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Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 14

The ‘ Sports Special,’ with the sporting news of tho day and week, will be sold on the, streets ■ to-mght. Ihe issue will contain the first round draw for five grades of basketball. The Poppy Day total for the whole of Otago, with a few country returns still to come, has reached £2,009 11s Id, the following additional amounts being, acknowledged by the' secretary of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association Strand corner (Hillside Nursing Division),. £4 2s; Caversham School, £1 16s 3d; Otakau, £1 7s 2d; Maori Hill School (junior Red Cross), 2s. The total of the above amount collected in the city and' suburbs was £1,224 13s 3d. Citizens who no longer need to water their gardens may or may not be interested to know that the city storage reservoirs are running practically to capacity level, the, total volume being 148,126,000 gallons. The Southern reservoir and Sullivan Dam are full, while Ross Creek reservoir contains 49,700,000 gallons out of a maximum capacity of 50,000,000 gallons. Angus M‘Kay pleaded guilty in the Police Court this morning to a charge of drunkenness, having been four times previously convicted in tho last ~sjx months. Senior-sergeant Packer said that the defendant was arrested yesterday afternoon. “He is a problem to know what to do with,” said the senior sergeant, “he seems to get a few drinks, and goes right out, and that is the end of him—he is very decent when sober.” The defendant said he had not had a drink for about four , months, but he met a friend he had not seen for about 20 years, and this started him off. “He wasn’t much of a friend of yours,” remarked the magistrate. The defendant was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment. Probate has been granted' by His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy in the estates of Wilikm Thomas Hall, plumber,. Dunedin; Gerald - Heath Bruce Hutchins, chemist, Owaka; Lauchlan Munro, retired railway servant, Green Island; Robert M‘Adam, pastrycook, Dunedin: Isabella Russell, widow, Waikouaiti; Perciyal Fenwick, gentleman, Oamaru; James Paterson, farmer, Tapanui; Mary Dawson, widow, Naseby; Jane Masterton,., widow, Roslyn; and Robert Rae Murray, farmer, Waitahuna. Letters of administration have been granted in the estate of John And.erson, farmer, Kurow. Decision was reserved by His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreriio Court yesterday afternoon in the case hi which a' declaration was sought by Duncan M'Lennan, farmer, of Dunrobin, of his right to a half share ,ot the proceeds of the sale of the stock of the Oettli Gramophone Company, South Dunedin. The plaintiff, who was the landlord, claimed that there was a contract .which required the assets of the company to be disposed or to the mutual advantage of the plaintiff and the defendant (Frederick Wil liam Wedlake), who was the holder of a first debenture over the, undertaking. The defendant denied that there was a valid contract, and claimed that the arrangement was that the business should be wound up for the benefit of everybody concerned. Mr R. D. Jamieson appeared for tho plaintiff, and Mr R. G. M'Naughton for the defendant.

The mayor (Rev. E. T. Cox) has invited th.e members of the City Council with their wives and families, to attend the service at the Central Mission on Sunday evening. A six-roomed dwelling in Springlands (Blenheim), owned by Mr James Brown, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. . Nothing- was saved. The house was insured for £4,15 in the State Office, and the furniture for £250 in the Phoenix Office. This is the third fire in Springlands within a short period, all occurring in practically the same locality. In the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, Arthur Francis M'Cann, a musician on the liner Monowai, pleaded cniiltv and was fined the minimum of £125 by Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., for importing prepared opium valued at £l2O to £240, and the opium was automatically confiscated. Mr J. Himburg, honorary secretary of the committee that has organised and managed the community singing in Dunedin, is receiving numerous inquiries as to continuing the series this winter. His answer is that a meeting of the committee is convened and that in all probability the first “ sing ” this year will be on Friday, the 31st inst., at the Strand Theatre. The proceeds, as before, will go to the mayor’s relief fund. Red Roofs, the Salvation Army’s maternity home in Dunedin, is highly valued as an important factor in the community, o and hundreds of women who have been lodged therein, or expect to be, will be interested in the announcement that Major Isabella Tweed, the able and much-respected matron, is resigning at the end of this month. She was trained in Australia, arid has been an officer of the Army since 1899. ■ Her work will no doubt be adequately referred to at the farewell social. The incoming matron is Major Ethel Nairn, who came from Lovell’s Flab, and has been actively engaged in the Army social work for over 20 years. To increase the accommodation of the Wellington G.P.O. it has been decided to erect a light structure over that portion of the premises which faces Featlierston street (says a Press Association telegram). The overseas steamer Mahia is loading 11,341 cases of apples at Port Chalmers. This is the final shipment of Otago apples this season, and brings the season’s shipments overseas up to a total of 139,046 cases..

. Fire destroyed a five-roomed residence at Brunner at 6 o’clock this morning, occupied by Mr J. Howlands. Nothing was saved, Mrs Rowlands and her four children narrowly escaped. Mr Rowlands went to work at the mine at 6 o’clock.—Greymouth Press Association. A grant of £IOO has been made by the Railways Board to Mrs A, Marquet, of Wild berry street, who. had a leg amputated through being pushed under a train at Lyttelton on the night that the Duke of Gloucester left Lyttelton—Christchurch ■ Press Association. In the New Plymouth Supreme Court Mr Justice Callan sentenced Leonard Lawrence De Malmanche to six months' imprisonment for the theft of carpenter’s tools and an overcoat at Eltham.— Press Association. ’ The trustees of the estate of the late T. G. Macarthy have donated £250 to the King’s Jubilee gift fund for cancer research, to be expended in the Wellington district.—Press Association. A Hamilton Press Association telegram states that, following the Auckland case of a man with an extra pair of ribs, tit is reported that a similar case is known in Hamilton a young woman in her late teens. No operation is contemplated, as no symptoms are associated with her condition. A Palmerston North Press Association telegram records the .death of Mr William Hooper Barnard, for 23 years superintendent cf the Palmerston North Fire Brigade. He was' a life member of the United Fire Brigades’ Association, and president of the N.Z. branch of the British Institute of Fire Engineers. His service .as a fireman extended over 42 years from a volunteer to superintendent, all in Palmerston North. This year the extra passenger traffic to- and from Dunedin caused by the winter term of school holidays has so far been practically restricted to last Saturday. It is now normal, well up to the average volume. Probably next Saturday will bring about another rush by teachers and pupils returning to their homes. Such spurts -do not agitate the staff. An emergency finds the officials well prepared. The goods traffic, to and from both north and south,,is keeping up most satisfactorily, and the business on the Central Otago line is increasing, being lately added to by the transporting of mining plant to Alexandra and, other stations. Although the number of cases of Otago apples exported this season does not equal the record of 1933, when a total of 163,000 was sent overseas, growers have every reason to be optimistic. because their return will be the best since 1931. Satisfactory prices are being paid abroad, and each ship load is finding a ready market. Apples have been sent“this season to England, Norway, Sweden, and Rotterdam, and a trial shipment, to Calcutta is to be taken away by the Narbada early next week. At present' a consignment of 12,000 cases is being placed on the Mahia, which carries the last shipment to London. - The season’s export will then total some 130,000 cases. The postal authorities advise that the Akaroa from London, due at Wellington on Wednesday afternoon, has 466 bags of English mail for New Zealand. The Dunedin portion should be to* hand on Thursday afternoon. In expressing strong opposition to the removal of the, embargo on the importation of British live stock, Mr David Marshall, a former member of the Board of Agriculture, said that Britain had failed to stamp out the disease, which was*not’.yet properly understood. The calamity'there, where stock was docile, would be worse here with the range of cattle. It was for the stock owner to decide, not the Royal Agricultural Society. Ho emphasised the danger of infection from imported seed and also packing. The recent numerous bad outbreaks in Britain had caused him to change his opinion,, which once favoured the lifting of the embargo.—lnvercargill Press Association. ' The newly elected mayor and councillors of the St. Kilda Borough will attend a service at the St. Kilda Methodist Church to-morrow night.

Notification of Sunday services as enumerated below appears in our 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, Roslyn, South Dunedin. Methodist; , Trinity, Central Mission, Mornington, St. Kilda, Caversham, Dundas Street, Abbotsford. Baptist: Hanover Street. Caversham, Mornington, South Dunedin. Roslyn, ‘ Sunshine. Congregational : Moray Place Church, United. Church'of-Christ:’St. Andrew Street. Northeast Valley, South Dunedin. York Place Hall, Playfair ' Street Hall. Christian Science, Theosophical Society, Spiritualists, Orange Hall. When you can’t see—See Stunner.—W. V. Stunner, Optician, 2 Octagon, Dunedin. Consulting Opticians; W, V. Stumer, F. 1.0., NIZ.;.A. R. Watson, P. 1.0.. 5.D.0., N.Z.—[Advt.l The Australian Society will open the winter season with a social evening at the Vcdic Cafe to-morrow night. An interesting musical programme has been arranged, in addition to which there will be bridge and euchre. Particulars are given in our advertising columns. The .Green Mill, owing to a prior booking of the Concert Chamber, will move for this Saturday to the Moonshine, George street. ■< The Myths of Plato’ is the subject of Miss M. 1. Turnbull’s lecture to the Classical Association in the Museum lecture room on Monday evening, at 8 o’clock. The public are invited. Excerpts- from Bach’s ‘St. Luke Passion ’ and Mozart’s ' ‘ Twelfth Mass ’• will be rendered- by the Moray place Congregational Choir on Wednesday next, at 8 p.ra,, under the baton of Mr Alfred Walmsley, and with Mrs H. C. Campbell at the organ. . Tho Railway Department advertises in this issue that a relief express train leaves Christchurch for Dunedin at 9.10 a.m., and mail train leaves, Dunedin, for Christchurch at 8.45 a.m. on Saturday, May 25. The United Starr-Bowkett ' Building Society will disposp of £1,500 by sale and ballot on May 23, and £2,8p0 on June 13. Considerable interest is being aroused hi the old boys’ ball, which is to be held on May 28 in the Concert Chamber, Town Hall. The Old Boys’ Associations of tho Christian Brothers’ High School and St; Kevin’s College have combined together to run it, and it is anticipated there will be a large attendance for what promises to be a very bright function. A lot of original novelties are to he introduced, wind) ' should provide a great deal of 'Wembley Club will hold their weekly dance in the Early Settlers’ Hal! to-night. The, Union Street School Ex-pupils’ Association social will bo held at tho Somerset Lounge on Wednesday next, at 7.50.