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Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 8

With a loud report a large oven on display at the Wellington Coronation Show exploded on Saturday night and injured the demonstrator, Mr J. H. Brewer, a cook, who was sent to hospital with concussion and a scalp wound. The explosion (says a Press .Association telegram) strained the sides and blew a gaping hole in the top of the oven, which stood higher than a in; . It sent roofward a shower of fluffy white particles of the heat insulation material and also burst open the door in front, which it is thought struck Mr Brewer on the head.

Tho wholesale price of bacon has been reduced as fro.ni May 1 by id per lb, under instructions from the Department of Internal Marketing. At a meeting of delegates to the Dunedin Bowling Centre held on Saturday night the following nominations for positions on the council of tho New Zealand Bowling Association were made : —President, Mr W. Connor; treasurer, Mr H. Rowley ; members of council, Mr G. A. Nelson and Mr R. Hanning. Tljcso nominations will bo submitted to’ headquarters, which are at present in Wellington, but which will be shifted to Dunedin for the 1937-38 season.

Tho postal authorities advise that the Awatea left Sydney for Wellington on Friday evening with 81 bags of Australian mail and the London air despatch of April 1. The air mail will be to hand at 1.30 on Tuesday afternoon, and the balance of the mail in the evening. Tho Alter left Sydney on Saturday for Lyttelton with five bags of Australian mails for Dunedin, which should bo to hand about Friday next.

The chief secretary of tho Salvation Army in Canada and Newfoundland for the past six years, Commissioner W. R. Dalziel, is travelling by the Niagara (at Auckland to-day) to take charge of tho Army’s operations in the combined States of New South Wales and Queensland. He said tho Army had an enormous field of operations in Canada. The dominion bad gone through a difficult period, but the general condition was now much improved .—Press A ssoeiation. A supplementary gazette issued to-day sets out the' open seasons for the taking or killing of opossums in tho various acclimatisation districts. The longest season provided extends from June 1 to .September 1, but many are much shorter.—Press Association.

According to advice received from the Labour Department by the Clothing Trades Federation, treble pay must be paid for work performed last Monday by female employees in clothing factories, who are covered by awards providing where Anzac Day falls on a Sunday the holiday shall bo observed on the Monday. The names of about 10 firms who have withheld payment for holiday work, despite an earlier ruling, have been forwarded to tho department by Miss A. .Cosscy, secretary of the Auckland Clothing Trade Employees’ Union.—Auckland Press Association.

The speech of New Zealand is English, but the speech of Australia is “ Australian.” according to Mr J. P. Perry, a retired Viennese banker, who arrived in Christchurch yesterday, on his first visit to the southern dominions. “ New Zealand is, 1 think, the most loyal of Great Britain’s possessions.” he said. “ She is very much more loyal than Australia. My impression was that the' Australians wero more selfcontained—they aro Australians first and foremost. In New Zealand_ the people are British. You can tell it in tho language. In Now Zealand they speak pure English; but in Australia they speak—well, Australian.” Working with the works department of the City Corporation under unemployment scheme No. 5, group No. 252 will commence at 12.15 p.m. to-morrow at Gladstone road o.n Pine Hill road. As part of tho celebrations of the twenty-first anniversary of the founding of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, representatives of tho executive of the Dunedin R.S.A. will wait on a meeting of the St. Kilda Borough Council on May 10 and present a memorial, similar to that handed to the Mayor of Dunedin last week, expressing appreciation of the assistance and co-operation of tho council and people of St. Kilda in the work of the association. -

The primary and secondary schools will close for the term holidays on Wednesday, May 12, which is Coronation Dav, and will reassemble on Tuesday, May 25. There is a feeling among Dunedin schools that it would bo prefora bio for tho children to be free on May 12 to witness the military review instead of taking part in assemblies in tho schools as required by the Government. A suggestion has been made to tho Education Department that the programme should be altered accordingly. Tho City Fire Brigade turned out on three occasions yesterday to attend chimney fires. . A broadcast of the “Empire homage ” programme, which will be one of the features of the Coronation ceremony on May 12, will be received in the Dominion between 5.50 a.m. and G. 40 a.m. (New Zealand time) on May 13, and will be rebroadcast from the four main national stations. The King will be heard from 6.30 a.m. to 6.40 a.m.—Wellington Press Association. Although it was impossible to aay who was supplying the drug traffic in China, it had grown to an alarming extent through the activities of Japan ese and Korean traffickers, said Dr T. Z. Koo, the well-known Chinese missionary, who arrived by the Awatea to spend a month in the Dominion. The Chinese Government was gravely concerned about the position, and was taking strong measures to check it, but unfortunately it had to .work from the wrong end, and ho did not think much could bo done until the source of supply was blocked. —Wellington Press Association.

The late General Brannvoll Bootli once described the Salvation Army as tho “ army of the helping hand.” At the ‘Star’ corner this morning two helping hands were extended to a message boy in distress. His bicycle, with delivery frame in front, was heavily overloaded. At the intersection tho cargo started to move, with disastrous results, the street being strewn with oniops. In consternation the boy made spasmodic dashes in and about tho traffic retrieving handfuls at a time. Then the helping hand arrived. A Salvation Army officer appeared and commenced a speedy recovery of the errant onions. None was allowed to escape, fresh hogs were procured, and a neat parcelling up was the final operation before the lad continued his delivery and the officer proceeded on his way.

■ A sailor on an oversea steamer told a ‘ Star ’ reporter that the most mysterious happening at sea that had come within his experience had not been explained. Ho was on a banana steamer bound for the West Indies. One evening a sailing ship was seen on the horizon. When darkness came down she fired distress rockets. An answering rocket was fired from the steamer and her course altered. When the place was reached; where the sailing vessel was seen and rockets later on soared, there was no vessel or wreckage of any kind about. The steamer cruised round all night, and at dawn, as nothing had been located, she resumed her course. Only a few miles had been steamed when from the identical place where the steamer had been cruising' about through the night rockets again soared skywards. It was then sufficiently light to see that no ship or boat , was there. The unusual incident had not been explained.

Eye strain—tor eye comfort; for better vision, consult Sturmer and Wateon Ltd., opticians, 2 Octagon. Dunedin.—[Advt.J

Mr J. V. Hanna’s advertisement in another column calls the attention of men, women, and children concerning the opening of the second term of his School of Physical Education.