General News.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18690, 13 May 1926, Page 8

General News.

The meeting of the creditors of Gordon Stephen Mills, carpenter, 384 Wainoni road, has been set down for the 20th inst.

The Peninsula Terry Company, which has conducted a ferry service in Dunedin Harbour Hince 1909 with locallybuilt steamers, has decided to suspend operations from May 22nd. The company has felt severely the competition of motor-buses. —Press Association.

"I met a man in Dunedin recently," said Mr Will Appleton, in the course of his address to the Advertising Club last night, "who told me that he had worked the same dredge for twenty years and had got consistent yields. That is what consistent advertisers do — get on to the pay dirt, keep the same consistent policy, and stick to it." Regarding a letter from a correspondent which appeared iu yesterday's "Press" criticising the regulations mode for the control of omnibus traffic, an official of the Christchurch Tramway Board states that it should be understood by the public that the twopence that must be charged by bus proprietors • above the fares charged by tramway concerns applies only to such routes as are at present served by trams.

All old Maori cooking bowl, or kumete, recently discovered in a drained swamp in the Puniho district, a h&s been presented to the New Plymouth Museum by Mr W. Gray, of Okato. The bowl is exceptionally large, and is the biggest presented to the museum. It is 5) inches in diameter, and eight inches deep. The relic is in a good state of preservation, the only defect) being that a small piece of one side is missing. It is made of totara and, it is probably several hundred years old. The relic will form a valuable addition to the already large collection of Maori curios in the museum.

"Advertising gives most businessmen a good deal of thought and concern, and worry, remarked Mr R. H. Wobb, in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr Will Appleton for his address before the Canterbury Advertising Club last night. Mr Appleton's address, he added, had given them food for thought. They could see that advertising was a necessity, and that the main thing was the way it was done. Mr Appleton had described the pitfalls that made advertising uninteresting, so that it was skipped by the public. If they _ put into practice some of the hints given, they would remedy that state of affairs. Owing to floods on the West Coast, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders' Band will be unable to get through to Nelson and Blenheim, which towns will therefore not be included in the band's tour. The band will cross to Wellington on Friday, to play there on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday. As it has been impossible to secure accommodation for the band on the. Remuera, the band will spend a week longer in New Zealand, and a short tour of Wellington, Taranaki, and Hawke's Bay towns has fceen arranged. The band sails by the lonic about May 30th.—Press Association.

The maximum load recorded at the Lake Coleridge power house, during the week ended the 9th inst, was 14,360 k.w., which was experienced between 2.30 p.m. and 3 p.m. last Friday. The previous week it was 14,07U k.w., recorded between 3.30 p.m. and 4 p.m. on April 30th. At the Addington sub-station the maximum load was 11,435 k.w. (between 8 a.m. and 8.30 a.m. on the sth) as compared with 11,920 k.w. between 3.30 p.m. and 4 p.m. on April 30th. The lake level was at 1670.73 feet; the previous week it was 1870.86 feet. The average inflow from the Harper River was 300 cusecs; the previous week it was 223 cusecs.

The Director of the Wellington Parks and lleservea, Mr J. G. Mackenzie, has received from Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., fifty packets of seeds of new varieties of rhododendrous from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. They are ftU new to commerce, and have hot yet been named, being collected this year in Western China and Tibet, which nave yielded up many floral gems during recent years. Dr. Cockayne considers this eouection to be one of the most valuable that has even come to the Dominion, and the blooms a few years hence should add very considerably to the attraction of the Wellington Botanic Gardens.—"Wellington Correspondent. "We are singularly fortunate in the class of advertising we have in New Zealand," remarked Mr Will Appleton, of Wellington, in his address to the Advertising Club last night. He saw many newspapers and periodicals from different parts of the world, and the class of advertising in "this little country" compared more than favourably with that of other lands. He had gone through the newspapers published in Christchurch and there was no doubt about it, that the advertising was very creditable indeed, alike in regard to "copy," art work, and "setting out." "I don't think there aie any better set out advertisements either in New Zealand or anywhere else than you have in Christchurch," he added.

Speaking at the Wellington Town Hall, Sir .'Henry Lttnn referred to the great work done by a special committee, appointed in London, in making provisron for large numbers of refugees, including women and children, who had been driven out of Turkey into Mesopotamia last September. As a result of their efforts the committee was able to keep many thousands of these poor refugees through the winter — some of them members of the Roman Church, others members of the Assyrian Church, one of the most ancient of the Churches of Christendom. It seemed to him a delightful thing that this committee and Great Britain, acting under its mandate, should have saved the lives of thousands of these ancient Christian people. "The League of Nations has rendered a great service by defining au aggressor nation," said Sir Henry Lunn in an address at the Wellington Town Hall. "An aggressor nation henceforth will be one either who refuses to submit any grounds for dispute to the World Court established by the League of Nations, or any actual dispute when thus defined by the Supreme Court to the decision of. the League, or who plunges into hostilities within six months of the question being raised in an acute form, or who finally goes to war within three months after the League shall have given its decision. This is jv great, an immense, gain to the world to have aggression thus definitely defined. The establishment of a Supreme Court at The Hague is one or the greatest achievements of the League."

Don't hesitate a moment when considering moving your furniture. J. M. Haywood and Co., Ltd., are tEe people to do it for you. —6

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