LOCAL AND GENERAL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10416, 21 March 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

All the Canterbury trout streams were reported' clear this morning. Surveying operations in connection with the widening of Stanmore Road !ue now being carried out. The Wellington radio station reports that the Navua, Maunganui. Victoria, lonic and Athenie. will probably be within wireless range to-night. Fine weather was reported throughout the South Island at nine o'clock this morning, but rain was falling iu many parts of tho North Jsland. Overcast skies were general throughout that island.

Tho father of the youth Hannan, who is serving three weeks' imprisonment for refus-ng to register under the Defence Act, lias received a' telegram from Sir Joseph Ward stating that tho Cabinet has authorised the release of his son at once.

The post office clock has apparently become quite reconciled to its synchronisation with the clock on the Jubilee Clock Tower, as it has steadily and regularly ticked off sixty minutes to each hour and twenty-four hours to each day for the past six months. The Napier Harbour Board has instructed Messrs E. A. Cullen and F. W. Keele, two Australian tfligmeers, engaged to report on the dredging question, to furnish a comprehensive report on the whole harbour problem, covering both the breakwater and the innor harbour schemes.

The annual meeting of the Amberley Horticultural Society was held on Tuesday evening. Tliere was a good attendance, Mr G. R. Holton occupying the cliair. The office-bearers were all re-elected and received a hearty vote of thanks. Hie balance-sheet showed a credit balance of £ll 6s sd, and with the reservo fund made a total of £25 8s 7d.

The qunrterly summoned meeting of tho Queen's Own Lodge, No. 3(3, Pro-' testant Alliance, was held on Monday night. Brother R. C. Rix. W.M.. presided, and there was a large attendance of members. One new member was initiated. Sick pay was granted to seven members. The annual report showed that the Lodge had mad© good progress during the year. It was decided to hold tho annual social on April 15.

Tho Hope of Christchurch Lodge of Good Templa.rs held its weekly session on Tuesday evening. Brother H. Ford, C-.T., presiding. Greetings were received from the Pioneer Lodge, Dunedin and Pride of Paddingt-on, Syclnoy. The members of the Reviving Stream Lodga and other visitors wero officially received. A membpr withdrow on clearance. During tho evening itenjs wera contributed by Sisters Cuddy "Round and P. Cuddy and Brother Roberts.

Tho weekly meeting of the Good Intent Lodge of Good Templars, Rangiora, was held on Tuesday evening, Sister M. Anderson, C.T., presiding over a good attendance. Sister E. Rowe was appointed delegate to the Temperance Convention which is to be held on Good Friday. Sister Pawsev, who is leaving the district, was thanked for her past services to the lodge. Two new members wero initiated. In the Juvenile Temple four new members were initiated on Tuesday evening, and thirteen candidates for membership wero proposed.

The regulations under the' Defence Act were responsible for the adjourn* raont of a case _at the Magistrate's Court this morning. Mr Cuningham, who appeared for the defendant in tho case, said his client had been called upon to " servo his King an:l country" by going; into camp with the territorials. Tho Magistrate, Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., remarked that lie had been under the impression that exemption would be granted to a territorial subpoenaed to att-end a Court of Justice. No definite information on that point was forthcoming, however, and tho adjournment was granted. The monthly meeting of tlie Temuka District High School Committee was held on Tuesday evening; presents— Messrs M'Tnneß (chairman), Acheson, Watson, Bell, Thomson, Goodman, Saunders, Oolville I/evens. Mr Watson, for the visiting committee, reported that the school was overcrowded. The chairman said that all the primary classes wero more or less overcrowded. Tho number of pupils on tho roll was 457, and tho school was tho same as when erected thirty years ago. It was decided to ask Mr Armitage to inspect the school, and, if necessary, appoint a deputation to wait 011 the Education Board. The headmaster reported that tho average attendance in the primary school had been 367, and in the secondary department 42. He. suggested that the Board should be asked to proceed with the erection of the shed and glasshouse for which the Department .had already made a grant. The committee decided to ask for the early erection of tho shed. Mr Saunders was appointed the committee's representative on the Technical Classes Association. Accounts amounting to £lB 6s lOd were passed for payment. At a meeting of the City Council last evening a letter was read from Professor Arnold Wall, stating that before the death of the late Mr T. K Taylor bo had addressed a letter to him as Mayor outlining a scheme for tho registration and taxation of bicycles in Christchureh. This had been when Mr Taylor's road scheme was under discussion, and Professor Wall's idea had been that the scheme for bicycle-taxation would assist his scheme financially. Tho Professor enclosed a letter which he had received from Mr Taylor, in which he said: " I believe that a proposal such as you make would be received with satisfaction bv a very largo number of cyclists in the city, Tam brining before the Council within the next few weeks a comprehensive scheme for street formation, which will bo referred to the Works Committee for investigation, and I shall place your suggestions before that committee with a view to enabling it to consider the source of revenue which vou propose should bo utilised for assisting in the construction of street surfaces suitable for rub-ber-tyred vehicles. lam not afraid of submitting your suggestions to the pooplo if it is necessary to raise more money than tho Council now has control of to secure an improvement in our streets.'' Professoi; Wall, in his letter to the Council, said that he did not know whether Mr Taylor had mooted or discussed the scheme in Council, but if it. had not been lie desired to submit it afresh. The proposal was to enforce the registration of bicycles, extending tho principle already applied to motorcars and motor-cycles. The advantages would lie the considerable revenue drawn, even from a 2s (id annual tax (to be ear-marked for the roads); the increased facility for police control (all cycles carrying a conspicuous number); the diminished risk of loss of bicycles by stealing, and several others. Tile loiter was referred to the By-laws ' CoHt* mittee.

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At the Dunedin Magistrate's Court io -clay Mrs Peters, licensee of Tatiemiu'ft Hotel. was lined i2 lor not complying with the preference clause 'under tlio Otago Hotel Employees' A w:\ri.l. Defendant had cm ployed a barman without, in the first instance npplving to the secretary of the I. nion to supply her with a worker. On Tuesday evening an organ recital was (liven by Mi' Jrvin Mooro in St Paul's Church. Included in the programme were compositions by Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Rheiiibergor, Bnilmant and Saint Saens. and .Mr Tdooro's interpretation of these works gave much plehsure to an appreciative eudienec. A Pastorale in D. composed tp' the ree italist, added to the interest DC i.no programme. The Rev r I. rnit presided, and voral items were contrinll ted hv Miss 1. Frascr and Mr H. McLeod.

One of the most important and satisfactory outcome,* ol the medical inspections of State schools is the manner in which it has brought mothers, and especially young mothers, in touch with medical men and women (says the ' Age"). The talks with mothers - and fathers--which the inspectors do a deal to encourage, have already led to the saving of much infant life. Possibly, too, they will lead to the establishment here of t.ho schools for mothers which arc doing such admirable work in many of the big cities of England. The mothers are advised in the dressing as well as in the feeding of their bnbi<js, and a very remnrltnble change has already been effected in the home life and surroundings of the infants.

i A remarkably simple solution of tfie servant problem is presenting itself to a good many parents here, states the Melbourne " Age," and there is every reason to suppose that the action of many girls in taking lip domestic duties in their own homes will lead to n most desirable readjustment, of labour. At nil the technical schools Cio daughters of well-to-do and influential citizens ave to he seen studying cookery and other brandies of domestic economy. A large pronortion of those who ha"e already (|tialified have taken itp work in their own homes on exactlv the same terms as would be accorded the ordinary domestic worker. That is to sav. thev are raid good wages, and naid them regularly. not (is a favour but as a mlit. Tn evcrv suburb it is possible to fi"d large, wellmanared homes where the work goes on velvet, thanks to tho training of the girls in the family. Sydney is to bo congratulated oil having !ed off the campaign against tlio murderous hat pin. .says tho '' Age." The i'net that tho supply of ■Doint-protoctors was exhausted in that iity in less than two days points to tho probability of thero being a very big run 011 these things before long in Melbourne—a. city that has never , lagged far behind in the matter of life-saving. Tlio littlo protector of metal or celluloid has a picturesque rival in the one 'mpde of cork. One cir! for some time has been wearing these made from flac, round corks, coversd with silk and encased in silk or linen crocheted mesh. The samo sort of cork dipped in scaling wax and, while the wax is still hot, decorated with beads, makes a really handsome protector. Good Venetian beads in a background of green wax look particularly well, while a great deal can bo done with cold or silver bugle beads 00, a bluo foundation. Cork simply gilded goes well with most hats, " while small corks, covered first with wadding and then with scraps of rich brocade or silk finished off with a little pold cord, are only a. little less handsome than those encased in metal lace .iver a foundation of emerald green or flame-coloured satin.

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