LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12724, 20 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A sub-committee of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association has been appointed to make arrangements for an Anzac Ball, which it is proposed to hold on September 20Owing to the wet weather at Lyttelton yesterday morning, the treeplanting which was to have been carried out at Corsair Bay by the school children of the borough was postponed until to-day. At a. sitting of the Juvenile Court, yesterday, a boy, sixteen years of age, who pleaded guilty to having cycled on the footpath at Papanui, was fined 2s. A child, aged one year and seven months, with no means of subsistence, was committed to the Receiving Home. At a meeting of the trustees of the Hokitika Savings Bank yesterday the sum of £IOOO was voted towards a new wing and nurses’ quarters at the Westland Hospital, to mark the conclusion of Peace. The buildine scheme involves the expenditure of about £12,000 for partial completion, and an additional £BOOO for full completion- The Hospital Board is n'ow arranging to undertake the extensions as soon as tho plans, which are now in hand, are prepared. It was announced at a meeting of the Manawatn Winter Show Committee (states a Press Association telegram from Palmerston North) that Messrs Lovell and Christmas, of London, had donated a hundred guinea cup for the dairy competition at the winter show, and that Messrs Rowson, Hodgson and Co., of Londbn, had given a £SO cup for the same purpose. Mr James Bull has donated £SO for tho hunters’ competition, and Mr W. D. Watson £2O for the ladies’ hunters.

Mr Edgar Stead, of Ham., recently brought under the notice of the chairman of the Drainage Board the fact that the water in the River Avon tributaries running through his grounds was sensibly decrea.sing, and he attributed this partly to the fact that the tributaries required attention above the Ham Road, which is the boundary of the board’s district, and therefore beyond the board’s jurisdiction. The board has decided to call the attention of the Waimairi County Council to the matter. The engineer to the Drainage Board reported last night that the charge made by the City Council for water used for flushing was at the same rate as that charged to the public, namely, Is per 1000 gallons. Seeing that the board did a fair amount for the council in pumping the waste from the underground conveniences and from several public urinals, for which no charge was made, the council might fairly be asked to make a reduction for water used for flushing purposes. It was decided to apply to the council accordingly. The quarterly meeting of the Canterbury Methodist Sunday School Union was held on Saturday last at Sydenham. Members of the Bible Class Unions had been especially invited, and close on 200 representatives of the three unions were present- The subject for the afternoon was “ The Social Side of Our Christian Life,” the speakers being Miss J. Abernethy and Mr IV. Thomas. After the meeting tea was partaken of in the Sunday school, and was followed by a social evening. The next meeting will be at Addington in November. An application to the Drainage Board wos made by the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company last night for permission to run a drain from the new mill at Woolston into the Heathcote River. The letter stated that tho water discharged into the river would he from machines where newly-manu-factured hosiery was washed. The water would pass through a filter bed before discharge, and no objectionable matter would reach, the river. The board was asked to deal promptly with the matter, as the mill would be ready for occupation within four weeks. ” The board granted permission, subject to the filter bed being passed by the engineer. A very interesting address was given by Mr C. Berridge, Government Orchard Inspector, on ‘‘Grafting and Budding,” to the class conducted by the Canterbury Orchard Association. The lecturer dealt first with the principles of grafting and budding, and then gave a. practical demonstration of the different modes of grafting fruit trees, and fully explained the proper periods for grafting). Several examples lof budding were shown, and the inspector explained the modes adopted in the layering of different flowers. He was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his interesting lecture and demonstration. At a special meeting of the Sprevdon Biirgesses’ Association, presided over by Mr M. J. O’Connor, the committee set up to go into details of the electric light scheme reported that they could not obtain the necessary facts or figures from the council office, and evidently there were no new reasons to account for the council’s attitude in controlling the electric light in the borough. The following motion, moved by Mr E Cameron, seconded by Mr Thomas, was carried unanimously That the association take immediate steps to call the ratepayers together to discuss the electric light affairs of the borough the Mayor and councillors to be invited, so as to enable them to explain their attitude on the matter-” It was resolved that the meeting be held in the Methodist Schoolroom on Thursday August 28. 0) At last night’s meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union the need for an international board of control was stressed by the chairman, Mr S. P. Wilson, who pointed out that under the present system various unions were playing under their own rules, and if they played against each other they had to fall back on the old, unamended rules to be on common ground, unless tho rules of one union were_ adopted by consent. He felt sure that if members would only have they would eventually see an international board controlling the laws of the game. If fho present management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union had Teen in power? two years ago he was certain there would not have been the trouble with the EngIt 1 „ 10,1 over If l ® amendments to the New Zealand rules. A depiitatifln, consisting of Messrs E- C. Reynolds, S- Solomon, K. O. D. Gulder and W. J. Strong (representing the Otago High School Old Boys’ Association), waited on the High School Board of Governors recently with reference to the athletic side of the educaf'joll boys at present attending the High School. Mr Reynolds said that members of the Old Bovs’ Association who were present at the recent Rugby matches between the Otago and Waitaki Boys’ High School teams realised that the time had come when something should he done in tho direction of making Duchy football compulsory in the Otago Boys’ High School, if the school w&s to hold its own with other secondary schools in New ZeaTanL He was voicing the opinion of Bovs 1 Association in stating that sport should form a large proportion of a boy’s education. The deputation was thanked for its attendance. 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. Loasby and Go,, chemists (opp. Ballantyne’s)'. X Have those old-time portraits copied, enlarged or reduced and finished, by pur permanent process. W e specialise in this and can guarantee satisfaction. Steffano Webb, Petersen’s Buildings. High Street. ’Phone 1989. 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