LOCAL AND GENERAL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19986, 29 June 1920, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Two Australian mails will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow, ex Niagara, at Auckland, and Moeraki at Wellington.There are no English mails in sight at present. . Tim present capital value qf Woolston is £507,277, and tho unimproved value £163,947, according to a report presented last evening by the Finance Committee of tho Woolston Borough Council. ° What ono councillor described as frivolous,” but what others termed 1 a serious affair, likely to lead to tragedy, ’ was discussed at last even ing’s meeting of the Woolston Borough Council, tho subject being a proposal by the Works Committee to forbid their employees leading horses when the men wore riding cycles. Eventually it was decided that tho practice must stop. Tho official opening of the Turnbull Library, bequeathed to the nation bv the late Air A. H. 'I nrnbull, took place at Wellington yesterday. The ceremony was performed by the Minister of Internal Affairs in the presence of a number of visitors, including local members of Parliament and representatives of scientific bodies. The Selwyn Plantation Board at its meeting yesterday considered a request from Dr Thacker, on behalf of tho Coal and Blanket Fund, for a gift of firewood, similar to that donated last winter. The discussion was taken in committee, and on resuming open board, it was announced that it had been decided to give the fund three trucks of wood, subject to people in need outside the citv having the right to apnly for some of it. A letter from the Canterbury Progress League was read at tho meeting last evening of the Woolston Borough Council regarding the attitude of tho league on the port question. The Mayor (Air G. Hill) and Councillor J. C. Hobson, who attended the recent conference of local bodies, expressed great dissatisfaction with the proceedings. These two gentlemen were appointed to represent tho council at the coming meeting of tho league to debate tho port problem. Leases of Crown land reserves, situated in Rangiora County, Alairaki survey district, were disposed of by public auction yesterday. The lease of reserve 1737, block VII., 50 acres, was sold to William Owen Sail, farmer, Gust, at an annual rental of £25 10s; reserve 1738. block VII., 50 acres, to _ Robert Fri/ell, farmer, Gust, at £33 14s; and reserves 1739 and 1740 blocks HI., IV., VII., and VFTI., 102 acres, to Benjamin Croft, fanner, Cast, nt £72 2s per annum. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the latest district health bulletin contains 42 notifications on goitre. This disease has not been made notifiable in the strict sense of the term, but as the Public Health Department is anxious to collate statistics regarding its prevalence medical practitioners have been asked to furnish the Department with particulars of cases that come under their notice. The spread of goitre lias been a, subject of comment of recent months, and the Health Department intends to undertake research as to its causation. An address on Russia Under the GiUTj’lvei ensky find JjGniiij ,J was given in the Navy League Hall, AVorcester btrect, last night by Air Aubrey Williams, of Sumner. Tho address was under the auspices of the Canterbury Branch of the Royal Colonial Institute, and Air G. Jameson (president or the branch) presided over a- crowded attendance. Air Williams, who had many beautiful slides, some from photographs taken by him during his visits to , Russia, gave a short history of the country from the time of Ivan tlic lei rible, deulL nt grenter length with the .times of Peter the Great and the late Czar, and then showed rD 01 ,' 1 ? 111 ’- rise, progress and results of Bolshevism. He said that Bolshevism had benefited only the peasants who retained the lands thev had grabbed, and defied the Bolshevist leaders, and it had brought the workers, whom it was intended to benefit to a wretched pass. It still was a danger to the world. It bad brought nothing but misery to tho Russian people, and it would bring nothing hut misery to other people. Ho sometimes relt downhearted when he realised that the lesson it taugiit had not been learnt in rsew Zealand and Australia It might bo a good thing for Labour leaders in these parts to journey to Russia, as Labour leaders had done from the Old Country, and there learn the facts. 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