LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12711, 5 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a meeting last night the Taranaki School Committees' Association decided to urge the Taranaki Jockey Club not to grant licenses to trainers employing uoya under fourteen unless they hold certificates of proficiency or competency.

In the estimates presented to the City Council last evening the receipts at the municipal baths for 1918-19 were stated as £904 14s 4d, leaving an estimated deficiency of £o9B 12s lid. The estimated receipts for 1919-20 are £1250.

In the estimates adopted by the City Council last evening provision was made for an assistant motor inspector at a salary of £193 per annum. An alteration in the estimates was the raising of the chief health inspector’s salary to £3OO per annum. The license fees which are included in the City’ Council estimates for 1919-20 are as follow; Publicans and transfers £IB6O, club £25, wholesale £220, wine-makers £2, auctioneers and transfers £950. pawnbrokers £3O, local and vehicle £2200, dog registration £6lO.

An illustrated lecture, explaining the City Council’s proposal to raise a loan of £150,000 for extending the city electricity supply, will be given by Mr E. E. Stark, City Electrical Engineer, in the Rollesfcon Street Hall, Linwood, tomorrow evening. Members of the Electricity Committee will also address the meeting.

Under the auspices of the local branch of the Labour Party Mr Robert Semple, M.P., delivered an address at the Rangiora Institute Hall last night on the Labour Party’s constructive policy and its claims to supremacy. The hall was crowded to the doors with a sympathetic audience. The speaker was frequently applauded. Mr W. L. Murray, chairman of the branch, presided. The, results from the Sydenham School sale of work, which was held during last week, were entirely satisfactory, the sum of about £IBO being cleared. The concert on Thursday last was a huge success, the hall being packed to the doors. Much credit is due to Mr J. Noble for organising and directing the whole affair. The singing of the children was excellent, and much appreciated by the audience.

At a meeting of Red Cross and patriotic workers at Tai Tapu, held last night, it was arranged to hold a welcome home to the New Zealand Red Cross Commissioner, Colonel R. Heaton Rhodes, M.P., and Mrs Rhodes, on the first available opportunity after their arrival in New Zealand. It was resolved to forward invitations to various branches of Red Cross and Patriotic Societies.throughout the Ellesmere district. The date of the function will be advertised later.

A Press Association telegram from Greymouth states that the steamer Joan Craig has been there nearly a week, and is not yet being loaded, as the watersiders refuse to handle the cargo owing to the presence of nonunionists among the crew. The vessel’s hardwood cargo for Cobden Bridge was unloaded by the crew. The mill-owners sent mill workers from the country to load the ship with timber, but the workers on learning the facts refused to handle the cargo. Among the votes included in the estimates adopted by the City Council last night _ for the year 1919-20 were tha following:—Maintenance of clocks £lO4 7s 4d (1918-19 £lO9 13a 2d, amount spent £212 16s 10d); impounding and destroying stray animals £8 (1918-19 £l6, amount spent £7 ss); dog collars and labels and dog catching £IOO (1918-19 £B9 14s, amount spent £96 19s lid); and Peace celebrations £IOOO (amount spent 1918-19 £67 17s 6dJ.

“It seems necessary for all public bodies to have something tp say on the subject of Peace,” states the annual report of the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council, which was presented to Saturday night’s annual meeting, “ and in view_ of the fact that Labour will persist in thinking for itself, perhaps it is doubly necessary that we should express an Opinion. But taking into consideration .the fact, also, that the War Regulations prevent us from expressing our opinions as we would wish to do, perhaps it will be as well to say as little as possible.* We have declined to join in any Peace celebrations, because we are of opinion that the present peace terms have hut laid the foundation for a new world war. \Ve would warn Labour not to blind itself into believing that we have entered into a lasting peace. In pnoof of this statement we point to the fact that the British nation has now become a military nation. The Conscription Act has been renewed, and already we see indications that we are to nave a naval base in this Dominion, and a standing army which is to he disguised under the name ‘of continuous training camps. The peace we have at present is but the_ lull before a greater storm. A capitalist and imperialist peace.” The {Supreme Court was in pecuniary difficulties yesterday afternoon. A witness seemed to be in doubt as to whether she saw “ ten ” in letters or figures in a certain position on a £lO note in question. “ Has anyone got a £lO note?” asked his Honor Mr Justice Herdman. His Honor’s appeal did not meet with a ready response. Mr Johnston, counsel for one of the accused, admitted possession of some £1 notes, hut said that he “ did not dabble in £lO notes.” At last a £lO note was unearthed, hut it was recognised that the designs of notes depended upon the bank from which they were issued, and that the one seen by witness might not have been the same sort as the one produced. “Perhaps some of the jurymen are millionaires?” said Mr Johnston in a tone of courteous invitation. His appeal bore fruit, and another “ tenner ” was handed in. The Registrar disappeared, and brought back another monetary offering of the denomination required. With this valuable evidence in his possession his Honor resumed consideration of the case.

One hears many complaints just now client the slowness of mails in arriving, 6ut all ordinary instances of this sort are easily put in the shade by the record of a post-card which Has just reached Dunedin after a journey of over thirteen years from Waimato, states the “Otago Daily Times ’' The card, which now possesses much more than its original interest, bears three clear postmarks on its face, arid one undecipherable one on the picture side of it. The first mark shows that ti was posted at Waimate on' May 14 1903, perfectly clearly and correctly addressed to “ Master S. A. Park, 83, Manor Place, Dunedin.” After disappearing from official view for thirteen years the card made its next appearance in London, on May 17, 1919. London appears to have been a little hazy as to the difference between “Dunedin” and “Dublin,” for the next mark records that the card was in Dublin on June 4. Dublin denied all knowledge of the owner, and offered the advice to “ try Dunedin, New Zealand,” with the result that Mr S. A. Park, who is now living in a home of bis own, has at length the satisfaction of knowing that the friend from whom ho parted in Dunedin in May, 1906, arrived safely in Waimate in due course. Hundreds of Christchurch citizen* have been cured by Dr Fellow’s Pile Cones when every other known remedy has failed. Price 3s 6d box, from chemists, or direct. Loosby. and Co., chemists (opp. Ballantyne’s). X Have those old-time portraits copied, enlarged or reduced and finished by our permanent process. We specialise in this and can guarantee satisfaction. Steffano Webb, Petersen’s Buildings, High Street. ’Phone 1989. X Ladies know them to have no equal. Martin’s Apiol and Steel Pills. Sold by all Chemists and Stores throughout Australasia. . X For Coughs and Colds, never fails. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. ;