LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20075, 12 October 1928, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A donation of £SO to the Hospital patients' wireless fund has been made by the Auckland Amateur Operatic Society. Although the accounts for tho society's recent presentation of "The Belle of New York" have not been finalised, it is certain that the production was a financial success ,

To minimise collision risks, the By-laws Committee of the Auckland City Council decided yesterday to install traffic domes at three additional crossings. The domes will be placed at tho intersection of Remuera Boad and Ladies' Mile, Remuera Boad and Green Lane, and Now North Road and Blake Street, Avondale.

To again break a leg which was recovering from a fracture was tho unfortunate experience of Air. James Pryor, aged 24, of Waimauku. Mr. Pryor broko his right leg when playing football at Helensvillo about eight weeks ago. Sinco then he has been treated at tho Auckland Hospital. Yesterday ho returned his crutches to the hospital and walked down Queen Street to catch tho afternoon train to his home. Falling down near Darby Street he again fractured his leg in tho same place and was readmitted to hospital in the afternoon.

" The number of ' dead-beats ' who bolong to the Church of England is very amazing," said the Rev. W. C. Wood, of Papakura, amid laughter, at the Diocesan Syuod yesterday in discussing the great number of appeals mado to him for assistance eveiy year. " Tho demands made upon a clergyman are very great indeed, and we in the country find it to bo so quite as much as in tho city. It seems tho police and others turn undesirables out of the city. They then find their way into the country, whero we soon become fully aware of their presence."

Tho annua! conference of the New Zealand Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants' Federation will bo held in Auckland on October 25. Delegates will bo present from all parts of New Zealand, and will bo entertained by Auckland delegates. On the day following the conference the visitors will be taken for a motor tirive, and will bo entertained at morning tea at Ellerslie racecourse.

Although the recent unsettled weather in the Paeroa district has swollen the local streams anglers report good sport in tho Komata, Waitawhota and Ilikutaia streams, all of which should be clear at tho week-end.

Seven cases of scarlet fever were reported at Hamilton last month. There were also three cases of diphtheria, two of erysipelas, ono of tuberculosis, one of spinal meningitis, and ono of pneumonia.

A sale of salvaged goods from the steamer Port Napier, on which a serious firo occurred on the way from London to Auckland, was held at King's Wharf yesterday. Goods offered included a motorcar, fancy goods, drapery and sweets. Conducted on tho bulk lot principle, the salo was of value principally to merchants and shopkeepers. Over 50 people attended and a ready sale was found for most of the offering.

It has now been definitely arranged that tho annual communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Now Zealand shall bo hold in Dunedin on November 28. There was uncertainty on the point until the date of the general election was fixed, as it was particularly desired to avoid tho period of political turmoil.

Sales of work held in Hamilton last week by tho St. Peter's Ladies' Guild and St. Andrew's Ladies' Guild realised £125 and £l4O, respectively. St. Paul's Methodist Church raised £2OO by a direct appeal for funds in lieu of a bazaar.

Ten head of pedigree Jersey cattle, five bulis and five cows, bought from a private breeder in Toronto by Mr. E. Griffiths, of New Plymouth, arrived at Auckland yesterday morning by tho motor-ship Hauraki. They are fino animals, purchased for a sum in tho vicinity of £BOOO. They were accommodated in stalls in tho after-part of the ship during the voyage, and were under the care of a special attendant. Ihe Hauraki enjoyed fine weather for (he greater part of the trip and tho buffeting she received from strong winds and heavy seas when Hearing the New Zealand coast on Wednesday had no ill-effects on (be pedigree stock. The animals will probably be taken off the Hauraki to-day (o be shipped to Taranaki.

A tribute to tho good qualities of tho Rev. I. A. Bennett, who has been appointed to bo tho first Maori bishop, was paid by Bishop Sedgwick, in his address to the Waiapu Diocesan Synod. He said: " Mr. Bennett, my co-adjator in the Maori Mission, is a man of marked gifts; gifts that, in the past, Jiavo singled him out as a. leader. Whenever assigned a leading place in the deliberations of his people he has filled it with modesty and with ability. Ho has in a marked degree those gifts of speech and oratory with which his race is so richly endowed. But he has more than this; he has spiritual gifts which will enable him to fill the high office to which ho has been unanimously called, tho spiritual supervision of the Maori race, with acceptance and distinction. From many quarters, both pakeha and Maori, liavo como expressions of satisfaction and approval at his appointment."

A recommendation to the Agricultural Department that the protection of stoats, ferrets, weasels and polecats should be removed in the forest areas of the district under the jurisdiction of tho Wellington Acclimatisation Society was passed by the society (his Meek. It was not suggested that, protection should be removed in any rabbit-infested districts.

Rotary, witjj ifs world-wide membersliip, should provo to be one of llio strongest factors in bringing about international goodwill and peace, declared Mr. H. E. Hart., of Masterton, who addressed tho Wellington Rotary Club at its weekly luncheon this week. Ho drew a picture of what could bo dono with the money which even ono day's warfare cost, emphasising tho fact that what was requirod was some system which would give nations security. In civilised countries a man's property was protected, and that principle should bo extended to international rights, so that nations would not havo to maintain huge forces to protect their borders. Fear, suspicion, and distrust stimulated tho nice in armaments, but any reduction of naval or military strength was likely to provoko war rather than maintain peaco .unless others did likewise. lie believed that Rotary, with its unique membership and unrestricted by political ties and diplomatic suspicions, could do muck for world peace.