NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1934, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Conscience-money Received,

Tho Treasury Department acknowledges the receipt of tho following amounts forwarded by persons unknown as conscience-money to the Government: 10s,-13s, and £4 forwarded to the Treasury; £1 10s to the Lands and Survey Department; -Id and £1 to the Kail way Department, 5s to the Customs Department; Is 2d and 3s 3d to the Marine Department; and 5s and £2 10s to the Post and Telegraph Department. Quinnat and Trout. The contention had been held, said Professor Percival, addressing anglers last night, that quinnat salmon wore inimical to the welfare of trout, both on the spawning beds and in the competition for food, but it was found that the spawning of tho salmon wasfinished before that of the brown trout began, the spawning of the brown trout was finished before that of tho rainbow trout began, that there was no sign of interference by one of these fishes with the others during spawning or in the immediately prior period, and that the young quinnat left tho ; streams in a body while very young, so that they were quite removed from influencing, the trout. Mayoral Actions in Opotiki. Considerable discussion topic place at a meeting of the Opotiki Borough Council, when Mr. F. J. Short, a member of the council, brought forward a letter from Gisbornc whieli had been sent to the Mayor, Mr. G. S. Moody, who is now on holiday in Australia, states a correspondent. Before leaving, Mr. .Moody arranged that letters^ addressed to him be handed to Mi\* C. Fleming, who would hand over a.ny letters concerning council business to Mr. F. J. Short to place before the council. Mr. S. Shalfoon said that any letters addressed to the Mayor should be handed to the Deputy Mayor, and he objected to their being handed to. anyone else.' It was decided to write to the Municipal Association solicitor placing the details before him and asking for an opinion. Municipal Theatre at Napier. An important step towards the reconstruction of the Napier Municipal Theatre has been made by the unanimous 'decision of the committee of award set up by the Napier City Council regarding the selection of a design from the competitive entries which, were received from architects operating in Napier, states the "Daily Telegraph." The committee will submit its decision to the council next week, when, if approved, the envelopes accompanying tho entries will be opened and the identity of the winner disclosed. The Mayor, Mr. C. 0. Morse, said that the design decided upon was admirable in every way and had been unanimously selected as the most attractive and most fitting for tho purpose. He was determined that the theatre should bo constructed at the earliest possible moment. Tho construction of the theatre without fittings will cost about £11,000. Men of Ayr. "How closely New Zealand is associated with Burns's county, Ayrshire, is not generally realised, " said Mr* D. McLaren, when speaking to Scots at a meeting of the Wellington Burns Club last evening. "When in Ayr one passes through Wellington Square, and there one comes on a beautiful statue erected to the memory of Sir Alexander Fergusson, of Kilkeren, tho father of our last Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson. We had as a visitor a short time ago Professor James Dixon, of Los Angeles, who was a gold medallist of Ayr Academy, where Sir Charles Fergusson was educated and also Mr. Hamilton Nimmo, of this city." _As indicating the class of men belonging to or who came out of Ayrshire, Mr. McLaren gave tho folio-wing short list: Sir William Wallace, King Eobert the Bruce, the Stuart sovereigns, through an Ayrshire wife, General Neil, of Indian Mutiny fame, the Marquis of Eglinton, Mr. .Andrew Fisher, one time. Prime Minister of Australia, Professor MacMillan Brown, son of Mr. James Brown, tho great shipowner,- and the Hon. Sir George Fowlds. Mr. Eobert X; Burns, the American university student who recently visited New Zealand, was, ho understood, proud of Ms Scotch descent, his grandfather having belonged to Ayrshire. The Nimmos, added Mr. McLaren, were particularly associated with Ayr. The grandfather, Mr. Hamilton Nimmo, was a composer of Scotch music, and gave out that quaint old' melody, "The Crooked Bawbee."