GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18637, 5 August 1930, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

Early lambs have made their appearance in the Woodbury district.

Eleven degrees of frost were registered at Woodbury on Friday, and 12 degrees on Saturday.

Yesterday was the sixteenth anniversary of the entry of Great Britain into the Great War.

A meeting of women, held in the Town Hall, Auckland, strongly protested against the exclusion of wageearning women from the benefits of the the Unemployment Bill.

Thd Borough Council at a special meeting held last night resolved by special order to raise a loan of £6OOO. by means of the sale of debentures to the public, for the relief of unemployment. A further resolution made provision for the widening of the junction of Sefton and LeCren Streets.

Under the will of Mrs Anne Taylor dimming, who died last week, the following charitable bequests were made: South Island Methodist Orphanage, £150; Methodist Church Foreign Missions. £SO; Addington Methodist Church, £150; Presbyterian Social Service Association, £SO; Dr Barnado’s Homes, £2OO. — (Press Association.)

There was a change in the weather conditions in Timaru yesterday, light rain falling throughout the afternoon. A light frost was registered yesterday morning, but up 4 TI mid-day the sky was overcast. Rain then set in for a short period, but following a break of an hour or so. it recommenced, and at an early hour this morning, there was no sign of a clearance. On August sth, 1870. the Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works authorised the chairman (Mr P. B. Luxmoore), to sign the contract for the Rangitata traffic bridge. Some discussion took place on the possibility of the bridge being used later for railway as well as traffic purposes, and the engineer stated that the structure could be strengthened if required. At yesterday’s meeting of the Geraldine County Council a black cat strayed into the meeting room. The fact that black cats are supposed to be lucky cropped up in the conversation, and drew forth a decision to allow the intruder to remain in the warmth of the room. “It is not a county cat, or it would be fatter,” remarked one Councillor amidst laughter. Probate was granted by His Honour Mr Justice Adams on the 2nd inst., in the following South Canterbury estates, on the application of Messrs Raymond, Raymond and Campbell:— Edwin Rowland Guinness, late of Timaru, merchant, and Timothy Kelliher, late of Orari Bridge, farmer. Letters of administration were granted in the estates of William James Benson, late of Albury, labourer, and Thomas John Alfred Goulding, late of Levels, labourer. In order to celebrate the first occasion on which the wife of a Governor-General is a Welsh lady, the Wellington Welsh Society, of Wellington, has cabled to the Royal National Eistedfodd, at Llanelly, offering a bard’s chair for the 1935 setting, and also a cash prize of £25 for the best ode submitted. The chair will be of kauri, and the chairing ceremony is one of the oldest institutions of the Eistedfodd, dating back to the time of the Druids. Addressing the Rotary Club yesterday, Mr A. M. Paterson emphasised the importance of destroying all cows affected by tuberculosis, particularly in order to prevent children from being infected by the disease from using the milk of such animals. He added that in spite of all warnings as to the danger to the health of their own children from keeping a diseased cow, there were still people who concealed such beasts from the veterinary officers. Only last week he had come across a cow in a bad tuberculosis condition, the milk of which was being used by a family of young children.

Mr A. M. Paterson in his address to the Rotary Club yesterday explained how tuberculosis and other diseases among stock have been greatly reduced by destroying affected animals. Later he contrasted the comfortable conditions under which medical men attend to their patients with the way in which the veterinary surgeon has to treat an animal in any sort of weather in the paddock. Referring to these points, a Rotarian who was expressing the thanks of the Club to the lecturer, said he thought the veterinary surgeon had one advantage over the doctor—he could at least kill a patient when he could do no good.

The oil companies have increased the wholesale price of motor spirit by twopence per gallon for bulk supplies and by threepence per gallon for cased spirit. If the Government’s proposals are put into effect the increase in duty will be about 3 l-3d per gallon, and in the meantime the wholesale distributors appear to be carrying 1 l-3d of of the extra impost. Whether this is a tentative measure, to be followed by another increase in the event of the Customs resolutions being ratified, is not known. The full increase in lubricating oils has been passed on to the consumer, and it is understood that one or two brands which have been regarded as of British origin will have their “nationality” questioned.

The presentation of caps to members of the first fifteen of the Timaru Boys’ High School took place yesterday afternoon. The ceremony is usually performed prior to the annual match with Waitaki, and is regarded as one of the events of the School year. The Rector (Mr W. Thomas, M.A.) presided and there were also present a large number of Old Boys. The presentation was made by Mr G. A. Simmers, M.A., a former Rector, who recounted the early struggles between the two schools on the football field. He pointed out that in the early days, Waitaki had a bigger roll to draw from than Timaru, but the prestige of the school had always been kept on a high plane, and as the school grew, it was able to hold its own. The remarks of Mr Simmers were supplemented by Messrs G. D. Virtue (President of the Old Boys’ Association), A. J. Allport, C. Thomson, A. N. Leslie and Dr W. Hamilton. Those who received caps were:—D. J. Manning (captain), E. J. Bishop, B. V. A. Jones, K. W. Hall, E. W Ryan, L. J. Stoddart, R Sutherland, W. R. Tizard, F Wallis, H. T. Satterthwaite, C. W. Blue, S. Green, H. M. Seivwright, J. M. Wilson and G. H. Geddes.

Primroses were apparently valuable in Timaru in 1870. when a residen offered £5 reward for information concerning a person who dug a root from a border in front of his house.

There was an unusual ending to the wrestling encounter at the Sydney Stadium last night. The contestants were Thye and Edwards. In the fifth round the announcer emitted his familiar “Ho! Ho!” and went on to say “This is funny.” When the uproar had subsided he announced that Edwards in a dive at Thye, had kicked the referee in the stomach ancl knocked him out. The grapplers proceeded while the referee was writhing on all fours alongside the ropes, unable to follow the bout. Edwards then pinned Thye for several seconds, when when the referee recovered he awardee the fall, and the match to Thye. Thye left the ring, but Edwards remained protesting for several minutes, and the crowd was still demonstrating in his favour when 2BL “returned to the studio.”

The forty-seventh anniversary of the Salvation Army in Timaru was celebrated last night, when an enjoyable musical programme was given by the Trinity Presbyterian Choir. Bandmaster W. Hawkey presided. At the conclusion of the concert a vote of thanks to the Choir was moved by Band-Sergeant Kay. The programme was as follows:—Anthem, “The Grace ‘of God.” Combined Choirs; song, “A Perfect Day,” Mr Turkington; anthem. “Stars of Evening”; song, “Bird of Love Divine," Miss Margaret Martin; part-song, “Beauteous Morn,”; instrumental trio, “Largo from Concerto” (violins and piano), Misses Ransome and Mrs Parkin; anthem, “Jesus Meek and Lowly”; trio, “Lift Thine Eyes”; anthem, “Love Not The World,” Girls' Junior Choir; song, “Angels Guard Thee,” Miss Joyce Healey; anthem, “In Humble Faith.” soloist, Master Colin Griffiths; song, “A Child’s Evening Song.” Miss Gwenyth Milne; anthem, “O, Saviour of the World”; instrumental trio, “Petite Overture”; anthem, “Magnificat”; song, “A May Morning,” Miss Mavis Skilling; anthem, “I Will Find My Flock.” Girls’ Junior Choir; anthem, “Fierce Was The Wild Billow”; part-song, “Fly Singing Bird. Fly” (with violin obligato); anthem. “Before The Ending Of The Day” (for ladies voices).

Addressing the meeting of anglers on Saturday evening in Timaru, Professor Percival. in dealing with the decrease in the number and size of the trout and streams, said that the fish were up against civilisation. Since the introduction of the trout, the bush at the heads of many of the rivers had been cut down or burned off, and the beds of many rivers had been narrowed and straightened. This caused the water to rush to sea with much greater speed that when the country was in a less civilised state and the conditions in the beds of the streams had been changed, stones particularly, being rolled down faster and further with the result that the shelter for the fish and their food supplies was greatly altered. The trout, in his opinion, was a very adaptable fish and find : ng its food supply and conditions generally in the streams changing for the worse, it had gone to sea. In England the trout lived in the upper reaches of the streams and did not travel to the mouths. He would not like to say with his present knowledge whether it was better to strip sea-run trout or purely river trout for re-stocking purposes; in either case they were working in the dark at present, but it might be better to use the river trout which had not displayed the migratory habit. But when putting out the young into the rivers, it was better to put out ten lots of a thousand, than one lot of ten thousand —they had a better chance of dodging the eels and other enemies which made a big meal whenever a batch was put out before the artificially reared youngsters had time to become accustomed to their new quarters and look after themselves. For the same reason he thought probably it was better to put out ova before the sac had disappeared, as these ova went down into the shingle, and had some protection there against their enemies until they had grown up a little.

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