GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19245, 27 July 1932, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS

The Waikato coal miners’ strike has been settled, and the Auckland retail prices for household and kitchen coal were increased on Saturday. Radio messages to Chateu Tongariro, National Park, and to the Hermitage, Mt. Cook, were sent out through the Australian station, 2UW, on Saturday evening. The speaker was Captain F. Chaffey, Chief Secretary for New South Wales, and he spoke from Kosciusko, the Australian alpine resoj t. If the citizens in work were doing their best to tide the unemployed over their difficulties, the most that could, be expected of the relief workers was that they should do something to help themselves and others, said Mr J. S. Jessep, deputy-chairman of the Unemployment Board at New Plymouth, when justifying the board’s request that relief workers should cultivate vegetable gardens. The question of insecurity of tenure did not affect the principle. The board expected relief workers to cultivate vegetables to help themselves, their wives, and families, and he did not think the man who would not make a garden plot was entitled to much sympathy. There arrived in Timaru yesterday by the s.s. Kaikorai, from Australia, a shipment of 12,600 sacks of wheat which is for use in Timaru mills. An examination of a small sample of the wheat disclosed it to be about the equivalent of Hunters in both quality and price. It was also clear, however, that the wheat had not been as cleanly threshed as New Zealand wheat, as It contained a goodly sprinkling of oats, some straw, an odd thistle or two, and one or tv/o wild oats. It should, however, be suitable for milling with the softer wheat which is now prevalent in South Canterbury. A noticeable point concerning the shipment was ihat the sacks were second-hand, and were practically worthless, a majority of them being only fit to be sent to the paper mills. It was evident that in some cases the sacks had previously o?en used for potatoes.

Probate has been granted by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in the following deceased estates: —John William Bain, of Temuka, clerk; Patrick O’Sullivan, of Temuka, retired farmer; Frances May Cameron, of Wainui. married woman; Joe Howard, of Timaru. lift attendant; Morton George Williams, of Geraldine, journalist; Thomas Hughes, of Geraldine, retired inspector of schools; Francis John Samuel Major, of Timaru. french polisher; Christopher Lysaght, of St. Andrews, farmer; Robert Crombie, of Timaru, retired farmer; Matthew Daly, of St. Andrews, farmer; Francis Henry Barker, of Timaru, retired sheepfarmer; Ellen Kennedy, of Temuka, widow; Barbara Macmillan, of Geraldine, widow; Robert Aitken, of Opihi, farmer; Isabella Cameron, of Ashburton. widow; James Gibson Gow. of Timaru, retired school inspector; John Kelman, of Washdyke, farmer; Percy Gatherall Robertson, of Timaru. news foreman; Thomas Langley Smith, of Timaru, fisherman; Caroline Norgan, of Ashburton, married woman; Annie Anderson, of Pleasant Point, married woman: James Breen, of Temuka, retired farmer; Alexander Russell, of Arowhenua, farmer. Letters of administration have been granted as follows: —Joseph Andrews, of Temuka, Power Board employee; William Mackie, of Pleasant Point, farmer; Robert Henry Morgan, of Timaru, butcher.

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