General News.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18372, 4 May 1925, Page 8

General News.

On Saturday one suspected case of infantile paralysis was notified'—that of a girl, 6 years, Stratford street, Biccarton.

"Rents in Wellington are the highest in Kew Zealand," declared Mi* J. Read at the Dairy Employees' tlm^a.Conciliation sitting at Wellington last week. "If not the highest in tho world," commented another assessor.

The official report Of the party which visited the "Weimakariri glacier region dufihg Easter, and which was organised by the Canterbury Progress League* will be Submitted to the nieeting of the executive of the League on Wednesday ovening.

The dotoinefcial Travellers' Arid Warehousemen's Agsaciatidh's Blind Soldiers' md sailors' Fund has received a chedtte for' £136 Jtfis lid...from the Cianterburv C6ttiTw6fcial TrAVfejlers' and Warehousemen's Association", being proceeds of & concert given in aid or the fund. Sums of £1 10s fdrwafded to the Railway Department, £lo sent to th* Lrifld And Ciiortnc-Tax tfepartinent, <liid £1 8S received hy thft Collector of tottSi Chrifit«htti-ch, are acknowledged in the "Gaaette" as "eoriaeielice money" % the Secretary of the Treasury.

The infantile paralysis epidemic which affected New Zealand foj*. five months dost 166 lives,. There Were in all 1267 eases, and an unexpectedly large number hare recovered. In th« 1916 epidemic there were 123 deaths. W«U lington and district suffered Wore severely than any other in the recent epidemic.

At to-night's meeting of tho Cotifioil of the CalitertHify dnafliber of Commerce the attention of members Will be drawn to the effect on New Zealand trade and commerce of the Empire's reversion to the gold standard. Reference will be made also to th& new steamer service between English ami South- Island ports which is to be inaugurated! shortly. The touring school for farmers, which lias been substituted for the Farmers/ "Wintes School, originally intended to be held at Itangiora, is to start on June 22nd .-rod' extend to Jidy 4th. It is probable th** a start will be made in; the Canterbury' centres—Oxford, tjceston. Methren, Pleasant Point, an-j » aimate—and the finishing course will bo given at Oamafu.

Regulations issued last week fix the age for appointment to the Public Service as from 13 to 18 years in the cJericaV and not less than I? in the professional division. The Commissioner is empowered to grant preference returned soldiers in appoir/trnentir subject to certain examination condition:*.

A special meeting of the Christehurch City Council will be held on Wednesday night to install the Mayor-elect, Mr j. K. Archer.

The Canterbury Chamber <>f Commerce, at the request of tho "Wellington Chamber, recently circularised its members to ascertain ■what number desired to take part- in the business men's tour of certain North Island districts which the "Wellington Chamber is organising. The region to bo visited includes Napier, Wairoa. "Waikarenioana. Uishornc, Opotiki". Tauranga, liotnrua, Taupo, Arapuni, Hamilton and To Kuiti. Tho secretary of the Canterbury Chamber has received several letters from member* regretting that they will be unable to take part'in the tour, and present indications are thatfew if any"Canterbury business men will accompany the- party. The "Banker,"' official organ of the New Zealend Bank Officers' Guild, reports that the directors of the Bank of New Zealand "have this year been good enough to recognise again in a practical manner that the high cost of living continues to eat enormous holes in our pockets, and it has afforded us tangible ielief by granting a bonus as follows: —To all married men, £275 to £395, 12} per cent, for the year: to all singlo men. £275 and upwards, 10 per cent.: to all married men £4OO and over, 10 per cent.; to each woman clerk, £lO. "We talw this opportunity of returning our best thanks to the Board for its generosity."

"I am old-fashioned enough to lay groat stress on the fact that 'the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,' " said the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fcrgusson, in speaking at the opening of St. Cuthbert's College, Auckland, last week. "In these days of science and wonders, there is n danger of our becoming too materialistic, and we lose sight of the fact that if our boys and girls are to attain what is best in life, their training should be based on the strongest and surest of all foundations, tho Christian faith. I hope the College will always endeavour to reach the highest standard of scolastie attainment, but at the same time I should like to think that all who leave the shelter of its Walls will go out into the world not only thorough)- Well educated, but firmly established in the faith of their fathers."

"f think one would bo justified in saying that South Africa, has quite recovered from the war and post-war period," writes a business man to a "Wellington friend. "Competition is keen in tho larger centres, but in the smaller towns there is not tho same rush, and otic can get si decent price for the goods selling, This is a fine country, and doubtless presents many opportunities to a young man willing to work and push his way in business. As a, field of migration for the British working man it is of no use whatever. I believe it will never be a white man's country in the sense of the bulk of evenskilled manual labour being don© by whites. Nothing, I think, can stemtho trend of black labour being trained to do most of the manual work necessary. But the country is certainly opening out, and big developments are taking* place."

Stalkers hare been better pleased this season than for the past fifteen years (says the "Dominion"). It has been quite a remarkable- season in several respects in the 'Wellington Acclimatisation district. The secretary (Mr C. 1. Dasent) reported last week that 207 stalking licenses had been issued, which was a, record. He could not recall a season—not even I in the "good old days"—when more than 170 licenses were issued. Besides thAt, the record had been made | with only on© month in the season gone. In another respect the season has I been good. The heads secured have been-of eicellent quality. . The red doer come from two streams of blood — Wtirnham Court herd, England, and the Palhousie herd, Scotland—which were originally liberated in different parts of the district. The later introduction of Dalhousio blood is believed to have effected an improvement in the heads. Warnhani Court stock have been marked for the stocky, sturdy, antler formation, but inter-breeding with the long antlefM Scottish deals bolieved to have brought about an improvement in the spread. Of the 80 or 90 heads that are being mounted by Mi- Peter McDonald, the Feathers-ton- taxidermist, : ten or a dosien are said to be equal to the best taken for years past. Two, in particular, from the Buahine conn-; try at the back of Taihape, arc said ' to* he especially fine heads. ! Front the point of .view of comprehpnsibility the "Newspaper l'ress Directory" must hold equal rank with all obher publications of its kind in this country. The 80th annual issue lias just appeared, ithd it fully maintains the standard of its predecessors. A wealth of information On all matters connected with newspS-peis and other ftjfttiS pf journalistic activity is contained in the book. As in former issued, a good deal of prominence has beerl given to facts and statistics about trade, and in this connexion a number of articles are included in the pages of the Directory, among them being one on Inter-Iniperial Trade, dealing with the eiport trade of the country, and it® Empire markets. The second year of Wembley affords Sir Tracers Clarke an opportunity tof sumMing up the Imperial aspects oi the , great Exhibition, his impression being i put into the neat phrasG, "onei touch [ of Wembley Makes the whole Empire; bin." Sir Trsvers Clarke is insistent! fipon the need for supporting the l»2o j Exhibition. The Directory contains] carefully compiled classified lists of papers and periodicals published in! Great Britain ujader their different! headings of appeal, while the trade information preceding the newspaper information of each Dominion of the Enipife is complete in every detail. The [ "Newspaper Press Directory" is com-, piled and published by the welWcnewii! Advertising Agency, Messrs- C. Mit-J clieil and Co., Ltd., 1 Snow Hill, LOii-j d6u, E.C. ';

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