LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18224, 18 October 1922, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The wet weather experienced in Auckland yesterday interfered considerably with cargo operations on vessels in port. Showers fell throughout the day, and were sufficiently heavy to cause work to be carried on spasmodically. The rain ceased in the evening. The fall for the 24 hours ended at midnight, as registered by the Herald gauge, was .16in. A donation of £50 to the hospital fundo has been received by the Auckland Hospital Board from the Chinese resident in the city. The chairman of the board, Mr. W. Wallace, last evening stated that the board had from time to time received similar donations from Chinese residing in its district. Recently a number in the Pukekohe district had forwarded a liberal donation as a mark of their appreciation of what was done for their countrymen, during the epidemic. Mr. Wallace mentioned that the local Chinese Club _ had arranged an entertainment for _ to-night, the proceeds of which aare in' aid of the* hospital funds. Not often does such easy prey fall to a platform speaker as was presented to the Mayor of Mount Eden, Mr. J. W. Shackelford, when speaking on the suburban refuse destructor proposal last evening. The speaker declared that the opposition to the site proceeded from ignorance of the nature of a destructor, which w;is quite innocuous. He asked if anyone had ever seen a destructor. "Yes, at Morningside," came the confident answer. In the laughter that followed Mr. Shackelford saicl it was the nuisance and insanitary conditions represented by dumps such as that at Morningside which the destructor was designed to end. A commission, consisting of Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M., Mr. R. P. Greville, commissioner of Crown lands for North Auckland, and Mir. H. J. Coutts, of the Valuation Department, Auckland, has been appointed to inquire into' the proposal for the constitution of a borough of Papatoetoe in place of the present town district. Advice to this effect has been received from the Department of Internal Affairs by the ManuKau County Council, which met yesterday. The question of having the Ran gi to to Quarry connected with the telephone exchange was raised by Mr. W. Wallace at the .Auckland Harbour Board's meeting yesterday. He referred to the fact that one of the board's employees had his left hand ini'ured by the explosion of a detonator recently, in support of his suggestion for telephone connection. The chairman, Mr. H. R. Mackenzie, stated the matter of a wireless installation at Rnnpitoto was under consideration, with the object of ascertaining whether this would not bo cheaper than a telephone service, which would cost £1200 to instal. The lease* of a number of section? in Freeman's Bay for the purpose of a tram barn was granted the City Council by the Auckland Harbour Board yesterday, subject to validating legislation being passed. The sections havo a frontnrre to Hal?ey Street. The object in erecting the barn is to avoid waste of mileage in bringing cars into the city from the outlying depots during rush hours. The Anglican Synod is expected to conclude to-day after a session lasting four days. A considerable amount of business has been put through during that time, and it is hoped to complete what remains on the order paper by this afternoon. The principal matter remaining to be dealt with is the conclusion of the debate on prohibition. The debate, which began on •Friday, has now occupied an aggregate of hours. The sole right to gather mussels from under the Auckland Harbour Board's wharves, at an annual fee of £12, was applied for yesterday. The application met with • a prompt refusal, by the board, several members expresising the opinion that the mussels would not be fit for consumption. The engineer reperted that none of the growth under the wharves should be disturbed Belief in the Biblical exhortation to anoint the sick with oil and to pray for them was expressed by a correspondent in a letter read at tho meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board last evening. The writer asked if there was any objection to people in the Costley Home calling ill their own minister no matter what religion they belonged to. The writer also desired to know if the clergyman could have tho use of a screen to place round the bed of the sick wmle the prayer of faith was offered. " The Deity will heal to-day as of old, that is if His people will meet His conditions, and there are several people in the Costley Home who would like to be anointed according to James v., 14," observed the writer. The letter was referred to the chairman of the Copley Home CommitMr. J. Rowe, with power to act. The statement filed by Benjamin Hamilton, farmer, of Razorback, near Pukekohe, who was (adjudicated a bankrupt on October 11 on his own petition, shows the assHs as £147 10s Id, and liabilitie3 to unsecured creditors as £545 12s 6d, leaving a deficiency of £398 2s sd. Secured creditors to the value of £92 are fully covered. The first meeting of creditors will be held at Auckland on Friday. There will be an interesting gathering at Hamilton on Saturday when a reunion of all Orphans' Clubs in the province will take place. Owing to its central position Hamilton has been selected for this first reunion, and it is expected that there will be about 150 visitors from the Auckland, Devonpoxt, • Onehunga, Pukekohe, Te Kuiti, Cambridge, and Te Aroha Orphans' Clubs. The Hamilton Orphans will act as hosts. In the afternoon bowling contests between the visitors and Hamilton will take plaoe, while at the meeting in the svening the programme will be given by members of each club. A pro]x>eal to sell a horse, which has >eon used in the Costley Home Garden 'pr 21 years, and which is now 25 years >ld, came before the Hospital Board last svening, but did not meet with much lupport, it being agreed that the animal iad earned an .honourable retirement. ] rhe horse's teeth, it was 6tated, were oming out, and consequently ■it was not ible to get the full benefit' of its food ind the work it was askod to perform vaa too heavy for it. The suggestion bat the horse Bhould be sold prompted >n,e» member to quote the lines irrom Swift: " Rover, pocrr Rove#, when you vere young you followed the gun, but low you are old and unable to work, r ou aro condemned to die by the lev. Jones, and are going to be hung by lis clerk." When an advocate in the Arbitration ' 3ourt at. Wellington was contending that women employed in restaurants should ' save more than one substantial meal durng the day, Mr. Justice Frazer stated j bat he did not eat more than one substantial meal a day, and did not think norO was necessary. " ffnlf of what sat goes to nourish the body; the oth«r lalf. goes to nourish the doctor." At the ame time he agreed that heavy manual abour did require substantia] tood. The desirability, and indeed JftEie iecessity, of roads of a sufficiently high tandard tlo carry all classes of traffic ecome more apparent each year, and it s now generally recognised that this tandard can only be attained by proper rganisation and modern equipment, says * he Public Works Statement. ' The * evere tests applied to raad-surfaces by £ wiftly-moving and "often heavy motor t rnftic havo induced some local bodies to 1 dopt a more modern and permanent s letliod of surfacing than mere metalling, r 'he result of their experiences has cle- r ibnstrated that it is more economical to I dopt this system than the previously { listing aystems of construction and c lai'ntemmce. t