LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16748, 1 June 1922, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

NEWS FROM NEAR AND FAR A poll of ratepayers of Blenheim on a proposal to borrow an additional £22,000 for a water scheme was carried by 635 to 103. The original loan was £65,000, and the council lias already spent over £70,000. When a New Plymouth witness said that lie had had. a farm for sale at a certain figure, and could not get a purchaser, says the “ Taranaki News,’’ the agent suggested that it might be thought there was something wrong with the property, and so it was agreed to put an extra £5 per acre on the selling price. An immediate sale was effected.

As the result of a recent cash and clothe* “ drive ” by the Auckland Commercial Travellers’ Association in aid of the poor and needy, about £2OOO in cash was received, while the value of the gifts of clothing is estimated at between £7OOO and £BOOO. The whole of the proceeds will be divided immediately among the various social workers of Auckland for distribution to those :n need of help. Dr K- Ross, who has just returned to Dunedin from Britain, told a Dunedin 11 Star ” reporter that since the war golf has taken a, stronger hold of England than ever. Tn the big events the players drive down long lanes whose sides are closely packed ranks of spectator* Golf courses have sprung up all over the country j frequented by such crowds of players that on an ordinary day it is not unusual to have to wait an hour or two before taking one’s place on the first tee. The high cost of fruit in the -South Island was attributed by a delegate to the Chamber of Commerce meeting last night to tille fact that all imported fruit had to be transhipped from the North Island. He said that the "Whangape. from Auckland, with a cargo for Lyttelton worth £6OO in freight, had been due at Lyttelton on Sunday, but bad gone straight past to Timaru. and after staying a day there bad come leisurely back to Lyttelton. The Tahiti, also, bad arrived in Wellington on Friday afternoon, but some of her fruit had onlv arrived from Wellington that day (Wednesday), and some had not yet arrived.

“ Most of the waterside workers at Tokomaru Bay have farms of their own and some of them run 800 to 1000 sheep and ship their own wool.” said the secretary of the Tokomaru branch of the Gisborne AYaterside Workers Union at the Arbitration Court yesterday, in reply to a question as to whether the men did any other work when vessels were scarce. il The relation lietween capital and labour ought to bo very harmonious.'’ remarked Mr Justice Frazer. ‘‘Jt all depends on who is the capital and who is the labour.” replied Mr J. Roberts; “‘the workers are ‘ sheep ’ owners, not 1 ship ’ owners.'’ Among the happiest of the Ixvvp at the Salvation Army’s farm at Putaruru are 12 orphans who arrived from England by the Waimana a few weeks ago, the first to reach the Dominion in connection with the Army’s orphan immigration scheme. Major Green, who visited Fhitaruru last week, states that the boys, most of whom have lost both parents, look particularly well and happy. and have taken to the* outdoor life with keen enjoyment. They Came from London, in most cases, from a ver v * unhappy environment, and everything in connection with farm life i» absolutely new to them. Their ages range from 4to 14. There are now 80 boys at the farm, the younger ones attending school and the others helping with farm work and taking sneeial farm course*. The propertv consists of 2000 acres, a large area having already been brought- under cultivation, so as to make the place self-supporting. Ma jor Groen stated that 100 orphans would be taken by the Army in New Zealand. Some of the girls would go to the orphanages. while all the boys would be sent to Putaruru. A photograph to send each of your friend* is the best way to solve the gift problem. Let St.effano Webb take it. Petersen’s Buildings, High Street. Telephone 1989. 1513 There’s no period of life in which the changes are so rapid, the stages so interesting, or the memory so well worth keeping as the period of childhood. Keep the record in a photograph. Begin with a portrait to-day. Wrigglesworth and Birins. 73S Colombo Street. ’Pboib \l>