LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19358, 13 July 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

j The solution of the new crossword puzzle will be published to-morrow.

A London cable states that the Royal Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition have awarded an overseas scholarship in geology to R. S. Allen, of New Zealand.

An inquest will be held to-day relative io the death of Mr A. J. Bird, who met his death in Guyton Street some two weeks ago as the result of his invalid chair coming into collision with a motor car driven by Mr Higgins.

I To provide a municipal tart gallery. Ithe Christchurch City Council has agreed to a loan of £25,000 being raised, conditionally upon the Art Society raising by private subscriptions £5OOO for additional pictures.

The Minister of Agriculture, in the jN.S.W. Labour Government. Mr. Dunn, has issued instructions that, employees at the various institutions and branches .of his Department must be members of (unions appropriate to their callings.

Mr F. Brown, poultry instructor, stated in Otamaru the other day that from 50 to 80 per cent, of some of the eggs sent forward for export were rejected on account of their uncleanliIness. He strongly urged producers Ito send in only clean eggs.

1 The First Wanganui Regiment (inifantry) is due at Trentham towards the end of this week. There is every reason to believe that the camp will be one of the best on record. Colonel W. H. Cunningham, D. 5.0., will be in 'charge. It is expected that the Governor-General will visit the camp.

A young man named Marshall Kelly, of Maori extraction, appeared on remand before Mr ,T. S. Barton, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Cour* on Saturday, to answer two charges of theft which l were committed some time ago. He : was admitted to probation for two | years.

The question whether a house valued |at £350 was worth 30s a week arose during the hearing of a case in the 'Magistrate’s Court at Auckland, when ' the Labour Department made an ap- | plication to have the rent of a tone j ment assessed. The house was pur | chased for £525, and the department’s I inspector said he valued it to-day at ■£3so. It was ultimately agreed that the rent should be 25s a week.

I “It is just possible that they arc ■asking the farmers to pay too much in I rates and taxes,’’ said the owner of a j forty-acre farm to a Southland Times i reporter. “Take my case.’’ he coni tinned, “1 have to pay £6O to the i county and £3O in land tax, and now .1 'will have to pay an additional rate of [ £5O for the Monewai scheme. When it I is considered that my first county rates were only £l2, anyone can see that the burden is getting rather heavy.”

I “It is an offence to tether bulls tand (calves in the open,” said Mr White, inspector to the Canterbury branch of the S.P.C.A. at a meeting of the executive. “But still many people, who {are evidently not aware of the A<-t are (doing this. The animtals must be provided with shelter.” Mr White said/ that, some people left the beasts tethiored in open paddocks in all sorts of weather.

1 A suburban resident of Now Ply 'mouth a day or two ago lost two valuable house cows, the animals having died from the effects of poison. Some (children had secured possession of h ipot of house paint, and after playing 'about with it threw the mixture about the, grazing paddock. Stock taro always attracted by, and greedily devour, paint, because of the linseed oil contained therein. Tn this instance the dairy cows ate the paint and in a few hours succumbed. For the fourth time the Christchurch City Council has refused to grant a [site in Cathedral Square for a war meimorial column, to erect which the people have subscribed £6OOO. Councillors criticised the persistency of the memorial committee in adhering to the one proposed site after the council had held that the congestion of the square ’ mb.de it impracticable; and some even ’ said that the design of the column was 1“ aggressively pagan” and “harsh, I hard and aggressive.” ! j Trouble has arisen on the waterside ' ’at Melbourne over the discharging of (timber from vessels and loading it on * .to wagons. For nearly forty years it ' has been the practice to make one job of this, but now the watersiders want ' [to take the timber out of the vessels, stack it on the wharf, and then load it on the wagons, thus creating more ’ (employment for themselves, and inci- ‘ dentally adding to the cost of timber and consequently of building and of house rents. ’ I Arising out of the ringing of the firebell at about 6.15 p.m. on June .12, • (three well-known Te Awamutu resiL dents were charged at the local Court . ion Friday morning with giving a false alarm. Constable Doyle withdrew the informations against two of the defend- ‘ (ants, saying the third party, Ernest Cooper, had admitted his culpability. The. magistrate, in imposing a line of *£s and costs 13s, said ho was empower- ■ ied to impose, a fine of £5O, as it was ■ (regarded us ta serious offence.

The differing in the pronunciation of the. word “year’’ by a barrister and a Dalmation, who was giving evidence, caused some amusement at the Auckland Supreme Court. Counsel, in the course of a cross-examination, asked the witness in what year he made out a certain account, but the man replied that he did not understand, and did not think he had heard the word before. The question was repeated, and finally the Dalmation, with a look of understanding, replied: “Now you say it two or three times I understand. You call it- yah, and I call it in broken English year.”

| One of lhe greatest obstacles the I film producers had to contend with was (censorship, not censorship as New Zeallanders knew it, but impossible conditions imposed by other countries, Mr ■ C. Sheehan, a visitor from America, told the Wellington Rotary Club. In I Java one was not allowed to show a i film in which there was any suggestion (of a riot. In Mexico, if the Spaniard i was not shown in the best light, then j the Government told them that they did not want the production. A pecu- [ liar criticism had also risen in Japan in connection with Dante’s “Inferno,” , in which it was pointed out. that there were no Japanese to be seen in Hell.

I At the Wellington Police Court Fong i How was fined £4O, Wing On £25, Yong i Wah £25, and Wee Kcc Fam £25, for (allowing premises to be used as a coniI mon gaming house. Several Europeans and Chinese found on the preI mises were fined £2 each. “If a dairy farmer is seeking increased production, the finest slogan i for him to adopt is “Weed, breed and [feed!” —Mr A. E. Missen, speaking at I the annual district meeting of PukeI kura suppliers and shareholders to the ! N.Z. Dairy Co., at Cambridge. I The watersiders did not. respond at Lyttelton on Saturday morning to the I call to unload bulk sulphur on lhe Com•eric, from Galveston, demanding 3/6 an hour instead of 2/7|, the award 'rate. Later Kinsey and Co. agreed to {pay 3/-. and work began. I Reporting on the corporation’s loan (issues the Dunedin town clerk states that the aggregate loans for the year iproviding new capital were £484,815, of which all but £5OOO was raised locally. [The present year’s new money required i was £320,000*: ! From an Australian visitor to Dun(edin it is learned that though MclI bourne business people are vexed over Ithe cessation of the direct shipping (trade between the South Island and Port Philip, they have so far made no move in the direction of resuming the connection, except to try to counteract the doings of the strikers. He added that the opinion is gaining ground that Russian propaganda and Russian money are at the back of the diorganisation.

At Hamilton, a bankrupt Chinese j fruiterer, Ah Moon, was charged with [contracting three debts, amounting to i£l2B 15s Id, without having any reasonable expectation of being able to | pay them. The Magistrate said that (accused was guilty of reckless trading. Even his fellow countrymen condemned his actions. He was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, without hard ' labour.

Although a considerable quantity of timber is still being imported into the Dominion, there appears to have been a slight falling-off during May, as compared with the previous month. During May the imports included 727,715 ■ feet of Oregon pine, 580,938 feet cedar, i amr 1,678,150 feet in round and unI dressed poles, all timbers representing I sawn and rough timber amounting to 14,263,000 feet, as compared with j 6,583,58 feet for the previous month. 1 Export of New Zealand timber was 3,035,000 feet, of which 2,183,811 feet were white pine and 513,594 rough sawn kauri.

The funds in hand for the Church of England Cathedral for Wellington now amount to £23.527, not including £3296 of the old Cathedral Building Fund. According to a report presented to the Anglican Synod on Thursday the time is approaching when an organiser should be appointed, as no forward movement, in the opinion of the Cathedral Committee, can be expected unless such an appointment is made. The committee recommended that the actual obtaining of plans of the building bo deferred, at the committee’.s discretion, until more money is in sight.

Cabled news received at Auckland states that the steamer City of Singapore passed Perim in tow on Sunday last week. The vessel was badly shattered by a series of violent explosions following a lire at Aedelaide during April of last year. She was abandoned to the underwriters soon after as a

total loss. Mr J. Russell, salvage expert of London, then took her over, and after temporary repairs, she was taken in tow for Rotterdam. The tugs, Willen Barendsz and Viaan Deren, have her in charge. When the tugs reach Rotterdam they will have completed a round-the-world trip.

A contention that foodstuffs which, before reaching the consumer, have their nature altered through a preserva five process cannot be included under the section in the Public Health Act relating to the sale of food was upheld by Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at Auckland. The defendant was a bacon manufacturer, and the carcases of pigs were being conveyed from the killing place to his own factory. They were lying uncovered on a tarpaulin on the bottom of the conveyance. They were not for sale but for conversion into bacon and bams. The defence was that, as they were not for sale as pork in their then condition, but only after they could be changed into something else, the regulations did not apply.

At the meeting of the Otago Provin cial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union on Thursday Air E. IL Murney read a newspaper clipping which stated that Mr G. V. Pearce had brought from the Old Country five English wood pigeons, which had been presented to him from the King’s parks in London. Mr Murney stated that information in his possession showed that amongst grain crops these birds would be quite as destructive as a mob of fowls would be, and possibly more so. He thought they would become a pest in a short space of time, and that the Government should be asked to take steps to have them destroyed immediately. A motion embodying the suggestion put forward by Mr Murney was carried unanimously.

At the Supreme Court at Wellington on Friday, Hyacinth Francis Wisnosky appeared for sentence on two charges of theft as a servant. He was represented by Mr W. Perry, who said the prisoner was 25 years of age, married, with one child. He had encountered extremly hard luck. He married in 1923 on a salary of £250, and was paying insurance premiums far in excess of his income. During the honeymoon the house-they intended occupying was burnt down, and prisoner was compelled then to borrow money at high rates of interest. He was a steady man and thrifty, and he had pleaded guilty. Prisoner’s offence, said His Honour, was not committed in a

t • fbt >oss manner. It extended over a period. Although judges had laid it , . .< mat probation should not be granted in such cases he thought that in view of the facts he could stretch the law, because the prisoner had readily admitted his deceit. “You have had your lesson ’’he said ’ and on condition that restitution be made, and that you pay the cost of the proceedings you will be admitted to probation for the year.