NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19626, 21 October 1933, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Mr J. Radcliffe’s property at the comer of North Street and Woodlands Road, which was auctioned by Messrs A. N. Oakey and Co. on Thursday, and passed in, was sold by the firm yesterday, at a satisfactory figure. ... The Band of H.M.S. Dunedin will give a programme on Caroline Bay, tomorrow at 3.15 p.m. There will be a collection in aid of the Timaru Municipal Band Contest Fund. Special excursion fares and particulars of train arrangements for the Timaru A. and P. Show on October 26 are advertised by the Railway Department in this issue. A full programme has been arranged for the skating public over the weekend, beside the usual sessions to-day the long session to-night will have the toboggan, twilight couples, Monte Carlo, crocodile race and other novelties on the programme. On Monday afternoon a session will be held and a big carnival has been arranged for the evening, when the principal event will be a hockey match on skates between a team from H.M.S. Dunedin and a local side. Additional novelties include a sailors’ race, ladies’ race, Monte Carlo and all the usual events. Further particulars will be seen on the front page of this issue. The Staig Bros., who are making their final visit to Timaru in their sensational act “The Wall of Death' at the Show, are no strangers to the public. This year they bring something entirely new and which is claimed to be the greatest thriller ever presented in the Dominion. Dare Devil Laurence Staig will demonstrate how it is possible to drive a full sized Baby Austin super-charged racing car round the sides of the perpendicular wall. This appears an almost incredible feat, but it is accomplished by this daredevil driver. Visitors to the Show Should not fail to see this great act.

A grand vaudeville entertainment, in aid of the funds of the Endeavour Sea Scouts, will be given by a concert party from the H.M.S, Dunedin in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday night. A first-class programme comprising an unusual variety of vaudeville items has been arranged.

The due date of payment of landtax for the current year is Tuesday, November 7. The demands will be posted on or about October 31.

Old patrons of the Stafford Tea Rooms will be pleased to learn that after being vacant for some months, they are to be opened by Mrs Jenkins of the well-known home made cake depot. The tea rooms have been renovated throughout, and they are now considered as the most up-to-date in Timaru. Mrs Jenkins states that the tea rooms above her shop premises are now to be closed, and morning and afternoon teas and lunches will be served at the Stafford.

Arrangements are now completed for the Grand Scout Dance in the Bay Hall on October 26 (Show Night). The best orchestra has been engaged and the catering arrangements are in capable hands. The programme will include old time and novelty dances for which prizes will be given.

The Ritz Dance Club, formerly the Carlton Dance Club, will hold its weekly dance in the Goode Intente tonight. The third round of the Plain Schottische competition will be held.

A sale of superior oak and rimu household furniture will be held by A. N. Oakey and Co. on Tuesday, October 31, at 6 Rolleston Street, under instructions from Mrs S. A. IJren, who is giving up housekeeping. On Thursday, November 2, at 41 Bank Street, the firm will also hold a clearing sale of household furniture on account of Mrs A. H. Barrett. On Friday, November 24, at their rooms, Strathallan Street, a mortgagee’s sale of an 11-roomed brick house and 11 acres of land, situate at the comer of Otipua Road and Newton Street, will also be held under instructions from the Registrar of the Supreme Court.

Members and friends of the Labour Party are reminded of the social to be held in the Wentworth Hall on Labour Day; picnic in the afternoon.

A good night’s entertainment is assured patrons of the dance in the Bay Tea Rooms to-night. ’Phone 697 for reserved tables. ...

Dr. Theo. G. Gray, Director-General of Mental Hostpitals, state in his annual report, which was presented to Parliament that as the close of the year there were 7194 persons on the registers of the Mental Hospitals Department, including 44 at Ashburn Hall private licensed institution, and 467 who were on probation, in the care of friends or relatives; amongst those actually in residence were 266 voluntary boarders. “We were able" states Dr. Gray, “to discharge 759 patients and boarders, or 54.3 per cent, calculated upon the admissions, but of that number only 599, or 42.9 per cent., could be regarded as having recovered. Our discharge rate is high, and this year our deathrate is the lowest recorded for 24 years.”

The farmers of Britain will be vitally Interested in the personal traits of Dr. Christopher Addison, for he is the man who is to be a directing brain of the new attempt to make British farming pay. Dr. Addison's appointment as chairman of the Agricultural Marketing Reorganisation Commission for Eggs and Poultry gives him supervision of one of the most profitable forms of small farming in a country of small farms. It cannot be said, however, that Dr. Addison's name is new to farmers, for he has been Partial cntary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and also Minister of Agriculture, and has taken an active part in public affairs for years past. Dr. Addison was bora in 1869, and is a Lincolnshire man. He was educated at Trinity College, Harrowgate, and at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, entering upon an academic career and becoming Hunterian Professor and Examiner in Anatomy at the Universities of Cambridge and London. He lectured at St. Bartho' .new’s, held a chair at Sheffield University, and edited the “Quarterly Medical Journal;’ but over twenty years ago he began a second career which at length carried him into the front rank in the political field. Entering the House of Commons as member for Hoxton, he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education foui^years later, and subsequently went into the Ministry of Munitions, holding the office of Minister of Munitions In 1916-17. In 1917 he was made Minister of Reconstruction, and two years later President of the Local Government Board. From 1919 to 1921 he was the first Minister ‘ ’alth. ard t l '-r. became Minister without portfolio. He 'jU out with Mr Lloyd George, : .id vea -s later it was alleged that he had be, u dismissed for incompetence. Dr. Addison made a vigor-us rejoinder to ihis allegation, but there is o doubt that the difference with Mr Lioyd George affected his career. He joined the Labour Party and held another post of lmoortance only in 1929. when he was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture. In 1930 h» became Minister of Agriculture p.nd Fisheries He was defeated at the last General Election.