TOWN & COUNTRY

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16717, 20 December 1918, Page 7

TOWN & COUNTRY

.Mr Pemberton advises:—-Present: indications are for moderate to stron-' westerly winds, freshening in and southward of Cook Strait. Fair, warm and hazy weather is probable genereqifcy, but with increasing cloudiness soon, particularly in western districts. The barometer has a rising tendency" but. is due to fall ii«ain siiortlv in the south. *

Mr_ Wooles forecasts for to-day: "Variable breezes, easterlv t c southerlv prevailing; weather fair, cloudv at times."'

Government valuers are at present engaged re-valuing the Borough of Timaru.

The Lyalldale tobacco fund social J.as been assigned a new date—Januarv 10th.

Half-season anglers' licenses mav now be had from agents, a list of xuom is advertised on page 1.

The name of Mrs Dendv was inadvertently omitted from those mentioned m connection with the sate of nags, etc., on Peace Da v.

The South Canterbury Orchestra will play its 6th municipal concert ou Caroline Bay this evening. The programme is advertised

The Orari Bridge Guild Dav at -Our Boys Depot' Geraldine on Wetlnodav resulted in the raising of about £l6. *

An order in Council rrohibir.s the export of Russf-an rouble notes from the IJommion without the consent of the Minister of Customs.

The Tunaru A. and P. Association has decided to have ar the next fcnow for wool from merino and halfbred sheep, three fleeces, from hogget* twes and wethci?. *"""' '

The North Canterburr Farmer-* Lnion carried a resolution \o the effectthat the meat contract with tho Imperial Government should be on die same terms and for the same per.od as the wool contract.

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Of the returned draft ou the troopship arrived at Wellington on Wednesday, comprising 791 officers and men t&J passed as tit and have been given Christmas leave. They landed vesterday afternoon. The remainder comprise 3 hospital cases. 3 cot cases and o v.d. cases.

At Geraldini- on Wednesday the seven-years lea>e of Pizze\'s plantation, Orarij about 50 acres, was put. up at auction on behalf or the Garaldine Poad Board and realist'<l a yearly rental of £sl. Another reserve at Or.tri, containing 77 aero-, brought. a:t annua] rental of IQ> 6d per .-.we.

At Dunodin yesterday Pnv Onuond Bradley, wlm «as tried by courtmartial on Wednesday, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for being military defaulter. Private Hugh Goodlet was sentenced to o(J days detention for using obscene language to an officer and resisting arrest.

The Per P P. Wilson, administrator of the Melanesian mission, snvs a Press Association message from Auckland, states that the November JrirriiMSie in the New Hebrides and l!r-, n :s Island was the worst in his experieii-o of _»0 years. Native houses, churches and plantations were swept out of existence. Nearly a dozen lives were lost. The Rev. C\ Turner's church and homo at Pentecost Island were destroved.

A Pres/; Association iiie.-sa K e jf rom Whaktane states that the Port, Sydney nrrtved there yesterday morning" from Sydney direct, bringing 31 passengers All landed there. The majority !eft for Rotorua in motor cars. The passengers include Mr Hi.-lop. I'nderSecretary of Internal Affairs and his Trite. The loading of meat has commenced and is exicted to three davs.

Tho colonrtne or Grav-tes and Soups by the old system is always tedious n:id certainly unnecessary now-a-davs fcr GARLAND'S GRAVIS has all tho essential elements of a full rich dmn»r favouring. A few grains will "crown and flavour enough Graw for the ordinary Joint. GARLAND'S GRAVIS is absolutely pure—contains no more than Sugar. Salt and a little Vegetable flavouring—obtainable all Grocers. "It it's GARLAND'S it's GOOD." i

(hristinas Presents.—On page 3 of "to-day's issue we publish a coinprcbensive list of useful and ornamental articles suitable for Christmas gifts. Messrs Manning and Dawson are well in the front line with all that makes suitable gifts for young and old alike. Their grocery, provision and confectionery stocks arc al-o replete and up-to-date. Those in searci; rf all Christmas lines will lind the firm's stores the placo where all their wants can be well and satisfactorily supplied. ...

11EM0VIXG IS WELL DONE AND QVICKLY DONE. When we take it in hand. We don't take undue time in shifting people, nor do we spare ourselves any trouble. Onr aim is to do the work so that clients will he pleased with our care, our skill, our method.- generally. Tha' we -ire su-cessftil. hundreds of letters tpstifv. The New Zealand Express Coy. "Ltd. ...

Thomas William Gunn and Alex T>. Gunn appeared at the Supreme Court ;it Auckland yesterday, for sentence on charges connected with the city burglaries. Both prisoners are now serving sentence for military offences expiring in .June and .Inly next. The Court therefore deterred s-ciiteiicJ until the May sessions, when the testimony a> to general good conduci heard 10-«l::y. and as to behaviour in gaol wo.ihl be considered.

The Minister of "Defence, who h:'.s been iryinir t;> arrange to secure for the New Zealand soldiers in I'gpyt and Palestine opportunities to see tho Home Country, has received word from the War Ofp.ce anil the Minister of -Shipping in the Vniied Kingdom that it may be difficult m comply with the request, owing to lack cf sliippinir transport. These soldiers may have to come home direct from Kgypt, unless they are willing to submit to long delay before lepatriation.

The Kairlic Summer Flower Show, postponed on a-rouni of the epidemic, will be held on Thursday. January lSili. The challlenge cups presented by Mrs J. T. Wilson and the Committee of Management of St. Colnmba Church for most (Mints in roses and in other flowers respectively, will again I>> offered fcr competition as will also Mr 1?. McKenzie's cup for most points in cookery. "Particulars regarding competitions and additional classes will he found in ou>- adveiTtising columns.

Inder the petrol regulations promulgated some tune ago, the importer is required to limit tue wholesale uf retail distributor to quantities ot petrol not exceeding a six weeks' supply, and the wholesale and retail distributor is required to Hmii the consnmor to no: moio than a four weeks' supply. As the pssition in rogarn to petrol has improved, the M'nster-iu Charge, on the recommendation of his advisers, has decided to allow petrol to be sold in any quantities until further notice. In all other respects the regulations ate to remain in force as heretofore.

The influenza epidemic woke up many peopie to the need ior iiMi-jU.vmic Housing. Among others it, woKe up the officers oi tne vYc.ungton Hotel. Club and BiYt.uirant Workers' Union, who in_ their halt-yearly report say:— "Your executive made certtin representations to the Government to minimise, for the future the evil effects of any epidemic, such as that which has lately swept through the country, but the Government has seer, lit to take no notice of the representations nia'de. In brief, the representations made called attention to the disgraceful accommodation provided for our mouthers in hotel*, private hotels, and boardinghouses. pointing out. that the union had no redress against, this awful state of things, as there was no statutory enactment upon the Statute Book <h'a!ing with the accommodation provided for our workers in the?e place*. As a matter of fact, some of the accommodation provided in the places named i> nothing more or less than a death-trap. Many of the rooms are shared br three and four workers, without windows' or other mean* of venti'aHon. and without light of any k'ind. and st.'ll the Government proposals or latent enactment do not dpaJ with these matters. ...

Concluding his address to the annual meeting of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, now being held in Wellington. the President. Mr T. S. Weston, said: —"One of tho outstanding- features of tho war is that the successful platoon leader was the man who took the keenest interest in the well being of his men. A constant source of complaint by the worker is that the employer looks upon him as a mere cog in the machine, a pieco of mechanism without human feelings or desires. This should be altered. If each employer would set his mind to remedy the reasonable grievances oP his ine:i and endeavour as far as possible to improve their conditions of life, much could lie speedily accomplished. Public opinion is a moro effective regulator of conduct than a penal statute. Let each individual regulate his life on these lines oven to a comparatively small extent, and a standard of life would he established which would mean the ostracism by the whole community equally of the worker who goes slow and of the employer who jrives wav to injustice and greed. Abolish these great evils, and you would go far to have a contented and prosperous nation. In this connection in every business of a permanent, nature with a nonflucruating staff, employers would lie well adxised to inaugurate rfome scheme of profit sharing and establish a superannuation fund for their men."

A rather curious '-test case - ' was heard in the Wellington Magistrates Court this week. Thu hotel servants' award provides thai if free board and lodging is not provided by the employer £1 2t. Ud is to he paid in lieu thereof. A hotel domestic took her week's annual hoi.day, intending not to return, and was paid a week's wages. Counsel for the union sued the' hotelkeeper on bch-.lf t)f the girl, as a. test case, for the tl :i> 6'd for board anl lodging for the week, arguing that she was entitled to ••full"' wages for the week, and as she. did not board or !odf:e at the hotel she should receive that sum as pari of •■full" wages, '"he magistrate said that when an employer provided suitable board and lodging and the employee decided to live elsewhere he or she was not entitled to dui.i.ud lodging allowance. Jn this tase the housemaid could have stayed or, but- instead asked for money in ii a ok board and lodging which was .•;<>- videit for her at the hotel had ;-)ie <M'cd to accept it during her •lolrliv. Tii pjrl. however, exercised an opii-n vi.itb the award did not nive her end «he had forfeited her right t 0 the tvcisev.

Xoiv that the armistice lias been, signed and Peace will shortly he dedared, it is of increasing importance that the best brains of the Kmpire should bo concentiated upon the '"Trade'' war which will now commence in real earnest. As to the outcome of the war, there cannot be the lear-t doubt. Great Britain and the out of tho past and pending conflicts unquestionably the greatest nation commercially "that the world has ever known, or "ever will know. If there is one thins more than others that wo have lacked in Great Uritain and the British Dominions in the past for a more rapid development of I.C.S. work, ic lias been a certain lack of opportunity for the wage-earner. This situation the triumph over Germany will remedy. Whereas in the past there have been more men than opportunities, in the future then- will be more opportunities than -competent men to grasp them. There is not the "(oast doubt that in this birth of the new commercial and industrial nation, tho International Correspondence Schools will lit in. and play a. greater and more prominent part than any other agency in the Kmpire. During the month of December, the Management) of the International Correspondence Schools in New Zealand, will allow- a "Peace" discount of 10 per cent, off the regular prices of all full courses of instruction. On January Ist ne.vt. a new and advanced price list will come into force, and prospective students who enrol tins month will not only escape the higher prices, but will receive the benefit of the "Peace "Discount" of 10 per cent. Further particulars appear iu our advertising columns. ...

litis year, for the first time in nearly half a century, there will lie no sports on Boxing Day in South Canterbury. The Temuka Caledonian Society was compelled to abandon its annual* gathering, owing to tho ravages () f influenza, and last, nigho the directors of the Wnimato Caledonian Society reluctantly decided to postpone its meeting to a future date (possiblv about the time of the Peace Celebrations), chiefly owing io it being found impassible to make any arrangements for catering, the dislocation caused 1>- the influenza epidemic being the obstacle. Snlendid entries had been received for. what would have, been the Sncietv's -14 th annual gathering. and all entry tVes will he refunded on application to the secretary, Mr Albert J. Hoskins.

The Man.iwatu Couniv Council passed the following resolution—"That this Council suggests to the Palincrston Hospital Hoard, that a conference, of delegates should he hold from :dl the hospital boards throughout the Dominion, with a view to establishing training and nursing schools, so that girls cuild be trained sufficienilv in order that tbev would be able to rend.--r.ractic-d assistance in the homes and hosnisals >'n the event of another enidemie in New Zealand." it was also suggested that, eu-ls attending Stare schools should take a course of such; training. It was cfeciiW fbat a cony of th» resolution should he sent t 0 tlie Minister of Health.

A meeting of the Iltuitor TJeJ Ot- s sub-eonimiiuo of the branch of the Waunato Ked Cross w.-v held on Tnes;iay. Owing to the influenza, there was not time to call a full i.-ccting. There were present. Mesdatncs Armstrong. Gibson. Shears, and Misses Hansen an,l Shie!. The principal bus : iiees was dealing with £W on hand, as proceeds from a emcerr, given by the Uamhlors of Wainiato. It ws decided to c've £8 trt the Wa : mate Rod Cross, i'.t io the Y.M.C.A.. £4 to the IM.iirnod" Soldiers' Inst'rute in Wa:m:>te. and £3 to 'he Navy Leacu->. The Guild will conuntie "■-■ work earlr in the year. The following pe.rcc! was r ado rip:— •" sivrs pvvim.-v 4 underflaTtn-%. 3 davshirv. ]7 !:a. : r socks 9 pair liedsneks, 1 helmet.

During the recent epidemic a woman with two children entered one of the drapery houses in Invercargill and bought- a pair of black gloves and two or three cheap handkerchiefs, and was paying, when a man who stood by. having done his business, said to her: ■'l see you have had trouble.'-' She answered: "I have just lost, mv husband and our babv." Whereupon lie secretly put £2 into her hand, with tit remark that the nionev would buv something for the children. As the recipient was passing out she stopped another woman who was entering, told what had happened, and asked who the. man was: -'Oh. that's Mr : he's doing the same thing daily." Tho story is common and unimportant, it may be said. Quite so: and therein lies its importance—as evidence that in times of trouble there are numbers of cur people Going about doing these, little deeds of kiudness in a quiet way.