TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20073, 9 October 1920, Page 10

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

All the rivers are reported clear in to-day’s river report, except the Rangitata, which is discoloured. Sir Keith Smith will' fly at Sooktmrn. to-morrow afternoon. ■ making a trip over the city and the surrounding country.

This .morning’s arrivals from Wellington by. the ferry steamer include Messrs C. E. Amit, 11. Fox and A. E. i-.cott.aiul Messrs T. Watson (Invercargill), and G. E. Smith (Dunedin). _ Iho s.s. 11 iltshire. left Sydney for uisborno ou OcUibor There are eighty hags of mails for Christchurch, also .seventy-seven bags of English mail and ten parcel hampers. A meeting will he held in the Town Hall, Leoston, next Thursday evening, !° discuss the sugar beet industry. It is suggested (hat a refinery bo established in the Ellesmere district. 3399 Mr F. Cooper, at to-day’s sitting of t m Conciliation Council, intimated dint, employers when making new contracts, should,he, prepared for the probability "of wages bonuses being increased by tbo Arbitration Court early next month. I’lying to Tai Tapn early this afternoon. w.ivh Messrs' 11. Macartney and VV. Macartney, Captain Euan Dickson, made the trip in about, ten minutes. Do returned to the aerodrome with, Mr H; ,1. Macartney and then flew back to Tai Tapn to give a series of passenger flights. Quito a flutter must have occurred among the ladies at Sir Keith Smith’s civic reception to-day at the romantic possibilities suggested bv the Mavor. He remarked that Sir Keith had been having a great time with the ladies of the .North Island, and he hoped that the ladies of Canterbury would not be outdone. “ I hope the ladies of Christchurch will lake up tho challenge,” said Sir Keith a minute later. There was a hearty roar of laughter at the invitation. “ No, lam not married,” said the aviator (there was a long pause for more bnignter) but that is not a challenge, mind you.” “I am not travelling for Vickers,” said Sir Keith Smith to-day. with a smile, “but I cannot fail to give the utmost credit for the Vickers machine. Even the raw material cape from Britain, and I am safe in saying that no ehher country in the world could build a machine like that. I am British all the time, and I a.m glad to think that the flight to Australia has helped to bind the Empire together more closely. That is of the utmost importance in these days when there is a certain amount of disloyalty and talk about Bolshevism; and speaking of disloyalty there is no sense in our fellows feeing away to fight for tho country and then having people talking revolution.'’ The remark was received with very hearty applause.