LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22225, 27 September 1935, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Liner Launched a Year Ago The giant Cunard liner Queen Mary was launched a year ago yesterday. Work on the vessel is proceeding according to schedule and it is anticipated that hor trials will commence in May. Kindness oi Doctors "Complaint has been made'in some quarters regarding doctors' fees, but we are tremendously grateful for the kindness of Auckland doctors," said Mother Hannah at the annual meeting yesterday of tho Order of the Good Shepherd. She said there were four doctors to whom the order could send poor people, who would receive just the same attention as other patients. A Railway Anniversary Sixty years ago last Sunday one of the milestones in the history of Taranaki was reached, for on September 22, 1875, the last spike was driven in the railway from Waitaca to New Plymouth and the first train passed over the full length of line. Still living in New Plymouth is Mr. G. W. Browne, ono of the head foremen on the construction work. Political Reputations "Abyssinia has been the grave of the political reputations of many Italian statesmen," said Mr. L. K. Munro, in the course of an' address on " Tho Abyssinian Question" to members of tho Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr. Munro added that it might also bo the grave of the political reputation of the present dictator, Signer Mussolini.

Remuera Rockery Stripped On returning home last evening a resident of Ranui Road, Remuera, was dismayed to find that the rockery in front of his property had been stripped of a number of prize ranunculi and anemones. Inquiries among neighbours revealed that two women had been seen earlier in tho evening digging up the plants and carefully placing them in a suitcase. The matter is in the hands of the police.

Magistrate and Youth When a suggestion was made to a youth in the Magistrate's Court at Waitara that he should try to get a better job at farming work and so enable him to pay a judgment debt, his answer (to the magistrate was: "Farming's not in my line." Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., said: "But you're only 17; anything's in your line. Some of us wish we could be seventeen again. A youth of your age could turn his hand to anything." Woman's Social Service

An example of social service quietly carried out for the Order of the Good Shepherd by an Auckland woman was quoted at tho annual meeting of the order yesterday by the chaplain, the Rev. W. E. Lush. "There is plenty of scope for more sisters in the order," he remarked, adding that one helper, with the assistance of others living in the same house, had made,, 1164 garments in the past two years for distribution among the poor. Gilt to Ghristchurch Cathedral

A copy of an exceedingly precious ecclesiastical manuscript, a thirteenth century psalter valued at £15,000, has been received by the Dean and Chai>ter of Christcburch Cathedral. The copy, which itself cost £25 to produce, has been given by Mrs. Emily Stannus, formerly of Ghristchurch, and has been sent from Canterbury, England. It is one of a limited number which have been made by the Friends of Cauterbury Cathedral, and contains the autograph of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Country Racing in Oity A protest against the further incursion of country racing clubs into the metropolitan area, on the grounds that their meetings were detrimental to business, was recorded at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday. A member pointed out that hotels, restaurants and picture houses benefited on such occasions, but it was generally agreed that, having regard •to the amount of money that was invested on the totalisator, the greater part of the business community suffered.

Warships' Exercises Owing to the unfavourable weather the battle practice to have been carried out in the Hauraki Gulf yesterday by the cruisers Dunedin and Diomede, with the co-operation of Air Force seaplanes, had again to be postponed. The cruisers, however, proceeded down the gulf yesterday afternoon for preliminary exercises and upon their return again anchored in the stream. They are to leave at noon to-day for the gulf, preceded by the sloop Wellington, which is to leave at 7 a.m. towing the practice target.

Demand lor Economic Security The thesis of an American publicist that the explanation of the present regimes in Germany and Italy was that they were solely due to tho economic positions' cf those countries was expounded by Mr. L. K. Munro during an address on " Tho Abyssinian Question" to members of tho Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Until Italy was given economic security, Mr. Munro continued, it would be completely impossible to obtain peace. One of her ways to obtain that at the present time was to attack Abyssinia. Winter Sport On Egmont Three achievements never before attained marked last week-end's alpine activities on Egmont. Four members of the Mount Egmont Alpine Club climbed to the top of Fantham's Peak on skis, and celebrated a feat undertaken for the first time by descending to,the Dawson Falls ski track by a newly-discovered route into the lower Kaupokonui Gorge. Three Taranaki Alpine Club members mado the first double summit ascent in one day to be accomplished under severe winter conditions. Included in the Stratford Mountain Club's annual ski championships programme was tho first ski jump event to be officially conducted on tho slopes of Egmont. Leaving Without Notice

At boarding schools it is usually the custom to give a full or at least a halfterm's notice before withdrawing a pupil, the parents otherwise becoming liable for fees for that period. At the last meeting of the Wellington Colleges Board of Governors the question whether half a term's fees should be charged in the case of two boys who had left without notice was discussed. It was decided that to charge would be inequitable. Boys, it was stated, were being kept at school in tho hope that work would be offered them; when employment was obtained the parent had no option but to take the boy away from school without notice. It was added that such a practice, although it might cause inconvenience, really caused no loso.