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Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 6

Archdeacon P. B. Haggitt, of Christchurch, arrived from the north on Saturday to begin a missionary crusade in this city. The llev. F. B. Redgrave, vicar of Fendalton, and formerly general secretary of the New Zealand Anglican Board of Missions, passed through Dunedin by the afternoon express for Invercargill for the same purpose. The Rev. G. H. Schurr arrived in'Dunedin from Seddou (Marlborough) on Friday evening, and proceeded to the Maniototo district on Saturday, The Rev. F. J. Daynes, vicar of Richmond (Nelson), arrived in Oamaru on Saturday to begin the crusade there. These four clergymen were dedicated at special services yesterday to the work of the crusade, which will take place during the coming fortnight throughout Otago and Southland. .Similar arrangements will be made in other dioceses for the month of May. At the next municipal organ recital the principal item will be a performance of Saint-Saens’s great ‘ Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G Minor,*' in which the solo piano part will be played by Miss Mary Fraser, while the orchestral accompaniment will be played on the organ by Dr V. E. Galway. This is one of the most notable piano concertos, and all music lovers should welcome the opportunity of hearing it. A fine selection of organ items includes Bach’s ‘ Prelude and Fugue in C Major,’ the first movement of Widor’s brilliant organ Symphony No. 6, a Romance by Beethoven, and lighter items by Gluck, Johnson, Haigh, Tschaikovsky, and Mailly. A naval ceremony was observed on the Diomede, Veronica, and Laburnum at Wellington yesterday to mark the taking over of the New Zealand Squadron by Commodore Watson from Rearadmiral Blake.

A decision to postpone Jiis departure for North. Auckland for a week on account of the difficulty in obtaining a sufficiently powerful electric motor to drive the revolving windscreen on his racing car was reached by Mr Norman Smith • after tests on Saturday. The apparatus itself (says a Press Association telegram from Auckland) proved highly satisfactory. During the coming week a motor of the correct type will be fitted. A Dunedin motorist who went to Te Anau for Easter strongly recommends a trip that way on the road that the Public Works Department has made tor a distance of over forty miles from the Te Anau Hotel. He counted more than a hundred cars temporarily parked on the stretch of thirty-five miles that leads to the store, and all who exchanged comments with him said that the going was pleasurable. There are no hills to give trouble. Our informant went on top gear all the way. Splendid bush is passed through in several places, and he says that the Eglinton Valley is the loveliest bit of scenery he has beheld in New Zealand. The Minister of Internal Affairs apparently deems it advisable to direct the attention of gun sportsmen to the law restraints concerning the pursuit of native and imported game. The list is published in the, latest ‘Gazette,’ therefore the warning is opportune, and no one who may be prosecuted for a breach can plead surprise. The use of aeroplanes, power boats, and motor cars is prohibited for the purpose of taking or killing, and the interdict applies not only to the man with uiio gun, but to any other person who under the sportsman’s direction is employed to drive or frighten the game. A power boat is defined as any boat that is wholly or partly propelled by mechanical power. The Otago Acclimatisation Society points out that it is also still the law that no person may use an automatic or auto-loading gun that is capable of holding more than two cartridges. This warning as lo guns is not a mere formality. There are conscienceless sportsmen who to quickly bag their quota of twenty birds per day would gleefully blaze away ■with a magazine gun. Let them beware that such unsportsmanlike practice is of equal authority with the other “Thou shalt nots.” Incidentally it may be repeated that the taking of Paradise ducks in Otago is entirely iorbidden in the approaching season. James William Harbord, formerly town clerk at Upper Hutt, was sentenced by Mr Justice MacGregor to two years’ imprisonment for the theft of borough funds, totalling £1,114 3s Id. Harbord had pleaded The Judge said it was hopeless for him to make any excuse. —Wellington Press Association.

In the Police Court this afternoon Ernest Norman Eric Marsh and Leonard John Booth, who had been sentenced to a period in the Borstal institute by His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court in the morning, appeared for sentence on three charges of theft and one charge of converting a motor car to their own use. Each accused was convicted and discharged on each charge. Notice of motion was given by Mr W. W. Scarff at the meeting of the Citizens’ Unemployment Relief Committee to-day that the committee should disband from May 2 (says a Christchurch Press Association message). The Chairman said that the members should bo given time to consider the question, and the discussion was postponed. The notice of motion follows on a sharp divergence of opinion between the Unemployment Board and the committee concerning the abandoned forty-hour week scheme which it was proposed to apply at the Waimakariri camps. That the pea-rifle nuisance is still in evidence is borne out by a Cape Saunders resident, who yesterday morning had the unenviable experience of a bullet passing through his hat and slightly grazing his scalp. A chimney fire at 164'Forbury road was attended to by the brigade at 8.31 last night before any damage was done.

His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy this morning heard legal argument in the case in which Annie O’Kane claimed damages of £3lO from Otago Motors Ltd., Dunedin, for an alleged breach of undertaking in respect to the sale of a Graham-Paigo motor car,

A subscriber wishes 1 to know whether there is any truth in the rumour that one of the undisclosed reasons for not going on with the building of the Dunedin Post Office is that it would deprive a certain resident of a heavy rental that he is receiving. The facts, as stated in an artricle in the ‘ Evening Star’ of August 13, 1926, do not warrant such a rumour. The Garrison Hall was built in 1878, at a cost of nearly £B,OOO, the nmney being found by a board of commissioners who individually and collectively made themselves liable for a loan of £5,000 and arranged with a bank for an overdraft. Colonel Stanley was the first chairman of that board, and non-commissioned officer G. L. Denniston its honorary secretary. The citizens helped _ the volunteers in the finance for acquiring the property in Dowling street. The seizure by the Government was accomplished by an Act of Parliament which declared all garrison and drill halls the property of the State, and the only payment was £BOO, a not extravagant outlay for a post office which has served and is likely to serve for a while. If there be anything in the old saying about an apple a day keeping the doctor away, the doctors in London are in for a thin time when the steamers Port Napier and Northumberland reach the Thames. Those steamers commenced v loading apples to-day at Port Chalmers, With the exception of a few hundred cases despatched from Lyttelton last week, these are the first shipments of this season’s apples from Otago Central. The Port Napier is loading about 12,000 cases,' and the Northumberland 6,000 cases. Included in these shipments arc some lines of choice pears. , In the art gallery that was one of the features at the 1825 Exhibition in Dunedin the British section included a portrait in oils of William Ferguson Massey. It was priced at 500 guineas, and did not find a purchaser here. Mr E. Murray Fuller, now in Dunedin with another collection, says that just before he left London this portrait wae sold for 1,200 guineas to a connoisseur who did not know Mr Massey, but purchased the portrait for its art value. Mr Fuller has in the collection at present on view in the Pioneer Hall another work by the painter of the Massey portrait, Augustus John, its title being ‘ The Girl in the Yellow Jacket,’ price 500 guineas.

Stoke-hauling, a fishing method abhorred by men who profess and call themselves anglers, has been practised at the mouth of the Leith for the unfair taking of the trout that have there assembled to wait for chances to go up stream. The dodge is to attach three large hooks on a sinker to a line and draw it with sudden jerks in the hope of hooking in the eye, by the tail, or otherwise fish that at present have no appetite, consequently are not attracted ‘by bait. It is possible that before long some addict to this unlawful practice will be publicly exposed. A fire early yesterday morning gutted the Westland County Council’s meeting chamber, while the contents, which included a number of mementoes,_ photographs, and a large map showing the economic minerals of Westland ? were destroyed. The indications point to incendiarism. The buildings were insured for £4OO and the furniture for £IOO in the New Zealand Office.—-Hoki-tika Press Association.

Doubtless every storekeeper could tell a different tale as to a method whereby he or she had been cheated out of payment for goods. Persons new to shops are usually easily “ done in,” and they should nowadays be wide awake in the case of any suspicious purchase. A St. Hilda shopkeeper was caught the other evening, and she explains her misfortune as a warning to other storekeepers. A well-dressed young man, without a hat, entered her shop and asked for four packets of cigarettes. These were placed on the counter, the lady behind the counter, believing he had come from a nearby home, and he asked for some sweets. Whilst these were being weighed out, he said be would take some apples, and left the shop to look in the window, the shopkeeper thought. But he had collected his cigarettes, and was nowhere to be seen when the orders had been made up and the lady had waited until she suspected the worst. The parcels are still awaiting that young man’s return—and so is the shopkeeper. One of the crew on the Norwegian steamer Penybryn, which came alongside the Ravensbourne wharf to-day te discharge phosphate, is a woman purser. She is Madam Salveson, an Englishwoman, wife of the master of the vessel. Her office is not a sinecure, for at Lyttelton she was able to supply the Customs officers with all the necessary particulars and documents. There, is also another female member of the crew. She is a blonde girl, aged oDo year and nine months, daughter of Captain and Madame Salveson, and appears on the ship’s articles as “ cabin girl.”

Save your eyes. Be wise and consult W. V. Sturmer (optician, 2 Octagon), thus conserving good vision for old age.—fAivt.] The weekly dance in aid of the funds of the Dunedin Qont.ra! branch of the New Zealand Labour Party will be held in the Trades Hall this evening. Dancing to-night, under the Mayfair Club’s management, in the Early Settlers’ Hall. The Savonia Dance Band will supply the music.