GENERAL NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 21 February 1929, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Egnirnt Club Sneaker. T!,o Weekly snooker tonirna.miMitl held a* the Egmon’t C'lnh last night resulted in a win lor i! - Piehmond with J.. Weston as runner-up. Schoo! Excursion. On Thursday next an excursion for the Technical High School will ho run. to New Plymouth to enable • a visit to he paid to H.M.S. Dunedin. The general public can take part. Secondary Subjects. One of the provisions in the new primary school syllabus is that s'ich secondary subjects as Datm, Drench and algebra may ho included in school work at the discretion of the headmaster, for those pupils that it 111 ay thought it will benefit,• with the idea of dovetailing the work of the primary and secondary schools. Funic, Headmaster of school told a “Post” representative that it was too early in the year yet to say what would he done iu this respect at tire Stratlordl school.

Woeful Waste, “There is a woeTul waste of cocksfoot in the Rangitata district,” said Mr AY. G. Gallagher at a recent meeting of the Ashburton County Conned. “We are losing hundreds of pounds annually. v It did not seem reasonable, the speaker added, that so much should he wasted when there was such a lot of unemploy-* xnent in the country. It would pay tho council in future seasons to employ men to harvest the cocksfoot. It was decided that the inspector be asked to report on the condition arm growth’ of the cocksfoot in tha country in December next.

Blenheim Oil Well. A special general meeting of shareholders of the Blenheim Oil Well Reclamation Co., Ltd., was held last night, when it was decided to issue from the existing unissued capital a further 2600 shares of £1 each at a price of £2. These shares will be available to. 'present shareholders at the rate of two for each thirteen shares held. After this issue the position will_ he that of the authorised capital of £20,000, £15,600 will have been issued. In the course of an ad- t dress the chairman stated that oil had flowed on four occasions—-on February Ist, 2nd, 4th and 19th. The meeting passed a vote of appreciation of the directors’ services, - Enterprise! One suspects that tho cabled dcssriptions of tho big freeze at Home are well coloured for antipodean cons'umpl ion, says the Stratford correspondent of the Taranaki Hoiahl. The facts may bo correctly stated, but they are toned to give the impression that something entirely unprecedented is happen fug. We are told of ice in the Thames at Richmond, but 1 who 'v.-do have seen miniature bergs in tho river at Westminster, » lul . 1 have skated on the Tsis at Oxford. By the way, tho I unemployed in those ohT nays bad 1 more enterprise, iban they display at present. When the ice on the over I was thick enough to “bear,” they riuiip out from the city with picks and planks, the. former to break He iio along the towing path, and f“C latter to form bridges—not toll-free.

An Accident. Mr W. Payton, employed by Messes Masters Ltd, met with an aceidcnt this morning in the course ol bis work, ricking bis .back. He received medical attention, and will bo con-' lined to bis home for some t me. j Information Wanted, |

There wore several sharp exchan-' gos between counsel at a meeting of cred.itirs in the bankrupt estate of Francis M. Mills, of Hurleyville, held at New Plymouth yesterday. Mr Quilliam appeared for Messrs Austin Yarndley and I. M. Kidd, to whom £1555 17s 2d was alleged to be owing. A sum of approximately £IOOO was shown as owing to Messrs Grey and Grey, solicitors, and Mr George Grey. In examination of bankrupt it was elicited that be bad not been on bis farm at Whangamomona for five years and did not know who was on it now, though he had paid the rates all along. The meeting was finally adjourned for a. month to enable details to he supplied of the amount owing to Messrs Grey and Grey.

Rabbit Reduction

There is tangible proof that the rabbit is disappearing (says Ike Christchurch Press). The evidence of our eyes points fairly conclusively that way, but we have facts in regard to the increased carrying capacity of properties compared with four or. five years ago. The export figures of rabbit skins for the year provided further proof., In 1926 just on 16 million skins were exported and in 1928 12 million. Tibs represents a 25 per cent reduction m two years, but the rabbit has been bunted much more relentlessly this last; couple of years, ami the destruction is probably greater than the figures indicate. The respective values in the two years were £750,000 and £580,000. There may be some who will regret the passing of this amount of wealth, but if the value of the sheep than can be substituted i s taken into account,'"'tbe rabbit wealth would show insignificantly in comparison.

Arapuni Power in May. Owing to the fact that the electrical equipment being installed at Arapnni at the moment has been lying idle for some years, it is difficnlt to give a definite date as to

when the first unit will be put in operation, says the Star. The Auckland Electric Power Board, at Its meeting however, received advice from the Public Works Department that the Department should be in a position to supply the first 15,000 k.w. from the plant by the end May. Th two additional units, of similar capacity, should be brought in at intervals of three months. “There has-been a good deal of o-uesswork in connection with the probable date of starting the first turbine at Arapnni,’’ said Mir W. Holdswovth (chairman), in commenting on the communication, “but the arrival of current from that source at the end of May will be m ample time to meet the coming winter load. Jt is going to help us out of a most difficult position. Tt will also servo to emphasise the need'for our hwm proposals receiving favourable consideration from the ratepayers on Wednesday.”