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Southland Times, Issue 20012, 28 October 1926, Page 6

The Government meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) last night issued the following forecast :-—-Present indications are for strong and squally north-westerly to south-westerly winds. Weather dull and changeable with rain following generally. Barometer unsteady but due to rise soon in the south.

In the report of the Governor-General’s visit to Gore, it was omitted to mention in connection with their Excellencies’ inspection of the school children that Lady Alice Fergusson was presented with a bouquet by a pupil of the Gore Convent School.

“If you took all the poles we have erected and laid them end to end they would reach for a distance extending from Wellington to the North Cape, and the amount of wires used on these poles to-day would reach from here to Melbourne and back,” said Mr W. A. Waters, at Rewa, when speaking of the great progress made in reticulation by the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board.

The mildness of yesterday morning was suddenly disturbed about mid-day when light rain commenced to fall. It continued in increasing volume throughout the afternoon and evening, by which time the town and surrounding districts had received a thorough soaking. Contrary to expectations, however, the rivers in Southland showed no material rise and it was reported at a late hour last night that there was little likelihood of the rivers assuming flood proportions.

A Napier telegram states: A Justice of the Peace yesterday morning proceeded to sentence a man on a charge that did not exist. Prisoner was faced with four,charges, but drunkenness was not one of them. When proceeding to impose imprisonment for insobriety, the Senior-Sergeant prevented a miscarriage of justice. The Justice of the Peace then proceed to impose a sentence for a breach of a prohibition order and was told it was a question for the Stipendiary Magistrate to deal with. Finally prisoner was fined £5, in default one month, for obscene language.

A rather distressing accident occurred at Wyndham on Tuesday, when a little boy named Vernon Bates (6) son of a Wyndham farmer, received injuries to his right hand, necessitating the amputation of one of his fingers. It appears the boy was assisting his father in the operation of a drill. He was pushed forward by another boy with the result that his hand was caught in the cogs of the drill and badly crushed. The little fellow was removed to the Southland Hospital where it was found necessary to amputate the little finger. He was also treated for a crushed palm and part of the forearm, and is now reported to be progressing favourably.

A Wanganui firm which wished to advertise a particular line of goods per medium of a moving picture film was surprised to learn that before the picture could be shown it would have to be passed by the Government censor at Wellington (states the Herald). Although it was considered unnecessary by the firm in question, the regulations had to be complied with, and the censor’s permission was eventually received. If an entexprising movie camera man were present at any local event and secured a film record, the film would have to be sent to the censor at Wellington before it could be screened before an apdience. Compliance with this regulation is a loss of time, and when the film arrived at the place where it was taken it would have lost most of its ‘livewire” news value.

A farmer who carries on dairying extensively in the northern part of the King Country, speaking to a Press representative, stated that he could not speak too highly of the great value of top-dressing. The season before last his' butter-fat production was 60001bs and last season it was- increased to 13,0001b5. Of course the cows had aged 12 months, but he maintained that the great increase was due to top-dressing of the land with potash and phosphates. At most of the watering stations on the South Island railways electric pumping plants are being installed, and economies will be effected by this innovation as the windmills and petrol and oil motors cost considerably more to operate. The installation have been completed at Hornby, Lincoln, Rolleston, and others are contemplated at Hinds, Winchester, and Springfield. Two prisoners, Charles Litchwark, serving three years imprisonment, and George Arthur Prindle, serving twelve months imprisonment, who escaped from Rangipo prison camp on Sunday and were recaptured after a trying pursuit by warders of various camps were before the court yesterday, states a Taumarunui Pres® Association message. Both prisoners were sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour cumulative with the present sentences. Times in Hawke’s Bay no doubt are hard, and many are carrying on under difficulties, states the Hawke’s Bay Herald. As the year goes on, the position does not seem to show any improvement, and, if the bankruptcy records are any guide, 1926, financially, has so far been the hardest year since the slump year of 1922, but the position is by no means as bad as it was then. September may be written down as the “blackest” month of the year, no fewer than eight having failed to weather the storm. ‘What was your object in voting to retain the trams, Mr Vosper?” asked Mr Burnard at the recent Gisborne tramway poll inquiry (reports the Times). “Well, .the Mayor says what’s the use scrapping the trams and having to pay £3OOO a year for the next 50 years. I’m a taxi driver, and when the trams are scrapped there are buses running, we will not get a look in.” Counsel eould not refrain from getting a shot home for the buses. “In other words, you recognise that buses will provide a more efficient service, and will create more competition than the trams.”—(Laughter.)

The Rotorua Chronicle says:—There may be a justification for art unions—or lotteries —to discard the cheap euphuism of nomenclature. But they are becoming an intolerable nuisance when ill-directed as to object, and dubious as to the method of conduct. The Rotorua Chronicle has received a communication arising out of correspondence in respect to advertising an art union, asking that advertisement space be given in return for payment by lottery tickets. This is a business and commercial immorality that needs a check, and the above notice is the first step in that direction.

The protest by the Greytown and Masterton Borough Councils against the leasing or selling of heavy bushed lands by the Crown in the water-supply catchment area is strongly supported in Grey town (reports the Wairarapa Age). Not only is the town water supply endangered, but the denudation of bush will further precipitate slips with the consequent overleading of the streams with debris and shingle. The shingle-filled Waiohine riverbed west of Greytown, despite the substantial protective works of the River Board, is already a matter of concern and a potential menace in floodtime to the town.

The advisability of making provision for the future of an adequate supply of transmission poles was mentioned at a Wairarapa Power Board meeting by a member, who suggested the possibility of overcoming the diminishing supply of hardwood poles by utilising local material in the manufacture of concrete poles. He added that in Taranaki this method had been adopted with great success, but concrete poles were recommended for erection only along the roadway, and not across country, owing to the difficulty of handling.. It was stated that owing to the cost of the plant required it would only pay to make the poles in large quantities.

Between Palfnerston North and Paraparaumu, which is included in the Wanganui Railway District, a large programme of bridge renewals and strengthening has been in progress over the past year. The original piers have in a number of bridges been renewed in ironbark, and practically all short span structures have been replaced by steel joists. The renewal of the piers has entailed a great amount of piledriving, and on account of the extremely heavy traffic on this line—the heaviest main line traffic in New Zealand—it has been found necessary to do the work on Sundays. The work has been progressing very satisfactorily, and it will be completed by the end of the summer. Two, and sometimes three, gangs have been employed on the work.

The method adopted in the grading of school teachers was explained to the Auckland Education Board the other morning by the chief inspector (Mr C. W. Garrard), who said that the teachers were graded in six groups, all determined by salaries (states the Auckland Star). The object of the grouping was to afford the grading teachers an opportunity of comparing the teachers with others doing the same work. The quota of marks was 20 in group 1, ranging up to 120 marks in group 6. There was a definite quota of marks attached to each group. The marks were assigned on the following basis: Skill in personality 40, organisation and management 30, academic attainments 30, service 25, with a quota maximum of 120. The chief inspector stated that teaching efficiency was the main factor in grading.

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When asking for Dewar’s Whisky, don’t forget to say “Dewar’s Imperial.”—(advt.)

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