General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 298, 18 December 1933, Page 6

General News

The metal work on the Mokal Bridge is now being gunnited to pre* ve vent corrosion, and by Christmas ’he oli gunnite casing will have been applied to all the bridge except one of the two wide spans. After the holidays the j ie remaining span will be cased, and the lifting span and tower painted, thus 1S completing the work. Chalico fcr Church * ie As a result of the efforts of the parishioners of Christ Church, Whangarei, a nOw chalice ha.? been made for the church and will be used for the first time on Christmas Day. The collected old silver in the ljC form oi disused trinkets and other ' n > silver uiticles that had become unsuitc_’ able for further service. These were ? ineltc? down and the new chalice .was ll> made by hand in Auckland. It stands ’ ' about 10 inches high, and is of an at--1 tractivp design. se Great South Road Companion of'the improvement and permanent surfacing of the section of io the Great South Road between Papa* c- kura an 1 Pokcno is now entirely in the hands < f the Main Highways Board, io and is conditional on the board beffig a able to finance the undertaking. The jf i'lnnklin County Council, whose area >e embraces the sectiOL has completed all ’h the plans and arranged with the Main / ly Highways Board to contribute £23,00C of th e £105,000 e'timatod to complete >e the work lc A ParY for Womfn •y “To my mind t.'.ere is no better a . occiqation in a vcman's life than that 1( 1 if distributing peace io the rest of the world,” declared Sir James Allen, ls when speaking at the breaking-up , e function of the 1 aimeroton North High ’ s Schools on Friday. Addressing particua larly the girls lij auded that they had t ] some definite objective in their lives if they would set themselves to dis* ;; tribute peace ar.d goodwill towards c others with w«or. they came in con e tact. ” Sealing Sanson-K-niarangi Road The motoring public generally will rejoice to learn, states The Evening lost’s Paiiueittou North correspondent, lint tho Manuwatu County Cuun , cd, with tl.o eo-L’peiation of the Mam Higln/ays Board, has decided to proceed immediately with the preliminary work of permanently sealing the San* sun Hiniatangi na-u highway. This follows on receipt m an intimation from ♦ ; .e board lavonirg a£3 for £1 subsidy and an expiession of agreement for the work to be done as soon as funds are available. * East Coast Railway. Reporting to the district railway i. committee at Gisborne, at the request of the Minister of Public Works, Mr. O. G. Thornton, district engineer, estimates the cost of completion of th« East Coast line from Waikokopu to Gisborne slightly in excess of £1,000,000. J’ The detailed report covers the amount '• of work completed prior to the abandonment, the quantities and value of the material now on the route and the ■ cost of completion under present day '* conditions. There are also plans and statistical z matter of value to private capital likely to be interested in tho completion of the line. Newspaper Advertising Sir Charles Higham, proposing ths < toast of the “Office Appliances Trades' Association” at the aunual dinner m London recently, said that newspaper advertising was the cheapest way of reaching the greatest number of people in th e shortest time. He was glad to know that such advertising had re--1 suited in record attendance and sales at their recent Business Efficiency Exhibition at the White City. It was ' his firm opinion that if other trad e or--1 ganisations would follow such an ex- • cellent example and advertise in the newspapers more than they did, British trade would be increased. Terns in Shoal Bay ' , A colony of terns or kahawai birds i has for several years been in the habit i of coming into Shoal Bay at the beginning of the nesting season in Sep- ‘ tember, and choosing a hulk in which , to lay its eggs. Like those nesting in 1 large numbers on Crusoe Island this 1 season, tho birds build little or no ’ nest, and lay their eggs in the most . extraordinary positions, among coils of rope or on heaps of coal. UnfortuI nately, this year they chose a hulk : that is accessible at low tide, and have fared badly owing to the attentions of small boys in search of eggs. The Last Sad Rites. An official “funeral” was on Wednesday accorded the two five-gal'on , kegs of “Hokonui” whisky which were seized bv the Collector of Customs (Mr H. Cordery) ami Detectives Hewitt and Lean when thev apprehended a lorry driver on the Wynd-ham-Edendale road, near Invercargill (says the Southland Times). When the accused was fined £5O in tho subsequent Court proceedings last Saturday week, the magistrate (Mr E C. Lower) made an order that the liquor should be confiscated, tho collector J remarking that it would be of too poisonous a nature to be sent to tho hospital for medicinal purposes. Fn the cortege wore the collector, Inspector T. Gibson, Detective-Sergeant D. T. Howitt, Detectives Lean and Hill, several constables, and two Southland Times reporters, the pall bearers from tho police station to the Magistrate’»■ Court being the detective-sergeant and j Detective Hill. The whiskv was then •Jowerod into a nearby drain, the col- | lector delivering a panegyric, taking Ins his text, “As the evil spirits . . ” I Workers In Private Hotels. The inspector of awards at Dunedin lecently applied to the Arbitration Court for an interpretation of an order of tho Court fixing minimum rates of wages for female workers tn private hotels. In a corsidered judgment, Mr Justice Frazer savs: “The Court must put to itself the question ‘What i* a private hotel?’ or ‘What is meant bv the private hotel industry?’ In the opinion of the Court, a private hotel, as distinguished from a boarding-house, must be taken to bn any premises in which a business similar to that of a licensed hotel /"with the exception of tho bar trnde\ including the provision and sale of meals to tho general public, j s carried nn. It caters for the general public bv supplying single meals and bed® for a single niidit. as a licensed hotel d<H>«. whereas a boarding-house caters more ** ospcciallv for permanent and semipermanent guests The size of the establishment and tho number of the staff employed do not affect tho position: it is solelv a matter of the clar« nf.business carried on Tn tho opinion of the Court, the order is binding nn the proprietors of all private hotels as abov*