GENERAL NEW

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 9 April 1926, Page 8

GENERAL NEW

A cable message from Sydney announces that the wholesale price of butter lias been increased by 9s 4d to 196 s per cwt.

During the last few days tho motor traffic from Dunedin, passing through Timaru, has been exceptior ally heavy. On Friday last., 600 motor cars crossed the Pareora bridge.

The Westland County Council yesterday proceeded against several proprietors of motor lorries for failure to take out heavy traffic licenses. Fines of £o and costs were inflicted in each esse .—(Press Assn).

Bv Gazette issued last . night the regulations governing the grading of primary school teachers were revoked, and a new set of regulations brought into force, ns from Ist January last. —(Press Assn).

At the Christchurch competitions, Miss Mavis Burgoyno was placed first in sword dance under 14, and Miss Lilian Richardson third in the same class. Miss Richardson was also placed first in the sean truibliais, under 12.

At the Otago Rifle meeting, held last week in Dunedin, Rifleman F. B. Chittock, of the Timaru Defence Club, was successful in winning tho championship. The Timaru team won the champion teams match.

Charged that being a person released on probation, he failed to report to the Probation Officer, Harold Gordon Stanley Woolfe, who appeared before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., at yesterday’s sitting of the Timaru Magistrate’s Court, was, on the application of Senior-Sergeant Faliey, remanded until to-day.

The rainfall for March, at Geraldine, as recorded by Mr M. G. Williams, was 2.16 in. Rain fell on six days, the heaviest fall being on March 23, when 107 points fell. The highest shade temperature was 86, on March 7 and 8, and on March 24 the mercury touched 32 —freezing point.

Before Mr E. Di Mosley, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Stanley Chapman, charged with failing to drive a motor car on the left-hand side of the road, was convicted and fined 20s and costs. For cycling at nrtht without a Tight, Ivan Hill was fined 10s and costs. Patricia Lynch, who was represented by Mr D. L. Popplewell, pleaded guilty to a charge of exceeding the speed limit in North Street, and was convicted and ordered to pay costs (7s).

■ With a view to minimising damage to roads bv heavy traffic, amended regulations dealing with motor-lorries havo been gusset Led. The restrictions apply particularly to vehicles without rubber tyres, and tlio use of metal wheels with projections or studs is prohibited: It is also provided that no six-wheel vehicle, or four-wheel lorry and trailer, with a laden weight exceeding 15 tons, shall be used.

A list of private schools in the Dominion registered under section 7 or tho Education Amendment Act, 1921, is gazetted. It shows that there are 301° private primary and secondary schools, the number in each education district being:—Auckland 63, Taranaki 16, Wanganui 31, Hawke’s Bay 30, Wellington 49, Nelson 11, Canterbury 64, Otago 25, Southland 12. Over 180 of the institutions are Roman Catholic, tlio remainder being Anglican, Presbyterian, Salvation Army,. Seventh Day Adventists, or undenominational.

The secretary of the Association of Superannuated Public Servants has been advised that the cost of living bonus to the poorer-paid euperannuitnnts has been extended to September 30 last. The Superannuation Department has also announced that Section 29 of the Finance Act, 1925, provides for the inclusion of house allowance in salary for superannuation purposes, and is made retrospective to January 1, 1908.

One of the few remaining links with New Zealand’s political past, Sir Robert Stout, gave a passing reminder of this fact when speaking at a public meeting in Auckland the other evening. “As showing how time carries all before it,” he said, “there are only two members alive to-day who were in the House of Representatives when the Education Act was passed in 1877. They are Mr C. de Lautour, then member for Dunedin, and now living at Gisborne, and myself.”

What country people have sometimes to put up with when patronising mixed trains, often the only form of transport available from small stations, is related in a letter from an Ohnupo resident, says the “New Zealand Herald.” The journey attempted was, only six miles, from Te Awamutu to Ohaupo. The train was due to leave the former station at 10.20, and the writer, with two small girls, had to board it from tVc track as it did not pull into the platform. For ;io apparent reason the train remained at Te Awamutu for an hour and a half and even when it started did not make a non-stop run to Ohaupo, so that in tho end it was midnight before the destination was reached. A traveller on the rame train informed the writer that he boarded it at 8 a.m. and had travelled little more than 100 miles in 16 hours.

One of Sydney’s leading papers recently published a piquant little paragraph which shows that the ways of public departments are sometimes hard to understand. The Hospital at Bombala (N.S.AV.) forwarded to one of tho Government Departments a requisition for one tank, 6ft by 3ft. The officials at the Hospital were staggered, not only by the promptitude with which the order was fulfilled, but also by tho very liberal interpretation of the requisition, for there were dispatched to thorn, not merely one Oft by 3ft iron tank, but no fewer than 03 tanks, without a word being asked about the extraordinary number apparently demanded. As it pointed out. only a Government Department could do a 'thing like that, and survive.

In a letter in tho “Church News,” Mrs AVcst-AVatson. wife of Bishop AVesl-AA'a tson, writes:— “l feel I mustthank from my heart all those who have taken such kindly thought for us on our arrival. An anonymous letter reached mo at tho Deanery, telling me that some friends, including tho Sunday School children, had provided some eggs, fruit and jams for us, as the .season for preserving them fofi ourselves was past. That you should have thought of such details for our help and comfort filled mo with astonishment, but I was not prepared for tho sight that mot my eyes when wo arrived at our new home —hundreds of eggs, no end of fruit and jams, beautiful home-made cakes, a ham; indeed, more good tilings than I can enumerate. It is absolutely overwhelming, and T cannot attempt to thank you as I should like, but I hope that all who contributed to this wonderful su'-p-ise wili know how grateful we all feel. The housewives of Christchurch certainly know the verv direct. roufo to the heart of an English housewife.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Labour Party at Wanganui,’, Mr H. E. Holland presiding, the* election of officers resulted as follows: —President, Mr R. Semple; vice-president, Mr J. Thorne: provincial members of executive, Messers W. E. Barnard (Helensville), D. W. Coleman (Gisborne), I. H. Tcrryy;, (New Plymouth), W. J. Rogers (Wanganui) W. -Beaver (Tnumarunui), E. 'Spun- (Lower Hutt), T. Parfitt (West port), F. R. Cooke (Christchurch), G. T. Roller (Timaru), and F. Jones (Dunedin); resident central executive (Wellington), Messrs T. Bnndle, W. Bromley, F. Cornwell, J. Roberts and J. Glover. —(Press Assn). ”

The trustees of the Into Mr Joh*. Talbot (says the “Church News”) nave made a very generous offer to complet* St. Peter’s Church, Temuka, by adding tlie long-wished-for sanctuary. 1 h 0 intention of the trustees is that tbp addition may he a memorial to the late Mr Talbot’s two sons who fell in tho Groat War. The family, however, have, offered also to erect a stained glass east window in memory of their father, who for many years was a churchwarden and vestryman of the parish. The completion of St. Peter's by the addition of the sanctuary will bring to realisation a hope of the generation, now passing away, which built the church, and it will finish off a beautiful stone church, the east end of which was marred by the very temporary ,walj which closed it in on that side. , ' Among the students who have entered the newly-opened Schopl of Architecture at Auckland were two ladies, including one who had been awarded a scholarship of the value of £IOO a year, by the Canterbury, College authorities. "So far as.l can see, there is no reason why women should not take up architecture as a profession,” said Professor Knight, speaking to a “New Zealand Herald” reporter. “There is plenty of scope for them in the designing'of houses, and the interior decoration of these houses, when built, is peculiarly their work. Quite apart from that I coaid place a number of girls with a knowledge of architectural drafting in positions to-day, if they were-available. Most architects need a girl for secretarial work such as typing specifications and letters, but there is not enough of work of that kind to occupy the whole of a girl’s time. If she could undertake drafting as well she could he sure of permanent employment.” . It is indicated that there will be an even largor number of beginners, on the local golf finks during the coming season than in previous years. Many of those- will be in doubt as to the most suitab'e equipment to procure. A visit to England, Mcßae, Ltd., will dispel all doubts, as the new player —and the expert also —can always he certain of obtaining the correct clubs, halls, caddy hag, and other equipment at the Pro- 1 ' gressive Hardware Store. A finer assortment t'Rin ever is on .view there this year. ...