LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 251, 18 July 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Postal authorities have received advice from Sydney that the s.s. Maheno sailed at 4 p.m. last. Thursday for Auckland. She carries 291 bags of mails und 58 parcel receptacles. The claim of Christqhurch to the Forestry School located there is supported by the fact that under the will, of the late Mr. T. W. Adams, whose death occurred on Juno 1, 1919, a valuable bequest was made Io tho Canterbury College Board of Governors for the special purpose of establishing a School Of Forestry in Canterbury. Air. Adams bequeathed to tho college his plantations at Greendale, consisting of about ninetyeight acres of land, together with a sum of £2OOO. subject to the payment of an annuity to deceased’s widow. These plantations (an exchange points out) aro within easy reach of Canterbury College. They are more than forty yearn old, and most extensive and extremely varied as 1 regards tho kinds of trees that have been planted. In the plantations Canterbury College possesses the embodied experience of forty years’ experiments in tree-growing, and thus has advantages that, are not possessed, and cannot be gained for many years, by any other university centre. • A little chap of ten years has sent the following rather pathetic message to a nurse whose hospital in Hamilton was recently destroyed by fire, and on whose behalf the relief committee is still raising funds. The message speaks for itself: “I am the little huntsman you nursed, and I see about your terrible fire, and would like to give you my first money I have won at tho Combridge Show. With love from Ned.” Enclosed was a 10s. note. A strong plea for the physically-defec-tive school child was made by Air. J. R. Whitaker, headmaster of the Mount Albert (Auckland) public school, at a meeting of householders held last week, to consider the question of improvements to the school grounds. “Special outdoor instruction is devoted to these children,” said Mr. Whitaker, “and it is only reaonably fair to expect suitable playgrounds in which to give that instruction.” News of a boating accident at Pitcairn Island, resulting in two of the inhabitants being drowned, was brought to Auckland by the Paparoa. On calling nt the island on July 3, it was learned that a few days previously a boat containing a number of islanders capsized in a heavy sea while returning to the shore from a Homeward-bound steamer that had called there to load mails and provisions. All the occupants of tho boat except two reached the island, but one was so exhausted that when the Paparoa left Pitcairn Island he was not expected to live.

Womenkind think hard when questioned about ages, and the answer given invariably suggests io the male “the adding ten, substracting four” process io arrive at the approximate number of summers or winters. There appeared as a witness in tho Supreme Court (states the Christchurch “Sun”) a woman looking decidedly less than her years, who did not pause to think hard. Smartly she snapped out the number of her years to opposing counsel. Still, the world was not to know her secret in cold print. "But.” she hastened to add, amid laughter. “that must not appear in the newspapers. His Honour Mr. Justice Herdman smiled at the reporters as he said: “I know the reporters will respect the lady’s wishes.”

The Karori Progress League has decided to write to the City Council asking whether it is possible for the' laying of drains in Karori to be commenced at once, in order that there need be no delay when the water supply is available, rind inquiry is to bo made of the Gas Company as to whether it will be prepared to extend its supply main to tho district. A committee was formed to confer with iho Northland Association in regard to the establishment of a mo-tor-bus service from the Kelburn tramway to the tunnel. A motion was passed recommending the residents of Karori to favourably consider th? Mayor s request for tho, prepayment rates. Messrs. W. A. Andrews and T. S. Donaldson were appointed as delegates to attend the meeting of the Civic Association on Wednesday.

Barmaids are stated to be becoming seaice in Dunedin. The number nctu<*ly hi employment in hotels in that city doos not exceed sixteen, the greatest cluster in. one hotel being four. In some of the Dunedin hotels that do a largo and settled trade there are no barmaids. Evidence shows that a similar state of affairs prevails pretty well throughout tho .South. Island.

"Signs of a premature spring are apparent everywhere as a result of tho April-like weather' so far accompanying this July,” states tho Dunedin ‘‘Star.” “A resident of Green Island has a tree lucerne in full bloom; a nearly-finished thrush's nest was picked up this week; tho spring bulbs have speared through abnormally early, and roses in sunny f’ttces are already shooting. Natero will give us a set-back before long.”

Sir Edgeworth David, on his return to Aclifihido from a visit to Iron Knob and Port Augusta, in South Australia, in company with the Government Geologist, spoke enthusiastically regarding tho numerous ore deposits at ’lron Knob. "At the south end of the Iron Monarch, a huge rounded hill rising 800 feet above tlio Saltbush Plain, is a wonderful quarry,” said tho professor in Adelaide. “This quarry, with its face of flOOft. in length and height of 200 ft., is indeed a grand sight, probably the finest of its kind to be seen anywhere in the world. Not even the great iron oro deposits- of the United States of America can present anything nn so grand a scale. The whole vast quarry was a hire of industry. I had been told much about this world-famed mountain, but tho reality hns far exceeded my expectations. Tho vastnoss of the deposit has to bo seen in order to bo fully realised. " Even tho huge amounts of visible orc, totalling scores of millions of tons, do not represent tho whole of the deposit, n= boros Tiave been put down in places at Iron Knob to « depth of 200 feat below tho bottom of the quarry, nnd the mountain is still found to bo iron ore at that depth, with m> appreciable change-in the excellent quality of the ore." Tho Novy League wreath of Now Zealand foliage intended for display on tho Nelson Column on October 21 will bo on view at Miss Murray’s, Willis Street, today, also relics of the Victory. .Messrs. Jenkins and Mack havo lined with zinc a, largo case, which is to bo filled with water, in which the flowers will be immersed nnd frozen. Stow freezing is necessary to ensure clenrness of the ice, and the process will take about n fortnight. The block of ieo will then bo shipped to London, to be placed at the base of the column in Trafalgar Square on "Nelson Day,” in memory of tho nation’s greatest hero, whoso spirit of devotion to duty is still emulated by all ratings in the British Navy. Of the many hundreds of floral tributes from all parts of tho world, the Wellington wreath tins for many years past been the only one frozen nnd it has always aroused keen interest.

Mr. D. 8. Bodingfiold has given notice of his intention to move as follows at tho next meeting of the Betone Borough Council: "That this council disagrees with the Mayor’s ruling on the motion moved by Councillor Broekelbank at the meeting of the council held on July 11, 1921, viz., ’That the town clerk record in the minutes a point of order raised by Councillor Jones.'-"