General News.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 4 December 1930, Page 10

General News.

The j\orthorii Agricultural uud toral Association's Show ut. Kangiora this year showed a profit of £OO, this being the second occasion that a profit lias been made for ecvcral years. Tho T/yttelton Harbour Board d* 1 - cided yesterday to proceed with tho purchase of tho Sailors' Home site at Ivyttelton, at a prieo to lie fixed by two arbitrators, ono to bo appointed by tho Government and ono by tho Board. Mr Albert Freeman was appointed to act as the I.onrd's valuer and arbitrator.

Tho rise in tlie lovol of- Lako Coleridge for tho week ended last Sunday was not so great us that for tho previous week. The lovol last Sunday was 1061.8 ft, compared with 1661.41't the previous Sunday, when the gain hart been nearly a foot. Tho lako is .still over eight feet below its normal level. .■Formalities in connoxion with the art union to be conducted by the Port Ghristchureh League, to provide funds for a comprehensive report on tho suitability of the Estuary for a port for Ghristchureh have been completed, but it has been decided not to ntart Rolling tickets till the League has been incorporated, and step-! in thnl direction have been taken. Those who missed the i.pyjuiuuiity for obtaining some samples of the baskot, work done by the inmates of the Jubileo Institute for tho Blind afforded by the Christchurch Rotnrv Club at the • Metropolitan Show, still have a chance of doing so. Rotaria-n C. E. Jones told a reporter yesterday that there wero several picnic hampers and shopping baskets still on hand. Sir George Newman, Principal Medical Officer to the Board of Education, England, in acknowledging tho receipt from the secretary of the Christchurch Opon-Air Schools Leaguo of a copy of the annual report of' the Loagne, wrote that he had read the report with great interest and ploasure, and was vory glad to hear of the progress of the open-air school movement in Now Zealand.

A radio telephone call was put through from Christchurch to Sydney yesterday afternoon by Mr C. E. T> ro ?T m s ,P°ko on business with Mr K. M. Teacher, who was in tho Dominion recently. Conversation was very clear, Mr Cross said after tho call had been completed, and he was able to say all ho wanted to in a short time. Mr and Mrs Teacher are to leave for England by the Orama, said Mr Cross and sail from Sydney on Saturday.

"Our estimate is that daylight, savins is costing us from £ISOO to £2OOO a year," commented Mr 1\ R. Ual], tlie chairman, at a meeting of tho Poverty Bay Power Board. It was commented by Mr M. ,T. White that the increase m power used during tho past' few months,_ compared with tho corresponding period last year, was very small, indeed. Mr Ball pointed out that people might be economising with power; in fact, most were cutting flown expenses all they could.

"Of course, no one lias am' money to spend these days," said Archdeacon F. N. Taylor at the opening of St. Luke's Parish Carnival in the Art Gallery yesterday. The carnival is for the purpose of raising money to build new parish schoolrooms. "I saw that when I visited Sumner on duty last Sunday, when I saw about 2000 cars drawn up —cars that used American petrol and represented a big sum of New Zealand money. That's how I know that money is so very, very scarce." Whether artificial planting is a safer and more economic method of providing for the future timber needs of the Bominion than natural regeneration is a question discussed in the official magazine of the Forestry Club of the Canterbury College School of Forestry, "To Kura Ngahere," the 1930 number of which has just been issued. There is only one number of the magazine each year, but, besides articles 011 technical subjects, readers will find much of general interest. The editorial committee aims at making the journal the official organ for New Zealand in mattors pertaining to afforestation. Mr H. Holland, M.P., gave a short address to the executn-c of the Canterbury Progress League last evening on his jecent visit to Australia,

A deputation of Christclmrch bum- j I,ess men intends waiting on Or. 0. j K Jones to-day to ask lum to consent f to nomination for the Mayoralty of the ; City. ; Under tii" City Council's reading j loan scheme the reconstruction <>l j West-minster street in liof-mix, between Thames street and Rutland street, lias been started. Forty thousand plauts, wliico i'. an ' ordinarv vcar would have been ..edded out in the public gardens in .1 nvfii'f.'ii gill several weeks ago, arc still in the innscry, states t-lio ' - .Southland Times. '' For the first time this summer —so far . a summer in name only —the beaches near Auckland were bright with the ; gay colours of bathing costumes during ■ the week-end, .-'fairs the "New Zealand II era Id." ; No I'.-wt rit an ton tenders have been j received for tlio erection of the bridge over the lleatheote nt Princes street, - Woolston. They were considered sit •; the lat.est held meeting of the \\ orks ! C'< .mm itt ee, anil the oo'.nmtltoc -s re- j commendation as to the tender to ho . accepted will he considered hy the City j Council on Monday. ;

Tho re-erection of the liiumond Jubilee Clock Tower at the intorseet ion of Victoria and Montreal streets is almost, completed. The top portion lia.s been painted red. and fin- fmials have been gilded. Ibe old ele.ek laces have been cleaned and placed in position temporarily until tin- eloek on order from England arrives. In a day or two all tho scaffolding will be removed Tho severe went her last wee.', resulted in the loss of a number of newiy-sliorn sheep in the O'ishorne district, according to the "Poverty Bay JI erabl. ' Tho leases have not been severe, i.nt anions the most recently .shorn she. p numbers have been reported dead. In a sense, the tlock owners have ben fortunate, this year, for, since the shcarm;; m ;isoii set in properly, last week was the first, in which the conditions were so severe as to cause any appreciable- mortality. The City Council had nun on unemployment Christmas r-liei work yesterday, find probably more will be put 011 to-day, and from firue to time others will b-e taken on, until a total of <IOO is reached. Tim work ill hand is principally street-widen 1 tig. At Eastern terrace, Kisberton. '-..m0 men ant engaged on erecting a rubble retuinioo; wall. Including; men on loan and other works the erand tot.nl of men employed by the (Hy ' .>11! I''i 1 s Works Department yoster.!a\ v. as -I 10.

From tho Albi rt l-.rsUino Bureau for Street Ttnflie I !<-search nt Harvard University '.lie City Engineer (Mr A. 1?. tialbraitii) has received a request for a copy <.f his report on the reconstruction and ma in: enance of the City highways and bridged Tho letter set out that reports 01 this character are of great, value in the work of the Bureau. The reque-t lias been complied with, as have boon similar requests from the London University, tho Mell>onriio University, and tin- Universilv of Western Australia.

By the steamer Turak.na, which is due at Uytteltoii to-dnv, v, ill arrive tlie chassis for the Tramway Board's trolley-buses, hut it. is expected that it will he n day or two before they are delivered. Tenders from Christchurch coachhuilders for the bodies have lx>on received, nnd it is probable that the name of the successful tenderer-will he reported at. the Board's next nn-et ing. Most of tho overhead work has been completed, and the depot- and repair building at sfrret. y„r the trolley-buses us practically finished.

At a meeting of the Jiiiiio,!iii Manufacturers' Association it was decided to obtain information regarding tho effects 01 manufacturers of the proposed chances in railway rates and to urge the Manufacturers' .Federal ion to have similar act :on taken :n other <-i ntrcs, nnd also to arrange for a rr.niul-the-table conf ercrtce jn Wellington to consider the whole question with n view lo arranging a discussion with the Minister for Hailways (the iron. W. A. Veitch). and the CJcneral Manager (Mr H. 11. Sterling).— Press Association.

Tl.-c rceouMrucfioj) »!' the .•r-i-tinii 'if Colombo street in Sydenham will l>o finished to-morrow. Something »>f fi record was [nil. up in applying tlx.* twn inches of hit uni inou.s carpet. fti eifjht hours 1200 square yards oi" this Ivor!: was done, the rated capacity of the plant hoi lie SOO square yards in hours. 'Die. Oitv Engineer, in con junction with the Tramway Hoard and other puMic utilities, made provision for (ho work of reconstruction to ho cloiip as expeditiously as possible. The objective aimed at was tlic ramplelion) of operations at least a fortnight before Christmas, niul this has hcert atl.'iirwl w;lh -eroral clave to spare.

The work oi renewing the tramway truck 011 Ferry road was started on Tuesday, and it is estimated that it will take several w<'ks to complete. The. section being done extends from Fitzgerald avomio to Bamford street, U oolston. There is a. double, t rack as far Lancaster street. Several loops are to bo installed 0:1 the single-track port ion--one at Ollivier's road, another nt Moniea_ Park, another about the centre oi A\oolston. and another at Tiamford street. Aoont eighteen extra men nrc employed. The City Engineer expects to make a start with the reconstruct ion of the City Council's part, of the roadway '-onv' time in January.

An assurance that the suspension of military training would in no way affect the ftoyal Naval Volunteer Reserve was pi von by the officer commanding the Now Zealand Naval Station, Commodore Geoffrey Blake, at the annual inspection of' the Auckland division of the reserve, states the "New Zealand Herald." Tu emphasising the value of the training, the Con- odore said the cruisers on the Australian ami New Zealand stations weto resnonsible for the trade routes, but a body of' men liko the reserve was neoessa'rv to look after the harbours and t.'o carry oat patrol and coastal work in 1 inic'j. of need.

The <'liri.sti.Jiiu-.-li Returned Soldiers' Association lias voted £IOO for expenditure by the Reserves Coiuniittco of the City Councvi!, oil work for uuep.i* ployed ex-servicemen. This will carry a subsidy of an equal amount from tho City Council, and Cr. Annie A. Praer, chairwoman of the Reserves Committee, told n reporter yesterday tliat an application would tie made to the Unemplovment Board for subsidy on tho total. *A schedule of the work proposed to 'be done has been submitted by Mr l\f. .T. Barnelt, Superintendent of Reserves" to Mr F. Langbien, District Engineer Public Works Department, for approval, and when this is forthcoming between 40 and 50 men will b c given work. Ex-servicemen who desire work will requiro to get notes from the Unemployment branch of the Labour Department, and also from tho secretary of tho Returned Soldiers' Association

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