LOCAL AND GENERAL.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17167, 25 March 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr C. K. Holt, Chief Postmaster, advises that the mails which left Auckland on the 15th February per Niagara, via Yancouver. arrived in ■ London on the 20th March. A barman at the New Coramcrcial Hotel, Wellington, named William Joseph Burns, aged 31, was arrested yesterday and pleaded guilty of bookmaking and fined £50. Chief Detective Yrard stafed that his principal was a wealthy bookmaker, ^ho was also arrested and will appear before the Court to-day. Mr R. A. Wright, the Minister of Education, told the boys at the Waitaki High Schdol yesterday that it was neither polite nor Parliamentary to intimate to an opponent that he was a liar. It was quite in ordeiv however, to remind anyone who had the bad taste to disagree with you that he had been guilty of a i "terminological inexactitud'e." An Auckland Press Assoc/.ation message says that Mh Alfred Hooner who inherited £4000 from the estate of a deceased uncle, with prosp»ecls I of another legacy of £13,000 in a few months from the estate of his grandfather, the late Mr Charles Greenwood, continucs his customary delivery from a butchers cart at Tepapapa. Asked whai he would do with the money, he replied: "It will not make any diiferT shall just carry on with the jobA Th«-o nFven claimants to tb- tesacv. 1 and if their clniu' Mr Ttooper's share will be ool> , • ItnV'.

A meeting of Sydney unemployed resolved to follow the Duke of York's procession on Saturday, as a protest against money being spent on the celebrations and decorations. Similarly, a meeting of- unemployed at Melbourne decided that a thousancl " out of works" should follow the Duke wherever he goes whib' in Melbourne. The police may. however, have something to say iv garding these decisions. The Commissioner of Police (Mr ! Mcllveney) is back in YTellington ' from the South. No better result could possibly have been antici- 1 pated, he said, yesterday morning. ' Not a single complaint was made ] against any member of the special 1 detachment. No accidents occurred and no crime was committed during the txme their Highnesses were in | the Dominion, "a record of which i I may in all humility say I am . proud. I am also proud of the mem- i bers of the New Zealand police , force." In the past many citizens have j had the "honour" of being elected • a vice-president of a sports body, . the notificatidn of the appointment ; implying an unwritten hut pious ' hope that a donation will be forwarded to the body making the ap- j pointment. At a Palmerston North j football meeting last, week it was | mentioned that out of a list of 39 j vice-presidents only 13 had appreciated the honour sufficiently to b-e moved to part with cash. j The Blacks Gold Mining Company j Ltd., has received the followj.ng report from the mine manager : "'Have withdirawn all casing number nine hore shifted plant to numb'er ten bore ready- to proced with horing." j A comparison of the expenditure j of the four main hospital boards of N»ew Zealand was made in a report furnished.hy the Finance Committee to the North Canterhury Hospital Board. Summing up, the report stated : "It s difficult to uhderstand why the provisions in Auckland work out at about £7 per annum per head of the persons fed less than in Canterbury, and yet when we eome down to the surgery and dispensary we find a difference of £6 per patient in favour of Canterbury. There is oue matter ou which the North Canterbury Board may pride itself, and it is that the average individual day's stay of patents in the Christchurch Hospital is 2.3 days less than Dunedin, 4.56 less than Auckland, and 8.1 days less than Wellington, which goes to prove the contention set out before, that the Christchurch Hospital is particularly used for the treatment of cases requiring active medical and nursing assistanee, and is not used for the housing o/ a number of chronics who require Only general attention that might ■be received in private homes or 'benevolent institutions."