LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 25 January 1936, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Attention ise drawn to an advertisement notifying parents of the date of i-e-openiiig of Nelson Colleges. It would considerably facilitate the organisation for the year if parents of last year’s pupils would notify the Principal, on the form sent out with the reports, whether the pupil is leaving or returning.

Overseas passengers will view with interest tlie announcement of Shaw, Savill and Albion Company that its Cabin Class ships, Mataroa, Akaroa, and Tamaron will be fitted with talkie picture machines. This line As the oldest established line in the New Zealand trade, and will pioneer the installation of talkie pictures, in tlie direct service to the United Kingdom. The Mataroa due at Auckland early next month, is the first vessel to be so equipped and a cable lias been received that the passengers are vry pleased with the thoughtfulness of file Company in providing such fine entertainment.

Last week freight hauled through the Otiru tunnel amounted to 11,168 tons, as compared with 9757 tons in the corresponding' week of last year, and 9300 tons in 1934.

Squadron-Leader N. E. Chandler arrived at Blenheim at 1.5 yesterday afternoon from Christchurch in a Government Moth 'plane which has been issued on loan to tlie Marlborough Club.

Tlie first salmon to be caught on rod and line this season was taken at the mouth of the Rangitata river on Thursday by Mrs E. J. Cooke, wife of Dr. Cooke, of Christchurch (reports ■‘The Press”). Mrs Cooke was fishing for trout with a fly when she caught the fish, which was in good condition and which weighed 17 pounds. It is as yet early for salmon to be taken on rod and line at the mouth of the snowfed rivers of Canterbury.

“We find that the prettiest and most efficient nurses get married almost as soon as they enter the. service,” remarked Mr F. Cray, leader of a deputation from the Napier Dental Clinic Committee which waited upon the Minister of Health, the Hon. P. Fraser, requesting extra nurses for the Napier clinic. He asked whether dental nurses were required to enter into any undertaking regarding the length of their service. “There is provision,” Mr Fraser replied, “but I think you understand enough of human nature to know that if the highest bond were imposed, if a girl’s life were mortgaged for 10 years ami she wanted to get married, she would get married anyhow. Then the department would be faced with the necessity of ‘squeezing’ these girls if the requirements were enforced.”

Statutory amendments to the Municipal Corporations Act and the Fire Brigades Act in the regulations covering the possibilities of fires and panics in theatres are urged in the annual report of the New /.ealand Motion Picture Exhibitors’ Association. “Most local authorities,” says the report, “proceed on the assumption that tlie theatre proprietors have'no interest in preventing fire or panic in their theatres. The exact contrary is, of course, the case, and it is interesting to record that whatever advances have been made ill improving the fire and panic prevention system in theatres have been made on the initiative of the association. The Wellington City Council was the first of the licensing authorities to accede to proposals for improvement, and since then Auckland and Christchurch have followed suit, as have also some others. It is proposed to give attention to securing some clearer definition of the respective [lowers of fire boards and licensing authorities on the subject, and to secure legislation to this end if necessary.” All members of the Riwaka . Branch of Ihe Farmers’ Union are urged to attend a general meeting, to be held in the Riwaka Library on Wednesday, 29th January, at 8 p.m., at which the question of farm labour will be discussed.

Specimen sets of Xew Zealand coins, including Xew Zealand’s first crown piece, dated 1 !Ki">, have arrived in the Dominion and are being distributed to collectors and others through the branches of the Treasury Department. The design of the crown commemorates tlie Treaty of Waitangi and shows a Maori chief shaking hands with Lieutenants lovernor Hobson under a Koval Crown, symbolising the joining together, under the Crown of the Maori and British races. The Maori is holding a tailia in his left hand and Lieutenant(iovernor Hobson is in full naval uniform. The Maori word Waitangi appears in the exergue, where the date usually appears. The date is Jubilee year. Trathens Sale Monday.*

Alfred Could announces an auction sale of the. residential property, furniture and effects in the estate of the late Miss Atkinson. The sale will be held on Th ui'sday, 6th February, at. 1 p.m.*-

In connection with the announcement made yesterday that cargo from Nelson could not be shipped on Monday ur Tuesday next, owing to the alteration in the' original arrangements for the funeral of the late King, the Anchor Shipping Company desires it to be known that cargo can now lie shipped on Monday for discharge at Wellington on Tuesday; but owing to the Willington Watersiders’ picnic on Wednesday cargo cannot be accepted for shipment from Nelson on Tuesday.

By passing in several subjects in the Diploma of Fine Arts examination M. L. Gibbs has completed a full pass in the Preliminary Diploma of Fine Arts. He is a pupil of Nelson College, is 18 years of age, and was under the instruction of the Arts Master. Mr W. H. Allen, A.R.C.A.

An ingenious suggestion as to how the consumption of electricity could be increased was received in a letter to the meeting of the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board this week from a resident of the district. The letter was as follows: “I hope you will not think me impertinent, but 1 have a suggestion to put forward to the board which I think will benefit t.he board and also the public generally. In most homes the wireless is turned off for hours at a time because the programmes are not very good. There is too much mediocre music and not enough humour; consequently Hie wireless is shut off and not much electricity is used. My suggestion is this: Would it not pay the Power Board to spend, say, -£IOO on some decent records, say, Madame Melba, Paul Robeson. and* far more humorous sketches than we have at present. The return in the consumption of electricity would more than justify the expense, I think.” The chairman (Mr R. W. Bothamley) said the correspondent apparently did not know that wireless sets used only a negligible amount of electricity. The letter was "received.”

The Auckland Harbour Board has been advised that its new tug, the William C. Daldy, now en route to New Zealand from Scotland, left Bowen, on the Northern Queensland coast, on 17th January, for Auckland (states the “New Zealand Herald”). The vessel is expected to arrive at Auckland about next Monday.

A fond parent wrote to the Wellington Education Board and asked if there was a medal awarded, as in England, for long and unbroken attendance, her son having attended for seven years without a break. The encouragement of

“puerile and petty pot-hunting” in children was roundly condemned by several members of the Board when the letter was read to yesterday’s meeting (reports “The Post”). Children, it was stated, were : sometimes sent to school solely to maintain- an attendance record when for reasons of health they should have been kept at home. “Everybody looks for a reward in these days for doing their duty,” was a remark by another member on the same subject. The parent will be informed, that'there is no medal awarded in New Zealand for school attendance, although congratulatory letters are sent to pupils in authenticated cases of long and unbroken attendances.'

The two Motueka residents, Messrs Charles Gatenby and George Wise, who were admitted to the Nelson Hospital, both suffering concussion and other head injuries as the result of an accident, were reported to-day to be making satisfactory progress. Members of the Army Nursing Service and ex-servicemen proposing to attend the Memorial Service at the Cathedral to-morrow morning, are invited to paravle, in mufti, wearing medals, at the Drill Hull, at 10’.30. Truthens are busy, and no wonder. Genuine Sale reductions offer splendid savings on quality drapery.* Dance patrons are reminded that a dance will be lipid to-night in the Oddfellows Hall, Wairhea street, when a good nights' dancing iii assured. Ihe programme will iilclude the Early Bird waltz, Gay Gordons, Foxtrot, one-step and Monte Carlo waltz. There will be a home made supper, also cool clnnks. The music will be supplied bv Mr H. Williams’s brehestra and the duties o M.C. will be carried out by Mr G. Scott. Do McKay’s board stocks Perish the thought! See the showroom reductions on Monday.* Truthens Sale Monday.* One only, S.W. Evening Frock in Floral Georgette, 79/6 for 9/11. McKay s Snip, Monday.* Beautiful Frocks about half usual prices. Truthens Sale Monday.* Another one ! One only 2 piece Cloquc Cloth Ensemble. ' WX, Marina Blue. 94/6 for 49/6. Many outstanding bargains at McKav’s Sale on Monday.*