NEWS OF THE DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11252, 3 July 1922, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Two bankrupties were recorded in Masterton during June.

There are at present 48 patients in the Masterton Hospital, including lour in isolation.

Earthquake and fire drill are carried out in the Dannevirke North School.

The Court of Appeal (Second Division) opens its sittings to-day at 11 o’clock.

The number of patients under treatment a.t the Masterton Hospital is 48, including 4 in the infectious diseases ward.

Piopio is without the services of a resident doctor, and the settlers at a meeting agreed to guarantee £BOO a year for two years towards securing the services of a medical man.

The Wanganui Borough Council lias secured £40,000 of its tramway loan and intends laising £IO,OOO by debentures. A gasworks repayment loan of £35,000 is to be issued shortly.

When a deposit of pig bristles was produced in the court at New Plymouth the Magistrate (Mr A. M. Mowlem) remarked: “We have some strange exhibits at times, but I think this is the strangest I have yet seen.”

The Prime Minister, the Hon. W. F. Massey, has written to the New Plymouth branch of the Reform League stating that it is his intention to visit Taranaki at the earliest opportunity.

In deference to a request from the citizens of Dunedin the council has decided to postpone the taking of a poll on the Town Hall loan till February of next year.

The Commercial Travellers’ Association at Dunedin has handed the Mayor a cheque for £250 as a contribution towards the relief of distress in that city.

“If you are not able to treat those dear little Jerseys as nice and kindly as they deserve you don’t deserve to have a wife or a sister,” said’ a wellknown fancier at the Jersey Association smoke concert at Stratford.

During the month of June, Invercargill has been a very healthy place to live m (says the Southland “Times”). Three cases of infectious disease were notified, one of diphtheria, one of cerebrospinal meningitis, and one of scarlet fever. All these occurred during the first week of the month, and for the last three weeks the borough has shown a clean bill of health.

At Taumarunui, Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., gave judgment in the case of J. McKenzie, who was prosecuted on a charge of keeping liquor for sale in a prohibited area and bringing liquor into Taumarunui without having the same correctly labelled. He fined accused £SO on the first charge and £25 on the second. Security for appeal was fixed at £l5O.

As cordite is liable to deteriorate, General Headquarters have issued instructions that Mark VI. cartridges manufactured 1 prior to and including 1916 a-re to ‘be sett arid© for use with machine-guns; and that those manufactured after 1916 may be used for territorials and senior eddets on 25 and 30 yards ranges, or it may be supplied to rifle cluibs.

What is claimed to be a record red deer head as far as New Zealand is concerned is that Shot on the Ashburton side of tlie Rakaia Gorge by Mr T. Jessop in the 1921 season. The weight is 25$lb. The Wanaka and Mount White heads were each 24$lb The measurements as taken by Mr Forbes are: —Points, 15; length,42sin.; spread, 49in. ; ‘and beam 6sin.

A well-known pig-breeder on the west coast of the North Island, in conversation with a Wanganui “Herald” representative, stated that early in the year there was only a poor demand for pure-bred pigs, and breeders were compelled to turn many of their young pigs into bacon. Now, however, the demand has brightened, and orders were again coming to hand freely from various parts of New Zealand.

The Sunday School Union received 1092 entries for the scholar’s Scripture examinations, which were held on Saturday. About five-sixths of the schools used the Australasian graded lessons. The teachers find this course preferable to the International, as the “helps” are prepared by those who are familiar with conditions in Australia and’ Nenv Zealand, and the illustrations used are better understood by colonial scholars than are those used in the American publication.

The Legion of Frontiensmen’e Conference at Auckland decided to circularise the various squadrons and troops on a proposal to erect a memorial to the Legion’s dead who fell in Gallipoli, Palestine, France, and East Africa. The proposal is to erect a rock cairn, surmounted by the Cross of Sacrifice, on the Waimarino Plain near the top of the Spiral. The entire work of the memorial is to be carried out by the voluntary labour of members of the Legion.

A war painting entitled “Two Hours After Zero,” by Mr R. 'B. Hellaby, formerly of Auckland, has been placed in the' custody of the City Council by Mrs Hellaby, mother of the artist, to be placed in the Hall of Memories in the new War Memorial Museum. The picture, which was on view at tho meeting of the City Council, was stated by the Mayor, Mr J. H. Gunson, to have been judged to be of great merit, and won a place in the Royal Academy. It was sent out for the Spciety of Arts exhibition.

“Too much of this German traed propaganda stuff is now coming into New Zealand," was an opinion expressed with bluntness at the meeting of the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. The subject was raised by the receipt of a letter from JohYt Burns and Co., Ltd., drawing attention to the offer of a German firm of dealers in arms and ammunition. The local firm expressed its belief that the question was more or less regulated under the Peace Treaty with Germany. The council resolved to submit the letter and offer to the Minister for Defence.

“Unless something is don© in the near future to lesson the number of deer in Hi© New Zealand forests, the destruction of deer on a largo scale will be taken in hand by the Government,” states a communication from the North Canterbury to the Ashburton Acclimatisation Society. The letter urged that it would be imioh better for the societies to undertake a severe culling in place of wholesale slaughter in order to keep the several herds in the Canterbury district in olieok. It was stated that over-stocking was the chief causo of deterioration of the Wairarnpa, Nelson, Dingle and Hunter Valley herds. The North Canterbury Society proposed shooting 1000 hinds and inferior stags, and tbo Ashburton Society was asked to shoot a similar number.

During the last twelve months there were twenty-one fires in Napier, compared with thirty-three last year.

It is estimated that there are 200 men out of work in Hastings and Napier.

The gate takings at the “Soccer” football match at New Plymouth amounted to £250, from which the amusement tax has to be paid.

During the month of June there were two marriagee, eighteen births and five deaths recorded in Masterton.

A consignment of 50,000 brown trout ova in splendid order has arrived at the Stratford Acclimatisation Society’s hatcheries. ,

A special meeting of the Featherston Borough Council is to be held this evening :<j make arrangements for the reception of His Excellency the Gover-nor-General on the following Monday.

The Lake Coleridge electric system stood tho recent stormy weather well. However, not a great deal of snow fell in the country through, which the transmission lines come. In past years heavy snow storms have caused an interruption in the current.

“For every shilling I spend on racing you spend £10,” said defendant to counsel in a judgment summons caBO at the Invercargill Magistrate’s Court. “If you had! as little in your pocket as I had at Wairio races you would drop out of racing.”

“Conservatism is nothing else than blindness. Liberalism as I understand. it stands for progress, with the rights of the human race and equality of interests.” This statement at the Jersey breeders’ smoke concert at Stratford was,the speaker’s reply to a gilbe at the Liberal Party.

“Nothing that is grown will pay such a handsome return as timber will do in the future,” said Mr R. L. Paterson at a meeting of the Napier Chamber of Commerce. Mr S. McLernom said he knew personally of an area of poor sandy land in the Waikato which had been planted in pinna insignus 35 or 40 years ago. Recently the timber was sold, as it stood, for £IOO an a^re.

The labour position at Invercargill during the past week Chows a decided improvement. Forty-three men were placed in employment during the week —four by the *Laibour Department, four by the Repatriation Department, and 35 by the R.S.A. The Labour Department has 23 and the Repatriation Department five men fit for heavy work. On the books of the R.S.A. are 29 men fit for heavy work and 12 men fit for ligjht work, but of these 21 will be placed to-day.

Mr F. W. Rowley, officer in charge ofg the Labour Department, when at Gisborne, informed a “Herald” representative that- the department was at present receiving many calls upon it from the unemployed. The position in this respect was, he considered, much more acute in the North Island than in the South, a fact which had been impressed upon him during hia tour. At all the northern offices of the Department many more applications were being received for employment than the South Island offices were being called upon to deal with. This he attributed to the fact that in the South Island there had not been so much land speculation, and that the tone there bad been firmer. The depression had not been so sharply felt in the south, and this would naturally have the effect of making conditions easier there than in the north.