LOCAL AID GENERAL .

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18248, 5 August 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AID GENERAL .

■ The contractor, Mr. A G. Digiiell. 1 has resinned hi. 3 com rant lor electing ' additions to try tramway car barn m. i tne present site. s I The IVisions Board will Commence .a siui’i.&3 in tn. LoUi'llio’as.fc tins ! .iflei’noua. The siltings, win cccu.pj | four nays and pracLl.....y mJ pe-sivKs 1 wi.l be icviewed. : Sir John It. G. Sinclair, giving evi-i [deuce before the seocilsj Land Court, | ! said his rent roll had deerejSgp. b;. I ' .£BOO a year and laxaindi liiCiciisi.-u | by £BOO. He was paying 18s s„d I per pound of rental in taxation. Buyers for butter and cheese are on the warpath in Taranaki, stated the “Taranaki Dally News” recently. It is reported that one offer for cheese would enable the factory concerned to pay suppliers 2s 3id. per lb. of butter-fat for the season. I’he factory did not close, "believing these prices would further Improve. As evidence of the improved state of the river, it is pleasing to report that the S.S. Inga, from Newcastle, drawing lift. Ibni., came right up to the town wharf yestqj'day afternoon. Previously the steamer has had to discharge part of her cargo at Castlecliff. Consequently, when the harbourmaster said “ go right up,” tlie crew got a great and pleasant surprise. The Inga has 900 poles to unload at the town wharf before going down to the gasworks whar|. Wh,en Mr. John Jones left recently on his trip to the Old Country he was given blue prints of the proposed Karioi hydro-electric developments to present to Mr. Evan Parry, late Chief Electrical Engineer in New Zealand, now engineer for a big Britisl electrical firm. Mr. A. Harris, [tie oiganlser for the Provisional I Fewer Board, has just received a , li-itci from Mr. I’an-y in reference to I the plans, in which he said that ike | scheme was decidedly ingenious, and j reflected (great credit on Messrs Staveley and Mair, the engineers concerned.

The Australia.! Lag l .';' Lnion tear", are passengert 1 y :.;io Maheiio, y.-liich sailed from S;. (in . ..estcrday. ’During yacht racing at Cower, 1 Field Marshal; Str Henry Wilson fell overboard from a yawl, but was able to keep afloat until he was rescued. Wild weather is still being experienced in this district. Thunder and lightInmg have been particularly persistent, while heavy downpours have been frequent. The river is higher just now than it has been this .rear. It is estimated; that the total population of the Dominion on June 30th was 1,284,050. Between April 17th and June 30th births exceeded deaths by 3768 and immigration exceeded emigration by 561. Details of the new contract between the Government and the Colonial Sugar Company have not yet been announced, but there is good reason for believing that the price of sugar is going to be reduced by at least a penny per pound when the uew arrangement comes into operation. A witness fairly broke up the Court yesterday at the expense of one of the legal fraternity. The witness was her ing cross-examined by the S.JI. as to what he hud done wrh all the money he had earned since November last. "Well, [ have had Mr engaged pretty well all the time since then.” No one enjoyed the joke better than the other legal luminaries. The retirement of Mr. J. Arbuckle from the position of general secretary of the Miners’ Federation is announced. Candidates for the position are Mr. W. Balderstone (Blackball), Mr. F. H. Trant (Millerton), Mr. J. O’Brien (Huntley), Mi’. P. O’Rourke (State Mine), Mr. W. Franks (Pukemiro), and Mr. W. H. Smith (Roto. warn). A ballot is now proceeding among the affiliated Unions. A pjrty of visitors from Wanganui who proceeded to Maxwelltown yesterday to be present at the unveiling of the Wnitotnra War Memorial, were entertained at afternoon tea at the residence of Mr W. Morrison, chairman of the Waitdtnra County Council. Before leaving, Mr E. Dixon, M.P., on behalf of the visitors, thanked Mr Morrison for his hospitality. The war memorial is simple in design, hut a beautiful piece of work. It was designed by Mr C. R. Eord. and erected by Messrs Walpole and Patterson.

At the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington yesterday William Edward Parker was charged with having attempted to obtain £l4 14s from the New Zealand Insurance Company by falsely representing that as the result of an accident on the steamer Rama he had been totally incapacitated and unable to work for a. period. He told the company he had dene no work since the accident, when, as a matter of fact, he had worked on the steamer Kennedy. A fine of £lO, afterwards reduced to £7 on the appeal of counsel, was imposed. A nasty’ accident befell Inspector Fouhy on Wednesday. The Inspector was cycling home to lunch, and at the Federal Hotel corner collided with another cyclist, and was thrown heavily, sustaining a broken collarbone and injuries to his chest. A motor car coming along at the time also bumped the Inspctor while he was on the ground. The driver of the car saw the accident, and immediately’ applied his brakes, so that the car had practically stopped when it reached the Inspector. He was taken to his home and is progressing satisfactorily. A married couple, an ideal example of being “unequally yoked," occupied the attention of Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., yesterday morning, when the attitude of both parties demonstrated to bis Worship that it was quite unlikely .that they could live together in any sort of peace or happiness. The lady was a cripple ahd alleged ill-treatlnelit, while ’Jhe husband had sundry grfavan,oeis against the wife. His Worship said it was evident that there was no give and .take on either side, and neither side tendered that sympathy to the other which would make their married life happy They were obviously unsuited temperamentally, and made no effort to lie otherwise. He adjourned the case for a mouth. Some interesting remarks wore made by Mr Charles E. Lawrence, of the English Pierrots, in comparing social clubs in New Zealand and Australia at the annual gathering of the Wanganui Swaukers’ Club last evening. The iUim I ihui the; bad Bhnil.ir jl’li’iiciis on il.j other side, but i!' r • gatherings were far more formal tia n' ' ’hid in N Z ■ land. Ths urn ■id;nitted-by all ' . .itc’s to the Domi: • mu. Club members in this country, re marked .’,i- Lawrence, let li.iin.-'.hv ge. and -i.tired h to the spirit of .oyment With such test that it was a aHViiege to” be allowed to share s’.mh good:r.-dow lip. This Was typu'.ii i I’.'oiigkoin ' ew Zealand, and he envy wished that club members >n c -.er coiifil 1 ics weald unueiM in si:. l .: ar (asliion. For a good •many years past mention haw iLiadc irom time to limo of the intai-tlcn of the Telescaph . p part me >t to ii.tro.luce tie iMurrev tc’cynpuic printer, an invention of a Nev Zca’andnr. V.'-r j .aervered. t'.‘e machine's arc uii’y now tegirmi. g t.i ceric tn imm; in parts. Key’: cart! s and distrlbutvi n for eight sets rrived some months ago, and opeators have been learning how to handle the instruments, which are extremely delicate. Eight receivers have just arrived, but these are of the Bordeaux type, which differs from Murray's. They are preferred in America, as errors are more easily corrected, but they print on tape instead of filling up a whole page like Murray's. The latter, how. ever, are in such demand that they could not be obtained for another year. The instruments are very costly, two complete sots running into £4OOO. They will be employed in the cities, to begin with, then be connected up, but it is not likely that any will be in practical working order till the end of the year.