CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18092, 19 October 1928, Page 8

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

CHRISTCHURCH, October 18. WELCOME RAIN. . The weather to-day was rainy ana bleak, in marked contrast to the in conditions experienced just recentlyThe change, however, is welcome, as rain was badly needed, and young are already showing the benefit ot tne watering received. ■ _ . m CHRISTCH U RCH SOUTH SEAT. Mr W. H. Man hire, a brother ot the. Mayor of Riccurton, and ot Mr A. Manhirc, has been selected as,the.Reform Party’s candidate for Christchurch South. . , , 1 Air Manhire is a retired storekeeper living in the electorate.

CLOSING OF ROLLS. , Tho writ for the General Election, will be issued on Friday, October T 9» and the rolls will bo closed definitely’ at 6 p.m. The closing of the rolls is controlled by tlie issue of the writ, the neyv Electoral Act making it compulsory for tho rolls to be closed not later than 6 p.m. on the day of the issue or the writ. The Registrar of Electors said to-day: “The Prime Minister was definite when he announced _ that the writ would bo issued on Friday. • I’’ ol names can be added to the rolls .after 6 p.m., though there is provision tor transfers from one' electoral district to another, and also provision for removal through death or other causes. CHEAP AT EIGHTEEN PENCE. 'Anne Charlotte Vallauce was fined £2 and costs for alleged fortune-telling in tho Magistrate’s Court to-day. '' Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., was on tho bench. , ■ ~ V, F Police Matron Rodgers said that on October 5, she visited defendant.- “She told mo to shuffle cards, and put them, in rows on the table. She told me all sorts of things. 1 was going to sign an important document. An old lady would die and leave me her money, x was going to hear of Dired births, five marriages, and three deaths.. Some sort of a man was coming into my life-’’

To the “There'; was _ a sign that read ‘Airs Vallance’ outsideTnere was no advertisement of her calling.” “I was working during the Boer War and the last War, and the Government was pleased with me. Ive worked for thirty years,” said defendant. “I’m just a character reader. “You told the Police Matron a lot .of absurdities,” said the Magistrate. “I don’t advertise for them, replied the defendant. __ “You took Is 6d.” —“That _was cheap, wasn’t it?” asked defendant. J‘l might have made it a quid.” “The case would have been move serious if you had,” said the’Magistrate. “How do you make your iivrug?”- -,1 “I let rooms. Any sickness I help to get well.” " . “You'don’t make it well by; fortune telling.”—“You never know, sir.”. Defendant was fined £2 and, costs.

CIVIL SERVICE AND . PbLITICS. A member of the Public Service Association recently , drew up ;a demand that the Government should restoro the salary cuts to civil servants, and pro- • ceeded to call a meeting to discuss the question. ‘The procedure considpramy startled some other members, who have hastened to disown the offending circular. The name of Mr Morrison, secretary of the Association, was used on. 'the circular, without his knowledge or permission, and as a protest--against this action, he resigned from-the position of secretary. _ ; It was explained this morning that, as Air Morrison was unable to. mimeograph copies of the notice, lie left it to another member of tbe Committee to prepare them. It was not until the circulars were ready for distribution that. All- Morrison saw them,..and lie then submitted a copy for thepresident’s approval. Mr Jones, ent, stated that as Boon as he saw the circular, he rang Air' Morrison and told him the meeting could not.bejield with his permission, and if it was persisted in, he certainly would not be present. ' “The Association,” said Air Jones, “is a non-political body, and has always worked along constitutional lines. All responsible officers - are op-, posed to ‘big stick* methods, and any attempt to make the Association a politicai body will bo most strongly resented. A meeting of the Association is to be held next Monday night, when the question of salary cuts will be fully discussed. It would then be competent for anv motion to be proposed, provided it did not conflict with the constitution of the Association. The cause or dissatisfaction in the service at the present time was the action of the Government in improving the. salaries of the police without giving anything to other groups in the Public Service. Tho Prime Alinister’s hint that some improvements may take place next year is not regarded as convincing enough to satisfy the service.

“GET IT OVER.” , Percy Mitchell to-day repartee with Mr E. D. Mosley, o-M., until the Magistrate said that he had had enough ot it. Mitchell broke thiea panes in a shop window at Stanmore Senior-Sergeant O’Hara said that something annoyed Mitchell, who took that means of expressing his reelings. Ho was slightly under the influence or said that he was anpoyed by some goods of his being left outside the shop. He reminded the Magistrate that he was not there on a charge of theft, and said: “I haven gone into burglary. I haven’t started.that ga “You haven’t got any sense,” the Magistrate said. ‘‘Don’t- you know that voir wife won’t like you being dragged 'before the Court for this sort of caper? it’s no good to her, and no .good to vou Did you have too many dunks. 5 “None at all. If I’d had liquor, his Knibbs would have shot me m.,. ~ “Well get it over, I m sweating, Mitchell’said in reply to another , remark bv the Magistrate, whoiepled “I’m sorry for you, but you’ll snort a little more when you hear the senteMftchell was fined £2 and £1 6s costs, and was ordered to pay £3, cost of the damage, in default days’ imprisonment with hard labour. “I suppose I’ll got time to pay. Mitchell asked. ;• , A - : “You don’t deserve it,’ the Mags .trate replied. “If, as you say the damage lias been made good that part *df the order will be cancelled K not, ass '■ A bejory Mr E D. Mosley, R.M., m the-Childrens Court on six charges, involving theft of goods and money to the total value °‘Magistrate committed the hoy to the Borstal Institute for three years, and spoke pointedly on the waj U Vhich some boys had been released from Wereroa in the past. The hoy admitted steahng a portable gramophone valued at £lO, and an overcoat (£1 10s), obtaining £1 10s bv fraud, stealing 10s in n »"' s razors and a case valued at £lss, art ere overcoat and a cap valued at£l

lf Thr Chief Detective said .that the first case had been reported _m Augus , and since then the boy had bcenfound and the other charges traced, to hum Fe liad been previously committed f th “I understand that lie .whs ‘pl’pcnj in vour charge before, trate. to Mr Bissett. the Child M oßaio Officer, “that lie was sent to Vereroa, and that he was soon discharged there. That is no good. If 1 thought the education authorities won d do so again T would not give them the opportunity. hut send him straight to the Borstal.”-