LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20514, 4 September 1936, Page 8

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Parking Breach For parking his car in Strathallan Street for longer than the 20-minute limit set by the borough by-laws, Alex Matheson was convicted and fined 10/-, costs 10/-, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Old Bar Custom Wiped Out The time-honoured custom of having “one on the house” has been abolished by Wanganui hotelkeepers. Licensees have come to an arrangement that there is to be no more “treating” of customers. Counter lunches also are to be a thing of the past. It is too early yet to indicate what the effect will be on those who call in daily for “a handle.” Local Elections Bill The Local Election and Polls Amendment Bill was introduced in the House yesterday by GovernorGeneral’s message. The Hon. W. E. Parry explained that the Bill merely extended the powers in the Local Election and Polls Act, 1934, removing the disqualification for unpaid rates till 1937, and was a temporary measufe. As ah election would take place next week, he asked that the Bill be put through at oMe. The Bill was put through all its stages and passed. Prohibition Order Broken “The man who procures the liqhor is worse than the weak one who falls,” commented the Magistrate (Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M.), in fining Louis Brosnahan £l, costs 10/-, yesterday for a breach of his prohibition order. Mr A. D. Mcßae, who appeared for defendant, said that a man named Wenlock had procured a demijohn of beer and had taken it to a bach where he and Brosnahan had consumed it. There was no suggestion that Brdsnahan had been on licensed premises. Doctor Misses Congress An insight into the administration of the Queen’s Hospital, Honolulu, was the only knowledge gained on her visit by the woman member of the New Zealand delegation to the Pan-Pacific Surgical Association’s congress, Dr. E. D. G. Gillies, radiologist at the Palmerston North Hospital, who returned by the Niagara. Dr. Gillies had the misfortune to become 111 three days before her arrival at Honolulu, and had to remain in hospital until it was time to sail for home. Soldier’s Souvenir of Great War A prized souvenir of the Great War is in the possession of a Dunedin returned soldier. It is a brass-capped German bullet that has been removed after lodging in the vicinity of his spine for 19 years. This delicate operation, involving a high degree of skill, was performed at the public hospital. The bullet entered near the right shoulder, struck a metal object near the shoulder blade, and coursed down the victim’s back. The man has made almost a complete recovery. Father and Son “The older I get the more appalled I am at the small influence that the father has on the life of his boy,” declared Rev. T. Flelden Taylor, Anglican missioner at Wfellirigtoii, When addressing the men’s service at All Saints Church, Palmerston North. Home should be the sweetest thing on earth, and it could only fulfil its objective when the father played his part to the full. Mr Taylor suggested that the boy be helped in his homework and have the fellowship of his father in his games. There would then be fewer cases of boys leaving their homes. A Wallaby’s Worries A humorous story concerning the aftermath of the Australian Rugby tourists’ defeat at the hand of Hdwke’s Bay is being circulated in the district at present. A party of the tourists was taken to Cornwall Park, Hastings, where a visit to the aviaries was made. Great interest was evinced in the wallabies, one of which, with dejected countenance, was standing in a far corner of the cage with its front paws held tightly together, as though in contemplation of a troublesome question. The dejected appearance of the wallaby led one of the Australians to remark: “Good heavens! Have you heard about us, too?"