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Evening Star, Issue 21505, 1 September 1933, Page 6

On tlicir return from Dannovirke the Otago ladies’ hookey team will be given a welcome by the mayor (Rev. K. T. Cox) in the Town Hall Council Chamber this afternoon at 4.30. The propagating houses that wore damaged or destroyed by the lire at the Dunedin Uotanio Gardens have been rebuilt very promptly, as was necessary lest a season’s work bo lost; and Mr Reid reports that lie and the staff are quite ready to go on with the seasonal operations as usual*

Those who are interested_ in the amenities of Tomahawk are invited to atter a meeting on Thursday next in tlio Glencairn Hall (Tomahawk) to form a new domain hoard. Mr A. J. Winefield is calling the meeting under instructions from the Under-Secretary of the Department of Lands and Survey, who advises that a domain board may consist of not more than nine members, though it is usually found that a board of five or not more than seven is sufficient. It will be decided at next week’s meeting how many are sufficient, and the new board will be elected,

Probate was granted by His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy to-day in the estates of Elizabeth Robinson, Milton; John Westfold, Anderson’s Bay; William Marshall, Warepa; Isabella Scarfe, Dunedin; and Elizabeth Findlay, Dunedin.

“ There is something radically wrong with our civilisation when people of this typo can bring children into the world, and the sooner the matter is tackled by our legislators the better it will be for the future of our race.” These remarks were passed by Mr Mosley, S.M. (coroner), at an inquest into the death of Annie Cecelia Pearce, the three months old daughter of Mrs Annie Cecelia Pearce. The child was drowned in. a gutter in _ St. Asaph street on August 4. Evidence was given that the child fell face downwards in the gutter, in which there was an inch of water, when the mother took an epileptic fit. ‘ ‘ The evidence shows that Mrs Pearce was never in a fit physical state to be the mother of a child, being subject to epileptic fits,” said the coroner. “ Some of it also shows that the child had been neglected. However, that was not the cause of death. After all is said one cannot blamo the mother for what happened, but one can blame her for having a child, and I cannot understand how any woman could neglect a child of her own in this way.” Mr Mosley then returned a formal verdict of death from asphyxiation through > drowning.— Christchurch Press Association.

Gisborne is experiencing a mild building boom, the result of the operation of No. 10 scheme, the value of 113 lots which have been approved being over £60,000. —Press Association. A tribute to the attractive window dressing of the shops in the main streets of Dunedin was paid this morning by a visitor to the city, who said he noticed a very great improvement. A few years ago, ho said, the window show here was dull compared with the northern centres, but he was satisfied that it now more than held its own. The increased use of electric signs was also a noticeable and pleasing feature, and considerably brightened the streets at night time. A labour of love on the part of the Girl Guides of the Miller’s Flat district lias resulted in a very fine woollen rug being received by the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association for a deserving family. The wool for the rug was purchased by the girls themselves by contributions of one penny, and each girl provided a section or sections of the rug, in which there are about sixty squares. The article is warm and very well made.

Continuing its policy of making the activities of the Returned Soldiers’ Association better known among ex-ser-vicemen, the executive last night held a meeting in the Masonic Hall at St. Kilda, there being an attendance of over sixty. Brief addresses on the aims and work of the 11.5. A. were given by Messrs P. S. Anderson, A. Thomas, and O. L, Ferens, and the Rev. V. G. B. King gave a short address on the work carried out among the disabled soldiers in the Montecillo Home. Community singing and various items were provided during the evening, vocal solos and recitations being given by members of Toe H. A light supper was served. On Monday, September 4, a meeting will ho held in the Salvation Army Hall, Roslyn, and a further meeting at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Forbury Corner, on Thursday, September 14.

A small army of collectors were on the streets to-day appealing for funds for tho Mission House relief work. The sunny weather helped the appeal, which met with a generous response this morning.

Complaints are made from time to time of the poor street lighting of Highgatc, and motorists and tramway men alike will welcome the arrangements that are now in hand for the better illumination of this thoroughfare. A suggestion is made that the removal of a tree at the corner of Oban street would not only improve vision of traffic coming into Highgatc, but would also make the street light at this point more effective. The widening of the road and the formation of a footpath near Claremont street are nearing completion, and this busy corner should now be without its former dangerous features.

Ingenuity is a valuable ally of the gold miner of Central Otago, for without that quality a moderately comfortable camp life is difficult. A visitor to the Central during the past weekend came upon a miner’s dwelling which any man would be pleased to call his home. Advantage had been taken of a natural rocky projection which afforded shelter from the elements. The “ house,” complete with a door, fireplace and chimney, and also a fullsized window, has all the comforts of a city home, and, as the miner remarked, was much cheaper, as there were no rates to pay. Ho said that even though the life of a miner is hard ho and his wife and child had no desire to return to Dunedin.

An Order in Council is gazetted approving the loan of £IBO,OOO by the bunediu City for waterworks extension, the rate of interest not to cxce«d 4 per cent., the term being twenty-five years. The Otago Harbour Board receives authority to raise £60,000, part of its £050,000 loan, at a rate of interest not exceeding 4i per cent., the loan repayable within thirty years.— Wellington correspondent.

Tasmanian shippers, as an experiment, are exporting a consignment of mutton birds to the United Kingdom by the steamer Largs Bay (says the Melbourne ‘ Ago ’ of August 18). But they are not amongst the followers of the poet who, in the world’s greatest love tragedy, asks contemptuously, “What’s in a name?” They firmly believe, and they are probably light in so believing, that there is a great deal in a name. So the birds known here as mutton birds, under which name they have never won great popularity, will be exported under the far more appealing name of Tasmanian puffins, or, alternatively,- ocean duck. The first shipment, comprising ten casks, will be despatched for London to-morrow, accompanied by a great deal of publicity matter concerning the cooking and serving of the birds and their nutritive and culinary values. The puffins are all young birds from the Furneaux Island Croup, on the north coast of Tasmania. About September 9 each year millions of these birds migrate to the islands, where they make burrows in the sand in preparation for the raising of the chicks in November. By those who have a taste for the birds- it is claimed for them that they are particularly rich in vitamins, calcium, and jodine.

The Provincial Committee still has about ten vacancies for the sons of deceased and disabled soldiers for farm training at Flock House. A boy from the Tapanui district went forward the other day, and another boy from the Waikouaiti district will leave for Flock House in a few days. Pleading guilty in the Magistrate’s Court, 'Wellington, to his third offence of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car, Walter Frederick Marris, aged thirty-four _ years, was fined £3O and was prohibited from obtaining a driver’s license for five years. The accused was also fined £5 on a charge of driving without a license. It was stated at a meeting of the Ashburton Unemployment Committee that the first party of twenty unemployed men who went from that county to Cromwell gold prospecting had been offered and had refused £20,000 for their claim.

Commenting on the radio test for lady vocalists at the Wellington Competitions last evening, the judge (Dr Cyril Jenkins) said that it was a novel way of hearing the competitors, as the microphone magnified their weaknesses, but did not do tho same with their virtues. The standard of the performers was very high, and the performance of the winner, Mrs Russell Secular (Wanfanui), was exceptionally good. Dr enkins said that he was glad to feel that the standard was so high, as it meant that there was a wealth of material in New Zealand which could be used by the Broadcasting Board. There was no need to depend on mechanical instruments when ladies revealed talent of such a high order.

In four weeks from now Mr G. A. Lewin, Dunedin’s town clerk, will be leaving New Zealand for London on the special mission of representing the Dunedin Municipal Corporation and the Otago Harbour Board in respect to the renewal of loans that mature on January 1, 1934. Arrangements have been made for Mr Lewm to travel by the Rangitata, which is scheduled to depart from Auckland on September 29, and is due in London on November 1, so that ho will have about eight weeks in tho metropolis before the maturity date. New Zealanders _ will watch with keen interest the published reports of tho steps taken in connection with tho negotiations, for a large sum is involved, not far snort of a million, the corporation bonds totalling £356,000 and the Harbour Board’s at least £600,000. When the new loans are floated, Mr Lewin’s special duties will bo ended, but it is suggested that ho spend a little time in the Old Country in looking around generally so as _to obtain first-hand knowledge concerning financial and related subjects, wherefore the date of his leaving for Dunedin cannot yet bo fixed.

A feature of this week’s business in the produce markets is the receipt of large consignments of pigs. Increased quantities of turkeys and eggs are also coining forward, and whitebait is more plentiful than a week ago, though tho big run has not yet set in. Tho first consignment of South Australian oranges since the embargo was lifted was discharged from the Canadian Scottish and the Waikouaiti yesterday. A fixed price was placed on the supply, which means that it will be available at a more reasonable rate than if sold to the shops at auction. At the same time, the oranges, through not coming to hand in the flush of the season, will not bo so cheap as they were at this time last year. Tho total shipment is barely enough to meet the requirements of the local market, but further consignments arc expected by other vessels shortly. The steamer Canadian Scottish brought from Adelaide 900 cases of oranges, and it is noteworthy in that connection that the South Australian representative has expressed tiic wish that the prices be reasonable—a gesture of friendliness that does not always accompany a goods consignment. The Waikouaiti, from Sydney, landed 3,000 cases. A radio message from the Maui Pomare advises that she is due to arrive in Lyttelton on Monday with a smaller shipment of Niue bananas than has been handled here for some time, only 1,235 cases, but fortunately she carries a full shipment of Samoan bananas. Of these 1,000 cases of Samoans and 1,235 Nines are directed to Dunedin. It is expected that banana prices will be appreciably higher.

The postal authorities advise that the Maunganui left Sydney for Wellington on Thursday with fourteen bags of Australian mail and fifteen parcel receptacles for Dunedin. The mail is due at the local office on Tuesday afternoon.

The quarterly meeting of the Chalmers Licensing Committee was not held to-day, as there was no business to come before it.

Mr J. 11. Bartholomew, S.M., presided at a short sitting of the Port Chalmers Court to-day. Charged with breach of a prohibition order, James Telfer pleaded not guilty and called three witnesses. The magistrate was quite satisfied there had been a breach and inflicted a fine of 20s with costs 10s.

The wide popularity of community singing was clearly shown again to-day, when the Empire was packed to the doors for the weekly gathering. Hundreds were unable to gain admission, and had to listen to the music outside nearby radio shops. The collection at the theatre was a record one, a total of £24 7s 2d being realised. Pastor W. D. More (“Big Brother Bill” of radio celebrity) was a cheery leader for to-day’s session, and under his direction tho familiar choruses were sung with the greatest spirit. Miss Rita Holmes and Mr John Gordon were popular duettists, and a party of Maori children from Puketeraki added a novel and enjoyable touch with several items. With tho taking over of the Stratford main trunk by the Railway Department about 180 men engaged in putting the final touches on the lino will be unemployed, as no other railway construction is in progress to which they can be transferred. Many of tho men have been following railway construction practically all their lives, and will find it hard to adapt themselves to altered conditions.—Stratford Press Association message.

Save voui eyes. Be wise and consult W. V. Stunner (optician. 2 Octagon), thus conserving good vision for old age.—[Advt.l The Mayfair Club will bold its dance in she Early Settlers Hall to-morrow. The Savonia Band will supply the music. At the Embassy Salon dance to-morrow another attractive night is promised— Monte Carlo waltz and lucky spots with prizes, and music supplied by the Imperial Dance Band.

The Railway Department advertises in this issue special fares and train arrangements in connection with the Otago Hunt Club’s races at Wingatui to-morrow.