LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12406, 26 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court on Saturday, before Mr F. G. Norton, J.F., William Adams and Robert Maple, charged with threatening behaviour, were convicted and fined 10s each.

At a meeting of the New Zealand bociahsb Party last evening Mi’s Ada Wells, who was to have been one of the speakers, was absent owing to the recent death of her husband, .and Mr ston took her place. A motion expressing sympathy with Mrs Wells in her bereavement was carried. A Press Association telegram states that forty-four Maori reservists were arrested by Sergeant Cowan and four constables at Mercer on Saturday', for alleged disobedience of the Military Service Act. No resistance was shown. Iho party, which included Tonga Mahuta, a brother of “King” Rata, was taken to Narrow Neck camp. Thq week-end sale of home-made food supplies at the Red Cross Sales Depot, Cathedral Square, was in charge of the ladies of St Paul’s congregation, and resulted in the sum of £35 being added to the Red Cross funds. Donations received during the week:—Result of sheep and bullock guessing competition,' £93 5s 8d; Clarendon Hotel box, 15s; Mrs Summerfield, 2s 6d; Dominion Hotel box, 17s; T. Cripell, 10s; Mrs Fabling, ss. Competition during the week—Turkey, Mr Ellis.

In the course of the discussion at a meeting of the Workers’ Educational Association on Saturday, reference was made to slums, one speaker asserting that such places could be found in Olu’istcluircli. The Hon G. W. Russell said that at one time such undesirable places had existed .iu Aucldaud and Wellington, but. it was new to him to hear of their existence in Christchurch. He was sure that if particulars of their whereabouts were supplied to the Mayor, Mr Holland would see that they were wiped out in the course of a couple of weeks.

Tho fifty-second annual report of the Union Rowing Club, which frill bo presented at the'club’s annual meeting on September 9, records a membership of 300, including 120 members absent on active service. In last season’s “ new member campaign ” 138 members were secured. Prizes in this connection were awarded to T. Grenfell (42 members), F. Furrell (32) and D. Hanna (24). The buildings had been extended, and a second billiard table installed during the year. The receipts amounted to £844 19s 3d, and, the expenditure to £BOB 5s Id, leaving a credit balance of £36 14s 2d. Tho balance of assets over liabilities was £3882 11s lid. In his address on “Public Health” to the Workers’ Educational Associar tion on Saturday evening, the Hon G. W. Russell commented on the fact that few legacies had been left to the Hospital by the rich men of the province. Auckland and other centres had been much more fortunate in this respect. He expressed a hope that others would emulate Miss Chalmers, to whose liberality the province was indebted for a very fine block of buildings. He hoped some of the province’s millionaires would lose no time in paying a visit to their lawyers and arranging that, say £IO,OOO of their wealth should ultimately pass into the coffers of the Hospital Board. He would recommend for their study the words he once read on a tombstone, since they contain much food for thought: “What I.give I . have, what . I gave I had, what I kept I lost.” (Applause.)

Tlie following pupils of Miss Rigby’s Commercial School have been successful in obtaining Pitman’s shorthand theory certificate from Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., Melbourne, n$ the result of two examinations held_ in May, the fust six candidates being in order of merit Day students—Miss Doreen Ca-rpmter 1, Miss Marjorie Brown 2 Miss Maude W. Lumb 3;,' evening students—Miss Jean F. Chisholm 1, Miss Ivy Mackie 2, Miss Myrtle Price 3: and Misses Phyllis Archej\ Mona Amyes, Andrina Ardley, Maberley Beadel, Ruby G. Bateman Amy Bowlker, Letty Boyd, Eileen M. Bradley, Muriel B. Brunsdeu, Doris Cant, Gladys Cross, Donelia I. .Gaitt, DorothyHoywood Irene Holmes, Myrtle Halliday, Nellie Jennings, Marjory Johnstone, Daisy Mar sack, Eileen MClurg, . Marjorie Ileaby, Isabel Suiter, Myrtle A. Thomps°n, Mavis Tovey Flora ; Williamson and Evalme Wright. Dr Fellow’s Pile Cones have cured ■hundreds of Christchurch citizens after every other known remedy had failed. Price 3s 6d box, from chemists, or direct, Loasby’s Pharmacy. ]7?7 There are v good many photographic obligations you have never paid. Call on Steffano Webb at once. 252 HirrK Street. Tel. 1939. ■ “The Summer Glory-”—Bradbury’s Sweet Peas. Sow now for early blooming. Full selection of new seeds, named and mixed varieties, at Hastie, Bull and Pickering’s. Threepenny and sixpenny packets. Catalogue on application. q The National Efficiency Board’s proposal that compensation should be pain the Trade has puzzled quite a few folk. Here is a report that says that prohibition is essential for “the efficiency of the State and the individual both during the war and afterwards.” Yet it' proposes to* pay compensation to tho Trade. Why? Those who ask this question forget that if prohibition was carried to-day, under the present statute, 'it cannot take effect for four and a . half years. The National Efficiency Board carefully weighed tho evidence, on both sides, and was so with the value of immediate ivational Prohibition that it reported that in the interests of N.Z. that it should take effect at once <' Sign the Alliance Monster Petition asking Parliament to grant a poll on tho question, so that tho people -nhyv de-