LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 762, 20 July 1916, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

» In commenting on the Ground Committee 's report at the executive meeting of the A. and P. Association yesterday, Mr John Deans gave it as his opinion that future improvements of the grounds should be conducted upon a comprehensive scheme. The methods of the past, he said, had been too haphazard, and had not made for attractiveness. The. Mayor desires to acknowledge with thanks receipt of gramophone records for the military camp from Messrs W. Smith, J. B. Cresswell, and H. B. Gulliver (Raugiora), per Mr C. I. Jennings, Mayor of Rangiora. These are in addition to the two gramophones and! records previously received, one from the Rangiora borough, and the other from the Rangiora district. According to the " Sunday Chronicle, " there are tens of thousands of aliens in London at the present time engaged . in snatching the jobs of Englishmen who have joined the colours. These foreigners arc described as being mostly of Russian and Polish extraction, but among them there are said to be Belgians, Germans, and Austrians. They have learnt all the tricks that can be practised in order to escape fighting for their own country, and, if they be of enemy b.irth, they have taken every advantage of the naturalisation law to prevent their being interned. The "Sunday Chronicle" asks, seeing that these aliens are top-dogs, that the Government make a simple order that wiU, at any rate, mete out as much justice to the Englishman as they are meting out to the foreigner.