LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17778, 29 January 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Sydney cable states that the Newton Band won the championship at the band contest. A Sydney cable states that owing to the heavy cost of paper, the Sun is raising its price to l%d. The Palmerston North ratepayers yesterday authorised loans totalling £123,275 for various local works. the matron of the Stewart Karitane Home will be very glad of donations of old linen and of jam pars. These may be left at the home or will be sent for on communicating with the secretary, Mrs ’Phone 965 M. The Pending Ram Fair is advertised to take place on the show grounds, Feilling, on sth and 6th February, the two days following the show. The rams are all from wellknown and successful breeders, and those in quest of good stock caanot do better than fill their requirements at this fair. The new sale ring, which is quite the most convenient and up-to-date in the Dominion, will be greatly appreciated by the public. "As for getting out cement from Home, that is a dream,” is the opinion expressed by Mr D. C. Bates, Dominion Meteorologist, who recently returned from the Meteorological Conference. “Cement is far more needed for building devasted areas J and houses in Englan3.” As cement | was urgently required in New Zealand, this pointed to need for development of the industry. From I what he had seen in the Old Country it became clearly manifest to him that every effort should be made to make New Zealand self-contained. Australia had taken this lesson to heart more than New Zealand. A severe accident befel a young man named Roddy Liddington, at Elsthorpe, Hawke’s Bay, last Sunday. Ha, with two mates, was amusing himself rolling boulders over a cliff 200 feet high, when the edge broke away, and Liddington fell the entire distance into the river at the bottom. II:: mates procured a boat, and he was got out after being ten minutes in the water. It was seen at "bnce that he had suffered severe injuries, and he was conveyed to the Waipukurau Hospital, where it was found that several ribs were broken, also, his knee cap and nose, and that he was suffering from concussion of the brain. An announcement in regard to the agreement between the New Zealand Government and the Colonial Sugar Refining Company was made by the Prime Minister on Tuesday. "The Board of Trade,” said Mr Massey, "has been in consultation with the Colonial Sugar Company’s representative, Mr Astley, from Sydney, and as a result I am able to announce definitely that the present agreement with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (£23/15/- f.o.b. Auckland) will not terminate in March, as was intended, but will continue until the end of June, when more definite information will be available with regard to the crop now growing. The position will then be reconsidered. Moreover since November the position in regard to supplies for New Zealand has improved so considerably that the company now anticipates that in all probability eighteen months’ supply for normal requirements is in sight.” The roads which are being constructed on Gallipoli will make it possible for tourists to motor from the Narrows through the Anzac field of operations, and along the famous beach to Suvla Bay. Already it is possible to motor in dry weather over this route. It starts from Kbilid Bahr, on the Narrows, and winds across the penisula past Lone Pine, the place which has been chosen as the site of the central memorial, and to the sea, thence northwards. New Zealand has noXlirect interest in Lone Pine, which was the scene of a purely Australian action. The corresponding New Zealand effort was over the much more rugged country on the left. The question is being asked why the central memorial obelisk should not be erected on the first crest above the landing place, in which New Zealand and Australian forces have a common interest.

Circulars from Dr. Barnardo’s Home, to hand by mall, give interesting details of the work done by the institution. The director opens his letter with the statement:—"l feel like the old woman who lived in a shoe, who had so many children she didn’t know what, to do.” The Barnardo Family now numbers 7291 boys and girls. During the half-cen-tury that has elapsed since Dr. Barnardo started his home in Stepney, gathering in 25 little children, 88,607 have been rescued. Since the war broke out, 8470 have been received, and 10,715 old Barnardo boys served as soldiers or sailors. During the recent inquiry into the Pirie Street tramway smash, it was stated that it was a very rare occurrence for a motorman to suddenly dore control of his car through fainting. Another instance where this happened is reported in the Daily Mail of 28th October. A correspondent forwards the extract, which is as follows: —An Aberdeen Corporation electric tramway car as going along Gordon Street when the driver fainted and fell off the car into the street. The egr went on at fuil speed without a driver. The woman conductor was unable to reach the driver’s platform owing to the crowd inside the car. After going abom 100 yards the car smashed into a van containing a number of children who were going away to a school for infirm children. Two nurses were with the children. Luckily none of the occupants of the van was seriously injured. By this time the people in the tramway car had be come thoroughly alarmed, but a iyoung man on the top deck came | down to the front stairs, and 'although he did not know anything about the mechanism of the car he applied the brakes and managed to stop the car just before it was about to collide with a car in front.