and himself. Mr f’earce said that the trustees fell aggrieved with the Government in connection with the payment <>f death duties. Seeing lleo tin- Income ui the estate was to gn to medical reseaivh tu heinTit suffering bumaiiitv the

trustees bad appreuehod the local mem bec of Parliament and also the Government in respect of obtaining a remission nl the death duties. Afiera considerable amount of correspondence. the whole uf the death duties, amounting to nearly £14.000, had to he paid.