General News.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 5 March 1932, Page 14

General News.

The excursion trains will Leave lor Tiinaru at 8 a.in. and at 9.10 a.m. tomorrow.

One case of infantile paralj*sis was reported in tlie Canterbury Health District yesterday.

The latest issue of the Caslamcre Sana toriuin Magazine contains Dr. I. O. Maeintyre's fifth article on tuberculosis, besides a good selection of humorous articles relating to life at the institution,

Two line salmon, weighing approximately iolt> and liilb, were caught by Mr j. M. Page, a member of the Council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, while fishing in the Waimakariri at Kairaki .yesterday. Mr Page stated then that the run of salmon was likely to start at any time.

The training which the Christ s College cadets have undergone in barracks during the past week included a mockbattle, which was fought in fields at Yaldhursfc yesterday. I'lven sham fighting was strenuous in yesterday's heat, but the boys, who returned to barracks late iii the afternoon, geemed to enjoy the experience.

By his will, the late Mr Richard Baker bequeathed £25 the Baptist Missionary Society and £7O jointly to the Oxford Terrace and St. Albans Baptist Sunday Schools. During his lifetime the late Mr Baker created trusts of £2OO in favour of the St. Albans Baptist Sunday School and £SO in favour of the Canterbury Young Women's Kible Class Union.

Reports upon the condition of the following rivers have been received by the secretary of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society: —Waimakariri : Clear and fishable; Rangitata : Slightly milky yesterday. Expect good fishing week-end; Rakaia: Clearbut with nor'-wester prevailing, it is likely that it will become dirty; Hurunui: Clear and fishable.

Anglers who fished the Rakaia yesterday were disappointed. The river is only barely fishable, and as it is scouring heavily in a number of places, it is not. likely to be in better than medium good order for the week-end. Fishermen report also that there are only a small number of salmon in tho liver at the present time, and that no considerable number have been seen throughout the week.

The ol the Waikari School Jubilee Committee is anxious to got in touch with cx-pupils of the school who attended prior to 1926, as all records up till that time were destroyed by fire. Ex-pupils nre asked to give their present address and the date of their connexion with the school, together with names of fellow-pupils if possible. ,

( .'l see that three gentlemen in an excess of enthusiasm have paid their rates twice," said the Mayor of Mount Albert, Mr W. F. Stilwell, at a meeting of the Council this week. "The action is commendable, but I am afraid that we shall have to refund the money now that they are asking for it back." Authority was given for the refund of the amounts.

The thanks of the Christchurch Technical College to the Christchurch Press Company for its generous donations of £ls lus and £lO 10s towards new equipment for the< use of the typographical classes at the College were expressed at last evening's meeting of the Technical College Board of Governors. Dr. D. E. Hansen, the Principal, stated that he was iftost grutiful for the assistance the Press Company had given on several occasions.

Matches in tho semi-final round of the Canterbury Cricket Association's championship will be concluded to-day as follows:—St. Albans (106 and none for 5) v. Old Boys (173), at Hagley Park No. 1; Sydenham (272) v. Old Collegians, at Sydenham Park. The winners will play off for the championship. Other matches are Riccarton (309 for nine) v. West Christchurch, at Hagley Park No. 2; and East Christehurch (68) v. Lancaster Park (253 for nine), at Rugby Park.

According to a passenger who travelled on the Dunelliu-Christchurch express yesterday, and who communicated with The Pkkss last evening the train was delayed for twelve and a half minutes at Sawyer's Bay to await tne arrival by taxi of two passengers who missed the express at Dunedin. When this was referred to the Traffic Control Department of the Railways, it was stated that such short delayß were quite common, and that trains waited for a reasonable time at stations to pick Tip such late-comers. Sawyer's Bay is-about seven miles .from Dunedin.

The first occasion this year on which tlie proportion of City rates collected io date to total rates levied hits • been higher than on the corresponding dato last year was yesterday when it was (approximately) 32.04 per cent., as compared with 81.88 per cent, last year. The amount collected was the largest for one day this year, and. was (approximately) £4BOO. The exact amount collected on Thursday was £3339 2s, and the proportion was 30.60 per cent., as compared with 30.87 per' cent, last yeffr. After the lapse of thirteen days And a half from to-day the 10 per cent, penalty will be imposed.

Miss L. Roberts, of Duncdin, accompanied by Guides Alex. Graham and Tom Sherran, of the Franz Josef Glacier, "was successful in making an' ascent of Mt. Copland (7895 ft) on March Ist. The climb was made from a high bivouac up Gulch creek, in the La Perouse valley. Ascending the rock face west of Gulch creek, the party gained- the top of the Copland range, half & miie east of Mt. Copland. The main ridge was then followed to the summit, the descent being made by the same route. Miss Roberts was one of the party which climbei La Perouse last week.

With a view to prospecting tlie upper waters of Lake 'JLe Anau, a Southland party of anglers, comprising Messrs Jules H Tapper, William Grieve, and William Jenkins, spent some little time in the neighbourhood reoently. Unfortunately, the weather was not suitable, while trouble from mosquito and sandfly pests added to the unpleasant - conditions. A camp was established near the head of the north-west arm, and the anglers investigated in a dinghy propelled by an outboard motor for salmon fields. A trip was made up, the Lugar Burn, a small river draining into the arm. Here the fish were very numerous, but as none was landed it could not be determined whether the stream contained salmon or trout. A heavy blanket of fog hung over the lake and hills for the next few days, and operations had to be discontinued. The party then proceeded to tlie mouth of the Eglinton, where both salmon antl trout were landed, as was the case also at the Upukurora. Whilst going up the arm, the fishermen found kakas present m thousands, while tuis, too, were numerous on the flax bushes, which at present ar© in flower.

"The practice of sun-bathing with the costume rolled down is objectionable," said Mr C. M. McCullough, chairman of the Mount Roskill Road Board, Auckland, at a moeting of the Board. "We want to keep our beaches for the use of the public, for those who swim as well as those who do not swim," he added. It was decided to refer a complaint in the matter to the Legal and Finance Committee.

Mr L. C. Cheriton, manager of the Milford Track, is very proud of a feat recently accomplished by his son, Eugene. Eugene, aged 41 years, recently walked both ways over the track without receiving any assistance whatever. It is common to see men and women of 60 or even 70 years of age on the track, but Master Cheriton must be the youngest tramper ever to have done the trip. He has a rival in Miss Lang, of the Milford Hostel, aged six years, "who has twice done the track.

It is reported that the white butterfly. a destructive pest, prevalent in the Hawkc's Bay district, has made its appearance in Wellington. A gardener there states that he has seen -it several times in the last few days, and prescribes as .in insecticide arsenate of lead in the proportion of ljlb to aU gallons of soapy water. A Hastings farmer stated the ether day that the white butterfly has .attacked not only rape on his farm, but swedes also, and that in five days it had destroyed about two-thirds of a crop of 85 acres.

The painstaking efforts of the New Zealand Post Office have been demonstrated to a Dannevirke resident who has had delivered a letter from England with the vague address "Trafalgar street, New Zealand." The omission of the name of the town on the envelope set various postmen at work in Trafalgar streets in different towns in New Zealand. When the letter arrived where it was intended •it was studded with postmarks. It was marked "hot known" in Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch, and Nelson. "Try Dannevirke" was the last instruction, which proved successful.

The fishing trawler S;r William Wallace, which sank in 20 feet of water in the Inner Harbour, Napier, on Christmas Day, has been brought to the surface and the salvagers have been engaged in pumping the water out oI her hull. An immediate start is being made to raise the other trawler, the Result, which also sank with the Sir William "Wallace. Some time after the vessels sank tenders were called for their sals, .but the owners, the New Zealand Fisheries, Ltd., eventually decided that they should be raised under their own supervision. The task ot raisina the Sir. William Wallace has not been an easy cue, on account ot their being no suitable salvaging plant in Napier.

An investigation of tlie farming aiul manufacturing resources of New Zealand, with a view to fostering trade, will bo made by Mr Tadao Miyata, of Tokyo, Secretary to the Japanese Department of Commerce and Industry, who arrived it Auckland in the Ulimaroa iron) Sydney this week. Mr Miyata said he would be pleased to sec p. greater amount of mutual trade between New Zealand and Japan. The prospects for the sale to his country of Nov,' Zealand wool would depend on whether it was the kind of wool Japan wanted. Japan could trade with silks and textiles. Mr Miyata left Japan last September and before coming to New Zealand visited Siam, the Malay States, and Australia. After touring N'cw Zealand as far south as Dunedin he will leave Wellington for Sydney, and thence return to Japan by way of Manila. Upon arriving home he will report to his Government upon the results of his tour.

A conference of both religious and secular bodies is to be called in April by the Canterbury Industrial Association of Workers to discuss "the best means of overcoming the imposition or intolerable conditions that are undoubtedly menacing the whole moral fabric of society." A committee of the Association lias drafted a letter appealing to various organisations in the City to attend the conference. The following matters are suggested for the discussion: Condition of men in relief camps; restrictions placed on unemployed workers seeking relief work; the virtual abolition of industrial legislation ; the creation of a vigilant committee to protect and advise those afflicted; und "the possibility of securing united action against the introduction of any measure that is likely detrimentally to affect the people of the Dominion."

A warning that the presence of millions of dead tolierosis on tlio NinetyMile Beach may cause such pollution as to make the remaining shellfish dangerous for use as food was uttered by Mr A. W. B. Powell, conchologist of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, who visited the beach as a member of a research party from the museum. "From n section of the beach, I estimated that there were about 15,000,000 dead toheroas. while those that were alive wero in a starved condition," Mr Powell said. "Some reports have been circulated that the shellfish's siphons have been mutilated by fish coming inshore during calm weather, but I saw nothing to substantiate these 'statements. In all the specimens I saw the siphons were intact. Advancing a theory to account for the heavy mortality. Mr Powell said that m the summer months, the offshore wind kept the plankton, on which the toheroas fed, away from the beach. The deathrate was particularly severe among the adult toheroas. "There is a possibility that with suck masses of decaying shellfish, the pollution may be such as to make it dangerous to eat the toheroas under present conditions," Mr Powell concluded.

In the Chamber of Commerce Hall this evening, at 8 o'clock, Mr L. C. Walker, who stood as an Independent candidate for Christchurch North, at the last General Election, will give the fourth of a series of public addresses which the For New Zealand Society has arranged on the general subject, "The Way Out of the Slump." At the close of his address Mr Walker will be prepared to answer any questions that are put to him by members of the audience. A collection will be taken up to defray expenses.

An apology is extended to all Bailway passengers from the staff of the Gold Band Taxis for jiot being able to send a taxi over to the station, when hailed, as the By-laws make it compulsory for all passengers to go over to our garage opposite the station, and we also thank the large numbers who patronise us. Lowest fare Is. —3

Johnston's N.C. Motor Co., Ltd., representatives: \V. C. Wilson arid H. Clark; manager, A. G. Prestney, authorised Ford dealers. Travelling Rangiora. 'Phones 8? and 88. —"

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