LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19455, 11 October 1926, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A daring but unsuccessful attempt was made about eight o'clock on Saturday evening to break into 1 tho window of Malcolm Wiseman, Ltd., in Albert Street. Tho caretaker of a building opposite, hearing suspicions noises, crossed the road to investigate and found an egort had been made to break with a large stone u plate-glass window, valued at abont £25. Tho glass was badly cracked and the stone was lying on the ground beside it. It is thought the offence was committed by hoys anxious to gain possession of fishing lines, of which there was a special display in the window. , A seaman, Mr. Donald Kennedy, aged 28, employed on the oil-tanker Nucula, was knocked down, by a motor-car in Queen Street at 8.45 on Saturday evening. , He had just stepped out from the footpath near a safety-zone, when the accident happened. He was admitted to tho Auckland Hospital suffering from slight injuries to the head. "Members of the Government party occasionally harass tho Government," said tho Hon. G. J. Anderson, in a speech on Saturday afternoon, "but wo don't potter about trying to deal with them. We simply go straight ahead." Tho audience of commercial men laughed heartily at tho allusion, apparently forgiving the two egregrious puns. Mr. A. Harris, M.P., was present sitting in the front row, but his fellow-champion of tho motor-bus, Mr. V. H. Potter, M.P., had sent an apology for absence. t, A temporary addition to the Auckland Zoo, in the shape of a fine white-tailed gnu bull, arrived from Australia by the Wingatui, yesterday. The animal, which is a very rare type of wildbeeste, is on loan from the Perth Zoo. Already at the Auckland Zoo there are two very Une females of the species. "I may be old-fashioned, but I do not see why old girls also should not bo invited to these dinners," stated Mr. H. S. W. King, chairman of tho Seddon Memorial Technical College Board, at tho annual dinner of old boys on Saturday evening. "It will not necessarily mean that you will have to forego your cigarettes, your pipes, or your cigars, or that you will be unable to have your glass' of beer. (Laughter.) In these days of sex equality I think such a step would not be out of place. Wo should look ujt> to tho female sex to creata a standard in this world. We all put our mothers on pedestals, and we should likewise put all women on pedestals. I would like to see the girls at such a reunion." Mr. R. F. Galbraith, president of the Old Boys' Association, caused much amusement by stating the question resolved itself into a business proposition. Would the girls pay as much for the dinner as the men, or would the men have to pay for tho girts ? One cleric who has won- the thorough goodwill of the "knights of the road " is Archbishop Averill. When ho rose to address an audience of them in the new club on Saturday he was greeted with applause so loud and prolonged that it amounted to a minor ovation. After mentioning his own frequent journeys about tho province, the Archbishop repeated a story told him by an Anglican lay missioner in tho Ohura district. The missioner's car had stuck in a very boggy piece of road, and as he was trying to extricate it a commercial traveller drove up. Tho newcomer somehow jumped to the conclusion that the man in trouble belonged to his own fraternity. "And what might yon bo travelling in?" ho asked. "The Gospel," replied the missioner. 'Oh, my God!" said tho commercial traveller, hu't ho stayed and helped tho missioner out of the mud. Tho annual conferenco of tho Baptist Union of New Zealand will open in Dunedin on Wednesday. The retiring president is Mr. F. N. Andrews, of Auckland, arfd tho incoming president is the Rov. Harold Hercus, fof Hamilton. The chnrches of the Auckland province will bo well represented at the conference. Among the delegates, most of whom left by train last evening, arc the Revs. J. J. North, A. S. Wilson, C. Chant, J. Hiddlestone, J. R. Grave and E. Nicholls, and Messrs. F. N. Andrews, T. W. Whitton and 11. M. Smeeton. The 15th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Republic fell yesterday. The Chinese play to be given in Scots Hall this evening has boon arranged by the Auckland branch of the Nationalist Party in order to celebrate the occasion. The unemployment situation in Auckland has been relieved to some extent by the success of the Labour Department in finding work last week for 55 men. in addition to which the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. K., S. William S, announcer] on Saturday that he had authorised work for 50 men on the ThamosPaeroa Rond. Compared with 596 the previous week, there were 580 names on the, books of tho Labour Department's Bureau last week. It is not expected that any important, new measures will bo brought, before the, Auckland Anglican Synod, which begins its sittings next Thursday. However, thero is likely to be. much useful discussion upon social questions and the ever-present problem of church finance, including tho needs of the Diocesan Central Fund and the Church Extension Fund. A keen inquiry for fat stock by operators from Feilding, Palmerston North, and Hastings has developed in tho Waikato. In previous- years Waikato butchers have boen able to buy stork in the South in any quantities. The position this soason''has been reversed, and Southern dealers are now buying in the Waikato at prices well in the vendors' favour. Provision was made on the Estimates last session for an increase in the strength of the police force by the appointment of 25 additional constables. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. Hi Mcllveney, stated in Wellington on Saturday that the increase, authorised would be given effect to during the year and men would be available for duty as rapidly as they could be trained. Regulations prescribing the conditions and rosriclions on Hie taking of Quinnnt salmon for purposes of sale have, been gazetted. Salmon may be' taken for sale by duly licensed persons from January 1, to May 14 in each year, and in the case of applications for netting licences preference is to be given to bona fide wholetime professional fishermen. The waters where nets or traps may be used are the Glut ha, Waitaki, Rangipapa, Rakaia. and Waimakariri Rivers. The fees prescribed are: Licence to take salmon with nets or traps, £5; licence to take salmon with rod and lino, £2; licence for licensed fishermen to take salmon at, sea and licence to take salmon with rod and line by tho holder of a licence to take trout,.£l each.