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Evening Star, Issue 21784, 28 July 1934, Page 12

The ‘ Sports Special,’ with the sporting news of the day and week, will be soul on the streets to-night.

A petition has been received by the City Council’s Works Committee from a number of ratepayers and* residents of Mackenzie street for the street to bo repaired and tar scaled. The matter has been considered, and authority has been given for repairs to be effected to the kerb and channel and street surface. The committee is unable to see its way to authorise tar sealing at present, and the petitioners have been informed accordingly. That Franco street and Clayton avenue, in North-East Valley, each of which is a continuation of the other, be considered as one and the same, and bear the name Franco street, is a recommendation from the Works Committee to the City Council. At the next meeting of the City Council the Water Committee will recommend that authority be granted to extend the existing 4in water main in Cairnhill street for a distance of three chains to serve two allotments in the Marne Township, at an estimated cost of £55.

Authority has been granted by the E.P. and ‘L. Committee for the purchase of two negative boosters from the Wellington Corporation Tramways Department at the price of £IOO each. These boosters are required for dealing with the return current from the city tramways in the southern area, and will be installed in the converter station and maintained by the Electric Department’s staff. The Tramways Department will pay to the E.P. and L. Department a charge of 10 per cent, on tho installed cost to cover capital and maintenance charges. The Electric Light and Power Committee has further considered the tenders received for the supply of hardwood poles, and has decided to accept that of Messrs A. J. Allen Ltd. in the sum of £1,771 ss, c.i.f. and e. ship’s slings, Dunedin, for the whole of the poles required. The tender was the second lowest of six received. At the judge’s direction, the jury in the Supremo Court Auckland, acquitted Gwendoline Bishop, aged fortyseven years, of complicity in tho. counterfeiting of silver coins to which her husband and son ’’arc pleaded guilty. R. W. Wightman, a county councillor, was fined £5 and costs (19s) at Ashburton, for having exposed liceinfected sheep for sale. The defendant said he purchased the sheep in Blenheim, where they were inspected and passed. They were forty days on tho road. He had bought 20,000 sheep this year and clipped 12,000. The defendant had twice previously been charged with similar offences. When the Otago Hospital Board planned _ the reconstruction scheme upon which Mr Naylor is now working at the Dunedin Hospital it was thought probable that the digging would uncover the foundation stone of the original building erected hi the early ’sixties, and, if so, the cavity could be used to deposit up-to-dato coins and newspapers to supplement those laid in at first. It has, however, been discovered that the original foundation stone is in a part of the old building that is not to bo pulled down as part of the present contract. It lies at tho north-east corner, under No. 1 ward of what is known as the sanitary block. In the Police Court this morning a first offender for drunkneness was fined £]. in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment.

_ Duo to shortage of staff, the preparation, replacement, and keeping up to date of record plans, which have been in arrears for a considerable period, are falling still further behind (reports the Works Committee to the City Council). The time has now arrived when it is essential that these records, many of which are very valuable and could not be replaced, should bo brought up to date, and that other necessary records which do not now exist should bo compiled and made available for reference. Authority has, therefore, been granted the city engineer to engage the services of a temporary draughtsman for the work, which it is estimated will occupy at least two years. The omission of the words “ approved for universal exhibition ” in two picture advertisements of the film 1 Going Gay ’ led to the prosecution at Invercargill, of the manager of the Regent Theatre, who was chai’ged with advertising the picture without including notification as to the nature of the certificate issued by the censor. Mr Gordon Reed, who represented the defendant, said that though the facts were admitted a formal plea of not guilty would be entered, for it was intended to attack the regulations, which, he contended, were ultra vires and invalid. The case was adjourned till next Wednesday. An Auckland boy who sold eighteen fused light bulbs to a hawker for a penny each, and so obtained money to spend at the Winter Show, was informed by the hawker (says a Press Association telegram) that a good trade exists in such bulbs, which ho sold for threepence each. The hawker said he would sell them to people who were moving into a new house. They would take good bulbs from an old house and put them on the lights m the new house and put the fused bulbs on the lights in the place they were leaving. That was a common practice in many places.

; The monthly meeting of the High Street Sbhool Committee was held on Wednesday evening. The head master’s report showed a roll of 381. colds and influenza causing the attendance to be below the average. The Education Department’s inspectors visited the school from the 12th to the 14th inst., and the school health officer had also made her inspection. The children were performing well in their sports, several teams being well up in their competitions. The queen carnival has made a very promising start, and teachers and parents are combining to ensure the success of a parents’ day and bazaar to be held on August 15. It was decided to draw the attention of the authorities to the speeding on the part of some motorists in High s’ .-cet past the school.

The Auckland sittings of the Dairy Commission were concluded yesterday when the commission adjourned to New Plymouth. During the sittings in Auckland (says a Press Association telegram) the commission heard evidence from thirty witnesses on many aspects of the dairy industry, and in addition evidence was heard on the pig raising industry and the bobby calf trade. Since May 7 the commission has heard evidence at Wellington, Stratford, Hamilton, and Auckland.' The total number of witnesses examined is close on 200, and it is estimated that the total amount of evidence is between 5,000 and 6,000 type-written pages. . .

The fittings of the Rose Marie : toilet rooms in the two-storied building at .the corner of. Gloucester and Colombo streets, Christchurch, now being demolished, were removed yesterday under protest, it is stated, from the proprietress, who had remained in. tenancy for a week with the walls falling all around. The proprietress may make a claim for damages as the result! of the company’s decision to proceed with the work in the face of her refusal to move until her lease expired.—Press Association. j'

A Gisborne Press Association telegram states that heavy rains have fallen along the eastern seaboard and the rivers are running high, particularly in the Mangatu and Waipaoa Valleys. If the rain continues floods are likely on the lower country; A malicious alarm to the corner of High and William streets was received by the City Fire Brigade at 2.17 a.m. to-day, and at 11.51 the brigade was summoned to a chimney fire at Frederick street. ' .

Probate has been granted by His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy in the estates of Jane Baird Callender, Dunedin; Ole Hansen Bjorngaard, Waitahuna; John Rodger Hunter, Balelutha; Agnes Fulton Begg, Dunedin; Margaret M'Knight, Palmerston; Janet Meder, Dunedin; and George Lyon, Denniston, Dunedin.

The question of assured finance came under consideration at the annual meeting of the St. Kilda Band. The president declared that receipts from rotunda concerts had been small and disappointing, and if he had given figures on the subject he could have shown that, whereas his band could a while ago collect about £2O at a Sunday concert from the rotunda, the haul now that the fences have been taken down averages not much more than £2. Other bands are no doubt having a similar worry. A collection at the Botanic Gardens used to bring in about £ls. Now it is nearer £5. That the falling-off in receipts is a general band trouble may be inferred from the fact that there is some talk of organising a street collection, to be participated in by all The position thus disclosed leads to the suggestion that the financing of our bands would be eased if all who attend the open-air concerts were to subscribe what they can afford to. It is in the interests of the public at large to keep our bands going, and the sooner that is realised as a duty the quicker will the collectors find threepenny bits superseded by shillings. Drivers of motor vehicles should pay particular attention to their brakes and headlights before the end of the month. The Taieri County Council decided to give its full support to the dominionwide drive starting on August 1 to reduce accidents and ensure greater safety to users of the road by checking the brakes _ and lights of all motor rehicles in its area.

The work of extending the St. Clair Esplanade to the east is necessarily a tedious job. Deep digging in the sand is the only w*ay to get out tho heavy boulders which must be lifted to let the concrete piles be driven, and that' is only one of several laborious operations. Persons who watch tho daily progress of the undertaking think that, considering tho peculiar difficulties that the relief workers are struggling against,- they are getting on very well, forty of the 100 piles are already driven, and tho men finish off the top work as they go, tho finishing including the packing in of a great body of sand gathered from tho wind-blown accumulation on tho slope of the facing and now used as filling behind the piles. Every care is being taken to make the extension of the wall secure against assaults of the sea iu stormy weather, it being realised that this spot, at the end of the Forbrry road, lias in the past been deemed vulnerable.

In order to provide for better arrangement of stores and better, control by the clerk, authority has.been given for effecting sundry improvements and additions to the store space in the Works Department’s building at the Ward street yard, at an estimated cost of £65,

The city organist (Dr V; E. Galway) will give an after-church recital at the Town Hall to-morrow evening. The programme will include Mendelssohn's Prelude in 0 minor, Boccherini’s cele brated Minuet, a Symphonic Paean by C. Edgar Ford, Bach’s Fugue in .. G major, ‘ Sea Surge ’ and ‘ Sea Plaint, by the Scottish composer, Julian Nesbitt, and the overture to ‘ William Tell ’ (Rossini). By special request, the organist will play the An.dante based on the Westminster Chimes (Westbrooke). The assisting, artists will bo Mrs H. C. Campbell, who will play the first movement of Schumann’s A minor Concerto, with orchestral accompaniment on the organ, Miss Elvira Wycherly, who will play the 'cello solo * Kol Nidrei’ (Bruch), with organ accompaniment.

Protection for coastal shipping against what he terms “ American trust method ” adopted by the llailway Department is proposed by Mr Veitch (Wanganui) in a Bill he intends to introduce in the House of Representatives next week. Mr Veitch explains that his Bill will bring New Zealand into line with British law in respect to the protection of coastal shipping from the Railway Board’s methods, which aim at creating a monopoly by eliminating the coastal services.—Parliamentary reporter. The annual, winter sketch. exhibition of the Otago Art Society being held in the Pioneer Hall has 250 pictures in colour, and the works in. black and white, together with the crafts exhibit, total fifty. An inspection of the work will give a good idea of the progress being made by local artists and of modern tendencies in art. There are some exceptionally .fine pictures by wellknown, artists, and many of / the younger painters show distinct promise. The sales of the following pictures are reported:—Mr E, W. Walden’s * Lake Hawea ’ and ‘ Milford Sound, ’ Mr W. Allen Bollard’s “ Sunlit Coast, Otago Peninsula,’ and Annette Pearce’s-pen drawing, ‘ Sweet Seventeen.’ > The exhibition will close on Thursday. August 2. ■ ' ■/,.

The excellent use which may be made of native timber is well exemplified in a very attractive exhibit at the Otago Art, Society’s winter exhibition in the Pioneer Hall. This is a Queen Anne coffee table fashioned and . inlaid by Mr Jas. Knox, of Dunedin, out of the heart of fcowhai. A beautiful polish has been given to the wood, and the effect of the graining is . very striking. The table was made from one of the posts supporting the old Kay’s bridge at Whare Flat, which has been superseded after seventy years’ service by a concrete structure. This timber 1 is estimated by experts to be over 100 years old. Front different angles the changing appearance of the grain may be observed.

Steady rain fell in Auckland last night and was still falling this morning. The temperature dropped to 43deg, and with a fresh south-westerly breeze made the day uncomfortably cold.—Press Association. ,

A tribute to the Maoris’ masterly vocalisation, of the English language is embodied in a letter, which recently appeared m the London 4 Observer.’ Referring to Mr St. John Ervine’s advice that anyone who wished to know howShakespeare probably pronounced his words should hasten to the North of, Ireland and listen to an Ulsterman, or, better still, go to the ; Appalachian mountains in America and listen to the rustics there, the oof respondent; states that Mr Ervine might have added “ to New Zealand and listen to the. Maoris,” He goes on to say: “It was noticed on Gallipoli in 1915 that most pleasing English was spoken by a Maori, contingent which put the Australians, and their compatriots, too, utterly to shame. Why was this? Because, the richness and sonority of their voices gave music to their vowel sounds. This is surely a great thing, and more important than the right or wrong choice of vowels for the word used. We who listened with delight and a measure of humiliation to these soldiers may have noticed slips in grammar and pronunciation, but seldom faults of vocalisation, A pure vowel did not start as something else and shade into another sound almost before it was touched.’’ Latest advice from Oturehua is that thb ice ,at Oturehua is in splendid condition. The ' curling match between Australia and New Zealand resulted in a win for the latter. To-day the ice carnival was continued, when the principal event was a competition in which five curling clubs took, part. Mr Lott, of Oturehua, won the skating race at the carnival yesterday. : The tramway manager’s statement of the 'traffic returns for the _ fortnight ended July 21, as compared with the returns for the corresponding period of last year, shows an increase in revenue for the period of £llO. The position, from April Ito July 21 (sixteen weeks) compared with the corresponding period of last year, is that the revenue shows an increase of £96, equal to 23 per cent.

Notification of Sunday services as enumerated below appears in pur Sunday services advertising columns:- Anglican: St. Paul’s Cathedral, All Saints’, St. Michael's and All Angels’. Presbyterian: First Church, Knox Church, St. Andrew’s, Chalmers, Musselburgh, St. Stephen’s, Boslyn, South ' Dunedin. Methodist: Trinity,- Central Mission, Mornington, St. Kilda, Caversham, Dundas Street, Abbotsford. Baptist: Hanover Caversham, Mornington, South Dunedin, Boslyu, Sunshine. . Congregational: Moray Place Church, United. Church of Christ: St. Andrew Street, North-east Valley,' South Dunedin. York Place Hall. Playfair Street Hall, Christian Science, Tiieosopliical Society, Spiritualist Orange Hall. Port Chalmers.—J. Watson’s Clearing Winter Sale, general drapery, clothing, boots and shoes, general furnishings, now proceeding.—f Advt. 1

Applications are invited for recruits in the Royal New Zealand Artillery. ■ Preference will be given to serving Territorials. Particulars are advertised in this issue.

The' Otago Early Settlers’ Association will hold their monthly, old-time dance dn the Early Settlers’ Hall on Wednesday next. Good floor and music.

At the annual meeting of the Otago Importers’ and Shippers' Association, held on Tuesday evening, the three members of the committee mentioned in our report under the heading of ‘ Election of Officers ’ were re-elected, making a total committee of nine members.

Save your eyes. Be wise and consult W. V. Sturmer, optician, 2 Octagon, thus conserving good vision for old age.— fAdvt.] ■ On Tuesday last the Harmony Boys’ Band supplied the music for the Ambassadors’ dance, which is run in the South Dunedin Town Hall by'the South Dunedin Unemployed Association, in place of Smith’s Jubilee Band, which was unavoidably absent, owing to a previous engagement. About the usual number of patrons were present. During the evening two Monte Carlos were held, the winners being Miss Shaud and Mr V. Porter, and Miss Segg and Mr Cyril Rcddington. The usual dance will bo held on Tuesday next, when the Smith’s Jubilee Band will bo on the stage once more, and two more Monte' Carlos will be held.

' See the Y.M.C.A. gymnastic display o* Monday evening. Attractive items and, ft good night’s fun. Full particulars advertised.' ■ . The Otago Kennel Club will bold a ribbon parade of breed dogs in. the Town Hall basement to-night. The recently imported Borzois and St. Bernard dogs will be on parade. ;. The Society of Women Musicians will give a concert in the Y.W.C.A. Hal! on ’Monday in aid of the Y.W.C.A. funds. On Monday, night the monthly dance ofthe Albion Cricket Club, in conjunction with Arthur Barnett’s Ladies’ Cricket Club, will be held in the Moonshine Winter Gai> den. The Savonians have again been engaged to' supply "the music, and prizes and supper will be features of the evening.