GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18519, 17 March 1930, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

A cable message from Melbourne announces that a daily aeroplane service between Melbourne and Adelaide has been inaugurated.

A cable message from Sydney that the majority of the sporting fixtures in Sydney were postponed on Saturday, owing to the rain. The races, however, were held.

The members of the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board will arrive by the first express from the south to-day. Mr Cutten, S.M.. will preside at a sitting of the Board in Timaru this afternoon, and to-morrow morning.

To-day is the final day for the payment of rates in the Levels County and the Borough of Timaru, without incurring the 10 per cent, penalty. Up till Saturday the amount paid in the Borough was £50,745, leaving an amount of £11,373 still outsanding.

Whether the Post Office clock objected to being put back half an hour early on Sunday morning, with the conclusion of “Sidey time,” is not known, but on Saturday night it went on “strike” at 11.45 and had to be attended to. Yesterday also, the chimes of the clock were not on their best behaviour, and at one part of the afternoon, forgot to chime altogether.

The itinerary in connection with the visit of the British farmers has been slightly altered. The reception on the Bay has been cut out. so that the visitors will have a free night in Timaru on Friday, 21st inst. Cars from Timaru will meet the tourists at St. Andrews at 4 p.m., and will take them for a tour of "the district arriving in Timaru about 5.30 p.m. On Saturday morning at 9 o’clock they will leave for Ashburton by special train.

About one thousand picnicei’s came to Timaru by yesterday’s excursion trains from Christchurch. The weather w 7 as on its best behaviour, and for the greater part of the day there was bright sunshine, enabling the visitors to indulge freely in bathing, for which purpose the waters of Caroline Bay were pleasantly warm. Three hundred people left Timaru on the train for Christchurch, and this number was added to considerably at the various stops en route.

Following upon a visit made by him some few weeks ago to the relief workers’ camp at Te Moana Gorge, the Rev. Clyde Carr, M.P., has received the following letter from Mr F. Langbein, district engineer for the Public Works Department:—“Referring to your letter of 13th February to the Minister of Public Works on the subject of further employment for the men recently employed on Te Moana Gorge, I have to state that twenty men have been given employment at the Bealey, and are already at work there. Of the balance, I can take up to eight men on the Ahuriri deviation on the Ohau —Lindis Pass highway, and if you will instruct the men to call on the Inspector of Factories at Timaru he will arrange the date of their employment.”

The reversion to standard time at 2 a.m., on Sunday was made without apparent confusion. If any churchgoers, through failure to put their clocks back, arrived early, they attracted less attention than it they had been late. The most noticeable effect of the change was that, by the clock, darkness fell earlier, last night, and lights had to be switched on sooner. One section of the community who welcomed the passing for some months of “Sidey Time” were wireless listeners who devote attention to Australian stations, the difference between the time of the eastern states and that of the Dominion being now 1£ hours instead of 2 hours. Daylight saving has never been popular with many radio enthusiasts.

A large gathering including many Christchurch excursionists, were delighted with the programme rendered by the Timaru Municipal Band under Conductor W. H. Osborne, on Caroline Bay yesterday afternoon. The programme included Marches, “0.H.M.5.” and “Dunedin”; selection, “Memories of Britain”; trombone solo, “The Joywheel"; cornet solo, “The Nightingale”; selection, “The Wedding of the Painted Doll” (by request) and a meditation on the Vesper Hymn. The original interludes were composed and arranged by Mr A. Mullinger, L.R.A.M., at present in Timaru, the work being presented by him to the Band. It showed the organ-like quality of the band’s tone to advantage, and was very much enjoyed by all.

During a southerly wind that sprang up yesterday afternoon, two boat crew's were seen to be in difficulties to the north of the mouth of Timaru harbour. One boat, containing three men who were fishing, was a good distance out to sea, and efforts to make the mouth of the harbour met with little success, heavy seas placing the occupants of the boat in an unenviable predicament. Relief came in the form of a launch, which towed the boat and its occupants to safety. For some time the occupants of the boat were engaged bailing out water, so that it would appear that the rescue averted a really serious position. The second boat that was towed to safety contained three small boys. This boat was not so far out to sea, but the youthful occupants were at a standstill as far as progress towards safety was concerned.

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