CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19627, 23 October 1933, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

ITEMS FROM THE CITY CHRISTCHURCH, October 22. The Appeal of the Church: “The appeal of the Anglican Church is not primarily to authority but to truth.”—Bishop West-Watson, opening the Christchurch Diocesan Synod. Revival in Australia: “The building trade in Australia is doing quite well and the manufacturers are having a great innings. This is all reflected in the retail business, which is getting an increased turnover.”—Mr C. M. Ollivier, on his return from Australia. Accident to Mr West:— Mr T. W. West, of Murray Aynsley Terrace, Opawa, a well-known city business man, and a prominent school committee member, slipped on a polished floor at the Young Men's Christian Association rooms about 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday and fractured his left leg below the knee. He was treated at the Christchurch Public Hospital and then conveyed to his home, but on Thursday morning was admitted to St. George’s Hospital. His condition is satisfactory. Salvation Army Appeal: The aim of the Salvation Army to increase its hardly taxed funds, so much of which are used to alleviate distress, by £350 to £4OO by means of yesterday’s self-denial street appeal was nearly realised, for when the final collection boxes were returned and the results totalled it was found that the sum of £340 had been contributed. Over 200 workers took their share in the arduous task of collecting from a public which has already given often and freely to deserving causes, and had not the weather been so disagreeable it is probable that their measure of success would have been even greater. The total showed an increase of £2O over last year’s.

Prospects for Boys Improve: An encouraging note was struck by Mr G. M. Keys, secretary of the Boys’ Employment Committee, in presenting a report to the meeting of the committee on the details of registrations. He stated that for the past quarter 280 boys had been placed in positions, of which 181 were permanent, an indication of a definite improvement over the previous quarter of the year, particularly in the number of boys placed in permanent positions.

Rationing Teachers: The Hornby School Committee has protested to the Canterbury Education Board against tre continuation of rationing amongst junior teachers with the resulting frequent changes in the staffing of schools. The board has replied stating that it is sympathetic but is not in a position to alter the arrangement. A report to this effect was made by the Appointments Committee to the board at its meeting.

Not Sold for Scrap: The sight of large quantities of railway rails being loaed on to trucks at Parnassus has led to a misconception in the district that they were probably going to Japan, as part of another of the consignments of scrap iron which have been fairly frequent of late. The rails are the property of the Public Works Department and are merely being shifted to Waitaki. The District Engineer (Mr F. Langbein) stated to-day that the department had not disposed of any rails in recent months. The rails concerned were rf no use as Parnassus and were required at Waitaki. /

Woman's Body Found: The body ©f Mrs J. J. Hanna, a married woman, 44 years of age, who has been missing from her home since Friday last, was found in the River Avon at New Brighton this morning. Mrs Hanna is said to have been in ill-health for some time and on Friday she left her home with the intention of visiting a hospital. She did not reach the hospital, nor did she return home. Back to Winter:

After hot days accompanied by early appearance of the summer nor’wester, the weather changed dramatically to winter conditions on Friday, an-1 in the last twelve hours, Christchurch has experienced snow, sleet, rain and cold south-west winds rising to gale force at times.

Snow fell in the city and suburbs about day light on Saturday morning; the fall last twenty minutes. As the temperature grew milder the white coating quickly disappeared, and except for those whose duty called them out while the storm was on, few Christchurch people knew anything of it. All evidence of it had disappeared by the time the city was astir. There was a fine coating of snow on the upper heights of the Cashmere Hills this morning and it was still snowing high up at nine o’clock. Heavy snow also fell on the Alps, which were thickly coated to-day. Fourteen points of rain fell in the city, mostly in the small hours of this morning, and the fall is very welcome. It was the heaviest experienced in Canterbury for a long time. The fall was general over the province and the apprehensions of farmers of another dry and disastrous summer have been to some extent alleviated. “Vicars Sacrificed”: The reduction of the overhead travelling grants to country clergy by £5 annually was keenly debated by members of the Diocesan Synod. It was considered by several speakers that .f economies had to be made, the grants for travelling, which were said to be inadequate as they stood, should not be reduced. The Ven Archdeacon F. N. Taylor’s motion. "That reduction of the overhead travelling grants from £25 to £l3 for vicars and assistant curates respectively to £2O and £lO be approved," was carried on the voices. The motion was seconded by the Rev R. de Lambert, who said that the reduction was more than off-set by the lower cost of running motor-cars. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes made a protest against the motion, sating that it would hit country vicars very hard, and their travelling had been increased by the slump. The Rev Canon J. F. Coursey also opposed the motion. Running expenses had nothing to do with the grant, he said. The £25 was not adequate for payment of depreciation, registration fee and insurance. Increased Travelling. Another point was that travelling was very much greater in these days, when the church had to go to the people instead of the people to church. Half the running expenses had to be paid by the clergy from their stipends —out of money on which they were paying the unemployment charge. The Ven Archdeacon H. W. Monaghan said he wanted to point out that the trust from which the money was drawn had been set down for educational and ecclesiastical work, and *t was not right that the work of the parishes should be sacrificed in order to provide a large grant for educational work. It had not yet been determined what the educational vote should be, so the money was still available and the work of the parishes had the prior claim.