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Evening Star, Issue 22069, 1 July 1935, Page 8

Many people do not seem to know that permission has to be sought from the governing local body to remove soil from the side of a street or country road. Or Brinsdon reported to the Taieri County Council at its monthly meeting that soil was being removed from the sides of the road near the St. Clair golf links. It was decided to insert an advertisement in the Press warning those responsible that action would be taken against anyone found removing soil.

Mrs Hanks, a gown shop proprietress in the Regent Theatre building at Taumarunui, left for her home by the back entrance on Friday evening, at 5.30, and when in the dark was pushed down into a mud pool and robbed of a satchel containing £ll in notes. Her assailant threw mud ip her face and eyes, and drew her coat up oyer her arms and head.—Press Association.

The first of the consignments of South Australian oranges to come to Dunedin this season, consisting of 3,000 cases, is due here to-morrow. It is already assured of a welcome quite equal in warmth to what was expected, if not promised, when arrangements were made to have this shipment to hand early. Last time the first lot was received in August. This year the third will be landed in August. _ The fruit now to arrive is from the picking when it was at its best; that is the chief reason of its desirability. The Dunedin retailers had by Saturday at the closing hour secured practically all of the 3,000 cases at flat rates ranging from 80 for 15s to 216 for 21s ; no rebates. The mandarins in the shipment were offered at from 27s to 30s.

At the monthly meeting of the Taieri County Council, a request was received from the Brighton Ratepayers’ Association for permission to form a crossing to the association’s freehold property and to erect a fence on the council’s land adjoining the (property. Messrs Baxter and Thornley, representing the association, waited on the council in support of the request, and gave details of the proposals. It was decided to give the association permission to erect a fence on the correct boundary.

“Was 1900 a leap year, and, if not, why not?” This was one of the questions asked to-day. A leap year is one that can be divided by four without remainder,' the century years s (1800, 1900, etc.) only excepted. A solar year contains 065 days 5 hours and 48 minutes. Taking that as 365 J days, a day was added by Julius Csesar every four years to absorb the additional 24 hours. In 1582 Pope Gregory Xlil. further ordained that three of the leap years which occur in 400 years should be considered common years. Under that necessary readjustment 1700, 1800, and 1900 were common years, and 2000 will be leap year. That method of correcting the calendar was adopted in England in 1751.

The Taieri County Council decided at the monthly meeting to strike the same rates as last year. The clerk said that reference to the balance-sheet showed that though the financial position was not at all unsatisfactory he did not see that they could safely commence the year with any reduction on last year’s rates. It was agreed to strike a rate of IJd in the £, with a reduction of 20 per cent, in the valuations.

The Taieri County Council has given permission to the Under-secretary to the Department of internal Affairs to liberate up to 50 chukor in the Lammerlaws, between Lawrence and Middlemarch.,

Every man to his own vocation is perhaps a desirable state, but one that is not always practicable, as found a young 4 Star ’ reporter, who this morning was compelled to practise another calling—a seaman’s. At an awkward moment during the towing to an anchorage of the disabled launch Imp, both craft, rolling in heavy seas, appeared to be about to collide—in between the launches was the rescuing boat’s dinghy, and in that dinghy, waiting for the oarsman to jump in was the keen newspaper man. With a collision imminent the dinghy with its occupant had to be cast off, and it was then that watchers from the shore saw a display of oarsmanship which, although not up to regatta standard, was after several attempts effective. The journalist’s worst mistake, one that he was quick to rectify, was attempting to row while facing the bow of his craft.

Mr George Henry Oatway, of Highgate (England), late of Dunedin, who died on March 17, left an estate of the gross value of £35,577, with net personality of £35,282. He left £IOO each to the National Lifeboat Institution, the Salvation Army, and Dr Barnado’s Home.

Motorists look forward to the time when the Mosgiel-West Taieri and Green Island-Brighton roads are tarsealed highways. Towards this end, matters were advanced a stage further at the monthly meeting of the Taieri County Council. Mr E. Fletcher Roberts, consulting engineer to the council, submitted plans and specifications of proposed reconstruction works on these two roads. The clerk outlined the procedure necessary to obtain authority to carry out such work. The chairman said that it would make a big difference if they could get these roads sealed. Cr Kirk said thgt they should endeavour to get the various bridges brought up to date at the same time. It was decided to forward the plans and documents on the subject to the Main Highways Board for its consideration.

Canada was to-day celebrating the sixty-eighth anniversary of its status as a dominion. It was on July 1, 1867, that the British North _ America Act came into operation, uniting the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, _ provision being made for the admission into the dominion of British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, the North-west Territories, and Newfoundland. _ Newfoundland alone has not availed itself of that provision. In 1869 the North-west Territories were purchased from the Hudson’s Bay Company and the province of Manitoba thus created was admitted to the confederation in 1870. In 1871 British Columbia came in, Prince Edward Island followed in 1873, and the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, and in 1931 Norway formally recognised the Canadian title to the Sverdrup group of Arctic islands. The Taieri County Council granted a donation of £5 at its monthly meeting to the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society.

The postal authorities advise that the Waitaki left Melbourne for Bluff on Thursday morning with 69 bags of English and Australian mails and four parcel receptacles for Dunedin. The mail should reach the local office on Tuesday morning. Seventy years ago a Presbyterian Church was opened at Allanton (in those days the little settlement was known as Grey.town) during the early ministry of the revered Dr Will. Later on, during the late Rev. A. W. Kinmont’s pastorate, the little church was removed to the commanding site it now occupies. The congregation celebrated the seventieth anniversary by a social on Saturday night and special services yesterday afternoon and evening. Rev. W. Allen _ Stevely preached at the afternoon service and Rev. S. C. Francis at the evening one. The social and services both proved worthy of the occasion.

Between Saturday evening and this morning no fewer than six chimney fires were attended to by the fire brigades, At 5.16 n.m. on Saturday the South Dunedip Brigade was called to a chimney fire in Glasgow street, and similar outbreaks were attended to by the City Brigade at 11.35 a.m. yesterday in Maitland street, at 4.9 p.m. in Harrow street, and at 7,11 _ at the Carlton Hotdl. This morning at 9 a.m. a chimney fire in Heriot row and at 10.42 one in Cavell street were attended. In addition the brigade was called to Elliot street, Anderson’s Bay, where a pan of boiling fat had caught fire.

Exactly 30 years ago yesterday Mr W. Paget Gale commenced bis duties as organist at Knox Church, and it was something of a coincidence that on that very day he should be asked to resume his place at the console to take the morning service of the church’s jubilee finale. At the end of October, Mr Gale (who is now organist at the Maori Hill Presbyterian Church) will have completed 60 years’ work as a church organist. A Wellington Association message states that Miss Gladys Moncrieff arrived by the Wanganella from Sydney under engagement for eight weeks by the New Zealand Broadcasting Board. Her accompaniments will be played by Mr G. Dech, the Australian pianist and conductor, who was also a passenger. They make personal appearances at charity concerts at Wellington (July 11), Christchurch (July 23), Dunedin (July 31), and Auckland (August 8). Members of the North-east Valley Bowling Club were the guests of the Returned Soldiers’ Association at the R:S.A. Club on Thursday night, when billiards and snooker matches were played. In billiards the bowlers won comfortably by 916 to 746, but in snooker the ex-servicemen won just" as easily, the scores being 247 to 122. The visitors were afterwards entertained at supper.

“ Japan to-day is building a great many ships, both warships and merchantmen, and in one of the yards I saw a large vessel being built for one of the French shipping companies,” said Mr H. E. Grainger, in an address to the Hastings Rotary Club. “ If Japan takes seriously to building ships she will be a serious menace to the British shipbuilding industry. She is determined to have a navy equal to those of Britain and America, and she makes no bones about it.”

Southerly gales invariably send the seas flying over White Island, and this spectacular sight was seen to its greatest advantage to-day. Waves driven with all the force of wind and water crashed against the rugged rocks, and spray was splashed high over the sea birds’ haven. However, an unusual feature about midday was that the island appeared to be completely submerged in the turbulent waters. The water’s edge along the full extent of the Ocean Beach was marked by a thick deposit of foam driven in from the sea.

An ex-sea captain told a ‘ Star ’ reporter this morning at Port Chalmers that he had heard it over the air that a half-brig or brigantine was a twomasted vessel, square rigged on tho foremast and tho mainmast, but fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzeu. The broadcaster could not have been serious, the captain reckoned, because he had also announced that the ship vvas heading east-north by north-east, which was, of course, impossible^

Within an hour and a-quarter about midday, the City Brigade answered four calls to chimney fires. At 11.23 the brigade was called to Lambeth road, at 12.5 to Kilgour street, Roslyn, at 12.47 to Beach street, St. Clair, and at 12.39 to Pitcairn street.

Harujira Nagura, a Japanese, arrived by the Wanganella from Australia today for the purpose of demonstrating to South Island poultry farmers the art of telling the sex of chicks. He is a chick sex expert from the Shizuoka Chick Sexing Association.—Wellington Press Association.

The miners at the Big River mine resumed work to-day after being out for four weeks. The company has agreed to the restoration of the 1931 cut to the employees, and also to a new wages agreement for two years. Reefton Press Association.

.A contract to supply horse haulage for‘shunting purposes on tho wharves at Port Chalmers has been secured by Mr Murphy, of Milton, on a three-year basis.

Probate has been granted by His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy in the estates of Catherine Rutherford, widow, Poolburn; Philip Thomas Huston, caterer, Dunedin; William Johnston, retired farmer, Oamaru; Amelia Watson, widow, Dunedin; John Huddart, mill .supervisor, Dunedin; and William George Grave, _ solicitor, Oamaru. Letters of administration have been granted in the estate of John Stewart Kennedy, retired railway employee, Dunedin.

To be Well, See Well, Seq Stunner.—W. V. Sturmer, Optician, 2 Octagon, Dunedin. Consulting Opticians: W. V. Sturmer, P. 1.0., N.Z.; A. B. Watson, F. 1.0., 5.D.0., N.Z.— fAdvt.] Tho farewell dance to Miss A. Mackie, which has been arranged for to-morrow night in tho Early Settlers’ Hall, bids fair to bo a great success. The hockey players are competing eagerly with each other in the sale of tickets, and a very happy evening is assured. Not only hockey players, but all other sports, will bo gathered to do honour to this popular young Dunedin player who has been chosen to represent New Zealand, and further honoured by being elected yice-captaiu of the team.