LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12636, 22 May 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Canterbury and West Coast, members of Parliament at present in A\ ollington will wait on tho Minister of I üblic \\ orks to-morrow regarding tho completion of tho Otira tunnel. A Press Association message from Wellington last evening stated' that tho ferry steamer Maori, which lias been held up for a week, owing to shortage of firemen, resumed her running during the evening. The Wellington Harbour Board last night passed a resolution favouring tho establishment of a State line of steamers in Now Zealand in order to improve tho present unsatisfactory condition of affairs. A meeting of tho New Zealand Timber Workers’ Federation executive was hold last night to deal with matters relating to the federation’s coming conference. It was decided to hold the conference at Wellington on Thursday, June 20. The C.D.C. is now forwarding applications lor tho retrospective separation allowance on behalf of soldiers’ wives and guardians of their motherless children, who are entitled to it under tho regulations • that have already been published. The steamers Perth and Katoa, duo at Dunedin yesterday, have Australian mails for distribution over New Zealand. The next large European and English mail duo in the Dominion will bo brought by the Moana, which is due at Wellington on May 28 from San Francisco, via Island ports. At the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, six men named John Perry, Herbert Philip Pettit, Stephen Fisher, Ernest Adams, Ernest Beech and Percy Albert Olding were committed for trial on charges of theft of a large quantity of stores, valued at £79 ( from tho Raranga.—Press Association. A special meeting of the shareholders of the Eclipse Petrol Economiser System Company, Limited, was held in the Art Gallery last evening, the chairman (Mr William Wood) presiding over a good attendance. Mr H. C. Armstrong, who Has recently returned from America , made a report to the company regarding the Godwood carburettor, a New Zealand invention for tho purpose of economising tho consumption of petrol. Tho report was regarded as satisfactory. At last night’s meeting of tho North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, Mr E. liardcastle said that it was reported recently that a white heron had been seen at Stirling, and he had been informed that another had been seen at Hororata on Mr Collins’s farm. The speaker said these stray birds should not be destroyed, as they were tire rarest in the country. Mr B. F. Stead supported Mr Hardcustle’s remarks, saying that tho heron had strayed from one heronry in New Zealand, mid he would like to point out that the direst of penalties faced any person destroying one of tho species. Tlio Rhodes Scholar, who will enter Oxford in October, 1920, will be elected next Tuesday. The Canterbury College candidate is Mr Norman Macdßhald Richmond, 8.A., sou of tho late Mr M. W. Richmond. Mr Richmond lias an excellent school and college record on both the academic and tho athletic and social sides. An 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, the award of which has been suspended during the war, is also offered by the University of New Zealand this year. The candidate from Canterbury College is Eric Arnold Rowe, M.Sc., son of Mr T. W. Rowe. Mr Itdwe has already done important work in the chemistry of colloids, and would continue his researches in this subject if ho were elected. A gentleman who has travelled extensively in England stated to a reporter yesterday that “Safety First” was placarded in prominent letters on all tho London motor omnibuses, tubes and trams. Tiie words met the eye everywhere, and on some of the omnibuses the whole of the top sign board was used to display the instruction. As a result people were continually reminded that “Safety First ” was the main consideration when travelling about, the injunction tended to make them more careful. He suggested that all the Christchurch tramcars should hear the sign in prominent letters, and should also contain prominent instructions regarding tho best ways of getting on and off the cars; Regarding the question of islands, bo mentioned that in Princes Street, Edinburgh, islands were provided ai all the principal tramway stopping places, and he thought that tlie suggestion should be adopted in Christchurch. 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