LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2025, 6 September 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

All the offertories at All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be given to the Diocesan General Church Fund. Mr Nash (Palmerston) lias given notice in the House to ask the Minister for Education if he will bring down legislation this session to provide all school books free for childdreu attending State schools.

A boy named William Farrell, thirteen years of age, disappeared from his home at Gratia (Auckland) last week. He is believed to have taken with him two suits of clothes, one grey and the other brown. The only reason that can be given for the boy leaving home is that he had been worrying about his school work. Waihi comes next to Alexandra for the lowest rents in the Dominion, the average being 8s 9d per dwelling. A demand for residences is now setting in, and in view of the important developments in the Grand Junction mine, and the intended low level developments in the Waihi mine, it is not -anticipated that rents will remain long .at that figure, N

• The local school will Monday. . : Mr W. 11. Ferris, chief hemp grailex-, wits in Fox ton to-day. _ . “Carpenters in Wellington are now in receipt of £1 a day, and good men are difficult to get even at that,, figure,” said a builder to a Dominion reporter on Thursday., • A Christchurch message announces the death of Mr Joseph Ivess, a veteran journalist, and neAvspaper proprietor, aged 75 years. His death removes an interesting personality in the newspaper life of the Dominion.

The Anglican diocese of Wellington lias a movement on foot to bring the stipends of its vicars up to £3OO per annum. In some parishes this can only be accomplished by giving an increased grant froip the, central fund. j

The remits passed at the recent conference of (he Federation of School Committees’ Association of N.Z. appear on page 4 of this issue. They are worthy of perusal by all interested in the educational welfare of our children.

Some fast travelling times between Eltham and Wellington have been set up recently by local motorists. One claims to have completed (he (rip in just; under .six hours, another in live and a-half. The distance is considerably ovGr 200 miles.

A novel -method for preventing what he termed. “profiteering in land” was advocated by the Hon. J. Grimmond in the Legislative Council. Ho .said the Government should take the difference bet ween (,he price for which land was sold and the amount at which it was rated. “That is my opinion,” he added, “although yon may think 1 am going further than my lion, friend here,” indicating the Hon. J. T. Paul. Another of (he popular dances under the auspices of St. Mary’s Church' Fund will be bold on Tuesday evening next, in the Town Hall. Sirs Desmond and Hiss Agnes Smith will Be responsible for the arrangements, and a pleasant evening is anticipated. Each of, the series of dances has been more successful than the one preceding it, and it is hoped that at this one the standard will be maintained.

A rare and thrilling sight was witnessed at Sponge Bay recently (says Friday’s Gisborne paper)-. A resident, noticing a tremendous commotion in the water, proceeded to (lie beach, and to his amazement discovered- a large shark and huge sunlish engaged in mortal combat. Becoming .exhausted, they got stranded in shallow water, and with the help of some Maoris were finally captured.

“Councillor Fraser at Iho Council Chamber and Councillor Fraser (Labour M.P.) on a public platform, where his statements could neither be refuted nor analysed, were two different people,”’ said Councillor M. F. Lnckie, at (he meeting of the Wellington City Council. “At the Council Chamber,” he continued, “Councillor Fraser was as calm and as logical as his lights permitted him to he, but on the public platform he threw logic to the winds.”

“Unrest is not altogether undesirable,’’ remarked the Hon. J. B. Gow, of Opoliki, in moving ( he Ad-dress-iu-Reply in the Legislative Council. “There is nothing so restful as death. . . and a certain

amount of unrest isHot ;i reason for anxiety,” The problem before (he country, lie continued, was to .see (o it (hat any unrest there might be was not allowed to beeome unreasonable, factions, or pernicious, and not allowed to destroy all order, but was guided and directed so that the force behind it mijght be expended in the development of the country.

Whilst in Wellington, Admiral Viscount Jellicoe gave a vivid insight into the character of (he naval Hun. During (he Heligoland battle, a German destroyer was sunk, and the British vessel responsible was at once manoeuvred to pick up the survivors. Among those saved was the Hun captain of the destroyer. As soon as he got on board he proceeded straight up to the bridge, advanced to the captain, and expectorated in his face. The filthy act was observed by the boatswain, a hefty man, who walked calmly over to the German captain, picked him up and dropped him overboard.

There was no doubt at all that profiteering had' been rampant in Now Zealand- during the war. . The cost of living had been lower in Now; Zealand than in some ther countries, but this fact did not disguise the operations of the profiteers. He had been surprised that no prosecutions laid taken place through the Board of Trade. The Hon, W. D. S. MacDonald seemed to have done his best, hut the board had not proved an effective instrument for cheeking exploitation. Some reform was now promised, and he hoped that a term of imprisonment was going to be included in the penalties for profiteering."— Mr Nash, M.P.

Speaking at the conclusion of a bowling contest at Waverley, NewSouth Wales, Sir Harry Lauder said:—“Now that I am in Australia I want to preach to you, and 1 want to preach to others, ‘work,’ ,1 would like to know - where the successful men of the world to-day would have been had they joined a union, and decided to work six hours a day. You hear a lot about; equality also. I kneftv* that all men are born equal, but when the race for life begins and the road stretches out long and broad it is not for a man to fall by the wayside, and then ask others to slop. On the other hand, he should urge the swifter <jnes on, and later they will return and help him,”

Among the local btudifis’ loans recently authorised By Order-in-Coun- 1 cil are the following:—Wanganui Harbour Board, £150,000; Taranaki County Council, £40,500; County Council, £48,000. Spe'akiug at the reception to the Hon. Huia Onslow at Otaki in De- . cember, 1904, the late Mr Seddou .. (then Prime Minister) stated that in the forties the Ngatiraukawas'in this district numbered 3,000 strong. At the present time (says the Otaki Mail) they number somewhere, in the vicinity of three of four hundred.

The debate on the Address-in-Reply closed at 1 o’clock this’morn-. ing. A no-confidence amendment moved by Mr McCombs was lost by 28 votes to 5, those voting for it being Messrs Fraser, Holland, McCombs, Semple and Walker. The Addrcss-in-Reply was then carried on the voices. A Waikato farmer who arrived in Auckland a few days ago says that the recent heavy rains, which came ’ at a most opportune lime, mean thousands of pounds to the fanners all over (he country. The rains will do a lot of good, too, in clearing away the sand from some of the “bars,” or shoals, that have formed in the Waikato river, and which have been such a source of annoyance to navigators. In reference to the white crane (koluku) which has taken up its quarters on the swamp land opposite the Foxton wharf, its appearance was mentioned to (ho Prime Minister, and ho informs us that these birds are protected, and it is illegal to shottju them! This rare bird's appearance* in Foxton has been communicated to (he Minister of Internal affairs. In the meantime it is hoped that nothing will be done to frighten it away from (lie locality. A ease which the Magistrate slated was a serious one was dealt with at the Hamilton Police Court this week. William Wallace was (‘barged in Court with negligent driving of a motor ear. Evidence showed that defendant ’drove a motor ear between a perambulator and a dray, striking both, and knocked one lady down. Defendant staled that blew his horn and shouted out, but; the driver of the dray and pedestrians stated that lie did not hear it. The Magistrate imposed the maximum penalty of £H) and costs £2 3s. Three members of Ihe Auckland Presbytery wailed upon Rev. A. A. Murray, minister of St. Andrew’s . Presbyterian Church, tin’s week, and suggested it was his duly to resign the ministry of the Presbyterian Church, on account of having been recently baptised by immersion at the Gospel Hall. Parnell, by Rev, Salter, the Baptist minister. Mr ■, Murray is resigning, lie was in-u formed that the matter would he brought before the next-meeting of the Presbytery. Mr Murray, who was interviewed by a pressman, said (hat the doctrine, of the Presbyterian Church provided several forms of baptism, including immersion. 11c expressed preference for sprinkling. He was therefore quite within his rights, and hud not violated the doclrine ami had not acted dishonourably. It seemed an attempt was being-made to put him out of (he Presbyterian Church because he had been conducting (Sunday evening services at the Tivoli Theatre,