LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160814, 23 November 1920, Page 9

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Tutanekai sailed this; morning to search, for the missing schooner Jubilee. 1 Timber in the- Wanganui district has gone up again in price, last week's rise being 2a 6d o.b. and 1 3s heart. Cement has also advanced during the month from 9s to 10a per. bag. I ,

No doubt all our readers will bs interested in the big advertisement on page 6 notifying safe of surplus clothing by the Defence Department. Full 'particulars are given, and it should ba noted that only certain quantities are allowed to each, buyer, cash must be isent with order, and orders should b3 posted to “Military Stores Disposal Board, Box 1436, Wellington.” Eleven applications for exemption from service on the common jury were made to his Honor at the Supreme Court tlus morning In the majority of cases shortage of labour and pressure of business wore the f reason's put forth, but they were relieved in onS or two cases by applications on account of being over age or hard of hearing. One application was deceived for exemption from the Grand Jury on tha grounds of occupation.

An interesting Masonic ceremony took place in Wanganui yesterday, when a new lodge, “Lodge Wanganui,” No. 219 on the roll of the N.Z. Grand Lodge, was constituted and dedicated, and the officers installed. The ceremony of dedication was conducted by the Grand Master, M. W. Bro. Thos. Ross (of Dunedin), and the Installation by the Provincial Grand Master of Ruapehu, R. W. Bro. J. H. , Perrett. There was a large attendance of Grand Lodge officers and other visitors from all parts of the Dominion.

The church membership test was the subject of a report presented to the Methodist Synod in Auckland by the Rev. J. E. Parsons, convenor of a special committee appointed by the last conference to consider the ques-. tion. Mr Parsons said the committee recommended that members of the church who failed to attend the sacrament, of the Lord’s Supper at least once in six months may cease to be regarded as members of the church. After much discussion it was decided that greater stress should be laid upon the observance of the sacrament,'and that a sacramental roll be kept in every church. The Borough engineer, Mr N. C. Staveley, has returned to Wanganui from a visit to the upper reaches of the Wanganui, where he made investigations into the possibility of obtaining metal supplies from the river, for-Borough purposes. He informed a “Herald” representative this morning that he found no boulders of a size suitable for crushing this side of Pipiriki, and where suitable deposits were available they were so far from Wanganui as to. make their transport to town an expensive matter. During his visit of inspection the river was in flood, and this did not facilitate the inspection. At Manunui, near, Taumarunui, the Public Works Department had a quarry where a first-class road metal was being crushed. At Taumarunui there was a plentiful supply of a smaller class of metal.

An extract from a New Zealand publication was read by the president of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society at a meeting last week, in which a blood-thirsty- description was given of the slaughter of, a stag by a party of New Zealand “sportsmen” out deer-stalking seven years ago. The clipping came through another Society, being forwarded to them by an English sportsman who urged that in the interests of New Zealand sport such barbaric conduct should be condemned by all interested in genuine sport. The president added that the men in question were license holders, and he suggested that all societies should exchange black lists to present such people from procuring licenses. The secretary stated that such a practice was now being followed. The Council of the Society decided to ' ask the publication in question to remove the impression that, such conduct was countenanced in New Zealand, or met with anything other than the severest reprobation.