LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Tracks in the Snow As a means .of ensuring the safety of climbers on snow-covered mountains, the Ruapehu Ski Club has experimented with Condy's crystals, which, when scattered in the snow, leave a vivid coloured stain, readily seen by searchers. In future, all members of climbing parties will bo issued with a small bottle of crystals for use iu emergencies. Arm Broken In Police Cell A man who was arrested for drunkenness in Hamilton on Thursday evening fell in the Hamilton police cells during the night and broke his right arm. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. When his name was called in tlie Hamilton Police Court yesterday in connection with the charge of drunkenness, Sergeant Angland referred to the accident and obtained a remand for a week. Gisborne-Opotiki Highway The district agent for the Auckland Automobile Association at Gisborne, Mr. G. Crawshaw, who is visiting Auckland, advises that the construction of the three bridges near Otoko, on the GisborneOpotiki highway, is well in hand, the driving of the piles being almost completed. It is expected that the bridges will be open for traffic by Christmas. They \yill complete the all-weather access from Gisborne to the north. Watersider Injured Painful bruises on a leg were received by a, waterside worker, Mr. Andrew Casey, when he was struck by a cargo sling while working in the hold of the New Zealand Shipping Company's vessel Rangitiki, At Queen's Wharf, yesterday afternoon. Mr. Casey, who lives at 6 Hardinge Street, Freeman's Bay, was taken by the St. John Ambulance to the Auckland Hospital, but was able to proceed to his home after receiving attention. Abnormally Large Lambs A lamb weighing 121b. was recently reported to have been born afc Westerfield, Ashburton, but in size it is surpassed by two lambs which are reported from Mr. W. Dennis' farm, at Pukapuka, North Auckland. The first weighed 261b., but both lamb and ewe died. The. other lamb was 191b. in weight and lived for about a week, but seemed never to get properly on to its feet. Both dams were North Auckland Show champion Lincoln ewes. Purity of North Shore Water Satisfactory reports have been received from the Health Department concerning the purity of the water of the North Shore boroughs, according to a statement made by the secretary, Mr. A. E. Wilson, at yesterday's meeting of the North Shore Boroughs Water Board. "There had been reports of contamination," said the chairman. Mr. H. F. W. Meikle, Mayor of Devonport. "1 am glad they have been confounded." It was a wise move to have quarterly tests made. Large Export Cargo A large quantity of New Zealand produce will be loaded at Auckland by the Commonwealth and Dominion Line motorship Port Gisborne,' which is due from Wellington on Monday, and is to sail for London next Friday. Her cargo from Auckland will include 100,000 boxes of butter, 8200 crates of cheese, 700 crates of eggs, 500 freight carcases of meat, in addition to general cargo, consisting of milk powder, preserved meat, wool, casein, kauri gum, tallow and other items. Unappreciative Public " I cannot help feeling that some social services are being taken too much for granted by the public," said Mrs. A. M. Bisley, of Hamilton, at the annual conference of Auckland branches of the Plunket Society yesterday. She quoted as an instance the fact that at the Waikato Show the society had arranged a rest room for mothers and a creche for babies. For a week six of the committee members worked each day from S a.m. to 6 p.m., and at the end of the, week the sum of 2s lOd was found in the collection box. Escape From Drowning An elderly man. Mr. James Quinn. of Te lvaraka, near Gisborne, had a narrow escape from drowning this week. Mr. Quinn, who suffers from shortness of sight., lost his way in the dark on the Kftiti side of the Gisborne Harbour and stepped off the wharf into the basin. Luckily he managed to secure a grip on the understructure of the wharf, but was unable to climb out of the water. There he remained until his shouts attracted the attention of two men. With the assistance of a constable they lifted him from the wafer. Jurors and Their Duties Two men summoned to act as jurors in the Supreme Court in Christchurcb this week were exempted from service on the grounds that they conducted single-handed businesses, which would have to be closed in their absence. The manager of a large hardware establishment. asked for exemption, claiming that, his staff was depleted owing to the depression, in consequence of which he could not very well be spared. He added that, ho had given a good deal of his time to public work. The application was refused. A Disability A warning against permitting a schoolboy to regard himself as a failure was uttered by Mr. T. B. Strong, Director of Education, in Christchurch last week. To do that, he said, was to make the boy start with a handicap when ho went to work, lie had it settled in his mind that he was more or less a " dud." It was the duty of those who bad to do with the education system to make the children happy. How could anyone be happy when he had to carry through the early part of life the burden of feeling that he was a failure? All should look forward to the time when it was possible to remove this disability. Search For Marriage Licence A clergyman at Te Awamutu spent the morning of Labour Day looking for a licence in connection with a marriage he had arranged to perform at Pirongia in the afternoon. He got in touch with the registrar and everyone connected with the ceremony and, although he learned that the licence bad been issued, he could not. ascertain who had if. The clergyman arrived at the church realising that, if the licence was not handed to him, he could not perform the ceremony. Inquiry was made among those present and the document was finally located in the bridegroom's pocket. It had been placed in an unaddressed envelope arid the bridegroom had not known what (he contents were. The marriage was then proceeded with.