LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18180, 28 August 1922, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The Main Trunk express which left Auckland for Wellington last evening was a very long train. It comprised 18 coaches, including 12 passenger carriages, and four sleeping-cars. Among the passenierß were the members of itho Sydney and New Zealand University football teams, who left for Wellington on their way to Dunedin. The Auckland Grammar School football team, which is to play Te Auto College in the Moascar Cup competition at Palmerston North, ako travelled on the train.

The proposal to hold a camp at the Buakura Agricultural Farm, for the senior boys of district high schools this.week, has been abandoned, owing to the Government declining to grant permission. Mr. J- P. Kalautrher, supervisor of manual and technical education, stated that the Department of Agriculture had been agreeable to the scheme and that there waa ample accommodation at Ruakura,

A fire broke out about 3 p.m. yesterday in a house in Great South Road, Oi'ahuhu. owned and occupied by Mrs. Plumley. The Otahuhu fire brigade was promptly on the scene and succeeded in confining the fire to one room, which was damaged to the extent of about £25. The house and effects are insured in the State Fire Office for £'375. The cause of the outbreak is not known.

In noting the development of New Zealand's resources and industries during the past decade, Major E. A. Belcher, of. the Empire Exhibition Mission, expressed.the hope that increasing attention might be paid to the unexploited fish resources. The Dominion, lie pointed out, •vraa purchasing £250,000 worth of cured herrings every year, while in Queen Charlotte Sound alone she not only had enough herrings to fiir all the requirement* of New Zealand, but there was a sufficient margin to" provide the whole of Australia's requirement and to build up a big Eastern trade.

Some excitement was caused on the Northern Wharf shortly after 10 o'clock last night when a man was rescued from the water. He is alleged to have walked along the wharf, removed his hat and coat and jumped into the water. He was rescued a few minutes later by the aid of a lifebuoy and taken to the hospital

It is announced in the Gazette that on and after September 1 the fee for grading butter -will be increased from Id to 1.05 d per box,., and for grading cheese from 1 l-3d to 1.40 d per crate.

The funeral of James Diver, aged 13, the boy who had spent half his life in the Auckland Hospital, took place at Waikumete Cemetery on Saturday morning. Among those present were Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Hospital Board, Dr. C. E. Maguire, medical superintendent of the hospital, 12 nurses, Mr. C. Wilsion, headmaster of the Newmarket School, and Miss Fenton, teacher of the hospital school, who is ranked on the staff of the Newmarket School. A very large number of wreaths and floral emblems were received from people in all parts of the city..'The officiatin" minister wag the Rev. B. <Q. Budd. Anglican Chaplain to the Hospital. The flacTi at the hospital and at the Newmarket School were flown at. half-mast on Saturday.

A claim for £3000 compensation iff connection with the fatal scaffolding accident in Endean's Buildings last February is.to be commenced in the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Stringer, and a special jury. The plaintiff is Mrs. Margaret Catherine C. Moore (Mr. Inder), whose husband, Walter B. Moore, was one of the victims of the accident, and the defendant is J. Henderson, painter, of Auckland (Mr. Anderson and Mr. Endean).

An amendment of general harbour regulations is gazetted. Provision is made for the inspection by a surveyor of ships of all running gear and all subsidiary appliances, whether used on a ship or not, for shipping or discharging cargo and coal. The new rule is applied to scaffolding and gear used on ships undergoing repairs or painting, either in dock or on slip. The surveyor or other officer may prohibit the use of any gear or appliances which he considers unfit for use, or he may order any alterations or repairs that he thinks, necessary. The owner must carry out the order, but has the right' of appeal to the Marine Department,

Christmas Eve and New Year Eve this year falling on a Sunday, an effort is being made by retail business people to have the late night on Friday and to close as usual on Saturday afternoon, reopening on Wednesday. It is understood that the Retail jewellers' Association does not favour the proposal, but the issue is to be considered shortly at a meeting of tlw various associations interested with a view to the settlement of the question on a uniform basis.

Common jurors summoned to attend' at the Supreme Court this morning hiive bevin discharged, their services , not being required.

Considerable improvement is being effected to several of Newmarket's thoroughfares. Seccombe's Road is being put into first-class order, and it is stated that this highway will shortly be transformed into one of the finest outside the city area. The City Council is undertaking the top-dressing of the upper end of the road from Mountain Eoad to Maungawhau Road. , '

No fewer than 18 bankruptcy notices are published in the latest Gazette. Of these eight are in the Auckland provincial district.

Tempted by the beautiful spring-like weather, more than the usual number of visitors made the ascent to the summit of Mount Eden yesterday. A commencement has already been made with the beautifying scheme recently initiated by the Borough Council. Shrubs have been planted at intervals along the carriage drive, while unsightly and withered branches have been lopped off numbers of the larger trees.

"Ladies seem to be excelling all over the world in violin-playing," said the musical judge, Mr. A. W. Juncker. of Melbourne, at the close of the violin solo contest at the competitions in the Town Hall, Wellington, last week. "I can remember the time, when the violin was considered a vulgar instrument in England about 30 years ago. We were not allowed to touch it on Sundays. Ladies seem to be out-stripping the men." Referring to his award of the " oossible " to Miss Kate Mullaney, of Napier, for her rendering of Bohm's " Legende," he added: " I am noted for the fact that I do not throw marks away. I would rather be considered stingy. When I give these marks, you may be perfectly sure it is not done with any idea of advertisement; it is because they merit it."

" The health of this country is not good, by any means, in spite of the fact that it is a country with advantages better than those of any other in the world," declared Dr. E. H. Wilkins, chief schools medical officer, in an address to the Hawke's Bay Education Board.

" The average man develops only about 10 per cent, of his mental energy." So said Mr. James Wylie, in an address he gave at New Plymouth. " Therein lies the source ot a tremendous amount of inefficiency," he continued, "for allowing that your mental energy is developed twice as much as that of the average man, yon see there is still plenty of room to operate upon till you are 100 per, cent, efficient."