LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12698, 21 July 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Press Association telegram from Oamaru states that strong resentment, in view of the coal shortage, was voiced by passengers on the crowded southward bound express on Friday that they had to content themselves with standing in the alleyways and on tho platforms of carriages 'while the ministerial carriage travelled empty by tho same train, and the Acting-Prime Min-ist-ei* motored southward by a lured taxi from Tiniani. On Friday it was feared that the Wellington tram service would be stopped during the_ Peace holidays, owing to a dispute with the employees in the pou er-house, states a Press Association telegram. The City Council offered t.iem a time-and-a-half rate of wages and three extra days to their annual leave, but the men demanded double rates, as well as extra days. However, the Conciliation Commissioner effected a settlement of the dispute. The Police Department (it is announced in the “Soldiers’ Guide”) will reappoint any ex-members of the police force who have served at the front whose character at tho time of discharge from the police force was satisfactory, and has been so maintained in the meantime, provided that they are passed by the police surgeon ns medically fit for ordinary police duties, or, “ n °L ere qualified and able to perform clerical duties in district offices, etcThe Railway Department’s official advertisement in connection with the acceptance of goods, a,s arranged with t*ho Citizens’ Railway Trnnsit Committec, during the operation of the restricted train service, appears in an advertisement in this issue. The procedure is clearly set forth in the advertisement, and senders of goods from Christchurch and Addington will have no difficulty in following the arrangetnents. made- The Transit Committee’s office is in the Union Steam Ship Company’s old building, Manchester Street, and % will be open at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. The work which has been carried out by the Department of Imperial Supplies m connection with the Imperial , commandeer ° of wool is referred to in appreciative terms in a letter which has reached the Controller of the Department (Mr Robert Triggs) from the Contracts Department of the Imperial Ministry of Munitions. The Ministry states: “ Wo think wo are voicing the general opinion when wc say that tho standard of the work on your side was very high. The wool trade as. a whole can appreciate the thoroughness of your scheme and the amount of hard work which has been put into it both by the originators and by those who have carried it out.” This tribute from the Imperial authorities reflects great credit on the local Department and its officers. The Manama arrived at Lyttelton at Ip.m. yesterday in order to disembark sixty-three returning soldiers for Cnnstchurch, thirty-five for South Canterbury, fourteen for North Canterbury, ten for. the West Coast, seven cot cases for the Christcnurch Hospital anil one for the Cashmere Hills Sanatorium- Eight officers also landed, and one nurse. The Lyttelton Red Cross ladies distributed cigarettes and dainties to the men going south. A special train brought the men to town, where they were met by members of the Canterbury Automobile Association, who conveyed them and their next of Inn to their homes. The Marama loft again at 2.30 p.m. for Dunedin. Coasts,” said Bishop Julius in the course of his sermon last night. “ I was looking for a house. The miners there are angry men—they won’t dig coal, and we are vexed with them; but there is another side to it. Those miners do work that many of us would not put our hands to. They live in houses that arc miserable hutments, and nothing else. They get big wages, but under circumstances and with education which make them unable to use these wages as they should. We must do them justice. I don’t believe there is a man or woman in Christchurch who would not do the right thing if ho or she knew how. It is just because we live in a fools’ paradise and will not look facts in the face ” His Lordship instanced the way in which the epi/lemic had opened the eyes of the community to the uncleanliness and bad conditions that were in its midst. Justice, he said, meant more than doing the right thing that stared one in the face. It meant being vigilant in the cause of justice, and seeing that the Government was true to the foundations of the throne of God. While addressing a gathering under the auspices of the Wellington Accountants Students’' Society - on Thursday evening, Professor T. A. Hunter said in reference to the question of the proposed physical training scheme: “ I feel it my duty to give a w.aiming to tiro people of New Zealand. It has become evident during the past few weeks that the military authorities of this country are, under the guise of giving physical instruction and teaching citizenship, about to lay their hands on the educational system of New Zealand. Is the fate of Prussia to be ours? History warns us that not infrequently the conquerors have been inoculated with the views that brought about the destruction of the vanquished. On what grounds do the military authorities claim that they are fitted for the tremendous task of training in, citizenship? This is the work pre-eminently of the Department of Education, and as tlup people with no uncertain voice have decided that they will not allow the schools to fall under clerical domination, so I trust they will he even more determined that the schools shall not be dominated by the military spirit. The first call is that the children of this Dominion shall he provided with suitable educational buildings and playgrounds, that they shall”be finder the control of a professional body of men and women thoroughly trained" and adequately remunerated.' When the time comes and-we are willing to make the necessary financial investment in the continued physical training of the youth of this country, it ought to ho not as an aspect of the military system, but as an integral part of a' comnlcte scheme for educational continuation classes.” 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. 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