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Evening Star, Issue 22773, 7 October 1937, Page 10

A few hoggets were included in the yarding of about 1,367 fat sheep at Burnside yesterday. Best grades in the sheep sold firmer, to the extent of about Is at the commencement, and these prices were fully maintained until the final race, where competition lell away and prices as a result showed a noticeable easing in particular for medium classes. Values were: Extra prime heavy wethers, to 54s 3d; prime, 48s 6d to 525; medium, 42s to 455; light, from 31s; prime heavy ewes, to 50s; prime, 44s to 46s 6d; medium, 34s to 37s 6d; light, from 26s 6d; hoggets realised from 26s to 40s, according to weight and quality. The London air mails despatched from Dunedin on September 16 reached London on Sunday last. The Vancouver air mail which left Dunedin on September 4 reached London on Saturday last. The Karamea, due at Wellington on Sunday, from London, has 134 bags of English mail for New Zealand. The Dunedin portion should be to hand on Tuesday afternoon. The city organist (Dr V. E. Galway) will give ani after-church recital in the Town Hall on Sunday evening next. The programme chosen for this occasion is one that should appeal to lovers of organ music. Items deserving special mention are:—‘Fugue in D Major' (Guilmant) ; aria, ‘ See What His Love Can Do ’ (Bach) ; Chopin’s ‘ Nocturne in G Major ’; the popular ‘ Peer Gynt Suite.’ Other interesting pieces are ‘At a Solemn Festival ’ (Ilheinberger); ‘ Allegro Cantabile ’ from the ‘ Fifth Symphony ’ (Widor); ‘ Judex,’ from ‘ More et Vita ’ _ (Gounod); march, ‘ Solenelle ’ (Mailly). The supporting artists . will be Mrs Bush, who will sing ‘ Silent Worship ’ (Handel), ‘ Shepherd’s ■ Cradle Song ' (Somervell), ‘Blow, Blow; Thou Win-ter-Wind’ (Quilter), and Miss Isabel Dawson, who will play * Jeux d’Eaq ’ (Ravel). There will bo no charge for admission. ,

Leading Oppositionists have made a point of commencing their Budget speeches with some well-turned descriptive phrase, about the document from the critics’ angle. Mr Coates (Kaipara), made one effective effort, declaring in the House last night: “ When I rend the Budget I could not help getting the idea into my mind that the Minister of Finance had become 1 the official undertaker for the Government.” (Laughter.)'. “Well, it buried the Opposition' all right, ”, retorted the Primp Minister to a chorus of laughter from his supporters. Then he was told by Mr Coates that, although Budgets usually set out the country’s position impartially, the Nash Budget was propaganda from beginning to end. Mr Coates admitted smilingly that his own Budgets usually had a little paragraph containing a warm word or tvVo on behalf' of the Government, but the present document was all propaganda. One could imagine from it that the Minister of Finance deliberately took the credit for every pension on the Statute Book, though all hut the invalidity pensions were there long before Labour came into office. —Parliamentary reporter. A circular of the Labour Department states that from April 1 to October 2 the number of men for whom work was found throughout New Zealand under the placement scheme was, 21,295. In Dunedin during the same period work was found under the scheme for 1,671 men. 644 being placed in permanent positions (exceeding- three .months), 277 in temporary work (one week to three months), and 750 in casual jobs (up to one week).

When, the New Zealand issue of Coronation stamps is withdrawn from sale at the end of this year it is intended to replace the halfpenny and penny stamps of the pictorial series with new stamps bearing a portrait of _ King George VI. The portrait used in the design of the stamps has been approved by the King, and the printing is being done in England. The first supplies of the new stamps are expected to arrive in. New Zealand at an early date, but they will not bo placed on sale until next year. Most of the Italians have no idea where New; Zealand is, said Sir Clutha Mackenzie, speaking of his experiences in Europe at a luncheon of the Auckland Rotary Club. In most places Sir Clutha was introduced as a British subject, but at one function he learned that he was “ His Excellency Baron Mackenzie, whose father had been a great statesman of the British Empire and a friend of Italy.”- ; Shanghai at the present time is the city •of too many guests. That was the implication of a' story told an interviewer on the Aorangi at Auckland on Monday by Mrs-0. F. Taylor, who is a refugee from' Shanghai. At the time when the Japanese invaded China in August, the summer heat had already driven many Europeans to cooler districts. While they were away on holiday their Chinese servants kept open house for their own relatives, and it was not unusual for the' master, on returning home, to find up to 20 refugee Chinese sleeping on his floors, tables, and couches. A reminder to anglers on the lakes at Waipori of the necessity of taking every precaution to prevent the possibility of fires damaging the Dunedin City Council’s plantations is contained in a letter from the city electrical engineer 'received by the secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society. The letter also states that fire places have been located at suitable .spots for the convenience of anglers, but it is necessary that smokers take special care to see that fires are not started through careless _ handling of matches. It is not desired to place any unreasonable restrictions on anglers, but the plantations are all located on private property belonging to the council, and the question of greatest importance is that these should not be damaged in any way.

The weekly sitting of the Oamaru Magistrate’s Court was concluded yesterday. before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M. Judgment by default was given in the following ' civil cases : —North Otago Farmers’ Co-operativo Association v. R. A. Sibly, £4 7s (costs £1 5s 6d); R. H. Appleby and Sons v. W. Dobson, £7 3s lid (costs £1 12s ',6d). The widening and deepening of Lindsay’s Creek in the Botanic Gardens and the cutting of a deviation for the stream from near Knox street to a point just south of Chambers street are now being carried out by the works depsrtment of the City Council. The effect of the deviation will bp to eliminate a bend, which in the past prevented the free flow of storm water.

A justifiable false alarm called the City Fire Brigade to a property in Ravenswood road, St. Glair, at 2.15 p.m. yesterday*

“ Keep your money in your inside coat pocket and don’t talk to strangers ’’ will probably be the advice offered by the police to the people who gather in Sydney next year for the 150th anniversary celebrations (says the_ ‘ Sydney Morning Herald’). Anticipating much easy money, confidence men wilt concentrate on Sydney for the great carnival; but visitors are assured that the police will cast their net before the celebrations come on and catch quite a largo'number of the ‘‘ shrewd fish.” With tho “ big game ” offering next year, “ crooks ” from overseas will also pay attention to Sydney,- and this possibility has not been lost sight of by the Sydney police’, l Who' have details in their possession sufficient to recognise many who will probably ■ visit these shores. “America Las found that she has a greater problem in her social life than Europe with its'troubled States,” said Mr F. Hall Jones in a talk to the Oamaru Rotary Club yesterday. He stated that many Germans had subsequent to the war period been given employment in America, and if they struck or were unsatisfactory they were dismissed from service. But now many foreigners were naturalised as American citizens, and that country was definitely in for troublous times. Another factor was the strife between the working class and the capitalist. He felt that the worker would ultimately turn to politics, and then the position would become very serious. _At the moment this conflict was deep concern in America in certain circles, and would become more important than any factor that*' developed in Europe. ■ Mention was made in the Police Court to-day of the charges against a number of persons of false pretence, arising out of false declarations by sustenance men, which were adjourned from last Friday until to-morrow to enable the magistrate (Mr H. W. Bundle) to consider legal submissions of counsel that the charges should be laid under the Employment Promotion Act, providing monetary penalties, and not-under the : Crimes ; Act or Justice ’of the Peace 1 Act. Chief-de-tective Young handed to the court a newspaper report of a charge against a man and his sister at Greymouth, in February, 1936, which he submitted was on all fours with the present cases, so far as the question of jurisdiction was concerned. Further legal argument was heard on the matter, and the Magistrate said he would give his decision on the question to-morrow. So scarce is farm labour that the State now actually pays money to farmers to teach unskilled men, for whom the Government secures employment under the placement scheme. This fact is. not generally known, and it is for the purpose of acquainting the farming community with the scheme, called the farm labourers’ assistance plan, that the Balqlutha branch of tho Farmers’ Union has asked tHe lopal placement officer (Mr T. White) to address its members at Balclutha on .Saturday night. ■ Incidentally, the local placement offices in Moray Place have recently been considerably enlarged, and suoh is the pressure of work that it is intended to increase the staff soon.