GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19525, 26 June 1933, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

Nine points ol rain fell in Timaru on Saturday, and a further fall of four points was recorded yesterday, making a total for the week-end of thirteen points. A bullock which killed out at 12401 b was sold last week to an Ashburton butcher and is thought to be one of the largest ever bred in the Ashburton County. The beast was a four-year-old purebred Shorthorn in prime condition. A specially augmented choir of 40 voices under the eonductorship of Mr J. W. Holdgate, gave an artistic rendering of Mozart's “Twelfth Mass,” at Bank Street Methodist Church after the evening service last night. Mr A. Gibb presided at the organ. The musical treat was enjoyed by a fairly large congregation. "If the Salvation Army makes as great progress during the next 50 years as it has done in the last 40 years, why, all the mayors and members of Parliament will be playing In the Band,” remarked Commissioner Cunningham at the Salvation Army jubilee celebrations yesterday, when referring to the remarkable progress the Army had made In New Zealand. The Mayor (Mr T. W. Satterthwaite) and the Rev. Clyde Carr, M.P., who were on the platform, joined in the laughter.

Two stock trains from the south carried more than 8000 sheep to North Canterbury freezing works last week. There was a total of 137 trucks on the two trains, by far the largest consignment of fat sheep and lambs from southern centres to North Canterbury this season.

Fewer people than usual made use of the excursion trains yesterday, the fact probably being accounted for by the inclement weather. Only 150 people left Timaru for the north, and the contingent from Christchurch and intermediate stations was only 160 strong.

A member of the Technical College fifth-grade Rugby team, K. Worthington, had the misfortune to break a collarbone while playing against High School A on Fraser Park on Saturday. The lad was attended by members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.

The action of the chairman of the Westland Hospital Board (Mr W. Jeffries) in declining to accept the customary honorarium this year in view of the difficult times was warmly commended by the members of the Board at a recent meeting, his generous offer being accepted after tribute had been paid to the large amount of time and thought expended by Mr Jeffries in carrying out the duties of his office.

The chairman of the Napier Secondary Education Board (Mr W. Dinwiddie) has warned holders of free places that the State requires them to make regular attendance at school, and to make satisfactory progress in their studies. Free places may be cancelled because of irregular attendance, lack of diligence, or for misconduct, and it is now intended that the regulations shall be more strictly enforced, ne said. The statement was made as an outcome of a report from the principal of the Napier Boys' High School that in many cases parents did not give all the assistance they might to ensure the regular attendance of their boys.

The takeable size of trout in the Rangitata and Rakaia Rivers is at present 10 inches, but the council of the Ashburton Acclimatisation Society, which controls the rivers, is considering increasing the size to 12 inches. A letter to this effect was received from the Ashburton Society by the council of the North Canterbury Society recently, and was referred to the rivers committee for a report. The president (Mr F. Steans) said that the matter was an important one and should be carefully considered. He added that the North Canterbury Society had been stocking the Rakaia River for years, and therefore had a considerable interest in it .

At the foot of the fountain opposite the corner of Princes Street and Rattray Street in Dunedin, a brass tablet was placed on April Ist proclaiming the fact that there, 50 yearsi ago, had started the first work of the Salvation Army in New Zealand. Commissioner Cunningham told a reporter of “The Timaru Herald” yesterday that to his knowledge it was one of only three such tablets in the world. One was placed at a street corner in Philadelphia to mark the spot where the Army’s work was inaugurated in the United States, and the other was let into the pavement of Whitechapel Road, London, showing the place where William Booth has commenced his life’s work.

The fact that the founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth, had started life as a pawnbroker’s assistant in Nottingham, and later when he went to London, had worked again as a pawnbroker’s assistant in that city, was referred to by Commissioner Cunningham in the course of an address on the origin and work of the Army, which he delivered yesterday in connection with the celebration of the golden jubilee of the Army in New Zealand. The Commissioner said that on the celebration of the founder's centenary in London, representatives of the National Pawnbrokers’ Association had approached the Salvation Army headquarters and asked permission to place a tablet on the shop m which William Booth had worked, proclaiming the fact that he had been employed there, and the tablet was still to be seen in London.

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