GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 23 November 1923, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

The Mataura Borough ratepayers carried a water supply loan of £12,500 by 205 votes to 56.

The Gazette notifies that Parliament has been further prorogued to January 24th next.

Regulations for the administration of the Land and Income Tax Act, 1923, were gazetted yesterday (says a Wellington message).

A special general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held on Wednesday next for the purpose of hearing an address by Mr Elmslie, British Trade Commissioner, on “British Trade Questions.” The meeting will be open to the public.

A Dunedin Press message reports •that Mrs Agnes Wright, a widow, aged 49 years, collapsed and died suddenly in Castle Street yesterday while walking with her sister. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was due to heart failt;. • following degeneration of the heart muscles.

It was recently stated that a Jersey cow, owned by Mr W. 11. Miers, Waikato, had produced 10031 bof butter-fat under semi-official test, being the first Jersey cow in the Dominion to reach the 10001 b mark. 1 The latest advice shows that the cow has done even better. She finished her test with a record of 1010 lb of butter-fat.

Miss Mowat, of Dunedin, was riding the Dunedin-owned liorso Elaine in the jumping competition at Oamaru Show yesterday, when the animal came down. Miss Mowat was thrown heavily. She sustained concussion of the brain, and was removed in an unconscious condition to a private hospital. The doctors are hopeful that she will recover. The horse Elaine subsequently won the jumping event.

Yesterday a team of the men’s division and one from the nursing division of St. John Ambulance; left Timaru for Weilingtou to take part In the New Zealand competitions in the capital city on Saturday. These teams represent the Canterbury, Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast districts.

Messrs Brock, McNeil, Evans, Raymond,, Graham, and Haslam, school inspectors of the Education Department, arrived by southern trains on Wednesday, and yesterday commenced examining scholars of the various schools in the Timaru district in connection with Proficiency and Competency Certificates. The work will occupy .some days, but it is expected that it will be completed during the present school week.

In conversation yesterday with a reporter, Mr C. S. Wedenby, of Geraldine, further explained his proposal for breaking up the range in ue harbour. His proposal is for a new kind of floating breakwater, built of wood and iron. The model which he has represents a section 168 ft long, 20ft high, and 12ft wide. The perpendicular .timbers are to be secured to the horizontal timbers in rows, forming a regular succession of angles, the whole length of the breakwater. Each piece of timber is to be bolted on to the horizontals to form an angle corresponding with the angular outline of the structure, as shown in the model. When the waves strike the angles Mr Wedenby says that they will be split again and again, subdivided on contact, with each bar, or piece of timber in the structure, and would be manipulated by the angular construction into conflicting currents directly opposed to each other on their transit through the structure. The more violent the waves the stronger the counter-cur-, rents set up, leaving a balancing zone or estuary, inward of which would be undisturbed by the waves.

At the fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Timaru Lodge of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, G.M. Bro. Tonkin presided over a fair attendance. The sick report was very satisfactory, only three slight accident cases having declared on the funds during the fortnight. A letter of recommendation was granted to a member in the North Island, and the secretary detailed steps taken to procure for a member of a foreign lodge sick pay long overdue. As December 19th is installation night, nominations for the various lodge offices were received. Arising out of articles and reports appearing in the Oddfellows’ Magazine, a discussion took place as to the Lodge’s standing, and particularly in regard to its relationship to the. New Zealand branch. It was decided to resume the discussion at a future meeting; the secretary in the meantime to make certain inquiries of local interest. Picnic delegates reported details, of the Friendly Societies’ excursion to Fairlie on January 26. Accounts amounting to £54 18s 6d were passed for payment, and the lodge closed. •