LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 December 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tho annual conference of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation, which has been in Nelson during the past foil night, concluded its deliberations today. The delegates, who, by way of entertainment, have been shown over the Nelson district, including Mapua, Motueka, and Riwaka. have expressed great interest in the possibilities of Nelson and surrounding country. During their stay tho Cawthron Institute was visited at the invitation of Professor Easterfield, and a -very interesting and instructive lour was spent there. A great number of tho delegates also visited Griffin's factory. Most of the delegates leave Nelson this afternoon and tonight for their home ports.

Tho last rivet ill tho steel frames of the new Boys' College Hostels was driven to-day. Further construction work will commence immediately. The Mayor of Nelson (Mr W. J. Moffatt) was present for a short period at the luncheon yesterday to Mr Oscar Garden, but had to leave early to fulfil a private engagement.

A strong plea that the Italians who left Australia for New Zealand, after being refused permission to stay in the Commonwealth, should be allowed to come into tho Dominion, was made in a letter which has been sent to Mr H. E. Holland, M.P., leader of the Labour Party, by Mr 11. Colonna, of Christchurch, Fiduciario for New Zealand of the Italian League of the Rights of Man. "I suggest that you aro aware of the fact that these Italians are on the witters in order to get admitted into New Zealand," Mr Colonna wrote. "As you know, poor Italy is going through one of the most calamitous times of her history. To put it mildly, the «whole country is bankrupt. _ The population is starving and, politically, they are on the verge of civil war. Just now all Italians are admitted into France and Austria even without passports, provided they can prove that they left for political reasons, and any Italian leaving Italy to-day has political reasons. I don't know these Italians, but I think their case deserves your special attention, as a refusal to let them land would involve them in untold misery. Could you, together with your colleagues, do something for them? Perhaps they know someone, or have small means, or are skilled men. A refusal to let them land would be wrong, and a reproach to the fair name of our democracy. However, in view of the present crisis, I think that New Zealand would be justified in notifying the Italian regime that in future no immigrants would be allowed to enter New Zealand.' I wish to make it clear that had it been a case of a large number trying to come into this country I would' not ask you to take the step mentioned."

The members of the Otago Ironmasters' Association, at their monthly meeing, discussed fully the very unsatisfactory state of the engineering and iron trades industry at present, not only in Dunedin, hut throughout the dominion. It was decided to strongly urge upon the Government and the Unemployment Board to take some immediate drastic action to prohibit the importation of certain manufactured articles into the dominion at present, on the same lines as the Australian Government lias done. The members present considered it an altogether mistaken policv to set up an Unemployment Board to provide for unemployed men, when unemployment, so far as the engineering industry is concerned, is caused by huge importations into the dominion rendering it necessary to dismiss large numbers'of employees and to run works on half-time only in many cases. It was suggested that the Government should follow the example of Australia and place a prohibitive embargo on certain articles, so as to enable the foundries and engineering shops to employ their full staff and work longer hours. This matter is to be taken up with the Acting Prime Minister and the Unemployment Board, with a view to doing something to relieve the present very unsatisfactory stato of affairs. The vear 1931 will be the jubilee of the issue of the revised version of the New Testament, states the current issue of the "Church News." The New Testament Company of Revisers met on the evening of 11th November, 1880, in the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. to make thanksgiving for the completion of their labours; the book was issued on 17th May, 1881. The Old Testament Company did not complete their labours till four years later, having been occupied since June, 1870; a volume containing both Old Testament and New Testament as revised was issued on 19th May, 1885. The revision of the muchneglected Apocrypha was published in 1895. and the whole Bible, thus completely revised, with corrections of the marginal references, was published in 1898.

"The matter of the extermination of deer and other plant-eating animals in our forests and on our mountain tops is being attempted by the Department of Internal Affairs and the Foresty Service," leporls the lion, secretary of the Native Birds' Protection Society, "but the present effort is scarcely likely to produce the desired results; first of all, because the extent of the undertaking does not appear to be adequately realised, and secondly the rifle appears to be considered the only weapon which is available. Shooting at animals soon makes them excessively wild, and has the effect of driving them hither and thither and into the least accessible places. The advice of men skilled in extermination should be sought. Thus a famous Canadian hunter, when he desired to exterminate crows, did not use a gun, but fed the birds, and enticed them into a huge trap, which accounted for as many as'soo at a pall. We have one or two'similar men in New Zealand v>ho could, give good service in this matter. "'

At (he examinations held recently in Nelson by the Plumbers Board of New Zealand,*!). C. Freeman and C. A. White were successful in passing the written examination.

The term concert of pupils of the Nelson School of Music will be held on Friday evening next.

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The eightieth anniversary of tho foundation of Canterbury will be celebrated next Tuesday.

Red reflectors for horse-drawn vehicles in Christchurch must be not less than three inches in diameter and must be similar to one held by the City Council. A regulation to this effect was passed by the council this week.

Nelson, registering TOdeg., was the warmest place in the Dominion at 9 o'clock this morning, according to the official reports from the various stations. Farewell Spit, which is usually a few degrees warmer than Nelson, was not recorded to-day. In'Auckland the temperature was Sdeg. lower than in Nelson, while tho Wellington reading was 56dcg.

A warm tribute to Sir Charles Statham was paid by the Hon. L. M. Isitt, M.L.C., when speaking at a Justices of the Peace Association's social. "In the House we have one of the ablest Speakers in the British Empire," said Mr Isitt. "1 don't believe that ill the Empire there is a Parliament ruled as rigidly and as ably as ours is by the present Speaker, Sir Charles Statham."

The best methods of teaching swimming were discussed by the Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association this week, and the dog-paddle was generally regarded as being the best for the first lessons (reports the "Times".) The chairman (Mr S. Hollander) stated that opinions differed among experts. Personally, ho thought that a learner should be taught first the dog-paddle, as being the most natural stroke and one which quickly gave the pupil confidence in the water. The main purpose was to teach a nonswimmer how to save himself or herself from drowning. Others speakers agreed with the chairman ,and Miss D. Brown stated that the'dog-paddle was a stroke in the learning of which few mistakes could be made. Once a pupil gained confidence he or she could the more easily master difficult strokes.

The attention of the Minister in charge of immigration is to bo called by the Christchurch City Council to the number of steerage passengers who are arriving at New Zealand ports from Australia and San Francisco.- The matter was raised at this week's meeting of the council bv Councillor W. Williamson, who said that the public were being called upon to pay their share of the "dole," and people were coming here to get the benefits and to deprive. New Zealand-born men of consideration. It had been stated that a number of shearers were coming from Australia while New Zealanders were out of work. The council should help New Zealandborn men every time. He moved that the council draw the attention of the Minister to what was taking place. The last boat to arrive at Bluff brought 166 steerage passengers. Councillor Williamson's motion was carried unanimously.

That the policy of the Unemployment Board is misunderstood, is tho statement of Mr F. L. Hutchinson, the manufacturers' representative, who returned to Christchurch after a sitting of the board. Mr Hutchinson says that the maximum subsidy paid by the board when an unemployed man is given work by an employer who is doing so on condition that he received the subsidy, is 7s per day. The employer may make his own arrangements, but the board will pay half the employee's wages as subsidy, with a maximum of 7s per day.

Mr W. 11. Bryant, Brightwater, invites those friends who wish to give the Whakarewa boys their usual Christmas halfcrowns, to send same to him or to Mr Bourne-Webb, Lower Hardy street.

The Hon. W. W. Snodgrass, M.L.C., has forwarded the following telegram to the Hon. S. G. Smith, Minister for Labour: "Position re unemployment here extremely acute. Fifty local married men, 20 local single men, 58 outside men left here discharged from relief works, and on the local register. Many really desperate, while 70 men have been landed by steamer from Wellington in the last three days proceeding to relief works. Surely our local men and your stranded relief men should have first consideration. Hope you can do something to remedy the position."

The voice and piano recital arranged by pupils of Mrs Macfarlane,, L.A.8., at Marsden Church House, has been postponed to Tuesday, 16th December.

A dance organised by the Riwaka Croquet Club will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall at Riwaka on Friday, when an enjoyable evening is assured to all patrons. Collecting cigarette-ends, tossed aside by smokers, is now quite an industry amongst the down and out of London. The tobacco is carefully separated from the fragment of paper about it, and sold by the pound to manufacturers of lowgrade "gaspers". It is generally sodden with nicotine, and doctor's say it's unfit to smoke. Yes,, nicotine has a lot to answer for! Practically all the imported tobaccos—pipe and cigarettecontain far too much of it to be healthy for the smoker. Sometimes it affects Lie heart—if constantly used—sometimes it wrecks the nerves. There's only one way of getting rid of it—by toasting the tobacco, which then becomes perfectly innocuous. The process also vastly improves the flavour and aroma. There are only four brands of toasted: Riverhead Gold, Cavendish, Cut Plug No. 10 and Navy Cut No. 3. None others are manufactured. Y'ou can smoke them from daylight to dark. They are harmless. The poison has been extracted from them. They appeal to all smokers.*

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