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Southland Times, Issue 19459, 26 January 1925, Page 4

Owing to threatening weather yesterday morning, the Hibernian Band concert to be held in the No. 2 Gardens during the afternoon was postponed.

An Omaru telegram states that the body of Andrew Metcalfe, a single man, aged 22, who disappeared early last week, was found floating in the Harbour yesterday morning.

At the request of the Health Department ,the managements of the local Picture theatres will refuse admission to all children under sixteen years of age, until the present infantile paralysis scare is over.

In a political speech in Scotland, Sir John Simon (Lib.) described Mr Winston Churchill as a meteor in the political sky, which would not long remain in a fixed position, and said a new piece of jazz music was being called “The Winston Constitution.” You took a step forward, two steps backward, a side step to the right, and then reversed. It was well named.

A Dunedin telegram states that Kenneth Marshall Trenbath, aged 12, died in the hospital on Saturday night as the result of a fall from a horse at Miller’s Flat, on Friday. At the inquest yesterday afternoon, the Coroner, Mr J. R. Bartholemew, returned a verdict that the cause of death was heart failure, following laceration and oedema of the brain, the result of a fall from a horse.

During the discussion by delegates in conference at Hamilton on the Motor Vehicles Bill, a very important point was raised by Mr H. Marsland, one of the Raglan County representatives (says the Waikato Times). His suggestion aimed at the issue of traffic licenses for vehicles plying for hire being made applicable to the Dominion as a whole. That was to say, that a man taking out a license in Hamilton could go to Wellington or any other province and carry on business without further Ecense issue being required. The delegates recognised the wisdom of the proposal, and supported it practically unanimously.

The fate of 8000 old telephones in Auckland when the change over from the manual to the automatic system takes place next month, is not giving the Department any concern. The Chief Telegraph Engineer (Mr E. A. Shrimpton) stated that the old instruments would be rapidly absorbed in the country. Telephone subscribers were increasing at the rate of 1000 a month, so that Auckland’s contribution to the stock would not remain in store more than a year. The recent change over in Palmerston North had released hundreds of manual instruments, but they had all been absorbed for use in other places within three weeks.