LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 April 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

j There is heavy passenger booking on the Nelson-Wellington boats for the Easter holidays, and the service is being extended to cope with the traffic. On the Thursday before Easter the Matangi is making a daylight trip from Nelson to Wellington, and in the evening tho Nikau and Kaitoa also sail for Wellington. On the Thursday evening both tho Arahura and Matangi sail from Wellington for Nelson. The bookings show that • more Wellington people are coming to Nelson than Nelsonians going toi Wellington. Mr G. C. Black, M.P., has befin advised by the Hon. the Minister of Public Works as follows regarding the proposal that unemployed should be placed on the Takaka llill: “Replying to your telegram of the 23rd December last, wherein you urged that the question of placing unemployed on the Takaka Hill in Takaka County be considered, I have to' advise that this work has been in-! eluded in the list of proposed relief works which is at present under consul-! eration in connection with the general scheme for the district. It is not pro-1

posed to open up any further works immediately, but in the event of sugli a course being found necessary at a later date, the proposal put forward by you will receive every consideration in conjunction with the other items.”

Arrangements for the taking of a census throughout Australia next year have been cancelled as the result of a decision of the Federal Cabinet. It has "been the practice for the census 'n Australia to he taken once every ten. years. The last count of the population was made in April, 1921. Plans had been almost completed for a census in June. 1931, and sonn. of ’lie preliminary work bad been put in band. In view, however, of the present financial position of the Commonwealth, the Cabinet line! decided that the expenditure which would have been involved—-between C 200.000 and £3oo,ooo—could nut be justified.

While discussing the rent to be fixed for a small foreshore urea at the Harbour Hoard meeting yesterday. some time was occupied in arriving at a decision, which compelled Mr Kelly to interject, amid laughter, ‘‘ln some of these simdl matters we take a lot of time, while in bigger ones we slap off a thousand quid without any discussion at all.” “The Auckland” leaves a few more bombs. To-morrow and Saturday morning. Page 9 for details.*

A donation of £lO towards the obstetric fund was made by the Nelson Harbour Hoard at yesterday afternoon's meeting.

“The Auckland” springs some more surprises. To-morrow and Saturday morning. Page 9 for details.*-

The delegates attending the annual conference of the Stato Forest Service visited the Cawlhron Institute yesterday afternoon. It is expected that the business of tin; conference will conclude today. At last evening's performance of the Wellington Flayers in the Majesty: Theatre, Mr N. V. Wotton, on behalf of the Nelson branch of the Blanket Society, thanked the public for its support and thanked Miss Elizabeth Blake and her company for coining fioni Wellington to give an entertainment in aid of the local society’s funds. Mr Wotton explained that the society’s expenses amounted to £SOO a year, most of which came from subscriptions, ft is the intention of the Nelson branch to hold a Blanket week commencing on 3rd May.

Councillor G. M, Spence of lIn? Now Plymouth Borough (foun.il Inis given noLice to move for 1 lie passing of a bylaw as follows:—“No person shall in any premises adjoining or timer any street, footpath or public place, by playing any gramophone or musical instrument, or operating any wireless or other .device, or by making any other; noise, cause a nuisance nr annoyance to persons in or on such street, footpath, or public place.” To illustrate Hie widespread enjoyment of music Mr E. Douglas Taylor, Director of Music, told an amusing story during an address this week. A school teacher noticed that a small boy pupil was not heeding his lesson but was intently studying a piece of paper. When she looked at the paper it was inscribed something like this: “Blewblow - suck - bliiw - suck-stuek-blowGsueki-blow.” When asked for an explanation the pupil’s reply was: “Oh. you wouldn’t understand this, nijss! It’s my moiuli organ music.” The electric light committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council is to consider a proposal to give a discount of 15 per cent, on power and 20 per rent, on lighting accounts to aompensatu ''or the inconvenience caused by the shortage of elect) icily. The women in and around Wakefield are holding a function in the Y.M.C.A. Hall on Wednesday, 16th inst., at 3 o’clock. A collection will bo taken in aid of the Cancer Fund Campaign. Mr Cecil Hooper is lion, treasurer and will receive donations from any who may be unable to attend the Wednesday afternoon party.* ! Although the New Zealand Tourist | League stated in its last annual report ’ that open deer-shooting in New Zea- • land should prove a great attraction to , tourists, it is a fact that the shooting provided in the open areas of North Canterbury, Westland, and Nelson has little interest for overseas sportsmen, says the Christchurch “Press. It is . only in districts where deer are coni- ■ parativcly scarce that tourists find interesting sport. In. area’s thickly populated with deer the shooting is nothing more than easy slaughter, and tho heads are of little value, so a reporter ‘of “The Press” was told. The New Zealand Tourist League suggested in its report that since there were now well over 2,000,000 deer in the Dominion, in many cases doing damage to forests and I grazing, shooting should be permitted without licence. The secretary of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society (Mr C. W. Hervey) pointed out that unlicensed shooting was allowed in all the deer areas supervised by the society except one. In the Kakaia district, said Mr Hervey licenses were required, and 22 had been issued this year. All the other districts were open. “Wo have the deer menace in check,” said Mr Hervey. “In the last three years we have spent £B4B on tho cubing of deer, and last season we had a man permanently employed in their destruction. No society in. New Zealand is doing more.” V,’ . . The March issue of the “Abstract of Statistics” states that the quantity of butter received into store for grading during the month of February was 17.5 per cent, less than that received during January. Notwithstanding this drop, the total is 29.1 per cent, higher than the total for February of Jast year, which was then a record figure for that month. From now on the quantity of butter received into store will show a sharp falling-off, but judging by the total for the seven months it is assured that a new record for butter production will he attained for tho 1929-30 dairying season. The cumulative figure is so far 14 per cent, higher than last year. Cheese, of course, shows the same seasonal trend as butter, the quantity received during February recording a decline of 15.4 per cent, as compared with January, but here again the month’s total is better than last year's, the increase in this case amounting to 3.9 per cent. The seven months’ total shows a recession of 2.7 per cent., .and. as the peak of the season is now passed, there seems a slight chance only of the record total of last season being passed, although the current season’s figures should he ahead of any other season. The Government Statistician states in the latest abstract of statistics that it now costs £1 11s lOd to purchase what could have been purchased in July, 1914, for £l.

Mr J. H.; Salmon, S.M., at the Wanganui Court this week, stated that at the lowest estimate it cost the taxpayers 15s to 20s per week to keep children entrusted to the care of the State.

Timber trade between Napier and Australia has now been revived, says the “Daily Telegraph.” The timber carrying steamer Poolta is loading some 134,000 feet of matai from Puketitiri and Ohurakura, which is consigned to Queensland. The shipment marks the first consignment of timber exported from Hawke’s Bay for many years. It is hoped that the increasing interest in New Zealand timbers taken by Australians since the raising of the tariff against American importations to Australia will lead to a revival of the export trade from New Zealand, in which Hawke’s Bay will share, and thus employment will be found for a large number of workmen, both for preparing the timber and. its transport to the loading port and handling there. >. “A glimpse of the extent to which the coal strike affected Australia is given by an experience I had during my visit there,” said a New Zealander who lias just returned from Australia (says the Dunedin “Star”). “1 rode in the cab of S3OO, one of the biggest locomotives in the world, which hauls trains on the road to Adelaide. This engine, which attains a speed of seventy miles per hour on the flat between Broadford and Tallerook, was not being run with Australian coal. 1 asked the driver if he had Westport coal on board. 'I wish I had,’ ho said. T used it in the Navy. Tins engine is being run on Yorkshire coal.’ To continue the railway services coal had to bo brought 12.003 miles.” Easier Shopping. See Trathen’s special advertisements offering unusual attractions, pages 1 and 3.*

Only 39/6 for a Velour Finished Coal in s.w., w. or o.s. and fur trimmed. See i hem at McKay’s.*

Easter Shopping at Trathen’s, adver tisement page 1 gives details.*

A bargain in Blankets. Three sixes 26/6. 34/6. 42/6 McKay’s to morrow. See window No. 1*

The Wanderer Footbali Club's .no,uni ball will be held on Friday evening in Hie Riwaka Hall. A borne ma le suni'e* and music bv a Maori orchestra will be two attiactivc features.

Dr. Gray, Inspector General of Mental Hospitals, was tho speaker at to-day’s meeting of the Nelson Rotary Glub. President Kolarian Itowe was in the chair. Ilotarian T. Neale moved a very hearty vote of thanks to Ur. Gray for his in--1 enisling address. The motion was enthusiastically carried.

After two years a married woman, whose name.was suppressed, was charged at the Auckland .Magistrate’s Court this week with the theft of a gold wristlet watch. The watch had been lost by a girl from a car in Henderson in 1928 ami had been picked up on the road by the woman. Although Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., dismissed the case, he decided that “finds are not keeps.’' “If people find articles oil the load there is a tea sonable chance these days of jinding the owner. Goods picked up should not be kept, hut they should he given to the local constable. This woman has had the use of the watch for two years, but she must give it up now. I will dismiss the case, but if it bad been a man I would have convicted him. The woman must pay the costs.”

The anniversary services in connection with Blenheim Wesley Church were bell oil Sunday last (reports the “Express”), when two eloquent sermons were preached by the chairman of the district (the Rev. Percy N. Knight. 8.A., of Nelson). Mr Knight, who is an ex-president of the Conference, delighted everybody with his racy utterances and there was not a dull moment during either service.

Samoan carpenters form just as close a corporation as the J5..M.A. or any other profcsisonal union, where the etiquette is very strict. In his lecture on the Polynesians, Dr. P. 11. Buck was explaining how the Samoans lieM rigidly to their old customs—more so than any other people in the Pacific (states the “Auckland Star”). When lie explained the organisation of the carpenters, his hearers were reminded of some very strict unions of the present day—both of workers and professional men. Samoa had its special guild of carpenters, and its members built all the houses. If a person decided that he wanted a house built, he had to consult one of llie guild craftsman, feed all the carpenters while they were at work on the “fale,” and in addition give them a decent tip now and again. If the owner failed to keep up the food supply or the backsheesh, workers would down tools, arid the job would be boycotted by the rest of the guild. .

The annual meetings of householders for the purpose of electing school committees will be held on Monday evening. Secretaries of country committees are asked to kindly forward to this office the results of the elections at the earliest convenience.

The Rowing Club’s weekly dance will be held in the Rowing Club shed tonight. By advertisement the members of the Hampden Street School Improvement Committee are reminded of the social function to be held in the schoolroom on Monday evening next after the annual householders’ meeting. A special invitation is extended to the supporters generally, especially these who assisted at the recent gala day. It is also urged that householders will make a special endeavour to attend the annual householders’ meeting which will commence at 8 o’clock sharp.

The Rev. 11. F. Davis of the C.M.S. Uganda Mission will speak in the All Saints Schoolroom this evening. Beautiful frocks, fine furs, smart millinery, new lumber jackets, cardigans and pullovers in big variety at Trathen’s where values are excellent this season.*

Ladies’ Coat Special, Friday at McKay’s. nmy interest Easter trippers. Velour finished Coats in good shades, fur collars and cuffs, 3 sizes, 59/6, o-nly from McKlev’s. * .....

* u? ■, Ladies’ Art Silk' Raincoats, smart shades, 24/6 at McKay’s Friday,?•