LOCAL AND GENERAL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19813, 3 December 1919, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

■'■■' ■ ♦ I Mails dispatched from the Dominion,' on October 18 arrived in London on No- ' vember 29. The winner of the merino wool competition at the recent Metropolitan Show, for the merino raro whose fleece shows the greatest money value, is Mr Charles Goulter, Hawkesbury, Blenheim. _ A meeting of the Christchurch Brit-ish-Israel Association was held in the Y.M.O.A. rooms last night. Mr J. R. Brunt was voted to the chair. Tho constitution of the association was adopted, and it was decided that the membership should be unlimited, the) annual subscription being Is, honorary members 10s 6d; the objects of the as-1 sociation to bo to promote the* study of i the subject of the identity of the Lost! len Tribes of Israel as represented by J Great Britain, her dominions and Ame-1 nca-m short, tho whole.of the Anglo- 1 baxon world. This object will be ad-1 vanced by lectures, debates, essays, drawing-room meetings and the per-1 sonal advocacy of members generally.! Ihe association is unsectarian and non-! ? aL , £ ilG olcction of officers re- ! suited as follows :-Vice-presidents, the! Ven Archdeacon Gosset and Mr J l\. Brunt; council, Messrs D. N. Adams" 1.. H. Bruce, J. H. Suckling and a ' Allington; honorary secretary and MrT°T' pS W ,- S> Pate ; i Mr A\. 1. Hill. It was decided to hold the meetings monthly. I La tost cable advices from England '■ contain the information that there are now only nine members of tho New Zealand Expeditionary force m Prance. The number of New ■ Zealand soldiers in Great Britain is also ' decreasing rapidly Tho last transport i to leave an Lngh&h p.>rt tor the Do- I minion will be the Ruapohu carrying i 100 men and 130 women. The Rua- : pehu was expected to sail on Monday i There will then bo 670 soldiers and soldiers' wives for repatriation, and these will come out on ordini nry pioneer ships as accommodation if m"? 1 ?' Ji Q Rui,lline > <>ue at ; Auckland about December 20, has eichfc ! men for Picto U and Nelson, ten for ! the West Coast, forty-hour for Christ-1 church, and nineteen for stations be- j tween Christchurch ,md Dunedin. j The Rimutaka, duo at Wellington about December 27. has about sixty-five I men for Canterbury. The Kigoma via I buez, duo at-"Wellington about January M, carries sixty-six officers, three , nurses, 242 other ranks, twent-v-eMit cmliang, 112 women and thirty chil- ! dren. j Hundreds of Christchurch citizens ■ havo been cured by Dr Fellow's Pile ; Unes when every other known remedy hai failed. Price 3s fid box, from' chemists, or direct. Lonsby and Co. I chemists (opp. Ballant.vne's). X ' i There is one intimate, personal gift i that carries with it tho real spirit of: Lhrißtmas—your own portrait. Let 1 bteSano Webb make it. Petersen's i Buildings, High Street. 'Phone 1989 : X " Uapid weeding a necessity. Weeds are now growing apace, and " True Temper" Wheel Hoes will deal with them as fast as the worker can walk Price from 21s at the Sole Agents! Hastie, Bull and Pickering. Ltd . Cashel Street. 4078 '

The latest thing in the British Labour programme of social reform is provision for a minimum income for everv Twin, woman, and child. Under the scheme, which is fathered bv Mr Arthur Henderson, secretary of Mic Labour I'arty, and Mr U. 'l>. H. Cole, attached to tho research department} 20 per cent of all incomes would bo nationalised at the source and paid in a pool, which would be devoted solely to provide a permanent weekly income of 10s a. week to everybody.