GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 19 November 1924, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

During the past week only one case of notifiable disease was reported as existing in South Canterbury'. This was a case of pneumonia.

At the Postage Stamp exhibition now being held in Uhristchurch, Mi 4 VI Paterson, of Timaru, was a prize taker. Mr, C. S. Fraser secured two first and eight second prizes.

A Press message fyom Christchurch states tnat a proposition to revert to tlie ‘proportional, representation system of electing Councillors ,vas rejected by the’City Council on the casting vote of tie Mayor.

In view of the mine owners’ efforts to; get the. Railway Department to use notiiuig but New Zealand coal, tne Invercargill branch E.F.C. Union passed a resolution strongly condemning, alter years-of experience, the remtrouuctiou of these. coals on the railways.

At the Police Court at Wellington yesterdav, John Edward \Y icklitfe was lined £SO or a month’s imprisonment for belting with an infant, a lad of 15 veals'ii months. Defendant, ; a saddler by trade, only commenced taking bets a little time ago.

It is several years since > poultry show was held in Timarg, but a move-ment-is-on foot to form a poultry society, to include, an egg circle, as liliiaru poultry men’ are. anxious to export some eggs next year. It is probable that a meeting will be held shortly to consider the question.

A certificate of life membership has been prepared on behalf oi the. New Zealand Fanner’s Union, and is to be presented tp the Governor-Gone ra< as a token of appreciation of his connection with the primary producers. The- certificate has been handsomely mounted on rimu and illustrated, aud has been signed by all the members of the executive. >

That judges differ was strikingly demonstrated .at the Timaru Show last month. A Friesian heifer that was shown at Oamaru last vear as a call, and ’ (says tlie “North Otago Tunes ) was passed over by four judges in an entry of eight, fcs the worst animal in that class, was awarded second pnsse as a yearling at Timaru 111 a ciaijs ot fourteen. .'

The Taranaki Power. Board desired the Eitham Council to have overhanging trees cut so as not to interfere ' witli the transmission cables. This 1 was responsible for a councillor remarking that, while some of the Power Board s men were hanging around /watching their mates digging a hole they could get to work and cut the tices t-lieni* selves.

The points policeman missed a rare sight iu Eltham a few days ago when a mail driving a dilapidated cat, on approaching tlie main street corner litteu a big bell from the seat, beside, him and rang it vigorously, as a warning ot his approach. The bell was somewhat of the stvle favoured by country school teachers,‘ and its warning notes were almost lost in the roar ot laugh tei from 'the bystanders as the old cai lumbered up'the street with the be l again placed in position tor the nex« cot'M#’.

“With wool at from i/6 to 2/- pOT ®. fat lambs at lid per lb, and 6U b shorn wethers at 36/6 each, it is hard to understand why good twq-siicep-to-the-acre country should still be ofleung I°* sale at, and even under, £lO per acre, said an old farmer at the Marton sale. “1 have never seen sheep country selling so cheap 111 proportion to the price of wool, sheep and lambs as it is now; but 1 do not suppose it will last- long it these prices continue,” he added. Many country settlers and others think he; is about right, and look for a sharp rise in the value of sheep country 111 the near future.

A noteworthy example of thoughtfulness for others was provided (says tlie “Southland Times”) by two parties ot smalt fry hailing from the South School Invercargill, who celebrated Ncveinbci 5 in traditional fashion, lheir perambulations with the “Guy” resulted m the garnering in of the tutu ot £1 and 15/ respectively. The first party remembered that a little class-mate of theirs was in hospital quarters following on an operation and they decided to expend the £L they had collected on hospital comforts, while the second pnrtv donated the funds they had accumulated to providing good cheer tor the children of the Cameron Home.

The adverse critism directed against the New Zealand Court at the British Empire. Exhibition is not shared by Dr Edward Whitaker, business manager ot “Whitaker’s Almanac.” “From what ] read in ihe New Zealand papers about the Wembley exhibit,” he states iu a letter to the Prime Minister, ‘There is much criticism. I would like to say that, talking over the show with a great number of people. 1 have often beard the spontaneous re-mark that the »w Zealand pavilion was one of the best things in it. It by no means struck people over here Llfat it was the flat, stale thing spoken oi in your papers, and 1 believe it compared very favonrahly indeed in the public's opinion with 'what ihov expected of tlie Dominion. The sense of proportion was by no means lost on them. I heard also that the filtering there was the beri iu Urt Exhibition ”