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Evening Star, Issue 22633, 27 April 1937, Page 8

A big new fishing launch for Mr J. Weddel, of Bluff, was launched at Port Chalmers yesterday from the yard of Messrs Miller and Tunnage. _ The dimensions of the new vessel, which -is named the Manurere, are: Length 43.6 ft, beam lift, and draught 5.6 ft. Ketch rigged, with an auxiliary 18 h.p. Diesel motor, the launch, which is of the powerful rough-weather type, will bo principally engaged in fishing for blue cod about Stewart Island, and she is expected to leave for the southern port at the end of this week.

Probate was granted to-day by His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy in the estates of Charles Leonard Finer, salesman, Dunedin;, George Linklater, farmer, Balclutha; Ellen M'Millan, widow, Dunedin; Mercy Muir Cameron, masseuse, Dunedin; Ellen Janies, widow, Dunedin; Charles Paterson, sheep farmer, Middlemarch; James M‘Coll Dickson, retired farmer, Dunedin; Symon Donald Divers, registered surveyor, Dunedin; Duncan' Marshall, health specialist, Dunedin • Henry Hadlee, carpenter, Dunedin ; James Pernio, farmer, Hindoo; Elizabeth White, widow, Dunedin; Elizabeth Anderson, spinster, Mosgiel; Elizabeth M‘Diarmid, spinster, Woodside; Eleanor Margaret Paris, widow, Dunedin; Mary Ann Newell, widow, Anderson’s Bay; Gavin Jamieson, retired poultry farmer, Maheno; and David Noil M'Culloch Scrymgeour, medical practitioner, Lauder. Letters Of administration were granted in the estates of Catherine Helen Peterson, married woman, Dunedin; Charlotte Elisabeth Brisley Harbour, spinster, Dunedin; and John Thomson, retired stone mason, Dunedin. The way of the transgressing shopkeeper is indeed hard (comments the Melbourne ‘ Argus '). He is a small man from the trading point of view. The largo shops close rigidly on time, but in the suburbs there are little shops that are permitted to keep open for the sale of certain articles, such as sweets or drinks, providing they do not sell anything that the closed shops sell during their fixed hours.' The ham and beef shop proprietor may sell some goods, but not groceries; therefore if he have groceries in his shop he must have them partitioned off after 6 p.m. Customers come in, however, and beseech (“as a favour”) sale of the goods they need. In some little shops it is tobacco. Such shops do not make more than a bare living for the family conducting them, and recently a dozen or more made less, for they were fined £2 for breaches of the law. Dunedin is not a district in which the petrol price fixation-scheme, operates, and consequently the rise of Id per gallon announced by tho Minister of Industries and Commerce at Christchurch yesterday does not apply here. In December last the price of petrol in Dunedin was raised by Id per gallon, and the new price now operative in the North Canterbury, Wellington, and Manawatu areas is the same as has ruled in Otago for the past four months. At a meeting of the Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board last night tl;e tenders of Messrs A. and T. Burt Ltd. for the purchase of—(a) 3>i tons of scrap cast metal at £3 7s fid a ton, and (b) li tons of scrap mild steel at £3 7s fid a ton, were accepted. The chairman of the Finance Committee (Cr M. Silverstone) was given permission. to defer consideration of a proposed loan of £IOO,OOO to meet the cost of a schedule of work prepared by the drainage engineer. There are youthful A 1 Capones in Sydney. In tho congested parts circumstances make them so, according to those who ought to know. They have slum homes and no weekly allowance of a penny or pennies, such as children 'in most homes have. They look around to discover means of repairing this omission, and some of the moans are outside the law. Thus it is that gangs of boys are known in several parts of the city’s environs. Not all are heard of by the public, for the reason that when they are captured they are dealt with in camera in the Children’s Court. Some gangs flourish so that they have cards of membership and, of _ course, passwords and secret signs. No gang would bo complete in the juvenile mind without these latter adjuncts. The gangs have some old shed as a kind of club, and here they store Iheir ill-gotten gains and meet to revel in them, Representatives of the City Mission ami of the Salvation Army learn of the doings of some of those gangs, and biter tho police hear of them (.states the Melbourne Argus

Damage to roads throughout the province as the result of the week-end storm has been sufficiently rectified to allow traffic! to proceed without the adoption of precautionary measures. The secretary of the Automobile Association (Mr' W. F. Sutton) reported at noon to-day that many of the roads are corrugated, and the road near Rae’s Junction is still being repaired after a minor wash-out.

Like many other commodities, paint brushes have steadily risen in price, and are about 50 to 75 per cent, dearer than a year ago, according to the length of the ’ bristles. A local retailer said to-day that bristles for the manufacture of paint brushes are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. Some years ago largo supplies were exported from Russia,' but now the bulk of supplies came from China. The merchant said that he had been unable to obtain information about the cause of the apparent shortage in China. " For the eighth year in succession an anonymous giver, “ A.M.T.,” has sent a cheque for cancer research work at the University of Melbourne. At the University Council meeting recently a bank cheque for £IOO was received. The U'niversity authorities, who warmly appreciate this generosity for a very worthy cause, do not know the identity of the giver beyond the fact that the gift is that of a woman.

The delivery of milk to some houses was delayed when a motor truck, the property of James Jersey Dairies, caught fire .at the corner of Cumberland and Stuart streets early this morning. Little damage was caused by the outbreak, which was attended by the City Brigade' at 3.37 a.m. Sparks from a copper caused the walls of a washhouse to catch alight at No. 9 Main Avenue. St. kilda. Slight damage resulted.

Satisfaction with tho idea of some form of control being imposed on the taxi business, the condition of which in Christchurch was described as “ chaotic,” was expressed yesterday by representatives of the three leading taxi organisations of that city, when commenting on the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the taxi business. All three considered, however, that the provision of 18 months for the industry to improve its internal organisation was a waste of time in Christchurch. “ The conditions described by the committee as existing in the business are not at all exaggerated,” said the Hon. W. Hayward, M.L.C., managing director of Rink Taxis Ltd. “ X have known them to exist in Christchurch for many years. The share system as introduced in Christchurch in 1929 is mainly, if not wholly, responsible for them. Men hate been tempted on many occasions to work the whole 24 hours to obtain a reasonable income for the day. We have had instances in Christchurch of drivers falling asleep and driving through shop windows.” Anv system by which the complete taxi business could be controlled and forced to operate reasonable hours and pay reasonable wanes he would heartily welcome, Mr Hayward added.

Eye strain—for eye comfort, for belter vision, consult Sturmer and Watson Ltd., ooticians, 2 Octagon, Dunedin.-[Advt.J

The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of altered running of the usual 5.40 p.m. Duuedin-Palmerston train on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, commencing on Monday, May 3.