LOCAL AND GENERAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22204, 23 February 1942, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Effect of Liquor “There was just enough liquor at I the party to make me tired." said a witness giving evidence in a divorce case in the Supreme Court at Napier. “I thought it had the opposite effect,'’ remarked Mr Justice Smith. “We had evidence before the Court yesterday that a few glasses of beer livened one person up.” Teacher Objector The Taranaki Education Board decided to take immediate action under the Teachers (Conscientious Objectors) Regulations in connection with a teacher at the Vogeltown School, who is a conscientious objector. He will be given leave of absence for the duration of the war, receiving pay for the first month only. Charge of Theft Charged with the theft of a bicycle valued at £7/15/-, Arthur Cecil Reeves St. Erch appeared before Mr H. Morgan, S.M., in the Timaru Magistrate's Court on Saturday. On the application of the police, who stated that a further charge was pending, the accused was remanded) bail being allowed in one surety of £lOO or two of £5O. The bicycle was the property of Eric Cuthbert Shaw. Collapse in Court Dramatically Interrupted by the collapse of the petitioner and his transfer to hospital, a defended divorce action in the Supreme Court at Auckland on Friday before Mr Justice Callan and a jury was adjourned till to-day. The petitioner, the husband, had been about an hour under cross-examination when he collapsed and had to receive medical attention. The doctor said re would probably be fit to resume to-day. Delivery of Mail Stopped About 200 Invercargill residents will now have to call at the Chief Post Office for their mails. Delivery to their houses by postmen has been stopped because they did not erect gate letter boxes or have existing letter boxes removed to the street lines within reach of the postmen while standing at the gates. Delivery will be resumed on advice being received by the Post Office that boxes have been erected according to specifications. Equality of Sacrifice “Is a small farm a more important matter from a national point of view than businesses that have been built up by years of self-denial?” asked Mr G. Fleming at a sitting of the Taranaki Manpower Committee. “It would seem that the policy of this committee is to send other men away to fight for some farm owners, forgetting that the farms will most likely be there when the men return, while privatelyowned businesses may disappear,’ added Mr Fleming. Presbyterian Safety Recently a patrol officer of the automobile Association (Southland) was giving an address on road safety to a senior class of a city primary school. He had gone to great pains to explain the value of and necessity for pedestrian crossings and he had taken the trouble to draw a sketch of a pedestrian crossing on the blackboard. To make sure he was being understood he pointed to his illustration and asked the class, “Now what is this crossing called?” “A Presbyterian crossing,” replied one member of the class without hesitation. Need for Shearers An unusual step was taken by the No. 4A Armed Forces Appeal Board, Palmerston North, when the case of a shearer came before it. The appeal had been before the board on previous occasions and adjourned to enable the appellant to fulfil his contracts. He stated that his contracts were now complete and he was ready to enter camp. The chairman, Mr H. B. Lusk, said that the authorities had a strong feeling that shearers should not be sent overseas at the present time and, accordingly, the reservist was transferred to the Territorial Force so that he would be available for shearing if required. A Smalf World “I came back from my leave In Palestine with some -vividly pleasant memories of it.” writes a Dunedin soldier from the Middle East. “Looking down on the Mediterranean in the early morning sunshine from Mount Carmel was one of the most delightful experiences of the trip. A voice behind me said, ‘Some people say it is one of the finest views in the world.’ Without turning round, I said, ‘l’d just as soon be looking down on Otago Harbour from Mount Cargill.’ Came the astonishing reply, ‘But it would have to be high tide, wouldn’t it?’ When I turned round it was to find a Carmelite Father from the monastery. He had visited New Zealand and had spent some time at Holy Cross College, Mosgiel.” Less Responsible Duties Addressing the Arbitration Court in Dunedin during the hearing of the Otago and Southland hairdressers and tobacconists’ assistants’ dispute, Mr F. C. Scrivener, who appeared for the employers, said that some years ago a recognised tobacconist was one who could blend and sell by weight special mixtures, and on his skill at his trade depended his business. To-day they had proprietary lines of cigarettes in cartons wrapped in cellophane, cigarette tobacco and pipe tobacco in two-ounce tins, and, in place of the tobacconists’ shops were appearing kiosks or “holes in the wall.” The huge increase in the number of retailers who were still called tobacconists was due partly to the fact that the retail price was fixed, and partly to the fact that practically the whole stock comprised proprietary lines which required no skill to sell. Lines were widely advertised and prices stated, so that the actual work of a so-called tobacconist’s assistant was merely to hand over an article already wrapped or enclosed and to accept the advertised price.