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Evening Star, Issue 19533, 14 April 1927, Page 6

There will he no publication of the ‘ Evening Star ’ tomorrow —Good Friday. Prosecutions for betting with bookmakers are said to bo impending in the Dunedin district and elsewhere, the charge in such cases being not the laying but the taking of odds, The digging that is going on at the site of the new Town Hall at the rear of the Octagon is not a commencement of the operations that the Love Construction Company has contracted for, but the preparatory work in connection with the drains.

The committee of the Dunedin Cricket Club last night considered the appeal made to clubs by the O.C.A. in connection with the coach fund, lb was unanimously decided to guarantee £lO a year for three years as a minimum, and as practically half this sum was promised by the members present it is highly probable that the minimum will be exceeded, for it is the committee’s intention to approach every member with a view to obtaining a promise to contribute a sum, however small. Other means of raising money for the same object may also be taken in the early part of next season. A preliminary meeting of the railway branch of the Workers’ Educational Association was held in the social hall at the engine sheds. It was decided to open the session on April 24. The report of last session’s work was a favorable one from ail points of view. The interest nf the members was sustained throughout the session, and the average attendance was 66 per cent. The report referred to the loss sustained by the class by the death of Mr R. G. M'Donnell. For the coming session an attractive syllabus has been chosen, including a series of eight of the most Important political and social problems of to-day. An’innovation is to be made in opening up these different subjects by getting the class members to give the first address. This is the eighth session of the class under its tutor, Mr G. M'Cracken. The election of officers resulted:—Chairman, .Mr A. E. B. Ward; vice-chairman, Mr J. Sanders: secreary and treasurer, Mr J. A. Fronde; librarian, Mr J. Robertson; reporter, Mr A. E. B. Ward; delegate to District Council, Mr J. Sanders. The Wanganui Harbor Board’s new tug Kahanui arrived yesterday from England, after a voyage of five months, in, which very bad weather was experienced, the vessel having to shelter on several occasions. The tug, which cost £30,000, is very up to date, equipped with salvage and fire-fighting gear.— Press Association.

The Kauri Gum Control Board has received a letter from the Under-Secre-tary for Lands approving of the board’s decision to impose a levy of \ per cent, on all gum exported for six months after May 1. After that date the levy will be raised to 1J per cent.—Auckland Association message.

All the New_ Zealand Broadcasting Company’s stations will be silent tomorrow, but the Otago radio station (4ZB) will be on the air in the morning for two hours and in the evening for two hours and a-half. Organ solos and sacred music will be broadcast. One of the briefest Magistrate Court sittings on record took place this morning, there being only one solicitor present to ask for an adjournment. Two cases were confessed, and there was no appearance of either party in a judgment summons case, which was struck out. The whole sitting lasted only one minute.

“ What has most impressed you during your visit to New Zealand?” was a query that was put to an Australian tourist who has been visiting Dunedin. “ Apart from your wonderful scenery, I have been greatly taken with the courtesy shown to visitors by your people,” was his reply. He added that this was most noticeable in the public services, especially the trams, a condition which was in direct comparison to that existing in many parts of Australia. The politeness of Dunedin conductors and their willingness in helping old people aboard the trams were very favorably commented upon by tbe visitor.

A prominent Australian business man called at the local Tourist Office to-day and stated that he had bad a delightful tour of the South Island, being particularly charmed with the Franz Josef Glacier and Queenstown, which he considered one of the best holiday resorts in either Australia or New Zealand. He expressed the opinion that New Zealand tourist resorts were now becoming better known in Australia, and many more Australians were turning tbeir eyes towards New Zealand’s resorts as ideal places in which to spend a holiday. Splendid work is being accomplished in Melbourne by the New Zealand Government Tourist Office, but the visitor emphasised’the need for a regular shipping service between Australia and the South Island of New Zealand if this (portion of the were to receive its fair portion of tourists. A solid volume of Easter business is being transacted by the local branch of the Government Tourist Office, though traffic will not be abnormal. Fewer people are going north than was expected. and most of Dunedin’s holidaymakers are arranging short trips, •Queenstown being very popular in this reapeofc. Tho races at Christchurch will draw a larac number of Duhedto oconla.

Unsettled weather during the past month has had a detrimental effect upon tourist traffic on the Milford Track. During the month a number of visitors from Dunedin and overseas made the trip to Glade House for the purpose of crossing to Milford Sound, but they were able to get only as far ns the Pompolona Huts, ten miles from Glade House, a heavy fall of snow preventing further progress. The season finishes at the. end of the present month, but little more traffic ie expected this season.

There have been a number of inquiries at the local Tourist Office regarding the Hinemoa trip to Norfolk Island next month. This trip is an inexpensive one, the whole journey including a few clays on the island, comprising about a fortnight. The unemployment situation has brightened a little during the week, and to-day the' registrations on tho Labor Department’s unemployment list showed a drop to 194, ninety-six married men and ninety-eight single men. Ten more men are shortly to he engaged on ‘public works, and there are a few private jobs offering, including a vacancy for a permanent fireman. for glasses guaranteed to suit consult W. V. Stunner, G.A.0.C., D.5.0.1.,' 2 Octagon, Dunedin; ’phone 7,s2s—[Advt.] VTbero are some wonderfully attractive designs in the new goods at Williamson’s, the jewellers (next Tho Bristol Co.).— [Advt.] Tho Wembley Club is arranging another of its popular dances in the Eariy Settlers’ Hall for Saturday night. The attractions include lucky number competitions, for which a large number of prizes, comprising Easter novelties, will be given. The Kapai Dance Band will provide the musical programme. Hibernian Social Club’s weekly dance, Monday night, in South Dunedin Town Hall.