LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21503, 29 May 1933, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Girl Student's Determination According to tho official organ of Victoria College, a Wellington' girl student, who is endeavouring to complete her B.A. degree, worked in a hotel as a cook-housemaid at £1 a week during tho last vacation, llio girl s homo was not in Wellington, and she undertook this work to meet lecture and college fees totalling £l7 17s.

New Villa for Mental Patients The Government has let a contract for £5680 for tho erection of a new villa for women at the Stoke Mental Hospital, Nelson. The building is required to relieve congestion at tho institution. The specifications provide for a single-storey wooden building to accommodate 50 patients. The successful tenderer is Mr. C. S. Luney, of Christchurch. Water at Lake Coleridge Tho Diesel-operated stand-by electrical power generating plant at Lyttelton, which has been working for 16 hours daily since August 1, last year, has been closed by tho Public Works Department because of the satisfactory position of the water level of Lake Coleridge. The level of tho lake last Thursday was 1670.520 ft., or only 1.475 ft. below tho overflow level. Suburban Shop Theft Goods valued at about £lO were found to bo missing from tho grocery store of Woods and Company, at 151 Mount Eden Road, on Friday morning. During the night thieves had forced open the back door of an empty house adjoining tho back of the shop. The goods taken included groceries, tobacco and cigarettes, torches and batteries and postage stamps. Combating Ragwort

"Have you been able to do anything to check ragwort?" asked Mr. Hope Gibbons of Professor r l. Easterficld, Director of tho Cawthron Institute, Nelson, at the weekly luncheon of the Wqnganui Rotary Club, last week, after Professor Easterfield had addressed the club. "Wo have one insect in some districts which is working very well. We have another up our sleeves," was the reply.

Delicacy For Chinese When the steamer Kurow was docked recently a considerable quantity of the mussels which were scraped from the bottom of the hull were gathered by the Chinese crew, who have beeii. engaged since in opening the mussels and drying them for use during the voyage of the steamer to China. The mussels are considered a delicacy by the crew. The Kurow was laid up at Hobson Bay for nearly two years, and she was removed to the Western viaduct for overhaul when she was sold to the Moller Line, Shanghai. A Low Barometer Although the weather was fine in Auckland on Saturday, the barometer was very low during the week-end. It rose to 29.50 in. on Saturday morning and after remaining steady at that reading for 16 hours it was falling again yesterday afternoon, the reading last night being 29.40 in. Showers were experienced yesterday morning and evening and cloudy, threatening conditions prevailed during the day, the light breeze having changed from south to north-east. Last evening there was a considerable amount of lightning to the eastward. Football Referee's Mishap While it is not unusual for players to have to retire from the field during football matches, it is not often that a referee is compelled to do so. This, however, happened on Saturday during the progress of the senior Rugby fixture between Hikurangi and Maungakaramea at Maungakaramea. Mr. D. L. Ross, a well-known solicitor of Whangarei, who was referecing the match, was running down the field, and in turning suddenly, strained the tendons of a leg. It soon became apparent that ho would bo unable to continue, and the gamo was held up temporarily while another refereo was obtained. Mr. Ross is confined to his bed.

Cyclists Injured Concussion and a severe cut over the right eye were received by Mr. Arthur Jackson, of Victoria Avenue, Mount Eden, when he fell from his bicycle in Eden Terrace shortly after noon on Saturday. Mr. Jackson was carrying a bag on the handlebars of the machine, and it became caught in the front wheel, causing him to bo thrown heavily on the roadway. He was taken by a St. John ambulance to the Auckland Hospital, where ho was treated in the casualty ward. Another cyclist, Mr. John Christie, aged 20, who lives at tho Bible Training Institute, also received concussion when he was thrown from his machine at 10 o'clock 011 Saturday evening. Ho was admitted to hospital, but his condition is not serious. Wage Tax Inspectors Since the appointment of wages inspectors last October, over 14,000 inspections have been made, resulting in the direct recovery of approximately £9OOO in additional tax, states the Unemployment Board. In addition to this amount, it is said the material increase in tho revenue received from the salo of stamps can be directly attributed to tho operations of the inspectors. The board reports that the average monthly receipts from tho sale of stamps and from wages tax paid in cash to tho Post and Telegraph Department for tho threo months ended September, 1932, amounted to £189,225, whereas tho monthly average for tho three months ended December, 1932, was £195,993, and for the threo months ended last March, £201,155.

A Selwyn Anniversary Ninety-ono years ago to-day George Augustus Selwyn reached Auckland and began his 26 years' service as Bishop of New Zealand. He had been consecrated the previous October, and had sailed from Plymouth in the ship Tomatin in December. At Sydney he embarked for Auckland in a small brig, tho Bristolian. "Wo cast anchor at midnight, under a bright moon," ho wrote afterwards,. "and every outward circumstance agreeing with our inward feelings of thankfulness and joy. 'So Thou bringest them into the haven where they would be.' " Tho bishop was accompanied by Mrs. Selwyn, and by Lady Martin, wife of tho first Chief Justice of New Zealand. They landed from one of tho ship's boats upon the beach at Judge's Bay, where Sir William Martin had already built himself a house, and Solwyn's first a<)t was to kneel upon tho sand and pray. His connection with New Zealand lasted until October 20, 18(58, when he sailed from Auckland to spend the remaining 10 years of his life as Bishop of Lichfield.