LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21561, 4 August 1933, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ladies' Oar Attendants Attendants on ladies' cars on the afternoon expresses running between Auckland and Wellington will not be carried after next Sunday, according to advice received from Wellington. Four attendants are employed at present, three being stationed in Auckland and the other at Wellington, and the department has decided to terminate their engagements. Intruder Sleeps in School The discovery that the Northcote intermediate school had been entered by a intruder was made yesterday morning. A window had been opened, and drawers in a cupboard had been ransacked. ■ A box of matches was found and there were patches of tallow from a candle used. The intruder made tea on the gas-ring and had apparently slept in the prefects' room, where there are a couch and rugs. Nothing was missing. Opossum Trapping Comparitively few opossum trappers are operating in the wide area controlled by the Internal Affairs Department from Rotorua. It is reported, however, that those engaged are securing good results while the standard of the skins is reported to be most satisfactory. This year the trapping season extends over two months instead of tho single month which was formerly permitted. The season will close at the end of August "Scottish" Granite from Finland, Balmoral red granite belies its name, for it comes not from Scotland, but from Finland, according to evidence given to the Tariff Commission yesterday by" Mr. William Parkinson, a monumental mason. In support of his statement, Mr. Parkinson said his firm had received a quantity of the granite by the Tainui this week. It came on a through bill of lading from the Finnish port of Hango, being transhipped at London. War Declaration Anniversary It is 19 years to-day since Britain's errtry into the Great War. On August 4, 1914, the British declaration of war against Germany was made and the British Empire entered a conflict which was to engulf Europe and affect tho whole world. News of the Mother Country's action was conveyed to New Zealand by cablegram, and it was read by the Governor, Lord Liverpool, to a crowd of 10,000 people outside Parliament Buildings, Wellington, on the afternoon of August 5. Malicious Fire Alarms Two malicious fire alarms were received within five minutes at the central fire station last evening. The first call was given at 10.10 from a street callbox at the intersection of Williamson Avenue and Ariki Street, Grey Lynn, and engines were despatched from the central and western districts stations. The second alarm, given at 10.15 from another call-box at the corner of Richmond Road and Fitzroy Street, resulted in a second engine being despatched from the central station. The call-boxes are within five minutes' walk of each other. " 111-lit Queen Street " "Were it not for the light provided by shop windows, Queen Street would be a dismal thoroughfare at night," said tho president of the City Central Progress League, Mr. G. J. Browne, at tho annual meeting yesterday. "It is the most ill-lit main city street, as far as I know, in New Zealand." It was decided to urge upon the Auckland City Council the necessity for an extensive improvement in the street lighting facilities in Queen Street. Appreciation was expressed of the improvements already contemplated by the council. A Choice of Terms ' J A slight diversion occurred at a sitting of the Transport Appeal Board yesterday when a witness refused to agre», under cross-examination, that ho had addressed a public meeting in an effort to secure support, for his appeal. Asked if he had not indeed addressed the meeting, he said he had not. He had merely been/asked, while there, to explain his case, and this he had done. It had taken only about five minutes. Asked if this did not constitute an address, he was reluctant to say that it did. The chairman of the board, Mr. Justice Frazer, then intervened. "Would you rather have the Salvation Army term," ho askod — "you gave your testimony?"

Gifts to the City Two pictures by the late Rhona Haszard have been presented to the Auckland Art Gallery by the council of the Auckland Society of Arts. These are "Spring in the Marne Valley" and "Morning at Camaret." Appreciation of thoso gifts was expressed by the City Council last evening. Other gifts acknowledged by the council and intended for the Old Colonists' Museum Averc Sir William Martin's Greek Testament, given by Dean Howson to Archbishop Avcrill and presented by him, an admission ticket to the laying of the foundation-stone of the Auckland Market on November 11, 1870, presented by Mr. C. T. Haynes, and a bolt from the wreckage of H.M.S. Orpheus, found on the west coast in 1890 and presented by Mr. A. Hall. Attitudes to Discipline

An interesting distinction between Australians, New Zealanders and Englishmen in their attitude to discipline was drawn by Mr. J. W. Shaw, when speaking at a reunion of old boys of the Otago Boys' High School last evening. Discussing the development of a New Zealand type, in the moulding of which he believed tho secondary schools played an important part, Mr. Shaw said he had been interested during the war in contrasting the characteristics of soldiers. "Tho Australians objected to discipline on principle," he said. "The New Zealanders objected to discipline but, if they could be shown an objective that could be obtained through discipline, they accepted it. The Englishmen, it appeared to me,, were more inclined to accept discipline for its own sake." Fashions in Curtains

"It would make a very nice dress," remarked Mr. J. B. Gow, a member of tho Tariff Commission, yesterday when a witness appearing before tho tribunal hold up a length of curtain net on which he sought tho removal of duty. "Some people do wear it for a dress," replied the witness. Mr. Gow's interest was further attracted when tho Avitness displayed a bluebordered sample, which, he said, was a mixture of artificial silk and cotton. "Ah, that is Avell Avorth looking at," said Mr. Goav. The Avitness informed the commission that made-up curtains A\ere now difficult to sell because, to meet the requirements of the popular .bungalow AvindoAvs, houseAvives preferred to make their own curtains from the curtain nets.