GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 13 May 1925, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

A fairly dense fog enveloped the town _ last evening, but shortly after midnight it cleared, and’ was followed by iigbt rain.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Timaru branch of tho Piunket Society it was stated th,nt .‘135 cases had been dealt with during the year.

In the Supremo Court at Auckland yesterday Robert llenton Munro, and Daniel Thomas Flynn were sentenced for breaking and entering, and theft, the former to five years’ hard labour, and the latter to three years’ hard labour respectively. Counsel for the accused asked for leniency, owing to the- assisteuec given by them in tho recovery of the stolen property. Mr. Justice Alpers remarked that £705 worth of stolen goods hade never been found. The charges involved a series of bold, successful thieving. Munro had entered business establishments in Auckland and ’Wellington, and stole goods valued at £15113. To suggest that the punishment should bo light in a caso like this was unthinkable. Shopkeepers had the right to expect that tho law would protect their goods. There had been systematic thieving, and the punishment must be severe.

The number plates for motor-cars allotted to the Timaru postal district range from 5f,00l to 57,750 j and irom 76,001 to 70,750. Motor-cycles registered in this territory may bo identified by numbers ranging from 13,191 to J 3,200, and from 17,501 to 15,500. Christchurch cars bear figures ranging from 10(11 to 1150, 44,151 —55,30(1, 61,002 —62,000, and moLor-cycles from that district are numbered from 13,201 to 13,200, and 22,00 Lto 22,300. Dunedin’s motors are distinguished by 1151 .—I3OO, 75,751 1 — 87,150, and Otago motor-cycles by--10,001 —20,750. To O:\maru the numbers allotted were 175i —1765, 1391 — 1122, 61,451-61.500, 79,751—31,150, for cars, and 18.501 —19,000 for cycles. The haphazard distribution of numbers will probably be avoided in succeeding years. The letter 1) in front of tho numerals indicates that tho ear is a “trade” or garage vehicle.

j Lie business premises in Tenmka and Geraldine will be closed all day tomorrow ,:is a mark of respect to the memory of tlie late Prime Minister.

Chan Sbieu Fong, for two breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, was before xiio Supremo Court at Aueltland yesterday, and was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, and on a tim'd charge, received three years’ probation.

“Vitamins,” said Dr. Hector Munro, a Harley btreet special.st, “are nothin... more or less than stored sunlight. Metaibolism takes place in three stages; intake, repair, ami elimination, butty per cent, of breakdowns m health are quo’ to the retention m tne system or waste products. night energy meets this condition by stabilising tne blood. The rays of iight wmch are moot valuable to health are those to the right of the spectrum. These are caught and held by the fruits of the earth, and are the vitamins of which so much has been heard lately. Oranges and lemons contain .a higher percentage of stored s;unhglit than any other fruit in tjie wJrld.” “You do your work in this district by day labour,” observed the Hon. Sir O. J. Tarr when discusing matters in connection with the estimates at , a recent conference with members of the .Wanganui Education Board (reports the “Chronicle”). Years ago i w.as a great supporter of day labour as against public tender, and, fitter investigating the thing more closely, I am bound to say tnat the Education Board, by doing work by • day labour are, on the wlioie, given more satisiaction than they would get yf the work was done by public tender. The work is done a little more cheaply, and there is the additional satisfaction that the work is done reliably.” “When work is done by day labour,” ho added, “you know that every brick put in is sound, and every bit of timber first-class. Wlnle d,ay labour produced the best work it was going to havo the job.

At the annual meeting of the South Canterbury Bower Board yesterday afternoon, tlie chairman (Mr J. ■Kennedy) made a stacment covering the business done by the Board during the year, and then vacated the chair. Ho mentioned that ho hoped to sco a poll taken in Levels County during the coming your. Tlio Board's loan notations were now assured, but he regretted that the Ashburton Bower Board had forced them into the position ot Laving to pay 5J per cent, interest. ilie Board li,ad an excellent staff, and their construction work was favourably commented upon. Mr Kennedy thanked the members for the generous support which they had given him during the year. He also thanked the Board s officials, the C.F.C.A. for the use or the room in which they held thenmeetings, .and the Press. Mr G. J. Talbot proposed, and Mr Mackenzie seconded, “that Mr Kennedy bo reelected for the coming year, mover and seconder making complimentary; remarks concerning the way m which Mr Kennedy had conducted the Board s business during liis term of office, were no other nominattons, and the motion was carried unanimously.

At yesterday’s meeting of tlie South Canterbury Power Board Mr Angland told the chairman (Mr J. Kennedy) that" he was inconsistent in advocating an extension of the Geraldine reticulation (an extension polo being wanted to connect wite. a homestead at "Woodbury, which is just over the boundary) when he refused to listen to a request for an extension of the Timaru reticulation to go a little over the Borough boundary. The chairman warmly repudiated Mr Angland’s suggestion of inconsistency, and said ho took strong exception to such remarks. there was absolutely no comparison between tho two cases. Tho Board had nothing to do with extending the reticulation of the Timaru Borough into the Levels County, whereas the extra line which w,as wanted at Woodbury was, in then own district, and good interest on the cost of the extension- bad been guaianteed. Mr MacKenzio said the extra line wanted at "Woodbury was ior Mi J. M. H. Tripp, who had guaranteed a 9 0 per cent,, return -on the Board s outlay. Mr Bruce said tho chairman was quite right; the two cases wore quite different, and it was the Board s business to sell all tho current they could. The chairman proposed than the extension of tho line be authorised, and it was agreed to.