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Evening Star, Issue 21706, 28 April 1934, Page 14

The ‘ Sports Special,’ with the sporting news of the day and week, will be sold on the streets to-night, There is a persistent rumour that the respective transmitters of stations V and 4YO have been changed over, the latter being used on 790 kilocycles as the main station, and the former providing the auxiliary service on 1,140 kilocycles. Inquiries made this morning resulted in an emphatic denial of the rumour. The main transmitter is still used to broadcast 4YA’s programmes, and the alternative programme is put through the smaller transmitter brought from Wellington for thb purpose.’ ' ’ ' The postal authorities advise that the Abel Tasman left Sydney for Auckland on Thursday night with one bag of mail and two parcel receptacles for Dunedin, and the Monowai left the same port for Wellington on Friday with eighteen bags of Australian mail and ten parcel receptacles for Dunedin. The mail by the Monowai is due on Tuesday afternoon, and that by the Abel Tasman about the next week-end. At the monthly meeting of the Balclutha Borough Council a letter was received from the Otanomomo River Board in reference to the dredging operations to be carried out between Clydeyale and Tuapeka Mouth. The board was of the opinion that when operations were commenced the- spoil would be carried down the river to places where the current was less rapid, with the result that the bed would silt up, and so greatly increase the flood risk. The board considered that an objection should be raised, and expressed a desire to meet the council to discuss the matter -further.- The mayor (Mr D. T. Fleming) said the application for dredging had been granted, and the conditions imposed by the Clutha River Board had been endorsed. Cr Stevenson thought that the matter should be fully looked into, and he moved that the council agree to meet the River Board for a discussion. The motion was carried.

. All the cases on the criminal calendar of the Supreme Court for the current sessions were disposed of this week, except.the charge of attempted indecent. assault against Thomas G. Ramsay, who will be tried on Monday morning. Following this case a jury will be. empanelled to. hear the claim of J. R. Bray against N. H. Gilmore for £2,000 damages arising out of a motor accident. On Wednesday His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy will sit at 10 a.m. to sentence prisoners, and on Friday divorce cases will bo heard.

A short circuit in the wiring system of a Vauxhall motor car was the cause of the Central Fire Brigade answering a call at 11.1 a.m. to-day to Maclaggan street. The fire was out when the brigade arrived, an'd no damage was done.

The membership of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association at March 31 was 21,640, which is an increase of 16.3 per cent, over the membership figure of 18,609 for the_ previous year. There are seventy-six associations in New Zealand, fifty-five of these showing an increase in membership this year. There are 12,654 members in the North Island and 8.986 in the South Island.

A generous donation of £2OO has been given by the Otago Patriotic and General Welfare Association to the R.S.A. Poppy Day fund to assist the association in continuing the work at Chisholm Park and in other avenues. The annual conference of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association will take place at Wellington on June 26 and 27. Three delegates will attend from the Dunedin Association. It has come to the notice of the Returned Soldiers’ Association that some persons have made the statement that! before Poppy Day moneys are used, a sum of £Buls paid out of s the amount collected to the organiser. An emphatic contradiction may be made to this statement. The organising of Poppy Day is carried out by the secretary as part of his duty, and no part of the money raised is taken for expenses other than paying for the poppies and advertising. Replying in the Conciliation Council, Wellington, to allegations by Mr' A. Black, secretary of the Wellington Iron and Brass Moulders’ Union, that sweated labour conditions prevailed, Mr T. 0. Bishop, the employers’ advocate, said he thought it was a.matter for congratulation that Mr Black could find only two firms in the Wellington industrial district which were not “playing the game ” in the absence of an award. “We have done our utmost since the award was cancelled to see that firms did not go below the wage rates that were set out, or alter the conditions affecting trade,” he said, “ and we are pleased to know that our efforts have been successful to the extent that there are only two firms which are cutting wages.”' Although the weather just now is somewhat of the wintry order, a visit to the Dunedin Botanic Gardens reminds those persons who take, their pleasure there that the autumn season is still producing flowers that are worth looking at. The red salvia is a dominating glory in the open beds; the dahlia tribe on the hill retains its beauty and .shows the value of the bamboo-stemmed variety; and here and there one comes across other brilliancies that contrast effectively with the foliage tints. Amateurs find it interesting, also, to -note the seasonal operations now going on, the planting of wallflower, for instance, the doings in the open being a good guide to beginners. In the front glasshouse the chrysanthemum, following the begonia, is in its youthful vigour, promising to make a very fine show for the winter. *

' A donation of £I,OOO in .support of the effort by the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) to establish a Vyaitangi endowment trust fund was made at the annual meeting of the Auckland Savings Bank. It was stated in the annual report that the necessity of having a reserve for income tax purposes had seriously interfered withthe policy of assisting worthy public objects. The donation to the Waitangi trust fund is the only, one ma.de this year." The open season of one fortnight, from May 1 to May 14 inclusive, for the shooting of pukeko in Otago applies only to the counties of. Taieri, Bruce, Clutha, and Maniototo. The limit is twelve birds per day, and the number shot are not to be counted in the bag limit of fifteen per day, for, native game. , . In the Police Court this morning Percy Dunn and William Joseph Dunn, who both admitted that they had taken too much drink yesterday, pleaded guilty to wilfully breaking two panes of glass, valued at £l, of a window 1 in a house in Hanover street, and using obscene language. The police evidence was that the two men were requested to leave a -Irons© occupied by a brother-in-law of the accused William Dunn. In a squabble outside they_used the language complained of and kicked the door. On the first charge they were each ordered to pay 10s (haltdamage), default being fixed at two days’ iiuprisonment. On the charge of obscene language both were fined hi, in default seven days’ imprisonment. A week was allowed by Mr J. K. Bartholomew, .S.M., in which to pay the fil ßrlef and right to the point is the report which a meter reader of the Otago Electric Power Board furnished in connection with a duty call to a Dunedin resident’s'seaside crib, llie report, which was forwarded to the owner of the crib with tb© account, covers in a few lines a story .of g°° c | colonial stick-at-nothing activity. it reads:—“When meter reader was passing up to ’s place lie saw one of the windows open of cnb, but gate locked, so I got through open window, read meter, shut up window, locked side door from outside, and put key under the two flower pots in porch. There is a popular belief that the miner who seeks gold with no other aid than pick, shovel, and pan will obtain the most profitable results by, going well into the back country where nobody lias previously been. However, in conversation with an hveiung Star ’ reporter this morning, an experienced prospector remarked that there were serious difficulties in the way of any such project. For one thing, it was amazing how far back towards the West Coast from Central. Otago tho old-timers, in search of virgin fields, had already gone. . Any further penetration of those wild regions could be carried out now only at the expense which attended a well-organised expedition tlipt arranged for the _ regular packing of food and camp necessities —an obstacle which the average pick-and-shovel. fossioker would find hard to overcome. He added that if he hifnself had the ' capital to go looking for untouched ground he would prefer to purchase a boat of some sort and establish a base camp right on the West Coast. Then he would work inland up. some of the unknown rivers and their tributaries.

Following the decision of the General Synod of the Anglican Church to dissolve the Melanesian Mission, the finance board of the Auckland office of the mission is to be closed, and Major H. S. Robinson, secretary, has been appointed general secretary and treasurer of the mission, and will go to Sydney at the end of the financial year, which closes on June 30. Efforts are to'be made to assure that New Zealand interest in the mission, which has been manifested for many years, is maintained. —Auckland Press Association. Holding that the Government was evading the- main issue and staving off the evil day, the Elthnm Progress Committee resolved to telegraph the Prime Minister supporting the request of Mr Wilkinson, M.P., for* the inclusion of dairy finance, with particular reference to land and stock mortgages, in the order of reference of the dairy industry commission. The meeting was of the opinion that the stabilisation of land values Was an essential step towards economic recovery.—Fltham Press Association,;

The Governor-General last evening received a cable from the president of the Royal Academy, Sir William Llewelljm, announcing that all of the three submitted by Mr C. F. Goldie for this year’s academy had been accepted. They are portraits of old-time Maoris, one .of which entitled ‘ The Aristocrat,’ was purchased by Lady Bledisloe before it left New Zealand.—Auckland Press Association; The Victoria University College capping procession, which passed through tho main streets of Wellington yesterday, was very much shorter than usual and (says a Press Association telegram) it, lacked much of the variety and humour of former years. \ The most unpopular person in the crowded' Greymouth Town. Hall at the combined Anzac Day service was a baby: but the person responsible for the baby’s presence would run a close second in the unpopularity contest (states tho ‘ Grey Star ’). By the time Adjutant Duggan commenced his occasional address, the patience of the youngster had evidently become exhausted, and loud screams and cries rang through the hall, making not a few -of the speaker’s remarks indistinguishable. The obvious thing to do, of course, was to .take the baby out; but that was not done until the audience was becoming restive, and appealing glances were cast from the stag* to the dress circle, where the disturber of the peace was located. There is aiproper place for babies; but that place is pot the Town Hall during a memorial service. The baby has one olain to fame, however; hi’ that his, her 1 ;, or its screams were clearly heard by numerous listeners to the radio broadcast. ■„lt _is probably the first time that a crying baby has been “ on the air.” .

Tie Balclutha Borough Council has unajimously decided to donate, the sum of 425 to the South Otago Aero Club fumjs to assist aviatiomin the district. The! Aero Club, in requesting assistant, made the suggestions for an-emerr gemy landing ground to be established on the reserve adjoining the railway line’ at Balclutha. Advice was being sonfht on the matter, and if a suitable site”could be arranged it would be of greit benefit to - the town. The ground at present in use is some two miles out of the town.

Notification of Sunday services as enumerate! below appears in our Sunday; services advertising columns Anglican: St'. Paul’s Cathedral,.All Saints’. Presbyterian: First Chtrcb, Knox Church. St. Andrew’s, Chalme's, Musselburgh, St. Stephen’s,* Roslyn. Methodist: Trinity, Central Mission, Morn: ington, St. Kilda,.Cavershaw, Dundee Street, Abiotsford. Baptist : Hanover. Street, Cavenham, Mornington, South Dunedin, Rotlyn, Sunshine. Congregational: Moray Plica Church, United. Church of Christ: St,' Andrew Street, North-east Valley, Soith Dunedin. York Place Hall, Playfaf Street Hall, Christian Science, The’osojbical Society, Spiritualist, Orange Hall. the Railway Department advertises in tbs issue particulars of a special cheap dsr excursion, Dunedin to Invercargill, on Sjnday, 6th May. The intention is to nuke the excursion an attractive as possible by putting on fast special trains and eiceptionaily cheap fares;, also reserving eits for both journeys for Is. The Railway Department advertises in tjis issue that relief express train leaves Christchurch for Dunedin at 9.10 a.m., and nail train leaves Dunedin for Christchurch i 8.40 a.m. on Saturday, May 5 and 19.' j Save your eyes. Be wise and consult W. |. Sturmer (optician, 2 Octagon), thus ensorving good vision for old age.— [Advt.l