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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 189, 11 August 1919, Page 4

The two Australian mails that arrived in Auckland yesterday were delivered to-day One arrived hy the Pateen.i, being the Auckland portion of the u-naka. mail to Wellington, the other •by the Opawa from Sydney The waste in shipments of oranges from the Islands is now a marked feature of the consignments coming forward, and| the attributable cause of the high prices asked in the shops for this Island fruit. Re-packing operations in connection with the 12,000 cases which arrived during last week by two Island steamers show that 50 per cent of the fruit is overmatured, and has to be relegated to the waste heap. The chief cause is accounted for by auctioneers to the long trips now taken by the Island steamers- The oranges wrapped in paper have come through the inspection better than those unwrapped. The latest bi-weekly bulletin issued by the Public Health Office at noon to-day shows the health oi the province to have been fairly good since Thursday. Two severe ease, of influenza were notiS.l from the one house at Onehunga, and one mild attack has occurred in each of the Mount Eden, Mount Albert, and Avondale districts. In the Bay of Plenty there have been two cases reporte 1 of pneumonic influenza, one at Te Puke, and the other in Papamoa. This makes seven in all,, four of them severe. A fair amount of building activity is going on in Shortland Street at the present time. Good progress has been made with the rebuilding of the flourmil— of Bycrotft, Ltd. At the foot of , Shortland Street, operations have started on the Victoria Arcade, and at Hobson's Buildings the work "as now reached the stage when it has become necessary to erect the hoarding. The district of Waikumete enjoys a distinction of which it may be justly proud, as it was from there that Lieut. S. Judson, the most recent winner of the Victoria Cross to return to the Dominion, enlisted. As a tribute of appreciation of his gallant service the residents of the district have arranged a welcome home reception in the local Public Hall. The opportunity is being availed of to extend a welcome home also to thirteen local boys who have just recently returned from service overseas, arnon. the number being Private W. D. who was awarded the Military Medal, and Private F. Wood, one of a family of six boys who have all seen active service. Though the district is coniparatively small over 70 men went oversea, who enlisted there ,three making the supreme sacrifice. "11l my opinion," says Sir Joseph Ward, "no country that wants to keep abreast of the times can afford to stand out of aviation for long. The developmenthave been so extraordinary, particularly during the last year of the war and since then, that -what was at one time rightly regarded as a somewhat dangerous service has progressed to an extent that is making it almost as safe as motoring, and it is now only a question of money as to its adoption for mail services to places in this country that are remote from daily or even bi-weekly communication. In England, for instance, it is an everyday occurrence for newspapers, both morning and evening, published in London to be carried by aeroplanes specially adapted for the service to different parts of the United Kingdom."' In the Grafton-Newton senior Kugby game, played on Victoria Park on Saturday, Longvillo, a member of the latter team, met with an accident and was removed from the field. On examination it was ascertained that he was suffering for a broken collarbone. He was con° veyed from the ground in an ambulance. At the meeting of the Auckland Institute to bo held in St. Andrew's Hall this evening, Professor Owen will give the second portion of his lecture" on " The Lessons of Radium." We will refer to the explanation of radio-activity offered by the disintegration theory o"f Rutherford and Soddy, and the possibility of the transmutation of one element into a different elment. He will de.-.l with the use of radium in the treatment of disease, the distribution of radium through the earth's crust, and its effects on our estimate of the age ot the earth and the sun. He will "also discuss the question of the supply of fuel when our coal beds are exhausted radium having an important bearinn- on that point. The lecture will bo illustrated with experiments and lantern Slides, and will be open to the general puWie. An announcement is made in a "Gazette" that 09.704 acres of Crown lands are to be opened for selection during the present month, and 8 4SS acres in September. Further notices proclaim 1,340 acres of settlement land in the Wellington district for soldiers' settlement. 4.010 acres in the Hawke's Bay district, and 2.070 acres in Canter bury. Before the Court proceedings started at Onehunga this morning, the newly appointed police officer to that district, Sergeant Hodgson, was extended a cordial welcome by Mr. S. K. Hunt, S.M., also by Mr. C. Schnauer on behalf of the. Bar, and Mr. J. Laking on behalf of the •Justices. During the four days ending August 7, 27 cases of influenza were notified to the Health Department. Of these five were of the pneumonic type, and one was fatal. The fatal case occurred at Te Puke. The cases were distributed as follows: — North Auckland district, three, one pneumonic", Auckland district, 12, one fatal ana one pneumonic; Wellington, 11, one pneumonic; Canterbury, ouo mild c___,„ OtagOj none.

In the course of his charge to the grand jury at the Supreme Court this morning, -Mr. Justice Chapman had occasion to mention a case in which 3 returned soldier was charged with false pretences in connection with the issue of valueless cheques, and his Honor made a comment generally on the matter, "f am afraid," he said, "the returned soldier is getting a good deal too much in evidence in connection with charges of this sort." A returned soldier, enamoured with the idea of getting on the land recently married, and took up a bush farm near Waiiniha in the King Country. The young couple were willing to start life together in a three-roomed house, and to furnish it. They bought a modest amount of useful furniture, and also bought a sufficient supply of stores to last them throughout the remainder of the winter. They were young and ardent and wished to settle on their place at once; but alas, for human hopes, the railway would not carry their furniture to the nearest railway station to their home. This, they thought, was an obstacle to ,be easily overcome, and a wagon was hired to take the stuff into the hackblocks, ttmt here, again, they were ! thwarted, for a big slip had taken place lin the road leading on to their new homestead, and no efforts were being made to clear it away, for there were no men available to clear the obstruction, and again the railway blocked the way by not allowing men to travel who could have done the job. The youn»soldier farmer says there is not "much fun in pioneering when there are so many difficulties to overcome. "But once I get in," he says, with soldierly optimism, " I'll make things hum, and try and forget the initial difficulties.'" The opening of St. Barnabas' Hail at an annexe to the badly overcrowded Mount Eden School, which was to have taken place to-day, has 'been postponed indefinitely. The building is not yet ready for use, as the carpenters are still at work on it, and it is impossible to state definitely when the formal openingwill take place. It will accommodate a hundred boys, and will thus appreciably lessen the congestion of the big school. It "15 hoped within a few weeks to open St. Alban - Hall, Dominion Road, as an additional outpost. These two schools will thus render it possible for the big school to carry on until the erection of the proposed Normal School in Onslow Road, which will take away a large number of the pupils now crowding to Mount Eden. Four days out from Sydney on tha run to Trieste the steamer War Soldier put in some good salvage work on the tank steamer Cardium, which carried TOCO tons of bulk petroleum and was afire, drifting helplessly in a storm. The Argylshire raced with the War Soldier to the rescue, but the latter vessel made her objective first, and proceeded to get out a towline in the face of stormy conditions and a nasty cross-sea. Then a 350-mile tow to Albany commenced, and during the five-day fight the towline parted four times. Before the War i Soldier gave assistance the crew of tho Cardium attempted to abandon ship, but they could not get away, and desisted after two had been killed in the attempt. The boat with its costly cargo and all hands was taken. Xo poxt_ __ Applications for the post of principal of the Auckland Training College are being invited in New Zealand, throughout th& British Empire, and also in the United States by the Auckland Education Board. The position, which carries a salary of £650, rising to £700, has been held temporarily by Mr. H. G. Cousins ever since Mr. H. A. E. Milnes was killed in France. The occupant is required to exercise a general control of the Normal School, and to act as lecturer on education at the Auckland University College. It was announced some time ago that an appointment to the position had been made, but this appointment was not confirmed by the Education Department, and the whole question has been re-opened, as stated. While Auckland has been having a spell of fine, if cold weather, Wellington is experiencing cold, sloppy weather. A gentleman who just returned from Wellington said: "This is summer weather to what I have been experiencing for the last fourteen days." A public meeting "to oppose the fourmonths' camp proposal" will be held in the Town Hall concert chamber on Wednesday evening, llr. W. J. Holdsworth will preside, and several well-known citizens are announced to speak. Miss Helen Keller, who won such a remarkalble victory over the disability of being blind, deaf and dumb, that she' was able to study and take a degree of Bachelor of Arts, has made a still more remarkable achievement. She has taught herself to speak. The manner in which she learned to speak, although deprived of the power of sight and hearing, is thus described by her teacher: "Day after day for years Helen has put her hand on my face, her fingers in my mouth, and felt my tongue, and imitated the positions, and repeated them over and over, until she has approximated natural norma] speech. She is understood by almost everybody after they get accustomed to her voice. It is monotonous, it must be monotonous, -because it has been learned in this mechanical way. But the last two years we think it lias improved a good deal." Miss Keller recently gave an eloquent address at a Xew Church Convention in Chicago. The deprivations of hotel licenses in Victoria for the financial period of 191S--1019 have now practically been completed (says the "Age"). Since the beginning of this year 95 hotels have been deprived of licenses, making a total of __3 deprived in the two and a half years since the amended law came into force. When, the amendments were being considered it- was pointed out that in many districts the operation of the "statutory number" prevented the closing of many unnecessary hotels. Under the new Provisions the vote for was deemed to have been carried in every district. In •the two and a half years hotels have been closed in 114 different licensing districts, and in SO o: these districts 140 hotels were closed which, under the old provisions, could not have been touched. The total ni'mber deprived of licensee to date is 1,277. Unusual bargains in millinery at tha J.C.L. sale. Ladies' untrimmed velours in a variety of shapes and shades. Usually 39/rt "and 49/0. Xow offering at 9/11 each. • — John Court, Ltd-, Queen Street.— (Ad.) "Keep Smiling" boot polish, the delight of thrifty people. Sd per tin. Wonderful value.—R. W. Gallaugher. — (Ad.) Call at our shop. We can supply you with Craven-Burleigh's hair and skin preparations, known as the best on the market.—C. E. Shaw, Chemist, right opposite G.P.0., Queen Street.—(Ad.) A bargain Hue of Chinese grass rugs, heavy quality, various colourings. Size, lift by 3ft. Usually, 10/0; sale price, 7/11 each. The sale ends next Alonday. Buy now.—John Court, Ltd. C___a I Street.—(.Ad.).