GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18629, 26 July 1930, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

It is expected that the Burnett Memorial Church at Cave will be opened during August, and that the dedication service will be in Gaelic.

In the “Herald” of July 27, 1870, the Provincial Government notified that it would receive applications for free passages for single women—domestic servants—between the ages of 15 and 35; and for assisted passages for families and single men.

Mr Herbert Hall, who returned from Auckland yesterday, where he has been arranging with an Auckland syndicate for the erection of two hotels in the South Island, stated that he was of opinion that any amount of capital was available in the North Island for sound enterprise.

The work of repairing and strengthening the Eastern Extension is proceeding steadily. At yesterday’s meeting of the Timaru Harbour Board, the chairman (Mr G. T. Dawson) stated that the amount spent on the Extension to date was £16,000. The quantity of stone brought down to date is 41,000 tons.

In the course of his statement at yesterday’s meeting of the Timaru Harbour Board, the chairman (Mr G. T. Dawson) said that after the last meeting of the Board, members had visited the dredge while at work. He had been surprised at the stuff the dredge was bringing up, which was of a fairly solid nature. What he had expected to find was soft sand. Under the circumstances, he considered the dredge was doing gffbd work.

“The news from Melbourne by the last mail Is considered satisfactory, and is likely to stimulate exportation of grain to that market,” stated the “Herald” in its Commercial Intelligence on July 27, 1870. “An inferior sample of New Zealand wheat has been sold there at 4/4 per bushel, and oats are in demand at 3/6 to 3/7. The cost of shipping grain to Melbourne from Timaru, with duty and all charges paid, is about 1/3 per bushel.”

The annual trials of the South Canterbury Motor Cycle Club are to be held to-morrow, the first man leaving the show grounds at 9 a.m. A course, 115 miles in length has been chosen, and it embraces a wide diversity of countrycovering both good roads and littleused grass tracks. It will be a test for both man and machine, and while not unduly hard, it will require, the closest concentration if a possible score is to be obtained. The number of entries received is satisfactory, riders and drivers from as far afield as Christchurch and Oamaru entering, as well as a strong contingent of Timaru riders. There is also a light car class, and the entries for this section have exceeded the hopes of the organisers. The finishing point will be at the show grounds, where the first man Is expected about 3.30. ,

“The financial tone in the North Island seems to be quite optimistic, and averal authorities are of opinion that the crisis of the great slump is passing/’ said Mr Herbert Hall, of Timaru, who returned from Auckland yesterday. He said that the Co-oper-ative Dairy Company of the Waikato, which had as large a turnover as the Nsw Zealand Railways, had stated that, although prices were smaller for produce, the actual amount they would pay to farhiers in dividends would equal that of last year. The season had been good, and several people who had spoken to Mr Hall on the business outlook in the north were more optimistic than in the South Island.

The secretary of the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce has received the following letter from Mr Clyde Carr, M.P.:—“I wish to acknowledge with thanks your letter of the lfth. instant, just now to hand, conveying the text of a resolution passed by your Council, and forwarded to the Right Hon. the Prime Minister, having relation to the Unemployment Committee’s report, and duty on stock foods, and the retention of the wheat duties. In reply, I wish to state that the matter received has my close and favourable attention. Your Chamber may take it from me that there is no possibility of the sliding scale being interfered with so far as the next crop of wheat is concerned. Further, I believe that the weight of opinion in the House is thoroughly in favour of adequate protection for the wheatgrowers, whether by import duty or by subsidy.”

The fortnightly meeting of the Timaru Lodge of Druids was held on Tuesday evening. The Arch Druid. Bro. Robinson, presiding over a good attendance of members. Correspondence was received from the Workers’ Educational Association, and Otago Lodge, introducing P.A. Bro. Kilgour. Now a resident of Timaru, Bro. Kilgour is a keen Druid, and will be an addition to the Lodge. The sick bards reported on the sick brethren, and the sum of £lB/10/8 was passed for payment; also a maternity claim. The anniversary social is to be held in the Scottish Hall on October 6. It was decided to enter a team for the Muchmore Shield competition for ritual work. Four guineas was passed to the Cancer Campaign Fund. The evening was spent in cards and dancing, the ladies supplying the baskets. Bro. McDonald supplied the music, and P.D.P. Bro. Ruston acted as M.C. During the evening a presentation was made to Bro. and Mrs Farrow, of a silver teaset for his services to the Lodge during his 30 years. P.D.P. Bro. Ruston made the presentation, and Bro. Farrow replied. A vote of thanks was passed to the ladies who provided the supper.

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