LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1930, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The quarterly session of the Supreme Court in New Plymouth ended yesterdnv. The sitting commenced on May 26.

It was decided yesterday that in future the Taranaki Education Board will retire male teachers at the age of 6’5 and female teachers at the age of 55.

“Often, unintentionally, people observe the things that happen in motor collisions from different angles,” said counsel to a witness in the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday. “You will no doubt say that defendant’s car hit you; lie will say your car hit him; whereas to tell the truth they both hit each other.”

The Taranaki Education Board yesterday received a communication that the department •would pay medical costs not exceeding £7 17s 6d in the case of the boy Andrew Lambert, of the Pukeho school, who chopped his fingers during school hours. Members considered this highly satisfactory. Speaking of the assistance of emigrants from England to the Dominions, Mr. J. Thacker, a visitor from Birmingham, stated at Christchurch that the principle was admirable in theory, but. the people were not favourably disposed to leave the Homeland and seek their fortunes elsewhere. In some quarters it was considered that Jthe causes, of this were the dole and the prevailing •system, of relief.

In connection with the Taranaki scholarship endowment question the chairman of the Taranaki Education Board was yesterday authorised to call a conference of chairmen of Taranaki educational authorities to discuss the matter in relation to a proposed deputation to the Minister.

Four hundred sacks, crammed to the top, were required to remove the waste paper and other rubbish that remained after the crowd had left Athletic Park, Wellington, on June 3, when the British Rugby team was beaten by Wellington. Just on 32,000 people attended the match, and the takings were £3718.

“There are far too many trophies in Rugby these days,” said Mr. C. H. Warden, president of the Wanganui Metropolitan Rugby Union, at a meeting the other night. “It would be a good thing if all the trophies were melted down into one lump and then sold, he concluded.

Seventy passengers have booked for the Canterbury fanners’ toUr of Australia. The party will leave Christchurch by the ferry steamer on Saturday evening and will sail from Wellington on Monday. Mr. F. W. Pawson, Railway Business Agent at Christchurch, will be in charge of the party. “Were you talking to .the man beside you as you drove along?” counsel for the defence asked a witness in a motor collision case in the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday. “As it happened, no,” said the witness. “I expected you to ask 'that. People generally say that.” “Why?” asked counsel. “Why do they say that?” “Well, I hardly like to say it,” said witness, “but generally to bolster up a weak case?” “When approaching an intersection,” said the magistrate in summing up in a motor collision case heard in the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday, “it is the duty of the driver to look and see if there is traffic on his right. To protect himself against careless drivers he should also glance to the left. At the same time he must watch for traffic directly ahead. Although the driver has to give way to the man on his right, at the same time the last-men-tioned has his responsibilities too. If he is careless or goes too fast in entering the intersection, he might be held responsible for an accident, even if he were on .the first man’s right hand.” In a report dealing with the heating problem in schools submitted to the Taranaki Education Board yesterday, the architect, Mr. C. H. Moore, pointed out how difficult it was to make a success of any system of heating in classrooms without the co-operation of the teachers. Windows were provided to allow for the maximum amount of ventilation required in the hottest months and unless the teachers regulated the openings according to weather conditions, no heating system could be satisfactory. The parcel post is a much used medium for the importation of small articles, and a member of the Customs staff in Invercargill is kept busy for a period each day assessing duties on incidental packages. The officer on duty handles all classes of goods, says the Southland Times, but the most unusual package for assessment which could be imagined passed through his hands recently, when he was called upon to pass a package containing the ashes of a cremated person.

Up to last year each of the trams owned, by the.Gisborne Borough Council was insured for £5OO. On Saturday, states the Poverty Bay Herald, oqe of the vehicles made a last trip from the Carnarvon Street siding to a site in Kahutia Street, where it is to serve as an office for a well-known contractor. The price paid represented only a small fraction of the cover maintained on the machine until last year, and the purchaser took the chassis as well as the body. The council has three other trams which it is willing to dispose of cheaply, but the demand for such vehicles is decidedly limited.

A valuable Airedale dog which was picked up by the Christchurch City Council dog catchers during a raid last week has been claimed by its owner and returned to its home. Several offers to buy the dog in the event of the ownernot coming forward were received by the council, one man intimating that he was prepared to give £5 for it. When the owner, a young lady, called at the council yard for the dog, the animal became frantic with joy at the prospect of gaining his freedom again. Thera are

now four dogs at the council yard which are still unclaimed, but none of them is in danger of being destroyed as about nine people have applied to take charge of them.

New Zealand leads the world in the number of telegrams and cables sent annually per head of population, states the Wellington Post. Counting everybody, each New Zealander sends 4.7 telegrams, as against 2.8 for Australia, which is next, 1.7 for Norway, and 1.5 for Canada. The chief cause of the Dominion’s lead is believed to be the flat rate system, ignoring the cost of transmissions, etc., which makes the rate the same for telegrams to Eastbourne and Invercargill. In Australia, the rate for ordinary telegrams not exceeding 16 words to places within 15 miles of the sending stations is 9d; to other places within a State, Is; inter-State telegrams, Is 4d; there is Id charge for every additional word over 16. In England, the charge is Is for the first 12 words, and id for every additional word, while telegrams addressed to the Irish Free State have a minimum cost of Is 6d.

At Rahotu yards on Tuesday next, June 17, Messrs Newton King, Ltd., are conducting an unreserved dispersal of Mr. J. G. Rutherford’s live and dead stock. The offering includes 125 cows, of which approximately 60 per cent, are Jersey, and Jersey-cross, the balance being Friesian and Shorthorns. Seventeen in-calf heifers and 44 yearlings will also be submitted. Full details of the fixture appear in our stock auction advertising columns of this issue, from which it can be gathered that a splendid opportunity is offered to prospective buyers in this sale. Cars will leave all offices of the auctioneers on the morning of the sale. The attention of farmers is drawn to our stock auction advertising columns of this issue, in which is displayed details of the unreserved dis- ! persal of pedigree Friesians on account of Messrs Baldwin and Son, to be con- | ducted by Messrs Newton King, Ltd., in , their Inglewood yards to-morrow. Show ring winners and heavy producers are the outstanding features of the sale, and those interested in the breed can attend this fixture with confidence. The Railway Department advertise in this issue particulars of the issue of cheap excursion tickets to Palmerston Nortn in connection with the National Daily Show, Which is being held from June 17 to '2l/1930. '' '