CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16920, 20 December 1922, Page 6

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Society cf Arts yesterday, the fcllowing officers were elected :• —President. rE. C. Huie ; vice-presidents, -Messrs James Jamieson, X. L. Macbeth, AVm. Reece, R. Wall work and Dr G. M. L. Lester; council, Messrs A. E. Baxter, R. Be.JI, W. wlenzies Gibb, C. F. Kelly, 8. E. M’Carthy, A. F. Nicoll, M’Gregor Wright and Cyrus J. R Williams ; honorary treasurer. Mr C. J. R Williams; secretary, Mr G. L. Donaldson ; honorary auditors, Messrs Anderson, Bicknell and Co.

“ We feel that the Act was never intended to* cover a case of this kind in which two men work for each other in the way these two men arranged to work,” said his Honor Mr Justice Frazer, in giving judgment for the defendant in a case in which W alter Geo proceeded against George Cullen in the Arbitration Court yesterday for compensation. The parties were shopmates at Anderson’s foundry and arranged to do work for each other. While Geo was painting Cullen’s house on a Saturday afternoon he fell on to a concrete path and sustained serious injuries. He claimed £625. Mr Justice Frazer said the sympathy of the Court was with the plaintiff, but his action must fail. A number of resignations and consequent rearrangements of staffs wer?reported at yesterday’s meeting of the Canterbury College Board of Governor--with l-espeet to the Boys’ and Girls' High Schools. Tt was decided to call for applications for the position of fu T l time assistant to the Professor of Modern Languages at Canterbury College. At the postal inquiry in Wellington yesterday the evidence in the Springbok case was concluded and the Kennedy case was miened. Allegations had l>een made against Kennedy by two women and on one of the charges he was dismissed. Kennedy said he had been afforded no opportunity of refuting the charges. The case had not- been concluded when the inquiry was adjourned That the Sumner Borough Council is responsible for the pollution Q f the estuary and the Avon River was the opinion expressed by Mr H. J. Otley at last night’s meeting of the Drainage Board. Mr Otley cited an instance where he had seen borough council employees on the beach shovelling material that had been washed out of the tips near Shag Rock and w’ashed up on the beach again by the tide. Hie Sumner Borough Council, he said, had been doing that sort of thing, and the board had been blamed for it. The cause of the trouble (of which the New Brighton Borough Council hacl complained) was pot with the board or the sewage farm. A complimentary social was tendered to Mr D. G. Sullivan. M.P., in the Oddfellows’ Half. Lin wood, la st evening, -when. Mr Sullivan was presented with an inscribed travelling rug. Mrs Sullivan was presented with a Sunshine purse. The proceedings concluded with a dance. In the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland yesterday, Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M , declined to accept the plea of a man charged with bringing a firearm into New Zealand without a permit, that he carried the weapon for selfdefence. In fining the man £lO Mr Poynton issued a warning that anyone found in unlawful possession of a firearm in the future would incur the full penalty of £IOO or th.rce months’ imprisonment