GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18518, 15 March 1930, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

Members of the party of Empire farmers who ere touring New Zealand passed through Timaru yesterday on their way south. The Committee of the Hawke's Bav Agricultural end Pastoral Society and i the Council of the Royal Show Society have fixed October 21st.. 22nd.. and 23rcl | as dates for this year’s Royal Show at j Tomoana. The annual cricket match between the first and second elevens of the Timaru and Waitaki Boys' High Schools will be played on the Waitaki school grounds on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next. The Byrd Expedition ships will not sail for New "York till next Friday. Despite her buffeting the City of New York needs no structural repairs. The tentative route for the vessels is Dunedin. Tahiti, and Panama. Between them the vessels will ship 700 tons of coal. Summer-time which came into operation on Sunday. October 13, at which date clocks throughout the Dominion were advanced half an hour, will end at 2 o’clock to-morrow morning. To be on the safe side, a majority of citizens will probably set their time-pieces back half an hour before retiring to-night, but church goers who fail to take this precaution will probably find themselves a little late for morning service. A cable massage from Melbourne reports that when Hagen and Kirkwood arrived in Melbourne from Sydney a large gathering of amateur and professional golfers gave them a fine reception. Hagen was presented with a large fire extinguisher fci case his matches again should explode. Kirkwood received a large vaccination I certificate as a memento of his quarantine experiences. The pair later played an 18 hole exhibition match on the Metropolitan links, in the presence of the Governor General. The first f.scent of Mount Cook (12,349 ft.) this season was made on Thursday, when Mr Ken Parker, of Dunedin, and Mr Arthur Shand, of Culverden, with guides Williams and Bowie, made the ascent from the Haast Hut via the Linda glacier in 18 hours. Mount Cook was unusually accessible last summer and was actually climbed three times in one week, but conditions have been very bad all this season. Mr Shand on a former occasion got within a thousand feet of the top. but was driven back by a high wind. Miss Lilian Familton, of Oamaru, approaching from the Hooker Valley, climbed the third peak . 11787 ft.) but was prevented from crossing to the high peak by the extreme difficulty of the conditions. In the evening classes at the Timaru Technical College this year, the enrolments are greater in number than was the case last year, and enrolments are still being made. Last year, especially in the case of the evening classes, accommodation was fully taxed, and the question of accommodation this year will be a serious one. Dressmaking and plumbling are exceptionally popular this year, and when the new domestic science teacher commences duty, it will be necessary to divide the dressmaking pupils into

three classes. Two classes will be required in the plumbing section, as the college workshop is too small to accommodate, on one evening, all the pupils who have enrolled.

Yesterday morning, Commander G. W. T. Robertson, of H.M. sloop Veronica, at present in port, paid an official return visit to the Timaru Harbour Board, represented by Mr G. T. Dawson (chairman) Mr F. Metson (acting-secretary) and Mr W. T. Ritchie, and the Borough of Timaru, represented by the Mayor, Mr W. Angland, and Mr E. A. Killick, (Town Clerk), at the Borough Council Chambers. The Mayor extended a welcome to Commander Robertson and his officers and rrew to Timaru. and this was endorsed by Mr Dawson in a brief speech. Commander Robertson said that he wished to thank the speakers for the cordial welcome that they had given the officers and crew of the Veronica, and he was sure that their .short stay in Timaru would be most enjoyable.

In an address in Timaru yesterday Sir H. Lindo Perguson. of Dunedin, said that for an educated community, some of New Zealand’s citizens showed a lamentable lack of commonsense in advising medical men of symptoms ei cancer. Some women, who had been affected, were so terrified at the disease that they failed to acquaint the medical authorities of it, until the disease had a good hold, and much pain was felt. On the appearance of an abnormal lump, medical advice should be sought, and then a surgeon would be given a chance to remove it, or meet the disease by radium treatment. Thcie was a mistaken notion that because the lump did not hurt, it could not be a symptom of cancer. “Give us a chance to save your lives.” said Sir Lindo. “We are not a bloodthirsty group who want to cut you about and will not operate unless there is every necessity."

The annual conference of the New Zealand Federation of Justices of the Peace Association will this year be held in Timaru for the first time, commencing on Wednesday next. Delegates will arrive in Timaru on Tuesday, from all parts of New Zealand and the following morning at 10 o’clock will be tendered a civic reception by the Mayor

(Mr W. Angland). The conference will proceed to business, in the Council Chambers, after the reception, and at 3.30 will adjourn to visit the Bay, where afternoon tea will be taken. The conference will continue in the evening, and on Thursday, until 3.30 when there will be an adjournment, to visit the Park and have afternoon tea. The conference will resume on Thursday evening. If the business is concluded that evening, delegates will be free on Friday morning, and in the afternoon will be taken for a motor ride through Hadlow, Tycho Valley. Cave, Cannington, to Pareora dam. and Holme

Station, thence to the Main South road to Kingsdown, where all will be entertained at afternoon tea by Mr and Mrs C. E. Kerr at “Craigielea.” On Friday evening a social will be held. Delegates will travel to the Hermitage on Saturday, to spend the week-end. The business of the conference will be the election of officers and the consideration of a number of important remits. The present president is Mr Harold Trimble.' 1 of Inglewood. Taranaki, and the registrar is Mr I. Salek. Wellington. “Eggs, and how to obtain them," is the title of an interesting leaflet giving full particulars ol' the most effective poultry spice on the market—"Moreg” poultry spice. “Moreg” is made in New Zealand, and is distributed in South Canterbury by England, Mcßae’s, Ltd.. Timaru. it has been proved a great producer of eggs even in winter time, its analysis compares more than favourably with any other preparation, and it is manufactured by a man who knows the poultry business from A to Z. Ask your local storekeeper for “Moreg” or England, Mcßae's. Ltd., Timaru