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Evening Star, Issue 22820, 1 December 1937, Page 10

The 10,000 copies of the souvenir booklet of Dunedin issued last May by the Otago Expansion League have been fully absorbed. Such high praise has been bestowed upon it, not only by local bodies, but by hundreds overseas, and so many demands for further copies have been received that it is hoped to have a new edition of 10,000 copies ready for release early in the New Year. Almost sufficient money has been raised to pay for the edition, but a little is still required, and < it is expected that donations will be forthcomings A settlement having been effected, the men employed by H. E. Shacklock Ltd. who went on strike on Monday morning owing to a grievance with their employers over the Christmas holiday arrangements returned to work at 8 o’clock this morning. The union is to carry on negotiations with the employers over the holiday question that was the reason for the 180 men walking out of the foundry. A circular of the Labour Department states that between April 1 and November 27 the number of men for whom work was found throughout the Dominion under the placement scheme was 28,675. During the same period the number of men placed in Dunedin under the scheme was 2,134, permanent work (exceeding three months) being found for 803, temporary positions (one week to three months) • for 419, and casual jobs (up to one week) for 912.

A correspondent of the Otago Acclimatisation Society advises that the Gatlins River is in splendid condition at present and that good catches of trout are being obtained. Unemployment groups to commence at 7.45 a.m. to-morrow are:—62, Surrey street, at Wycolla Avenue; 67, Maryhill Ten-ace, at English Avenue; 75, Cavell street, at Botha street; 78, Wharf street, at tip; 79, Cavell street, at Botha street; 81. Wickliffe street, at Sturdee street; 90, Surrey street, at Wycolla Avenue; 1,402 M, Widkliffe street, at Sturdee street. Further loan authority is being given in the Local Legislation Bill to the Port Chalmers Borough, which has on a requisition from the Board of Health, carried out the work of installing drainage works at Mussel Bay. The requisition carried -with it the right for the council to raise the necessary funds by way of loan for meeting the cost of the work without submitting the loan proposal to ratepayers. The council duly raised £1.750. At the time the estimated cost of the work was £4,550, a portion of which was chargeable against the Otago Harbour Board, and the total amount involved carried with it a subsidy on wages from the Employment Promotion Fund. The work has been completed, and as a result of increased labour copts incurred in the timbering of trenches and pumping operations, the original estimate has been exceeded by £525, which the council is authorised to borrow.—Parliamentary reporter. The increased scale of fares on the Roslyn and Mornington cable lines and bus routes to Maori Hill. Elgin road, and Bellcknowes came into force today. When concession tickets under the old scale were issued lately, they were stamped with varying dates, the latest date up to which they were to be available being December 4. Instructions have been issued by the City Corporation, however, that concession tickets with date marks attached will be accepted meantime until further notice. The new scale of fares also came into force on the Stuart street cable line to-day, but concession tickets issued by the Kaikorai Tramway Co. up to the operation of the new fares have borne no stamped date.

The postal authorities advise that the Vancouver mails despatched by the Niagara on October 30 from Dunedin reached London on November 29. The hearing of the industrial dispute between the Otago and Southland Lime and Cement Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers and the Milburn Lime and Cement Company Ltd., which was adjourned from August 31, was taken by the Conciliation Council this morning. The commissioner (Mr S. Ritchie) presided, and the employers’ assessors were Messrs W. W. Mackersey, D. E. Davidson, P, Evans, and A. S. Cookson. The workers’ assessors were Messrs R. Hayward, G. Mawhinney, G. M'Donald, and J. Robinson. An agreement had been reached on most of the points in dispute when the council adjourned at midday.

Big game hunters, lion tamers, and the more venturesome of Australian stockmen, who always shook hands with the tiger every time a circus visited the outback township, all seem to be a race of the past (says the Melbourne ‘ Age ’). The Hobart Zoo, which recently closed its gates, sold its two polar bears to the Wellington (New Zealand) Zoo on condition the animals were delivered on the wharf at Hobart. But the bears cannot be caught. Nobody with the right “ salt sprinkling ” methods has so far come forward. So the director of the Melbourne Zoological Gardens _ (Mr H. Kendall) has told the Zoological Board that the Hobart authorities have written to him asking for his help in the matter, and he has undertaken something new in zoological transit. He has offered to make catching boxes and to supply detailed directions by post of how to box the animals. The Animal and Bird Protection Board of Tasmania has achieved its object of determining the existence and whereabouts of Thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian , tiger (says the Melbourne ‘ Age ’). In view of Its great scientific value it will take immediate steps to prevent its extinction by the .proclamation of sanctuaries. Reports that the “tiger” had not been seen in Tasmania in recent years recently caused dismay in scientific circles, and representations were made to the board to preserve the unique animal to science. ■ Special exploratory parties were organised in the west and north-west of the State, and now word has been received that in the denselytimbered and uninhabited and scarcely explored country on the west coast, in the vicinity of Raglan Range, the tracks of 11 tigers have been found by a party led by Trooper A. Fleming, an experienced bushman. Further explorations are to be undertaken, and the country where the tigers have been located is to be charted.

A fine birthday cake carrying two red candles, signifying the second birthday of the Labour Government, was ceremoniously cut and distributed at the caucus of the parliamentary party yesterday by the Prime Minister. It came from two Gisborne sympathisers, and, as the caucus date coincided with the birthday of Mr Webb (Minister of Mines); this was duly celebrated, and lobbyists who were speculating regarding the significance of the meeting being unduly prolonged into the lunch hour eventually discovered the innocent reason, and were invited to participate.— Parliamentary reporter. The industrial dispute between the Dunedin Bridkmakers’, Potterymakers’, Tilemakers’, and Sanitary Ripemakers’ Industrial Union of Workers and 10 employers in Otago and Southland, was settled at a sitting of the Conciliation Council, which was continued yesterday afternoon 1 . The commissioner (Mr S. Ritchie) presided. ■■■' The employers’ assessors were Messrs A. J. Lennox, G. Gilchrist, R. G. Buchanan, and A. S. Cookson, and the workers’ assessors were Messrs J. Shaw, S. Geeson, W. Lysaght, and J. Robinson. After a lengthy discussion on the claims and counter-proposals an agreement was reached on all points. The hearing was concluded in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday of a libel action for £2,000 damages brought by the New Zealand National Greditmen’s Association (Wellington) Ltd. against Dun’s Agency (Wellington) Ltd. and Huia Hohepa Dimond, manager of the agency. The jury retired at 4.25 and returned at 5.15 with a verdict for the plaintiff company for £SO damages. Mr Leicester then moved judgment for costs, but not for damages, saying that the plaintiff company was satisfied with the vindication. His Honour the Chief Justice entered judgment accordingly, saying it was a very proper and generous course. The Mayor (Rev. E. T. Cox) announced this morning that the contributions to the Far East Relief Fund were now approaching £7OO. He stated that if the rate of progress made during the last two weeks continued the £I,OOO aimed at would be reached by the end of the week, when it has been decided to cease the appeal. The hope that the . rest of Otago would provide a further £SOO showed little Signs at present of being realised, the most encouraging response being from Roxburgh which was asked to attempt £lO. This morning. Mr F. A. Laloli, the mayor of Roxburgh, forwarded a cheque for £ls 11a 6d. the result of the local appeal. If other local bodies throughout the province would make a personal appeal he was sure good would result.

An eclipse of the sun occurs to-mor-row, It will be of the annular type and similar to the one in December last year. Owing to the moon being at the most remote portion of its orbit,' it will not be sufficiently large to cover the whole of the solar disc. Beginning at sunrise in the vicinity of the coast of Japan, the eclipse track will cross the northern Pacific ocean, ending at sunset near the coast of California, only a few small islands lying directly in the shadow of the annulus. No portion of the eclipse will be discernible m New Zealand,, as was the case during the one in December.

Only three days remain after to-day for lovers of art and the general public to view the exhibits at the sixty-first annual exhibition of the Otago Art Society in the Pioneer Hall, which is transformed into a most colourful gallery affording as pleasing a retreat as could be suggested in which to spend a restful ana instructive hour. Included among the 421 exhibits are works by leading Dominion and local artists, and there are also paintings by younger painters who are not so well known. Up to the present the high standard of the work displayed and the real merit which exists in many of the pictures have attracted considerable attention, the wide range of water colours and oils, dry-point etchings, sketches, art photographs, and examples of craft work providing a wealth of interesting material for study. Pupils of a number of schools have inspected the exhibits during the past two weeks, a party of senior girls from the High School being present yesterday, and scholars from the Caversham School this morning. Further sales reported this morning were of the oil painting ‘ Polyanthus,’ by Alice R. Lothian, and the water colours ' Primrose and Hyacinth ’ and ‘ Pansies.’ both by Margaret J. Gairdner. The exhibition will be open from 10.36 a.m. till 5.30 p.m., and from 7.30 till 10 p.m. to-morrow and Friday, and on Saturday from 10.30 a.m. till 5.30 p.m., when it will be closed..

A Nelson Press Association telegram states that bequests to various local institutions were made under the will of Mr John George Bartel. After making private bequests the deceased left £4OO to the Nelson School of Music to establish a scholarship, £SOO to the Bishop Suter Art Gallery for the purchase of pictures, £BOO to the Nelson Institute and Library, and the residue of the estate to the Cawthron Institute. The Archbishop of Canterbury has kindly forwarded to the Parents’ Association of the King’s High School an autographed photograph of himself, to be hung in the school. Some high praise for the city women who attended the annual meeting of 1 the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association last evening was offered by the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Industries and Commerce, in opening his address (says the ‘ Press ’). He said he was delighted to know that these women were sufficiently public-spirited and sufficiently far-seeing and intelligent to realise the very great part the building of industry had in the life of the people.

The Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, must have come away from the annual meeting of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association last evening feeling very pleased with the reception he was given (says the ‘ Press ’). Several speakers paid handsome tributes to his work and achievements, and further evidence of his popularity among members was given in the applause at the end of his address. The president, Mr H. B. Duckworth, said he hoped the Minister would remain in office for many years to come.

On four charges of breaking and entering, one of the theft of £l3 and one of commencing on October 16 without lawful authority or excuse to make moulds intended to make the resemblance of both sides of a half-crown, Reginald Mulholland Cook (21), of Sydney, appeared in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court to-day. He pleaded guilty to all charges and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.—Press Association. Eye strain—for eye comfort, for better vision, consult Sturmer and Watson Ltd., opticians. 2 Octagon. Dunedin.—f Advt-1 The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of another popular excursion, Dunedin to Invercargill, on Sunday, December 5. The dance being held in the South Dunedin Town Hall on Thursday, December 2, is being held at the request of dancers who attended the initial dance on November 18. There will be a fox trot competition, to be judged by Mr D. Duff. Stewart’s Imperial Dance Band will be in attendance with the latest hits. A committee representing Dunedin Central, Anderson’s Bay, and Mornington will be in attendance to ensure dancers a good night’s entertainment.