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Evening Star, Issue 21170, 2 August 1932, Page 8

In connection with Saturday night’s accident, when William Edwards, of Eastbourne (Wellington) received fatal injuries through being knocked down by a motor car in Whitmore street, Paul Olsen Sabo, a taxi-driver, aged 41, appeared before Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., there yesterday. Senior-sergeant Scott applied for a remand until August 9, saying that there was a possibility of a more serious charge than that of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car being made against the accused. The remand was not opposed. Bail was granted in the accused’s own bond of £IOO and one surety of £IOO or two of £SO each.

hTe railway station bookstall at Dunedin has been taken over by the Railways Department, and will be carried on by it. The system previously in vogue has been to offer the lease of the stall for a short term of years, and to accept a tender. There was an attendance of about a dozen at the annual meeting of the Mosgiel Ex-Pupils’ Association, held in Mosgiel School last evening. The following office-bearers wore elected: — President, Mr A. M'Kerrow; vice-presi-dents, Messrs R. Smeaton and R. Wedderspoon; secretary, Mr A. Mitchell; committee—Mrs jas. Brown, Misses Scott and E. Kirk, Messrs E. Smeaton, G. Hendry, and J. White. It was decided to hold an anniversary social about next Easter, and to take steps to advise members.

The Christchurch Bands/ Contest Committee sent out last month a circular inviting the bands of the do--minion to state what support they were prepared to give to a festival with a prize total of approximately £307 Ifls. The St. Kilda Band’s secretary (Mr A. G. Homer) replied that his band would in all probability make tho trip, but that to attract a large entry it would be wise to increase the prize money. The answer to that reply is now to hand. The Christchurch secretary (Mr f. E. Hall) writes: “While thanking you for your reply I have to state that owing to so few ‘favourable replies being received, we regret to have to forego tho 1933 contests.” In this connection it may bo pointed out that the total prize money at Dunedin in 1 !,>;{!) was ,‘;1,000, and at Wellington last rear £OG-> lUs.

At the Taicrl River Trust meeting yesterday it was decided to grant a discount of 3| per cent, on rates paid within thirty days from the date of the demand.

The Utago University Museum has just received a largo amount of valuable material from the Reef Islands and Santa Cruz, collected by the Rev. George West, of the Melanesian Mission, and sent by him ivs a gift. The articles will be classified and put on exhibition in due course. To attend a week’s refresher course in camp at Burnham twenty officers and non-coms of the Otago Mounted Rifles left by train this morning, the party being under the charge of Adjutant Sugden. five others were to be picked up at Oamaru. The camp is to bo commanded by Colonel Hurst, D. 5.0., of the 3rd New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade.

When a case was called in the Magistrate’s Court this morning Mr J. It. Bartholomew, S.M., drew counsel’s attention to the fact that he had been informed that the summons had been served by a boy about fourteen years of age. He said that had the defendant not forwarded a confession ho would have ruled that the summons had not been properly served, and he issued a warning to solicitors that summonses must be served by a responsible person.

A special message to the ‘ Sun ’ (Christchurch) contained the following: changes in the State superannuation system are likely to be discussed by the Government in the near future, and probably legislation to give its proposals to place the funds on a sound basis will have to be put through both Houses when Parliament reassembles in September next. It is understood that ono of the proposals for consideration will be the limiting of all retiring allowances (both past and present) to £3OO a year. This step would cause considerable concern among many retired public servants who are drawing superannuation much in excess of that amount. To make the funds solvent again drastic readjustments will have to be made, and it is stated that among the proposals which will have to be dealt with will be the extension of the period of service before retirement to forty-five years or to sixty-five years of age; the raising of the rates of contribution; and the limitation of the retiring allowances already mentioned. ’’

The killing of sheep and lambs at the South Otago Freezing Works, Finegand, concluded on Saturday morning. The total tally of sheen and lambs killed this season was 351,790, which is a record in the history of the freezing works, and is about 5,470 more than last year. On June 20 a Bradford wool sorter who opened a halo of New Zealand wool found an envelope with the words “ Finder please open.” He followed instructions, and read this: “If you are a British citizen 1 will be very pleased on receipt of your name and address together with this note to send you free of cost a New Zealand frozen lamb. I buy nothing but British-made goods. If you buy only Empire produce, meat, butter, and cheese we in the colonies will be able to buy more of your British-made goods to our mutual benefit. Please acknowledge the receipt of the lamb when you get it.” The sorter was a man of action. He told his employer of the letter, gave a story to the Yorkshire* Observer,’ the leading Bradford paper,, and that evening wrote to the Southland farmer who had sent the wool claiming his frozen lamb. Excerpts from his letter are as follow:—“I am a wool sorter working in a Bradford factory, and I think you will be glad when 1 say that it could not hare fallen into better hands, as 1 am a great believer in Empire trade. 1 really do believe if we each bought more from one another we should both benefit. Personally, I have bought your butter for twelve months or more, and I think your honey is fine. But you know when people have been used to getting one kind of butter—say, Danish—all their lives, well you know they take some breaking off; but I think there are more Empire butter, apples, and other goods being sold than ever this year. In England everything has to be marked either Empire-grown or foreign as the case may be. So 1 think you will agree we are going along in the right direction.” His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy today granted probate in the estates of Eliza 'Jane Harriott,' Waitati; Jane Crawford, Dunedin; Alexander Kelly, Oamaru; Margaret Lindsay M'Cone, Deborah (near Oamaru) ; Hugh M‘Allum, Dunedin; Elizabeth Macassey, Dunedin; and George Robert Munro, Balclutha. “ Yes, ladies are still smoking,” said a leading tobacconist in response to a query, “ but they have had to economise like the men, and are not buying as much as a year or two ago.” Ho added that an innovation as far as ladies were concerned was the making of their own cigarettes. Formerly nearly all of them bought “ tailormade ” cigarettes, but now some were the possessors of cigarette machines, and were quite expert in making their own.

“ Is there much early-morning work for taxis nowadays?” was the query put to a local driver. “ Yes,’’ he replied, “ there is just as much as ever, it is, however, spread among a far greater number than was the case four or five years ago, and the fares are about half what they were, this being the result of the keen competition ■ consequently the earnings are not as great as they were, the reductions applying to day time as well as night time, and the taximen generally are feeling the depression just as much as others.”

Is a change impending in theatre fashion ? A trade letter received in Dunedin from London this week announces that several of the large West End cinemas have now reverted to variety, dispensing with films. They run continuous 'performances, commencing at 2 o’clock and going on till midnight. These performances are meeting with success. Queues are seen every day. The London Pavilion box office receipts for the first week of June gathered in £3,400, and this is only one that is profiting by the change. The writer notes with satisfaction that the reversion means the re-employment of full orchestras, and numbers of gifted men and women who have been having a lean time for several years. Already it has had the effect of bringing out promising young performers, such as Glen Ellyrs (dancer), Anna Rogers (mimic), and a younger brother of Grade Fields (comedian). • Three awards for bravery wore made at a meeting of the Court of Directors of the Royal Humane Society at Christchurch. William Harold Nairn, of Hawke’s Bay, was awarded a certificate for rescuing two girls from drowning at Porangahau Reach. Letters of recommendation arc to be sent to Oscar Ramstead, a waterside worker, of Wellington, who, on April - —O, rescued a man from drowning after lie had fallen overboard from the steamer Komata, and to Arthur Hincho, a butcher, of Onohuiiga, who rescued from drowning a child who had fallen into a clay pit filled with water. . Hincho dived repeatedly until ho located the child sluck in heavy mud at the bottom ol the pit.

The rainfall at Palmerston North for July was only 1.17 in, being the lowest recorded in the past twenty years. The previous lowest fall in July was 1.29 in, in 1928. The past month was also the coldest on record for the past two decades.—Press Association. There was only one case to engage the attention of Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, a first offender being fined 10s, for drunkenness, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment.

Save your eyes. Be wise and consult W. V. Sturmer (optician, 2 Octagon), thus conserving good vision for old age. —fAdvt.)

Gold wanted in large or Email quantities; bring your old jewellery along, valued by export jewellers and highest prices given. -Ferguson Ltd., jewellers, 45 George street. —l'Advt.! In this issue the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce notify that nominations of officers for the ensuing year will be received till noon of Thursday, August 4. The officers retiring are the president (Mr T. C. Knss) and vice-president (Mr James Begg), who arc eligible for re-election. The following also retire, but not eligible for re-election as members of the council Messrs N. Falconer, A. Miller, B. Fairbairn, A. C. Cameron, J. C. Begg, R. Duncan, also Mr H. Turner (resigned). Six members of tliu council are to bo elected

Fort Chalmers.—J. Watson’s winter clearing sale general drapery, clothing, furnishings, hods and slices, all at reduced prices, now proceeding-—I Advl. ]