MSH TRAWLING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 178, 23 April 1919, Page 10

MSH TRAWLING

AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL'S VJ3N-1 TUBE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, April 22. Before the Industries Committee Mr. J. B. Paterson gave evidence regarding municipal trawling. The City Council opened n retail shop with n cnpitnl of .C 20.000. borrowed with the ratepayers' approval. Thorn had undoubtedly been a reduction in the.retail price of fish, whereas it was thought fish could ho lnndcil nt .C.rpor ton, the cost was about £W Tier ton. At present the council's vontiiro was not profitable. It hod been handicapped by a. trawler being commandeered for mino-sweoping.

A memorial service of pathetic interest and solemnity was/held recently at the Greek Church at St. Sophia, Baystratci', in commemoration of the Greeks and Armenians who have been done to death in the Turkish .Umpire during the war. The npwl Archbishop of Cyprus took part in the service, addressing the tniprregation in Greek in a few simple words. The death is announced of Dr. Thomas Buzzard (87), formerly consulting physician to' the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, London; an expresident of tlio Clinical, Neurological, and Harveian Societies, and a copious writer on nervous diseases. Ho served as a surgeon on the British Medical Stall ( j,...;,., ii,„ ('rime-in War. If England no longer depended on her oak forests for her wooden walls, said Sir Herbert Warren in advocating a professorship of forestry at Oxford, yet the pit-prop wns the support on which rested both our Navy and our industrial prosperity, and the manufacture of the. aeroplane called for a supply of ash.