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Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 14

Tho Public Works Department has now got out of hand the job of metalling the road from Dunedin to the Taieri bridge, and of the four miles of surfacing a .stretch of ono mile and a-half is completed. The remainder of the surfacing stands over to a more convenient but not remote season, probably next summer, Tho sitting of the Conciliation Council fixed for October 23 at Dunedin to hear tho freezing works’ dispute will now not be held, the local clerk of awards having been advised that arrangements have been made between the employers and the employees for a dominion sitting of tho Conciliation Council to bo held at Christchurch on November 12. Arrangements are well ahead for procuring the plant required for the making of the Poolburn irrigation dam, and Mr T. M. Ball., district engineer in tho Public Works service, hopes to soon have men at work on that construction.

The programme sketched a while ago by Commander Byrd as to the movements of the two vessels that wintered and are still lying at Port Chalmers is not so far altered. The City of New York is to sail for tho ice about December 10; the Eleanor Boling is to start about January 5. Pretty well all the vacancies in tlio personnel of those craft have been filled by volunteers, only one or two remaining to be allotted. Investors bare of late taken a fancy to business properties in Dunedin, amt several transactions are recorded, all at appreciable advances in value. One example is of a shop freehold in the main street that changed hands not very many years ago at £4,000, was subsequently bought for £B.OOO, and now becomes tho property of another owner at £II,OUU. Deals” of this sort make one ask how leasing tenants are going to stand up to the rentals.

A start has been made with tho formation widening of another bit of tho Portobello road—tlio tbreo miles from Macandrew Bay to Broad Bay—and the contractor has resumed his undertaking on tlio portion of the first four miles that was begun last year. An unusual position arose in tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday (says a Press Association telegram from Gisborne), when a Maori, who had been arrested, under the name of Henry Herman, pleaded guilty to the theft of clothes and elected to he dealt with summarily. The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, and to pay the value of the clothes stolen at the rate of 10s a week. Tho accused was then taken to the probation officer, who recognised him as a previous offender, who had been convicted under the name of Hem a Karepa, who was out on probation, with ono month of hi.s term still to run. Karepa thereupon made a further appearance before tho magistrate, charged with a breach "of his probation terms. in imposing a fine of £3, the magistrate said that the accused was fortunate that his previous record was not known when he made his earlier appearance that day.

Following a meeting of the board of directors of the Bank of New Zealand yesterday it was announced that the bank would probably issue portion of its long-term maturity debenture stock. 1 No particulars regarding the issue were available, but it was stated that full details would he announced .shortly.— Press Association. At tho Police ConiT. 'Wellington, Williams, who admitted having been found with opium in his possession, was convicted and lined £4O and costs. Defendant said he had been roil nested by a man named A. E. Reid, who gave the address of the Club Hotel, Palmerston North, to collect a parcel for him at the General Post Oflice, Wellington. He did not know what was in the parcel. Detective Robinson stated that the -wrapping round tho parcel became loose in the Post Office, and ono of the clerks discovered- that it contained twelve tins of opium. When Williams called for tho parcel, which was addressed to Reid, lie was arrested. Efforts to trace Reid, had fai Icd .—Press A ssociat ion.

Consigned to the Rank of/England, twenty-five boxes of gold coin to tho value "of £125,000 have been shipped by the Bank of New Zealand for London This represents the balance of an original shipment of one hundred boxes of sovereigns and half-sovereigns to the total value of £500,000, which was to have been sent to London last month, but the vessel’s strong room was not large enough.—Press Association.

Motorists arc warned of tho necessity of driving with care on tho road over Saddle Hill while the surface is being laid. Fast and careless driving on the part of motorists occasion much anxiety to the contractor and the men engaged by him, and unless engaged by him, and unless more care is occasioned accidents are bound to happen, either to the motorists themselves or to the men working on the road.

Preliminary arrangements have been made by Mr E. L. Macassey, of Dunedin, for the dotation of a company, with a capital of £30,000, to establish ■a large, modern brewery in Invercargill. Mr Macassey said this morning that it was hoped to commence operations in 1930, it being the intention _ of the company to • make a specialty of bottled ale and stout. The objects of the proposed company aro to take over Roope’s breweries in Mary street and at Collingwood, Invercargill, and to erect a modern brewery on the’ former property.

'file postal authorities advise that tho Tahiti, due at Wellington on Tuesday, has 225 bags of English and American mail and thirteen parcel receptacles for Dunedin. The Maheno, clue .there the same day,. has 148 hags of Australian and English mail, aid : forty parcel receptacles. The Marama, also due at Aucldand on Tuesday, has.ythree bags and ono parcel receptacle for Dunedin. The letter portions of the Tahiti’s and Maheno’s. mails will reach Dunedin at 9 p.ra. on Wednesday, and tho papers and parcels] the' following day. The Marama’s mail should roach here on Thursday afternoon.

There was . a clean sheet at the City Police- Court this morning;

Tar boiling over was responsible for an outbreak of fire in a shed in Kirkcaldie street, where _ corporation work was in progress, this morning. The City Fire Brigade were called to the scene at 10.18 and extinguished the fire without delay. The damage amounted to about £5. ~ .

Notification of Sunday service* M enumerated below appear in our Sunday>ortice« advertising columns: —Anglican: St. Paul’s Cathedral, All Saints’, St. Matthew's, St. Peter's. Presbyterian: First Church, Knox Church, St. Andrew’s, St. Stephen’s, Port Chalmers, Northeast Valley, Mornington, Caversham, South Dunedin, Chalmers, Musselburgh. Maori Hill, St. Clair, Green Island, Kaikorai. Methodist: Trinity, Central Mission, Mornington, Cargill Road, St. Kilda, N.E. Valiev, South Dunedin. Baptist: Hanover Street, Caversham, N.E. Valley. Mornington, South Dunedin. Congregational: Moray Place, United. Church of Christ. Tabernacle, Eoslyn, N.E. Valley, Filleul Street, York Place Hall. Playfair Street Hall, Salvation .Army, Christian Science, Theosophical Society, Spiritualist*, Christadelphians, Gospel Hall, Evangelical Hall. Higher Thought Centre. " An advertisement from the Workers Educational Association appears in this issue connected with natural history class. The Railway Department advertises in this iseue particulars of cheap fares Dunedin to Pembroke by rail and motor.

This Christmas, for the family, for your friends, the gift that only you can give—your Photograph. There is still, time to have it taken for the Home mail. Rembrandt Studio, 199 George street. G. Angus Bunz, proprietor.—[Advt.] A special course for ladies’ weight reducing is advertised in another column in con. nection with tho Dunedin School of Physical Culture.

Tho Kaikorai School will celebrate iU diamond jubilee by a picnic on the Bishopscourt Football Ground, kindly lent for the occasion, oh Saturday November 2, at 1.00. A programme of sports for the children will be carried out, and, if time permits, the various sporting activities of tho school will bo shown by a short spell of each game played. There will be march past of the scholars, who will each receive sweets and fruit, and the prizes won will be presented by tho mayoress, while the mayor will speak a few words at 4- o’clock. Hot water and milk will lie provided during the afternoon. On the Sunday following divine service, arranged and conducted by the religious instructors at the, school, will bo held at 2.45. Ex-pupils, cs-teachors, parents, and guardians, and air who have been connected with the school arc invited to attend. Tho Kaikorai Band will give a programme in the Gardens to-morrow night, commencing at 8 o’clock. Tho band lias been in constant rehearsal throughout the winter, and will present an entirely new programme, comprising selcc 4l ons from heavy works, light, opera, hymns. Collection on entering. Tho Otago High School Ex-Girls’ Club hold a dinner in Tudor Hall on tho evo of November 18.

The Dominion Building Society announces that it will bold a ballot for £6,000 on October 31.

The St. Kilda Band will play at the Botanical Gardens to-morrow at 3. p.ra. A first-class programme lias been arranged.

Dancing will be held at the Moulin Rouge Cabaret (Roslyn) this evening, from 8 o'clock until midnight. The picture programme will be dispensed with to enable patrons a full night’s dancing. The Click Clack Orchestra will be in attendance. The boy stood on the burning deck, bis clothing burnt to tatters. Oh, Harold AYright will clothe this wreck ho'cried, eo nought ebe matters. Harold, write, the teachersaid, the name that’s won renown. The answer, Harold AYright, it read, the cheapest now exclusive shop in town, King street. October 19, 1928-1929, Birthday AYeek Reductions, 5 per cent, all round.—[Advt,] Your eyes are Nature’s most precious gift. Take cave of them. Consult W. AT fiturmer, optician, 2 Octagon, ; Dunedin,— [Advt.] For highest quality Diamond Rings, reliable AVatcbes, and Optical Service, Peter Dick, tbs most reliable jewellers and opticians.—[Advt.] " Satisfaction is forced upon yon at Williamson's, the people's jewellers, 51 Princes street (next The Bristol Piano Co.).—[Advt.J