LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1926, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Mails which left Wellington on sth January, per Tahiti, via San Francisco, arrived in London on 6th February.

An addition to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy will be made on the arrival of the HAL trawler Whakakurn from Home. The vessel has not left England yet, but she is expected to arrive in New Zealand waters about the end of March next. The Whakakurn is a Castle class trawler with a coal capacity of 155 tons. Her principal dimensions are:— Length 12oft, breadth 23.6 ft, depth l ift to 15ft. The Whakakurn engines are designed to give her a speed of 10 knots. She is to he used principally for mine-sweeping in connexion with the Royal Naval Reserve. With the arrival of the Whakakurn there will be six vessels in the New Zealand Division of the Navy. Those on the Now Zealand station now are HALS. Dunedin. HALS. Veronica, IIAI.S. Philomel. H.M.S. Laburnum and H.M.S. Diomede.

The Christchurch “Press” says that it is a testimony to our scientific progress that the University of lamdon is advertising in the Dominion for a Professor of Obstetric Medicine who will he director of the Obstetric and Gnaecnliigical Wards al the University College Hospital Medical School, and that thij Rector of Canterbury College has been asked to supply particulars of the position to possible applicants. In forwarding these particulars. Sir E. Cooper Perry, principal officer of the University of London, is good enough to say that some of their most distinguished teachers of Medicine have come from the Dominions and that they are therefore anxious to bring this appointment before the notice of any person in the Dominions who may he considered a suitable candidate.

“New Zetland has a groat field m the Western States of America for extending its tourist campaign,” stated Colonel I). K. B. Sellers, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, who arrived in Auckland on Tuesday by the Matuiganui from Sydney. “It would well repay this country to start a propaganda campaign in the West. States.” lie said (reports the New Zealand Herald’'). “There are hundreds of wealthy and leisurely men in New Mexico. Arizona and other States whom I know would make the journey if they knew

they would get good fishing here. The trouble is we know nothing about New Zealand over there. If New Zealand intends to make it.vilf known in the United States I would advise that the campaign should start on the western side of tho continent. Tlie peoples of tlie cast and west have different temperaments. Tho wealthy people of the east go away to Europe for their holidays. They love the cities and the boulevards. The people of the west, apart from being nearer to New Zealand. live in large open spaces and love outdoor sport. Fishing appeals to them.” A Wellington carpenter was recently charged with working on a Sunday, hi a reserved judgment, Ihe Magistrate, Mr E. Rage, dismissed the charge on the ground that the defendant, although doing carpentering work for himself, was not working at his trade in public. The Magistrate said: “The operations that are referred to in the section all seem to me to be operations by way of trade or business. 3he question before the Court is whether a man. who oil a Sunday, does for his own private purposes, work of a class similar to that in which he is engaged bv Wiiy of trade throughout the week, is necessarily working at his trade. If lie is it would lie unlawful on a Sunday for a plumber to mend a tap lor his garden hose, for a gardener to tend flowers in his private garden, for a charwoman to do any scrubbing in her own home, or for a photographer picnicking with his family,' to take a picture of the family group it any of such operations should take place within view of si public place. I do not think that on tho proper construction of the section such cases as are cited above are covered by it. The words ‘works al his own trade or calling.’ seem to imply something more than the mere doing of the work associated with a trade or calling. A carpenter’s trade is not merely the doing of carpentering work. It is the doing of such work bywav of business or occupation, or for tin* pnrnoses ot a livelihood.”