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Evening Star, Issue 17085, 2 July 1919, Page 4

A peace masquerade ball (the fust to be ' held) was given by the matron, the sisters, ' and nurses of the Dunedin Hospital in the Nurses’ Home last evening. The costumes - worn were varied, and quite in keeping •with the occasion. The function was attended by tha chairman and members of the board, the secretary, the medical superintendent, members of the hon. medical staff, and many students, all of whom entered into the evening’s amusement with the utmost enthusiasm. The nurses are to be congratulated on the success of the entertainment, which proved quite unique and extremely popular. In last night’s paper we had a message from Christchurch in which it was stated that colonial leather is to advance in price, and as a result the retail pri-c-o of men's boots will increase by about 5s per. pair, with other classes in proportion. A reporter called at Neill and Elvidge’e factory to-day and saw Mr W. S. Neill, who is president of the New Zealand Boot Manufacturers’ Association, and that gentleman states that the message is misleading, and need not frighten Dunedin wearera of boots. There was six advance in the price of colonial leather of 2d per lb a month ago, but it has not caused such an increase in boots as that indicated. The wholesale price will probably rise by from Is to Is 6d per pah - . What that will mean to the shop price ho cannot say, but he thinks the figure given in the Christchurch message is no more than the wildest guessing. A quantity of timber, part of a haystack, and other floating stuff came ashore at St. Clair last night, washed in by a twist in the current from the south. As a guess, the oast-up material is the remains of some outbuilding that was overturned in a river flood and -rushed out to sea. An " early bird" quickly gathered and stacked the wood.

In conversation with a Wairaxapa ‘Age’ representative, a master builder of Masterton stated that the cost of building to-day was not due so_ much to the increase in labor and material as to tha modern conveniences xeq-oirecL 3?«ople> a few years ago were satisfied wijth. a zinc bath and plain fireplace?,. To-day they insisted upon on enamelled bath (costing £l4), tiled fireplaces in every eroom, expensive panellings, the best of gas fittings, and all sorts of other luxuries. Th© monthly meeting of the City Relief Association was held vesteiday_ afternoon. Tho nr-eaident (Rev. V. G. Bryan. King) presided, and a number of cases were discussed and steps taken (o prevent overlapping in the distribution of relief. The need for such an organisation as this was bi ought prominently before the members when it was found that , in one case under review no fewer than four different agencies wear© rendering assistance.

I Tho expresses that came to the Dunedin Railway Station last night were both very heavy trains, full of persona wlio were anxious to gat homo -before the rcsfcnict-ed service came into operation. Both trains were late, tho northern one by half an hour, caused by the heavy traffic. J.odav the new time-table was worked to for the first time. There was a fairly largo i number <>£ peoplo for tho trains, but all : were accommodated. Most of tho complaining is as to the cutting out of goocis trains. As a fact, this branch of the ser- : vice Ims never been fully restored since the war reduction. The monthly meeting of tho Macau drew Bead School Committee was attended by Messrs W. Wright (chairman), A. Betting, T. Dalton, J. Burt, E. Warren, A. MTucloo, A.-Crisp, and C. King. The head master (Mr Macdonald) was also present by invitation. The 101 l number for June was: Boys 374, girls 292; average—boys 346, girls 266; total, 612. Mies Appleby was recommended to the board for appointment as tenth assistant. It was decided to fall in with the arrangements for peace celebrations, and to assist as far as possible. A letter from tho Head Masters’ Association re sports meeting was endorsed and assistance promised. Tho Visiting Committee reported on the work of the school, and Messrs Warren and M‘lndoe wore appointed visitors for the month. Tli© board reported that the inspectors would visit the school in a fortnight, and that another stove had been placed vo. tho gymnasium. The Dunedin bankruptcies far the quarter ended on Monday last totalled four. The number held over from the preceding quarter was 25, and the ones now closed are 19. Ten are at present in hand. Tho total amounts of assets realised for the past quarter was £79 6s 2d. For the same three months of last quarter 30 bankruptcies were in tho hands of the Official Assignee. A meeting of the Women Citizens’ Association was held in the Y.M.C.A Booms last night to discuss further the interesting and important subject opened up by Miss Winifred Isitt recently in her address on ‘Womans Place in Municipal Life.’ The' future policy of the association was debated, unci the general fodling was that every endeavor should be made to extend the scope of the organisation -and to get as many women as possible interested, so that it could exercise the greater influence on municipal a dmi nostra tion. The following resolutions wore passed : —{!)- “ That this meeting desire that the Shops and Offices Act be amended as speedily as possible. That it be extended to embrace all shops 'and offices where women me employed, so that they moy no longer be in danger of working under insanitary and unhealthy conditions.” (2) ‘ That the meeting wish to express their sympathy with tho relativrft of Mr P. H. Shepherd, who died from heart failure brought on in his efforts to protect a little child from danger.” Mrs C. E. Statham presided. Receiving a -bullet wound in the arm, at the c-ity destructor after having seen much strenuous aoj’vico in Franco was the experience that H. J. Wilkin, a returned soldier, had yesterday morning (wires our Christchurch correspondent). Wilkin is employed by the Christchurch City Council at tho destructor. Whilst he was working in front of a furnace ' some cartridges in the fire exploded, and J one of the bullets entered his right arm, j inflicting a flesh wound in the upper part. Wilkin was removed to tho Public Hospital, where it was found necessary to ' perform an operation..

Evidently the Dan-nevirko High School is a spot where “sex penalty ” is a plant of vigorous growth. Commenting on its culture, a correspondent writes as follows :—“ In the High School we find th-reo men teachers and thro© women teacher's, the latter all drawing salaries much below those of tho former. Indeed, the absurdity of the situation is accentuated when w© consider that tho position of junior master, who takes the lowest class in the school, is filled by a lad in bis teens, who, however excellent a teacher he may became, has stopped- into the teaching arena without experience. His salary is nevertheless higher than, that of the head lady teacher, a graduate of many years’ experience, who is expected to maintain efficiently the dignity and responsibility her position entails, and teach tho senior work for a salary exceeding only by £4O per annum the lowest salary paid in tho school.” A loan of nearly YGIOO,OOO is the Stratford County Council's remedy for tho reading trouble. It rends like a fairv tale (writes a correspondent of the ‘Taranaki Herald’) to on© who remembers when the whole income of the council was' under £I,OOO a year. It is a pity some magician of foresight did not in those days of cheapness lay down the main roads in concrete. What a world of waste and heart-breaking labor would have been saved in tho interval between then and new, especially if be bad been good enough to have invented the motor lorry -in an idle moment. A dance at Hamilton on June 21 was brought to a sad conclusion by the,sudden death of one of the dancers. Mr F. J. Sklenara. a-ced 45 years, had just’ finished a dance and was talking to a friend when ho collapsed and died. As Dr Rodgers was able to giv© a certificate that death was due to heart failure, no inquest will b© necessary. For a person born -deaf to complain about the noise made by the Auckrtnd tram cars is a little surprising to those who are not acquainted with tho wave of the deaf. The deaf people are very sensitive to vibration and movement of any kind, and when a deaf young lady who had been trained at a lip-reading school was asked what she thought of Auckland, she said; “ The trams are tho most noisy I have ever known, and they wake me up early in the morning by the noire ’thov make when they commence running. I would not like to live her© unless I lived in a back street.”

To-day a ‘ Star ’ reporter chanced to meet Mr Archibald Slin-gor, who was engineer to the Dunedin Drainage Board, and the subject, of the Kaikorai Stream and its by-pass, referred to in a letter to the editor m last night’s paper, cropped up. Mr Slinger thinks that the foot-note to the letter is not quit© fair to the old Drainage Board, and he made the following statement on the subject : The bypass is a properly-constructed penstock chamber. The Kaikorai drainage as it now stands is the nucleus of a coniprej hensive Kaikorai scheme, this chamber I being a part thereof. This scheme was ] agreed to at a conference -between the City Council, the Drainage Board, tho Green Island Borough Council, and tho Taiori County Council. The health authorities were at the time complaining about the want of Kaikorai drainage, and it was therefore decided that the northern end off the Kaikorai Valley reticulation should be put in ami as a temporary measure connected with, the Dunedin, scheme by way of the old railway tunnel. The use of the penstock chamber was to safeguard the surcharging of the sewers on the Fiat should a breakdown at the old pumping station occur. | This provision, has been abused by opening the chamber when thoro was no occasion to do so. It was constructed purely as a safeguard in case of a breakdown at the pumping station-; and such a contingency has never yet arisen. Tho valve has been constantly used. The information on which the editorial footnote was founded seems to mo to indicate that the persons who are handling tho chamber do not understand why it is there.

In the Supreme Court at Hamiltou last week Mary Ann Reid claimed £2,000 from the Crown in connection with the death of her husband. The case, which was heard before a Judge and jury, arose out of 1 fhe death o£ Charles J. Reid, postal messenger, who was knocked down'by a railI way engine and killed in Frankton railway yards in January last. The case occupied the court for some time, and eventually a number of issues were placed _ before th© jury, who returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for £7so—ono-third to the widow and two-thirds for her three children. I Some points were reserved pending deci- | sion -in a case now before the Privy Ooun--1 oil. Mr Justice Cooper pointed out that > j in any case suppliant was entitled to £SOO, ; and recommended that she be granted an’ . allowance until the case’ was finally disposed of. Mr Gillies, for .-the Crown, stated that he intended to apply fo»-»m©w trial.

■ The statement about the shortage of butter is backed up by figures. ' On the 15th June there were about 62,000 boxes l of butter in l‘bo cool stores of the Doicii jiion, plus about 12,000 boxes of secondgrade and whey, -butter, The consumption in the Dominion is at the rate of about 800 tons per month, ,40 boxes to the ton. This, means that in tha middle of Juno wo bad in the Dominion as nearly as possible two months’ supply, and it may be estimated, therefore, that to-day tha stock amounts to six weeks’ supply. The only chance of ©king it out is by consumers practising tho rf-ricicst economy. An early spring would be a great Messing. Only one tender - , it is understood, was received for repairing the damage to the steamer Westmoreland. The amount was in the vicinity of £23,000. The contractors will be required to ©Heat permanent repairs, pay dock dues wliilo the repairs are being carried -out, and renew any damaged woodwork in the hold. Owing to the dt-lay in tho cable service a fortnight may elapse before Lloyd’s decision in respect to the acceptance of the tender comes to hand from London. Meanwhile the Westmoreland will be taken out of dork to await the decision. The City Fire Brigade turned! out at 11.60 last night to an outbreak of fire amongst some rubbish and packing cases on the premises of Noil and Co., chemists, Moray place. No damage was done. Charged with having obtained £l7 credit by fraud at Oama-xu in May, an elderly man named ffm. Robert Hill appeared before the Police Court to-day (says an Auckland message). The Chicfdeteofriw staged that the amused hud been arrested on a similar charge on Thursday lash. He mws then admitted to bail in a bond of £3OO. The following day he was moated on warrant issued at Dunedin in 1915, when it was alleged he had committed a similar offence involving _ £34, He was then roLeased under tho original bond. When arrested a third time yes-ter-day it was stated that he had £204 Jn his possession. Tim Mjjgiisbra-te, on the application of the ohiof-detective, remanded the accused until Wednesday next, but increased tho bail to £SOO pending the hearing of tho case. The accused \yas ordered to report nightly to tlie police. Fire-fighters throughout New Zealand responded nobly to the call to arras during the war period, and those men of “ tho ladder and the hose ” proved themselves to be equally as good fighters against the Germans as they had done against the common enemy-fire. The record of members of tho United Firo Brigades’ Association of j)fow Zealand is indeed a creditable one.' Tho complete returns, just issued in pamphlet form in -conjunction with a full report of tho proceedings of tho united confe-ranco held at Invercargill in March last, shows that the total enlistments amongst member's of the 112 odd brigades affiliated with the association was 1,555. Out of this number 195 made tho supreme sacrifice, 238 were wounded, and 205 were invalided home, while five were made prisoners of war. Tho record of. decorations received ■by fixo-fighters while on active eervico is also highly creditable. The list shows that one received tho Victoria Gross, two the Distinguished Service Order, eight the Distinguished Conduct Medal, four tho Military Cross, three tho Military Modal, ono tho King of Sorvia’s Gold Medal, and one the Belgian Croix do Guerra.

The minesweepers Geranium and Maa - - guerit-o, which were quarantined on arrival at Wellington, have been granted pratique, and are coaling in anticipation of proceeding to sea on Wednesday. Captain Hall-Thompson (Naval Advisor) reports that one of the patients from tho sweopens died on Somes Island on Sunday night. Tho -deceased was one of two serious cases reported after the vessels’ arrival.

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