GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19509, 8 June 1933, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS

The Lyttelton Harbour Board has granted £SOO to the relief appeal launched by the Businessmen’s Committee. The fund now totals nearly £4OOO.

The recent rains in South Canterbury have enabled ploughing operations to be proceeded with, and farmers are now busy preparing the ground for the 1934 crops.

Two constables were stationed on the Ashburton traffic bridge on Monday in an endeavour to locate motorists who had not renewed their motor registrations or had failed to renew their driving licenses.

Owing to the late arrival of the ferrysteamer at Lyttelton yesterday through rough weather in Cook Strait, the first express for the south did not wait in Lyttelton, but arrived in Timaru up to schedule. Ferry passengers were brought south by the second express which reached Timaru at 3.28 p.m.

The Marlborough Aero Club’s Spartan aeroplane ZK-ABZ. after being rebuilt at Timaru by New Zealand Airways, was delivered on Tuesday at Blenheim by Mr H. M. Mackay. The machine was piloted from Timaru to Blenheim by Squadron-leader T. W. White, who had Mr Mackay with him as a passenger.

A Press Association message from Wellington last week mentioned that Mr R. L. Wigley, of Timaru, would probably be one of a party of five New Zealanders who would be attending the Australian ski championships in August. It was stated yesterday, however, that Mr Wigley had no intention of visiting Australia.

The general manager of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board (Mr E. C. Hands, states that, commencing on Sunday, June 19, the four A. stations conducted by the Board will give three hours more service on Sundays. the extensions being from 9 a.m. till 11 a.m., and commencing the afternoon session at 1 p.m. instead of an hour later.

The dog-tax collector to the Levels County Council reported to the monthly meeting of that body yesterday that he had registered 1219 dogs. Some of the owners were paying the tax by instalments. The chairman (Mr T. B. Garrick) remarked that this showed the state of the country, when a man who owned three or four dogs had to pay the tax by instalments. It is estimated that the value to South Canterbury of wheat ship}>ed by the Dalmore and Pakeha recently, is in the vicinity of £30.000. The Dalmore’s 75.000 sacks included 20.000 from Ashburton, but the Pakeha’s shipment of 15,000 sacks came from this district. Many farmers regard the shipments as a very good way of getting rid of a most undesirable wheat surolus. In the course of his report to the monthly meeting of the Levels Council yesterday, the engineer (Mr T. Black) stated: “During the month we have experienced light drizzly rains which have had a detrimental effect on many of the lightly gravelled roads—in many places the match coat has disappeared and if these roads are not resurfaced with fine gravel they will rapidly deteriorate if much wet weather continues during the short days. However, mast of the heavy carting has been finished for the season, and the heaviest traffic is the passage of threshing and chaff-cutting plants.”

At a meeting of the Main School Committee last night, when the question of dental clinic finance was under discussion, Mr C. Lund asked what the position would be, if, following the establishment of sub-clinics at West South and Waimataitai, those schools asked for a refund of the £25 they had each contributed towards the furnishings, etc., at the central clinic at the Main School. The chairman: “They will have to take it if they want it, but I don't know where they are going to get it from.”

In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M.. W. Hessell was ordered to give possession of a house to Mahalah Ballan on or before June 12th and to pay costs 19/-. George Elliot was ordered to give possession of a house to Michael Joseph -llivan on or before June 17th, and judgment for arrears of rent, amounting to £l3/10/- was entered for plaintiff, with costs £2/16/-. Judgment for plaintiff by default was entered in a c_3e in which William John Harding proceeded against H. Rollinson for £l9/10/- with costs £l/3/-.

A Timaru merchant has received a letter from a New South Wales firm of produce agents, stating that there does not seem to be any chance of immediate business in New Zealand potatoes. The writer states that the Australian Prime Minister (Mr Lyons) had informed potato-growing interests in the Commonwealth that he would do nothing regarding removal of the embargo on New Zealand potatoes until the end of June or early in July. “Immediately Tasmanian growers were in possession of this undertaking they began to take the fullest possible advantage of the position, and the market is being barefacedly manipulated,” the letter concludes.

Results of the examinations conducted in March, 1933 by the Electrical Wiremen’s Registration Board, which have just been gazetted, include three Timaru successes. A. B. Adkins

and T. V. Marshall passed in the written part of the examination, while T. V. Marshall gained a pass in the practical section. A special prize for the written part was secured by C. Mcl. Bambery, of Palmerston North, who gained 93 marks out of a possible 100. while the prize in the practical section was won by J. A. Clark, of Dunedin, with 84 marks. The marks obtained by the Palmerston North candidate were the highest awarded in the written part of any examination held by the Board.

Reporting to the Levels County Council yesterday, the counties’ traffic inspector (Mr W. R. Ashwell) stated that in his report to the South Canterbury Automobile Association, the road patrolman (Mr T. Owers) had stated that cars without tail lights, cars with only one headlight, and straying stock v/c-re increasing on the main highway. “This is not confirmed by my personal experience. With regard to the taillight and head-light breaches, it has been my policy in the past to avoid harassing the travelling public unnecessarily, and where I meet with cases of this description, I stop the car and tell the driver what is the matter, and often correct the trouble for him. With regard to the straying stock, it will be seen by my reports that this trouble is definitely decreasing, and any stock which I find on the main road are obviously some which have broken out.”

An effort to extinguish a church loan has been undertaken by the parishioners of St. James’, Riccarton, The “Church News” says: “St. James’, Riccarton. has an aggregate debt of about £3OOO, arising out of the building of the church, vicarage. Sunday school, and other incidentals of a completely new outfit. The slump has, of course, affected the parish finances, and it is not surprising that the cure is finding a difficulty in meeting interest and repayment commitments in full. At the annual meeting a scheme was launched which has the merits of bold appeal to generosity and selfsacrifice on the part of those who long to see the parish untrammelled by the heavy debt and able to carry out the expansion which it hinders. A ‘Friends of St. James’ fund was started in which each Friend is to earn the title by contributing £lO either in cash or over a term. A start w T as made with several gifts of £lO. and one parishioner richly earned the title by promising to give the last £lO in every £IOO up to £IOO0 —that is, a conditional gift of £100.”

In one of the windows of England, Mcßae’s hardware store there is a fine display of cutlery cabinets. The cutlery in these cabinets is the product of Sheffield’s most expert craftsmen, and every piece is of beautiful finish and high quality. The solid oak cabinets are artistic and designed for many years of use. The complete cabinets are priced at eight guineas each, and are creating much interest in view of future weddings, and for presentation purposes. See the display at England, Mcßae’s