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Evening Star, Issue 18716, 19 August 1924, Page 4

No business in the City Police Court this morning. At a meeting of Otago High School Old Boys now resident in Christchurch last night it was decided to form a North Canterbury Society of Otago High School Old Boys. Mr B. Brown (convener) nre sided over about forty old boys. The election of officers resulted: —President, Mr B. Brown; vice-presidents—Messrs P. Kerens and J. R. Montgomery; com rnittee—Messrs E. W. White, J, B. Burt, G. H. Buchanan, W. H. Price, Archdeacon P. B. Haggitt, J. D. Hutchiesnn, P. L. C. Inder, A. Borrows, Dr T. Mih, Dr J. L. Will; hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr W. M'Lean; auditor, Mr F. H. Labatt. It was decided that the annual membership fee be ss.—Our Christchurch correspondent. A Wellington Association message Rates that tho Winter Show returned a profit nf about £1,200, which is considered very satisfactory for a first attempt.

The deputation from the City Council, comprising the mayor (Mr H. L. Tapley), the town clerk (Mr G. A, Lewin), Cr Shacklock (chairman of the E.P. and L. Committee), and the city electrical engineer (Mr M. Henderson), which went to Wellington last week in connection with (ho Waipori Empowering Bill, appealed before the Bills, Lauds, and Mines Committees of the House, with the result that it is now practically assured that Parliament will give its assent to the Bill. There was no difficulty in getting the various member's of the committees to recognise that the intention of the City Corporation to raise the dam to a height of 110 ft in order to augment the power capacity in connection with our hydroelectric undertakings was in the best interests of the city and the province. The only opposition to the Bill was in connection wita various compensation cases which have yet to be settled, and which are provided for by a elauso in the Bill.

A Tiinaru Press Association telegram states that at the Magistrate’s Court William Fraser Park, schoolmaster at St. Andrews, aged forty-four year's, was charged with that at St. Andrews yesterday he did indecently assault another male. The police asked for a remand till August 27, stating that further cases were ponding. Bail was refused.

WhiVo in Wellington last week the mayor (Mr H. L. Taployj interviewed the Prime Minister in regard to the £5,000 that has been loaned to the Dunedin City corporation for the purpose of making ad vances to workers to build dwellings, and in regard to which the State Advances Department had advised that the amount v. ould not bo available for some months. Mr Massey promised that he would person ally' sco that the advance was made without further delay.

The audience which crowded Wesley Church, Eouth Dunedin, last evening, was delighted with the excellent programme as rendered by Mrs Isaacs, (Misses Winnie Bey, E. Hurvoy, Elsie Bryant, Tory Jefferson, L.T.C.L., F. Sumner, Thelma Timpson, Alice Campbell, A.T.C.L., j\**ferta Simpson, L.A.B. (accompanist), Messrs Bert Rawlinson, J. Clark, J. D. M‘Leod, E. Garter, and R. Sumner. The entertainment, which was instituted as a preliminary' to the annual bazaar, should result in a very substantial contribution to the church funds.

There have been several nocturnal raids on clothes lines in various parts of Dunedin and tiie outlying suburbs recently, ad Superintendent Norwood, in issuing a warning to housewives against the common practice of leaving Monday’s washing out overnight, states that such carelessloss is really only an open invitation to those engaged in the depredations to " come in ” and help themselves. In one case recently a woman’s nightdress and a child’s nightgown were picked up in a yard that had been raided, but the garments in question belonged elsewhere, and the police are now looking for the owner of them.

The Port Chalmers Council last night considered the Motor Vehicles Bill, a copy of which had been forwarded to the council by the Minister of Infernal Affairs. The council strenuously objected to some of the features of the BUI. The town manager {Mr J. Tait) pointed out to the council that about £IOO would be taken out of the borough in motor fees without the slightest advantage accruing to the roads of the borough. Not only that, but many of the vehicles to be taxed would never use a main highway, for the upkeep of which this tax was being levied. He thought that at least 25 per cent, of the tax should be retained for the maintenance of the local roads which the taxed vehicles would use. Then the councillors proceeded to speak, and they put the position in terms which showed they were strongly of opinion that the Motor Vehicles 'Bill would be unjustifiably expensive measure for boroughs like Port Chalmers. West Harbor Borough was quoted as a place that would suffer even more severely. The council decided to endeavor to get the Municipal Association to act on its behalf. A remit is to be sent for consideration at the forthcoming Municipal Association Conference, with a view to getting the Government to allow local bodies to retain half the motor tax for the maintenance of local roads.

Carrying coal is no easy business in Dunedin, according to a witness from there in the Arbitration Court, Wellington, testifying in the drivers’ dispute (says tho ‘‘Post’). ‘‘lt’s a funny thing,” he said, confidentially, “ that people put the letter box at tho foot of the steps, but the coalman has to cany the cool to the top.” “ Well,” said His Honor, “ the milkman is in the same position as the postman in Wellington'; but for steps Wellington is no better off.” The lot of the coalman in hilly cities seemed to appeal to the sympathy of tho court. A witness from Napier emphasised the importance of having an extra man on long trips. Ho himself had to travel over eighty miles on a four-ton lony on his own. This wan not ./oSa,

An old resident of Inchclutha, in a chat with a ‘FrbePress’ representativej stated that never in the course of practically a lifetime spent in Otago had he seen such a mild season. Spring would be fully a month earlier this year. Already, ho stated, whitebait were running in the Molynoux, and had been for three weeks past. On the Inchclutha bank of the Matau, about three miles below Stirling bridge, ho had seen a whitebait Hotter secure quite a good catch, and this man said that he had been catching them right along for three weeks past. These little fish do not usually “run” in the'Molyneux until about the end of September. The informant also saw a trout “working ” at a jutting point in the river among the whitebait, and tho way he scattered the school of little fish showed that he was a trout full of seasonal vigor. In many gardens of Inchclutha cherry-plum trees are to be seen in full blossom, another infallible sign that spring is with us. “ There Is a glamor and attraction about electricity which seems to appeal to the youth,” said Mr Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court at Wellington. “In my time tho average small boy wanted to be a tram driver or an engineer; nowadays ho wants to be an electrician.”

Tho Government Publicity Department has received from the High Commissioner (Sir James Allen) two interesting photographs taken daring his recent visit to Belgium. Both were taken at the desire of the Burgomaster of Antwerp, and one shows a party seated in a launch on its way to the shore; the other onco it lias reached the wharves. There are seven members of the party —M. Stickert (captain of the Port of Antwerp). M. Franz Yan Cauwelaert (Burgomaster of the city of Antwerp and Catholic Party member of Parliament), Sir James Allen, Sir George Elliott (chairman of the Bank of New Zealand), M. A. E. Pallet (Belgian ConsulGeneral in London), hi. J. P. N. Merlins (New Zealand’s commercial representative in Belgium), and Mr Bruce Elliott (of Auckland). Another photograph sent out by tho High Commissioner is of tho wreath laid at the foot of the pedestal of the Belgian War Memorial in the name of the dominion of Now Zealand. The wreath was of roses, and bore a small New Zealand flag.