LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18211, 3 October 1922, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tho present civil sittings of tho Auckland Supreme Court are likely to continue until tho commencement of the next criminal sessions in November. The Judges are making every effort to overtake the accumulation of work which mounted up at a rapid rate prior to the appointment of Mr. Justice Hcrdman to Auckland. His Honor made it quite clear yesterday that if counsel were not prepared to go on with casus for which fixtures had been made they would 'lave to allow them to stand over till next session. In tho past solicitors have permitted cases to remain on the list long after they have been settled, and the Court has omy been informed of the settlement when the cases were called on. Under the new order of things the Court will have to be notified when matters set down for hearing are not to come on.

" No one can be really intellectual in New Zealand unless he was born in the Orkneys and educated at Otago University—or that appears to be the opinion of the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout," said Mr. H. P. Richmond at the Rotary Club luncheon yesterday. In the Chief Justice's opinion, said the speaker, tho intellectual centre of New Zealand was forever fixed eouth of the Rakaia River, and North Islanders especially were excluded from any claims to culture. Despite this opinion, Mr. Richmond said, hehad no hesitation in stating that, of all Now Zealand's sons, no man had proved so valuable to the world as Dr. Truby King, a native of Taranaki.

Three new tramcars have just been completed for tho Takapuna Tramways and Ferry Company, Ltd., by Messrs. Cousins and Cousins and D.S.C. The cars,_ which are similar in typo to those now in use, will each seat 52 passengers. It is expected that tho under-gear will arrive shortly, and it is hoped to have tho cars running by Christmas. .

A waterside worker, Mr. 6. Walters, sustained a "fracture of the right leg yesterday through being struck by a derrick while working on the scow Tuboe. Ho was later admitted- to the hospital. Mr. Walters is a married man residing at 59, Anglesea Street.

Tho importance of recreation in providing the physical basis for a sound constitution, mentally and morally, was emphasised by two speakers yesterday, Dr. Trubv King, at tho Rotary Club luncheon, and Mr. W. W. Hill, at the opening of tho new Curran Street school, of which he is headmaster. The latter said the boys who played hard in tho playground revealed healthy and normal minds. It was the boy who walked round watching the play of others who himself required watching.

Every adult member of the Anglican Church of the Provinco of Now Zealand is supposed to sign a declaration of membership. The names of those who make this declaration aro placed on the parish roll, and only those whose names have been enrolled are entitled to vote at parish meetings. At present every parish and parochial district is entitled to one representative in synod, and those having 200 or more names on the roll may have two representatives. Some members of the Standing Committee at a recent meeting expressed tho opinion that it would be a good thing if no parish had more than one synodsman. The advent of the, woman voter was also discussed. This innovation might possibly largely increase the number of synodsmen (says the Church Gazette) and this was considered undesirable. In ordor to meet this new situation the committee decided that the roll number necessary to entitle a paxisft to a second representative should be increased from 200 to 400. The Diocesan Synod will bo asked to sanction this proposed amendment of church law.

"This gospel, that the first duty in education is recreation, is one to which tho boys respond," said Dr. Truby King at the Rotary Club luncheon yesterday. '"They have said: This man advocates going to The pictures.' " (Laughter.) "But that," continued Dr. King, "is not the meaning of recreation, which should be spelt and understood as re-creation— the restoring and recharging of the body's batteries by nature's tonics, fresh air and sunlight".

Forty-five decrees for the dissolution of marriages have been granted in the Supreme Court in Auckland since the opening of the present civil sessions. Some 19 matters on the Banco list have been either settled or abandoned"".

Tho flag which will be flown at the new Curran Street School, P'onsonby, at the weekly ceremony of saluting the flag, is one with a history associated with the British Navy and the final conquest of Germany. It was flown on a British patrol boat erf the Rhine flotilla after the armistice. In presenting the flag, a Union Jack, to the school, Lieutenant C. H. Palmer, R.N.V.R., of Sarsfield Street, Ponsonby, expressed the hope that the Navy League would be remembered in connection with the gift, and that many junior members would join tap from the new school.

When replying to a Taranaki deputation in Wellington last week the Prime Minister said the Government had over 7000 men on public works at the present time. The pay of these men and the materials for the works they were undertaking required a huge sum of money every month. There seemed to be people all ovqr New Zealand who wished the Government to proceed with public works and the development of the country, but said at the same time that the Government should not increase the public debt. He could not do the impossible. He "realised very well that the Dominion could not continue borrowing at the present rate for very long. But works that had been commenced would have to be completed. The difficulty was that the works did not pay interest on the loan money. They were indirectly reproductive, but that was another story.

"Some Masterton pig-hunters had an exciting experience m the bush at the foot of tho Tararuas, when out hunting recently. The party were returning with a fine young sow which they haH secured, when the dogs got on the scent of a large boar, that did not " bail" until it reached the thick undergrowth, whore it was impossible to shoot unless within a few yards. With infinite cunning the boar eluded its pursuers with short desperate " breaks," but the dogs finally cornered it in a narrow gully. When capture seemed certain it cleared a track through the dogs, killing one outright and narrowly missing another, wluch escaped with a slight rip on the throat. The remaining dog, evidently thinking discretion tho better part of valour, did not follow the boar, which escaped.

" Two cases have occurred in this district where a member of a school committee should be disqualified for assault on teachers, one a male and the other a female," stated Mr. Stewart (Wellington) when moving the following; remit at the meeting of the Education Boards' Association last week: "That the Act bo amended so as to empower l>oavd2 to terminate the school committee membership of any person proved to have been guilty of such misconduct as in the opinion o.f the board unfits him for efficient service." The remit was adopted.

Very strong remarks on the lack of interest in New Zealand by New Zealanders were made? by Mr. James Toomath at the annual meeting in Wellington of the New Zealand Natives Alsocfation. He was advocating the extension of the organijiation throughout the Dominion, and in doing so deeply deplored the fact that New Zealanders were allowing strangers to come in and steal their birthright. He referred more particularly to tho Chinese influx, and spoke generally on the failure of young New Zealanders to recognise their sacred duty to the land of their birth. It only required tho force of public opinion— and here wns tho organisation to do it—to ensure that New iiieuland W*» kept for New Zealaridnnu