LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20966, 19 February 1938, Page 10

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Salmon Fishing Conditions for quinnat salmon fishing at the mouth of the Opihi river during the last two days can be described as good, 10 fish being caught. All were of good weight. Among the successful fishermen were T. Tresize, F. Jones and J. Rickus. Indications also point to good sport during the week-end. Injury Proves Fatal After being in a serious condition for five days, Sydney Francis Macpherson, dentist, of Invercargill, who was found at Bushy Point on Sunday morning unconscious with a bullet wound in the head, died yesterday morning. HLs injury is believed to have been caused by a stray bullet from the rifle range. Railway Deviation Though the Department is making every effort to start work on the Palmerston North railway deviation, it will be some time before any large number of men can be employed and construction started in earnest, according to a statement made by the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, yesterday. The sum of £25,000 was placed on the last Public Works Estimates for this undertaking. Downlands Scheme to Proceed Word was received in Timaru yesterday that an Order-in-Council authorising the Minister of Public Works (Hon. R. Semple) to proceed with the Downlands Water Supply Scheme has been gazetted. Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P., told a reporter of "The Timaru Herald’’ yesterday that he had written to the Minister inquiring when it would be possible for a start to be made with the work, but so far had received no reply. In Business and on Sustenance During the time he declared he was on sustenance Daniel Craig Miller Andrews, married, with four children, conducted two separate businesses in Dunedin and defrauded the Employment Promotion Fund of £6l. He was charged in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on two informations of false pretences and was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, the terms to be concurrent. The Chief Detective said th accused conducted a news agency and a bookshop. German Sailor Remanded Eduard Lewers, aged 31, a seaman, who it is alleged deserted the Naumberg when she was berthed at Timaru on January 4, appeared before Mr H. Morgan, S.M., in the Timaru Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged that being a prohibited immigrant he unlawfully landed in New Zealand. On the application of Senior Sergeant D. J. Hewitt accused was remanded until Wednesday next to enable the police to receive a file from Auckland. Mr L. M. Inglis, who appeared on behalf of Lewers, offered no objection to the remand. Labour Social In the Scottish Hall on Thursday night the weekly social function organised by the Social Committee of the local branch of the Labour Party took place. Owing to the interest aroused by the various competitions, the attendance was much larger than usual, and the voluntary helpers had their energies taxed to cope with the demands made upon them. The winners of the Monte Carlo were Mr and Mrs H. A. Griffin, and of the maxina Mr McKenzie and Miss Gamer. The euchre prizes were won by Messrs Smallridge and Hogan and Mesdames Minogue and Shaw. Mr F. Lowry was M.C. Rural Sociology Evidence of the Government’s interest in advanced forms of adult education was given yesterday with the arrival by the Mariposa of Professor J. H. Kolb, Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He will remain in the Dominion until the end of August to conduct rural economics and research service at the recently established Bureau of Social Science Research. “Rural sociology is just good sociology at work in the country,” he said. The visitor said rural sociology in America had the effect of making farmers’ organisations more effective both in agriculture and social relationships. It opened up aspects of farming life which had probably never been realised. Institute of Opticians The business sessions of the Institute of Opticians of New Zealand were concluded at Dunedin yesterday. The members present expressed sincere appreciation of the work of the retiring president (Mr E. A. Sargent), who had held this office for the last nine years. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Mr A. Brook-Taylor (Wellington); vicepresident, Mr George E. Cox (Wellington); treasurer, Mr H. S. Gilberd (Wellington); secretary, Mr L. A. Notley (Wellington); central executive, Messrs W. T. Wilson (Petone), E. A. Sargent (Wellington) and E. R. Boyd (Wellington); district representatives, Messrs T. D. Peacock (Auckland), E. A. S. Shattky (Hastings), R. C. Bailley (Palmerston North), R. T. Shanks (Wellington), W. W. McKinney (Christchurch) and A. R. Watson (Dunedin). Effective Dust The fact that the control required in a vegetable garden against the depredations of the white butterfly was greater than that needed for feed crop purposes was pointed out to a reporter of "The Timaru Herald” yesterday by Mr J. Muggeridge, associate director of the Entomology Division of the Plant Research Bureau at the Cawthron Institute. The housewife, he said, disliked injury to a cabbage, and especially the appearance it had following the depredations of the butterfly. In that respect the value of the crop either for the home or market gardener was reduced. The only way to obtain the necessary control under those circumstances was to use a proprietary dust of the derris variety. The best means of approach was to use a small dust gun especially adapted for dusting. The best time to dust was in the early morning when the cabbage was covered with dew, which made the dust adhere. Since the caterpillar infested the heart of a plant to a large extent it was necessary to apply a good supply of dust into that part.