NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

She Voted Right. An instance of the vagueness of some voters about political matters was afforded on polling day by a Paeroa woman, who was asked on leaving the polling booth if she had voted right, meaning Labour. "Yes," she replied, and volunteered the further information that she had not known what to do with the other voting paper, but had scratched out the two "Nationals" (Prohibition and Continuance) because she was not going to have anything to do with the Government. Pictures for Art Gallery. It is possible that for the opening of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum there will be exhibited pictures from the National Art Gallery and Tate Gallery, London. Mr. G. Shirtcliffe, a member of the board of trustees, who returned by the Tamaroa yesterday after a holiday visit to England, told .a "Post" reporter that the Collection Loan Society in London were working hard to obtain hangings from the two famous English galleries for exhibition in the National Art Gallery on the occasion of its official opening. The prospects of this eventuating were very favourable, said Mr. Shirtcliffe. After being hung in the Art Gallery in Wellington, the pictures would probably be exhibited throughout New Zealand and Australia before being returned to the English galleries. New Naval Depot. As part of the development of the new naval depot near Kauri Point, on the upper reaches of the Waitemata Harbour, the Public Works Department is calling tenders for the construction 'ofr.a;,wharf in reinforced concrete, states the "New Zealand Herald." Tenders will close in Wellington on December 17, and four months 'will be allowed for the completion of the structure. The depot is being established on an- area of 62 acres acquired by the Defence Department to the west of Kauri Point, and the wharf is to be built in a sheltered bay where the berth will have a depth of 20ft at high water. The wharf will be 95ft long and 10ft wide, and at the outer end there will be a berthing tee o6ft long and 25ft wide. At each end of this tee there will be extension platforms built up to the level of the wharf deck, and fitted with bollards to facilitate the berthing of vessels carrying materials and stores to the depot. On the inner side of the tee launch landing steps are to be built. Auckland's Fickle Climate. An English visitor is complaining about the nature and suitability of the hats worn by the male section of Auckland (states the "New Zealand Herald"). He says that considering the climate bowler hats are incongruous and that other popular types are little better. Discussing this criticism an outfitter made a remark that might, after due seasoning, become an aphorism. He safS that no one had ever lived ill Auckland long enough to know what its climate really was—not even the native born. "What does our visitor suggest?" he continued. "If a bowler hat or a felt hat is not suitable headgear at present, should we try a rainproof panama or a south-wester with ear flaps, or would he like us out in straw boaters looking like a mob who have missed the train at Henley? I think you should warn these birds of passage against offering advice on the point of clothing, seeing they may land from their boat in spring and re-embark 12 hours later in the middle of winter." What might well be criticised, he continued, was not the type of hats worn in Queen Street, but their average condition. "The Aucklander, and more particuarly its professional man, dearly loves an old hat," he said. "He may wear smartly-tailored clothes, but insists often enough on wrecking the effect of the- ensemble by wearing a hat that ought to have been hanging in the garden tool shed long ago." An Inspector's Slang. The language of a City Corporation traffic inspector when giving evidence in the Dunedin Police Court was the cause of a mild rebuka by the- Magistrate (Mr. H. W. Bundle) (reports the "Otago Daily Times"). The inspector was explaining to the Magistrate that the case then being heard did not involve a serious -breach, and he would not have taken any action had the offender not given him "a bit of lip." "Traffic inspectors do not usually go into the box and use such language," said the Magistrate. "What exactly do you mean?" The inspector explained that the deefndant had been offensive when spoken to. Old Statute Invoked. ' A statute passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth was invoked in a case heard before Mr. Justice Reed in the Hamilton Supreme Court on Wednesday, when a motion to declare a mortgage void was brought before the Court by the Official Assignee, Mr. V. R.. Crowhurst, states the "New Zealand Herald." The motion referred to a mortgage of a leasehold interest in Railway Buildings, Hamilton, held by William Henry Thompson, farmer, of Hunua, a bankrupt, and transferred to his wife, Ethel Florence Thompson. Mr. A. L. Tompkins, who appeared in support of the motion on. behalf of the Official Assignee, asked that the mortgage given by Thompson to his wife be declared void on the grounds that no consideration was involved. He also referred to Statute 13, Elizabeth, which provided that no conveyance could be made by a bankrupt for the purpose of defeating his creditors, if such a conveyance was challenged. After hearing considerable legal argument, his Honour reserved his decision. . ,