LATE LOCALS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12061, 17 July 1917, Page 5

LATE LOCALS.

A Press Association message from Groymouth says that Mr AYalter Leitch, general manager of the Blackball coal mine, lias been appointed engineer and manager at Mount Torlosso. Avoca. Ho takes uo his now duties on September 1.

A well-nttended sectional mooting of the Christchurch Tramway Employees' Union was held this morning. A .similar meeting will he lield this evening, at the conclusion of which the decision oi the union on certain resolutions submitted to it, will have, been ascertained, and tho decisions will probably be made public. " On the Dogger Bank the sea per acre yields a greater harvest than nny acre of land," .said the Iter H. Johnson in the course of his lecture in Auckland on the mine sweepers of the North Sea. In substantiation of his contention, Mr Johnson said that the fish yielded an annual income of £lO 000,000. The estimated area of the Dogger Bank was 11.000 square miles.

" Have yo-.i your military enrolment certificate?" The question seems harmless enough, yet some men to whom it was addressed yesterday "cut. up rough " about it, One Second Division reservist made quite a little speech to two unapprecintive, constables, declaring his resentment that he should be accosted by "gentlemen in blue suits "—this with every suggestion of a sarcastic sneer—when he was taking his relatives to a picture performance. The policemen let the tirade Ml Me •water Mpon a, duck's bade, and then, much to the annoyance of the pleasureseeking reservist, calmly but firmly-in-sisted "upon taking his name and address. At which the volume of wordy resentment broke out afresh. In most cases there was no trouble, but a low men who insisted on their so-called " rights " made exhibitions of themselves.

Tho people of New- Zealand are indebted to the Christchurch Citizens' Defence Corps for the opportunity they have been given to see moving pictures of the battle of the Ancrc. Tho idea of bringing these pictures to New Zealand was first suggested by the corps in a letter to Sir James Allen in the middle of December. His attention was drawn to the fact that tho Imperial Government was having moving pictures taken at the front. It was suggested, that tho New Zealand rights should be sold to the Government of the Dominion, and that the films should be leased to patriotic associations in the principal centres at a nominal price. It was further suggested that if tho Minister approved tho schemo he should cable to the High Commissioner in London to secure pictures already published and others that might be taken, gir James Allen telegraphed in reply " As suggested in your letter, I have communicated with the High Commissioner regarding securing the New Zeapand rights of the pictures in question" The arrival of the Ancre battle films was the result.