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Evening Star, Issue 22212, 14 December 1935, Page 14

A scene in Maclaggan street last night, when a man was chased, and later, it was alleged, assaulted by a ship’s fireman, had its sequel in the Police Court this morning. After hearing the evidence against Robert Robertson, a fireman on a visiting ship, of assaulting Thomas Alexander Tobin, Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., dismissed the charge, subject to payment of costs (2s 6d). A charge against Thomas M'Tavish, a labourer, of behaving in a disorderly manner, was dismissed. The magistrate expressed himself as not being fully satisfied with the evidence for the prosecution. ; With the approach of Christmas, the volume of business in the mail room at the Chief Post Office is visibly increasing, and the Chief Postmaster (Mr J. Madden) stated this morning that it was hoped members of the public would do their posting for Christmas as early as possible, so that there would not be a last-minute rush. Every year it was found that many parcels were not delivered before Christmas on account of last-minute posting. With the. tremendous rush that is expected next week, every available man is made'use of for the despatch of letters, but, with any great amount of last-minute posting, delays in delivery are quite unavoidable. Shipping news to-day will be found on page 11. • ' With such favourable weather conditions as have been experienced lately, all of Dunedin’s swimming resorts have been patronised by almost record crowds. The beaches at St. Clair and' St. Kilda have, of course, occupied pride of place, but another popular resort has been Fraser’s Gully, wherein is situated the Kaikorai Baths, one of the prettiest fresh-water pools in the Dominion. The sides of the pool are now planted with colourful flowering shrubs, and, as the water for the pool is brought from a spring nearby, it is always fresh and invigorating, although the' warm spell lately has taken any chill off it. As a rendezvous for children, the Kaikorai Baths and Fraser’s Gully are extremely popular. In the Police Court at Ashburton yesterday Nolan Christopher was fined £lO for selling liquor without a license and also for selling it from a car near a dance at Willowby. The police said that in the ,ar were 22 bottles of beer, two of whisky, and two of port wine. The defendant admitted having sold a few bottles, but in a statement later he said that he was an agent for a brewery, and that he treated friends from an undelivered order, no payment being made. The accused denied a sale,.

The cabled reference in Thursday night’s ‘ Star ’ to the South African native who removed his wife’s appendix with a pocket knife has reminded a local soa captain _of a trepanning operation performed in tho Philippines. A native had been injured by tho winch while working cargo and was given up as dead. Tho captain, however, after examining tho man’s skull, thought there might be a chance of saving his life. He filed a silver dollar smooth and placed it over a hole in the skull and bound up the wound. When he returned in about 12 months’ time the native called on him and appeared none the worse for his operation. “ The general health of the community is very good at present,” stated the District Health Officer (Dr M‘Kibbon) to an ‘ Evening Star ’ reporter this morning. There have been comparatively few notifications of infectious diseases, but in the western part of Southland two cases of pneumonic influenza have been reported. There were a few cases of this disease in Southland about a month ago, and it is thought that the latest cases notified are just an extension of the slight epidemic previously experienced in the south. There is no suggestion of any serious epidemic, however, but there has been a fair amount of influenza in' Western Southland.

In order'that the public may have an opportunity of inspecting the type of machine to be used by Union Airways Ltd., the. de Havilland air liner Karoro will visit the Taieri airport tomorrow, This is the largest aeroplane to fly in New Zealand, and its arrival is certain to attract a pood deal of interest. The main features of the machine are a wing span of 64ft, a height of nearly 13ft, and a length of 44ft. The Karoro weighs nearly three tons', and her four Gipsy six motors develop a total of 800 horse power. A grant of £20,000 as a Christmas bonus for the recipients of outdoor relief from hospital and charitable aid boards has been _ made by the .Government. This decision (reports a Press Association telegram from Wellington) was made by Cabinet yesterday afternoon." In making the announcement the Prime Minister (Mr M. J. Savage) said that the Government, •in making this sum available for those in need of outdoor relief, hoped it would receive the full co-operation of all the local bodies concerned throughout the Dominion. .

Probably the strangest exports from New Zealand in recent weeks have been the eye-heeth of deer. These are sent to Germany _on request, but the purpose for which they are used has not been divulged to the consignee, the Department of Internal Affairs. A consignment of several hundred teeth was forwarded to Germany a short time ago, and the price paid was Is 6d a pair. It is also stated by a Dunedin man, whose work takes him into the deer country of Central Otago, that the eye-teeth, especially those of moose and wapiti, command a good price in America, where they are used as the emblem of a club. This suggests that the teeth going to Germany are , made into some kind of ceremonial garments or insignia. A Dunedin visitor to Southland has returned with most enthusiastic reports of the state of the country at the present time. In a long experience. he has no recollection of the pastures ever looking better at this time of the year, and the stock, which in mid-spring was showing signs of the hard winter, has now made a good recovery. On quite a number of farms some of the best lambs are to be seen at the present time. It is anticipated that the freezing works will be kept busy from after the holidays with very high quality lambs. ) At a sitting of the Conciliation Council yesterday before the commissioner (Mr S. Ritchie),.to deal with the application of the. Dunedin and Port Chalmers United Shipwrights’ Industrial Union of Workers for a new award, and to consider counter-proposals submitted by 12 employers cited as respondents, a tentative agreement' was reached upon most of the matters in dispute. .Later in the afternoon the assessprs confirmed the results of the morning negotiations, and a settlement was effected providing for the payment of 2s 2d per hour for a 44-hcur working week, with payment of time and a-half for overtime, and double time for Sundays, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, and Labour Day, and time and a-half for January 2, Easter Saturday, Easter . Monday, King’s Birthday, and Boxing Day. A special clause was inserted with the object of dividing the available work amongst as many men as possible. The agreement is to remain in force until April 30, 1937.

An exceptionally heavy week has been reported in the fruit' and produce market. Increasing supplies of strawberries are coming to hand, and from the Oamaru district in particular very fine quality berries have been-received, prices generally being in favour of buyers. Large consignments of cherries are also arriving. Supplies of local and Christchurch tomatoes are on the increase, and some fine Nelson-grown tomatoes have come to the market here. In vegetables, sales of carrots, cauliflowers, and lettuce have been good. Cabbages are in rather over supply and values have dropped. Green peas are slightly easier. Asparagus is practically finished for the season. Small consignments of Sturmer apples are still arriving from the Canterbury and Nelson cool stores, values being firm. A further transhipment of Californian navel oranges, grapes, and grapefruit is due from Wellington this week. Bananas have a good inquiry, and a further shipment from Niue and Samoa ex the Maui P.omare is due in Dunedin on December 17. Ample supplies of new potatoes are arriving and prices are low. Eggs are selling exceptionally well at last week’s rates. There were heavy pennings of poultry during the last week,_ prices for good table birds being satisfactory. Notification of Sunday services as enumerated below appears in our Sunday services advertising columns: —Anglican: St. Paul’s Cathedral. AH Saints’. Presbyterian: First Church, Knox Church, St. Andrew’s, Musselburgh, St. Stephen’s, Roslyn, South Dun. edin, Kaikorai, Methodist: Trinity, Central Mission, Mornington, Si. Kilda, Caversham, Dundas Street, Abbotsford. Baptist; Hanover Street, Caversham, Mornington, South Dunedin, Rcslyn, Sunshine, North-east Valley. Congregational: 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, Spiritualists, Orange Hall. To see or not to see—the question is who to see. See Sturmer and Watson, opticians. Octagon, Dunedin.—(Advt.l The usual weekly old-time danco will be held in the Early Settlers’ Hall to-night, at 8. Lucky spots and. Monte Carlo, Savonia Band. The Railway Department, by advertisement in this issue, draws attention to Christmas and New Year holiday train arrangements. The Pacific Starr-Bowkett ‘Building Society, on Tuesday night, will dispose of £I,OOO by sale in groups 6 and 8 and £I.OOO by’ ballot in group 7. A meeting of the Dunedin Starr-Bowkett Building Society shareholders will be held in the Manchester Unity Chambers on Wednesday next. The monthly concert of the Dunedin Burns Club is to he held in the Early Settlers’ SaH on Wednesday next, at 7.45 p.m.