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Evening Star, Issue 18030, 26 July 1922, Page 4

On Saturday first a wireless _ concert will 'bo transmitted from Otago University. The wave-lengths and times will be os usual—namely, 450 metres from 8 to 9 p.m., and 475 metres from 9'to 10, p-m. A vocalist, violinist, and flautist nave kindly consented to contribute songs and selections. Messrs C. Begg and Co. will again be good enough to supply the gramophone records.

Mr Paulin’s forecast: Squally N.W. to S.W. winds and ' heavy rain showers; barometer fall.

For over a year the Y.W.C.A. in Dunedin, has run its system of noontide meals on a method which enables Miss Sellars, the manageress, to spend most of the receipts on food and economise on thc_ serving. The idea is to provide a nourishing and acceptable meal to girls who otherwise would have to make shift with a cup of tea in the middle of the day. To bring the charges down to the means of the customers the cost of waitresses is cut out. As a fact, there are no waitresses. The girl customers, numbering every day from 150 to MO, have got' into the way of approaching by queue the serving window, and as each order is supplied the consumer takes her tray to one of the adjacent tables, returning the tray and dishes when the meal is oaten. Nobody in dr about the institution is too lordly to do something. Service is a distinction. Those friends who lend a hand in the preparation of a meal or the clearing up after it do so because they make this duty their delight. Laziness is not now allied to gentility.

The present position of affairs _ with regard to the Sanders Cup contests is formally that of a deadlock. The ■ Otago Association has definitely declined to challenge under the conditions imposed by Auckland, and Auckland will not alter those conditions. "Various suggestions are now made with the hope of bringing the parties together and. producing oneness of purpose not only as between Auckland l and Otago, but as between these and all other possible challengers, and yachtsmen who are not violently partisan wish very earnestly that some good may be effected by compromise. Having learned something of whait is going on, we deem it wise to refrain from setting forth the controversial arguments. Better to let the differences settle meanwhile. All that need he printed just now is a statement of fact in regard to what is spoken of as the Port Chalmers challenge. The rumor is abroad: that Mr Bert Nees has privately sent to Auckland a challenge with his dinghy the Gleam, and. that the Port Chalmers Club has fathered the challenge, and will give Wiseman the captaincy. That is a perverted account of the facts. W© understand that the Port Chalmers. Club has invited the Auckland Association to accept a challenge as a memorial to the late Mr J. »M‘D. Stevenson, the Auckland Association to be at liberty to attach the Sanders Cup or to withhold it, and if that challenge is made and accepted the Port Club will try out all the available and eligible boats _in the harbor, or any that may bo built, before deciding ns to which shall be sailed. In any case, Mr Nees will not put the Gleam into the contest. He is willing and anxious to heal the breach, and will do all ho can to help on a match or the resumption of .the Sanders Cup contests, but has no thought of entering his own boat. Our Clvde correspondent telegraphs that a meeting of the Vincent Hospital Board at Clyde to-day will discuss the .advisability of dispensing with the Management Committees of the hospital at Clyde and Cromwell_ and conducting the business itself. The general opinion is that the suggested change would bo a mistake.

Synodical decrees, episcopal. warrants, evangelical exhortations —these may serve as a basis for church union; hut actual practice in the lucifer that will light the fire to produce the effective steam, and a relatively light touch of true friendship, such an Canon Nevill’s offer of the cathedral crypt for the meetings of the Dunedin Council of Churches, is likely to do more than all the debating can in bringing about the brotherliness which must be the foundation of any workable union.

Two ancient flint-lock horse pistols, a brace of muzzle-loading pocket pistols, and an air pistol—these comprised the arsenal of lethal "weapons laid on the table at the Auckland police station for registration by an Englishman who recently arrived from London. The flint-locks —long, heavy brass barrelled weapons—wore in full working order, being fitted with the old chipped flints in the hammers. On the butt of one were two deep notches, suggesting, possibly (says the ‘Herald’), that twice it had) dropped its man. The clays of dangerous country travel in Britain were recalled by these quaint old weapons —the lonely coaching roads, with the masked highwayman of the Dick Turpin typo waiting on his horse at the crossroads.

“What do people in England think of New Zealand travelling nigs?” was a question asked of Major E. A. Belcher at Christchurch. .Major Belcher replied; “My advice to New Zealand is, to make more travelling rugs. There will not be the slightest difficulty in providing markets for them all. If she produces ten times as many as sire is producing, now, she still will be short of the world’s demand. A commercial traveller went to a Now Zealand woollen company and offered to buy the whole of its output for five years at 10 per cent, in advance of the prices tiro company then asked. I’m glad the offer was refused, because its acceptance would have placed one of your principal mills largely under American domination; but it is evidence of the real demand for an article in whoso production you stand alone. No other country.can produce travelling rugs like New Zealand’s.”

Following on revelations arising out of a police raid on a dilapidated tenement in Federal street, Auckland, where several persons were arrested on charges of vagabondage, three children.—two girls aged fifteen and fourteen and a boy aged eleven years—were brought before Mr Poynton, S.M., at the Juvenile Court on Saturday, when application was made for their committal to a home. In recent Police Court proceedings it was stated that the house from which those children were taken was a resort of thieves and undesirables of both sexes, and that it was the scene of a drunken orgy on liquor stolen from the Aurora Hotel. “Yes,” said Mr Poynton, “ the children were in a pest-house around at that place.” Chief-detective MTlveney, Detective O’Sullivan, and the lady probation officer'bach asked! that the children be committed for their own safety. Upon the father saying that he would consent to the committal, _tho mother .and children burst out weeping, whilst the elder girl bitterly reproached her parent. “Never you speak to me again!” she said, turning f uriously upon him. The' children were committed to the Receiving Home, and after an endeavor on the part of the chief detective to soothe them, left the court, still weeping bitterly. '

A thoughtful member of the Civil Service in Palmerston North, remarking upon the decrease of individual efficiency in the Public Service, says that it is not clue to the war, as alleged by the Minister, or to any other cause than to the baneful effect of political truckling to members of tho Service (states tho ‘Manawatu Times’). Their numbers are such thatr they now feel themselves to bo a factor at tho ballot box. The gross weakness of Ministers an 3 member’s who yielded to this influence is reaping its duo reward, or rather its certain penalty. Thieving has never been so bad about Melbourne as lately, and people are made’ victims in most unexpected places. Tiro University students are most unwilling sufferers. Thefts have been so common up at “The Shop”—as the ’Varsity is called by the. boys and girls—that a detective has been hidden in the hope of catching tho sneak thief. Overcoats are stolon frequently; but it is a difficult thing to pounce upon anyone going direct to a hook and taking off a coat with an air of proprietorship. Nine cases out of ten, of course, the coat would belong to such a one, and tho .detectives find themselves helpless. Fountain pens, microscopes, and soldiers’ badges also disappear most mysteriously, never to bo seen again. Medical students also find it difficult to keep their hats when walking the hospitals. That Such a state of affairs should exist aeems incredible. The result of the election for member's of the Otago Education Board for the urban area, the North Ward, and l the South Ward will not bo known till August o. Voting took place on July 19, out a fortnight is allowed for the papers to come in., '

The repairing of the engine that operates the Roslyn tramcars night, and the full service was re-started this morning; but the repairs did not stand up to the strain, it being found necessary to sto.p the traffic from 8.15 to 10 a.m., and- when the. wheels revolved again the reduced service was all that could be ven--1 tured on in the meantime.

No change to-day in the position of affairs at the Burnside Freezing Worker An Australian mail consisting of eighteen bags ex the Makura at Auckland will reach Dunedin to-night. The contents will be delivered: in the city and suburbs to-morrow morning. Tiro local portion of the English mail landed at Auckland last week-end from the Westmoreland came to hand last evening. The mail comprised twenty-three hags, the contents of which were delivered’to-day. l‘ ‘Would Proportiona.Ußepresentation bo 'nn Improvement on the Present Electoral Systems?’ was the subject of discussion at the weekly meeting of the Knox Church Men’s Club, held: last evening. There was a good attendance, of members, Mr J. H. Moir (president) being in the chair. Mr J. M'Crao led the discussion, and in the course of an interesting speech showed 1 the anomalies of the present system. Ho urged that these could not occur under a system of Proportional Representation. In the discussion which followed Messrs T. R. Fleming, S. E. Benton, J. H. Moir, J. B. Frame, and C. R. Smith took part. In reply to criticism, Mr M’Crae said a party often got into power on a-minority of the voters of the country. As churchmen they were against revolution, and the greatest safety valve was to have an electoral system under which the majority could give expression to its views. A vote was then taken, and <a large majority was found to be in favor of Proportional Representation. At the next fortnightly meeting the subject for discussion will be 'Would' Socialism Solve Our Present Industrial Troubles?’ Mr T. R. Fleming will' take the lead. Professor Pringle has promised: to give the club at some future date a lecture on the currency question.

Mr W. H. Mackenzie was misunderstood by our interviewer in one matter regartJing the Roslyn tram serv%'. He did) not say that the traffic does not warrant the putting on of more cars. A perusal of Mr Mackenzie's annual report shows that ho would like to put on more cars if possible. The committee and himself have tried to relieve the overcrowding by running a number of extra cars, but during the past few days these have had to come off, owing to engine repairs compelling the service to be reduced. To this explanation it may bo added that the overcrowding in some New Zealand cities has been lessened by raising the 3d fare to 4d; but Dunedin has not adopted that obvious method of reducing the number of passengers and at the same time increasing tho revenue.

The annual general.meeting of .the Dunedin Builders’ Association was very largely attended, the president, Mr J. M'Cormack, occupying tho chair. The balance-sheet indicated that tho finances were eminently satisfactory, and tho president congratulated the ‘members upon tho strong position in which tho association now stood. During the evening a number of new members were proposed. The election of officers resulted as follows: —President, Mr J. 'M'Connack (re-elected); vice-presidents, Messrs Thos. Scott and D. O’Connell; secretary, Mr A. S. Cookson (re-elected); committee—Messrs Thos. Ferguson, W. H. Naylor, J. Loan, J. L, Hamilton, H. G*. Anderson, W. P. Glue, and W. Ross; auditors, Messrs R. Crawford and W. R. M'Leod. It was announced, that the annual conference of tho New Zealand Builders’ Federation would be held in Dunedin towards the end of November.

Watson’s No. 10 is a little dearer than most whiskies, hut is worth the money.— PAdvt.l

The “Bettor Times” campaigners favor all housewives singing ‘Home, Sweet Homo,’ eic., while “No Rubbing” Laundry Help is doing the Weekly washing. MTarlaue and Go.—[Advt.]

A lecture in aid of the Naturalists’ Field Club Publication Fund by Mr D. Miller, Government Entomologist, in tiro Medical ■School Lecture Boom to-night. Clear Water! Aluminium Anti-splash Tap Strainer's, Is. White House, George street. -[Advt.] The nip for nippy winter weather—Watson’s No. 10, fine old Scotch whisky.— [Advt.]

New season’s photographic goods; excellent stock cow arriving. Cameras from 6s. Bend year,order early to H. J. Gill, 11 and 13 Frederick street, Dunedin. ’Phono 1,144. -CAdvi]