TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22545, 12 April 1935, Page 11

TELEGRAMS

(Per United Press Association) ' AUCKLAND, April 11. Arising out of the Auckland Presbytery’s protest against a national service having been advertised to be held at St, Matthew’s Anglican Church in connection with the King’s Jubilee without consulting other denominations, a deputation waited on the Mayor (Mr G. W. Hutchison) to-day, suggesting a service to embrace all denominations. The Mayor suggested that representatives of the presbytery should wait on Archbishop Ayerill with a view to an arrangement being made. Archbishop Averill has consented to receive a deputation to-mor-row.

The Auckland Hospital Board has accepted the offer of the Health Department (says a Press Association telegram) to accommodate local tubercular cases at the _ Waipukurau Sanatorium, thus relieving the congestion at the Auckland Hospital wards.

WAIPAWA, April 11. The window of Sidney Bott’s jewellery shop in the main street, Waipawa, was broken on Tuesday night, apparently by a stone, and jewellery, principally rings, was stolen. It is understood that the value of the. jewellery is between £IOO and £l5O. The broken window was seen by a man going to work at 6.45 this morning.

WELLINGTON, April 11. Following a quarrel with his mother, a 21-year-old mechanic broke into a wardrobe in his home at Hamilton and stole £O. He then came to Wellington, where he was admitted to hospital and was arrested on his discharge, when he admitted taking the money and spending it on clothing and fares. Charged in the Police Court, he pleaded guilty. His father explained that the boy was knocked down some years ago by a car and had since been frequently under medical care. He asked the magistrate to give the boy a chance, so that he could take him home and look after him. The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months.

A conference of the employed officers of the Young Men’s Christian Association in the DiMninion assembled to-day, Mr Don Miller, secretary cf the Dunedin Association, was elected president for the ensuing year. The conference opened with an address by Mr D. Dodds, of Christchurch, national secretary of the Optimists’ Club, who outlined the problems facing that movement. Mr M'Eldowney, general secretary of the Christchurch Association, spoke on vi.at is the trend of Y.M.C.A. work.

CHRISTCHURCH, April 11. The Conciliation Council heard an application for n Dominion award by the Biscuit Factory and Confectionery Workers’ Union. The main point in dispute concerns youths, female workers, and wages. The wages of adults were agreed upon. It was agreed that amended proposals be submitted to a meeting of the Federation of Employers in the industry, and that the hearing be adjourned till May 10.

Concerts and queen carnivals disorganise school work and undermine efficiency, according to statements made by a deputation of the Headmasters’ Association, which waited on Canterbury school committees last night. Stressing the injurious effects of the methods employed to raise maintenance funds for primary schools, the deputation informed the association that the headmasters had unanimously decided to take no further part in the raising of maintenance funds, and sought the support of tlfh association in this attitude.—lt was decided that the matter be referred to the school committees.