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Evening Star, Issue 22194, 23 November 1935, Page 16

The Taieri County Council yesterday decided to increase all employees’ wages by Is a day. The,. Benevolent Committee of the Otago Hospital Board reports having during the past month dealt with 13 cases for relief, at a. weekly cost of £5 16s 6d. Casual cases for relief involving the expenditure of £548 5s Id were approved, and three men received 14J days’ work at 12s 6d a day at the board’s institutions at a total cost of £9 Is 3d. The Hospital Committee of the Hospital Board recommends that the request of the Otago University Council for the erection of a new lecture theatre be approved, the board and the council each to pay half cost. The architects have been instructed to prepare plana and submit the estimated cost, arid these will be forwarded to the Minister for approval. The University Council brought forward a proposal for' the erection of a second lecture theatre at about the same cost, plus furnishings, and the provision of a new outpatient department, but consideration of these has been held over in the meantime. The honorary medical staff of the Dunedin Hospital, reports the Hospital Committee of the Hospital Board, has purchased a new electro-cardiograph machine, and presented it to the hospital, and. has also provided a trolley for transport from one ward to another. Thanks have been accorded the staff for the gifts. The number of motor vehicles registered in New Zealand during October, 2,486, is the highest in any October since 1929. It is 794 in excess of the registrations for October, 1934, and comprises 1,689 cars, 564 commercial vehicles, and 233 motor cycles. Another important feature is disclosed in analysing the origin of the new car registrations for October: —Great Britain, 903; U.S.A. or Canada, 779; others, 7; total, 1,689.

Tho Tasman flyer, Mr W. M. O’Hara, lias i’eceived advice that his pilot’s license has been suspended in Australia as from October 29. Mr O’Hara has asked for the reason for the suspension. A denial that he would be appointed High Commissioner after the election was made (says a Press Association telegram) by Mr 0. A. Wilkinson at a political meeting at New Plymouth last night. It had never been suggested by the Government, ho said, and he did not think the Government had ever considered it. If the position were offered he could not accept it. In order to give those who are unable to attend the evening recitals an opportunity of hearing a programme on the Town Hall organ, the city organist (Dr V. E. Galway) has arranged a recital for tb-morrow in the Town Hall at 3 o’clock. An attractive programme is being provided, including such items as ‘ Fantaisie Oh 0 Sanctissima ’ (Lux), ‘ Andante,’ based on the Westminster Chimes (Westbrook), Bach’s ‘ Prelude and Fugue in A Minor,’ ‘Suite Gothique ’ (Boellmann), ‘ln Springtime ’ (Hollins), ‘ Londonderry Air’ (arranged by Coleman), and by special request the overture to ‘ William Tell’ (Rossini). There will be no charge for admission. Tho postal authorities advise that the Strathnaver, which reached Auckland yesterday', has four bags of Australian mail for Dunedin. The mail is due at Dunedin on Monday morning. The Niagara,, duo at Auckland from Vancouver next Thursday, has l,ss3ihags of English and American mail for New Zealand, and the Makura, which left Sydney for Wellington on Thursday, has 3S bags of Australian mail and 25 parcel receptacles for Dunedin. The mail by .the Makura is due at the local office oh Tuesday, and the Dunedin portion ex the Niagara on Saturday afternoon.

.Dunedin has enjoyed comparative freedom from serious infectious diseases for an extensive period, and. as the health officer (Dr T. M'Kibbin) commented to-day: “Long may it last.” Influenza appears to be passing with the weather’s improvement, as little of it had been reported over the past week, while cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria have also been fewer. Mumps continue to be fairly wide spread in Southland, so much so in that district between Invercargill and Riverton that it has been necessary to close the Waimatuku School. However, the form of the complaint is a mild one, and precaution is being taken to prevent as much as possible i.ts affecting other areas in the province.

The construction of a.level tar-sealed road from Dunedin to Port Chalmers was urged at a Harbour Board function yesterday afternoon by Mr John Loudon, an ex-chairman of the board. In stressing the desirability of the harbour road, so that goods unloaded from vessels at Port Chalmers when conditions prevented their coming up to Dunedin could be afforded easy road transport. Mr Loudon said he was certain that the Unemployment Board would give a subsidy for tho work. If the building of a level road had been taken in hand years ago many of the board’s difficulties. would have been solved. Probate has been granted by His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy in the estates of Dugald George Matheson, sheep farmer, Kurow; Mary Jane Nicholas, widow, Kaitangata; Neil Hawthorn Mackay, retired baker, Dunedin; Barbara Charlotte Agnes Margaret Euphemia Wallace Douglas, married woman, Oamaru; and William Bell Currie, farmer, Maheno. Letters of administration have been granted in the estates of Winifred Seymour, married woman, Dunedin; William Sproule Culbert, insurance manager, Port Chalmers; Ellen Eva Kennedy, spinster, Scarsdale,- in the country of Westchester, State of New York, United States of America. The warehouse of Kempthorne, Prosser and Co. in Stafford street was broken into on Thursday night. The intruder, who evidently had > more refined tastes thah the majority of the members of his dangerous profession, selected eleven dozen bottles of lavender water as his booty. In the Police Court this morning Hugh Goodlet was fined 22s 6d,. in, default three days’ imprisonment, for drunkenness. It was Ins third offence in six months. For the fourth day the Supreme Court was engaged throughout yesterday with the hearing of the case in which His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy was asked to grant letters of administration in solemn form of the will of the late John M'Nicklo, a retired farmer, who died in Dunedin last year at the age of 94 years. Opposition was offered to the granting of the application on the ground that when ths will was made the testator was not. of sound mind, memory, and understanding, and there was also an allegation that undue influence had been brought to bear on him when the will was executed. The 'case will be resumed on Monday morning. The air mail despatched from London on November 10 will arrive at Auckland by the Monowai on Tuesday. —Press Association. The issue of forged tickets to Mr Coates’s meeting to-night led to a rush to the headquarters of the National Political .Federation this _ morning. Among the tickets handed in for replacement were a number of the forged ones, and the holders were closely questioned, by detectives. It appears that the forged tickets were distributed, widely in a highly organised way. There are indications of considerable confusion at the Town_ Hall to-night.— Auckland Press Association.. A malicious false alarm called the brigade out to the corner of Lower High and Cumberland at 8.23 last night. A chimney fire in Bradshaw street, South Dunedin, was attended to* at 3.46 yesterday afternoon. The postal authorities advise that the Monowai left Sydney on Friday, for Auckland with 12 bags of Australian mail and five parcel receptacles for Dunedin, also the London air mail despatch of November 10. The mail is due at the . local office on Wednesday afternoon. ~

Notification of Sunday services as enumerated below appears in our Sunday services advertising columns: —Anglican: St. Paul’s Cathedral, All Saints’-., .Presbyterian: First Church, Knox Church, St. Andrew’s, Mus-, selburgh, St. Stephen’s, Roslyn, South Dunedin, Kaikorai. Methodist: Trinity, Central Mission, Mornington, St. Kilda, Caversham, Dundas Street, Abbotsford. Baptist: Hanover Street, Caversham, Mornington, South Dunedin, Roslyn, Sunshine, North-east Valley. Congregationalt Moray. Place Church, United. Church of Christ: St. Andrew Street, North-east Valley, South Dunedin. York Place Hall, Playfair Street Hall, Christian Science, Theosophical Society, Spiritual- 1 ists, Orange Hall. To see or not to see —the question is who to see. See Sturmer and Watson, opticians, 2 Octagon, Dunedin.—fAdvt.l The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of a special cheap day excursion, Dunedin to Invercargill, on Sunday, December 1. Two fast trains will bo run to Inverc'argill, returning the same day. E. W. Walden, architect, 34 Dowling street, Dunedin, and'22 Hart street, Roslyn. —fAdvt.l In this issue appears an announcement regarding a farewell function in honour of Miss Macmillan, who is relinquishing her position as matron of the Montecillo Home. Miss Macmillan saw service overseas,' and later undertook the matronship of the Red Cross Home when it was ' opened 18 years ago. Many inquiries have reached the Red Cross from those who have beenassociated with the matron in the past. Ex-members of tho staff, V.A.D.’s, and soldier patients who wish to take part in the farewell proceedings are requested to communicate immediately .with the secretary of the Red Cross. The Otago Mutual Starr-Bowkett Building Society will ballot for a premium loan of £SOO in No. 3 group on Thursday next. The Pacific Starr-Bowkett Building Society, announces that its new group of 4,000 shares will be opened for the payment of subscriptions on Monday night. Train arrangements in connection with the Clutha Show on November 29 are announced by the Railway Department in this issue. Train arrangements and excursion fares in connection with the Forbury Park Trotting Meeting, November 28 and <!0, are announced by the Railway Department in this issue. A dance in aid of the Sacred Heart School break-up fund will bo held in the Nga Maara Hall. Gardens, on Monday night. A special door prize will be awarded, also Monte Carlo. As this will be the last dance for the season in the Nga Maara Hall, a good attendance is expected. Supper will be provided. The usual weekly old-time dance will he held in the Early Settlers’ Hall to-night; lucky spot and Monte Carlo; Savoqia Band.