LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15987, 2 December 1919, Page 11

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual matriculation examinations commenced to-day. Local candidates axe sitting in the Druids’ Hall. The electoral roll for Wanganui is now in the printer’s hands. It contains 11,180 names, as against 9344 in 1914. Mr W. E. Taylor, local secretary of the Y.M.C.A., loft Wanganui to-day for Wellington to attend a Y.M.C.A. conference which is to be held. The Hon. W. F. Massey spoke at Waimate (South Island) last night, when he was subjected to repeated interjections, as a result of which the chairman asked for fair play. The ’Customs duty for Wanganui for the month of November, 1919, amounted to (net) .£7012 2s 6d, beer duty .£337 7s lOd; as compared with November, 1918, (net) .£3483 4s sd, beer duty .£2OO 10s 3d. On the application of A. Howarth, accountant, a petition to wind up the Gothic, Ltd., was granted by his Honor Sir W. B. Edwards, at the Supreme Court this morning. Mr E. M. Silk was appointor official liquidator. The Pacific Cable Board notifies:— Heavy traffic is congesting cables. It is estimated the delay homewards will be from 36 to 48 hours, and outward from the United Kingdom between 3 and 4 days. “ ’Bout one poun’,” was the answer of a native witness at the Magistrate's Court this morning when counsel was cross-examining and asked how much a week witness was earning. ‘ That’s goslow policy with a vengeance,” exclaimed his Worship At a sitting of the Supreme Court this morning, his Honor Sir W. B, Edwards, granted applications for discharge from bankruptcy in the following cases:—G, S. Bowen, E..J*. Ansley, E. J. Lyttlo, E. H. McCallum, R. Heald, J. H. Anstiis,, and W. C. Edwards. As the result of inquiries made by a reporter in Palmerston yesterday as to the condition of the persons who wore injured in a motor accident on Sunday on the Foxton-Rongotea Road, and among whom was Mr Laws, of Wanganui, who was taken to Nurse Foley’s Hospital in Palmerston, we learned that' the patients are all progressing favourably. A meeting of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce was held last night, Mr A. Harris presiding. The Chamber decided to support , the request for better telephone service with Taihapc, also 1 to ask for the reopening of a stamp office in Wanganui. The resignation of Mr F. 0, Mill ward was accepted with regret, and Mr Mr A. T. Cavell was elected a member of the Chamber. Tho annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Architects is to be held in Dunedin this week. Delegates are expected from - Invercargill, Christchurch, Wellington, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland and other places. The conference is to be opened on Wednesday morning by the Mayor, and in the evening the visitors are to be entertained bv the Otago branch. Thursday morning will be devoted to general business, in the, afternoon papers will be read, and in the evening the president will be elected. Tire Sarjcant Gallery Exhibition will be open to tlic public for, a few days, during which time a good collection of pictures wil still be on view. Up to the present about 12,651 persons have paid for admission. A number of the prizes iu the recent art union have not yet been claimed, and those holding winning (ic-< kets arc asked to present them before Saturday, 6th inst, so as to enable the holders to select pictures from the Gallery as prizes. The unpresented winning tickets are 6416, 9395, 6474, 2439, 8463, 1849, 4797, 4938. The fact that the Japanese compositor obtains about 30 per cent, more wages than the compositor in New Zealand at the present time was mentioned by Mr A. Robbie, representative of the Federated Typographical Union, in, the Arbitration Court at Wellington, when tho Court was discussing the date of hearing of the association’s application. “In all other parts of the world,” said Mr Robbie, “our trade has had an advance in wages corresponding to the rise in the cost of living. The 7s 6d rise granted to tho workers last March brings our total increase during the period of the war up to 18 per cent. There has been no alteration by this court in this dispute since 1912. All tho decisions have been arrived at by agreement.”