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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13090, 2 June 1913, Page 8

An unusual interest m the game of bowls is being manf ested m Christ- I church (says the Press.) The Domain j Board has been communicated with by J the Canterbury Trades and Labor Coun- j cil, and by the General Laborers' Union, \ on the question of providing grounds m Hagley Park for bowling greens. Both bodies ask that they, should be granted the use of two acres for the purpose referred to. ' The United States Government intends to discourage "swivel-chair officers." This edict" "went ' forth a few weeks ago, and spread consternation among the officers who have been glued to official desks m Washington for many years. One naval captain, it is alleged, has only had nine months' sea service as captain, and altogether only 22 months' sea service m 13 years. It is further charged that this officers' authority, wielded for years from a swivel-chair instead of the quarter-deck, became so great that he selected the examining board before which he took his tests for .promotion, and that "this board passed favorably on his qualifications. " Back to the ship and training quarters is now the Democratic watchword, both for the army and the navy. President Wilson led the charge upon the swivel-chair brigade by reducing the number of officers attached to the service of White House. He has also dispensed with a uniformed aide to accompany him. on semi-official visits. When Detective Burns, the- Sherlock Holmes qf ' the United States, was m London a few weeks ago he told tho reporters how he had trapped a- band of grafters m "Atlantic City. "Everybody told me," he said, "that the councillors were sO infernally clever that they could never be caught. Well, I invented a scheme for Atlantic City. It was to buy land and build a million and a half-dollar pier and a two-million dollar hotel. I got options on property, and had everybody on my back m no time. I announced roy intention of building a wall of concrete that would absorb ths moisture, and those councillors swallowed it right off. Tho scheme went .well, and the councillors were s-on m it, and wanted 80,000 dollars for getting, it passed. So we fixed it up, and agreed to pay them at a house m Atlantic Caty. We got the detectaphone fixed up m. the room beforehand, and we had every one of those crooks after their money md fixed right away. T was able to tell them myself that the whole scheme. ..was a myth created m my own brain, -and all but one owned up. They got three years each." J