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Evening Star, Issue 19387, 22 October 1926, Page 6

There will be no publication of the ‘ Evening Star ’ on Monday (Labor Day). Since the Royal Motor Bus Company notified the City Council on Tuesday of its intention to cease operations at midnight on October 26 three motor bus companies and three private individuals who are running buses in Auckland have given formal notice to the town clerk requiring the City Council to take over their buses and plant in terms of the Act. The mayor said yesterday that about thirty buses were affected. Negotiations for purchase wore in progress with the Royal Motor Bus Company, which had asked £29,675 for its fleet of twenty-eight buses, and the plant and equipment were being valued by the council’s officers. There would bo no break in the services. The public could bo assured that the council would take over the Royal buses and handle the traffic from next Wednesday morning.—Press Association. An Auckland Press Association message states that the South British Insurance Company has purchased Mr L. D. Nathan’s offices and sample rooms, at the corner of Shortlaml and High streets, for £70,000, which is about £790 per foot on the Shorthand street frontage. This is the highest price over paid for property in that street. Mr W. M'Namara, of the Public Works -Department, told the Citizens’ Unemployment Committee at Christchurch yesterday that at present the department had work in the country' for fifty men, but could not get labor, although there were many unemployed on the books.—Press Association message.

Tire need of a special court in which all applications for maintenance could bo hoard was spoken of by Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., in the City Police Court to-day. Mr Hanlon, who appeared for a man charged, asked for an order suppressing his name. ”1 do not liko directing fcho .Press,” said the magistrate, he having made a similar statement in a previous case. “ft is nobody else’s business but of that of the parties themselves, and the eases should be heard in a special court.” Mr Hanlon: “I think the general body of the legal profession would be with your Worship in your view that the cases should he held in a special court, as the cases are of no interest at all to the general public.” Before the magistrate to-day seven men were charged with playing cricket at Waltham Park on Sunday, but ns the police offered no evidence to show that the park was in tlio_ municipality the informations were dismissed (reports a Christchurch message). Hazel Mary Carswell, aged twentyfive, charged in the Auckland Police Court with obtaining goods from several city firms by false pretences and with failing to comply with the conditions of her release on probation in re--1 spect to .a previous conviction, was sentenced to be detained in the Borstal Institute for a period not exceeding two years.— Auckland Press Association telegram.

Holding that an agreement between Hie purchaser of a property and the vendor under which the purchaser undertook to pay a land agent’s commission was binding, notwithstanding the Tact that tho agent neglected to obtain from the vendor the appointment required by the Land Agents Act, Mr Justice Adams this morning dismissed an appeal against the magistrate’s decision by L. Hassell, the purchaser. Tho # respondent was W. J. Spratt, land agent.—Christchurch Press Association telegram. A Wellington Press Association telegram states that the sense of tho Appeal Court’s judgment in the Public Trustee v. the Bank of New Zealand, as telegraphed on Monday, was altered by the insertion of tho wrong article in filling in tho text. It should road: “That tho mortgagor is not personally liable under the mortgage (that is, the particular mortgage being considered by tho court) ; and that such liability would be inconsistent with the whole scheme of the mortgage. _ 'The bank, therefore, was not entitled to its claims.”

Three youths named-Raymond Pratley, Alfred Mitchell, and Alexander Abernothy pleaded not guilty in the Port Chalmers Court to-day to a charge of damaging, on tho evening of the 4th inst., a fence belonging to Edward Lalcy, who, in giving evidence, said he was a retired dairy farmer residing at Sawyers Bay. Rniticy and Mitchell, it was stated, damaged the fence by digging bayonets into it after returning from drill, and Abcrnethy gathered the chips and made A lire. _ After hearing, tho evidence for both sides tho magistrate (Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.), decided to convict. Sergeant Macrae then stated that numerous complaints were received by tbo police from residents of Sawyers Bay who worn disturbed at night time by a baud of hooligans. The magistrate, in inflicting lines of 10s each, with costs, warned the accused that any further charges would he more drastically dealt with, as the disturbing of residents must cease.

A To Kuiti Press Association telegram states that at 5.30^ tin's morning d firo broke out in the kitchen of Kelvin House, a private hotel, anti resulted in tile kitchen and three rooms above being gutted. Luckily there was no wind at the time, otherwise nothing would have been saved. Tbo building, nms a two-story wooden one. The building, furniture, and effects wore considerably damaged through smoke and water. The building was insured for £4.000 and the furniture for £I,OOO in the Northern Company. The special art exhibition arranged by Air E. Murray Fuller at The Bristol Piano Company’s concert room closes to-morrow at 1 p.m. Art lovers who hove not already visited the exhibition should not fail to do so. The exhibition will be open to-night. Men who are thinking of doing a little trout fishing this week-end will be interested in the appended statement from the secretary of the Otago Anglers’ Association, based on reports received during the last two days:— The Kakamii Liver is in good fishing condition. The Shag has been very high, but is now improving. The water is slightly discolored, and there is a doubt as to whether it will clear sufficiently for successful fly Ashing during the next few days. The Molynoux is supplying the bait and minnow fishers with really good trout. The Puerua has been high and dirty and unsuitable for fiy fishing. If no more rain falls it should be good at the week-end. All rivers in the _ Catlius district are in a similar condition, the Owaka being very high. The Pomahaka is fishable, but uncertain. The Waipahi is reported to bo in good order.

Another now church building for Dunedin city is being talked about and worked for. The members of the United Congregational Cbnrcii are moving to that end. Their building in King street is out of date, and its locality has become unsuitable,_ many sites near it being now occupied by institutions, pushing the residences away, ’When this place was built it was the centre of a thick population. In those days it was known as the Great King Street Congregational Church. Messrs Gordon Forlong, Hcckingsale, A. H. Wallace, G. H. I. ibury, and G. Heighway are names Unit will he remembered as ministers. Five or six years ago this church amalgamated with the Leith street church and became known as the United Congregational Church. A now site lias been acquired, at the corner ol Castle and Albany streets, where Mr Dan White ran the Queen’s Arms Hotel—a building now used as a shop. The proposal is to sell the King street property and build on the newly-bought site. A fair recently held raised about £250, and Mr J. H. Wilkinson has collected promises amounting to £4OO, so that £650 is alrcaly available for the scheme.

Dr M. P. Ravenal, M.D., in the Gordon Bell memorial lecture entitled ‘ The Prolongation of Life,’ stilted that Dr Louis 1. Dublin bad recently constructed a hypothetical life table, and given estimates which show that seven years can 1)0 added to the average life span in the United States,_ making it sixtyfive instead of fifty-eight years, as at present. Pour years have heon added between 1910 and 1920, hut five or six countries are still ahead of the United States in this respect, ho adds, led by New Zealand, with an expectation of sixty years. Taking the figures for 1910, he assumes a reduction of approximately two-thirds in the death rate for the 0.5 year period; two-thirds to one-half for 5-10; one-half for 10-60; one-half to no reduction for 60-70; and no reduction for the later ages. In view of what has been accomplished since 1900, his estimates do not, remarks Dr Ravenal, seem oversanguine. Great stress is rightly placed on Dig infant death rate, which has shown no improvement for the first month of life. The assumed infant death rate is 08 per 1,000 births, but slightly lower than the present rate in a few pities. Tho death rate from tuberculosis has fallen from 195.2 per 300,000 in 1900 to 92.0 for 1922 in tho registration area. Typhoid fever has boon reduced by 75 to 80 per cent, in the same period in many cities. No allowance has been made for saving from cancer. The tables give to thoso who survive to twenty years an expectation of fifty years more, or ,seventy years in all—the Biblical span of life.

An Ashburton Press Association telegram states that Mr Mosley, S.M., remanded Patrick M‘Ginn for a week in custody, (ho accused In be allowed (o attend his wife's funeral if he so dosired. Mrs M'Ginn was drowned in the Ashburton River, and after tho inquest was opened her husband was placed under arrest on a charge of drunkenness.

Mafl'ou Jnincs Lovatt Fraser, aged eighteen, who pleaded guilty lo seven charges of theft of postal packets valued at £lO 18s while employed at Ohakunc, was sentenced by Mr Justice Heed in the Supremo Court to two years in the Borstal _ Institute. His Honor said it was quite impossible in cases like this to grant probation. Endless trouble might be caused by tho theft of letters. Alhough it was always painful to see a youth on tho threshold of his life ruin his career, there was a duty to he performed to tho public.—Wellington Press Association telegram. At the City Police Court this morning a young woman, who was reported to be under eighteen years of age, was charged with having attempted to commit suicide. Senior-sergeant Quartermain stated that the defendant was too ill to appear, and he asked for a remand until Friday. He also suggested that her name should bo suppressed in in the meantime. The case was adjourned until nest Friday, an order being made prohibiting the publication of the name.

There were four fresh applications for work at tho Labor Department's, unemployment bureau this morning, making tho number of names on tho register up to 268. One gardener was placed this morning, and there are still three farm jobs offering. In addition, it has been found impossible to get a laborer to do levelling work. No cases of distress have coine under tho notice of the Labor Department officials, who, of course, could do nothing even in such cases. The Town Hall bureau has now closed, but there will probably bo a meeting of the General Unemployment Committee next ■week.

At the Port Chalmers Court to-day Albert Curtis was fined 20s for being on the licensed premises of the George Hotel after closing hours on tho Bth inst. Defendant said ho merely wont to the back of the premises, and then walked out again, but the magistrate declined to accept his explanation.

The old steamer Gertie has been removed from Rortohello to Port Chalmers on her way to the Heads, whore she will be sunk to serve as a tide diverter near tho Spit. The. Norwegian whaler, Sir James Clark Ross is now expected to reach Port Chalmers on Monday to take in water before proceeding to tho whaling base at Stewart Island, thence to the Ross Sea.

At a meeting of the Waipau Hospital Board Mr A. B. Williams made an oiler, stating that if £SOO was subscribed by the public, he would provide £1,250 to make up the sum required for hospital purposes.—Gisborne P.A. telegram.

The sixth annual conference <ji’ the Shipping Officers’ Guild of New Zealand was held at Wellington on Wednesday. Delegates representing the four centres were present. In moving the adoption of the report and balancesheet the acting president (Mr Bayfield) said it appeared that members were not taking full h’dvantago of the opportunities offered for study in connection with the special examination instituted for tho benefit of shipping clerks. The election of officers resulted President, A. D. Bayfield; vice-presidents—Messrs O’Meara, Norman, Douglas, and Gilbert, representing Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin respectively; council— Messrs Cowling and Laing (Auckland), Phillips and M‘Nab (Wellington), Booth and Hitching (Christchurch), Crawford and Hould (Dunedin). —Press Association telegram.

Members of the Education Board strongly criticised the address given this week by the bead master of the Richmond School attacking the present system of building schools in regard to ventilation, beating, and quietness, and passed a motion calling on him for a description of what ho considered a model school. “ Ills were vain, empty words,” said one member.—Christchurch Press Association telegram.

Tbo miuiminp fine of £SO was imposed by Mr Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day oil Frederick James M’Kcnna, a young Paten, lawyer, for neglecting to have his trust account audited for the year ended March 31, 1926. Mr Tudhope, for the Crown Law Office, said it was not proposed to issue any warnings in the future, but to prosecute immediately after June 30. Wellington Press Association telegram.

For glasses guaranteed to euit consult W. V. Stunner, G.A.0.C., D. 5.0.1., 2 Octagon, Dunedin; ’phone 7,525. —[AdvtJ On the front page will be found several announcements of Labor Day holiday excursions.

Tho Carisbrook Cricket Club will bold net practice at Carisbrook to-morrow. An interesting motor trip is available to Waipori on Sunday and Monday. Hart’s coaeh leaves Grand Pictures at 9.20 a.m. Tbo Wembley Club, whose weekly dances have become so popular, is arranging another enjoyable evening for to-mor-row. Tbo Ritz Orchestra will provide tho music for the old and tbo new' dances, A corporation bus will leave Grand Pictures at 7.15 p ra. on Saturday for a moonlight excursion and danco at Brighton. An advertisement announcing fares, etc., will bo found in this issue. The weekly euchre tournament promoted by tbo Square Deal Assembly will bo held in the South Dunedin Town Hall on Saturday night, at 8 o’clock. Tho prize list is, ns usual, an attractive one, and euchre enthusiasts are sure to show’ their appreciation of tho enterprise of the promoters by turning up in large numbers. Tho usual weekly danco will bo hold in the Trades Hull on Saturday night. Appropriately enough the tramways department is making full preparations for a big programme of observation trips for Labor Day, which has como to be acknowledged as the precursor of the summer season. With pleasant memories of excursions in the corporation buses last year, many residents and visitors will bo looking forward to tho resumption of these trips to Dunedin’s various beauty spots. As announced clsawhero a time-table of special bus excursions will include Waipori, Highcliif, round the Peninsula, in and around Dunedin, Brighton, and if there is sufficient demand Taieri Mouth. For any of these Hips reservations at tho Tourist Bureau or tramway ticket office is advised. It is hoped that prospective patrons who desire to make suro of seats will not leave booking until tho last minute, as owing to the number of buses engaged for private picnics only a limited number will 'bo available for sightseeing purposes.