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Evening Star, Issue 19634, 13 August 1927, Page 6

Tho ‘Sports Special,’ with oil the sporting news of tlio day. at home and abroad, will be sold on the streets tonight. Sir Truby King will visit J)uncdin next week in order to attend the annual meeting of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children, which is to bo held in the Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Sir Trnby King will give an address entitled, ‘ Further Simplifications and Improvements in the Hearing of Infants.’ According to custom, tho public; are cordially invited to attend this meeting. A recent shipment of apples hy the Somerset from the Taicri shows that marketable apples can he grown in that district as well as in the Otago Central. This year Taieri-grown apples have appeared lor the first time in Covent Carden. Mr Alex. M‘Dona Id (Outram), who, hy tho way, is tho secretary of the Taicri Fruitgrowers’ Association, has pioneered the way for Taiori Growers He has just been advised by the secretary of the Otago Provincial Fruitgrowers' Council that tho London brokers cotninc it most favorably on the condition and quality of tho Taieri fruit, their comments being emphasised by the advice that Air M’Donald’s Jonathans, ex the Somerset, realised up to 2Gs per case, c.i.F. This is very gratifying, and leaves a handsome margin for the enterprising shipper. Air M'Donald’s other varieties have also done well, and it is felt that next shipping season will sec several of the Taicri growers trying their luck overseas. Amongst tho varieties to bo shipped will be Cox’s Orange Pippin. This grows well on the Taicri, and this variety brings high prices in London. The Alosgiel Borough Council had a “ field day ” at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when a. number of cyclists were brought up for riding on footpaths or riding at night without lights. Allan M'Dougall, Lionel APDonald, Allan McDonald, Simon Sinclair, Charles Bryce, and Douglas S. _ Rcvoll were charged on the information of Henry Butcher, traffic inspector, with riding nnlightcd bicycles in thc < borough after sunset and > before sunrise. All were convicted, fined ss, and ordered to pay court costs (10s). Arthur Tansley, who did not appear, was convicted of riding a bicycle on a footpath in the borough. Ho was fined ss, and ordered to pay court costs (lps). A boy under sixteen years was similarly charged,.and was convicted and discharged.

Tlio local office of the Labor Department reported this morning that there had been fifteen fresh registrations for employment since yesterday. The official figures arc > now 197 single and ninety-one, married men. No new placings have been effected-

A sale of work, in aid of llcdeastle College, was opened in the Christian Brothers’ this afternoon. The sale, which is being conducted by Miss M'Cready, will ho in full swing this evening, when an excel lent programme of vocal items by the pupils of Madame Reggiardo, Miss Doreen Wheeler, and the Christian Brothers’ Choir will be given. Patrons arc also promised a number of novel competitions. Albert Cox, a middle-aged man, was charged this morning, at Christchurch, with the theft of a coat valued at £5, the property of the mayor, the Bov. J. K. Archer, from the City Council Chambers. Ho was remanded till Tuesday .—Pres s As soci addon,.

At the annual meeting of the Hinuora Co-operative Dairy Company ou Friday it was decided to make representations to the Government to reduce the number of members of the Dairy Control Board to two, of whom one should operate in England and the other in New Zealand.—Special to ‘ Star.’

A St. Kilda poultry fancier was today showing to others, who have the same hobby, an egg weighing c\qr three and a-halt ounces that was laid by a white leghorn pullet hatched last January.

Significant and worthy of special notice is the announcement in a London cablegram that apples carried from New Zealand by the Corinthic realised up to 25s per case. For these apples were shipped nearly two months later than usual, and six weeks later than New Zealanders were advised to ship. As the loading was at Wellington it is probable that the apples came from Nelson orchards. None from Otago wero in the consignment. Perhaps it would bo unwise to build hopes too brightly on what may happen to late shipments in other years, for a shortage in Australian and American apples and the failure of the soft fruits season in England conspired this year to create a special demand for our apples. But the market record is distinctly encouraging, even after making all deductions. Pleasant, also, is the report that the Taieri-grown apples raised by Mr A. APDonalcl, of Outram, have realised good prices in London. Several Taiori men were advised by the Otago Fruitgrowers’ Council to try the overseas market, and Mr M'Donald was plucky enough to take the hint convoyed by Mr H. Turner. Now that ho Inis made such a good start, other Taiori growers may be tempted to have a cut in.

Can anyone supply an answer to the question as to why the tramway department should continue to bear the charge of maintaining the roads that carry the rails? Such a charge was obviously proper in the days “of the horse cars, when hoofs cut up the roads. What injury is now caused to the roads by the car wheels? None. The circumstances have entirely changed. The civic purse is not. thereby affected—it is all the same to the public whether the tramways or the works department bears the maintenance charge—but the real value of tho tramways department to the city as a whole, from a. revenueearning point of view, would be shown to bo very much greater if the maintenance burden was taken olf its outgoings. This is tho unofficial observation of an outsider who is trying to understand our corporation finance.

Though not yet available for inspection or consultation, the Mantel! collection of books and manuscripts re ccntly _ presented to tho Turnbull .Library is now so far arranged that the value of the gift is becoming apparent, it being comparable to the Grey- collection in Auckland. Mr W. B. D. mantel! appears to have been in personal touch with most of tho literary men of the Victorian era. There are autograph copies of Byron’s early works, letters by Shelley, Mrs Browning, Carlyle. Ruiwcr Lytton, Charles .Darwin, Richard Owen, Charles Lyell, and others. Tho fifth folio of Shakespeare is among tho treasures, and also several quarto volumes, of Ben Jonson plays, early editions of some works by Spenser and Gideon. Mr Mantcil was well known to the scientists of Great Britain, America, and tho Continent, and the friendship involved groat correspondence of thousands of letters, including Lyell, Darwin, Owen, Tyndall, Desliayes, Sowcrby, Do Labechc and Dana. Tho books include autograph copies of first editions of many of the scientific works of the day.—Wellington Press Association telegram.

Opossum skins have risen in value. At the second of tho Dunedin sales, begun yesterday and continued this morning, the prices went up to as much as 2s per skin above the prices realised a month ago.

Just now the Ocean Beach Domain Board is planting hardy shrubs, the oleui'ia Traversii, on the sea faco of the sandhills to the eastward of the esplanade. In this way, without show or demonstration, the board signalises its complete mastery of a difficulty that not very many years ago gave the whole Flat disquieting thoughts. The ocean was biting into the' sandhills abreast of the end of Forbury road. Engineers wore consulted, expensive protection works were talked of, groynes were built, and the. residents were seriously alarmed. The real relief came from tho unobtrusive and cheap methods adopted by the Domain Board. By means of scrub fences and suchlike devices it coaxed Nature to do the repairing and tho rc-crcction of the sandhills. The sand gathered at the too of the lulls and on-the faces, marram was established, then the inpin took hold, and now tho board has cut away a lot of those growths to prevent fire and has begun to plant the shrubs that may ho tho forerunners_ of trees. It is a wonderful reclamation if considered in this way: that the scare has gone and that the existing confidence in the security of this once vulnerable bight has been brought about ai a total cost to the public that is hardly felt in our general expenditure.

Four men and a woman pleaded guilty this morning to various charges rising out of the raiding of bookmakers’ premises. Thomas Curran was lined £75 for keeping a common gaming house, while £25 lines were imposed ou William AFAlillan and Archibald Anderson for assisting in ils management. Another, William M'Alillan, and Lily Peters wore lined £2 each for being found on tho premises. The detectives found £7O in cash in tho house.—Auckland Press Association telegram.