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Evening Star, Issue 22956, 13 May 1938, Page 8

The Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department states that advice has been received from Shanghai that all communication with Amoy is interrupted at present. Again tor the week ended to-day Otago and Southland have been comparatively free of infectious diseases. Only three cases have been reported to the Department of Health fi&m each district, Otago's notifications being two of tuberculosis and one of scarlet fever. Southland’s cases are all of scarlet fever.

Heavy grading of honey for export took place last week at the Dunedin and Bluff grade stores, where some particularly good lines from Otago and Southland came in. In connection witli honey grading, a recent statement by the Director of Internal Marketing shows that beekeepers who take advantage of quitting their honey through the Internal Marketing Division are now in a better position than formerly. Under the old system of quitting there were long delays between the submitting of honey for grading and the receiving of payment for it, but under the present scheme beekeepers now receive a pro rata advance of 4Jd lb, according to grade, as soon as the honey is graded. Following a police raid conducted bv Detective J. Murray (Wanganui) and the members of the Taihape and Mangoweka Force. Alan Harcourt Smith aid Norman Phillip Sisson were each charged in the Taihape Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon with carrying on the business of bookmaking, while John Josephy Ryan faced a charge of keeping a common gaming house at Taihape. Thomas Lucas was charged with assisting in conducting the business. On the application of the police each defendant was remanded to appear before the magistrate on June 2 Bail was allowed each defendant on his own surety of £so.—Press Association.

Returned ■soldiers and their wives will foregather at the club in Moray Place at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 19, to hoar from members who accompanied the New Zealand contingent to Sydney for Anzac Day something of their experiences and of the lavish hospitality of the Australians. Several members'will give brief addresses, and some moving pictures of the tour will be screened. Members are also invited to attend the monthly luncheon, to ho held at 12.45 p.m. on Tuesday next, when an address will be given on tbo activities of a broadcasting station. Radio listeners will hear an address by the Minister of Finance (Hon. Walter Nash) on Monday evening on the financial policy of the Government. This will he given in the King George Theatre, Lower Hutt, commencing at 7.55, and the Minister will also take the opportunity of replying to the speech made recently by the Leader of the Opposition (Hon. Adam Hamilton). The four YA stations and 4YZ, Invercargill, will relay the meeting.

Familiar scenes round Dunedin have been reproduced in many of the pictures represented in the annual sketch exhibition of the Otago Art Society. The display closes to-morrow at noon, and while the attendances of the public have not been as largo as expected throughout the short season, the patronage accorded the exhibition in the sbeiety’s new rooms in Dowling street has been much bettor this week.

The undefended petitions for divorce heard in the Supreme Court to-day produced one instance of a remarkably casual approach to marriage and, in consideration of the circumstances under which it was celebrated, it was scarcely surprising that it should have a divorce court sequel. The facts of the case were that a miner of Central Otago came to the city to interview applicants for the post of housekeeper with him at a labour exchange. One of the applicants evidently impressed him, for in less than half an hour ho proposed marriage and was accepted. He did not see her again for three days—the time necessary for notice of the marriage—and they parted again immediately after the, ceremony. The miner went back to Central Otag®. and it was four months before the bride decided to join him. Visiting the town where he lived, she stayed at an hotel, and, after making an inspection of his home, declined to live there, and departed. From that time (lOvears ago) the bride and bridegroom did not associate. A divorce on the grounds of desertion was granted on tho miner’s petition. The Blue Star liner Doric Star, which left Port Chalmers this afternoon for New Plymouth, is the longest single-screw steamer trading to New Zealand, and the longest single-screw turbine vessel in the world. Her length was lately increased to 555 ft when the speedier rake type of Maierform bow was fitted. The Norwegian whale chasers which operated in Ross Sea had that type of bow, which was said to have been copied from North Sea fishing craft. As applied to ocean liners the Maierform bow was patented by the Dutchman after whom it is named. Vessels so fitted may plug into head seas without losing way. The round-the-world tourists on the Doric Star include Mr and Mrs H. Vestey, relatives of the owner of the ship. “ Here in New Zealand jwo do nob know the meaning of the word drought as it is known in Australia.” That statement was made to a ‘ Star ’ reporter by Mr J. G. Rutherford, manager of the Union Steam Ship Company’s ship repair works at Port Chalmers. Mr Rutherford has just returned from a holiday trip to NewSouth Wales. About 200 miles inland from Sydney the land was as devoid of greenery as an asphalt path. Only gun trees relieved to some extent the arid depressing appearance of the landscape. For nearly 12 months past the sheep had had to be hand-fed. In vivid contrast to those drought conditions in the backblocks were the magnificent Anzac celebrations in Sydney, The New Zealand Anzacs were worth their place even from the spectacular point of view.

Mr Justice Kennedy sat this morning to hear undefended petitions tor divorce. Decrees nisi, to be moved absolute in three months, were granted in the following cases:—William Carline the younger (Mr A. C. Hanlon, K.C., and Mr J. M Paterson) v. Annie Curno Carline (Mr J. B. Thomson) and Leo Ashby (Mr C. J. L. White), on the grounds of adultery : Ethel Maud Hyland (Mr B. S. Irwin) v. Arnold Hyland (Mr White), separation agreement in force for three years • Amelia Matilda Anderson (Air A. F. Quelch) v. John V._ Anderson, separation agreement; William Henry Butler (Mr Irwin) v. Dorothy O. b. Butler (Air J. G. Warrington), desertion.; Florence M‘K. Pepperell (Mr E. J Anderson) v. Thorne Mills Pepporell, desertion; Edith C. Brutt (Air Anderson) V. Arthur J. Bruff, desertion; Francis C. Buchan (Mr A. G. Neill) v. Kate 11. Buchan, desertion; Anderina Ivy Bachop (Mr 11. S. Frapwell) v. Roy Drummond Bachop (Air White), separation agreement; John Beliski (Mr Hanlon K.C and Mr Warrington) v. Ivy Behski (Mr G. Al. Lloyd), desertion; Alary Jane Wyness (Mr Stephense) v. Alfred G. Wyness, separation. Applications for discharge from bankruptcy were granted in the cases of Leslie Sinclair Robertson, Robert Stephen, and Thomas Oxley., ■

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