LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2555, 15 March 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Heavy rain commenced to fall throughout this district yesterday afternoon and continued throughout the night. The weather verred from west to south with a drop in temperature. Mr Orr, the contractor for the erection of the tire station in Hall Street, for the Foxton Fire Board, has commenced preliminary operations for the erection of the structure. Tilt building will be under the supervision of Mr West, architect.

The London Council of the Institute of Journalists passed a resolution recording strong disapproval of the increasing tendency of newspapers to publish with undue prominence the nauseous intimate details of divorce petitions, murder, and other criminal eases.

Inspector Hugo, in lvis opening remarks at the Fire Brigades Demonstration in Dunedin mentioned methods of tire prevention. He said they should begin at the root by teaching lire prevention in the schools. This was being carried out in America where lectures were delivered regularly in the schools by Fire Brigade ollicers. In Canada October 9th was set aside as a “Fire Prevention Day” by proclamation by the Governor General.

The Bishop of London, speaking at the Mansion House, said he had been told that closing public houses at White-chapel at 10 instead of 11 at night had made all the difference between heaven and hell yet it was proposed in the House of Lords that the closing hour should be eleven throughout London. He had never heard of a more monstrous proposal. The proposers knew nothing about it, and did not realise what a difference it would make in the East End. “1 will die on the doorsteps of the House of Lords before 1 will allow such an iniquitous proposal to become law,” exclaimed the Bishop. The following story of racecourse luck is related in the Wanganui Herald: “In conversation with Captain Jensen, of the Lottie Bennett, a Herald representative asked him what luck he had at the races. The genial captain replied that some ladies had asked him to make up a ticket on King’s Joy, which he did and rather fancying the name of the horse he put a further live-pound note on. Collecting the dividend, he placed the whole on No. 3 in the next race, which also won and repeated the operation on No. 7 in the last race, winning altogether over £l5O. He casually remarked that, not having a book, he did not know the horses’ names, so went by numbers, and that he supposed his luck was in.”

The Sand'on sports will be held on Saturday and should attract a large number of people from this end of the district.

According to the last census the leading religions in New Zealand bore tlie following proportions to the total population: Church of England 42 per cent., Presbyterian 24.57, Roman Catholic 13.40, Methodist 9.22, Baptist 1.03. There were over 40,000 people who objected to state their religion or who stated frankly that they had none, and there were 50,000 of various beliefs scarcely important enough to be tabulated separately. Of the Lutheran religion which lias its main strength in Scandinavia and North Germany, there were 2,736. The Confueians, who are all Chinese, numbered 2,100; and it will probably be a surprise to hear that the Jews numbered only 2,380 or one in 500 of the population. There were 386 Hindus, 65 Mo'hamedans, 43 Buddhists and 48 Sikhs.