GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 51, 5 February 1916, Page 7

GENERAL.

“T am quite certain that if y° u could realise the innate rotteness ot Parliament you would got to work and kick us all out and make a Iresh start,” says Mr John Payne, M.P. i The Press Association at Auckland reports :—David Walker (53), wharlvvorker, was killed yesterday morning. While carrying flour on a. steamer he fell between the vessel and the swinging piles. His head was terribly crushed and death occurred instantaneously. One hundred and eight applications were received for the position of As-sistant-Inspector of Nuisances to the Christchurch City Council, and the By-Laws Committee appointed Mr Albert George Fischer, who is a discharged soldier, a plumber by trade, and has passed the practical test for registration under the Plumbers , Registration Act., An American was once boasting about the great heat experienced in South America. “Why,” he said, “down there it is that hot you can boil a kettle of water by leaving it in the snu for about ten minutes.” “That’s nothing,” said an Australian, who was listening. “In Central Australia it is so hot that you have to put a hen on ice to prevent her laying hard boiled eggs.” I At Waingongoro Beach on Wednesday (states the Hawera Star), about a hundred and thirty mackerel were netted hy some of the residents m one of the pools which are left among the rocks at low tide. The people at the beach consequently had very liberal supplies of fish diet for a day or two. Lately fish have boon somewhat short. Old fishermen say that thus is the first occasion on which mackerel have been caught along this coast, and suppose that the hot weather has sent the fish inshore. | With reference to the statement hy the Minister of Defence that applications from returned soldiers for commissions in the Reinforcements would bo received by the Defence Department, it is emphasised that no such 'applications can ho accepted for consideration until the intending applicant has been reported lit for duty in the training camp. Applications must then he submitted through the [commandant of the training camp. I ( Banks’ Commercial College, Wellington, scored well in the Public Examinations held last November and December. The results were as follows:—Accountancy and B Com., forty-eight presented, thirty-one passed; two completed the B Com. degree and eight completed the professional subjects. Law Professional and LIj.IL, sixty-two presented, thirty-seven pnss-[ ed. Entrance Public Service, twentyseven presented, eighteen passed. Entrance University, forty-six presented, two passed Medical Preliminary, ten passed Solicitors’ General | Knowledge and Matriculation, and j nineteen passed Matriculation. j