General News.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19166, 24 November 1927, Page 8

General News.

\ partv of 90 Wellington College boy« who spent tho week-end at tho Heimitage, returned home last evening. Residents of the Oxford district recently held an "egg day" on behalf of the local hospital, and as a result n dczen eggs were contributed, and have been put down for use in the winter. The Drainage Board has received legal advice that under the Drainage Act, 1907, it has no power to put_ weirs in the river Avon, or to permit any other authority to do so. Mr H. J. Otley, chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, at the meeting yesterday, invited members to dine with him at the termination of tho next meeting, which will be held on December 21st. On account of sickness among the choir boys, the presentation of Brahms' Requiem, which was to have taken place at Christchurch Cathedral shortly, has been postponed until Thursday, December Bth, at 8 p.m. Delegates to the annual conference of the" Boy Scouts' Association were the guests of the Dominion Executive at lunch yesterday. The Mayor (Mr J. K. Archer) and the Town Clerk (Mr J." S. Neville) also were present. Continued thefts of money and different articles from the clothing of bathers at New Brighton have led to the arrest of a boy, who will be charged with the theft of a gold wristlet watch, a silver wristlet watch, and money at the Police Court on Tuesday. An invitation to Canterbury farmers to visit Southland by excursion train for the summer show next month, or the Winter Carnival, was received by the North Canterbury District of the Farmers' Union yesterday. A committee was set up to make _ arrangements regarding such a visit, which is not likely to occur before March, 1928, during the Winter Show and Carnival at Invercargill. The jury which was empanelled during the Burwood murder charge had a wireless set installed for its entertainment at its hotel. This is probably the first time in New Zealand, and certainly the first time in Christchurch in which such a procedure has been adopted. Another diversion which was pro. vided for tho jury was a ride through the suburbs in an observation bus on Tuesday evening. At the meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday, a letter from the head gardener, Mr L. V. Grimley, was read, in which it was stated that 1600 pine trees had been planted at Bottle Lake on the ground previously occupied by pines, which had been taken down for timber. Ot all those planted not one had missed striking growth, and as the ground was free of gorse or broom, the plantation should do well. The tnacrocarpa trees were also doing well. A telegram was received yesterday by the Secretary of the Shipwreck Relief Society from the Mayor of Napier (Mr J. Vigor Brown) stating that two of the Mararo's apprentices were stranded in Napier and they desired to get back to their homes in Newcastle (Australia). Mr Brown asked if the Shipwreck Relief Society could render assistance. The Society decided to vote £lO to each of the apprentices to assist them to return to their homes.—Wellington message. The maximum load at Lake Coleridge during the week ended the 20th was 16,950 k.w. (15,480 k.w. the previous week), recorded between 11.30 a.m. and noon on the 15th; at Addington sub-station 12,840 k.w. (previous week 11,420 k.w.), recorded on the same date, and in the same half hour as the powerhouse maximum. The lake level was at 1668.0 ft, previous week, 1668.14 ft. The average inflow from the Harper river was five cusecs; the previous week it was six cusecs. The Hospital Committee, in the course of its report to the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday, made the following recommendation:— "After giving the matter full consideration, the committee recommends that the following shall be the visiting days and hours at the Christchurch Hospital: —Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 7 p.m. to 7.30 p.m." The clause was referred back to the Hospital Committee. In order that the public may not be victimised through the embezzlements ,of solicitors, a proposal has been made that every practitioner in New Zealand should pay a fee of £5 5s annually to establish a sinking fund out of which those people from whom money has been embezzled may be repaid. Originally the suggestion came from the Canterbury Law Society. At a special meeting of the Auckland Society, when Mr J. B. Johnston presided oyer a large gathering of members of the profession, the proposal was almost unanimously rejected. 4 Recently the North Canterbury Hospital Board applied for the erection of a slot . telephone for the use of the patients and the staff at the tuberculosis institutions on the Cashmere Hills, and at the meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday a letter was read, from' the. acting-telegraph engineer stating that the application had been declined. Mr A. T. Smith said there were about 600 people in the institutions, and it seemed very hard that the application should be turned down. Attention should be drawn again to the matter, as a telephone would be a | great advantage to the inmates, and staff. On the motion of Mr W. P. Spencer it was decided to seek the support of Mr J. McCombs, M.P., in the application. In view of the fact that it has not yet decided whether the Olympic lawn tennis tournament will be held at Amsterdam next year, the chairman of the Dutch Olympio Committee, Baron Schimmelpenmck van der Oye, has written on the subject to the International Lawn Tennis Federation, and his letter was before the last meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Olvmpic Association. He says that the International Olympic Council and the Federation have asrreed on every point except regarding the definition of amateurism. The question is whether an amateur, who, after the decision of Prague, has knowingly become a professional, can be acknowledged Inter as an amateur with reeard to the Olympic Games. According to the definitions of the Federation, this is quite possible. The Baron eoes on to say that he has heard that for the moment there is no professional tennis player whom the Federation desires to reinstate as an amateur. This noint of difference can, then, be of no effect at the Games, and can be put off hv Federation until after the Games. Thus the last objection against takinn part in tho Games has been removed. The letter concludes with an appeal for the Federation to see that tennis is given the place it deserves on the Olympic programme. The Hotel Federal's new and up-to-date dining-room is now completed with accommodation for 200 guests, nnd specialising in casual luncheons from 12.30 to 2 p.m. Six courses (including erills). 2s 6d. 'Phone 1040 to reserve tables. —6 Booth Electric Household Pumps are desisned right, built right, ana sold right! Service stands behind Booth, Mac products, and thp F.lpctri" Pump is building up a reputation for trustworthy goods and reliable service Slow speed, leather nnd meta' construction, and solid design make for durability and reliability, and it forms part of an important local industry. Why. therefore, buy imported pumps? Fullest particulars post free. 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