LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12784, 30 October 1919, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Amalgamated Society of Engineers announces to all members in the Canterbury district that as a result of the ballot of October TO, regarding overtime, the working of all overtime shall cease after Saturday, November I, until further notice. Mr T. TV. Rowe has consented !o give an address at the next social oi the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association, to be held during Show Week. Mr Rowe’s address will be entitled “ The Duties, Powers and Responsibilities of Justices of the Pence. '* Arc welding, an electrical process, made it possible, Mr E. Hitchcock remarked in his lecture last night, to repair the interned German vessels that had been damaged by their crews in New York, and to put them in commission much more rapidly than would have been possible otherwise. ibis work was extensive, for the Germans had knocked big boles in the cylinders and smashed the valves, but they were successfully welded. Mr Hitchcock added that at Addington there was nearing completion a six-ton electric furnace for cast steel, requiring IBUO h.p. when in full operation. Satisfaction was expressed at last night’s meeting of the Canterbury Repatriation Board, at the of the board’s efforts to repatriate a blind soldier who bad applied for assistance to obtain a few acres for the purpose of going in for poultry farming. The chairman (Mr A. W. Jamieson) said that bo had held several conferences with Mr W. A. Smith, secretary of the Patriotic Fund, regarding the case, and with the assistance of the Patriotic Fund the man would be provided with a farm free from any encumbrances whatever. (Applause.) The chairman added thatthere were twenty .blind soldiers in New Zealand, and a special fund bad now been set up in Wellington for these men, and with the assistance of the patriotic societies it would be possible to establish them all in businesses free of any liability. Mr F. >V. Hobbs, _ a member of. the Canterbury Patriotic Fund Committee, stated that the committee bad earmarked £70,000 for men likely to come back on the fund in after years, and a capitalised sum of 15s per head had been set aside for all incapacitated men. A Press Association message from Wellington states that the degree examinations conducted by the New Zealand University will commence on Tuesday next. For the examination for the first section of the Bachelor of Arts degree there are nearly 500 candidates, being more than double last year’s entries. In every faculty there is also a considerable increase. A fear that the Dominion was on the verge of serious trouble in regard to transport work was expressed by Mr Q. D. Greenwood yesterday. He said there had been no trouble in this section for nine months, and it seemed almost incomprehensible ' that the men should have stuck to their work so long. Therefore ho looked for early developments. Traffic to the various South Island tourist resorts has commenced in real earnest. Mr S. J. Collett, Government tourist agent; reports that the prospects of a big season have never been better fop many years. As well as verbal inquiries for accommodation and transport by the different services and routes, the Christchurch Bureau is receiving a record number of inquiries by mail. The Hermitage at Mount Cook is rjready marked “Full House” for Christmas, and unless Intending visitors to other resorts make early arrangements, Mr Collett states that they have every prospect of being shut out. Queenstown and Rotorua report'that they are filling up rapidly even at this stage of the season. Reports received yesterday from Canterbury trout streams show that an excellent season may be reckoned on with some confidence. In the Selwynon Tuesday,night,three.rods, secured 3i fish, averaging 4jlb. In the Hnlswell during the week-end two rods landed 17. “The fish are in good condition and the prospects are better than they have been foi many years, in the Lake districts particularly,”' said one angler. Because of the floods, the Rakaift is not yet in good order. This river is usually at its best in December, The Cam has been a lucky haunt for fly fishers and several fine fish have been caught. Lately, however, a rim of whitebait has made the trout rather hard to catch. The Waimakariri is fishing fairly well, but fly fishers in the Ashley have been disappointed. The river has been in _ flood, but should be back to normal in a week or two. The adjourned meeting of the Brit-ish-Israel Association was held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms on Tuesday night. Mr J. R. Brunt presided, and there was a fairly large attendance. Mr J. S. Pate delivered an introductory address, giving a genera] outline of the reasons claimed why the Anglo-Saxons (sons of Isaac) are the representatives of the ten tribes who were carried into captivity in the year 721 8.C., and located. in Media, and from which captivity they never returned to their own land. As a nation they were quite distinct from the other portion of the Israelitish nation, known as the Jews, at present represented by Judah and Levi. The address was listened to with great interest, and at the close questions were answered. A number of tnose present joined the association. Next week an address will he riven bv Mr D. N. Adams entitled “ Britain’s Destiny.” “As yon are aware,” said Mr H. D. Haszard, Crown Lands Commissioner, at the commencement of today’s sitting of the Land Board, “on account of the tremendous growth in the work of the Land Department' in the. last six months, I’Hiavo had to &pply further clerical 'assistance, and the staff has outgrown the rooms available for them. Therefore, to find space, we have had to ntiljse the old board room for the clerks, and that necessitated making a move to another quarter for the sittings of the board. I have communicated with the Registrar of the Arbitration Court, and ho has kindly allowed us to use the old Provincial Council Chambers. It is thought that the.two bodies can arrange their meetings to their mutual convenience. It is a fine chamber, and I only wish that the rest of the office were in keeping 'with it.” Members of the board echoed this sentiment. How a typhoid earner (a person who has the germ always in his body but does not suffer from the disease) spread typhoid fever for thirty-seven years while quite well himself, is described by Dr S. T. Ohamptaloup in the British Medical Journal. In 1881 the man had typhoid fever, and the record of his disease distribution is as follows Shortly after his recovery he was one of a party of shearers among whom thirteen cases of typhoid occurred, several dying. Two years later, while shearing bigain,, three of his workmates got the disease. Throe years after this he gave typhoid to the cook and several fellow-shearers. Two years later he infected, one fellow-worker. V His last association with the disease)” says Dr Ohamptaloup, “was in 1918, when a man came to the farm, occupied the bid man's room, and shared his meals. This man caught typhoid 'fevery and in investigating the case the doctor discovered the carrier. The earner was a hale, sturdy old man, and had 1 always been remarkably well.” • ■ 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 Co. chemists (opp. Ballantyne’s). X ’ Steffa.no-AVebb portraits retain your individuality and show you at your best in a characteristic mood. Ring 1989 and make an appointment. Petersen’s Buildings, High Street. . ‘ i J