LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Canadian Scouts for Jamboree

A contingent of Canadian Boy Scouts will attend the Centennial Jamboree at Heretaunga in December, according to advice received by the jamboree headquarters in Wellington. Price of Potatoes. Potatoes have advanced in price again this week, and yesterday were selling at £l9 to £2l a ton on the Wellington wholesale market. Yesterday there was a small supply of new potatoes selling wholesale at 2Jd to 41d a pound. Off to the Snow. Three members of the Wairarapa Tramping Club. Mrs C. Torr, Miss V. McKenzie and Mr G. C. Gaze, left today for National Park Chateau. En route they will join fifteen members of 'the Ma’nawatu Tramping Club at Palmerston North and for ten days this party will occupy the Whakapapa Hut at Mt. Ruapehu. Reports from the Chateau slate that the snow is in excellent condition and perfect ski-ing should be enjoyed. Contrasted Expenditure. Welcoming Dr. Roscoe Pound, of the Harvard Schol of Law. at a function in Auckland, Professor W. A. Sewell said the advent of such a visitor seemed to suggest to him that dreams had come true. He learned, for instance, that Harvard University spent £15,000 a year on its law library. “I myself,” added Professor S6well, amid laughter, “was instrumental recently in raising the grant for the law library at Auckland University from £9 to £lB. I am looking forward to the time when it may reach £2O or even £22.” Claim for Damages Rejected. After a retirement of more than three hours, the jury in the Supreme Court, Wellington, which heard the claim for damages arising out of a fatality on the Western Hutt Road on Sunday, March 5, returned a majority verdict for defendant. Mrs Louisa Jane Sangster, widow, claimed £1524 damages from Siegfried Eichelbaum, company manager, in respect of the death of her son, John Martin Sangster, bank clerk, it being alleged that a car Sangster was driving had been caused to leave the road by the negligence of Eichelbaum in his manoeuvring of a car into'a side road. Church Innovation. A departure in the customs of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand is represented by the establishment of a boy’s choir at St. Andrew’s Church, Symonds Street, Auckland. Since the decision to introduce choristers some months ago, 19 boys have volunteered, and their contribution to Sunday services is regarded as a most successful innovation. “So far as I am aware there is no other boys’ choir in the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand and they are far from common in the church in other countries,” stated the minister at St. Andrew’s, the Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes. A movement was at present on foot for the choristers to be robed in a simple vestment. Infant Mortality. A marked rise in the infant mortality rate for 1938 is recorded in the annual report of the Department of Health, presented in the House of Representatives yesterday by the . Minister of Health, Mr Fraser. Last year the rate was 35,63 per thousand live births as compared with a rate of 31.21 in 1937. The widespread epidemic of measles and the prevalence of diseases of the respiratory system associated with this disease are stated to have exerted a baneful influence on infant life during the past year. An investigation is being made into the rise in the infant mortality rate, which makes it higher than in any year since 1928.

Quaint Cricket Match

‘One of the quaintest cricket matches played in Canterbury” was referred to by Mr. S. Cawtheray at the annual conference of Canterbury cricket subassociations when he congratulated North Canterbury on winning the competition last season. North Canterbury had played the game in the best spirit, he said, and the final match had been finished at 8.10 p.m. It had so happened that with two wickets in hand North Canterbury had about 80 runs to make. After the last-wicket partnership had put on about 30 runs, it had been agreed to play on that night rather than to continue next day. “We could not get the last men out and the game finished after 8 o'clock,” he said. A Striking Structure. One of the most striking structures within the New -Zealand Centennial Exhibition building at Rongolai will be the pavilion of the Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand. Mr Edmund Anscombe, architect, has designed a building extremely modern and yet bold and dignified—one that none could possibly pass without noticing. Its severe lines, devoid of the parapet or cornice extend lo a structure designed in three sections. There will be a tall stately central block, with two rounded buttresses the full height of the building, standing out on cither side of a deep recess. This recess will form a striking feature. There will be exquisitely designed glass-pannelled doors on ground level (admitting to the pavilion) on each side of a sculptured Christ in low relief, standing erect with out-stretched arms. This figure will be 15 feet in height. Probably the background to part of the statue will be an artistic stained glass window.