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Evening Star, Issue 22252, 1 February 1936, Page 14

The tramway manager’s statement of the traffic receipts for the past six weeks, as compared with those for the corresponding period of the previous year, shows, that the revenue for the period decreased by £326. The revenue statement from April 1, 1935, to January 11, 1936, a period of 42 weeks, shows a total increase of £1,472 over the "same period of the previous year (1.17 per cent.). A first offender brought before Mr It. D. Poison, J.P., and E. Laly, J.P., at the Port Chalmers Court to-day on a charge of drunkenness was fined 10s.' The Finance Committee of the City Council recommends that a grant of £5 5s he authorised to the organisers of New Zealand Authors’ -Week as a contribution to the cost of an exhibition of the works of New Zealand authors, which is to bo held in Dunedin. It also recommends a grant of £5 to the Otago branch of the Music Teachers’ Associa-tion-of New Zealand, as a contribution towards the cost of, the Bach centenary concert. A short sitting of the Police Court was held to-day by Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M. Two first offenders for drunkenness were each fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. Edward Robertson was lined’ court costs (3s) for driving without a license and 5s and costs for driving a car without a tail-light. The Water Committee recommends to the City Council that the grant of £SO wliich has been made annually for some years to the Cawthron Institute as a contribution towards the cost of Entomological investigation relating to the control of forest insect pests he renewed for a further year.

To-night’s radio schedule from 4YA, Dunedin, has been revised to present a “late night” modern dance programme from 9.5 till midnight by M'Call’s dance band, in place of the advertised recorded dance session. A Press Association message from Wellington states that the air mail despatched from Loudon on January 19 is due at Wellington by the Monowai on Monday. Authority lias been granted by the Tramways Committee for the obtaining of {(notations for the supply and delivery of a new cable for the Mornington line.

Two large picnic parties went by train this morning. The Port Chalmers waterside workers held their annual outing at Evansdale, and the Plicenix Company’s employees went to Waihola. The mayor (Rev. E. T. Cox) has called a meeting of all local bodies for Thursday night at the Council Chambers to discuss the question of Dunedin’s participation in the Exhibition at Wellington, and also the tentative programme for Dunedin’s celebration of the New Zealand Centenary. The meeting will be held at 8 o’clock. Tbe drainage engineer has been authorised by the Works Committee of the Drainage Board to proceed with the following works:—Excavation of trial holes on the lilies of the South Dunedin, Cavcrsham, and Kaikorai Valley foul sewerage scheme, at an estimated cost of £IOO. Removal of sewer vent in Parley street, Kaikorai, to a point nearer the kerbline, at an estimated cost of £lO. Reconstruction of fence line on boundary between the board’s property and the adjoining property occupied by Mr Jas. Hall, Portobello road. The board is to supply the material, and the adjoining owner is to carry out the work of erection. The party of children' from the Waikouaiti Health Camp was disbanded yesterday morning in jbhe First Church grounds. Mrs Marshall- Macdonald states that she regrets the rather hurried manner in which this was done, but she had been called to 'Wellington at a moment’s notice. Because of this, it was impossible for her to furnish parents with a report on each child, as had been done on former occasions, but parents will receive a personal note from her (after her return to Wellington) giving the gain in each case. The average gain was 2-)lb in weight. Deep appreciation was also expressed by\ Mrs Macdonald of the splendid work done by the helpers in the camp. Marking the close of the school vacations, railway loading both inward and outward were exceptionally heavy to-day. The first express south carried 260, and the first north 250, while the relief train north at 10.47 took 230 passengers. About 300 arrived from the south by the midday express of 14 cars, two of which were occupied by wool buyers who attended yesterday’s sale at Invercargill, and who will operate at Wednesday’s sale here. AVhile being five minutes late on arrival, the express was 10 minutes behind schedule. In the 15 loaded coaches there were 500 passengers, and the assistance of a third engine at the rear of the train was utilised to maintain good time over the northern inclines. Recently a heifer in the herd belonging to Miss Myrtle Wheeler, a dairy farmer, of Victoria street, Ravensbonrne, was found to be shot in the head, between the horns. _ Whether the cow was shot in the night or day paddock has not been ascertained. The animal’s injury was noticed after it had been in a paddock during the night with the remainder of the herd, but none of the residents in the adjoining houses heard a shot. There is every possibility that the heifer was shot during the day, probably accidentally, as men from Dunedin and North-east Valley frequently use rifles in the thick bush bounding the day paddock. Advice has been received by the Finance Committee of the Drainage Board that the Court of Appeal has delivered judgment in the recent action taken by local bodies with the object of 1 determining _ the question whether legislation in Victoria reducing the interest on local body debentures appled to loans of New Zealand bodies held in Victoria. The judgment was to the effect that the Victorian legislation had no application to the New Zealand loans referred to. The board is concerned in respect of the loan of £BO,OOO, carrying interest at 6 per cent. The state of the Lower Harbour and the entrance since July last, when after a close consideration of reports presented by the harbour master and the board's engineer, work on the Mole was suspended, was commented on by the chairman of the Otago Harbour Board (Mr J. B. Waters) in his annual report to the board. Depths and widths in the north channel had been satisfactorily maintained, while in the south channel a slow but satisfactory improvement was talking place. On the line of the latter channel seawards for a length of about 2,000 feet a minimum low-water depth of 25 feet was recorded, with an average width of 900 feet. It was intended during the ensuing year to assist the action of the tidal scour on this area. by suction dredging, and by this means to expedite the formation of :a navigable channel for overseas steamers.

On Thursday night the nocturnal wanderings of a ringtail opossum took him to the top of one of the steel towers supporting tho electrical transmission wires from Waipori to Halfway Bush. There he came in contact with a wire carrying 35,000 colts, which abruptly terminated his career. _ The incident, which occurred at 1 o'clock in the morning, cut out a transmission line, hut the city supply was not affected. The curious part of the incident was that to reach the wire tho animal had climbed a 501 t steel tower at Wairongoa, showing tie remarkable climbing ability of the opossum. Children who have reached the age of five years will bo admitted to the schools when they reopei on Monday, the Otago Education Boaid having notified all head teachers to that effect. The City Council at its meeting on Monday night will consider a recommendation from the Reserves Committee that the committee he authorised to arrange for the removal, at the earliest convenient date, of the guns at present mounted in certain of the city reserves and gardenij. In the meantime inquiries are being made as to the best course to follow in; the matter ot the ultimate disposal of the guns. A Press Association message from Suva states that the Wnipahi left there last evening for Auckland with 9,366 cases and 57 bunches ol bananas. Reports submitted by( the consulting engineers on the progress of works in connection with the Waipori tunnel during the past six weeks show that a start was made with Ihe deviation ot the tunnel about the middle of December, and, to date, a total of 137 ft had been driven. A good cl ass of solid rock has been met with throughout, the face being in particularly hard stone. There is no water. Concrepiiig and other sundry works at thei adit tunnel are proceeding satisfactorily. I electrical engineer rtports that the Waipori system commenced running in parallel with the Wailaki power station on Friday, .January ‘2 j last.

In the Police. Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., Lloyd Asquith Collie, for whom Mr E. J. Anderson appeared, pleaded not guilty to a charge of reckless driving, arising out of a collision between a car and a motor cycle at the corner of Princes and Carroll streets on November 22 last. After hearing evidence, the magistrate amended the charge to one of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous to the public. The defendant was fined 10s and ordered to pay witnesses’ expenses and costs (£1 12s). Adam Wilkinson, for whom Mr A. J. H. Jeavous appeared, pleaded not guilty to a charge of negligent driving, and the magistrate dismissed the charge subject to the pay T meat of court costs and witnesses’ expenses. “ The present limb rate of exchange is still reacting to the board’s disadvantage, the cost to the board for exchange in respect of its London interest for the year under review being £9,239,” states the secretary and treasurer (Mr James Renton) in his annual report to the Otago Harbour Board. “ It is obvious that an expenditure of this magnitude is still a matter of grave concern to the board, and is the means of precluding both the carrying out of desirable harbour improvements and the granting of reductions in dues, which the board would be in a position to consider were it not for the heavy impost of high exchange. The total exchange on remittances to London paid since J-anuary 20, 1933, when the rate was increased to 25 per cent., amounts to the imposing total of £41,320.” Two grass fires were' attended to by the City Brigade yesterday afternoon. The first, at 3.57, was on the Kensington railway 'embankment, and the other was' at Bridgeman street at 5.50.

Notification of Sunday services ns enumerated below appears.in our Sunday services advertising columns: —Anglican: St. Paul’s Cathedral, All Saints'. Presbyterian: First Church, Knox- Church, St. Andrew’s, Musselburgh, St. Stephen’s, Roalyn, South Dun. edin, Kaikorai. Methodist: Trinity, Central Mission, Mornington, St. Kilda, Cavershani, Dundas Street, Abbotsford. Baptist: Hanover .Street, Caversham, Mornington, South Dunedin, Roslyn, North-east Valley. Congregational; Moray Place Church, United. Church of Christ: St. Andrew Street,- North-east Valley, South Dunedin. York Place Hall, Pla/foir Street Hall, .Christian Science, Theosophical Society, Spiritualists, Orange Hall. Kvo strain —for eye comfort, for better vision, consult Sturmer and, Watson Ltd., Opticians, 2 Octagon, Dunedin.—[Advt.] Second-hand School Books for all schools —Boys’ High, Girls’ High, Technical College, and University—(new if desired). Stationery for all schools—primary, secondary, and colleges—all at lowest prices. The. recognised second-hand educational bookshop of New Zealand, supplying the High Schools from Invercargill to Auckland. We pay highest prices for used textbooks.—Newbolds. 289 George street, Dunedin (corner Frederick street), C. 1; phone 13-258.—[Advt.] Have your watch cleaned now and lengthen its service; it pays. —W. Strachan, watchmaker, 197 George street (opposite National Bank). —[Advt.] The United Starr-Bowkett Building Society will dispose of £2,000 by sale and ballot on February 6. Attention is drawn to the Railway Department’s advertisement in this issue referring to the running of an excursion train to Gatlins River branch on Sunday, February 9. Special cheap fares are being issued to stations where the greatest scenic attractions are. The usual old-time dance will be held in tho Early Settlers’ Hall to-night. Also an extended dance on Wednesday, night. Lucky spots and Monte Carlo, Sovoma Band. The Rotunda at the Botanical Gardens tomorrow afternoon will again be occupied by tho Artillery Band (Southern Command), under tho conductorslnp of Q.M. Sgt. V. J. Nelson. Tho programme will include many well-known numbers. A coition will he taken in aid of the bands funds.