LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1953, 18 March 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Gazelle notilies (hat tin 1 Government lias decided (o observe An/ae Dav, on April 11,l l, ns a public liolida v.

“Once people said family prayers in (he morning, and asked (he blessing' of! God on (heir day’s worknow they are (oo busy grabbing dollars." —Ghaneellor Bradford.

The (own clerk of Waitara informed (he Council at its meeting last week that then 1 were no funds, and (he payment of the month’s accounts would have to be held over: there were some heavy interest payments coming due, he added.

The National Efficiency Board lias Just completed, and will forward to I lie Government shortly, the report embodying the result of its inquiries on education. The Board made elaborate inquiries in all direction-, and the document should prove a valuable one.

Yesterday morning, on board the Queen of the South, at Wellington, Captain Harvey, formerly master of (hat .vessel, was presented by the officers and crew with a silvermounted walking stick as a mark of Appreciation. Captain Owen, the new master, in making the presentation, referred to the long connection Captain Harvey had had with the vessel. Captain Harvey, who has now retired, has- been in command of the Queen of the South since she came to these waters some twenty years ago. ATHLETES’ FAVOURITE. Athletes tise Chamberlain’s Fain Balm to prevent lameness after any violent exercise. If well rubbed in it penetrates through the skin, relieves soreness, stiffness and eonAaeti'on of the muscles. For sale everywhere.—Advt.

Woodville proposes to erect a town hall and public library as a war memorial. The Queen of the South leaves Wellington to-night with a cargo of general, and is due here to-morrow morning. Mr A. E, Admore, painter and paperhanger, who has opened up a shop in Main Street, is now prepared to supply all trade requisites. Full stocks of papers, paints and sundries are carried, and all requirements will be promptly supplied.

We regret to record the death, which occurred t his'morning, of the infant daughter.of Mr and Mrs T. G. Simpson, of Union Street. Foxton. The little sufferer had been ill for the past, six weeks. The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon.

The arrivals in the Dominion during the month of February numbered 1394, and the departures 833, a gain of 5(5.1, In February, 1918, there was an.excess of departures over arrivals of 3(5. Of last month's arrivals, 99(5 came from Australia, and 273 from the United Kingdom.

A witness before the Industries Committee of Parliament stated that the smokers of New Zealand consumed annually three million pounds'weight of tobacco'. Another witness said that he believed- the annual consumption was equivalent to 41h. per head of the male population between 17 and 40 years of

Air P. Fraser, M.P. for Wellington Central, will deliver an address in the. Town Hall to-night. The chair will lie taken at 8 o'clock. Thq addresses being-delivered under the auspices of the Foxton Brandi of the New Zealand Labour Parly, Mr Fraser being at present engaged with other prominent Labour loaders in an organising campaign of the whole of (he Dominion. A cordial* invitation to he present is extended to all. 14 :

“It is an instance of how far capital will go in ord(/r to ensure dividends,’’ slated Air B. E. Murphy, Lecturer in Economies at the Victoria University, in an address a< the Accountants’ Chambers in Wellington, after he‘ had stated that Chinese and coolies were ousting the British sailors in the British Mercantile Marine. “It is absurd,” stated Mr Murhpy, “that large numbers of British sailors should he hanging around British polls looking for work because they have been displaced by niggers and chows, who are cheaper. If the mercantile marine is to he the nursery for the British Navy, the position is as serious as it is absurd. This is only one of (he side matters which is responsible for the industrial unrest now so evident.’’

In his excellent hook, Lieut.-Col. Claude 11. \Ves(on, D. 5.0., of Now I’lymouth, snys ‘‘The sorely ivied officers asked why (he British Army had not dared (o do whal America has since done in France, and, in company with Canada, in both of (heir own countries —hnl that is hit'll publics. As in ci\*i 1 life, crime in the Army is principally due lo drink'.” This from a well-known Xew Zealand officer who was so long' used lo clnh life is surely regarded as unbiassed testimony. Colonel Weston served on Gallipoli and France, where he took part in many of the principal engagements. In December last the Australian Council of the R.S.S. (Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League), carried a resolution asking for permanent Prohibition. In Victoria the Returned Soldiers’ National Parly returned all contributions from Licensed Victuallers, Thus both of the reconstructed soldiers’ bodies are now out for this essential reform. Remove the drink evil in New Zealand. Strike out (he loj; line on Thursday, April Kith."

A privileged group of school teaehers and other educationalists listened to a ,-diorl address by Chancellor Bradford, at Palmerston recently. The speaker expatiated on I lie need of vision in the training of the young, and argued that as (he recent armistice had practictilly imposed on Anglo-Saxundom a trusteeship for humanity, it remained for teachers, preachers and editors to exercise their highest faculties in instilling into the minds of (he community a patriotism not so much concerned with the more creation of wealth for wealth’s sake, of prosperity for prosperity’s sake, as with knowledge, character and wisdom, <-ut of which must spring a higher grade of citizenship. The world at present was prepared to pay an enormously high salary to a Charlie Chaplin, whose speciality was buffoonery, than to a President or a Prime Minister upon whose shoulders rested the grave responsibilities of making decisions for futurity. At present we were overcrowding our schools and sweating our teachers. This was u premium to ignorance, and ignorance, intolerance and parochialism under the guise of patriotism and democracy, together with selfishness and greed, were the root causes of wars. The lecture was listened to with tense interest, and the speaker cordially thanked.