NEWS OF THE DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

The whole of the morning session, yesterday, in the Supremo Couiv, before His Honour, Air Justice. Salmond; was taken up in the adjustment of the list of fixtures for'the civil' actions still to he heard in this court, which was then adjourned for the day.

* lt TEtf’ ! 'Sfr AirtKu'r ! Pbarson Memorial Fund Committee is to be informed by the City Council that it regrets it is Unable to make a contribution towards the fund, as no provision has been made on the estimates which could be utilised for the purpose of making such a contribution.

The Opunake •‘Times” says the railtray line is slowly but surely being pushed /on to Opunake, the arrival of a ballast engine on the Te Roti-Kapuni section being’ announced. Work,on the Kapuni-Pihama section is being expedited, _ and our contemporary is credibly informed that there is a possibility of -a ; gang, together with a flteam shovel, being put on the Opunake end at the Waiau in the near future.

A suggestion that reductions should be made in the city tram fares in accordance with the recent bonus reduction affecting the members of the tram way men’s union, was made at Thursday’s City Council meeting by Councillor C. H. Chapman. The Mayor (Mr R. A. Wright, M.P.) said that tho dispute with the tramwaymen had yet bo go to the Arbitration Court. The wages question had not been definitely settled yet.

At the meeting of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis . Association Mr Salmon wished to give notice of a recommendation to the management committee that in future, when teams—either ladies? or men’s—are sent to represent New -Zealand in Australia, in addition to their fare reasonable expenses shall be granted them during the period that .they are in Australia. He did . this more .especially in/the interests of the younger ■ players of the Dominion. The chairman, however, pointed but that the committee already had the matter under consideration., ,

A considerable proportion of the 2000 Indian army officers recently retired under • the . retrenchment scheme . were turning their eyes in Hie direction of Australia and New Zealand, stated one of-their number who arrived by the Niagara at Auckland. They were mostly young men who .entered the Indian army .during the war -hoping to follow a military oareer, but were now .forced to look elsewhere for opportunities. Fortunately the Indian Govenment had allowed a fairly generous scale of compensation to young officers so retired, and in his case this would amount, under certain conditions, to £6OO,

The question of feeding rape andl turnips to dairy cows was raised at the annual meeting of the Kaituna Dairy Company recently, when the chairman (Mr J. Stempa). stated thalt the manager was' quite agreeable to accept milk from such cows, provided they were not left bn tho feed too long. If, however, the milk -got too strong, hs would have to iturn it down. Mir Dromgool said the manager could not dictate as long as the feeding was judicious. A shareholder said that it might he hptter to drop to secondgrade cheese rather than stop feeding roots, otherwise the milk supply would go down during the dry season.

At a meeting of the ManawatuOroua Power Board, it was decided that tho engineer (Mr W. A. AVaters) should inspect 400 acres of silver pine bush at Pokako in the Ohakone district; The decision was the outcome of the hoard’s consideration regarding the acquiring ot milling rights over the area, for the purpose of cutting poles for the transmission line. Mr Crowley, of the Forest Service, estimated that the area would yield 5000 poles, in addition to other timber.’ The question of floating the £500,000 loan was deferred at the suggestion of the chairman (Mr J. A. Nash, M.P.), until September 11th. It was considered that definite would be to band by that date from'London financiers, with whom the hoard was in communication.

There were 12 degrees of frost registered at Masterton on Wednesday morning.

The Matahiwi Dairy Factory opened this week with a supply of about 150 gallons.

During the past two or three years the total yumber of attendances at the Dunedin clinic was 337. Of this number 150 attended in the past year.

According to the evidence given before the Venereal Disease Committee at Dunedin the disease is not particularly prevalent in that centre.

“I have never been in a place where the people are so loyal to local affairs and institutions as in Levin,” said Mr J. W. Rimmer s.t the rifle club Bocial held in that town.

‘‘Mind you don’t electrocute him,” a gentleman remarked as the Prime Minister went forward to switch on the engine at the opening of the new dairy freezing works.

It was decided by the National Council of Women of New Zealand to urge that a woman censor he appointed to co-operate with the present motion picture censor of New Zealand.

Dr. Riley, when giving evidence at Dunedin before the Veneeral Disease Committee, said that he strongly supported a certificate of freedom from infectious disease being presented before a license to marry was issued.

While a resident of Christchurch and his wife were walking along a street in that city a man suddenly snatched a bag the woman was carrying and made off. The thief, who obtained over £6, was chased but not caught.

A Christchurch candidate for Parliamentary honours, being desirous of forming a committee to further his interests, sent out a number oi circulars to persons he thought would be likely to assist Back cams one of the circulars to him endorsed: “Not wanted;” and superscribed: “One of the damned ratepayers!”

"We should, aocording to the con-' stitution, have held a meeting of the executive,” said the president of the National Conference of Women at Christchurch, “but we have broken every rule of the constitution at various times. We have always gone on the spirit of the thing rather than on the letter of the law.

An item in the profit and loss account of the Royal Oak Dairy Company, Chnata, which came into prominence at the annual meeting, was ‘ ‘income tax £22 11s 6d.” The chairman said this was the first time dairy companies had to pay income tax, and was evidence that the Government was hard up.

‘‘.What was regretted was the almost entire Absence iff home influence over the, young,” said Canon Nevill at Dunedin when addressing the Venereal Disease Committee: “It is almost impossible to approach the question from the religions side because there was a conspiracy of silence, and the church and Sunday school were precluded from dealing with the matter.”

During the hearing of a case in the Supreme Court at Dunedin His Honour Mr Justice Hosking referred to the need in the court for a blackboard, placed in a suitable position, on which diagrams or plans could be explained to a jury. At present, His Honour pointed opt, it -was most inconvenient and difficult to adequately illustrate a plan to a jury.. '■’ '' - '

The Dunedin office of the Tourist Department i» continuing to do a large amount of business, and the returns are still well ahead of those of the best season iii the past. Both the Australian and New Zealand University footballers have niade use of the services of the Office in arranging their travels throughout the Dominion, .and this has made a substantial addition to the month’s turnover.

“I have heard here and in the Manawatu that 1001 b is about Ihe average and 1801b’ is very goodi, but I don't know much of these matter*,” was the comment of Mr Justice Chapman at the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, when butter-fat returns were under discussion. Information, on the point was then supplied by , counsel that the New Zealand average, was 1601 b, the Taranaki average 1801 b, and Danish 3001 b. ■Mir N. Dyett who has taken charge of the Labour Department in Masterton, states that' unemployment is apparently much' greater there than in Oamaru, where he has been stationed. This is probably due to the fact that Masterton has a greater proportion of seasonal employees than North. Otago —men engaged l in freezing, shearing and similar occupations who find ,it difficult to get employment in the oftseason.

About twelve months ago a lady residing in Dunedin advertised for a' general servant, arid in two days received three answers,- none of the applicants being particularly keen on securing the position. Within rthe last few days the.same lady advertised again, and received about a soore of replies Evidently the unemployment of fathers is leading daughters to overcome thetr prejudice to household work (states the “Otago Daily Times”).

In the course of a case at the Supreme Court, Auckland, defendant, when questioned as to his property ai d means, admitted that he had a farm yalued at over £4OOO which was mortgaged to the extent of £I3OO, and sold he had transferred this property to bis daughter. He lost all his money in shares in' a dairy company on v.h-rh the banks had closed down and no dividend had been paid for two years. A lot of others had been ruined by the same cause.

During legal argument at the Supreme Court, Auckland, counsel,;. in quoting authorities, mentioned ' tbe Scottish case between the Aberdeen Town Council and the Aberdeen University, an action that took place in the sixteenth century, .when, it seemed, the coinage included marks. .The sum of 1600 marks was in dispute, which counsel incidentally remarked would he worth about a pound to-day. The case also referred to the ‘‘Master of Mortifications,” a distinguished title, reduoed in these advanced times, presumably, to the modest term of coroner.

Duping the . month of August the estates of the following deceased persons in Wellington were aooepted for administration by the Public Trustee, namely:—Lucy Mall in, married woman; H. E. R. Cbad, accountant; P. R. Ryan, signal instructor; Wm. E. Thompson, old age pensioner ; Laura J. Letcher, mnneter; Helen Cornish, widow; A. P. Jones, builder; Louisa Rankin, married woman; Joel Burbage, old age pensioner; .Wm. R. Putter, ex-railway employee; Matilda Meech, married woman; James Morrison, indent agent; Mary Reeves Harries, widow; oT H. Philp, farmer; F. Thrower, married woman; C. E. Evans, widow; Henry Fry, soldier; William Young, settler; Joseph Cairns, trimmer; M. H. Mackinlay, widow; James Prosser, horse-trainer; Susannah Hobbs, widow; Wm. W. Lygjht, commercial traveller; J. T. Fahy, retired civil servant-