GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 24 May 1923, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS

On Tuesday night, between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., at Winchester, Mr G. Prattley had the misfortune to have six stacks of wheat destroyed b\ me. Fortunately the stacks were insured.

At the Magistrate’s Court at Timaru yesterday, a dairy farmer appeared m answer to a judgment summons. “You’re a farmer!’” was the first question put by counsel for the judgment creditor. “Well,” was thei reply, 1 m a bit of a farmer. I’m what you might call a tent farmer. Judgment debtor stated that he had six of a family, but offered to pay £1 monthly which was expected.

There was some talk at the Magistrate’s Court at Timaru yesterday about the adjournment of certain cases and in looking ahead, the meetings or the various district Licensing Committees were mentioned by the Magistrate, Air E. D. Mosley, S.M. . His Worship remarked that the meetings would be of much importance, being triennial gatherings of which the policy foi the next three years would be formed. “The Committee will probably require jnore from licensees than in the past, remarked the Magistrate.

Mr Herbert Hall let two big contracts for the erection of new business premises in Timaru yesterday. One was for a three-storied brick building in Church Street, for J. Rattray and Son Ltd , Dunedin, the contractor being ’Mr John Munro. There were ten tenderers. The other was for a brick building of three stories m George Street, for Mr G. T. Dawson. There were eleven tenderers for this, and Shillito Bros, got the contract. The contract price in each case ran into between £6OOO and £7OOO.

Many Wanganui people are now convinced that there must be something in the talk about the curse of Tut Ankh Amen, because of an incident that happened at the- Arts and Crafts Exhibition on a recent afternoon (says the “Herald”). Of a sudden, the gallery was disturbed by an alarming crash and clatter that resounded throughout the building. Screams weie heard With blanched faces people rushed to the scene, expecting to find that some awful disaster had taken place. There on the floor lay the cause of the uproar—Exhibit No. 341. Brass Tea Tray, Egyptian design.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. A . struggling, hard-working farmer who had got £24 maneais with a grocery supply firm, offered to pay £1 monthly till the debt was wiped off. He was just getting his head aboie water he told Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., yesterday, and would soon have his bows paid off. There were six of a family, but he would do his best. Ihe first payment he was agreeable to make at the end of the week. He would get his dairy cheque that day. It would be brought in a lorry! The amount of the cheque was not stated, but it is assumed to have been a pretty hefty one.

There is a crying demand in America and England for New Zealand iugs, yet to buy one in New Zealand m hard enough, remarked a speaker at the meeting held in connection with the establishment of woollen mills at Masterton ,“New Zealand can manutac .giES'JStfS SSSi were more suited than at Home, tint' beinhan important factor m the manufacture of woollen goods.

Sixtv-fonr waterside workers at Wellington are to answer summonses, charged with a breach of the Arbitra; tion Court award by refusing to woik overtime on the s.s. Mararoa. Itwill be remembered (says a P.A message) that on one occasion recently the Ma- . raroa was late. It is alleged that the , men were asked to work overtime in . order to get the boat away; that the> refused to do so, and that a ballot was j taken as to whether they should work . overtime as requested. It is stated that the offence is that the men took j concerted action to defeat the award ; in taking a ballot on the matter. It j is understood that the case will be defended by the Union. A meat war is now raging in Wan- J ganui (says an exchange). Last week . a meat company brought the price | down and this was followed by a new j company, comprising graziers and beet- | growers, which brought the price or beef down by a further penny per pound all round. Fillet is down to Sd, , rump steak to 7d, and sirloin to 4d, , with other lines correspondingly low m price. AVhen the new shop opened it had all the appearance of a first day large display sale, the stores being crowded alt day. The other large shop was also packed all day, and never m the history of Wangamn has so much , meat been retailed within 12 hours, j One company is delivering meat at the new cut prices, and quite a fleet _of j motor vans is engaged in delivering j orders. One man interested m the.] meat trade states that there is _ going to be a regular spring-cleaning in the butchery business throughout the Do- j minion. j

In the course of a discussion on “The

Children and the Church,” at a sitting of the Church Congress in. Christchurch yesterday, the Rev. H. O. Hanby said there were 240,000 children of school age in the Dominion.. The Church of England was responsible for 120,000 of these, and only 40,000 of them were receiving religious, instruction. There was one Church that was keeping up with the drift of the cliildren, and that was the Roman Catholic Clujrch. He wished to pay a tribute to that Church for its work for its children. The Presbyterian Church was preparing for membership of the Church two-thirds of its children, and had more Sunday School teachers than the Church of England which represented 44 per cent, of the population. The Church of England, in its primary day school at St. Michael’s, had proved that, religious and secular education could be continued without detriment to the latter. The Church of England was afflicted with an enormous number of nominal members, and the children must be saved in some way or other. The Church did not deserve to exist if if failed to cope with, this problem of tbo children. —Press Association.

A deputation consisting of Air F. Lewis (representing the North End Improvement Association) and Mr W. Gibb (South End Ratepayers’ Association) waited on tire Electric Light and Bus Committee of the Borough Council last evening. Air Chiles, who was to have been one of the deputation, was unavoidably prevented from attending. The subjects to which attention were directed were:—(l) The necessity for some attachments on the single decker buses bv which mothers of small children could take push-chairs or folding go-carts with them when they desire to travel to {own by bus from the outlying ureas. (2) The question of lightr! points where accidents riu-e likely to occur at'night owing to 'cj . oV,na l ,n . 1 > of the road or street. : i peoial mention was made of the North ' Road on the corner he nil just north of the viadurw. (3) A request to move a lamp on the south end 0 f Kino- Street and seats on the Jlassail .Street route! (4) that if it would not he too expensive the street lights should ho kept alight till midnight. The dopulatioii sire.ssci! iho advantages of all ponds mentioned, and the committee promised to give them ennohlcration