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Evening Star, Issue 22626, 19 April 1937, Page 8

The postal authorities advise that tho Awatea left Sydney on Friday for Wellington with 38 bags of Australian mail and 20 parcel receptacles for Dunedin, also the London air mails of March 31 and April 3. The air mails should reach the local office to-morrow at 2 p.ni., and the balance of the mails in the evening. The committee of the Taieri Poultry Society met on Saturday night, and transacted business in connection with the forthcoming show. Mr John Williamson presided. Mr Geo. Hendry was elected secretary. The retiring secretary (Mr J. W. Craigie) was elected a member of committee. It was decided to retain the produce section for another year, though last year’s support was not very good. Judges for the various sections were nominated. . The Presbyterian Synod _of Otago and Southland is to hold its annual meeting to-morrow, commencing with the customary service in First Church. The business proceedings will occupy the afternoon and evening. The fine weather of the past two days has put new heart into the Taieri farmers. On Saturday, the later crops of wheat were being cut and stocked, and every minute of the sunshine w£s made use of. The frosts of the last three nights will put a check on tho growth of the green feed, which up to the present has been unusually plentiful. With the twofold' object of bringing home to the general public still further the work being done by the _ State placement service, and of extending its sphere of usefulness, a talking picture is at present in course of production at the Government studios at Miramar. When completed it will be about 3,000 ft in length, and will be distributed throughout New Zealand-. It will not be a collection of pictures' having very little relation, and joined together in slip-shod fashion. Instead, the aim is to produce something well worth while, and to, present on the screen graphically the difference between work and no work, and the part played by the placement service and its officers in finding work for the unemployed, the whole being woven into a story. The film has the approval of the Minister of Labour, Mr Armstrong, who incidentally figures in the film. The equipment at the Government studios was added to for the purposes of the picture, which, it is hoped, will be completed very shortly.—Press Association. The rumoured strike by the women cleaners at the Otago Hospital failed to eventuate this morning. Dr J. Thomson, medical superintendent of the Hob-' pital, stated that although wage increases had been demanded, all the cleaners were on duty to-day, and he ha,d been assured by them that there was no truth in the report that they intended to “ walk out ” as a means of forcing the board to comply with their demands. Representatives of the cleaners had informed him that they resented any rumour of a strike being circulated. Of the total value of buildings in the Dominion at the present time, practising architects are entrusted with only 8 per cent, of public buildings and 5 pei\cent. of the private homes, according to a statement by Mr B. C. Chilwell in a paper contributed to the conference of the New Zealand branch of the Royal Sanitary Institute at Auckland. He added that when the public became better acquainted with the principles of town planning and the value of architecture the disparity would no doubt be lessened. The Hospital Committee of the Otago Hospital Board reports that authority has been granted to celebrate (National Hospital Day on May 12. The usual church services , are to. be held at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in the morning and at Knox Church in the evening on Sunday, May 9. The Cabinet will consider in Wellington to-day whether the Government will buy onions from Canterbury growers to relieve a serious pressure which threatens temporarily to stifle the market. Hundreds of tons of onions are waiting on the local paddocks for consumption (says the ‘ Press but there' is no immediate outlet for them. Merchants are refusing to buy for storage, purchasing only for current requirements, qnd Government entry into the market has been .strongly advocated by four local members of Parliament as a desirable and immediate means of relieving the situation.

Although it is too late for anyone to travel from New Zealand by sea to England and he in time for the Coronation, there are still heavy bookings being made for steamers leaving this and next month —and bookings which easily establish a record for the season. There are also many inquiries from people desiring to spend at least part of the New Zealand winter visiting Java, the Malay States, and Japan. The president (Mr W. W. Batchelor) of the Otago Trades and Labour Council returned to Dunedin this morning by the night express from the north after attending the conference held at Wellington of representatives of trades unions. The conference, he said, was one of the most successful he had ever attended, there being present over 400 delegates representing practically every union in the Dominion, and many differences of opinion being settled.

Victor Hannah, who pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying on business as a bookmaker, was nned £3O. T.n© police stated that the accused tat m a car while the trots were in progress on Saturday and accepted bets.—Palmerston North Press Association . The postal authorities advise that the air mail despatched from Dunedin on March 29 reached London on April 14. Union Airways of New Zealand statistics for the 12 months ended March 27 are interesting. They are:—Trips scheduled, -734; trips flown, 734; trips completed, 727; percentage of trips flown, 10Q per cent.; percentage of trips completed, 99.05 per cent,; total hours flown, 3,000; total miles flown, 360,140; passengers carried, 7,193; freight and excess baggage, 7,1601 b; man ß ) 44,1841 b; passenger miles, 1,623,545; freight ton miles, 772; mail ton miles, 6,393; passenger baggage, 163,382. The Benevolent Committee of the Otago Hospital Board reports that during last month casual cases for relief involving the expenditure of £lB6 14s lid were approved. Four other cases were dealt with at a weekly cost of £3 0s lOd. That there has been a slackening off in the rush to have cars examined tor warrants of fitness is the experience of one A grade garage, though the opinion was expressed that there must still be a large number of cars to be tested. Although there had been no official notification, it was understood that the inspectors were giving car owners a good margin of time m which to have the work done, but it could not last indefinitely. Another rush period was expected toward the end of the month, as it was then that it was expected the inspectors would commence to enforce the regulation requiring every owner to have a warrant of fitness for his car. The City Fire Brigade answered a justifiable false alarm registered from the new Post Office at 10.29 this morning. “Personally, I regret any trade embargo, either by Australia or New Zealand, and I would like to see greater reciprocity on the part of both countries, said Sir Frederick Tout, a prominent Australian grazier and a director ot the A M.P. Society and the ‘ Sun Newspapers, Sydney, who arrived at Wellington by the Awatea. He was referring to the potato and fruit embargos, and said he would like to see a greater exchange of trade between the tu o countries. His visit is chiefly in connection with the opening of the A.M.I . new prepiises at Palmerston North. — Press Association. The mayor (Rev. E T. Cox) has received from the Minister of Internal Affairs a cheque for £241, which is Dunedin’s share of the profits of the “ Landed at Last ” art union. The amount will he devoted to the mayor s fund for the relief of distress. Working under No. 5 unemployment scheme, Croup No. 252 will commence work on Pine Hill road, at Galdstone road, at 12.15 p.m. ■to-morrow with the work's department of the City Corporation. The statement that since April 1 the Rev. C. G. Scrimgeo.ur, Director of Commercial Broadcasting, had been placed on a fixed salry was made by Mr A. F. Moncur, Government member for Rotorua, in an address in his electorate. Mr Moncur said it was no secret that station IZB, the first of the commercial stations, would yield the Government at least £15,000 in the first year. When the statement was referred to the Hon. F. Jones, Acting Minister in Charge of Broadcasting, he said he would probably make an announcement on the subject shortly after returning to Wellington, but at present he could not comment ou the matter A tribute to the pioneering work of one of Canterbury’s first settlers, a memorial obelisk in memory of Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson, which has been erected on the summit of Arthur’s Pass, was yesterday unveiled by the Right Hon. 1 G. W. Forbes._ More than 700 persons made the trip by train from Christchurch to attend the ceremony, which was held in clear, sunny weather.

Eye strain—lor eye comfort, for belter vision, consult Sturmcr and Wateon T.td., opticians, 2 Octagon, Dunedin.-[Advt.J