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Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 8

Much interest was shown in the Canterbury Aero Club’s Monospar aeroplane which was at the aerodrome during the week-end. The Monospar is a twin - engined low - wing monoplane, powered with Polijoy motors, and has accommodation for four passengers. The feature of this type of machine is that the main member of the wing consists of one built-up spar, and the main member of the fuselage is comprised of a similar unit. The aeroplane arrived on Saturday afternoon in the course of a commercial trip with a full comp.ernent of passengers, and returned to Christchurch yesterday. With a programme that was appropriate to the occasion, Station 4ZL, a popular B station in Dunedin for nearly 10 years, closed down finally yesterday morning. This morning tho station vas taken over by the Government, by whom it has been purchased. Tho transmission was an unusually long one, including a large number of remiest items. During the morning hundreds of telephone messages from listeners, who expressed regret that tho station was closing and also appreciation of the service they had received smee its inception, wc>'e answered by the station staff. Balclntha B station, wb-ch has also been by the Government. closed on Thursday night.

Last night’s recital on the Town Hall orean by Dr Galway was the final one before the partial dismantling and cleansing operations that will put the instrument out of commission for some six or seven weeks. There was a large audience to hear a programme enhanced in value by three items by the Choral Society, under Mr Wiilms.ey, these being some of the works with which the society scored such_ a success earlier in the month. The singers repeated this success, winning a great ovation. Dr Galway’s heavier organ offerings were Bach’s inspiring Fugue in G Minor,’ Vidor’s exciting Toccata in P,’ and the ‘ War March of Ino Priests’ (Mendelssohn), in all of which his masterful registration aod musicianship gave delight. The most enticing of the lighter works were the organist s own ‘ (Berceuse,’ and the fluent and graceful Hollins ‘ Song of Sunshine. Miss Mavis Macdonald was tho accompanist. t

Only two more days remain for lovers of art and the general public to view the annual winter sketch and crafts exhibition of the Otago Art Society m the Pioneer Hall. The display on tins occasion comprises several hundred pictures, including oils, water colours, black-and-white sketches, and crayon drawings, and there are choyce examples of craft work. All round the quality is of a very gratifying standard, there being very creditable work by most of the well-known local artists and very promising efforts by the younger school. Further sales reported are of ‘ The Cliff, Cape Saunders,’ by W. A. Bol*lard; ‘ Journey’s End,’ by A. Dickison; and, ‘ Wallflowers,’ by Mary L. Passmore.

The committee of the mayor’s relief depot at St. Kilda will issue a free bag of Kaitangata coal to every relief worker and man on sustenance registerecl at the depot in St, Kilda. Orders will be taken on Wednesday evening at the depot, between 6.30 and 7.30 only. An additional bag of coal may also be purchased at the usual subsidised rates.

The by-law fixing a charge of 10s per hose tap per annum strictly defines a hose tap, and further states that in the case of doubt arising as to whether any tap is a hose tap the possession by the occupier of the premises of a hose with a connection suitable for attaching to the tap shall be regarded ns conclusive evidence that such is a hose tap within the meaning of the bylaw. Some people connect with rubber “ push-on ” attachment a hose to a washhouse tap; in their case'the charge of 10s will apply to only one tap in the laundry. It seems that the only way ratepayers can avoid the charge is to plug their taps if they have a screw stem connection, or to sell their hoses if such have a.‘‘ push-on ” attachment.

Two St. Clair golfers holed in one over the week-end. They were Mr A. H Gamble, who found the Porridge Pot hole, and Mr A. Jefferson, whose shot off the tee at the seventeenth ran into the hole. The freak golfing shot is losing its novelty nt St. Clair, where there are four holes at which a “ one ' is possible.

Good progress is being made by the Railway Department with the piercing of the new tunnel necessitated by the deviation at Sawyers Bay. An additional 25 men started work last Monday, bringing the total up to 100., rlio work at present consists of making a track into the south portal of the projected tunnel.

It is announced by the Automobile Association (Otago) that all main roads in the province are clear. Snow and frost have liad tho effect of making the surface of some of the roads treachcious, however, and care should bo exercised by drivers.

To the plaintive melodics of the Maoris and the team singing ‘ England For Ever,’ the English Soccer team dragged themselves away from Rotorua last 0 week. It was really dragging themselves away, for they said they had had the time of their lives among the Maoris and the hot springs (says the Auckland ‘Star’). Mr Joy said he thought that the Native poop.e were the most charming he had ever met. The Maoris had taught them the well-known Native songs, and on the train they forgot their English ditties and devoted themselves to practising the songs of the Maori. Mr Wreforcl Brown said it had been a great experience, and they were immessed deeply by the thermal masterpieces of Nature. “We will be able to tell a thrilling story on arrival at Home.” The Maoris, be said, made their traditional presents, ami these would be treasured by the boys for many years to come. “ Men in New Zealand do not appreciate refinements,” said the representative of a Paris perfume and toilet o-oods firm, who is visiting Christchurch, when giving his impressions of the Dominion on .Saturday. “ They arc tough ‘he-men,’ ” he added, with a smile, stating that in the United States a much larger demand for the accessories for men that his firm supplied was catered for. Such things should not bo considered effeminate, he said. Mr E’.lam said that be found Now Zealand a bad market for such (roods. The women did not seem to bother to make up as attractively as they might. In Franco a working girl would not hesitate to pay 5s for a pet of cream, hut in New Zealand they obtained the cheapest that they could; anything would do. At the same time it was possible that cosmetics were not needed so much in New Zealand as thev were in the largo cities in the older countries, where the air was less pure.

The postal authorities advise that the Rangitiki, from London, due at Wellington on Saturday morning, has 700 bags of English mail and 250 parcel receptacles for New Zealand. The Dunedin portion should be to hand on Monday morning. A contribution of £2O towards the King George V. Memorial Fund was received to-day by the mayor from the Lebanese Society,”per Messrs F. Lahood and. J. Reid. Seven Spartan and Moth aeroplanes, the property of New Zealand Airways Ltd., were offered at auction at the Saltwater Creek airport, Timaru, on Saturday. The company was the first in the "Dominion to undertake commercial flying, but its license was not renewed (says the Christchurch ‘Press’). None of tho machines reached tho reserve placed upon them, and they were passed at auction. It was considered, however, that some of them would be disposed of private.} 7 . There was good bidding for the company’s plant and accessories, for which satisfactory figures were obtained. “ I should like to pay a tribute to the present Minister of Education (the Hon. P. Fraser) for what he has done for education, with limited, means, while he has had the portfolio,” said Mr J. J. Hurley, a member of the Canterbury Education Board, at the opening of the new dental clinic at tho Addington School on Saturday afternoon. “ I have served education under four Ministers,” ho said, “ but no other Aliir'sier lias bad such a knowledge of the needs of schools (includin'dental treatment) as the present Minister.” Air Hurley said that tho Minister made it his business to visit and find out the needs of the small schools as well ns tho largo ones, and mentioned bow ho bad discovered, on ■naviim a visit to a small back-country school" that it had already been visited by Air Fraser.