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Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 14

In the Police Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., John Non thorn Dyke (Mr J. P. Ward), who was involved in a collision with another car on the Waikouaiti Bridge, was charged with negligent driving. After hearing the evidence the Magistrate dismissed the charge, pointing out that both drivers had been guilty of negligence, and had both been prosecuted he would have convicted each of them. John Henry Williams (Mr 11. M'Kinnon) was fined 20s and costs for failing to keep to the left of the centre line of the road. A charge of failing to drive with due care and attention was dismissed. Over 21,500,000 of the New Zealand penny Coronation stamps remained unsold when the stamps were withdrawn from circulation at the end of December, and will have to be destroyed. The number of stamps sold between Coronation Day (May 12) and the end of the year totalled 42,099,661, made up as follows; —Id issue, 38,465,554; 2sd issue, 1,564,496; 6d issue, 2,079,611. The numbers of stamps printed were : —ld, 60,000,000 ; 2id, 2,000,000 ; 6d, 3,000,000.

■ An interesting programme has been arranged by the city organist (Dr V. E. Galway) for his after-church recital in the Town Hall on Sunday evening. Two of the items, ‘ Fidelis,’ by Whitlock, and ‘ Toccata,’ by Mailly, are being performed at these recitals for the first time. Other items are ‘ Concerto in B Flat Major’ (Handel), ‘Litany’ (Schubert), ‘Fugue in D Major’ (’Bach),’ ‘ Roraanza in G’ (Beethoven), ‘Nimrod’ (from the ‘Enigma Variations,’ by Elgar), incidental music to ‘ A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (Mendelssohn), ‘ Notturno ’ and ‘ Wedding March.’ The assisting artists will be Miss Doris Wilson, who will sing ‘ Let Me Wander Not Unseen ’ (Handel), and Mr Leslie Dunbar, who will contribute ‘My Dwelling Place ’ (Schubert). There will bo no charge for admission.

A young man, Francis Charles De Bazin,' appeared before Mr H. VV. Bundle, S.M., in the Police Court this morning charged with the theft of malthoid, roofing iron, and window frames to the total value of £42, the property of William M‘Lellan. Chiefdetective Young told the court that extensive thefts of building material had taken place recently, and police inquiries revealed the fact that the accused had built and furnished a complete crib for himself at Purakanui. Air 0. Stevens said that accused had broken his leg in a motor accident and was attending hospital at present. He could therefore report to the police at frequent intervals, but was not in a position to find sureties Accused was remanded till Friday nest, bail being allowed in his own recognisance of £IOO, on condition that he reported twice daily to the police. The crowd on the Dunedin Railway Station when tho midday express left for the north to-day was reminiscent of the Christmas rush period. The train was the longest that has left the city for some time, being even larger than those at the holiday period. A total of 22 cars carried in all 610 passengers, necessitating the combined efforts of three locomotives, one of which was uncoupled at Seacliff. So great was the number of passengers that, after the train had arrived at Dunedin, seven extra cars had to be attached. This afternoon’s south express will also be well loaded and will comprise 18 cars. The railway authorities are at ,a loss to account for the large crowd travelling.

Not infrequently one hears of bodies and institutions receiving unexpected donations of varying amounts that come under the heading of “ conscience money.” Yesterday a suburban storekeeper had his first experience in this connection. A lad entered his shop and placed sixpence on the counter. “ That’s for a block of chocolate,” he said, but as the storekeeper reached •for a tablet the boy delivered himself of a hasty explanation. “ I don’t want one now,” he exclaimed. “ That sixpence is for a tablet 1 stole from you two years ago. It’s been worrying me no end, and—well, hooray!” he finished abruptly. Before the astonished man could find words the boy had turned and run out of the shop. The shopkeeper could not recall having seen the boy before, and surmises he must have kept well clear of the shop all through the period the “ still, small voice ” put in a good deal of overtime.

“ The last Government spent £2,500 in investigating the possibilities of the Onekaka iron works, and the report of the experts was favourable,” said Mr K. J. Holyoake, M.P., in an address at Greymouth on Thursday evening. “As a result, overseas capital to tho tune of £3,000,000 was waiting to be invested in the project. Then a Labour Government came into power in New Zealand and was asked to give an assurance it would not step in and take over the works and to guarantee that, should Broken Hill attempt to dump iron into New Zealand, the Government would put a dumping order into operation. Two. and a-half years have passed now, and those assurances have not been given. Needless to say, that £3,000,000 has not come to the Dominion. Yet New Zealand and the world are crying out for iron. That is but one way in which the Labour Government has restricted industry.” “ The Government’s housing scheme will be a gigantic failure. The houses are nothing more than pill boxes, and tho building of the settlement at Auckland was nothing more than the creation off a modern slum,” said Mr W. J. Broadfoot, member of Parliament for Waitotho, addressing a public meeting at Waimate. The people, and the members of Parliament, were entitled, Mr Broadfoot said, to know the figure for the expenditure on the scheme, but they could not be obtained from the' men .in charge of the scheme, and had to be obtained in a round about way from the contractors. None of them had been built at a cost of less than £950, and iii England the houses in the schemes there had been built by private enterprise for £550 each. i In the Supreme Court af Wellington, the Chief Justice, the Right Hon. Sir Michael Myers, referred to a complaint he had received about the condition of seating accommodation for juries in the small courtroom. “ The complaint is well founded and should be remedied,” said His Honour, who added that he had already given instructions for representations to be made on the subject. He understood,’ however, that the question was still under consideration. The grievance was a real one. Juries should have at least reasonable comfort.. “ The matter should be remedied, and I will ‘again make representations”’ His Honour said.'

Mr E. C. Powell, a member of the reporting staff of the ‘ Evening Star ’ for the past 12$ years, has been appointed to a position on the Christchurch 1 Press.’ Mr Powell was the guest at two valedictory functions yesterday afternoon. The literary staff of the ‘ Star ’ met to present him with a crystal set. The editor (Mr W. F. Alexander) eulogised' Mr Powell’s work as a senior reporter, and expressed best wishes for his future ' advancement. Later in the afternoon Mr Powell 'was the guest of the' literary staffs of. the 1 Evening Star ’ and the ‘ Otago Daily Times ’ at the City Hotel, siinijar tributes being paid him. Mr P (Veil, left for the north this morning. '

About 120 Territorials travelled to Christchurch by the express to-day, having completed a week’s camp at Sutton. The men were' from the 9th and 10th Batteries and the Southern Depot Corps of Signals. In addition a number of military bandsmen travelled to Burnham to carry out a week’s course of instruction.

The City Fire Brigade was called out to 47 Oakland street at 11.40 this morning, the outbreak being caused by. a painter’s blowlamp. Only slight damage was caused. A bush fire at the Bullock Track, Woodhaugh, at 12.21 p.m. was responsible for the brigade turning out a second time.

The importance that is placed on physical education in New South Wales is indicated by the amount of salary that the State Government has offered for the newly-created position of Director of Physical Education—namely, £950. The duties of the position, which is being advertised in New Zealand, will be “ to formulate and carry into effect a comprehensive scheme of physical education of children, including those of pre-school age, and generally to adolescent age ” It is especially interesting in view of the trend here and in Great Britain to note that the work will be carried out mainly under the direction of the Education Department, although it will be linked up with the general State scheme (‘ National Education ’). Not for many years have bathers in and about Dunedin had such a long spell of fine weather in which to indulge in their favourite sport in water that has lost the chill usually deterring so many from donning their bathing suits. Evening, bathing during the past few weeks has been extremely popular, and crowds of bathe® have been in the water almost till darkness set in. The St. Clair swimmisg pool has also been well patronised, and has probably been visited by more people than for very many .years. Visitors to Dunedin who have swum in the pool have expressed surprise that the civic authorities have not done more to popularise such a splendid open-ail swimming bath by effecting many huch-nceded improvements., I

Baseball is a game that may be played in a competitive spirit by several teams in Dunedin next summer, a series of exhibition games 1 having been arranged during the next few weeks to stimulate interest in America’s principal summer pastime. The first took plaoe this afternoon at Hancock Park, regulation teams of nine s-side representing the Mormons and die Hillside Workshops in demonstratinf the fundamental principles of the sport, which is now played regularly in Wlllington by 32 teams. The equipment; excluding bats, which can be obtainedin New Zealand, has to be imported' from America, and arrangements haw already been made to purchase the nds and balls from there.

Notifications of Sunday services as enumerated below apj£ar in our Sunday services advertising coluhns: —Anglican: St. Paul’s Cathedral, All Stints’, Presbyterian: First Church,' Knox Cjmrch, St. Andrew’s, Musselburgh, St. Stephen’s, Roslyn, Kaikorai. Maori Hill. Jfethodist: Trinity, Central Mission. Morninrton, St. Kilda, Oaversham, Dundas Street, Abbotsford. Baptist: Hanover Street, Caiersham,, Morninglon, South Dunedin. Roslyii Sunshine, North-east Valley, Green Islaid. Congregational; Moray Place Church, jlnited. Church of Christ; St. Andrew Street, North-east Valley, South Dunedin,l Yqrk Place Hall. Salvation Army. Plavfair Street Hall. Christian Science. Theotephical Society. Spiritualists. , Orange Bill.. ‘ ■