Local and General News

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21360, 1 June 1939, Page 8

Local and General News

Gruesome Discovery A man's foot, wrenched from the right leg, was washed up on the Petane Beach, four miles from I Napier, yesterday The foot was covered by a boot I and had been in the water only a short time. Judgment Summons Case In a judgment summons case at the Timaru I Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr H. Morgan, S.M., Abitta Soloman, who did not appear, was ordered to pay J. Gilmore the sum of £2/15/5 before June 21, 1939, in default three days’ imprisonment. Distemper Scram The North Island Sheepdog Trial Association decided, at the annual meeting at Gisborne last night to ask the Department of Agriculture to handle the distribution and administration of the distemper serum for dogs. A letter was received from Dr. C. S. M. Hopkirk, officer in charge of th? Wallr „eville veterinary laboratory, indicating that private veterinary surgeons were opposed to the control of the serum virus by the Government, maintaining that the work was legitimately their own. Bovs Receive Bouquets The unusual position of male actors receiving bouquets arose at the annual concert of the Timaru Boys’ High School. At the conclusion of the comic opera “Les Cloches De Corneville” the two boys playing the leading feminine parts of Germaine and Serpolette were handed bouquets that were tributes from two who had played the parts in an amateur production of the same opera in 1924. Mrs W. I. Tait, Serpolette in the 1924 production, and Miss Amy Holdgate Germaine on that occasion, were responsible for the tributes to the boys who played these parts last night. Missing Boy Located David Armour, the boy who was reported missing since Monday, was located by a passing motorist at Oamaru yesterday morning and returned to Temuka last night. This is the third time that the wanderlust has led this boy, who is aged 13, to break home ties in search of advsnture, and his former exploits read more like fiction than fact. On one occasion he made his way to Dunedin where he procured a dinghy and, with the aid of some scrim, sailed the craft to Oamaru. On the other adventure he lived in the bush for six weeks and when found appeared little the worse for his experience. Did Net Turn Up In thanking members of the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce for having invited him to vist Timaru and give an address last night, Mr M. Myers, of Dunedin, president of the Federated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, said that after he came off the train he went into the town to purchase a paper. Another youngish man was also engaged on a similar errand, and this man happened to remark that he was going to the Chamber of Commerce meeting that night to hear Mr Myers of Dunedin. “I could not resist the temptation to tell him that I was Mr Myers.” said the speaker. “The man replied ’I think I’ll still go along,’ but I notice he is not here.” Removal of Causes of War Although uo results have followed on his suggestion months ago that a world conference of nations should be called to consider the removal of the causes of war, the Prime Minister is still of the opinion that a round table talk is the only hope for civilisation. A solution to the world’s difficulties could not come in any other way, he said last night in an interview at Christchurch. “It cannot come as a result of war, but from a conference. If the people have their way, and I want to emphasise it again, a conference should be held before war begins rather than after It ends. If they are not in the temper to deal readily before war, they are not likely to be in a better mood afterwards. Nations may be smashed temporarily and rise again, and we go on in this stupid and apparently endless way.”

Accommodation During Exhibition

An assurance that there would be no shortage of accommodation in Wellington during the Centennial Exhibition was given members of the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting last night by the retiring president (Mr E. Darroch). The retiring president said that he had had the pleasure of being shown over the exhibition buildings in Wellington on Saturday and he had been informed by the person in charge of accommodation that there would be no shortage. The citizens of Wellington had responded splendidly to the appeal issued by the Exhibition directorate, and in addition a hostel to accommodate 700 persons was being erected. “This should ensure that you get bed and breakfast at least,” added Mr Darroch. Barge and Ferry Collide A collision between the vehicular ferry boat Eagle Hawk and the barge Combine, which was beingtowed by the launch Mona Isle 11, occurred in the Auckland harbour off the eastern tide deflector about 9.15 p.m. on Sunday. The windscreens of several motor-cars on the ferry were shattered by Eying pieces of wood from the broken bulwarks of the barge. Four men on the barge, which was damaged on the port bow, were thrown off their feet. The bowsprit of the barge was smashed and the bulwarks stove in, and the bow rudder of the ferry was put out of commission. Though several people were shaken nobody was injured. The Eagle Hawk left the Mechanics Bay ferry landing for Devonport with about a dozen cars on board at 9.15 o'c.'cr!:. The barge was being towed to Auckland frem Kcpu, on the Thames coast, with a load of sand. Further Postponed The statement was made by the retirin'’- president of the South Canterbury Chamber of Commeree (Mr E. Darroch) at the annual meeting last night that advice had been received that evenin.:- Uai the Railways Department had postponed > . into operaton until July 1 the revised tab!? ./ ii.vay tariffs. Mr Darroch said that it had ori< -ins Uy been intended to bring the revised scheme ir.Pi operation on May 1, but a postponement was made to June 1. Now there was this further postponement, and the matter was one which would have to be carefully watched. There were people who were just as anxious to have the old rates retained as they were to see them removed. The delay' might just be a question of departmental reorganisation, but at the same time they would have to see to it that the Government kept its promise.