LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18432, 16 March 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Music teachers are notified in another column that entries for the Trinity College musical examinations close Friday, March 31st, with the local secretary* Mrs W. Shepley. The National Council of the Licensed Victuallers will meet ait Wellington early this week. The principal business will be in respect to the general election and licensing questions. The local police have been advised hv Auckland that a man named Charles Green, alias Hinton, has been arrested there on warrant. Green was wanted locally because of his alleged association with two cheques and somebody else’s bank account. The police were aware that he had gone north. Green will appear before the local Court on Friday. The three confederates of Moffatt (arrested at McGregor’s, Okoia) will be brought to Wanganui to-day from Stratford, 'the men are : Leonard Terrill, John Alexander Gemmell and Archibald Robert McKay. They were arrested at Stratford in connection with a series of local offences which occnrenrred after the Okoia incident, for which they will be charged on Monday. The Stratford Court committed the men for sentence by the Supreme Court. It was state! at a meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board, yesterday that Mrs Ditchfield’s claim against the Hospital Beard had been settled for the payment of £360, and further that she be treated as an out patient and that no claim be made against her for past maintenance. Originally a claim of £lOOO was made against the Board for severe injuries to Mrs Ditchfield whilst in the institution, the result of ether bursting into flame.

A cinematographer who recently returned to England from the muchfilmed jungles and villages of Central Africa, says that the natives display great ingenuity and ability in posing for the one-feared camera. Near Mombasa he saw the "Chaplin” walk executed with earnest pride by a trouserless comedian who had evidently studied the proto-type assiduously on the screen. Farther south there are film artists of genuine talent among the Zulus, who have appeared in “King Solomon’s Mines,” “Alan Quartermain,” “Prester John” and other firms made by the African Film Productions. Ltd. A correspondent writes to the Christchurch Ptess as follows:—The Bulgars would be greatly amused if they could see the concoction which so many Christchurch people are drinking for Bulgarian sour milk. The Bulgarian “Kysselo Mleko” sour milk is firmer than junket when made properly—they do not drink it. For the benefit of those who wish to I try to make Bulgarian sour milk, the following are the directions: —Boil one quart of new milk, let it cool to blood heat, rub smooth with a little of the warm milk one large tablespoonful of the sour milk, and add it to the quart of warm milk. Put the basin in a warm place, and cover it with a warm cloth, to keep the milk at an even temperature for 3 to 34 hours, then put in a cool place and keep it cool. The milk is ready for use as soon as it is firm. Keep sufficient of the sour milk between two plates for use next day. Sour milk can be dried on a piece of flannel in the sun; the powder will keep fresh a fortnight. The Bulgarian "Bug” being used in Christchurch will make quite good Bulgarian sour milk if these directions are carried out. The Bulgarians, Serbians, Greeks and Turks all make the sour milk from the above directions.

Plans of the proposed Durie Hill war memorial site, displayed at a meeting of th War Memorial ..Committee yesterday, showed that adjacent to the site 13,000 people could be assembled. Something unique in the way of entertainment of a Prime Minister took vplace at Gisborne, when the Right Hon. Mr Massey was the guest of honour at a corn-cob supper given by the members of a-Gisborne Club at their clubhouse. “I have been married fourteen years and have never once been away from my home on any night during that time. That is a record few wives can beat,” said a witness in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday. A notable landmark on the Otaki beach, the last mast of the wrecked Hyderabad, has fallen during the recent heavy gales. The Hyderabad was wrecked on the beach in 1879. fortythree years ago. She was an all-steel boat, and had two hollow steel masts. The Mangatoki Dairy Co. suggests that land valuations be proportioned to the prices of produce, and the Eltham County Council has agreed to seek the support of other Taranaki local bodies in asking for reductions on unimproved land valuations.

The discontinuance of the half-penny gostage rale on newspapers in New ealand has loft the Postal Department with a surplus of stamps of this denomination. These have been overprinted in red and made to serve as twopenny stamps. Tlie Manawatu Times learns from an Otaki resident that a sawmill is aljout to lie opened at the Otaki Gorge, about nine miles from the township. It will be run by water-power, and will employ a number cf hands. The timber is of good quality, mostly bill-grown rimu. The Wairarapa Age’s travelling reporter states that a buyer secured 4000 fat sheep in the Lower Valley on Monday and just about cleaned the district out. Shrewd dealers predict that prices will harden during £he nextcouple of months, and that the rickety market experienced of late will assume some form of stability. The value of hydro-electric power has been demonstrated on the Ruakura State farm. The manager, Mr A. W. Green, states that steam and other power has cost the farm £lBOO a year, but the cost of electric light and power supplied from Horahora has been at the rate of only £l2O a year. This includes the cost of power used for a cinematograph apparatus which has been in operation twice a week. We find unaffected youths going to our universities and returning from them with a blase air, saying, “They’re havin’ a rippin’ taimo.” Girls come back from “finishing schools” (complains an English correspondent) and say “Guid Naight” as they slowly ascend the stairs with coy glances backward. Cannot this absurd affection be nipped in the bud before,| the English language goes down For the third time? Its original perfect state is almost drowned in a sea of mispronunciations. Interesting comments on the standard of school work in Canada are contained in a recent letter from one of the New Zealand teachers who have been across to Canada for a period. “The standard of work in English and arithmetic,” she says, “is much lower than ours, but in other respects it is higher. Music is a thing to marvel at. I would never have believed such results possible.” The writer adds that the Canadian children, are nice, but are “being ruined for want of corporal punishment 1” To show w’hat can be done in the way of municipal music, it has practically been decided that the Auckland Municipal Choir—numberingsome 80 voices—is to undertake a week’s tour during the coming winter. The towns to be visited have not yet been definitely decided upon, but it is certain that, if the tour eventuates, Hamilton and Wanganui will be included, and possibly Palmerston North and Wellington, with Hastings and Napier as an alternative.

Padres of the New Zealand Military Forces are now definitely charged with the duty of helping to maintain a good tone among the ranks of the Dominions young defenders. An instruction has been issued by the Defence Department, stating that in. peace time, in addition to attending camps when required, chaplains will be expected to interest themselves in the general Welfare of any Territorial force and Cadet units in their neighbourhood, also to render any services in their power to soldiers of the Permanent Force and to ex-soldiers of the Expeditionary Force. Thirty-one objections were listed to be heard before Mr T. A. Bailey, S.M., in the Assessment Court yesterday, but of these all except eight were withdrawn or struck out. The list was formally called over at the opening of the sitting and the names of all objectors not in attention were deleted, resulting in the discomforture of several late arrivals. Requisite for reinstatements of the objections were refused, the Magistrate remarking that the sitting was announce for 10 a.m. and objectors should be present at that time. Mr Bailey also took exception to. the manner in which the various objections had been lodged. As to Government valuations the ratepayer should set out on his objection notices the assessment on which he contends the rates should be computed. Instead of packing up thentroubles in. an old kit bag the territorials are asked to pack their swimming trunks and a towel in a neat brown paper parcel next Saturday ami parade at the Drill Hall when they will set out to capture the Avenue baths. Having achieved their object they wilt get the order to “swim easy” as the monotony of daylight parades is to be broken by a dip into the natatorial world. There will be an opening splash for the Empire’s defenders and races over 25, 50, and 75 yards with a gold medal as a points prize, and a demonstration of life saving. This innovation in territorial life will doubtlessly be appreciated. As for the Cadets their objective will be the municipal bath, where a similar aquatic programme and gold medal as points prize for the three distances has ben arranged. Lastly it is mentioned that swimming attire —the parcels should be addressed—will be transported from the Drill Hall to the scene of activities.

The Eltham County CMucil ha» reduced the salaries of by 10 per cent. It also reduced the travelling allowances of councillors. Good progress is being made with the Stratford-Main Trunk branch line, and it is expected it will be completed as far as Matiere by May. The work of laying the rails is proceeding apace, and they are now well on past the 12-mile mark. An instance of what can be accomplished by united voluntary effort has been provided at Port Albei* (Auckland.) An energetic working bee of over 20 men met at the Methodist Church and proceeded with the painting of the church, Sunday school hall, and kitchen. Under the direction of Mr. M. Sousfer, of Birkenhead, who suggested and supervised the scheme, the job was accomplished in, record time. The effort was of great relief to the trustees, in view of present financial difficulties. Many practical carpenters are out of work just now (reports the Auckland Star). One carpenter from Home, who was told before he came here that there was a dearth of carpenters in the Dominion, says that for six weeks he has tramped around the city, interviewing those likely to be able to give him work, with nc result. A painter from Home whe tried in vain tor a week to get work at iiis trade, took on gardening work at 15s per day He says he can got more work than he can do, and is so satisfied with his new kind of work that he says he will not return to his more unhealthy trade of painting. He thinks there is good scope in this country lor men who will turn their hand to anything, and he is going to write and tell some of his mates to come out here.