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Evening Star, Issue 19552, 10 May 1927, Page 6

An Auckland Association message states that an Austin motor car, owned by J. H. Wood bridge, of Tuakau, was stolen from Albert street on Saturday evening, and was found destroyed by fire about 200 yards from Titirangi Beach yesterday afternoon. The car was valued at £635, and, although it was insured, the owner’s loss is stated to be heavy.

1 ‘ The inauguration this year of a mouth-organ solo in the Competitions Society’s annual festival has been held up to a great deal of undeserved ridicule,” said T. E. Hall, the society’s secretary, to a ‘ Sun ’ reporter. “We have received to data fourteen entries, and I have every reason to believe that the competition will be a fine one. People are too apt to assume that the only people who play the mouth organ live in the gutter. This is far, from correct; the mouth-organ solo has for many years been included in the syllabus of Australian societies, and I have seen 7,000 people listening to the final at Ballarat.’’—Christchurch correspondent.

A youth, seventeen years of age, whose name was suppressed in the mean- | time, was charged at the City Police ■ Court this morning with having inde- | cently assaulted a female thirteen years of age on May 6. . Mr D. J. Simpson, I instructed by Mr Hanlon, represented I accused, who was remanded until tomorrow week, bail being allowed in ( self £SO, and one surety of £SO. Ac- ' cused was ordered to report daily to | the police. In the Police Court this morning Al- | bert James Dicldson pleaded guilty to I failing to comply with the terms of his release on probation. The probation officer (Mr J. Garbutt) said that accused had been admitted to probation in August, 1925, for a period of two years, a condition being that ho repaid an amount of £ls 4s 9d, _and reported to the police. Ha had paid only £7 of the amount stated, and had failed to report since December 3 last. Dicldson was remanded till Friday next. Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., was on the bench. The “getting together” movement of the master tailors and then- operatives has been very successful, and a number of meetings have been held, at which topics of interest and benefit to all concerned have been discussed. As the outcome of the movement a profitsharing scheme has been prepared, and may be put into operation at an early date. It has met with the approval of the master tailors und the union, and now all that is required is the official endorsement of the Master Tailors’ Association. Another proposal under way is the establishment of a school for the training of apprentices in the district. The proposal is that the employers support the school and that the Government be asked for a subsidy. His Honor Mr Justice Reed lias granted probate in the estates of Mary Grace Hay, Dunedin (Mr W. 6. Hay); Margaret J. Wilson Thomson, Dunedin (Mr W. G. Hay); David Muster, Oamaru (Mr H. J. S. Grater); Robert Phair, Macanclrew’s Bay (Mr E. Aslin); Helen Billing, Oamaru (Mr W. G. Grave); Elizabeth Cuming, Dunedin (Mr W. L. Moore); John Sloan, Poolburn (Mr W. A. Bodkin) ; and Joainh James Trownson, Dunedin (Dir J. B. Nichol). Letters of administration were granted in the estates of Dorothy Dickinson, Cavcrsham (Mr J. A. Moyle), and Sarah Marchant, Dunedin (Mr J. Knuhley). “ That this meeting support the proposal of the New Zealand Government to give £1,000,000 towards the_ construction of the Singapore base ” is the subject which has been chosen for_ debate at the meeting' of the Knox Church Men’s Club on Tuesday, May 24. The affirmative side will bo taken by Mr James Begg (an ex-president of the Navy League) and Mr James Brown, and the negative sido will ho dealt with by Mr J. Steel and Mr J. Stallworthy, two students who show much ability in debate._ Considerable interest is being taken in the debate, and an invitation is being extended to any ladies or gentlemen to he present. The local M.P.s have been asked to attend. After the principal speakers have finished anyone in the hall w<fl ho allowed to speak within a time limit of five minutes.' The debate will take place in the Knox Church Sunday school hall.

Tho steamer Waikouaiti, which is duo hero on Friday from Sydney direct, has three hags of mails for Dunedin. The Dunedin vegetable market has latterly been short of cauliflowers, but they are coming in now, as well as Brussels sprouts, giving brassica lovers a variation from cabbage and turnip. The entries received tor the coming Chrysanthemum Show are slightly better 'than those of last year, and a very promising show is anticipated. Japanese chrysanthemums may predominate, hut some very fine seedling single varieties have been entered, and many visitors will no doubt welcome these latest additions to floriculture. The show will be open to-morrow and Thursday in Puller Hall.'

The motor delivery van owned by Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co. caught fire last night, and was badly damaged. A sulky and a quantity of packages for delivery that were in tho van were destroyed. Mr W. Crawford, who drives for the company, owned the sulky, which he had put on the van because the axle had been broken. The Fire Brigade was called at 10A5 p.m. to the outbreak, which occurred on the Main North road, North-east Valley, and is thought to have been caused by the engine backfiring when Mr Crawford was ready to continue his journey home to Nonnanby. Mr Crawford’s boy was aboard the van when the fire broke out, and in scrambling out had his hands and clothes somewhat burned. He was treated by a cnemist. The crippled motor was taken to M'Knight’s Garage, Stafford street, where the parts not destroyed are being overhauled. The conveyance was insured.

For glasses guaranteed to suit consult W. V. Sturmer, G.A.0.C., D.5.0.X., 2 Octagon, Dunedin; ’phone 7,s2s.—[Advt.] Place year faith in one of 'Williamson’s alarm clocks; ell guaranteed.—At 51 Princes street.—[Advt.]