LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22056, 12 March 1935, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Lynn Revaluation Advice was received from the Valuation Department at last night's meeting of the New Lynn Borough Council that, in response to the council's recent application to have the borough revalued, arrangements were being made to supply a revised roll. This would be done before April 1, 1936. Parnell Road Lighting The lighting of Parnell Road has been greatly improved in the past week by the erection of new lamps iti place of the obsolete variety that had been in use for a number of years. Although an important traffic route, Parnell Road was much less brightly lighted than the side streets of- the district, and conditions caused much dissatisfaction. Expensive Smoke Costly smoke issued in volumes from a New Plymouth factory chimney-stack last week, when no fewer than 300,000 cigarettes of many brands, ruined by flood water, were destroyed. They were still sodden and in order to ensure their destruction it was necessary to mix with the.m large quantities of sawdust and shavings. The cigarettes were damaged while still in the bond stores and their destruction was supervised by a Customs official. » Looking Much More Genial " An accused person in the Magistrate's Court the other day was trying to rememebr who, some_ time ago, had sentenced him to a term of imprisonment. Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., refreshed the accused's memory. "Are you Mr. Mosley?" 'asked the accused, incredulously. "That's my name," replied the magistrate. "Oh, you look much more genial this morning," said the accused, explaining why he had not recognised the magistrate. The magistrate, the accused and the Court enjoyed a hearty laugh. Sale of Bibles Although it was said that the sales of Bibles had never been higher than at present, he did not think that the sales among English-speaking peoples were nearly as high as they had been years ago, said the Rev. Raymond Simpson in an address to the Congregational Union Conference in Christchurch last week. The opening up of new foreign mission fields had provided the market for many more Bibles, and it was to these fields and not to Eng-lish-speaking races that the most sales were being made to-day. Many people had lost the habit of reading the Bible and from this followed the loss of the use of prayer by many Christians. Accident Victims' Condition An improvement occurred yesterday in the condition of Albert Dando, aged 19, of Avenue Road, Otahuhu, who suffered concussion as the result of a collision between the motor-cycle he was riding and a motor-bus on the Great South Road, Ellerslie, early on Sunday morning. His companion, Mr. A. Cartier, • aged 21, of Seddon Terrace, Otahuhu, who received concussion and a compound fracture of the thigh, is still in a fairly serious condition.. The two young men were taking a motor-cycle to Otahujiu from Newmarket, where its rider, Mr. W. R. Edelsten, had fractured his leg in a collision between the motor-cycle and a taxicab. Advice to Farmers "There are people to-day who am trying to order their lives as if nothing had happened in the last five years," remarked iir. William Machin, of Canterbury, in an address to farmers at Methven on the Government's mortgage finance proposals. "It is as futile as were the efforts of those who, at the beginning of the Great War, went about saving 'Business as usual.' " Mr. Machin said that in the changed economic conditions of the present day it was impossible to carry on as in times of prosperity. He urged all farmers to give careful consideration to the Governinent's scheme, which he believed to be a genuine attempt to solve one of the most difficult problems of the present time.

Promising Settlement Scheme The progress of Mr. D. V*. Bryant's land settlement scheme in the Waikato was raised by Mr. G. L. Taylor, president of the Auckland Rotary Club, at the club's luncheon yesterday. Mr. Taylor with other representatives of the club and of the Chamber of Commerce, visited the farms under Mr. Bryant's control during the week-end. " We were very much taken with the scientific and capable management of the work that is being done," said Mr. Taylor, " and we felt that if this is not a financial success, if they are not able to develop farms under that scheme on an economic basis, then it will not pay to bring in any unimproved land in New Zealand. Mr. Bryant is particularly energetic and active, and his managers are very successful farmers."

All Blacks in New York Should this year's All Blacks play in New York on their return trip from England it will be no new experience for a New Zealand Rugby team. When the question of meeting requests for the 1935 All Blocks to appear in America was under discussion at the recent meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union's management cemmittee it was recalled that the 1905 All Blacks had played in New York. Two members of the committee, Messrs. F. T. Glasgow and W. .T. Wallace, had good reason to remember the occasion, as both were members of that famous team. The difficulty about playing in New York, it was mentioned, was that it would bo the wrong season of the year ior football. Mr. Glasgow remarked that the original All Blacks had found the ground there quite good, thougji hard and having no turf. A Scottish Stronghold

At a gathering of delegates to the annual assembly of the Congregational Union of New Zealand in Christchureh Mr. H. Sturge extended to visitors the freedom of the city. "You are free to breathe the smoke of the destructor and to enjoy yourselves on the river, though you must be careful not to dip too deep or you may pull up "something you do not anticipate. Those are our only two drawbacks. This is a great city, and 1 know only one within 15,000 miles which is better —and that is Bristol." A little later, the Rev. T. W. Amour struck a blow for Scotland. "I've often wondered what would happen in Christchureh, where so many Scots have got loose," he said, "if someone went about calling 'Mac! Mac'!" The Rev. S. Campbell crowned the rout of the Englishmen by reminding his listeners that the first settler in Christchureh, John Deans, ,was a Scotsman, and that the Avon was named after the river in Scotland, not one of several of that name in England.