LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11717, 6 June 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of dairymen was advertised to "be held night, to consider regulations dealing with dairies, but it was decided by those who attended to postpones tho meeting indefinitely. Last night the Lyttelton Borough Council received a letter from the District Traffic Manager of Railways statintr that the Department had decided to contribute £5 5s towards, the funds of the local brigade in recognition of services rendered at the fire at the railway station in January last. At last night's meeting of tlie Riccarton Borough Council the Mayor (Mr J. Brown) said "that, it ivould appear ■ from reports that the council had hot been represented at the last meeting of'•focal bodies regarding, the removal of tho saleyards. He wished to make it clear that owing to indisposition the council's delegates had been unable to attend the meeting. , j An inspection parade of the No. ;4 Company of tho?New Zealand Garrison f Artillery Territorials was held at Lyttelton last night. There was aa excellent attendance under Major J. P. I£. Veale, and the men -were complimented on , their appearance by Colonel C. J. Cooper, Commander of the Coastal Defence Forces, who was accompanied by Major D. M'Donald, of tiie Garrison Artillery. At a recent meeting of tho Lyttel« ton Borough Council some objection was Taispd to a warder at the local prison having been allowed the use of the corporation's horse and cart for the carriage of goods. The matter was placed before the Works Committee for consideration, and last evening tlie committee reported that as the result of inquiries it was satisfied with' the explanation given by the engineer. , A meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Red Cross Society was held yesterday afternoon, Mr A. E. G. Rhodes presiding over a good attendance. Colonel R. 11. Rhodes, M.P., was and gave an interesting summary of his experiences in Egypt. He was accorded a hearty vote of thanks and/was unanimously elected a member of the executive. The remainder of business was taken in committee. The City Council has received very strong representations from the Elmwood School Committee as to the danger to the school children frcin tho driving of stock along the roads which pass Elmwocd School. '-Quite recently a very narrow escape from a sen'-* ous accident occurred owing to some cattle. , The council decided last night to prohibit the driving of loose horses, cattle or sheep through the roads mentioned. alio -*> Electricity Committee of the City_ Council reporting on the request of the Patriotic Fund Queen Election Committee for free lighting and use of the fittings iu connection with the crowning ceremony in King Edward Barracks, stated last night that the cost amounted to £42. The committee regretted that the Electric Light Department could not 6ee its way to make the grant. A motion by Councillor W. H. Cooper to pay half the cost was 1 lost. The secretary of the Canterbury - Au- ' tomobile Association (Mi; C. \V. Hervey) has deceived the following t-ele- | gram from the Minister of Internal Affairs regarding the assistance given by the association on Saturday on the occasion of the opening of the Queen Mary Home at _ Hanmer:—" Many thanks for the assistance rendered by 'your association on Saturday in connection with the jsuccessful transport of so large a body of people from Culverden to Hanmer.—G. W. Russell." There will soon be a shortage of burial plots in the Sydenham Cemetery antl the City Council has decided that a portion of that part of the cemetery on the south side now used as a paddock is to be taken in and subdivided into burial plots. The proposed new cemetery at Bromley will be made ready for burial purposes not later than a year from now. There will be a good deal of work to carry out and the City Surveyof is preparing a sketch plan of the proposed lay out. The By-laws Committee reported last night to the City- Council that fortyseven milk Vendors had. applied for licenses and twenty-thfee had been granted. The remainder were waiting the report of the District Health Officer. It was estimated that there were fulJy 200 persons vending milk in the city, which left about 150 who were ignoring the by-law. The committee had given instructions that persons found selling or offering or exposing milk for -sale within the city without a liceuse were to.be prosecuted. Tho report was adopted.

No trace can bo found of Maurice Fitzpatrick, an elderly man, lately residing at Dyer's Road, Bromley, .who has been missing since yesterday week. Be was last seen after purcnasmg chaff at Guinness's store, on the Bromley Road. He drove away, and later the horse and cart ,were found in the river past Burwood. Hie horse was saved, but nothing could be seen of its owner. The police have dragged the river in the vicinity, but without success. It has been decided to abandon further dragging as it is believed that if Fitzpatrick got in the river, his body has been washed down. He was married and had a grown-up family, one eor. being at the front. He kept a few horses on the old Bromley rifle range. In its report to the Tramway Board yesterday the Works and Traffic Committee stated that committee had decided that the wearing of armlets is ned by the military authorities to returned scrtdiers and others in tha board's employ should be made com' pulsory. The Ho* J. objected to the proposal to make the badzo signifying medical unfitness "Compulsory. Tlie\-e were forty-three men in the board's service at the front or in training. Mr C. M. Gray gaid that the present badge could be replaced with advantage by a neat button. The chairman (Mr J. A. Flesher) said the board was subsidising the pay of employees who had enlisted to the extent of £SO Is lOd per fortnight. Fourteen of tho iren mentioned by Mr Ban- were married men. The report was adopted.

At yesterday's meeting of the Christchurch Tramway Board, air S. A. Stap.cs asked the board if it was determined to kill traffic to the racecourses. On the last race day tho service was hung up for half an hour by failure of current, and there were other delays. There wcra complaints also regarding the handling of traffifc in*" Cathedral Square last Saturday. Idr T. H. Davey endorsed Mr Stapies's statements, and said that the delays were driving people to take the rail- " v.av. He advocated duplication of tho Riccaru-n line, while a loan > could bo raise,d at a reasonable rate. The chairman said tho matter touched upon circumstances better dealt with in comm>Aee. The general manager, by request ef tho chairman, explained that a delay on Thursday was due to a car dc-v.n a trolley wire, while OS Saturday there was trouble at the i>ower cation, and an inquiry waa pro<kvdin,t:. The traffic manager could' not be held responsible in either case. In retard to the dispatch of cars from On"'hodl Square, a ten minutes interval was nocessarv io control the traffic propc/ly. .'«lr Davey said the explanation would do a, great deal of good. ♦ For <-ar boys Armstrong and Cosn-pr-ny are shn-ving some splendid lines m School Suits—\ arsny.s from 6s lid, X erf oiks from 9s lid. Sports from 14g Gd. School Caps from 9d. Ijsdies know them to have ao caual. Marthv's Apiol and Steel i'illa. Sold by aI! Oiennstif and' Stores throughout ' Australasia. J 1 For our boys Armstrong and Company are showing some splendid lines in School Suits—Varsity*, from 6s lid, i Norfolks from 9s lid, Sports from 14s 6d. School Caps from 9d. J