GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18503, 26 February 1930, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS

The first of the new season’s Bluff oysters are expected to be available in Timaru on March 3.

The heavy passenger traffic on the second northbound express yesterday necessitated the addition of four carriages at Timaru.

Mr J. Todd, J.P., presided over a sitting of the Timaru Police Court yesterday, and convicted and fined a statutory first offender for drunkenness 10/- and costs.

A cable message from Melbourne announces that the Archbishop of Melbourne and five bishops have announced their intention of attending the Lambeth Conference.

It is reported from Wellington that in all probability Professor Tocker, who fills the chair of Economics at Canterbury College, will be appointed the Government delegate to the world’s Labour Conference at Geneva.

At a meeting of the Auckland Cricket Association last night, the treasurer reported that the profit, to the New Zealand council from the _nird and fourth test matches would oe approximately £BOO.

The Wanganui City Council last night donated £SO to the Obstetrical appeal lund, an amendment that the matter be deferred until consideration of the estimates, with a view to donating £IOO, being defeated, says a Press Association message.

A Press message from Wellington states that the New Zealand Society of Accountants yesterday decided to offer one hundred guineas for a thesis on financing, accounting and costing of the dairy industry.

Pupils of the Ashburton Convent, numbering 130, spent a very enjoyabi picnic on Caroline Bay yesterda., when they were favoured with beautiful weather. The party arrived on the morning train from Ashburton, and left on the second express in the afternoon. *

The Minister of Labour (Hon. W. A. Veitch) has given instructions for a ballot to be h£ld for the selection of workers’ representatives to attend the International Labour Conference at Geneva, says a Wellington Press message.

The newspaper delegates who have been meeting at the Hermitage, Mount Cook, since Friday last, made a trip to the Tasman Glacier yesterday. The party numbered nearly fifty, and very complete arrangements for the outing were made by Mr R. L. Wigley (general-manager of the Mount Cook Tourist Company). The weather was perfect, and the trip proved to be a very enjoyable conclusion to the conference proceedings. “That we urge our churches to give increased attention to temperance work, by forming Bands of Hope, Women’s Christian Temperance Unions, encouraging the youth movement against alcouol, using educational charts and .stributing suitable literature showihg the evils attending the use of alcohol, and the ravages caused by the liquor trade, or by using any other means which they may deem wise.” In the terms of the foregoing resolution, which was unanimously carried, says a Press Association message, the Methodist Conference now sitting in Wellington, expressed its mind on the temperance question.

In stressing the need for improvements to Beverley Road, at last night’s meeting of the North End Ratepayers’ and Improvement Association, Mr H. G. Broadhead said that on a recent evening a resident of the lower end of the street was on the look-out for the milkman, but was unable to locate him. He was about to enter his house again, when his small son exclaimed: “Oh! I can see him coming, dad. The tops of the docks are moving.” (Laughter). Mr Broadhead mentioned that if one was to move off the footpath during the winter there was a possibility of becoming bogged, while the street generally was badly formed and bumpy.

In a statement made in Wellington yesterday, the Hon. W. B. Taverner (Minister of Railways) drew attention to the fact that Anzac Way (April 25) would this year fall on the Friday following Easter Monday. “This proximity,” said Mr Taverner, “makes the problem of dealing with through passenger traffic on Anzac Day somewhat more difficult than it has been on previous years. The Act provides that Anzac Day shall be treated as a Sunday, and it is proposed, in order to conform with the spirit of the Act, to suspend the whole of the railway timetable, with the exception of the ordinary Sunday trains, and the express trains between Auckland and Wellington in the North Island, and between Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill, and Christchurch-Grey-mouth, in the South Island. These expresses are the minimum requirements to provide the essential through services and connections to and from the inter-island ferry steamers running on that day.”

Two members of the Press delegation at the Hermitage, Mount Cook, Mr A. J. Allport (manager of the “Timaru Herald”), and Mr E. Darroch, (manager of the “Timaru Post”) were prevented by unforseen circumstances from taking part in the business of the various newspaper organisations. Accompanied by Guide Hilgendorf, they left the Hermitage on Saturday afternoon lor Haast Hut (7000 feet), intending to return early on Sunday morning. They reached the hut in due course, but did not get back to the Hermitage until late yesterday afternoon. A terrific gale blew on Saturday night, followed by torrential rain all day on Sunday. Snow set in on Sunday night and continued heavily throughout Monday, making the party close prisoners in the hut. The weather cleared on Monday night, and yesterday turned out to be a perfect day. The party, on their release from the hut, attempted to ascend the glacier dome, but thick snow frustrated their efforts, and they returned to the Bail Hut (Tasman Glacier), thence travelling by motor to the Hermitage.

Tennis players are pleased with the rackets which England, Mcßae’s are offering at specially reduced end-of-season prices. These are all high quality rackets genuinely reduced to avoid being carried over to next season. This presents a great opportunity to players of every calibre to secure the racket they want at a price much below the usual. England, Mcßae’s have a wonderful display of quality rackets to choose from and invite you to call in and make your choice