GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 23 June 1924, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

Ijr-fore Mr T- W. Satterthwaite, J.P., ■U the Timaru Police Court on Saturday * morning, a first offender foi drunkenness was lined 10s. The lambing season in the llaugitikei district lias opened early. There are .several' lambs in Mr George Shannon's Southdown flock, _ and their numbers are increasing daily. When the matter of uuemploymeiu was being discussed at the L.J.CC. meeting on Saturday evening, one tl 1 ’ legate whose calling takes him to many houses in Timaru, stated that he hneu of one family which had to »od some of their furniture to enable tnem to buy food to live. At a banquet tendered to him at Stratford, the Postmaster-General (tho J Cl Coates) stated that alter allowing :C IAOdiUO for v.ireless and other improvements, inn years surplus „f revenue over expenditure would ho the second highest the 1 ost and elegraph Department had had, totalling g.'iSU.OHO m round figures. \t a nieeting of the Canterbury Education Hoard ni Christchurch on Friday la-:, ill" Education Department wrote fciaiing that if there was any real do Mie on the part of teachers io meet an inspector in Timaru, arrangements could be made that one of the oliicers should be there on the first Saturclav in the month. —It was resolved to ad; unit arrangements be made aeemtling!v. A letter was also received irom the Department, asking the board's opinion ;is 11 the nceessiiy for requiring tearhto remain two years in their positions iiou of this eonfli.ion, which bad been in operation in ('antemury prior to the coming into force oi the prcooufc regulations.

At a Railway Officers' Institute social in Wellington" on Saturday night, Mr R. W. McVillv (General Manager of Railwavs), said that the North Island lines had paid £fi 10s 6d per cent., but the South Island paid only £2 2s 6d per cent. The South had been a burden to them, and the Department was not responsible for the policy which decided where lines should be laid down.

Arrangements are well in hand for the seveu-a-sidc tournament to be held in Geraldine on August 30. Rive fields have been prepared, and much enthusiasm is being’shown by the secretary (Mr AY. Davison), and his assistants. It is anticipated that the tournament this year will excel any previous local sports functions. Tho handsome silver cups for competition have already been exhibited in Geraldine and Timaru, and are now on exhibition in Christchurch, where they are creating much interest.

A combined social of the Timaru Boy Scouts was held in St. Mary’s Schoolroom, Bank Street, on Friday evening The Mayor, who has always taken a very keen interest in the work of Scouting, kindly took the chair. There was a large attendance of the public, amongst those present being Mrs G. J. Wallace, Rev. A. C. Lawry and Commissioner H. A. Innes-Jones, and about 100 Boy Scouts from Northdown, St. Mary’s, Te Rangi and Highfield troops. Mr G. Griffiths gave a very interesting display of conjuring, and items were given by the boys as follows: Theatrical juggling, _ Scout Chittocb; violin solos, G. Cliff and Scout Relvin; pianoforte duet by C. and E. Halstead; recitations, L. .Parker, J. Keen and J. Riggins; a dance by W. Brown, and a pianoforte solo by Vincent. The Mayor gave some good advice to the boys, advising them to keep up the good teaching they are receiving from the Scouters, and Commissioner Innes-Jones also addressed them, asking the public to give the movement every possible assistance, and to seek out anyone who would come forward and assist as Scquters. After a sumptuous supper was handed round by the senior boys, an enjoyable evening was brought to a close by the singing of “Auld Lang Syne” and “God Save the King.”