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Evening Star, Issue 22087, 22 July 1935, Page 6

The Monowai, which is on a cruise of the Islands, 'was still favoured with beautiful weather when she called at Niuafoou to land the tin-can mail. Passengers had a deightful day at Levuika, and arrived at Suva at 7 a.m. on Saturday. Among the arrangements were a motor drive to the Rena Land Tamavua heights, Fijiian football played with hare feet, and an “ Island Nights ” entertainment and hall at the Grand Pacific Hotel. The vessel was to leave Suva early yesterday morning, and is due at Auckland on Wednesday morning, ......

The Auckland Chess Club has won the North Island section of the New Zealand Club Championship by beating the Wellington Club by 11 points to 9 Auckland now has to play the winner of the Otago-Canterbury match for the Bledisloe Cup.

The Teviot Electric Power Board is up against the Audit Department over a matter of which no doubt more will yet be heard. The board has on hand a quantity of construction stocks, such as poles, which have been paid for, and which the Audit Department will not allow to appear in the board’s balance sheet as an offset to its overdraft. The Electric Power Boards and Supply Authorities of New Zealand hold their annual conference in Wellington early in September, and the Teviot E.P. Board has resolved to send the following remit thereto;—“ That the Government be asked to consider the question of allowing construction stocks, such as poles, which had been paid for byboards and were in hand, to appear as an offset to a board’s overdraft.’ The Teviot Board, it may be added, has been asked by » Dunedin resident to give a quotation for the supply of 52 k w of power for mining purposes two miles off the main highway at the upper end of the Coal Creek Flat, the approximate cost of the line to be set out, as well as the price per unit for power This request was referred to the engineer and the foreman to look into and report thereon. An instruction was also issued to the engineer to report on the question of the feasibility of carrying the electric line across the Molyneux River so as to supply the residents of Long Valley with power.Lawrence correspondent.

No appreciable restoration is yet made of the sand that was scoured from the St. Clair Beach a week ago It is satisfactory, however, to find that the sea has not in the meantime pushed further its assault oft the sandhills, and regular visitors have not given up the hope that in the course of a 1 couple of months, by which time surfing is usually enjoyed in parties, the beach will have made up sufficiently to allow the sand to bo reached without walking over rocks.

The Liedertafel, parent of the Royal Mai© Choir, which is to sing to-night, did not com© to Dunedin direct from Germany. Melbourne had a Liedertafel at an earlier date, and the common belief is that the transplanting to Victoria was from America, the Boston Apollo Club having established itself in favour. Mr S. Moyle heard the singing in Melbourne, took counsel here with Mr Matthew Stuart Holmes, who had been connected with the Melbourne club, and thus came about the founding of the society which under its new name has now entered its fiftieth year without any sign of enfeeblement. Some of our seniors still think of it as the Liedertafel, and in years to come the old name may be restored, though to do that would be difficult, since the English charter allowing “ royal to bo prefixed stipulates .that the title shall be the Royal Male Choir.” Meanwhile, if such a proposal brings '«Liedertafel ” into frequent use, care should be taken as to the spelling of the first syllable, since lt Liedertafel is the German for “ table of song, whereas “Leidertafel” means “table of sorrow.”

In connection with the 1935 Health stamp, which the Post Office will issue towards the end of the year, the department has been fortunate in securing the voluntary assistance of Mr L. H. Hooker, of Hawera, whose organising ability has been frequently shown in connection ' with altruistic ! objects. Mr Hooker, who is a member of the . Hawera Hospital ’ Board, will carry out an activecampaign with the object of interesting, all sections of the public in the twopenny Health stamp, bn© penny being for postage, the other penny going without deduction to, the funds of the various children’s health camps throughout New Zealand. An attractive design has been prepared, and the stamps are to be printed in Australia. It is frequently suggested that some scheme should be devised for encouraging or compelling motorists to go through the heart of Dunedin by way of Crawford street or Cumberland street instead of increasing the congestion of traffic by driving past the safety zone. Nobody, however, has said how that could be brought about. Once in the arterial thoroughfare, where they have a right to be, they can only get out by intersections such as Stuart street and Dowling street, courses that necessitate more wheelings, therefore more danger, or making a right-angle turn at the Bank corner, and in any twistings of that kind they would be away from the control of the policeman on point duty. A simpler plan would be to reduce the speed allowable from Manse street to Frederick street. The suggestion is worth consideration by the municipal authorities in consultation with the traffic inspectors. Pending any change of that sort, it is the duty of pedestrians, for their own and others’ sakes, to cross the street only at intersections and turns at right angles.. Motorists slow down at intersections, and have a right to travel between one cross street and another at a fair pace, keeping, of course, a bright lookout for other vehicles, but they ought riot to' be burdened with troubles that are caused by what is known as “ jay walking.”

The Shaw, Savill fast oversea carrier Coptic had a brief stay at Port Chalmers this trip. She arrived yesterday, picked up a line of wool this forenoon to complete her loading, and a few minutes after noon sailed for London via Cape Horn and Las Palmas. The vessel shipped 15 bags of mail here for London.

A fine of £5 was imposed by Mr Justice Kennedy upon John William Herman Clarke, a common juror, who failed to appear when liis name was called in the Supreme Court this morning, Mr Clark appeared later in the morning and explained that pressure of urgent business had prevented his earlier attendance. His Honour informed him that the reasons advanced were not sufficient, and a fine would have to be imposed. The original fine would be reduced to £2.

The attendance on Saturday at the rose pruning demonstration in the garden of Mr J. Stevenson, at Anderson’s Bay, was the largest that Mr F. S. Porrett (contributor of the ■’ Star ’ gardening notes) has spoken to this season. Mr Stevenson owns a very good collection of roses, therefore Mr Perrett found plenty of subjects for his actions and his talk on rose cultivation. The listeners and onlookers heartik thanked Mr Stevenson and the demon strator.

Books that are much in demand at the Dunedin Athenaeum and othi libraries include ‘ The Joyous Pilgrimage,’ b.V Tan Donnelly; ‘ Ambition’s Harveatj’ by Nolle Scanlan; ‘ The Arches of the Years,’ by flalliday Sutherland; and ‘ The Children df the Poor,’ a tale of slum life in the Dunedin of 30 or 40 years ago, published anonymously. Not much inquiry is made by present-day readers for.books by the older novelists. Dickens is always in demand, and novels by Wilkie Collins, Ouida, and one or two other authors of a former period are occasionally asked for, but the fashion in reading is plainly diverted to the modern writers.