LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17383, 20 April 1928, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

T3ie Otago University Council has rescinded the resolution It passed last December differentiating between the salaries of married and unmarried professors.

The new railway extension from Miller’s Plat to Roxburgh was opened by the Minister of'Justice, Hon. F. J. Rolleston, yesterday.

Still dissatisfied with the layout of railway lines on the Auckland waterfront, the Chamber of Commerce has decided to lay the matter before the Minister of Railways direct and to seek the help of the City Council.

Some valuable properties situated in Morrinsvillo, belonging to Mr P. J. Marshall, were offered for sale by auction on Thursday by the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company. There was a large attendance, but no sales were effected.

In the Police Court, Monrinsville, before Messrs Gummer and Osborne, J’s.P., Sam Davey, a Maori, charged with using indecent language in Thames Street on the previous day, was convicted and fined £5, in default one month’s imprisonment.

The approval of the Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) to the New Plymouth Hospital Board’s decision to increase the charges for treatment in its institution from 9s 6d to 12s per day was received by the Board at its monthly meeting this week.

It was •disclosed at the Dunedin City Council meeting that, though there was a revenue decrease in some departments, notably in tramways, the net profit of all trading departments was =£69,404, against £65,269 in the previous year.

Clumsy forgeries of one pound bank notes have been circulated in Christchurch during the past few day's. There should be little difficulty, even for the unskilled, in detecting the forgeries as they are printed on one side only, and the paper used is of poor quality.

The first of two garden parties for employees in Auckland’s principal industries will take place at Government House to-morrow afternoon. The invitations issued number 1200. A similar number of invitations has been issued for a garden party to take place on the following Saturday.

Provided the present generation of young New- Zealanders are trained in the same way as their fathers and grandfathers were, there need be no fear for the future of the Dominion. That was a- point made by the Gov-ernor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, in addressing the Auckland Chamber of Commerce at its monthly luncheon yesterday.

To test whether witness’ idea of length of time was accurate or otherwise, Mr J. P. Strang produced a watch during the hearing of a case in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court this morning. “How long have I counted?” he asked. “Ten seconds —about,” was the reply. “Near enough—it was five seconds,” said Mr Strang.

The hundred children of poor parents who enjoyed a free damp outing at Okete Community Camp last summer will have the opportunity of another outing this winter. The Winter Show Committee decided -this morning, at the suggestion of the secretary, Mr W. 11. Paul, to invite these children to a free day at the Show'. Mr Paul said the arrangements could be made with the ladies’ committee to give them lunch.

The old saying that music has charms received a decided setback in Invercargill recently, when there “breathed a man with soul so dead” as not to appreciate the music of the bagpipes (says the Southland Times). He was seated in a .carriage on the outward express, and far from being pleased with the music supplied by a piper in the same compartment, he blocked his ears and , turned an agonised face to the passers-by on the platform. It is rumoured that the Invercargill Scots are petitioning Parliament for his immediate deportation.

In stating that it was his wish to help all clean, wholesome sport, the Mayor (Rev. J. K. Archer) said at the function in appreciation of the Canterbury eight-oar crew’s success, that his wish was strengthened by memory of the disadvantages under which the young people of his generation laboured. The speaker was born in a little Leicestershire village, where the boys were hunted away as trespassers from the fields where they wished to play cricket and football. Even in the stream which ran through the village they were not allowed to bathe, under penalty of trespass. The Mayor stressed these points to show the advantages which New Zealand possessed for indulgence in sport.

“We have passed through what has probably been the slackest period experienced by the building industry in Christchurch during the past thirty years,” states the annual report of the Canterbury Builders’ Association. “The effect of this depression has been seen in,the very great price-cutting that has been in evidence for the past twelve months, in the dropping out from the industry of many familiar figures, and in the very small number of permits issued by local bodies compared with past years. While this slackness has been a matter of concern, and in many cases loss to numbers of those engaged in the industry,.it may be more than compensated for if we have taken heed of the lessons in economy forced on us after such a long period of steady juilding activity.”