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Evening Star, Issue 18884, 7 March 1925, Page 6

The gas department recommends that the price of coke delivered in the works yard be advanced from the present rate of £2 2s 6d per ton to £2 10s per ton. The proposed price is still considerably below the rate charged in other parts of the dominion. There is a wide field for this product, and the demand is increasing, being considerably above the maximum output from,.the.works*

In connection with the examination of three directors and an employee of Browns, Ltd., in the Supremo Ciourt on Monday, learned counsel for two of the directors has made an application that the order for their examination ho rescinded, or that it be held in chambers.

During the year 5,169 cubic yards wore quarried from'the lower quarry at Black Jack’s Point (states the Harbor Board engineer’s annual report). Sixteen thousand four hundred and seven yards of material were taken from the upper quarry, making a total of 21,576 cubic yards. Of this material 17,495 cubic yards were deposited on the railway deviation embankment, 1,860 cubic yards on the half-tide wall, 30 cubic yards on south endowment floougate, and 2,193 cubic yards on Ravensboume road. In October, as work was completed at Black Jack's, the plant was transferred to Sunshine quarry. By the end of the year 5,022 cubic yards of material were quarried at Sunshine. Two thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic yards of this stone were deposited on the'south endowment wall, completing thirteen chains of tho reconditioning of this wall; 150 cubic yards of stone were used to pitch the walls of the waterway of the Opoho Creek railway bridge, and 25 cubic yards in repairs to the boat harbor walls. For a period extending from March to August 7,975 . cubic yards of stone were quarried at Goat Island. One hundred and sixty cubic yards of this material were deposited on tho boat harbor walls and 7,815 cubic yards on the half-tide wall.

Tho Works Committee of the City Council recommends that the necessary steps be taken to close the short street in the Anderson Bay district, known as Shakespeare street, with a view to the subsequent sale of the land comprising such street to the Royal New Zealand Society for the Promotion of Health for Women and Children. Shakespeare street at present divides the Karitane-Harris Hospital property into two separate blocks. Other adjoining owners are agreeable to the street being closed.

Suitable weather lias enabled harbor soundings and survey to be proceeded with during practically the whole year, and a considerable amount of important work has been completed (writes the Harbor Board engineer in his annual report). In January and February a survey of the harbor entrance was earned out. These soundings indicate that the dimensions of the navigable channel have been maintained. In May the Deborah Bay bend was sounded, the plan showing that the gazetted widths and depths were available. In Juno an engineering survey of the reef known to exist off Quarantine Island was made. As soon as the work at, Quarantine Island was completed a start was made on a hydrographic survey of the whole of the Upper Harbor to determine the policy to be pursued relative to the dredging programme and the raising and lengthening of the half-tide wall. This survey was completed to a point off St. Leonards.

Authority has been granted by the Works Committee of the City Council for the ordering from the Neuchatel Asphalt Company of a further of about seventy tons of flux, which will be required for next year’s bituminous paving work. The company will deliver the flux at the same rate as that provided for under their recent contract with the council—namely, £l4 19s 6d per ton delivered into the Ward street yard.

There were a number of inaccuracies in the list published yesterday giving the Labor candidates to contest seats at the forthcoming municipal bodies’ elections. In regard to the candidates for the City Council the following names are now given with their correct initials ; —R. Harrison, H. A. Morrison, ami Mrs F. M‘A, Christie. The proper spelling of the name of another candidate is R. Cl. M’Donncll. An addition to the list of candidates for the Hospital Board is R. G. M'Donnoll, and to the list of candidates for the Hospital Board L. F. Evans. At the meeting of the Otago Labor Representation Council at which the choice of candidates was made a resolution of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Mr W. Rundle, for many years a delegate from the Amalgamated Society of Engineers.

A recommendation of the Finance Committee of the City Council is that authority bo granted to accept the tender of Messrs Ellis and Glue for the construction of public conveniences at Bathgate Park. The Rugby Union has contributed the sum of £45 towards the cost. Provision for the expenditure will be made in tbo incoming year’s estimates, . and no part of the sum involved will be paid before the close of the present financial year.

Says Iho Harbor Board engineer, in his annual report: It is pleasing to be able to record that the board’s promise to tho Exhibition authorities in re the reclamation of Lake Logan has been fulfilled, in that the area originally asked for has been converted into solid ground. The filling in of the amusement zone can be started early in slarch, and should be completed towards tho end of May. This fine performance has been attained by the unflagging energy and enthusiasm of those officers and men directly engaged upon the dredging and reclamation works, and the board may be justly proud of a staff who have so energetically and successfully executed tho task laid upon them by the board’s desire to do all in their power to forward the interests of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition.

Authority has been granted the. City Engineer to act in the matter of immediately arranging for further space for the depositing of trade refuse and the imposing of a charge according to a scale to bo fixed for all material, comprising iron and tin ware and organic trade waste brought to the tip for disposal. It is intended that the scale shall differentiate between tins and cans flattened or not sufficiently flattened, and ironware bundled or loose. Tho depths in the Lower Harbor remain much the same as reported last year (states tho annual report of tho harbor master, Captain J. M'Lean). The Victoria Channel is showing 20ft in the centre; the narrowest part at this depth is 90ft wide. There is a decided improvement in the width of tho channel off Curie’s Point, this pari having been recently dredged, making navigation much safer. In fine weather the present system of channel lighting is satisfactory; in rough weather the kerosene lamps axe troublesome and unreliable.

A Christchurch Press Association telegram states that the Canterbury Chamber of'Commerce has issued a circular protesting against the action of the Dairy Control Board in regard to marketing overseas. The oircukijr concludes: “The world has had an extraordinary example of the disastrous failure of this class of Socialistic legislation in Russia. It seems obvious that no responsible Labor Government would to-day repeat this, but the extreme Socialistic Party will welcome such Orders in Council from the Reform Government as substantial contiibutions to a future Communistic regime.” The need for publicity abroad in order to place New Zealand on the map k evidenced in the following letter which has been received by a member of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce from Los Angeles : ” Noting in the list of members of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce that you are general merchants, it has occurred to us that, you might.be interested in exnorting birds and monkeys to the United States. There is quite a large demand in this territory for these animals and birds, and if satisfactory shipping facilities could be arranged between Wellington and Los Angeles Plarbor,, San Francisco, we believe that a mutually profitable business could be worked up. If you are interested in this matter, please write us full details concerning, such as the kind of birds and monkeys, ehipping, time in transit, via what steamer line, terms of payment, etc. Awaiting your repwith interest.'’ Hearty laughter a, :cfed the reading of the letter (says the ‘Times’). The request was considered ludicrous ; but the value of the knowledge in America, of, at least, the membership of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce was fully appreciated by members. “ A little more publicity is evidently wanted jn that area/’ said a member.

At the City Police Court this morning, before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., Robert Keen was charged with the theft, on or about August 6 last, of a Diston saw, valued at 14s, the property of George Phimister Harold. Chief-detective Lewis, in asking for a remand until Monday, said that the police intended making further inquiries regarding the accused’s mode of living. Keen did not appear yesterday on summons, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. There was only one charge against the accused. He was remanded until Monday next. There is still no trace of Mr and Mrs Brockett, who are missing on the Tararua Range. Large search parties are out from Masterton and Eketahuna.

The Water Committee of the City Council reports that it appeal’s desirable that some definite check should be exercised over persons desirous of shooting on the water reserves. It is an offence against the city by-laws for any persons to carry firearms on any of the water reserves unless with the sanction in writing of the City Council. The by-law has not htiherto been rigidly enforced, but instructions have now been given by the committee that in future the necessary steps are to bo taken to enforce it.

The Warden, Mr George Cruickshank, S.M., heard the objections lodged by the Kawarau Gold Mining Company to the valuations placed on eighty-nine of their claims in that part of the Kawarau River situated in Lake County, at a sitting of the Assessment Court at Queenstown on Thursday. Mr Payne appeared for the company, and Mr W. Harlow (Clyde) for the Lake County Council. Evidence was given by Mr Jamse Powell, county valuer, and Mr E. J. lies, engineer and managing director of tho Kawarau Gold Mining Company, and it was decided to reduce the valuation from £SOO per claim to £SO for the current year.

In his annual report to the Harbor Board the engineer (Mr J. M‘G, Wilkie) stated :—During the year the Vulcan sand pump was moored at tho cement works, and during the ten months January to October discharged 299,047 cubic yards into the Lake Logan reclamation area. During the month of May, owing to the unsuitable nature of the spoil, 33,320 cubic yards were discharged at the Leith estuary. During the month of December 32,487 cubic yards were deposited at Lake Logan. Tho Lake Logan reclamation area lias therefore received 351,534 cubic yards and tho Leith estuary 33,320 cubic yards, making the total output of the Vulcan 364,854 cubic yards. The average length of tho discharge pipe line was 3,202 ft, the longest drive being 4,028 ft. The cost per yard of material dredged works out at 4.27 d. . . . The dredge 222 during the year dredged a total of 402,539 cubic yards. It steamed 4,563 miles, and consumed 1,928 tons of coal. The cost per yard of material dredged works out at lOd.

The height of water in Lake Mahinerangi, the new lake formed at Waipori by the raising of the dam, was 34ft 7in on March 4, as compared with. 36ft 4in a fortnight ago. Heavy rain, however, has since fallen in the district, and the dam will probably rise again.

The postal authorities advise that the Maheno, which left Sydney for Auckland on March 6, has forty-seven bags and four hampers of Australian mail for Dunedin. There is another twenty bags- of mail matter from overseas, ex the Maheno, and the two lots will arrive in Dunedin on Thursday night. The Marama, due at Auckland to-morrow from Sydney, has nine bags and three hampers of mails, which should reach here on Tuesday afternoon.

In August (states the Harbor Board engineer’s report) the erection off a storage shed at Kitchener street wharf was begun. On investigation it was found that a pile foundation was necessary, and 50 i.b. piles, varying in length from 65ft to 36ft, were driven upon which to found the Walls and central columns. The foundation beams were moulded and the columns erected, and all the reinforcement fabricated. The filling in of the foundations to floor level was well advanced by the end of the year, and as soon as this has been completed the floor Slab will be laid. Tenders for roof principals and corrugated asbestos roofing were advertised, and it is hoped that the shed will he completed early in. the new year.

The Reserves Committee of the City Council recommends that the application of the New Zealand and South Seas Exliibition Company for permission to erect a small kiosk and information bureau hi the Octagon reserve bo granted, the privilege to hold good during the pleasure of the council. The kiosk is to be placed ou portion of the eastern side of the reserve abutting the Princes street footpath, midway between the northern and southern ends.

Tho last of tho heavy parts for the second 5,000 k.w. unit was delivered at Waipori Falls on February 27. Good progress is being made with erection, and it is probable that this machine will bo ready for drying out by the middle of April, and able to take load a week or two later.

During the year the railway embankment from Black Jack’s Point to the Leith Canal was completed, 17,493 cubic yards of stone having been deposited on the embankment during the year (states the Harbor Board engineer in his annual report). Where the route of the railway line crossed ground already reclaimed by the sand pump the embankment was raised to level by horse-drawn scoops. About twenty-eight chains of the embankment was formed in this manner at very small cost. A small wooden bridge was erected spanning the waterway, which will provide for the discharge of the Opoho Creek until the concrete drainage channel is constructed. Also, a concrete pipe culvert through the railway embankment provides for the discharge of storm water from the hills in tho vicinity of Black Jack’s Point. Advantage was taken of the presence of staff and plant at Black Jacks quarry to -form a roadway of a length of thirty-two chains to open up the Eauvensbourne endowment. Two thousand one hundred and ninety-three cubic yards of stone were used on this work.

The Works Committee recommends the acceptance of an offer to sell to the City Council a strip of land at the junction of Melbourne street and.JCing Edward street, South Dunedin. ' The committee also recommends the acceptance of an afier to sell to the council Mrs Motion’s property fronting the esplanade at St. Clair. A portion of this property (about 17ft in depth at one end and sft at tlm other end), together with a small portion of the adjoining property, is_ required for widening tho esplanade to its full width. It is the intention that the balance of Mrs Motion’s property, the whole of which contains 29.6 poles, together with tho building thereon (which will need to be shifted back), shall foe sold.

Early in the week (states a W 7 hangarei message) a recent arrival _ in the dominion—a Mormon aged twentv-thvee, became sick at the missionary camp at Ngapuhi, a small settlement two miles from Kaikohe. The doctors diagnosed the trouble as smallpox. Dr Chesson, medical officer of health, isolated the patient, and also the contacts, who have been vaccinated.

The Tramway Committee of the City Council reports that it is not possible to arrange with the Harbor Board for the use of a portion of the reclaimed land opposite Logan Park as a site for the proposed 'balloon loop for the Exhibition line. It, is now hoped that it will be possible to arrange with the Exhibition Company for the use of a portion of its area, otherwise all cars at the Exhibition terminus would require .to shunt by means of cross-overs. The Wellington City Council decided last night to raise a loan of £200,000 to provide twenty miles of permanent roads m the citv. The loan will be raised in instalments of £50,000, and will be met bv the council’s share in the heavy traffic fees, estimated at £5,000 per annum. The streets to be dealt with are the main thoroughfares, which cost the city £7,000 a year at present for patchwork. It is estimated that this amount will be cut down to £7OO when the new paving is laid.

A special meeting of the Harbor Board will be held next Friday evening, when the estimates will be considered.

“ That a grant of £SO be made out of Andrew’s bequest fund to the Y.M.C.A. as a contribution towarit, the cost of the work which the association is carrying out for the advantage of members of the Territorial Forces while in camp ” is a recommendation of the Finance Committee of the City Council, The annual report of the harbor master (Captain M'Lean) gives the following summary of the vessels arriving at the Port of Otago during last year:—Coastal, 376 vessels of 243,980 tons net; intercolonial, 64 vessels of 140,432 tons net; overseas, 153 vessels of 714,570 tons net. Totals, 595 vessels of 1,098,982 tons nek Included are five warships that visited the port. The number of vessels handled by the board’s pilots is as follows:—Piloted inwards, 162 vessels of 734,215 tons; piloted outwards, 159 vessels of 732,146 tons; piloted removals, 37 vessels of 168,789 tons. Totals, 558 vessels of 1,655,150 tons.

Notification of Sunday services as enumerated below appear in our advertising columns: —Anglican: St. Pauls Cathedral, All Saints’, St. Matthew’s, St. .Peter’s. Presbyterian: First Church, Knox Church, St. Andrew’s, Port Chalmers. Northeast Valley, Musselburgh, St. Stephen’s, Kaikorai, Mornington, Caversham, South Dunedin, Chalmers, Maori Hill, and St. Clair Methodist: Trinity, Central Mission, Mornington, Cargill Road, Belleknowes, St. Kilda, Woodhaugh, North-east Valley, Dundas Street, Ravensbourne, Roslyn, Maori Hill, and Caversham. Congregational: Moray Place and King Street. Baptist: Hanover Street, Roslyn, Caversham, Morninglon, North-east Valley, South Dunedin, Church of Christ: Tabernacle, South Dunedin, Roslyn, North-east Valley. York Place Hall, Christadelphians, Playfair Street Hall, Salvation Army, Christian Science, Gospel Hall, Theosophical Society, Spiritualists.

Yes, the best place for children’s toys is Todd’s Toy Arcade, George street (next tho Plaza).—[Advt.j At the harvest thanksgiving services _ in Knox Church on Sunday evening the soloists will be Miss May Walton and Mr Ernest ■Drake. The Rev. Tuilooh Yuille will preach on ‘ God's Round-about Roads.’ The United Starr-Bowkett Building Society will commence another group—the ninth-on Monday next._ Intending subscribers are advised to join at onoe and thus avoid back subscription. The office will be open on Monday night from 6.30 to 8 to receive applications. The Dunedin Starr-Bowkett Building Society notifies the disposal of £1,500 in the Nos, 3,4, and 5 groups on Wednesday, March 18, and invites application® for shares in the No. 6 group, commencing nest May.

Illingeworth’s British-made roll film is issued in all standard sizes to suit all makes of cameras. Obtainable at all dealete. — H. J. Gill, Frederick street.—[Advt.]

Shares are still available in the No. 3 group of the Otago Mutual Starr-Bowkett Building Society. There will be harvest thanksgiving services at the 'Rodya Baptist Church to-morrow.

In the Momington Baptist -Church on Monday Mr F. C. Claes, of the Evangelical Mission. of South America, will give a lecture illustrated by lantern views. The opening of the 1925 session of the Otago School of Religious .Education will take place in Knox Church School buildings on Tuesday next.

Mr J. Priestley, organising secretary of the Sudan United Mission, will occupy the pulpit of the Hanover Street Baptist Church to-morrow evening. The Rev. E. H. K. Kempton, mistister of the church, has been delayed in Melbourne owing to shipping troubles.

To-morrow evening a service for young men and young women will be held in the South Dunedin. Baptist Church, when Rev. Guy Thornton will speak on * Questionable Amusements.’

The lato Mr George Oalder was for many years a worthy officer and; member of the North-east Valley Baptist Church. A memorial tablet (brass) has been placed-in the church to the memory of 'Mr Oalder, and is to be unveiled, at the Sunday evening service by the Rev. 6. Morris. Officers of the Early Settlers’ Association will be present. The first concert of the Orchestral Society’s season will be , given in His Majesty’s Theatre to-night. The orchestral numbers will include the suite from 'The Merchant of Venice,’ a selection from Wagner’s ‘Ricnzi,’ and two overtures. The assisting vocalists will he Miss Alice Wilkinson and Mr Reginald E_ Tapley. A member of the Russian nobility shattered 1 by the red revolution ca.me to the dominion by the Maunganui from America, and has been addressing large meetings in the North Island, and is expected to reach bore on Friday next. Madame Maria Nico-layoona-Yasnowsky left Russia in 1923 to attend the Baptist World Alliance Congress ■at Stockholm, and was there induced to undertake a world tom- on behalf of the Russian Missionary Society, which was founded some years a.go by Pastor William Potior. Shci has travelled, through America and Canada.

Your diamonds are under expert supervision when you entrust them to 'Williamsons, the quality jewellers (next The Bristol Co,),—[Advt.] The art union promoted by the Dunedin Highland Pipe Band in aid of their new uniform fMd will be drawn in the band room, Moray place, on March 30. Blocks of art union books to be returned tp the secretary by Monday, 23rd inst.

Annual meeting of St. Kilda Public Library subscribers on Monday, at 7.30 p.tn. The Tramways Band, under tho conductorship of Mr Mark Faigan, will play at the ■Gardens to-morrow.

Mr Frederick C. Glass, the noted explorer, missionary, and author from Bra*il, is at present in tho city. Mr Glass has made many journeys through tho great but littkfcknown land Brazil, and has penetrated into the interior of tho Amazon River and lived there among the Amazon Redskins, His book, entitled ‘Adventures With the Bible in Bra.zil,’ is a most fascinating account of 40,000 miles of travel through Brazil by river and 1 road. Mr Glass is giving throughout the city a_ series of lectures illustrated by new and original lantern views, particulars of which appear in the advertising columns of this issue, Mr L. MTlvride, Labor M.P. for Napier, will bo tho speaker at the Labor Club, 279 Princes street, to-morrow evening- He will speak in the South Dunedin Town Hall on Monday, when the subject of his address will be ‘Labor’s Policy.’

The Popular Dance is holding its opening night in tho South Dunedin Town Hall tonight, and invites its past patrons free of olmrge. Edwards’s Jazz Band will supply the music.

To-morrow evening, in. tho Workers’ Educational League Hall, Rossbotham’s Buildings, Dowling street, Mr Cope will speak on ‘Labor’s Path of Progress: Past, Present, and Future.’

To meet the Sunday morning outgoing trains, the Peninsula Motor Service will run a char-a-banc from Normanby, 'also from St. Hilda, at 8.20 a.m. each Sunday, to the railway station. Tlie Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s fortieth annual convention opens hero this month, and it is expected) that 100 delegates from all parte of New Zealand will be present. The proceedings include a welcome home to the dominion president, Mrs Don, who is due to arrive in Sydney on Monday,