General News.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 10

General News.

Advice lias been received from the Public Works Department that the work of improving Riccarton aveaue has been approved as an unemployment relief work.

Five unemployed returned soldiers mil he given work with the Domains Board from to-day m connexion with tho work of widening the Iticcarton avenue. On Saturday 72 returned men called at the Returned Soldiers' Unemployment Bureau in search of work. This is tho average number of men who call each day.

T-lic planet "Venus, which was a prom incnt and brilliant object in the western skv not long ago, has been moving towards the sun ever since October, and setting at a less interval after sunset each dav. It reached the sun on Satdav, and its period as nil evening star, technically as well as practically, came to an end. Astronomers say that Venus on Saturday was in inferior conjunction with the sun.

At the meeting of the Tramway Board to be held thia afternoon it is probable, also, that tenders for the construction of bodies for the six trol-ley-buses on order by the Board will be considered. Tenders closed on Saturday at noon, and several were received.

The re-erection of the Jubilee; clock tower at the intersection of Victoria, Montreal, fiixl .Salisbury streets is neuring completion, the metal work 011 the top having been placed in position. The cluck tor the tower has been ordered by cable and is expected to reach Christchurch in about twelve months.

Flying n Desoutter aeroplane, Mr G. Nichol, of Gisborne, made the trip across Cook Strait from Blenheim to the Rongotni aerodrome in 35 minutes on Saturday. Mr Nichol, who flew from Christchnrch the previous day, left Blenheim at 0.10 a.m, and arrived at Uongotai at 0.50 a.m

"As opportunity offers I have talked witli some of the people who have recently come to Now Zealand from England," remarked Lord Barnby to a reporter on Saturday. ''Without exception, 1 have found them satisfied with their new homo. Several of them have been farmers, and they like the life, like the climute, and like their adopted country."

Those exercising their vote at the election of members of the Tramway Board on Thursday will not bo under the necessity of voting at booths <n tin- sub-district on the roll of which their names uppcar, but will be able to vote at any polling-booth. Every de-puty-returning officer will be supplied with voting papers for all tin sub-dis-trict.

Last week I»rd Barnby was an in terested visitor to the Addington market. He said on Saturday that the method of selling there was verv simi lar to that adopted in England, nnrt as he had stood bv the auctioneers at the sheep and cattle pens he could quite easily hav t - imagined himselt back again at a market in Lincolnshire. where he was n farmer.

A valuable Hereford bull purchased in Kansas, United States of America, and two prize Hereford heifers obtained in Canada were released from quarantine last week. They were bought in America by Mr William McKcnzie, of Masterton, to improve the blood in this strain of beef cattle in the Wairarapa. Competent judges who saw the animals when landed at the wharf at Welling ton pronounce them to be very highclass stock.

Humorous reference to printers* ink was made by Mr A. J. Hutchinson at the Creditmen's Club luncheon at Auckland last week when introducing Mr G. C. Codlin, who was to speak on that subjoct. "I have found it very expensive stuff and very dirtv stuff," said Mr Hutchinson. "On the other hand, I have always had good results from it, and. although this is not an advertising agency, I have no hesitation in saving that the man who spends money wisely in printers' ink reaps a rich reward."

The November number of the "Nov/ Zealand National Review" contains articles of a wide variety ot interest. Outstanding is a review of the Sainoan position by Professor J. P. Grossman, of Auckland University College, in the form of an open letter to the ActingPrime Minister (the Hon. K A. Ransom), in which tile professor maintains that further investigation of the posi tion by an external and impartial tribunal is necessary for a satisfactory settlement, as the order of reference for the Royal Commission, he states, eti 1 not cover the ground that the Somoans wished to traverse Tn the manufacturing section is included an article on "Unemployment, its logical solution."

It has already l>eeii annutuux-d that the charge for radio-telephone communications with Australia will be £1 per minute with a minimum of £3 for three minutes. Owing to variable con ciitions on radio telephone channels, which are in most instances beyond human control, the continuity of conversation is liable to momentary interruptions. Only effective conversation will be charged for. and trained observers will listen in. and by means ot cumulative stop watches, they will allow for interruptions. When a person enquired for cannot be reached i>y telephone owing to no fault of the service, the person calling will not be charged the full fee of £3. but will be required to pay a "report charge.

During one fortnight last September three caseß of bag-snatching occurred in Cliristchurcli. Towards the end of last week there was a further serious Instance, when a woman was accosted by a man in Armagh i>trcet, and robbed of a handbag containing £2O. The man's methods corresponded with those of previous Christchureh "snatch-and-run" thieves. He arrived on a bicycle, stopped, and asked the woman the way to a certain house. A moment later, he had grabbed her handbag, and was disappearing down a right-of-way. One mistake he did make, however. He left his bicycle behind him, arid the machine has now been identified by the police as one that was stolen earlier that evening. Further investigations are being made.

To consolidate the work of the International Accountant*' "Corporation in New Zealand and give members first-hand kiiowledgo of the progress the organisation : s making, the International Registrar, Mr T. SpraggMould. of Melbourne, is making a tour of the Dominion. This is the first occasion on which an executive head of the Corporation has .visited tins country. Mr Spragg-Moiild. who is at present in Wellington, explained that the International Accountants' Corporation had a hundred offices opened and operative throughout the world and by means of its policy encouraged people to think nationally, as well as internationally. The members ot the Corporation were proud of the fact that it was the only one of its kind ill the world. The movement had been endorsed by the King's highest representatives, and its members included the Governor-General of Australia, the Australian State Governors the Governor-General of Canada, tho Governor-General of South Africa, the British Ambassador to Paris, commercial leaders, the late Secretarv of State to the Colonies, and such distinguished men as Sir Otto Niemeyer and Professor Gregory. The Corporation had its birth in Australia and had grown to huge dimensions.

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Assistance had to be called !;•.« voek at the Railway Station to control our large fleet of taxis, which has been in great demand since w e started in our branch garage, opposite the station, where von can ret a Gold Band Taxi ?io nn^i hoi ? r ' ' Pholle s 34-075 or 355:2. lhanfe you. _i

The P am; U.L\ Perfect Potato Planter With our improved Machine and two or three horses. one man. single-handed, can plant from 8 to 4 acres a day with fertiliser uo to .•n-w's per acre, making 0 hotter lob than hand plantmg t'sino one ot these machines. Mr E McCarthy last year got n romarknble crop at Prc'.ble ton Another fourteen purchasers got n?" e^% sU,ts P >' ncl »>■ Duncan * * It" nmrr et. Chnstcbureh ana at Ashburtou.