HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12670, 18 June 1919, Page 4

HERE AND THERE.

Over 130 M” boats hare been built m various mercantile yards in Germany, J hoy are a hybrid between a very large trawler and an ocean-going tug of the Dutch type. They are steel vessels. , Sross tonnage of about 400, and a of nearly tenß> An • .p- of 1600 give a sea speed of over 0 knots, with twin screws and rociprocating enpnes. Their length is nearly draiKrhf Il f th 7 fcui,fc with a shaikh draught for obvious reasons. Throughr)’riiicfnnll War t ley h ? vo been pnncipally as patrolling and min*. but fl P hoto gf«-ph 3 show them to nave been fit tea with deck rails for coastal mme-laying. It would appear tion h 1 °" r *°i >r T nt their deEotoon by mines, the hulls are very minutely subdivided, which, together wdtb then fine Imps, renders them useless for anj sort of cargo-carrying. Then- » twm-sorews are against their being used as trawlers. But their horse-power and seaworthiness make them excellent for towing hgnters, however large, acro£ the North Sea and Channel. The damage don 0 by deer to crops stocks and trees in the Nelson district’ T£°T d , th ° annual conference or the local branch of the Farmers’ r+i' V v k i Tbe mover of amoc h ISOn Acolim atisation Sof y , ur pd to grant an open season for the destruction of deer in the WanUpper Motueka districts stated that in someof the outlying districts deer appeared to be becoming M numerous as rabbiti wore reported to hi parts of the Dominion. He said that one V angapeka farmer found four, lead, of stock being killed by deer hi r, day - An ? ther speaker sail that he luul seen eighteen deer in a neighbour s crop. The motion wa s carried. The number of cows in Denmark decreased by 200,000, or by 20 per cent during the last year. A chain of "earthquake proof” hotels, sufficiently magnificent to win the approval of fastidious South Americans is to be constructed immediately b the United Hostels Company, which fl nfu y if°?!r te9 hostelries on that half of the continent. Sites in seven countries Chili, Peru, Brazil U ru . guay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Columbia I sel f ct^ d ’ J “d the first to judge from the architect s drawings—will be built at Lima, at a cost of 2,000,000 dollars. ~ if 9 ne of the largest projects ever Ka? rf b - v , a b °tel syndicate, and both the Lnitcd States Government and the South American Governments interested will afford co-operation. The hotel at Lima will be one of reinforced concrete, supported by enormous cement foundations, capable, the company believes,_ of offering good.resistance to the disturbances of the earth’s surface to be expected in these regions. There is intense indignation in the Haupraki warden district, Thames, over the action of the Government in reiuovmg the. resident warden for the district, and making the work part of the duties of the warden who is resident in Hamilton (says an exchange). Strong pressuro is being brought to bear on the Minister of _ Justice to induce a change in his decision, and appoint, a resident warden as magistrate in the Hauraki district, as. was the case for fifty years until the Military Service Boards made inroads on the magistracy. It is felt that under _ the present arrangement the warden is in a mining district only about two days. a < month, which precludes the possibility of his obtaining necessary knowledge of local conditions essential in a warden. The last resident warden told members of the bar,, in a farewell speech, that most of the work of administration was done off the bench. Mr Wilford’s decision does not revert to pre-war conditions, and has raised widespread indignation. The whole of the local bodies, from Cape Colville to Waihi. have taken the matter up. A mining conference rorecently held at Thames unanimously expressed the opinion that it is necessary to appoint a resident warden if .the mining industry is to be revived. “ Some beekeepers say that they have never been stung,-„buti I: have never met one of these fortunate per-; sons,” said Mr A. B. Trythall, officer in charge of the State Apiary, Ruakura, while addressing delegates to the Beekeepers’ Conference the other day, “ and, in my experience, to settle down to,beekeeping means settling down to stings. If one' hive is found te bo giving particular trouble in the matter of stinging, it would be wise to requeen that hive.” Mr Trythall advises that persons handling bees and finding themselves attacked by a cluster should retire gracefully after the first sting rather than that they should' endeavour to complete the handling, for the pungent smell of the poison of the sting excited the other bees. What is to be done? (asks a contemporary). Builders declare that a house cannot be erected for less than £125 to £l5O per room, and less than 10 per cent on the capital so employed will not pay the landlord, owing to the rapid depreciation rented houses undergo. The rent which would thus be required for a four-roomed house to render it a business proposition for the landlord would be at least £52 per year exclusive of rates, and no one will pay £1 a week, and the rates, for a fourroomed cottage so far. iSpeaking to a Wellington “ Post ” reporter, Mr J. W. Butler, attendance - officer to the Wellington Education Board, made reference to the practice of employing boy labour for delivering milk in the city and suburbs. Mr Butler stated that the employment of boys to deliver milk, which means their rising at very early hours, is a common practice in Wellington. The reporter was shown a letter that the attendance officer had received from one of the head teachers, in which it was stated that a boy of twelve years of age was employed on a milk round commencing at 3.15 am., and finishing about a quarter to 9, just in time to be at school. They boy states that he rises at 2.30 a.m. and the head teacher reports that the boy is listless and bloodless, and quite unfitted for Ms work at school. Another instance was given of a bov who commenced a milk round at 4 a.m. This boy was only nine years of age. In another case a boy eight years of age was employed to deliver milk, commencing at 6 o’clock, for which he received the princely sum of 6d a day. Mr Butler says that the Education Board has had this matter under consideration on several occasions, and representations have been made to the Education Department to have the law altered so as to make it a penal offence to employ children of school age for such work as the delivering of milk, which means their rising at unnecessarily early hours. There are numbers of children attending school whose health is being impaired by this practice. The formation of an aeronautics branch of the Auckland Automobile Association has been discussed by the committee of the association. The committee, in its annual report, states that while it does not regard the suggestion) wih disfavour, it has deferred the ques-' tion of taking action in the matter. No decision has yet been made about the battle honours which battalions are to bear on their colours in memory oil the great war (says the “ Daily Chronicle”). There are famous regiments which have fought in so many engagements that no space oould be found for them on flags already crowded with, honours in more than two centuries of service. Unless a now colour is adopted l to record the fighting of the fifty-one months in which some units were engaged, the only alternative is to follow the precedence of Wellington’s long campaign in Spain. “Peninsula” was the brief record employed on that occasion, and “France and Flanders" 1 plight be used now. Even then, soma units have served in Gallipoli, Egypt, Italy and other theatres in addition. For Bronchial Coughs, take •' Woods’ Great PeppermicG Care*