EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17352, 17 May 1924, Page 5

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The Minister of Health announced that a special committee has been set. up to conduct an inquiry into the question of the care aud treatment of the feeble-minded a» cl «oxual perverts ill ,\vw Zealand.

Jr: the All Smoke ringing-in case the jury returned a veidict of conspiracy against all three accused and of guilty of conspiracy and false pretences against Capes and Williamson.

In the Eulius ringing-in case the jury returned a verdict against the four accused on all counts.

ireoerick Michael Marshall, who escaped from Paparua Prison on March 24, has been arrested in Sydney. He will he brought back to New Zealand.

Writs have been issued by the Crown against the Crown Milling Company, Dunedin, Fleming and Company, In vercargill, Wood Bros, Christchurch, Atlas Roller Mills, Timaru, and Distributors, Ltd, claiming from each the sum of £SOO for alleged breach of the Commercial Trusts’ Act.

The Mayor of Dargaville telegraphed to J. P. Hannan, the Australasian sculling champion, as follows: —“Don’t be foolish. Give it a go. Good prospects for race on June 7. Regards.” Hannan replied that he would retain his championship which was fairly won and would not race.

The Canterbury District Council of the R.S.A. decided at its annual conference on Wednesday to urge the Government to put Section 2 of the Discharged Soldier’s Settlement Act into operation again, making provision for loans to discharged soldiers for building purposes.

The hearing began in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday of the manslaughter charge against Frederick M’Devitt, motor mechanic in connection with the death of William Cross, traffic inspector, on April 26 last.

The Catholic Presbytery, of four rooms, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning, the Rev Father Daniel O’Neill perishing in the flames. The new Prince’s Wharf at Auckland, at which the battleship Hood was berthed, was formally opened on Monday in the presence of a distinguished gathering.

“Wo can look forward with certainty,” said the Prime Minister at Auckland, “to spending £1,000,000 a year on naval defence.” The Winter Show conducted by the Canterbury A and P Association was opened at the Addington Show Grounds on Wednesday.

A drapery merger of considerable importance was completed on Monday, the firms concerned being Beath and Co and Carey’s, Ltd.

The proposal of a tunnel road to Lyttelton was revived at the last meeting of the Council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, when a special committee was set up to report on the scheme.

The activity in dealings in property situate in the business portion of the city which a lew months ago was very marked has now largely disappeared. In the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, Bertie Holds worth was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on charges of bigamy and of making a false declaration and committing forgery. The sentences were to be concurrent.

The presen.e of nr.'nd of a girl of 13 was responsible during the southerly buster last Sunday for the saving of the lives of her three- young brothers and a little sister from drowning off Adderley Head. The fourteenth annual musical and elocutionary festival of the Christchurch Com petitions Society commenced on Friday last the events being continued throughout the week.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance amongst the items noted in the annual review were the protests by way of meetings and deputations against the proposals to introduce licence into the King Country and the numerous \iolations of thi licensing law in regard to six o’clock closing. The annual procession of Canterbury College Students was held on Wednesday. Large crowds flocked to the city to witness tho festivities. Christopher Howe Nicholson was fined £SO in the Auckland Police Court for using a spmnirg jinnie and a roulette wheel on the* steamer Manaia on the voyage from Whangarei to Auckland. The Rev T. Dawson will shortly visit Fiji and Samoa in the interests of the World Jieagne Against Alcoholism.