GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 17 March 1926, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

oifcii/lpr 1 °l l ' 1 . Klt,, i allt , l a statutory bc-loic Mr I)” M appeared the t,-m » D ' •i5 I V Lennan at a sitting of and I , U I ? hce C ?a‘t yesterday, charged each CO!>v,ct ‘ xi <>nd dis-

l) A Viei"e S ma '* .appeared before Mr piliee V? T’ J|y - at th « Timuru chare. <^i nil i t yesterday morning on a vii ed '■W 1 ! 1 * st , olen a boa fur Dei ih iA 1 w lb n’ t,lc Peoperty of the •Donimit*! l<ur '1 raders, Ltd. The re.n'm 1 ' ,oa . of JX-teetivo Walker for a ni, * 1 "!' ! to-day was granted, suppussion ol the publication of the name in tile meantime also being granted.

l >r °ss Assoriaton message irom We.lmgton .says that the New Zealand ItMiedmonary Force Canteen Fund, with the help of interest, has advanced uanag tile .war livm £itz,iio\J to £1 79H 3B - , ;L - ()! ’' J W ‘ lS P«i d to the Trentham scholarship Fund, and £ls3d for regimental histories. An invitation has been received to be represented at the "Oil Oieiue of Patriotic and War Heief Societies, which was accepted with l proviso that the Canteen Fund Hoard’s policy was to conserve its in'-nev liP nth-w societies a-p at the point of exhaustion. It is also in fav..ar <u the amalgamation of all these I unda.

Mr Tf. before leaving New Zealand, was accepted as a working member ot the Society of Arb, Chris toll u rch, one of his pictures being hung in the present Exhibition. One cf his Australian pictures (of Port Bucking) was sold for a good price in Wellington.

Per the, s.s. Waikouaiti, which sails for Sydney direct this morning, 200 C’orriedale ewes and 8 rams are to he shipped to the New Zealand Australian Land Company from ' the Company’s station at Mooraki. Two red. poll bulls are .also being included in the shipment.

Pleading guilty to. a charge of drunkenness, a first offender at the Timaru Police Court recently said that lie went, along to the police station to inquire about his swag, and the constable locked him up. It is apparent that there is at least one Government department whore inquiries receive prompt attention.

A visitor from Canada who spent some time last week fishing, for salmon at the Rangitata river expressed surprise when he saw some fishermen .cleaning their fish at the river. This, he says, is a great mistake, as the fish lose much of their flavour .if cleaned, as soon as they are caught.

A Christchurch Press Association message says the daira by the woollen mill workers for a new award to coyer New Zea : and was heard by the Conciliation Council yesterday. The men asked for a 46 hour week and an hourly wage of 2s 3d for skilled workers, 2s for semi-skilled, Is 10d for unskilled, and Is for female workers. The wages clause was held over and the hours of work and the overtime were agreed to.

Mr W. .Gibb received, a, telegram yesterday from Mr Pearson (headmaster of the Timaru West School, who went to Dunedin in charge or the South Canterbury contingent of school children on Monday) stating that tho boys and girls arrived, at the southern city all well and happy, and that excellent arrangements had been made for their accommodation. the telegram added that the weather was gloriously fine yesterday.

In the course of a, discussion on the wheat question by members of the Council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Mr F. W Vickerman said they were taking sides against the wheat farmer, and in favour of tho cow farmer. He did not think they should do that; the policy of _ the Chamber should be to keen cleai ot politics. This had now become a political question, and it was iiot■ foi the Chamber to take sides and kmd themselves in hot water. ' man added that they should hne schedules prepared m older to sat s j themselves as to the correctness ot the resolution under discussion. Lie ieso lntion referred to was one fiom tnei srtiumttssrug ?L nnrDOse of encouraging the pi otho measure no longer exists. -

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