LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12771, 15 October 1919, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two boys were charged at the Juvenile Court yesterday with th e theft of cricket material, valued at 30s. They were admonished by the Magistrate (Mr V. G. Day, S.M.), and one was ordered to report to the Probation Officer fortnightly for six months. The case of the other was adjourned for six months. They were forbidden to attend any public amusements for six months. Nineteen calls were made on the Firo Brigade during the month ended October 9. Four of those were false alarms, three given maliciously, eight wore for chimney fires, one was for a hedge lire, and eight wore for actual fires in buildings. The estimated vahio of property affected was £1775. Une insurance on the buildings and their contents was £IOOO, and the estimated firo loss was £245. Mr W. H. Dagger. Conciliation Commissioner, left Christchurch yesterday for Dunedin, were he will hear disputes brought by the Otago Journalists’ Union, the Otago Preservers’ and Canners’ Union, the Otago Tanners’ and Fellmongers’ Union, the Green Island Poller Mills Employees' Union, and the Otago Shearers’ and Mustercrs’ Union. The next dispute sot down for hearing in Christchurch has been brought by the Christchurch Clerks’ and Office Workers’ Union, the date being November 16.

At present forty-three returned soldiers are working on the LytteltonSunmer deviation road. Mr J. M’Combs, M.P., recently paid a visit to the men to see how the work is progressing and to ascertain if they had any grievances or if they had any suggestions to make. As a result "of re-px-esentations made to the Minister by Mr M’Combs, instructions have been issued that the men are to have their railway fares paid to and from. Lyttelton. The two proposed tunnels have not yet been started, but the other work is progressing satisfactorily. The librarian of the Canterbury Public Library reports good progress in all departments during the past month. Seventy-eight now subscribers were enrolled, and in addition to these sixty returned soldiers took out yearly tickets, which are granted free of charge. The volumes issued from the lending library numbered 13,518, compared with 11,016 for September last year. In the reference library 3893 works were consulted, as against 2448 for September, 1918. In the juvenile library 1829 volumes were issued, compared with 1765 that were issued last year in September. The lending library received 158 now volumes, the reference library 39, and the juvenile library 49 volumes. Many of these books arrived direct from London, the shipment containing a splendid assortment of non-fiction works.

In referring to social service work in the city Bishop Julius, at the Anglican Synod yesterday, said: “Many years ago one of our lay readers, Mr T. I. Small, offered himself for service in our police courts, gaols, industrial schools and other institutions. He was appointed lay evangelist, placed under the direction of the Bishop, and maintained, in part by us, and in part by a committee of good Christian men of our own and other communions. Frequent testimony of the value of his labours reached me from time to time. Ho passed to his rest this year. The Standing Committee has now taken up the work, and has enabled me to appoint the Rev Percy Revell as city evangelist, a post for which he has many qualifications.”

Lnrest in the labour world was touched on by Bishop Julius in his address to the Anglican Synod yesterday. His Lordship said:— “Industrial trouble is the natural consequence of unrest and an enormous expenditure of borrowed money. It cannot be expected that the industrial classes will settle down again to the ill-paid drudgery of the past. Tho recent strike in England, most happily ended, suggests some wholesome lessons and affords some ground for hope. The almost unexpected firmness of the , yernment, not inconsiderate of the claims which it opposed, tho steadiness or the people, and, may I not add, the moderation and restraint of the workers, encourage tho belief that a solution of those problems will he found.” Hundreds of Christchurch « citizens have been cured by I>r Fellow’s Pile Cones when every other known remedy has failed. Price 3 S 6d box, from chemists, or direct. Loasby and Co., chemists (opp. Ballantyne’s). X Steffano Webb portraits retain your individuality and show you at your best in a characteristic mood, Rina 1939 and make an appointment. Petersen’s Buildings, High Street. 1 Rapid weeding a necessity. Weeds are now growing apace, and “ True Temper” Wheel Hoes -will deal with liiem as fast as the worker can walk Trice from 21s at the Sole Agents' liastie, Bull and Pickering, Ltd ’ Cashel Street. 4078