NEWS OF THE DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10881, 22 April 1921, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

A Wanganui bee-keeper has been fined 10s for keeping bees in hives that were not properly constructed. A donation of £5 was voted by the City Council last night to the funds of the Sailors’ Friend Society. Government offices are to be closed on Monday, April 2oth, in celebration of Anzac Day. His Excellency the Governor-General has approved tile celebration of St. George’s Day on April 2oth this year instead of on April 23rd. It is stated in a Press Association telegram that two women were granted land agents’ licenses at Auckland yesterday. The search in the Auckland district for the escaped prisoner, George Keys, still continues to be without success.— Press Association. The date by which the Commission of Inquiry regarding railway facilities at Palmerston North woe required to report has been further extended from April 14th to April 30th. The poll held yesterday in the HHitt County Council special rating area to decide the question of bringing water into Paekakariki at a cost of £6OOO, resulted: —ln favour 70, against 4, infornfal 4; total votes, 78. The radiologist reported to the Wellington Hospital Board yesterday that, during the month of March, 59 eases were received for diagnostic purposes at the X-ray Department, and three cases received treatment. The Hospital Board yesterday authorised the House Steward to accept the quotations of 'Messrs Laery, Beveridge and’ Co. for the supply of brandy, and that of Messrs. Bannatyne and Co for the supply of benzine. An expression of high appreciation of the actio nof the Hon. C. H. Izard in presenting to the city a block of land at Wadestown for a perk and re- : creation area_ for the district was passed at last night’s meeting of the City Council. A Bay of Plenty woo] grower, who received £I6OO for his wool last yoa-r, made an offer to a well-known commission agent to give him this year’s wool, now en route to England, for nothing; the agent to pay shearing and marketing charges. Tiie total tonnage of vessels entering New Zealand (ports during the March quarter of this year wos 531,621 tons, as against 426,736 for the first quarter of last year. The tonnage of vessels cleared outwards during the same quarters was 477,658 and 387,958 tons, respectively. “The thanks .of the association are due to His Worship the Mayor and City Council for the privilege granted to men suffering with serious Teg wounds or amputation, being allowed to travel free .on the corporation trams.” —Vide annual report of the Wellington it.S.A. & The Chinese are evidently more tTustful in business than Europeans (states the Timaru “Herald”). A Chinaman, giving evidence in a court case, said the Chinese never make out a list of things they buy from one another; they take one another’s word for it In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., N. H. Jack (Mr Salek) took action against N. Bertanees (Mr H. F. O’Leary) to recover the sum of £BS 18s 7d for work and material in installing an engine in a laAincli. After some disussion the case was adjourned till Thursday next. The Finance and Property Committee of the City Council has granted authority to the city solicitor to appeal against the judgment given in the action Wellington City Corporation v. Public Trustee, Robert McDonald, and JJisJrict Land Registrar, retorting to certain rights over land in Park street and Grant road. Tho Wellington Hospital Board decided yesterday afternoon that, as empowered 'Under clause 12 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, Amendment Act, 1913, the sum of £4250 received as a bequest from the estate of the late James Powell, together with the amount of £SOO subsidy thereon, be set aside for extensions to the Nurses’ Home. A request was recently made to the City Council for the formation of a track between the road leading to the Karori tunnel and the road leading to the Main Karoni road. On the recommendation of the outlying districts oommittee, the City Council last evening declined the request. It was pointed out that the land over which it was proposed to construct the track is private property. The following gentlemen have been nominated for the vacant positions on the Manawatu A. and P. Association’s general committee Messrs W. F. Arbon, John Befit, B. R. Bryant, D. Buchanan, D. Buiok, L. H. Oollinson, A. Conway, M. A. Eliott, H. Gillies, J. .Linfclater, G. I*. Marshall, W. McKenzie, T. Saunders, P. J. Small, A. Sutherland and D. Thomas. As only twelve members are required an election will take place at the annual meeting. The erection of additional buildings at CTie Palmerston North abattoirs to provide for pig killing, freesang, and chilling are no\y about completed (w ii flee the “Times” special correspondenCT, and' should serve the’ wants of the Tiorough for many yeans to oome. The cost exceeded the architect’s original estimate, owing to the continual rise in the cost of materials. The extensions and improvements have already amounted to £16,842 17s 9d and total capital cost £33,198 6s lOd. Reserved judgment has been given in Hamilton in a case in which a tenant named Robert A, Johnston sued his landlord, Deo Fischer, for £SO damages for alleged wrongful entry of a house owned by defendant and occupied by plaintiff who was >n occupation before defendant purchased it. Defendant applied in couft for an eviction order and was refused. Defendant thereupon, after giving plaintiff notico to quit, entered the house for the purpose of taking possession. His Honour gave judgment for plaintiff for £3O and costs. Reserved judgment in the case of Geremsia Lenzini, cabinet-maker (Mr H. Cornish) v. John Baird, joiner (Mr R. Kennedy), was delivered yesterday afternoon in -the Magistrate’s Court by Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M. The plaintiff had claimed the sum of £129 for rent of premises, material supplied, and use of machinery, and the defendant made a oaunfer-claim for £146 (of which amount £23 14s 4d was admitted by plaintiff) for material supplied and work done on behalf of plaintiff. The magistrate gave judgment for the plaintiff for £62 4s 9d and costs and expenses totalling £7 6s, and on the defendant’s counter-claim admitted by the plaintiff allowed him £23 14s 4d, and costa totalling £6 4s.

The Wellington Hospital Board has received a donation of £3 3s from an anonymous donor towards the purchase of a piano for the Ewart Hospital for consumptives. There was a fairly heavy fall of snow on the Tarariias on Tuesday night, and for the first time this year the mountains bore a mantle of white. There was another fall on the following night. On the application of the police, a prohibition order was issued against Henrv Herbert Tate, who appeared before Messrs J. W. McEwan and A. Coles, J.P’s, at the Petone Police Court yesterday. It was decided by the Hospital Board yesterday that facilities for tile purpose of holding their clinical meetings at the hospital be granted the Wellington Division of the British Medical Association. The results of the accountancy examinations, which were to have been announced to-morrow, will not be made public till Wednesday, as the examiners bave been unable to mark the largo number of papers in time. The Government Bacteriologist reported that 807 examinations were made in the Bacteriological Laboratory for the month of March. Of these, 114 examinations were free external work. The fees earned for the month totalled £ll3. During March last the rtujmfaer of attendances at the dental branch, outpatients’ department, of the Wellington Hospital, was 217; number of, out-pa-tients treated, 116; number of in-pa-tients (staff and wards), 9; number of new' patients, 48; total fees for month, £O2; non-paying cases, 58. The average number of patients under treatment per dieffi at the Wellington Hospital last month was 339. On April 21st there were 338 patients in the hospital—6 scarlet fever, 3 diphtheria, 19 infantile paralysis, and to venereal cases. There are 25 occupied beds m the Ewart Hospital for consumptives. Witness in a tenement case yesterday: “1 have four children and the youngest is six months of age.” Magistrate, to person in possession: “How many children have you?” “None, your Worship; I’m not on the job.” “Oh, aren’t you? Then you’d better make room for those who are,” was the reply. “You people who work on the* wharves, you know, can sneak pretty loud,” said counsel to a witness yesterday after several vain appeals had been made to him to speak up. “Goodness gracious, when I go down on the waterfront sometimes I can’t hear myself think,” added the legal representative. The much-vexed question of the Hutt and Petone gas supply was raised by Mr McEwan in his address to borough electors last evening. He stated that ] the Petone Corporation found it impossible to produoe gas for' sale at less than 13e per 1000 ft, and that as an act of charity they had offered it to Ike Hntt at 10s Bd. “We are actually losing £BOO per annum on our sale of gas to the Hutt County,” he stated. At Pahiatua on Wednesday Colin MacDonald, who for some time past, has been manager and editor of tho Pahiatua- “Herald,” was arrested by Detect! ve-Sergea hi. Qnirke and Constable Burrell, charged with the theft from the company of £lB5 16s. Accused was taken before the court during the forenoon 'and was remanded to appear on the 28th inst., bail being allowed, self £IOO and one surety of £IOO- - industry is not appreciated when it conflicts with an award was revealed yesterday at the Magistrate’s Court, when Mr R. T. Bailey, Inspector of Awards, took action against a shopkeeper for permitting an emoloyee to work after the honr of 5.30. The statement that the employee was in the habit of arriving late and was anxious to make up time did not appear to impress Mr W'. G. Riddell, 'S.M., and he inflicted a. penalty of £l. Rough and Co., builders, instituted proceedings in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday against Clearies Hector Pritchard, cabinetmaker, for the sum of £BB 3s lOd, being, it was alleged, the balance due to plaintiff company for work done and materials provided in the erection of a shop in Kent terrace, plus £lO per centum. Tho case was adjourned for a fortnight for further legal argument, the plaintiff being non suited on the matter of an alleged agreement for the woTk done. Mr J. S. Hanna appeared for plaintiff and Mr E. Mather for defendant. The appeal of the Waimiha Sawmilling Company, Ltd. (in liquidation) (Mr C. P. Skerrett, K.C., with him Mr \V. D. Anderson), against a decision of the Acting-Chief Justice (Mr Justice Bim), upholding the action of Thomas George Cook Howe, of Auckland (Mr A. H. Gould), in determining an agreement in respect of timber and railway rights over a portion of a block of land, Rangitoto Tuhua, in the Auckland province, was continued yesterday before the Court of Appeal, but finality was not reached when the court adjourned until this morning. An Qrdcr-in-Co until gazetted yesterday provides that, in the case of loans from the Government Life Insurance Department, the interest chargeable shall be in accordance with the following scale, and shall be payable halfyearly at any office where the business of the department is conducted:— Amount of loan and interest thereon unpaid,—Where the loan and interest (if any) unpaid, or the balance thereof, is under £IOO, 7 per cent, interest ; where the loan and interest (if any) unpaid, or the balance thereof, is £IOO or over. 6 per cent, interest. The r.iimerston North Hospital Board advised the Palmerston North Borough Council that this year’s levy on the borough will be £7OO in excess of last year (writes the “Times” correspondent). The Hospital Board regretted that they bad to call upon the local bodies for a larger sum, but the matter was beyond their control. The subsidy the board received from tho Government was now reduced from 15s 3d to 12s 3d 5 in the £. Had it remained at 15s 3d they would have received £2500 more from the Government The amount of net expenditure required for the maintenance of the several hospitals and institutions for social welfare, and the administration expenses of tlie board, within the Wellington Hospital District, for the ensuing year, is estimated by the Wellington Hospital Board at £85,533. Of this, £38,642 will be met by the Government subsidy; while the balance, £46,891, is apportioned amongst the contributory local authorities as under: —Wellington City Council, £36,856 5s 8d; Hutt County Council. £3119 4s; Makara County Council, £1447 6s 4d; Lower Hutt Borough Council, £gl7l 14s; Petone Borough Council, £2134 2s; Eastbourne Borough Council, £503 10s; Johnsonville Town Board, £283 16s; Upper Hutt Town Board, £370 2s.