LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 2, 27 September 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The thirteenth CI draft is being mobilised this week. Tlio recruits from Group 5 (Wellington City and Suburbs) left for camp yesterday somo forty strong. AH the recruitß .called wore present or accounted for.

Tlie First Wellington Military Service Board concluded its Wellington session yesterday. The Second Board opens here on Wednesday and sits on Thursday and Friday also.

A man named' Thomas Pope, aged CO years, was found dead iu a house, No. U Manners Street, at .about a quarter past one yesterday. • Deceased was a steward on tho eteamor Ngaliere. The body \va6 conveyed to tho morgue. An inquest will bo held. Regarding the rather drastic conditions "under which Onslow Borough is willing to join up with the city (us detailed in a resolution passed by tlio Borough Council oh Wednesday evening), tlio Mayor of Wellington (Mr. .J. P. Luke) stated yesterday that he could not discuss them at present', as so far they had not reached the council. Ho could only repeat that Messrs. .Tames Ames (City Valuer) and Charles Collins (Citv Treasurer) were going into the affairs of Onslow, with a view to amalgamation, and would! report to the council in due course. The matter of representation, on the City Council is defined by statute.

An acute form of influenza has been very prevalent in Mastertou of late, say's our Masterton norrespiondent.

Tho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), accompanied by Messrs. H. Gore and C. M. Luke (members of the Technical Education Board) and W. S. La Trobo (director) made a periodic inspection of tho classes of the Wellington Technical School last evening,_ and took ,a lively interest in everything that was brought mider their notice. They were able to see at first hand how the school is hampered for lack of proper accommodation, and expressed the hope that the time was not far distant when Wellington would have a technical college worthy of tho name.

During the last fortnight- cadet barracks of instruction have been held at tho Otago Boys' High School and Nelson, College, under the. supervision of the Director of Military Training (Lieu-tonant-Colonel J. L* Sleeman). Tlio work done by the boys was excellent in both case's. A barracks will be opened at Wanganui College on Ootobor 1.

The wb of D Company, Forty-third Reinforcements, in the Chingford Cup competitions, was another score for the 01 Camp. Tile men. who began their training in the 01 Camp have dono particularly well in these competitions, and their work is proof of the success achieved by' the instructors in making fit for military service men who originally were claßsed unfit. Tlio reason for their success probably is that the CI mon have had longer training, and more canrfully graduated training than is provided for the ordinary fit A recruits. Their physique litis been built up by saientific drill and instruction,- and when they are transferred to the A camps they are at least equal physically to the men who wero classed fit'in tho first instance.

"That tho thanks of the board be tendered to tho president of the Thoi'»don Bowling Club, for tho gift of two mora Fowler bods, with the necessary mattresses and pillows —these making a total of six Fowler beds which that club hns presented to _ this hospital." The foregoing resolution was carried by tho Wellington Hospital Board yesterday, when the club was eulogised for it's thbughtfulmess. On August 31 tliero wero 424 patiouts in tho Wellington Hospital and allied institutions. They wero d'istributed as follows: —General Hospital, 203; Children's Hospital, 57; Seddon Annexe, 20; Victoria Military Hospital, 43; Infantile Diseases Hospital, 10; diphtheria cases in iron shed, 8; diphtheria cases in Seddon Annexe, 15; infantile paralysis cases in Children's Hospital, 14; male chronic cases in Clifton Ten-ace, 20; female chromc oases in Home for Aged Needy, 14. Macnrthy Home for Convalescent Women and Children (Belmont), 19. The daily average of patients (excluding those at Belmont) was 422.

A meeting of tho Organising Committee of tho Competitions Society was held last evening, when it'was reported that entries had already been received from Whangarei, Turakina, War.ganui, Culverdon.- Christchuroh, and as far south as Invercargill, besides a large number from the Wellington district. The secretary reported that as entrios closo on Monday noxt arrangements have been made for entries to be received at Begg and Co.|s musio warehouse and tho Bristol Piano Co.

His Honour the Chief Justicc'., (Sir Robert. Stout) jjave judgment in. the case heard by him last week of Bannatyne and Hunter, Ltd l ., v. John William Bell and Matthew Guthrie (trading as the Anglo-American Music Store), a claim for the cost of a number of "Little Wonder" gramophono records sold and delivered. Tho point at issue was whether thero was any breach of warranty in that royalties had not been mid on the records, or that they had been* sold to defendants without compliance with tho law of copyright.' His Honour held l that there'was no breach of warranty disclosed, and that the defendants were not entitled to succeed. Judgment was given for the plaintiffs for tho full amount claimed, with costs according to scale.

During the month of August tho total value of tho work done by the dental branch of the Wellington Hospital was £00 12s. (id., of which amount £11 17s. was Ifree work. Tho cash takings amounted to £'13 7s. Gd. During the month 291 out-pationts and 22 in-patients were treated.

It is expected that the present country tour of the First Wellington Military Service Board will bo a long one, on account of tho re-examinatioh of men classed C 2.

Peace is- being eagerly anticipated by the Wellington Hospital Board, owing to the pressure on the accommodation. At yesterday's meeting.of .tlio hoard a letter was received from the Director of Military Hospitals advising members that every endeavour would bo made to evacuate the Victoria Ward as soon, after peace is declared as possible.

Tho Hospital Committeo of tho Wellington Hospital and Chnritablo Aid Board reported yesterday that the Defence Department had decided not to go on with the projected ward for returned soldiers, which was proposed to have been eroded in tho hospital grounds. This is probably owing to the Department having taen over tho "lir.miar Health Home (at Miramar north) for such cases as aro in need of surgical attention. A suggestion that the contract for painting 0110 or more of tho troopships arriving at Auckland should be let to a local firm instead of the work being done by Wellington firms, was made rcccntlv by Mr. A. Mil. Glover, M.l\, to the Minister of Defence. Mr. Glover has received a reply from Sir James Allen, stating that no troopships are now under the control of the. New Zealand Government, all troops being dispatched 011 a per capita basis under" arrangement with the Imperial Ministry of Shipping. Consequently any work being carried out in respect to troopships was an expense of tho shipowner concerned, and a matter over which the Defonce Department had 110 control.

Glowing children and Invalids thrive on Doctors' Cream O'Groats. Try this digestible, tasty, and nourishing food — Advt.

Yesterday a waterside worker was arrested by Detective Carney on a charge of stealing a bottle of wine, tlie property of tlio Wellington Harbour Board,

A kindly deed has its own reward. Only a day or two ago tlio Hospital Board's lorry, which takes _ the milk from the station to tho Hospital, broke down at a time when it was difficult to obtain aid in order to get the injlk up to tho institution in time. The position became known to Mr. H. D. Bennett, of Willis Street, who without tlio slightest hesitation diverted his grocery lorry for "the use of tlie Hospital in its emergency. The prompt and considerate action of Mr. Bennett was referred to at yesterday's meeting of tho board.

A fairly large number of residents in Christ'churcn have handed to the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce letters which, it is believed, were written with tho object of securing trado for Gormany, states the "Lyttelton Times." These letters come from neutral countries. Im most cases tlie wording is guarded', and leaves room for only a suspicion, but in at least one oaso the writer frankly states that he is ready to overcome the difficulty in the way of communication between New Zealand ard countries engaged in the war. Several teinptiiig offers of business are made. The Chamber of Commerce will forward the letters to the Board, of Trade, and it is probable that they will lie brought under the notice of tho Imperial authorities.

Speaking'of tho original University of Bologna, Dr. Chilton, during an address to the Education Conference at Christchuroh on Tuesday night, remarked that the teachers were employed and controlled by the students, a;id were subject to numerous petty iiv dignities which would prove quite astonishing to those who were acquainted only with the'modern English university. Thus fines were inflicted'oil the doctors or professors for missing a lecture, lateness, for attracting too' small an audience, or for omitting portions of the subject, or for avoiding the elucidation of difficulties. The students might graciously grant tho professor a holiday, the permission had to be confirmed by tho rector, while if the lecture were prolonged a minute beyond the appointed time, the doctor found himself addressing empty benches. "It might be a usetful stimulus to some of us," said Dr. Chilton, "if these old customs were revived, and it is rather interesting to note that in one point the Workers' Educational Institute, which we can look upon afc one of the most modern developments in connection with the university, has in a manner reverted to 'the customs of the old University of Bologna, for according to the Workers' Education Association regulations the tutor for the University Tutorial Classes has .to be approved by the' students or members of the 'class," , .