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Evening Star, Issue 19550, 7 May 1927, Page 6

■ The ‘Sports Special,’ containing all the news of the day from racecourse and playing field, will be sold on the streets this evening. •

The big crowd in court this morning who expected to catch a glimpse of Arthur George Rennie, whose sensational discovery in the loft of Messrs Neill and Co.’s bond store unravelled a mystery that has baffled the police for weeks past, were disappointed, as the very much “ wanted ” man < was unable to appear owing to injuries he received just prior to his apprehension. The chief detective asked for a remand until Friday next, the request being granted. The charge read against Rennie was as follows:—On or about January 4, 1927, at Evansdale, did by day break and enter the dwelling-house of Charles Gillespie Drummond and steal therefrom a .22-calibre rifle, 40U rounds of cartridges, felt hat, sports coat, overcoat, pair trousers, two tonnis shirts, safety razor, pair tennis shoes, a mirror, two tea caddies, a _ bottle of brandy, bottle of ginger wine, tinned foods ,and other articles of a total value of £9 Os 3d, the property of Gillespie Drummond.

“Ho will have to b.e put where he cannot get into mischief. The_ best place for him is the Borstal Institute, where he will stay for a term of three years,” stated Mr Stout, S.M. ? -in the court this morning in sentencing Roy Stanley Sutton, aged seventeen and a-half, who pleaded guilty to absconding from licensed service at Ashhurst and with assaulting a, young girl. Senior-detective Quirke stated that the facts were really graver than the charge indicated, but the father did not want his child mixed up in such a case. —Palmerston North Press Asso elation telegram. A much-improved house—in fact, an excellent one—witnessed the second and final performance of G. B. Shaw’s play ‘ The Devil’s Disciple ’ by the Canterbury College Drama Society in His Majesty’s Theatre last night.

Mr Ford, manager of tho Auckland tramways, denies tho statement that preference of employment is given to immigrants. Ho says the statement that only crack Soccer players receive appointments is without foundation. Married men with families were favored, but whether a man played football or not did not affect his obtaining the position.—Press Association telegram. An Auckland Press Association telegram states that since the beginning of April there has been an average of slightly more than one burglary per day. Forty burglaries in all have occurred there, with no sign of an abatement.

After the performance of ‘ The Devil’s Disciple’ last night the Dunedin W.E.A. Drama Class entertained Professor Shelly and other members of the company at supper at the Ritz. The health of the guests was drunk in coffee to tli.e accompaniment of ‘They Are Jolly Good Fellows,’ followed by three times three. Professor Shelley suitably responded. Prior to this little function forty members of the drama class attended the performance, which was an eye-opener to them in the production Of this play of Shaw’s. Great credit is due to Miss Rollo, of the Westport Coal Company, for the manner in which she organised the party at such short notice (one day), and for the excellent arrangement made for seating at the theatre and the supper afterwards. Advice has been received by the Waikato and King Country Press (Ltd.) that the Arbitration Court has made an order certifying that in its opinion the profit-sharing scheme formulated by the directors will be favorable to the general body of workers employed by the company. It is a condition of the Companies’ Empowering Act, 1924, that a certificate must be obtained from the Arbitration Court before labor shares can be issued by a limited company. The ‘ Waikato Times ’ is therefore now in a position to bring its scheme into force of adopting the provisions of the Act in regard to the issue of labor shares.—Hamilton Press Association telegram. The steamer Maunganui, which left Sydney for Wellington yesterday, has thirty-nine hags and twenty-nine hampers of mails for Dunedin. The batch should come to hand on Wednesday.

A Foxton Association message states that all local bodies through the Manawatu electorate and county have passed resolutions objecting to the proposal by the Palmerston Chamber of Commerce to change the name of Palmerston North to Manawatu. Manawatu County has lodged an objection with the Minister of Internal Affairs.

A Wellington Press Association message _ states that correspondents are writing to the local papers expressing the utmost surprise at the news of Dr Kidson’s appointment as head of the Meteorological Department, and asking what Mr Bates has done, after twenty-five years’ excellent service, to bo superseded in favor of a newcomer without special experience. The point is stressed that a far higher salary is being paid than was ever allowed before.

} “ The Taieri has quite an attraction ' for me,” said Mr T. K. Sidey, M.P., at the mayoral installation at Mosgiel on Thursday, “ because of the close association maintained there with the early pioneers of the district. In few places is the connecting link between the earliest settlement and to-day kept so strong.” Mr Sidey went on to say that he might be counted amongst the very earliest settlers. His mother had , taken him when an infant in arms to visit friends at West Taieri. _ On one occasion the journey was interfered with through the coach upsetting. His mother received slight injuries to her arm, but he had come up smiling—just as he had done many times since at elections in later life. (Laughter.) Mr Sidey said it always gave him the greatest pleasure to visit the Tnion.

The North Taieri Church held its harvest thanksgiving services last Sunday. Well-attended services were conducted by Mi* Badcock both morning and evening. In the morning he preached from Proverbs, 10th chapter, sth verse, and in the evening from Genesis, 2nd chapter, and Bth verse. The choir was in good form, and sang special music, Mrs Williamson and Miss Currie taking the solo parts. Miss Smellie presided at the organ. The Bible class made a start last Friday, when a social was held in the hall, and a pleasant time spent. Mr Badcock presided, and Mr Pugh controlled the games. Mr P. L. Brown favored with a solo, and Mrs Smellie presided at the piano. At the mayoral installation at Mosgiel on Thursday Sir Thomas Mackenzie was the principal speaker. Dealing with our exports and primary products, ho stated that statistics showed that, so far as the wool, mutton, and lamb were concerned, production had not increased since the pre-war days, but the price wool realised in 1914 was £8,000,000, and, with a slightly lessened production, in 1925 £18.000,(TOO was obtained. Lamb, which had increased in volume by ZJ per cent., had increased in value by 100 per cent, over 1914. It was the increase in the value of that class of exports, and not the increase in the quantity, that had represented the larger sum. Dairying, on the other hand, had made great strides. Owing to overhead charges lands were not_ receiving the justice they formerly did, and some were going out of use altogether. Regarding dairying, said Sir Thomas, wo bad the problem to face of adjusting the methods of sale and distribution in the Old Country. The Wool Board of Control in Britain had been e responsible for the disastrous slump which occurred in 1920-21. and so far as New Zealand was concerned the farmers had lost some £5,000,000, which already stood to their cerdit. So much for wool control.

The monthly meeting of, the council of the Free Kindergarten Association was held on Thursday afternoon, when there were present Mesdamcs Phillips (in the chair), Batham, Hutchison, M'Leain. Cameron, Callan. Evans, Ewing, Gallaway, _ Glendining, Hanan, Halsted. Theomin, Wright, Misses Scott, Burt, Ulrich. A welcome was given to the new president (Mrs D. Phillips), who in turn extended greetings to the new members of the council. The teachers’ reports showed that in every school the attendances had increased, and the principal in her report spoke of excellent work being done. The Education . Committee, with Airs Brickell as convener, was appointed for the ensuing year. It was reported that local committees and mothers and fathers’ clubs were_ showing a keen and helpful interest in kindergarten work. The St. Kilda Mothers’ Club forwarded £8 17s 4d. being proceeds of a sale of surplus bazaar goods. The Kelsey-Yaralla Committee added to its funds by a successful lecture given by Mrs Benson. Subscriptions to the amount of £23 14s were handed in to the treasurer. It was decided that winter holidays should begin yesterday, and that all schools should bo reopened on May 24.

Representatives of the Canterbury Agricultural College_ Board of Governors hold a conference with Dr Reakes, Director of Agriculture, and Dr Marsden, Director of industrial and Scientific Research, The conference was not open to the Press, but Dr Rentes said after the meeting that the- questions requiring to be cleared up had been discussed fully, and a very much clearer understanding was reached on point* which previously had presented difficulties. Dr Reakes and Dr Marsden will prepare a statement for the Government, and a further conference will probably he held in a week or two.—Prcli Association. In connection with the fire on the Somerset at Wellington, approximately 1,000 hags of copra were slightly damaged by the fire and water. No structural damage was done. The fire brigade was three hours on the job. The first meeting of the newly-elected committee of the Hagan drew Road School was held on Tuesday evening, when all members were in attendance. Mr J. Burt presided. The head_ master reported that the term examinations now in progress would be completed before the vacation period commencing yesterday and continuing until the 25th inst. Tho question or co-operative buying of school stationery was referred to the delegates on the School Committees’ Association. The members of the committee are all of one mind upon the advisability of such a scheme, having as its object the reduction of costs of the ever-growing requirements of school requisites. The following sub-committees were appointed: — School Committees’ Association—Messrs Burt, MTndoe, and Wright; dental clinic (to be established in the next few weeks)—-Messrs Burt and MTndoe; Works —Messrs Pinder (convener), Paine, and Hollow; Sports—Messrs Smiley (convener), Wright, and Thorn. The new dental clinic, which will be of immense service both to the Caversham and Macandrew Road pupils, is only now awaiting the decision of the board’s architect as to location .and cost. Mr Perry was reappointed janitor of the school. Mr A. C. Laing, as president of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association, opened yesterday afternoon the sale of produce brought in by Taien residents, and offered at the old Art Gallery Hall in furtherance of the Poppy Day appeal. The sale proved a thorough success, buyers coming forward for the grain, roots, greenstuff, and home-made goods. For a while a big parcel of oats hung fire, but the New Zealand Express Company came to light with an offer for the lot. At the end nothing was left except half a dozen sacks of vegetables and about as many bottles of preserves as would fill a petrol case. The takings at the hall came to £177. To this has to be added various returns, the largest ot these the proceeds of the selling on the Taieri, many persons electing to buy out there instead of coming to town, and tho aggregate turn-in is put down at a conservative estimate at £202. Taieri did well. The gifts were liberal and tho giving was cheerful.

The sun’s measuring fixes the seasons, and if anyone who wishes _to know when winter commences will give a base for ' the calculation by stating the period he allots to winter the commencement and end can be seen by a glance at the almanac. Most persons allow three months for each of the four season. That partitioning survives even in these days of rebellion against things that have been. Accepting the three months as the duration of winter, with apologies to New Thought, the middle of winter is astronomically the shortest day and, as the shortest day is six weeks and a-half ahead, winter is now beginning in the Southern Hemisphere,

■ The magistrate to-day fined Donald Williamson Smith, aged thirty, a farmer, of Cheviot, £25 for driving a car in Cathedral square while intoxicated, and his license was cancelled for two years. The evidence showed that Smith had no lights, and collided with a tram. He had been previously convicted. —Christchurch Press Association telegram.

Notifications of Sunday services as enumerated below appear in our Sunday services advertising columns: —Anglican: St, Paul's Cathpdral, All Saints’, St. Matthew’s, St. Peter’s, St. Martin's. Presbyterian: First Church, Kho? Church, St. Andrew’s, St. Stephen's, Port Chalmers, North-east Valley, Mornington, Kaikorai, Caversham, South Dunedin, Chalmers, Musselburgh, Maori Hill, and St. Glair. Methodist: Trinity, Central Mission, Mornington, Cargill Eoad, St. Kilda, North-east Valley, Dundas Street, Eoslyn, Caversham, Port Chalmers. Congregational: Moray Place and King street. Baptist; Hanover Street; Eoslyn, Caversham, Mornington, North-east Valley, South Dunedin. Church of Christ: Tabernacle, South Dunedin, Eoslyn, Northeast Valley, Filleul Street. York Place Hall, Playfair Street Hall, Salvation Army, Christian Science, Theosophical Society, Spiritualists, Gospel Hall. Christadelphians. At the United Congregational Church bar vest festival will be celebrated, the Bev. C. Maitland Effiss conducting the morning service and the Eev. Wm. Saunders preaching in tho evening- Music will be a feature of°the latter service, tho soloist® being Mrs Jennings, Miss Alice Wilkinson, and Mr John Leech. Special thanksgiving offerings will be received.

The Eev. K. Ferguson Fish will preach at both services at the Caversham Presbyterian Church to-morrow.

X’lace your faith in one of Williamson’s alarm clocks; all guaranteed.—At 31 Princes street.—[Advt.] The Eev. H. V. Utting will conduct the morning.service in Trinity Methodist Church, Stuart street, to-morrow, and the Rev. H. E. Bellhouse will officiate in the evening, taking for his subject ‘The Motherhood of God’ (a mothers’ day sermon) Mr W. G. Hill ike? will sing Careys ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee.’

For glasses guaranteed to suit consult W. V. Stumer, G.A.0.C., D. 5.0.1., 2 Octagon, Dunedin; 'phone 7,525. —[Advt.J

Mothers’ day will be fittingly observed tomorrow evening in the Octagon Hall, at f 1.30. Eev. W. Walker will preach on ‘The Mother Instinct of God.’ Solos will be rendered by Miss Florence Paoey (‘Arise, O Bun’) and Mr W. N. Satterthwaite 'Mother o’ Mine ’). White flowers in honor of mother will be provided by the Y.W.B.C. Announcements of public meetings sd dressed by Eev. Charles Wickham appear in our advertising columns. The lecturer is proving very popular among young people, and greatly appreciated by teachers, and young people’s workers. ‘ Can Belief in the Reality of Hell bo Reconciled with the Love of God?’ will be Eev. W. B. Scott’s subject at Cargill Eoad Methodist Church to-morrow night. Miss M'Millan will sing ‘Thanks be to God ’ The morning preacher will be Eev. C. Wickham. of London.

A men’s service will be conducted by the Rev. E. S. Tuck well, 8.A., in the Hanover Street Baptist Church to-morrow eveainc. Mr TuckweU will speak upon ’The Modern Knight.’ There will be a men’s choir, which will render 1 Nearer, My God, to Thee,’ and Miss Mabelle Esquilant will sing -Come Unto Me’ and ‘When I Survey.’ The Eev. Eric Evans will be the preacher at the Caversham Baptist Church to-morrow The evening meeting will take the form of a mothers’ day service.

Music by the Silver Band, company songs by girls’ choir, and a welcome to the new assistant officer, Lieutenant C. A. Harris, will be features of the services to be con ducted this Sunday in the Salvation Army Fortress, Dowling street, by Ensign and M« Montgomery, -who have just returned from the recent congress gatherings in Welling .ton. Incidents in coimection with the con gross will be related by the ensign during tho services. The public are invited. The Eev. J. M. Simpson wall preach m St. Stephen’s Church to-morrow morning o» ‘A Mother’s Faith,’ and in the'evening on ‘The Mother of Jesus.’ 8.0. H. and Sunday school, children will sing, and solos will be given by Master Pearson and Miss F. Grace. A boys’ quartet will sing, and Mr G«>. Howie will play on the violin in the evening.

In order to give music lovers an opportunity of hearing the latest and best in musical instruments, the new “His Master’s Voice” Gramophone and the new elec-trically-recorded ‘“His Master’s Voice ” records, -Messrs Chas. Begg and Co., Ltd. (local agents), have inaugurated a weekly series of gramophone recitals. The first of these was held in the Eavensbourno Town Hall last Wednesday, and attracted a large and appreciative audience. The nest recitals are booked for the Coronation Hall, Maori Hill, on Wednesday nest, at 8 p.m., and in tho Coronation Hall, St. Kilda, on the 18th inst. Admission to all recitals free, and all, who attend will have an opportunity of hearing a carefully-selected programme of the best gramophone records.

The United Starr-Bowkett Building Society advertises £5,8-00 for disposal during May and June, and invites membership for the now No. 10 group. The second ballot of £BOO will bo held on Juno 9. In . view ..of ..tho rapid and. momentous changes that are taking place in the great world of Islam to-day, the meeting shortly to be bold under tho auspices of the South Island Council of the Nile Mission Press should prove especially interesting. The speakers, in a short series of addresses, will deal with this important subject from the standpoint of Christian missions to Mohammedans, and particular mention will bo made of the use of Arabic Christian literature in Moslem evangelisation, a subject which ia becoming increasingly important as a result of tho strides education is making, even in the hitherto isolated world of Islam

A popular rendezvous to-night will be tho Cosy Cabaret, which will be held in tho Overseas Hall, opposite the railway station. Delightful music provided by the Eoyal Dance Band and an excellent floor, amid tho comfortable surroundings of the Cabaret, combine to make for a most enjoyable ctvening’s entertainment to all dancing lovers.

The first meeting for the year of the Otago Classical Association will be held on Monday evening, when members will give readings in -translation from Greek and Roman classics.

Tho Railway Social Club calls attention to its special carnival danoe advertised in this issue.