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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 125, 29 May 1925, Page 6

A cheque for £175 was received by the I City-Council last night from Mr. , "Eliot Davis in payment of a pair of- orangoutangs for the zoological park, for the benefit of the'citizens of Auckland, and in appreciation of the excellent standard to which the zoo has already been brought by the council. On the motion j of the Mayor it was resolved to write • thanking Mr. Davis for his gift. I ■ The Auckland Gas Company, Limited, desire to correct a statement made by the Mayor to a "Star" reporter 'in reference to'the cost of street lighting. The statement referred to appeared in our issue of Wednesday, and was that "when the whole municipal area is electrically lit the City Council will be I paying the Power Board £24,000 a yearj for current and upkeep. -At .present the I city pays £9000 a year to have its streets lit by gas." Tho company states that the amount at present paid for gas is .not £0000, but £5620; moverover, the highest amount ever pairl for gas was £(3590 in 1922. ■ j Prizes in both singing and hand-writ-ing have been awarded to "Star" boys in Auckland during the past week. Last Saturday the winner of the "Hand Writing Competition" organised throughout the .Auckland .district schools. Master Ralph Robertson, of I'arnell School, was presented with his prize at the Lyric Theatre, .and his success was described a? one deserving of high credit. At the 1 Grand Theatre last evening Master Eric Dewight achieved a. success of equal merit by winning the amateur singing trials. The youthful band of 22 newspaper boys to which the prize-winners Kelon'er is one of no' mean talent, and can boast its alheletes in boxing, wrestling, football, and buck.jumper-riding. lii'the unavoidable absence of Archbishop Averill, who is in Wellington, Dr. E. Roberton, vice-chairman, presided at the annual meeting of friends and trustees of the Papatoetoe Orphans' Home yesterday afternoon. The annual report .and balance-sheet were accepted on the motion of the chairman, seconded by Mr. J. H. Hutebinson, without discussion. Eulogistic reference was made to all who had helped to make the frork of. the Home so successful • during the past year. The following committee was elected for the ensuing j-ear: : —The Revs. C: A. B.Watson and Gordon Bell, Canons C. Grant Cowen. F. W. Young and P. •Tames, Dr. E. Robcrton, Messrs. A. Blackman. C. Hay, E. C. Grigsby, A. Hallett, E. C. Thomas, J. Mulcock,"c. J. Tunks and E. Yates. Secretary, Mr. R. Marsack: hon. treas., Mr. C. Hay; hon. medical officer. Dr. E. TV. Bewes; chaplain, Rev. P. C. Davis. i One hundred and fifty applications i have been received in response to the advertisement for a manager for the Auckland Sailors' Home. They extend from Whangaron. in tlie f North, to Dunedin 'in the Smith, and. include retired army and naval officers, schoolmasters, police constables, restaurant and hotelkeepers, stewards, master mariners, ministers of religion, hospital attendants, etc. The counc'l lias given careful consideration to all the applications, and will make a final selection in a few days. A cable ■ has been received from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, by Mr. A. D. Stanley, secretary of the Auckland United Exhibition, entering ten exhibits from Ireland, in the World's Butter Championship. The entry has I , been shipped by the Remucra trom London. An exhibit has also been received from Minnesota, U.S.A. These, together with those received previous 1\ from all parte of the world, bring the ' total entries to date up to 100.

•loure vie onjy wuluhjj j. >>=. v«m~ icross that does not know how many 'ears 6he has been' married" said Mr. 7 . X, , Hunt, S.M., in tho Magistrate's )ourt this morning, when a woman said hat she. could not recollect how long ier marriage had been ■in existence. ,ater the Magistrate asked the woman's msband if he was willing to go back to ii 3 wife. "Well," replied the man, hosi■atingly, "I'll have to consider that." in order for 10/ a week maintenance for he wife was made. In regard to property required in the Huia Valley for water- supply extension, the engineer reported that tlessrs. Usher and Holloway were irepared to sell 120 acres for £1050. The Council also required about 130 acres if Mr. A. E. Hill's property, but the iwner wished to sell the whole block of !85 acres for £2550. There were 100 icres of good ti-tree, and the engineer ecommended that the whole area be purchased. The recommendation was ipprovcd. It has been the custom for years past it football matches, and particularly it those played at Carlaw Park, for the -.cams, at the interval to leave the ball in the ground, and for ten minutes lerhaps a hundred kiddies'would be in :hoir element playing what might bo lest described as "no time for kicking.' rhis year the small boys have not inluljed in their usual game at interval, much .to the disappointment of the spectators. Perhaps the boys appreeiite a,more central 'ground, as several svere noticed during the week playing football on the Civic Square site! "How did you drink the whisky?' , queried counsel at the Hastings Court in a charge involving the theft of whisky. "Oh," Teplied witness,, "we drank it out of the bottles." 'Then why did you want the water that you" sent for?' , asked counsel. ! 'To wash our mouths out after drinking the whisky, so as our mouths would not be burned,' , responded tho witless, am : d laughter. "Oh, an old Scotch dodge," smiled tho lawyer. A surest ion that a box be placed in the vestibule of the Town Hall, wherein 'itizens could leave suggestions for the improvement of the city, was received by the City Council last evening from J. White. On the motion of the Mayor the council decided not to take any action. In the Museum Library, at S p.m. on Monday evening, will be held the annua! meeting of the Auckland . Institute, Anthropological Section. Mr. George Graham will preside. All members and intending members are invited to attend. The session just ended has been most successful, and the members look forward confidently to an equally gratifying series. It was announced at the annual meeting of trustees of the Papatoetoe Orphans' Home, that the memorial windows to the late Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Pierce had arrived from London and will shortly be placed in position. Sovereigns made their reappearance on the Rand after an absence of ten years. Four hundred thousand sovereigns -wore distributed to the miners for the week's pay. . The coins wero gleefully welcomed, though the miners were surprised to find many old coins among them bearing the heads of Queen Victoria or Ring Edward. One ' sovereign was dated 1892. Ham and eggs are somewhat of a luxury at the present time. Hen eggs cost about three pence half penny ea.ch, and now the price of ham has been advanced one- penny per pound wholesale. Shooting 'in the upper Mangakahia district, >"ortb Auckland,' Mr. F. S. Murray and Mr. W. Bally, of Auckland, secured 304 brace of cock pheasants for a fortnight's shooting. This is the record pheasant bag that has been announced so fat this season. Delegates nttendiag the Hospital Board s . conference were taken for a motor tour- round the city this morning. Opportunity was also taken to visit the various institutions under the jurisdiction of the Auckland Hospital Board.