GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 29 March 1926, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

At the Otago University sports on Saturday, G. S. Caljot reduced the ’Varsity mi!o walk record by 25sec, his time being Gmin 40 3-i^ec.

The New Zealand Meat- Producers’ Hoard has arranged with .the Shipping Companies to put on the berth a vessel to loud beef for Havre in May.

The retail price of mut-lon in 'Wanganui has been reduced by Id per lb., and lamb by 2d There are indications that the retail price of beef , and pork (vdl harden.

“t cannot tell lies in this house: it is the first time .1 have been in it,” said a Maori witness, Perini To Wliiti, in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth on one of her statements being challenged. -

Hefore Commander Steward, J.P., at tlie Timaru-Police- Court on Saturday morning, a first offender for drunkenness was fined 5s and costs, in default 21 hours’ imprisonment.

Tlie quinnat salmon fishing at the. Kangitata river last week-end was very go°d, seventeen salmon being caught at and near the mouth of the river, on Friday last.

At 7.55 last evening, the Timaru Eire Brigade received a call to Heaton Street, where a chimney had caught lire. Alter applying the first-aid hose, the flaiucs were quickly subdued by the Brigade.

The JFoxton Eire Board is asking for an inquiry touching the destruction of the Town Hall by tire and in conjunction with the Borough Council is offering a substantial reward for the conviction of the person or persons rcspons bie for tile conflagration.

The dry nature of the season being experienced in the Hawke’s Bay district lias driven stock owners from that province to seek grazing lor their stock in more favoured localities.

In acknowledging the list of donations received to raise the necessary funds to send the Orphanage boys to the Exhibition, Mr V,\ C. Raymond El 15s and A.E.FI. 2s 6d were inadvertently missed.

Tlie Wanganui Woollen Company intends to work a night shift at the Aramoho mih:> in uie immediate future, and take advantage of the jiVanganui-Kangitikei Electric Power Boa rtf’s cheap rate .for night power, which is on tne basis of Rl per unit.

A collision between two motor cars in Arthur Street on Saturday afternoon caused a good many people to gather at the scene of the accident. Fortunately there was only one occupant of each car; no one was hurt, and the cars were only slightly damaged.

There is a movement on foot among the importers of cornsacks in South Canterbury to secure uniformity of action in importing for the coming season nothing but full-weight 4S inch sacks. North Canterbury dealers in cornsucks havo imported only 48 inen sacks for some years past.

Stock of a very high quality is not reaching tlie Wanganui markets at the present time, tanners in the majority of cases having cleared out tm-ir surplus cattle and sheep. Freezing works buyers are operating freely, hut the prices being offered by tlu-m have shown a dec-hue of irom Gs to -:s in the past month. . ,

The Wailahi sub-brunch o? the Teachers’ Institute lui3 taken strung exception t° the Minister’s remarks: "Teat lie would lnu-tily recognise pupils of a junior high school as the o (1 fi-ith and s-xth standards of the primary school,' as being extravagant, and an uncalled for and undeserved slur on the primary .system.

“A good many of the Technical Col'eges m the Dominion are groping m the dark, and a good many ot them arc crying out for light,” observed the director of the AVanganui Technical college (Mr .1. E. Newton) when speak.ng on the advi.sabi.ity ot establishing a Dominion Technical Schools’ Board. He thought that in the circumstances there could bo some consolidating body to get to work and direct a. common policy for all of tlie technical colleges in the Dominion. 'I lie Wanganui Board decided that on the information before the mcel.ng it did noi: see tlie necessity for the purpose being carried info effect.

That angling is a cosmopolitan sport is well-known, but it is not often that eklerly people excel in it: still less often does it happen that a lady who has reached her three-score years and ten is successful with the rod. Miami Mrs James Ford, of Christchurch (parents of Mr Ford, of the firm of Ford and Pryde, Timaru) are enthusiastic salmon fishers. Fishing at Stewart's Gully, in the AYnimakariri last week, Mrs Ford caught seven salmon and Air Ford landed lour. .Mrs. Ford’s “hag” consisted of one 10 pounder, two 11 pounders, one FI pounder, and three 14 pounders. Mr Ford landed one 12 pounder and three I t pounders. Mr Ford is 71. years of ago, ami his wile is 70 years.

At about 5.J0 p.m. last evening, the corner of llassail Street and Woodlands Road was the scene of an unfortunate accident, which-necessitated one of tlie parties boine conveyed to the Timaru Public Hospital. it appears that a young mail named Brosnahan, residing at Otipua. was riding a motor-cycle up Ilassall Street, and that a man named McKnight was driving a car north along AVoudlamls Road. Neither of fin; motorists seemed to ho aware of the other’s approach until a collision could .not be avoided. The ear and its driver esoaped without injury, hut the eye ist was less fortunate. His mac-bine was damaged and he was conveyed to hospital suffering from slight concussion ami bruises. His condition is not serious.