LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18158, 2 August 1922, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

5 A heavy frost was experienced in Auck r land yesterday morning. In many case watoir pipes in exposed positions wer f frozen. The minimum temperature on th j grass at Albert Park as recorded by thi official adviser, Mr. F. A. 3?. Burnett | was 33 degrees, this being the loves since the previous Monday, when tin same temperature was recorded. An outbreak of fire occurred! at abou half-past three o'clock yesterday morninj in the engine room of the mission steamei Southern Cross, which was berthed al the Western Wharf. The fire was ex tinguished with a fev; buckets of water there being trivial damage to some wood work. 1 Owing to the continued use being madi ' of the Salvation Army immigration anc ' employment bureau in Auckland, thi 3 Army authorities havo reconsidered thi 3 matter of closing the bureau, and hav< » decided to keep the office open as usua ® for the assistance of immigrants and thi unemployed. Major A. Greene, chie r immigration officer to tho Salvation Army r stated yesterday that the continued de > mand made on the bureau by immigrant! k and others seeking employment and bi 5 employers desiring labour warranted thi j continuation of the valuable services thi s bureau was performing. Hundreds o men and women were being placed in era plcyment, not. all being necessarily immi grants, ancit employers, principally farm ers. were continually approaching thi office in quest of labour. The bureai worked ir cloio co-operation trith thi Government Labour Department. An eruption on Whito Island was wit nessed from the Arahura last Wednesday 3 while en route from Auckland to Gisborne ® Mr. Grey, who was on watch on thi j steamer's bridge at daybtmk, noticed i r dense black cloud, not very high, shroud • ing the island. He had often passed th< ' 'Rland on the same_ vessel, but had nevei r seen such a dense cloud before. Aa he j as watching it a volume of steam sud . denly shot up out of the cloud to a haighi estimated at some thousands ol' feet, the "shot" being so unusual that Mr. Grej drew Captain Dryden's attention to it, 9 There was no further outbreak during th< B three-quarters of an hour the island re U niained in sight, but the cloud of steam t had not entirely dispersed when it wat j lost to view over the horizon. 1 A warning to parents of young children j was contained in a rider added by a jury which at the Supreme Court yesterday I brought in a verdict of guilty against a s man charged with an offence against a i?irl aged nine. The rider was to the efiect that fche jury was of opinion ti&at parents should instill in their children'n minds the danger of going away witlstrange men, and taking money from ihem. His Honor agreed that if parent; adopted that course there would be fewer of such cases as that in question. 3 The Waikato-Maniapoto Native Land ' Court opened a sitting in Auckland yesterday, Judge C. E. MacCormiek presiding. It hi expected the business to be dealt with will occupy a fortnight. "What has happened to Waihi since you leftV" asked counsel of a witness in the Compensation Court. Mr. Justice Herdman led the laughter at the nature of tho question to which, as counsel remarked, there could be only one answer. The witness responded with the inevitable that "Waihi started to go back immediately I left." In more serious evidence, the witness referred to the brighter prospects before Waihi and district, and to the improvement of the , pasture lands in the neighbourhood. j A movement is on foot in Devonport - for the erection of an up-to-date fire station in the borough. It is intended I to raise funds by holding a queen carnival in December, and four queens will b« arranged for, these being schools, Bports ; fire brigade and friendly societies. 1 Thirty-three Christcburch city and ' suburban schools have rolls of memberB ship in connection with the Canterbury . Young Citizens' League, and 2113 boys 3 and girls in the higher standard's of th« - primary, and several of the secondary 3 schools, have been formally admitted at j members of the league. Tlie Rotary Club and the Canterbury Progressiva League b are giving substantial sapport to fehe t movement. Mr. C. E. Be van-Brown, for- * merly headmaster of the Chriatchurch J Boys' High School, is prerident of the B Canterbury Young Citizens' League; Mr. . S. E. McCarthy, ex-S.M., is vice-presi-t dent; and Mr. C. A. Hardie, eix-inspector s of schools, is organising secretary.

"An interesting experiment is now being tiied with four forms—Y.a, V.b, V.c, and special V.»" stated the headmaster of Wellington College, Mr. T. R. Cresswell, in his report to the Wellington College Bourd of Governors last week. "It is designed to test how far boys may safely tie freed from ordinary class-routine, with a view to the encouragement of individuality and self-reliance. The experiment will be continued for at least, sis weeks, and at the end of that time a full report will be sent to the board and the department. Meantime, I may say that the new system is creating somo interest among teachers and pupils, and is throwing some light upon important aspects of school work." While playing on a "scooter," in company with another boy on Saburday, at Mahenga Bay. Wellington, a 13-year-old lad named Alfred Saunders, collapsed and died. Deceased, whose father is an nxtillery artificer employed at Fort Dorset, ha<J been previously attended by Dr. Gilmer for heart trouble. As Dr. Gilmer has certified that death was due to heart didfase, no inquest will be held.

winner for heart trouble. As Dr. Gilmer has certified that death was due to heart disease, no inquest will be held. "It is time the best brains of this country gave more consideration to securing more permanent work on the waterfront. The uncertainty of unemployment is the bane of vhe watersider's life," said Mr. W. J. Rogers at the Arbitration Court in Wanganui, when discussing employment conditions 011 the waterfront. He went 011 to say that when one or two J men possessed the labour power of over 1 lOC it placed them in positions of petty ' tiNars, and perhaps compelled the men to yink their manhood. > "New Zealand is singularly fortunate in ' '.he possession of national parks and rer serves, and we must endeavour to keep 5 them in their natural state. I wish to ■ say thai I will protest with the utmost i vigour against any attempt to introduce 1 heather and other exotics of plant life > into this Dominion," said Mr. F. W. 1 Yosseller at a lecture given in Wellington ' last week. ; "I hope too much of a song will not life ) made about distress, for I think there is ' more in other towns than in Wanganui, ! only tha.t we are more active in the relief . measures," said the Mayor at a meeting ; of the Wanganui Borough Council last • week. s A building boom is being experienced • at Oamaru. At least 36 new houses are ■ being erected in the town and suburbs at | present. A number of opossums have been secured along the Taranaki coast during the past few weeks, some of the skins ; being particularly fine. One skin that was taken measured 4ft. 4in. by 2ft. lin.