GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1930, Page 8

GENERAL ITEMS.

In . a paragraph relating to the Midhirst Dairy Company published on. Monday a misprint occurred. The amount of the turnover at the company’s store for the past year was not made" clear. Actually it .was over £42,000. He had had trouble with wandering unemployed calling on him for money, said Mr. T. H. Penn, secretary: of the Stratford Hospital Board, at the meeting of the board yesterday. In many instance? he had found that such men. did not want work but money. When given money, Mr. Penn said, the majority of the applicants spent it on liquor. Knowing that, if he believed they were really in need of assistance, he gave them an order for a meal or referred them to a probable employer. The chairman, Mr. W. L. Kennedy, remarked that he had had similar experience. ;. “Tho record of our maternity, annexe is one of which the board and the staff can. justifiably feel proud,” said the chairman (Mr. W. L. Kennedy) at the meeting of the Stratford Hospital Board yesterday. The results attained in the Stratford annexe could not be bettered by any other annexe in New Zealand. Over 1000 babies had been- born since the inception of the annexe and there had been no deaths among the mothers. What few deaths there had been, among the babies had been, due to either antenatal .or "post, natal causes. t The tender of Mr. G. Dick, Stratford,' of £2337 for the erection of an antenatal clinic and staff accommodation building was accepted by the. Stratford Hospital Board yesterday. After two weeks of practically perfect weather in the Stratford district a change took place yesterday when the temperature dropped to mid-winter standards. About 10 a.m. rain and hail fell in the town while the districts near the mountain were treated to a light fall of snow, though there was not enough to lie on the ground. A cold southerly wind made conditions bleak, and after a long struggle for supremacy the sun was obliterated by heavy rain clouds late in the afternoon when hail again fell. ■ ' “I don’t think charitable aid patients should receive tobacco,” said Mr. M. Gernhoefer at the -meeting of the Stratford Hospital Board yesterday. “Such patients should not be given luxuries,” he added. “Tobacco is not a luxury in these days; it is a necessity,” Remarked the chairman, Mr. W. L. Kennedy. Thanks to the business men’s committee for its donation to the hospital of the proceeds of Empire Week were recorded by the Stratford Hospital Board yesterday. I ' - The annual meeting of the Stratford Technical High School Old Pupils’. Association will be held in Carman’s tea rooms at 8 o’clock to-night. ' . ,1. “I have always . stood - up for the Stratford water, but lately I must confess it, has not been so good,” said the Mayor last night when councillors complained at the Stratford Borough Council mbting.of a peculiar taste .in the water. The foreman said he'had aireddy ■‘investigated the position and could pniy suggest that recently melted snow had carried more water than usual'from the swamp which was the priginal spuiw of supply. The , river itself, - lie said', was surprisingly clean and, clean . “After considering the matter of-wage reduction and consulting -the. chairman of the works committee,,l/have reached the conclusion that for-the present, at any rate, there should. be no reduction in the wages of our .employee?,” said the Mayor, Mr. P.‘ Thomson, at. last night’s meeting of the Stratford Borough Council.’ The Mayor thought in ,a dairying community people were inclined to take too short a, view of depressions and to £llow their hopes to rise and fall too easily according to the ruling price of dairy produce. “But for your action, yoqr Worship, I. feel that a number .of people in this town would not have spent a Yery happyj Christmas,” said Mr. • D. J. Malone; when the Mayor reported to the Stratford Borough Council last night .that a further subsidy of £l3O had bee.u_granted to enable more .extensive relief work to be carried out in Stratford. Speaking in general terms on the question of relief, Mr. S. A. Ward later remarked that the present effort could not fee followed by others, and that for the future the Unemployment Board would have to shoulder the responsibility. 7 < ' / Judgment by default was given’by Mr. R. W. Tate, 'S.M.; at the Eltham Court yesterday in the following ca?es:—Kapbnga Town Board v. Murray Wright, £2 Is., costs only; John . Fary. v. .Gi Laverty, £6 6s. sd. (costs £T 10s.- 6d.j; Ina J. Bridger v. A. G. Clarke, £2 Ils. 9d, ( £1 9s. 6d.);»H. A. Cooper v. Norman Tinney, £8 4s. 6d< (£1 10?. 6d.); Clarke ?md Waldron v. A. J. Fullerton, £3 Hs. 7d. (£1 3s. 6d.); A. Beesley, v. L. Guillosson, Bs. (95.); N.Z., Lo?tn an’4 Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. (assignees of C. R, Barker) v. Lewis Thompson, £1 10s. 7d. (95.); same v,H. H. Glentworth, £2 2s. 7d. (95.). ' ' At the Eltham Magistrate’s Coqrt yesterday judgment for £l7 7s. 6d._.and possession of a tenement was given in favour, of W. Waters against- H. .H. Glentworth. Costs were £2 9s.

On . a judgment summons at Eitham yesterday. Robert Blackstock was ordered to pay to E. H. Thomas £8 16g." fid. and costs 15s. Gd., in default nine days’ imprisonment, and W.; J.' Gleiitworth was ordered to pay to D. P. Scarfe £7 Bs. Id. at the rate‘ of ss. monthly. ' 7‘. • ■'< • ' UPROARIOUS MIX-UP IN FILM. KING’S THEATRE PROGRAMME.. < As ,a merry, mischievous mix-up, no talking picture has yet been' exhibited that can equal British .Dominions’ pro; duction of the famous Ben Travers’ stage farce, “Rookery Nook,” The picture is extremely lucky to have at the head of its large cast such deft, and capable players as Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Mary Brough and Winifred Shotter. These talented people were also' the leading light? in the London stage.presentation. The story of “Rookery Nook” is woven around Ralph Lynn’s chivalry in harbouring and caring for a young girl, a very, very beautiful one, who strays from her home in pyjamas! Lynn sees ho harm at all in introducing the little girl to his . sophisticated, .cousin, Clive (played by Tom Walls), but begins to get nervods when his sister-in-law, who insists on “caring” for him (even if she has to do it by force), announces that his wife will be paying a visit to “Rookery Nook”‘to see how he is getting along with his rest cure. The main trouble is to know where to hide the cute little 1 “rest cure” and still retain his' dignity and his wife. One must see and hear “Rookery Nook” to appreciate tlje subtleties of the Travers touch. The film progresses to a whirlwind climax, and Ralplx evades the issue rather luckily (very luckily).