NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 December 1910, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association,) ; - " CONSUMPTIVES AND A CAMP. WHAT GOOD DO THEY DERIVE? Chrfstchurch, December 21... At ■ a recent meeting ofthe North' Canterbury Hospital • and . Charitable Aid Board a . letter was received fr<jm the Chief Health Officer stating- that the Department would be glad to receive into. the working camp, for ..consumptives at Karcro any - sanatorium patients who, in; the opinion of the medical, superintendents, were fit to work iu the open, but not' lit to retum to their occupations. The Health Uflicer had also forwarded a brief outline of the scope and purpose, of ~th© camp with a view to preventing unsuitable cases being sent. A report from Dr. Blackmore, Medical Superintendent 0 f the Cashmere •tlills Consumption Sanatorium;. r&-' ce ! ; J e J, the. board meeting to-day, said that so few. particulars were given of the working, of the Karere camp that ho. was unable to express - any opinion about it. * So far as the inforjSe.nt j° showed persons admitted to the camp were expected to do a good day s.work, and to pay for their keep. They revived no treat ment- or-medical supervision, and were nothing likely to .be' of. u Jff™'' was, 6 actual 1 state of ■ affairs it was difficult, to.see-whatbene-f L 3*® p3tl ?. nk derived by. going into ever-"Sinf+l? aS 3ca - rc< rty likely, however, that tho SO were the actual linei on. which tiie camp was run.-

"NOT TO BE DICTATED TO."

APPOINTMENT OF SHOW JUDGE. ' Feilding, December 21 +>,'l7 *1 J? eet ! ng ' the ' committee lot the Feilding. A. and P. Association last night, a correspondent drew distention, to : the fact that the judge selected' for .the Ayrshire /class at the show in February next was not ,one of 'thfrse recoimended by the Ayrshire Breeders' Association, and. he pointed: out that" the Hawera Association was -threatened with trouble ..for similar action The committee discussed' the . matter.. and decided to adhere to the judge selected. not, they-said,- going- to be dictated to by any breeders' association. j ~ sooner this question, was settled the better. The "judge selected was,recommended by the iWairarapa Aslialjk lOn ' 3 : was > therefore, quite. re< FILM SHOW ON SUNDAY. : r : . . Oamaru, December 21.. In the case in which the Town Clerk .sued Alexander M'Donald, kinematograph proprietor, for a-.breach' of the Municipal Corporations Act, in that he exhibited-a.series of pictures depictihe .incidents in the. life of the Saviour, on trat© fined SI Donald £1 and costs. Notwithstanding that the council had refused him M'Donald 'exhibited,- advertising "A Biblical Picture service. Subject: ■ Life'/of Christ.: Sacred music. Collection."

_ The facts were admitted, i Counsel tor the defence contended that thecounoils remedy for a breach -of Section dO6 was to- be found in Section'\ 309, which provides that a council'may" cancel or suspend the license' of a hail in which a breach of the 'Act has been committed.

COUNCILLORS AND CONTRACTS, ~ Napier, DecemUr' 21.';' u.-i consequence of the provisions of "x-'T 4 l ", n^l P al Corporations Amendment Act, -• Mr.- George ■ Nelson resigned hii scat as . a member •of tho Jfapiei - Borough Council at a meeting of .-that body to-night; fre . being managing "director of a firtn, 'J. ; Niveh' and Co., who have a contract with the council. Tho position, of the Mayor, Mr.' J. Vigor Brown, is in doubt,. as he is a director of the Napier Gas Company, who sujy. ply street lighting under • a contract with the council.-; THE ADVANCE IN TIMBER. : - - Auckland, December 21; The advance in the price ,of .timbe'P is estimated,to represent an increase,of £30 in • the. cost of an average .fiveroomed house, which with high prices for land and ■ high prices" for labour ' tends to ' be a deterrent in the building trades. First-class timber has advaaced 6s. per 100 ft. within the last three years. . Sawmillers attribute the last advance mainly to the Conciliation. Court award ;-also to ■ a scarcity v of timber, difficulty ' in. getting it from remote parts of the bush,'a strong demand from England for high-grade kauri, and increased rentals, of waters front properties.;: ■ . - '.../■ HUNTING CAOL-BREAKERS. Crcymouth, December 21.-. Alfred Pryor and William Newton,. who were serving six years and.'/ two years and a half respectively for jewellery.'robberies/at Greymouth, " and " escaped from gaol there at-7.85'0n Monday night, have not yet been recaptured. All the police available are making a vigorous search aboard the steamer Kaitangata,' which sails shortly fo* . Melbourne. A RURAL SCHOLARSHIP. . Waimate, December 21f At the. Waimate High School Board of Governors' meeting.'last night, it was resolved: "That the:board,write.to. Mr. : Alexander, _ manager, of ...Lincoln, College, asking him to confer 'with the; board on the question of - the advifr. ability and the best method of granting a 'scholarship; tenable at Lincoln Col-: lege; and that Mr.'Brown, the South Canterbury Education Board's instructor, .be also asked.to attend the meet? iitg."' The board proposes to voteaboiii £40 per annum. " "" V.,' POST-SESSIONAL ADDRESS. • Christcliurch, December 21. - ; Mr.-G. Laurenson,'M.P. for LytteV ton; gave a post-sessional address, to' his constituents at Lyttelton to-night. -Ha dealt in, detail with the ■ legislation.-.of tho past session, and received an. attentive hearing froni a fairly large audience. At the conclusion, Mr. Laurenson was accorded a hearty . vote ; \o! thanks for his address. \ ■UPKEEP OF THE UNFIT. Christchurch, December 21: The Hospital Board to-day carried the following motion: "That in view of -the increasing burden of maintain-, ing degenerates and their.- offspring, and the danger to the community from the physiological aud-moral points- ;of view, tho board urges oh the Government'the necessity 'of..establishing'a State school for defectives (girls), and a State home' for feeble-minded ; \v;omen t with power of deteirtio-n at* each-instio tution." v ,"... HOSPITAL APPOINTMENT, Westport, December 21.' Out of five applicants,, Miss EditS Dunsford, of Christchurch, was to-nighi appointed matron of tho Wc-stpcrt Hofy pital. . SCHOOL HOLIDAYS. Woodvllle, December 21. Tho school broke up for the holidajtt yesterday, and the oliildrea are holding a monster .picnic oil t-lio Recreation Ground to-day. Cl'oymoilth, December 21. The export of coal from Greymoutli, last week amounted to 12,886 .to'usj