LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12285, 6 April 1918, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The total takings yesterday for “Soldiers’ Day” were £675 18s Sd, which amount will he divided equally between the Lady Liverpool and Salvation Army Comfort Funds. There were two enlistments at the Recruiting Office this morning:—Harold E. Fenton, farm hand, 33, Pcverel Street, Lower Riccarton; and G. A. Dunlop, electrical cadet, 61, Huxley Street, Sydenham. There was only one nomination for the vacancy on the New Zealand University Senate as representative for the Canterbury District Court of Convocation, that of Professor John Macmillan Brown, ALA., LL.B., Vice-Chancellor of the University, and he has been declared rc-elccted.

The Otago Centre will not he represented at the Dominion Apple Show, to bo held at Auckland in Alay, hut individual growers will exhibit. Messrs Bennetts (Teviot), Ashworth (Alexandra) and M’Donald (Taieri) have been appointed delegates to the New Zealand Conference.

Air A. Christie, inspector for the Ashburton County Council, reported at a meeting of the council yesterday, that the motor traffic over the Ashburton traffic bridge during the Easter holidays was nearly double that of last year. Ho had secured the names of seventeen motor-car drivers and eight-motor-cyclists, who would bo proceeded against on charges of breaches of the speed by-laws. The Rev Val Trigge, of Alelbonrne, will commence a ten days’ evangelistic mission in the Durham Street Methodist Church to-morrow., At the evening service he will be assisted bv Airs Ernest Firth, who will sing “In tho Secret of His Presence” (Stebhins), and “God VVill Take Care of You” (Martin) and by Air Prescott, a competition soloist from Greymouth. The mission will he continued each evening during the week at half-past seven. A peculiar position has arisen in connection w>th the mooting of tho New Zealand Rugby Union in October, at which it was decided to forward certain resolutions'to the English Rugby Union regarding improvements iu the game, hi a letter Irom the New Zealand Union to the Canterbury Union on February 21, it was stated that these resolutions had not been forwarded to the English Union. It appears, however, that this statement was made in error, and a letter has now been received from the secretary to the New Zealand Union stating that the resolutions were duly forwarded. Dr Fellow’s Pile Cones have cured hundreds of Christchurch citizens after every other known remedy had failed. Price 3s fid box. from chemists, or direct, Loasby’s Pharmacy. 1787 Only tho most artistic portrait is a good enough record of your wedding. Let us make it. Bridal portraits and wedding groups made by us are sure to please. Stcffano Webb, Petersen’s Buildings High Street. Tele. 1989. XT

The Citizens’ Committee appointed to promote Triangle Day will meet early next week, and it has been definitely decided to publish the result of the city effort on Saturday, April 13. The large number of electric lights used about eight o’clock last night placed a heavier load on the sub-circuits of the City Council electrical plant than the engineer expected. In order to meet the extra demand, Air E. E. Stark replaced the fuse in use by a larger one, and the current was cut off from the sub-circuits for a few minutes.

At last evening’s meeting of the Technical College Board, the director (Air J. H. Howell) reported that, with the assistance of about two dozen boys and several members of the staff; the whole of the potatoes at Ensor’s Road had been dug on three Saturday mornings. The boys were giving up a certain percentage of their earnings—-in every case not less than half, and in some eases the whole—towards the Old Boys’ Parcel Fund. Unfortunately, the crop was affected by the blight, ft ml although in normal circumstances it would have been a very heavy one, it would turn out unsatisfactory from a financial point of view. During the concert given to the wounded soldiers at the Christchurch Hospital by the Ada Reeve Company yesterday, taro members of the company, Talleur Audrey's and Rogcro, were misled. A search discovered them in a room with a soldier who had been operated on eight times as a result of shrapnel wounds, and who was unable to attend the entertainment. The two artists had_ noticed that he could not hear anything, although his door was open, and lie was enviously Hying to catch some of the singing. Without a thought of the main concert, the pair closed the man's door, and in his small room gave him a concert all to himself, for which he gratefully thanked them.

Some remarkable records have been established recently by Dunlop tyres. On Thursday the head office of the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia cabled to the Christchurch manager that out of ten competitors in the great Alortlake 200-miles motor-cycle race at the Victorian Motor-cycle Club’s speed carnival, eight used Duulops, and C. Arnold, the winner, used Dunlop on his Indian. Another striking testimony to the durability of Dunlop cycle tyres has been brought under our notice. A cycle shod with Dunlop tyres was purchased hv a Victorian shearer early in 1910, and despite that heavy loads have been carried over thousands of miles of the roughest of roads and bush tracks, the sftmo tyres _ have been in use up to Alareh of this year. Nearly eight years of continual hard riding on one set of covers is a remarkable record of durability. During this period 14.970 miles were recorded by.the cyclometer, and only two punctures were’sustained] both in the hack wheel. As a tyro record this takes some heating. Those two incidents go in prove that whether under racing conditions or under the trying test of hnckhlocks riding the Dunlop is dependable always, and unexcelled. 47,52