LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19397, 4 August 1926, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Twelve years ago to-day Great Britain j declared war on Germany. The breach with Germany was followed by war against the other Central Powers, and British troops landed in France on August 9. Hostilities ceased with the signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, and on July 28 of the following year the Peace Treaty was signed at Versailles. A five-seater Dodge motor-car, owned by Mr. W. Miller, was removed from Albert Street yesterday afternoon between 2.30 and 6 o'clock. The car is painted black and its registered number is 3308. After being In Auckland for over four months the crew of the American barque Guy C. Goss, yesterday left for their ports of shipment. The captain, mate, second mate and an American able-sea-man left for America by the steamer West Calera which sailed In the afternoon for San Francisco, via Wellington and Lyttelton, their passages having been arranged for by the American Consul. The eleven other members of the crew left for Vancouver at mid-day by. the Aorangi. They are travelling as distressed British seamen and their passages are being paid by the Board of Trade. The Auckland Typographical Union at a meeting on Monday evening, rescinded, by a large majority the resolution passed at the half-yearly meeting on July 24. voting £SO to the funds of the coalminers on strike in Great Britain. Theaction was taken on the ground that the vote was outside the objects provided for in the union rules and was contrary to the spirit of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, under which the union was registered.. A premature explosion of a gelignite charge in the Orakei cutting of the Westfield railway deviation works was responsible for giving three workmen a severe shaking on Monday. They were caught in the falling debris and partially buried, but fortunately received no greater harm than bruises and gravel rash. No advice had been received in Auckland yesterday in regard to the refloating of the auxiliary schooner Teine Vinuela, formerly the War Lord, which went ashore early last week' on a coral reef at Nukunono Island in the Union Group. A heavy anchor and cable were sent from Apia for salvaging the. schooner and an American tug was despatched from Pago Pago to assist. It is not certain whether the tug is equipped with wireless. The Teine Vinuela is owned by the Samoa Pacific Trading Company. She reached Samoa from Auckland on June 26 and after loading general merchandise sailed for Swains Island, Union Group, Ellice Group and Tokolau : Grpup ' to unload the merchandise and to load copra - for discharge at • Samoa. She. was engaged in working cargo at Nukunono when the mishap occurred.

The heavy losses sustained in New Zealand as the result of fire 3 formed the subject of comment by Sir James Gunson, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Insurance Company, at-the annual meeting yesterday. Sir James said that during the year fires in New Zealand had been very frequent, especially in dwellings in the country districts of the North Island, where the construction of buildiings"\v'as not so effectively supervised as in boroughs. While the company was operating to afford protection against fire, yet these conditions, which in many cases caused considerable loss to the assured, were' sufficiently serious to call for the adoption by local authorities in country districts of some measures of control, particularly in regard to the construction of chimneys and hearths, so as to prevent' undue destruction of property, by fire and danger to life. A new aspect of the wages problem of the manual worker, was touched upon by. Professor Worley in a lecture last evening. He quoted figures showing the amount of food" required by different classes of workers, and . stated that a man engaged in severe physical toil might require three times as much food as a; sedentary worker. Thus since a man doing very heavy work required a big intake of food—and incidentally had a big thirst—he needed a higher wage than a sedentary worker.

The worst of luck met Miss D. Matthewman, a passenger who arrived with her mother by the Athenic at Wellington on Monday. Miss Matthewman was to have been married within three days of her arrival, but slipped on deck in port on the day she landed and sustained a fracture of the left leg. she was attended to by the ship's doctor, and was doing well at latest, advices.

Something in the nature of . a building boom was experienced in Napier during July, when the local council issued 21 permits involving a value of £20,282, a substantial increase on the amount of £12.613 involved in July of 1925, when only 16 permits were issued. A feature of this month's building activities was the number of operations that were being carried out in brick. "Football is not a game for an exhibition of temper —if you get a blow during a game the sporting thing to do is to turn jthe other cheek." This was the advice given last week by Mr. J. W. Nome, chairman of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union, in admonishing a youthful player ordered off for striking an opponent. The defendant bad stated in evidence that he had retaliated to a knock first given him.. A steady increase in the volume of traffic from the West Coast to Canterbury through the Otira tunnel is recorded. The gross tonnage hauled through the tunnel last month was 43,289, an increase of 4087 tons over July of last year, and of 16,080 tons over July of 1924. The tonnage for the week ended on July 10 was 11,500, which is one of the best«weekly totals since the tunnel was opened. The Cambridge -Co-operative Dairy Company announced at the recent annual meeting that there would be a pay-out of £16,500 among 350 suppliers on Friday as bonus pay'ihents for butter and cheese manufactured during the 1925-26 season. Business in Cambridge during the past month has been quiet, and the circulation of the amounts received by the suppliers will be most welcome. The Wanganui City Council gravel dredge disappeared from its mc/orings near the „Dublin Street bridge last night, and • it was thought that it had sunk to the bottom of the river. The council's staff was waiting until the river decreased in volume before commencing dragging operations, but the dredge was swept up on the beach at Foxton Heads. It has not been damaged by the , buffeting it must have received, as it was carried down the river, out to sea, and then along the coast.