LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12647, 3 June 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Mayor and Mrs Thacker will ho “ At Homo ’’ in tho City Council Chambers to-morrow, from 3.30 p.m. k> 6.8y р. and from 7.30 p-m. to 9 p.m. Nurse Maude has received a gift of six pairs of elastic stockings and £1 from a Indy for tho Furniture Fund. She has mislaid tho covering letter, and cannot thank tho donor personally. The Hon G. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, received official information yesterday that Great Britain had recognised tho independence of Finland, Tho weather in Dunedin promises to bo fine for tbo winter show and race week. Accommodation is at a premium, tho crowded state of the city recalling tho time of tho visit of tho present King and Queen to Dunedin, In order to help tho Statistics Department to obtain information as to employment and unemployment, workers’ unions have been invited to communicate with tho Government Statistician. Tho Into Mr T. W- Adams, of Greendale, was a lifelong member of the Baptist Church and an ex-president of the New Zealand Baptist Union. The Rev J. J. North will conduct the funeral at Greendale to-day. At a conference of local bodies at Palmerston North yesterday, a committee was set up to report on tho feasibility of arranging fo r shipping to coll at Poston, or as an alternative, tho purchasing of a steamer.-—Press Association. At Inst night’s meeting of the Woolen Borough Council a petition was received, signed by thirty-nine ratepayers, asking the council to take’ notion in connection with sulphuric acid works at a local tannery. The matter was referred to the Works Committee. A Press Association message states that the North Auckland Dairy Association has announced the result of the' Weddel Cup competition, ns follows: Aria Dairy Company 92.712 points, 1; Kaitnre Dairy Company, 92.626, 2; Maungatapero Dairy Company, 92.425, 3, Tlie Post and Telegraph Department has bought a section of land at the. corner of Harewood Rond and Papanui Road for a new post office at Papanui. It is not known when the work of erecting the building will be taken in hand by the Public Works Department. The Fire Brigade received a call at 7.15 last evening to the corner of 01■livier’s Road and Buccleugh Street, Linwood, where a hedge was found to be on lire. The outbreak was easily extinguished, no damage being done apart from the destruction of a portion of tho hedge. Tho ballot of school committees for the election of a representative on the Canterbury College Board of Governors с , ,u ’«l at 5 i'. r n. vestorday. The candidates were Mr H. D. Aclnnd, sitting member, and Mr A. Pevorill, tho nominee of tho School Committees* Association. The boxes will not be opened till Monday, when the result of the ballot will he announced. A Press Association message from Auckland states that it is understood that the steamer Niagara will not proceed to Sydney owing to the shipping strike, but that she will remain at Auckland until June 10, when she will return to Vancouver. The steamer Moeraki, which has been waiting at Auckland for some time, will take the Niagara’s passengers to Sydney, and will probably sail on Wednesday^ The Hon G. W. Russell, Minister of Public Health, received news yesterday that during the week ending May 24 125 persons died from influenza in Victoria and 49 in New South Wales. Returns from Quenslnnd and South Australia are not available- The epidemic in the metropolitan area of Brisbane, judging by the number of .cases notified, there, is very heavy, but the number of deaths has not been recorded. Tho fortnightly meeting of the Christchurch Tramway Board was held yesterday; present—Tho Hon John Barr (chairman), Messrs A. S. Taylor, H. Pearce, J. Wood, W. J. Walter, D. Sykes. G. T. Booth and S. A. Staples The Works and Traffic Committee reported the acceptance of a quotation for 2500 Australian hardwood sleeners, at 8s 3d each, from Messrs J. A. Redpath and Son, Ltd. In view of the increased demand on tho power station for power supply during the winter months and the difficulties regarding coal supply, the committee had empowered the engineer to purchase 500 tons of American coal at £2 Iss per ton. The report was adopted. Tjie shortage of apprentices and consequent present and prospective injury to industry in New Zealand was discussed at the quarterly meeting of tho Wanganui Chamber of Commerce last evening. It was resolved to send tho following resolution as a remit to the Chambers of Commerce Conference:— “ That the Government be asked to confer with the trades unions affected with a view of securing altered conditions in awards as will tend to make good the shortage of apprentices.” It was contended that if something were not done the time would soon come when tradesmen would be unprocurable. The following .vessels were at Lyttelton yesterday:—Mararoa (2598 tons), Poherua (1175), Carpentaria (5804), Arawa (9372), Tarawera (2003), Kamo (1233), Wootton (160), Tainui (128), Cygnet (124), Storm (405), Calm (891), Urepuki (527), Pakeha (7899), Devon in stream (9661), and tho Kaitangata (1983), a total of 38,149 tons gross. With this large tonnage in port there was consequently a scarcity of labour to handle the cargo of some of the vessels. The scarcity of railway trucks is also being felt severely at LytteltonAnother handicap is the lack of berthing accommodation. As an example, it may be stated that the Devon, which arrived in the stream yesterday morning at daylight, will have to remain as anchor in the stream until Thursday or Friday. At the close of the Communion service at St Andrew’s Church at Dunedin on Sunday morning, states the “Otago Daily Times,” Dr’ Rutherford Waddell made a brief announcement foreshadowing his early retirement from the pastorate which he has filled with such rare distinction and acceptance for over forty years. He told his congregation that that was the last communion service in which bo would officiate as their minister. Most of them already knew that he intended asking the Presbytery at its meeting on Tuesday to accept his resignation of the congregation. He need not tell them the reasons that had led him to do this. Another opportunity would be offered for that. He would only just say that ho felt for some time past that the interests of the congregation required a younger and stronger man to undertake it. So he had come to the conclusion that in their interests as well as his own the wisest and right thing to do was to make way for someone who could carry out tho work with greater strength and with greater vigour than ho had been able to give it for some months past- The announcement was received with very keen regret, though most of the congregation were already aware that this sten was under consideration by Dr Waddell. Hundreds of Christchurch citizens have been cured by Dr Fellow’s Pile Cones when every other known remedy has failed. Price 3s 6d box, from chemists, or direct. Loashy and Co,, chemists (opp. Ballantyne’s). X Yield to your family’s wishes . . sit for your portrait to-day. Photongraph b of distinction are made by Steffano Webb. Telephone 1989 for an appointment. 252, High Street. 1 Ladies know them to have no equal, Martin’s Apiol and Steel Pills. Sold I by all Chemists and Stores throughout Australasia. X