GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18538, 8 April 1930, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS

During the quarter ended Mareh 31, fourteen cases were dealt with in the Children’s Court in Tlmaru. Of this total eleven were against boys and three against girls.

The Foxton Harbour Board has decided to protest against the activities of the railway business agents, who are endeavouring to persuade flaxmillers to send the whole of their hemp by rail to Wellington, by offering reduced freight which it is alleged would undercut the shipping rate and at the same time be unprofitable to the railway.

A Christchurch telegram states that the balance sheet for the Christchurch Tramways for the year ended March 31st shows a deficit of £320. The tramways showed a surplus of £3248, and buses a deficit of £3568. In the previous year the tramways surplus was £12,843 and the ’bus deficiency £5084; net surplus £7759. Reduced concession fares were operating during months of the past financial year.

Rear-Admiral Byrd is not an orator, and it has been remarked that if he had had to talk his way to the Pole he would not have got far beyond Otago Heads. He realises this himself, and in his replies to civic and other welcomes he works off a little joke at his own expense which seems to bear repetition. After a period of hesitancy, the famous explorer will say: “I made some notes in the train (or elsewhere), and now I can’t read them.”

On the ground that the Minister of Internal Affairs should have an opportunity of perusing a report before it appeared in the papers, Councillor F. R. Flatman, at yesterday’s meeting of the Geraldine County Council, opposed the handing of the report, that it was decided to submit to the Minister, to the pressmen for publication. After some discussion, in which Councillor Flatman alleged that newspapers did more harm than good, it was decided to follow the usual custom and to hand the report over for publication.

In his reply to eulogistic speeches at a civic reception tendered to him In Christchurch last evening, Rear-Ad-miral Byrd paid a handsome tribute to the memory of Scott and his ill-fated companions. The American aviatorexplorer stated that, having seen what Scott had achieved without the aid of modern science, he marvelled at the superhuman feat performed by the British party. He said that in their heroic deaths Scott and his companions had given the world something greater than they could have done had they returned safely.

At a civic reception to Rear-Admiral Byrd at Christchurch last evening, the proceedings being broadcast. one speaker remarked that Byrd was the only man who had flown to both Poles, and added that it was appropriate that the achievement should have been performed by a man with such a name. In the course of his reply, the explorer, emphasising that speech making was not in his line, said it had been claimed that of the bird tribe the parrot was the best talker and the worst liar. He naively added that the previous speakers were good talkers.

A young man, 22 years of age, appeared before Commander Steward and Mr P. B. Foote, J.P..S, at the Timaru Police Court yesterday morning charged with behaving in a disorderly maner in a public place. Senior-Sergeant Mathieson said that the offender had been arrested at 6 o’clock on Saturday night. He was very drunk, and had persisted in wanting to fight another man, who was quite sober. He had very properly been refused admission to an hotel. Defendant had been bailed out for £5 on Sunday morning. Defendant was convicted and fined 10/-.

A meeting of the entertainment sub-committee of the North End Association’s Easter Carnival was held last evening at Waimataitai School. There were present.—Messrs R. Watson (chairman), G. H. Andrews, F. Oxford, C. G. Baker, H. Kebby, Liggins, W. Wakefield and R. A. Malcolm. Progress reports were made by various members, and arrangements for drill display, adult dances, children's fancy dress dance, sack football, pillow fights, etc., were advanced almost to finality, these to be worked in with other forms of entertainment arranged for by other sub-committees.

The return of business transacted at the Timaru Magistrate’s Court for the quarter ended March 31 is as follows: Civil sitting days 10, criminal 43; total amount sued for £3414/15/9; applications heard in Chambers, 63; plaints entered, 213; distress warrants issued, 8; judgment summonses issued, 55; summonses and other processes served by bailiff, 230; warrants executed by bailiff, 25. The number of criminal cases against males was 185, and against females 21. Fees and fines amounted to £417/5/10, made up as follows;Civil fees paid in stamps, £193/14/10; criminal fees paid in stamps, £59/15/0; fines paid in stamps, £156; licensing fees paid in stamps, £7/16/.

‘‘We would be very well rid of her out of Timaru, as she would not add to the good name of the town,” said Senior-Sergeant Mathieson, at the Timaru Police Court yesterday, when outlining the facts concerning a charge of drunkenness, which had been brought against a women. Commander Steward and Mr P. B. Foote, J.P.’s, were on the Bench. SeniorSergeant Mathieson added the woman, who had 1/- only in her possession, had been arrested on Sunday in a very drunken condition. ‘‘We look on Sunday drunks as being more serious than ordinary cases,” he said. Defendant, who was a statutory first offender, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called on, and was ordered to leave the town immediately.

The New Zealand delegation to the conference of the Empire Press Union, which is to be held in London during June, will leave Auckland by the Niagara to-day for Vancouver.

At a largely attended meeting of the Hillside brarich (Dunedin) of the A.S.R.S., the following resolutions were unanimously carried:—“That this meeting has every confidence in Mr T. Bloodworth as the Workers’ representative on the Workers’ Compensation Committee set up by the Government.*’ “That the Hillside branch of the A.S.R.S. while agreeing with the principle of unemployment insurance, protests against a proposed attempt to make the workers provide the bulk of the finance,” was unanimously decided by the Hillside (Dunedin) Branch of the A.S.R.S.

A splendid example of unostentatious giving has been shown for some time in the records of St. Saviour’s Orphanages, states the “Church News.” At irregular intervals over a period of years sums of £IOO have been received in banknotes through the post, bearing the stamp of a Christchurch suburban post office, and a short note, over certain initials, requesting that the contributions should be acknowledged in a particular newspaper. There is a touch of the mysterious and the romantic ,as the authorities have not the slightest clue to the identity of the anonymous donor. A total of £7OO has been received in thi6 manner, and, needless to say, the contributions have been exceptionally welcome at a period when funds have been so urgently needed. Under instructions from the donor the capital sums have been invested, the income being used in assisting with the maintenance of the Shirley Girls’ Home.

Mr G. H. Coles, Dominion Organiser of the New Zealand No More War Movement, addressed a meeting at the Unitarian Hall last evening on the subject of the “Abolition of Compulsory Military Training in New Zealand.” The lecture was illustrated by lantern slides, which depicted the horrors of war and the connection between military training and what the speaker described as its inevitable and ghastly results. At the conclusion of the lecture questions were invited and several obviously hostile ones were answered to the discomfiture of the questioners. The following resolution was proposed by Mr G. Koller and seconded by Mr D. Mills: “That this meeting accords to Mr Cole a hearty vote of thanks for his courtesy and courage in addressing this meeting.” Speaking to his motion, Mr Koller expressed appreciation of Mr Cole’s fairness, broad-mindedness and tolerance in presenting his case to a generally hostile audience. Lieut.-Colonel L. M. Inglis moved an amendment, which was seconded by Captain A. N. Oakey: “That this meeting expresses its disagreement with and disapproval of the sentiments expressed and statements made by the lecturer.” Before putting the amendment, the chairman, the Rev. Clyde Carr, appealed to the mover at least to include the usual expression of thanks to the lecturer. This the mover declined to do. The amendment was then put and declared carried, and the meeting closed.

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