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Evening Star, Issue 21707, 30 April 1934, Page 8

Beginning this week, the features ‘Poultry Motes,’ expanded to include notes on fancy birds, and ‘ Kennel Notes,’ will appear in our Friday instead of Saturday issues. With a crash that could be Ifeard for a considerable distance, a motor truck backed into the front of an ascending Mornington cable-car at the corner of William street at 9.45 this morning. Only one passenger, a lady, was in the front cabin at the time, and she luckily escaped witii a shaking. The impact forced the cabin well back. The breakdown staff was quickly on the scene, alul the service was only slightly interrupted, the damaged car being expeditious!} - towed to the workshops. , Dunedin is to be the port of registry of the Union Company’s new cargo steamer Waitaki, launched at Linthouse last month. She .is a ’tween deck freighter of approximately 2,260 tons, gross, and is to be used in Now Zcaland-Melbournc service, replacing the present cargo carrier Wainui. The new vessel’s speed will be greater than that of the Wainui. In his charge to the grand jury at the opening of the quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court at Wellington today, Mr Justice Reed commented on the light calendar. There were only five cases, involving six persons, and only one case of violence—an attempted murder charge. True bills were returned in all cases.—Press Association. This morning Mr G. H. Mackley, general manager of railways, visited Port Chalmers and inspected the railway property there, also the wharves, froiii which the ships are served by rail. Mr Mackley met a number of friends of bis boyhood days at Port Chalmers, when his father was in business. His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy will sit in Chambers at 9.30 on Friday morning fo make fixtures for the hearing of civil cases during the current sessions of the Supreme Court. Good progress continues to be made by the Drainage Board with the important work of extending the new storm-water conduit that at present secures the Kensington district from flooding, and is intended to carry the water from the, neighbourhood of the Glen. Mr J. G. Alexander, the board’s engineer, said this morning, in answer to an inquiry, that the old brick stormwater drain in a line with the present operations has been demolished, and that a temporary- corrugated iron pipe is inserted in the two ends of that brick conduit, bridging _ the space through which the now reinforced concrete conduit will pass. The excavating for the new conduit at that point is completed, and the concrete bottom is now being put in. Mr Alexander did not add that this dealing with the old conduit is a major operation in the scheme, but it is so regarded by unprofessional observers.

That too much prominence had been given to the opinion of one man was the contention of Mr P. Bushnell at the annual meetipg of the Gisborne Returned Soldiers' Association, states the ‘ Poverty Bay Herald.’ Towards the close of the meeting reference was made to the suggestion that Anzac Hay should be observed on the Sunday nearest to April 25, put forward on the ground that a full holiday on Anzac Hay interfered with certain industries, and on the motion of Mr Telford the meeting unanimously registered its opinion that Anzac Hay should be retained as a whole holiday on April 25. Mr Bushnell expressed the view that to much prominence was being given to the opinion of an individual. “ Because one little man in Hunedin makes a noise,” he said, “ why should we take, any notice?” It is estimated that at least £IOO,OOO is lost to New Zealand every year in the value of hides as a result of careless lire branding of stock and of bad flaying. Mr H. E. Blyde, president of the North Taranaki provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union, has displayed at annual branch meetings of the union two pieces of leather to demonstrate these two faults to farmers. Branding was invariably done on the rump, the mpst valuable portion of the hide, and one piece of leather fully a foot square carries a figure lire brand which had gone right through the hide, ruining the leather. The brand, a large one in the first place, had been put on quite a young calf, and had grown with it so that the figures are approximately 9in high, and the iron must have been much too hot for it to be read just as plainly on either side of the leather. The other piece of leather was damaged in three or four places as the result of bad flaying, and this fault is also seen on either side. The latest authentic schoolboy howler —only this time a girl is to blame—is related by a New Plymouth primary school teacher who was taking a lesson in history and dealing with the Wars of the Roses, observes the ‘ Taranaki Haily News.’ Having explained that the English barons were mainly concerned in the wars, he asked the girl what the barons did in the battles. “ They went to parties,” she replied brightly. The teacher was mystified, but after some moments the girl explained that she had seen a passage in the history book stating that “ Victory went first to one party and then another.” It is rare that the element of humour is found in concise and soberly-worded Government notices, but in producing a poster laying down fire precautions the printer pokes fun at the so-called henpecked husband. Conditions for safe smoking are being suggested; at the top stand the words, “ Never smoke in bed,” followed by the parenthetical statement: “Most married men arc already instructed about this.” Fungus and a Chinese played an important part in the early days of Taranaki in enabling the pioneers to pull through depression periods. Evidently both are playing their part to-day. A judgment debtor at the Opunake Court last week explained the possession of a £27 10s wireless set by stating that his wife and children, the eldest of whom was thirteen, had gathered fungus and sold it to a Chinese, thus providing the necessary money. It had taken them over eighteen months to gather the fungus in school Jiolidays and after school hours, their original intention having been to gather enough fungus to purchase a piano. They had on hand two bags of fungus which they were unable to sell, so that it appeared the slump had overtaken the fungus market also.

The Central Fire Brigade received a call at 9.19 a.m. to-day to an eightroomed wooden dwelling at 76 Tennyson street, where a detached washhouse was slightly damaged by fire. The building was owned and occupied by Mr H. Andrews. At 4.19 p.m. on Saturday the brigade dealt with a chimney fire in Rattray street, and half an hour later turned out to an outbreak of a,,similar nature in Montague street. North-east Valley. A further chimney fire in Albert street, St. Clair, claimed the attention of the brigade at 4.54 yesterday afternoon.

Readers arc reminded Unit the drawing of the “ Lucky Cat ” Art Union will take place in tlic Town ITall Concert Chamber, Wellington, to-morrow, commencing at 9 a.m. Save your eyes. Be wise and consult W. V. Stunner (optician, 2 Octagon), thus conserving good vision for old age.—t^di't.)