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Evening Star, Issue 21220, 29 September 1932, Page 8

It was disclosed by Mr Ransom in the House last night that in the Lands Department there was outstanding at present in interest no less a sum than £1,580,000. In those circumstances (said the Minister) one could understand how essential the practice of economy was, so that increased taxation should hot bo imposed.

A very pretty little bunch of five kowhais are in magnificent bloom at present near the Scott memorial cairn at Port Chalmers. The trees are well grown, and their exact location is at the roadside about 100yds above the cairn. Further up tho road, at Miliiwaka, bellhirds and tin's are more numerous than usual in the vicinity of Cold Water Creek, where the native hush is still intact and most interesting at this season.

At tho last meeting of the Douglas Social Credit Association the following resolution was carried unanimously, and it wast decided to send a copy of same to the Prime Minister:—>“ In view of the published statement that tho Government is reconsidering the establishment of a central batik Of the typo as outlined by Sir Otto Niemcyer, this association wishes to bring to the notice of Parliament the parlous state of those Countries which hate already adopted this plan—e.g., Austria, Germany, America. In recording our opposition to these proposals we should like to renew our former protest and to emphasise the danger of allowing the control of New Zealand's monetary policy to be vested overseas.’’

The Court of Appeal has granted final leave in the following eases for an appeal to the Privy Council from the judgment delivered by it after tho hearing or those cases in May last : General Mortgage Corporation v. Marley, General Mortgage Corporation v. Gibb',, mid General Mortgage Corporation v. Duke.

Farmers are not asking for a continuation of the fine weather. They would like a little rain to refresh the pastures. In some districts right through the dominion the green feed is running short. A month ago the grass was coming away nicely, hut cold and dry winds, mostly north-easterly, have checked the growth. Those farmers who hare plenty of turnips (of which there was generally a good crop) can keep their livestock supplied. Others are in a grave quandary. Southland has this season won both trophies that are annually competed for by the boys’ and girls’ agricultural clubs throughout the dominion. The challenge cup presented by Stuart Wilson, of Wellington, for the best crop is awarded to John Darling, of Otatara, Avho produced a yield of King Edward potatoes that averaged 46 tons 10 cwt per acre. That handsome trophy is now on view at Skene’s shop in Stuart street. It has been won for Otago or Southland eight, times in the fourteen years since it was first presented. The Henry Lane Challenge Shield, for the greatest number of points scored by a school in actual competitions or at agricultural shows, is won by the Makarewa School, and has been forwarded for presentation. North Island schools have won it four times, and now it comes to the south. Southland’s success with the Wilson Cup is the more noteworthy from the fact that the clubs in Southland were instituted only four years ago, the record by those schools to date being four tries and three wins.

Strong criticism of undesirable types of picture posters was passed by Canon James when addressing the Women’s Social Progress League. He said he knew there were salacious pictures and novels, and he knew there were films which, although not actually salacious, showed sacredness of sex and marriage smudged with coarseness. Pictures and novels were one thing, but posters were another. “ The State not only allows these picture posters, but protects them,” Canon James added. “It must be a natural impulse for many people to tear many of them down, but jf they did it would be an offence against the law. It is an intolerable state of things, and the time has come when we must put an end to this beastliness that shrieks from our hoardings.”—-Wellington Press Association.

The Minister of Education (Hon. R. Masters) announces Cabinet’s decision in connection with the allowances that will be paid next year to training college students. The annual allowance paid will be £2O, plus a boarding allowance of £4O if a student lives away from home, plus university fees up to £lO. The £4O will be repaid to the Government by instalments when the student secures a teaching position. It was decided to pay one return fare each year to students travelling to and Horn training colleges and their homes. In view of the altered conditions and the fact that there is no guarantee of employment at the conclusion of the period of training, the bond system will be abandoned.

“ The inspector has tied my hands by asking for leiiieiffiy, but if the facts were fully investigated someone Would go to gaol,” said the Magistrate (Mr R. W. Tate), at New Plymouth, when inflicting a fine of £2 and costs - (£3 4s) on Albert William Parker, who admitted having failed to supply seventeen cows with sufficient food. Counsel for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said it was a serious matter, as of thirty-one cows on the farm fourteen had died, allegedly from starvation. The cattle were in a deplorable condition. These were the circumstances in connection with the management of the farm, which had caused the inspector to ask for leniency.

A fine new trawler was launched by the Port Chalmers Shipwright Company yesterday afternoon, and in the adjacent yard of Messrs Miller and Tannage a larger trawler is oil the stocks. The latter craft will be the largest vessel launched at Port Chalmers since Miller Bros, built the Moturata in 1908. That launch, which was for passenger carrying, had a length of OOfc. The launch now on the stocks is 60ft overall, with 12ft 6in beam, 6ft Gin moulded depth, and 6ft draught. She will be equipped with a 50-h.p. motor of the modern crude-oil type. And when finished she will be a handsome vessel with a lengthy overhang aft moulded to the flush deck line. Trawlers built at Port Chalmers fish all round the New Zealand coast, and this fine launch-building industry is a modem development of the pioneering days, when schooners and other craft of similar dimensions were built at Port Chalmers. The niost remarkable production of those days was the wooden floating dock, which rendered valuable service to shipping until the Provincial Council had the P6rt Chalmers graving dock constructed.

In praising the work done by the Rev. V. G. Bryan King and his Mission House, the mayor (Mr R. S. Black) stated this morning that it was wonderful to think that a recent public appeal for assistance made by Mr King was the first that he had had to issue in twenty-seven years. Ho was sure that the fine humanitarian tasks being carried out by Mr King’s organisation had only to be brought to the public notice to find ready support from Dunedin’s generous citizens. It was much better to give to somebody like Mr King, who investigated his cases promptly and fairly, than to scatter donations about indiscriminately. The relation of accurately-timed motors to inaccurately-measured racing courses was referred to at last night’s meeting of the Port Chalmers Yacht and Motor Boat Club, w’hen the owner of a racing motor launch brought the subject up. It appeared that at a regatta last summer his racer was disqualified because she finished the course quicker than her declared speed entitled her to do. The quick finish, it was discovered afterwards, was really duo to the measured course being shorter than it was declared to be. That seemed hard luck for the launch owner, but it did not end there. At the next regatta over another course the launch was accorded an extra handicap in view of her previous excessive speed. That extra handicap put her quite out of the race, because the second course was the correct length, whereas the first coarse was shorter than it should have been. It was claimed last night that the new association rules should cover such contingencies. A speaker said that the faulty course had now been remeasured, and a recurrence of such an incident was very unlikely.

On the false representation that he had secured a job at Parliament House, William George Honghiou, aged forty-three, succeeded ;;i obtaining five shillings from Canon Pereira! James. He was convicted to-day, put on probation for twelve mouths, and ordered to make refund of the turn. —Wellington Association telegram.

The city organist (Dr V. E. Galway) will give an after-church recital on the Town Hal! organ on Sunday evening next, at 8.10. Dr Galway has for tills occasion arranged an unusually interesting programme, details of which will he published later. The supporting artists will be Miss Lottie do Clifford, Miss .Margaret Green, and Mr .lo!m Kennedy. As usual at those recital'-, there will be uo charge for admission.

Final arrangements for the canvass for funds in connection with the appeal for the mayor’s relief organisation were made at a meeting of representatives from the Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturers’ Association, and the Rotary Club, held in the Chamber of Commerce board room on Tuesday. There were some thirty present, the chair being taken by Mr A. C. Mntheson, chairman of the Advisory Finance Committee, who explained the steps leading up to the meeting, and outlined the needs of the depots, his remarks being supplemented by Mr H. L. Paterson, who answered several questions as to administration. The business portion of the city has been mapped out into blocks. " which will be canvassed by representatives of the above-mentioned bodies, and a generous response to their visit will make the work of those in charge of the seven relief depots free from anxiety for the next twelve months.

Described by the police as a nuisance around the camps, Albert Thomas Sims Evans, aged 22, employed in the State Forest service on Kaingaroa Plains, today pleaded guilty at Rotorua to half a dozen charges of theft from his mates in the camp, including two robberies from postal packets. On the last two he was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. On the others he was given a sentence of three months’ hard labour. Evans has a long list of previous convictions since early boyhood. —Press Association.

On the mayor’s table in the Town Hall is a very fine historical volume tracing the history of Edinburgh from 1329 to 1929. The book has been forwarded to the City Council with the compliments of the Lord Provost, the magistrates, and the Council of Edinburgh.

The supplementary sale by Dunedin Woolbrokers was allowed to lapse last year, the prices not warranting such offerings as would be likely to come forward. The market now has a better tone, and usual auctioning was proceeded with this afternoon at the Victoria Hall. Approximately 1,500 bales were catalogued. Ordinarily the wool at supplementary sales consists largely of crutchings and stragglers’ shearings. On this occasion there was a fair proportion of fleece wool. The sale was proceeding when we wont to press. The painting in oils by John Pettie, R.A., which was recently purchased by the collectors of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society has arrived, and is now in position on the wall of the gallery at Logan Park. The title is ‘ A Lady of High Degree.’ It is a large canvas, 47in x 33in, and one that is sure to give pleasure to visitors. The lady is sitting in a chair, clad in a light blue dress that shows up well against the yellowish background. A leading feature of the picture is its strength of colour, and the general tone is such as would indicate, even were the picture unsigned, that it is the work of a master. It was painted in 1880, shown at the Glasgow Institute the same year, and subsequently sold for a considerable sum at Christie’s.

A request for a small piece of crest china representative of Dunedin has been received by the mayor (Mr R. S. Black) from a resident of Milton (N.S.W.). The writer is making a comprehensive collection of suck curios, aud will bo extrepiely grateful for assistance in the augmenting of the exhibits. Arrangements can be made for suitable payment. An application which was recently sent forward by ihe Otago block House Provincial'Committee for the entrance of a lad to Flock House lias been approved, and arrangements have been made for him to Commence his eight mouths’ course of training on October ti. A further application has been received by the committee, which is unable to do anytliing in the meantime, as the necessary finance is not available. In November of last year the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association made a suggestion to headquarters of the association at Wellington that an alteration should bo made in the conditions of the Trentham scholarship, which carries with it a bursary to provide secondary education for the children of deceased or disabled soldiers, so that the pupil could attend Flock House instead of a secondary school. A reply has now been received that ihe suggestion will receive every consideration, and the indications are that the desired alteration may be made, “ For the past few months mixed bathing lias become very general at the Municipal Baths,” said Cr Allen (chairman of the General Committee) at the meeting of the City Council last nignt, '* and practically tno whole time of the baths is now taken up with mixed bathing.” A recommendation of the committee that an exra shower room be provided so that there would be one available for each of the sexes was passed by tho council, and tenders will bo called for the work. A remarkably large crowd assembled on the banks of the Avon last evening for the Venetian Night in connection with the “ Come to Christchurch ” festivities. It is probable that the city has never before been given so striking a lesson in the potentialities of the river as a source of public entertainment. The crowd, estimated at 43,000, was packed so dose that thousands never got a glimpse of the river, where the decorated boats and outboard motors provided lively entertainment, varied by the fire brigade’s display, a torchlight procession, and a flight overhead of an illuminated aeroplane. The Venetian Night will be repeated on Saturday.—Press Association.

Hiking is becoming increasingly popular in and about Dunedin, and every Sunday many groups of trampers are to be seen about our roads making for the attractive resorts in which Dunedin abounds. These hikers are not confined merely to members of any tramping club, but often are drawn from various organisations in the city. It is no uncommon tiling for anything from twenty to thirty miles to be covered by the average crowd of hikers during a Sunday, and certainly there are few more healthful forms of recreation. The coining sampler promises to see the craze for hiking further developed.

Save your eyes. Be wise and consult VV. V. Stunner (optician, 2 Octagon), thus conserving good vision for old age.—TAdvt I The United Starr-Bowketfc Building Society will dispose of £SOO by sale in No. 9 group and £BOO by sale in No. 10 group this evening.