CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19568, 15 August 1933, Page 12

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

IN AND ABOUT THE CITY. CHRISTCHURCH, August 14. Personal: Mr W. T. Franks has been appointed a Visiting Justice to Paparua Prison. Mr W. L. Thomas, of Christchurch, has been licensed to act as a public auditor under the Friendly Societies’ Act, 1909. The Hon. Mr Justice MacGregor will return to Christchurch from Dunedin to preside over sittings of the Supreme Court, which will start to-morrow. Mr P. R. Climie. a member of the Unemployment Board, returned to Christchurch from Wellington yesterday morning. Lieutenant-Colonel S. C. P. Nicholls, D. 5.0.. officer commanding the Southern Command, has been promoted to the rank of colonel. Bandmaster (Honorary Lieutenant) J. M. Scott, of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, has resigned his commission. Messrs A. A. Aris and J. R. J. Connolly have been gazetted as secondlieutenants in the First Battalion, Canterbury Regiment. Major L. R„ c. Macfarlane, M.C., •V.D., has been given the command of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, vice Lieutenant-Colonel F. Gorton, who has been posted to the retired list. Messrs W. E. Foster, F. H. E. Ritchie, J. H. Harris, W. R. Johnston, J. McComb. H. S. Pratt, and E. J. Matheson have been appointed as a board to control the Arundel Domain. Mr J. Crabb, who has just retired on superannuation from the firm of Smith and Smith, Ltd., after 40 year's' service, was met by members of the staff at a small function last week, when the manager (Mr J. Sullivan) made him a presentation. Mr Sullivan and other members of the staff spoke very highly of Mr Crabb's services to the firm. Floral Tributes: The decision of the Auckland Repertory Soceity in refusing to allow the presentation of flowers on the stage to performers is interesting in view of a recent decision of the Canterbury Repertory Society to permit gifts to be made to performers on the stage only after the final performance of a season. The reason for the alteration in the custom in Christchurch is that the practice after every performance inclined to get out of hand, and moveover, it led to invidious distinctions. Motor Regulation: With the approach of spring, there is becoming apparent the usual briskening in motor registration transactions at the Christchurch Post Office. In the past few days, hundreds of motorists who till now have let their cars stand idle, have been paying their registration fees and obtaining the number plates which will make them free of the week-end roads. On August 1, this year, 115 cars were registered, a considerable increase compared with the first day of the month last year, when 64 registrations were made. The total of re-registrations for August up till last Saturday was 489. against 366 at the corresponding stage of the month last year.

Sunday Football: Sunday football has come to Christchurch, and relief workers are responsible for the innovation. Yesterday, at Monica Park, the Ruru Road team, comprising relief workers employed by the Reserves Department of the City Council, met a team representing the combined Cashmere Hills relief workers, the latter winning by 19 points to 16. Another match is being arranged for next Sunday. Magistrate’s Escape: "Some of you taxi drivers drive much too fast,” said Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Traffic Court to-day, in a case in which a taxi driver admitted a charge of speeding. "There is quite, a number of reasonable drivers among taximen, but some of you drive much too fast. You will kill someone one of these days. A taxi driver nearly got me the other day at Moorhouse Avenue. He went past at 35 to 40 miles an hour. I was on the right, too. I wish I could have got his nu&iber, but he was going too fast for that.” Daring Theft: Daring thieves have entered a house in Stenness Avenue, Spreydon, while the occupants, Mr and Mrs K. S. Paulsen, were away on holiday. Between the visits of a friend to the house on Friday and Sunday, the place was ransacked, and a Chesterfield suite, a carpet and bedding were taken. Apparently the thieves were aware of the arrangements made for the care of the house while the occupants were away. Everything was in order when the house was visited by the owner’s representatives on Friday, but apparently the thieves were waiting their opportunity. During the night hours between then and Sunday they gained admittance to the house and made their haul. The bulk of the articles taken indicates that a vehicle was used, but no sound was heard by neighbours and the raiders got away unnoticed.

The Dole System: If a system of paying a dole to unemployed instead of providing them with relief work were adopted in New Zealand, the men would get so sick and tired of hanging about that they would be very willing to get back to relief Jobs, was an opinion expressed by Mr F. W. J. Belton at to-day's meeting of the Christchurch Unemployment Committee. It was stated by one member during the meeting that he was not sure that it would not be better to pay a dole rather than give the men relief work.

Mr J. W. Crampton agreed that the men would soon get tired of hanging about, but, in his opinion, that fact would cause them to step out for themselves and do some good. They would not be tied down, but would be able to do something for themselves. Mr W. E. Leadley asked what system of dole would be adopted; the English system, or a sustenance payment for 13 weeks as provided by the Unemployment Act here. Mr Crampton said he believed that individuality would assert itself in 13 weeks.

Timaru Minister’s Opinion: A plea for the introduction of religious instruction in schools was made by the Rev. Trevor Williams, a former pupil of the North Linwood School, when preaching at the special service to mark the anniversary of the foundation of the school at the Holy Trinity Church, Avonside.

They had reason to be thankful for their education at such a school, but the New Zealand system of education was strangely out of date, said Mr Williams. The Education Act was passed 70 years ago, and at that time men’s thoughts were swamped in a period of materialism.

“The real aim of education is to fit boys and girls for life, to understand the world in -which they live, to give knowledge, a disciplined brain and those morals of citizenship which will cause lives to become richer through their having passed that way. Are these things enough? The deepest human instincts are not intellectual or moral, but spiritual, and the Bible satisfies that. It is a reproach to the primary system that the Bible is forbidden in the public schools of this land.”

The preacher said that Parliament could keep the Bible out of the schools, but could not keep religion out, as the teachers were an unconscious force for good. They should be trusted to teach the Bible rightly. New Zealand was trying to teach goodness without the source of all goodness. The result of lack of religious instruction would be that boys and girls would go out illequipped. Life would find out those gaps and would exact the penalty. The greate::t factor in the world today was not money, military power nor culture, but God. It was nothing short of a tragedy that the schools of this country were secular. Rhodes Scholarships: The Canterbury College applicants for nomination as candidates for Rhodes schilarships were submitted today by the rector iDr. J. Hight) to the Students’ Association in order to ascertain the association's opinion of the merits of the applicants. The three applicants are: Mr A. H. Andrews, Mr E. H. Carew. Mr I. F. G. Milner. B.A. Messrs Andrews and Milner were applicants last year, and Mr Andrews was nominated. This year the age limit has been altered so that candidates are required to be under the age of 23 when entering Oxford University, and not 22 as previously. The opinion of the Students' As ociation will be determined by a ballot to be taken in the Student Union building to-morrow between 10 a m. and 6 p.m. All members are entitled to vote, and the results of the vote, though having no final force, will be taken into account by the Professional Board in its selection of the Canterbury nominees. Nomination will be made by the Professional Board at its meeting on September 14. Nominations from each college are to be in the hands of the central authorities by October 20. and the final selection for New Zealand will be made by December 31. The committee for final selection consists of the Governor-Gen-eral. the Chief Justice, the Chancellor tor. in his absence, the Vice-Chancel-lor) of the University of New Zealand, the chairman of the Academic Board, a representative of the business w’orld. and two former Rhodes scholars. Nominees are required to present themselves before the committee in Wellington for personal interview. Successful candidates will have to take up studies at Oxford by October of next year.