TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12193, 17 December 1917, Page 6

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Dr J. Allen Thomson. Director ot the Dominion Museum, Wellington, ;s visiting Lake Colendge. The Pi11)1 io Works Department was included in the list of iirms cited in connection villi the dispute in the engineering trade which was heard it the Arbitration Court to-day. In granting exemption, the I'resklent ot the Court (his honor Mr Justice Stringer.) said : There is no such cooperate body in The "Works D-partmeni. cannot, be biTiind <"•110 might, as well try to bind his jesty the King.'' The animal picnic in connection with the Ciarenee .Road Methodist. Sunday School was he'd on Saturday in jplea'santlv situated grounds at Ham Road, kindly placed at the disposal of the teachers b\- Mrs Stead. During the progress of five o'clock tea the Rev W. T. Hooper handed io -Miss Jean Hat.es a bound vol*,hup forwarded by an unknown well-wisher in recognition of her success in the i -1 cent examinations, this scholar having been placed first in her grade for the whole of Canterbury. A dedicatory service was held in St Augustine, Church, Cashmere Hills; at 11 a.m. yesterday, to mark the installing of a memorial window in honour of Messrs A. R. In wood, J. G. Murray and D. Mulcock, three early settlers. Tile Rev 11. S. Leach, of St Sa^i<iur\s Church, Sydenham, conducted the service, and preached from the text, "The righicous shall be in everlasting remembrance." Hp especially referred lo the work of the earl- settlers, and said that the men whom the memorial honoured were splendid types of New Zealand pioneeers. Mr G. T. Booth, giving evidence at the. Arbitration Court to-day in the engineering dispute, stated that materials represented about one-third of the sale price of implements. The cost: of iron and fteei bars and sheets had increased 100 to l'Jo p«r cent., pjnr iron had advanced 100 to 150 per cent, copper 100 per cent,, and holts and nuts 150 per cent. Tin had gone up 50 per cent and eoal 40 per cent. Other materials had risen correspondingly. Increases in implements were as follows :-Ploughs. 50 to 60 per cent: disc harrows, 33 1-3 per cent. : grass strippers, 50 per cent; rollers, 70 per cent,; windmills, 100 per cent; brass pumps, r >o per cent. The heaviest, advances had occurred quite recently. In regard to reduction of output of implements the effect, of the war began to be felt in 1015, and sales had reduced as follows in January of this year by comparison with January, 1915 Ploughs, 55 per cent; disc harrows, 28 per cent; rollers, 85 per cent ; windmills, 15 per cent. Sergeant Sydney C. Andrews, who was wounded on November 24 in Flanders. is the only sou of Mr and Mrs A. C. Andrews, Kidson Terrace. Cashmere. He received a gunshot wound in the shoulder and is now in the No. 3 Southern General Hospital, Oxford, and, according to cabin advices, received to-day, is progressing favourably. Sergeant Andrews enlisted -'n the Seventeenth Reinforcements, and was transferred as a N.C.O. io the Twenty-first, and left New Zealand in January of last vear. He has been at the front for the last seven months, and consequently has been through most of the recent fighting where the .New Zealanders have been engaged. On one occasion he ahd to take charge of his platoon, being the only officer left ungrounded. Sergeant Andrews was educated at the East Christchurch, West Christchurch District High School n.nd Canterbury College. Tie was employed in the Customs Department tor several years, but. resigned to take up a, position in his father's business, Messrs Andrews and Co., manufacturing stationers, Christchurch.