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Evening Star, Issue 23189, 11 February 1939, Page 14

A grant of £3 2s 6d to the Town Hall Cricket Club to defray the cost of the charge made by the reserves department for a cricket wicket during the current season and a grant of £5 to the Anglican Bovs’ Orphanage to cover part of the charge made by the tramways department for a bus supplied to convey the orphans to Hampden for their annual holidays are recommended by the Finance Committee of the City Council. The Finance Committee of the City Council reports that a reference from the Works Committee requesting approval to an agreement arrived at with the Government relative to the payment of compensation for an area occupied bv the Government as part of its electrical undertaking at Halfway Bush has been considered by the committee, which recommends that the agreement in respect of tho council’s leasehold property at Halfway Bush be approved.

The Forest and Bird Protection Society continues to receive complaints about the killing of native birds, especially robins, by cats from Public Works camps aloug the new road in South Westland. Therefore, another letter has been sent to the Hon. 11. Semple, Minister of Public Works, urging that a prohibition order should be issued against tho introduction of cats to tho camps. “It is the same old story,” says a member of the society’s executive. “ First there is a careless scattering of waste-food scraps which attract rats. Then cats are brought in to attack the rats, but cats prefer the daintier diet of native birds, which are easily caught.” Miss M. Wallace, the local dancing teacher, who has returned from a visit to Sydney and Melbourne, has brought back some of the latest ideas in ballroom dancing, including London variations in quickstep, slow foxtrot, waltz, and tango. Dancing enthusiasts will have the opportunity of witnessing these when they are presented at her school during the coming season. Miss Wallace was successful in gaining two certificates of the National Teachers of Ballroom Dancing, for which she was coached by one of Melbourne’s leading teachers of ballroom dancing. Mr llobert Brown, who is connected with Miss Wallace’s studio, was also successful in passing an examination, and gained the national medal. lie was coached by the same teacher, and while in Melbourne ho was selected to dance in a formation team in a demonstration at a citizens’ ball given in aid of the Victorian relief fund to assist sufferers fropi tha receut bush fires* • •j ■

The mayor (Mr A. H. Allen) and the chairman of the Finance Committee (Cr W. B. Taverner) are recommended by the Finance Committee as the representatives of the City Council to attend the Municipal Conference to be commenced in Dunedin on Wednesday, March 8. “ It is surprising to see a Chinaman before the court on such a charge,” said Sergeant Lean this morning, when presenting the case in the Police Court against Ah Young Chong, fruiterer and gardener, of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor truck in Cumberland street. The sergeant added that _ ac : cused’s truck was yesterday noticed standing for some time outside an hotel, and when Chong came out he appeared to be in an unfit condition to drive, and was taken to tho Police Station, where he was certified. He had been driving for 10 years and was well known. Mr D. A. Solomon, in pleading guilty on behalf of accused, said that tho case might be regarded as one of those which had become known as border line cases. Chong sold vegetables to this particular hotelkeeper, and while doing business the licensee had asked him' to have a drink. Chong had reciprocated, ’the result being two rums. Accused had been in Dunedin 35 years, and had never been in trouble before. The magistrate (Mr J. R. Bartholomew), remarking that it was not a bad case of its type, fined Chong 10s, with medical expenses (21s), towing expenses (7s 6d), and ordered the suspension of his license for six mouths. A statutory first offender, William Alexander Duncan, pleaded guilty in the Police Court this morning to a charge of drunkenness, and was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. . Investigation by detectives at premises in Musselburgh Rise yesterday resulted in Irvine Watson Cowie, a warehouseman, being charged this morning before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., with the theft from a city warehouse of men’s and women’s clothing to the total value of £2O. The thefts are alleged to have been committed on February 7 and on divers dates between January, 1938, and December, 1938. On the application of Detectivesergeant Hall, the accused was remanded until February 17, bail being fixed in the sum of £IOO, with one surety of £IOO or two of £SO each, A request by counsel (Mr D. J. Simpson) for the suppression of accused’s name in the meantime was declined by the magistrate. The Rev. E. H. Hobday, of London, who is preaching at the Iloslyn Baptist Church to-morrow, where he was minister some years ago, is the founder of tho “ Francis Drake Fellowship,!’ which, in less than eight years, has attained a membership of 12,000. It is open to all registered members of bowling clubs in the United Kingdom. The subscription is 2s 6d per annum. The principles of the fellowship are brotherhood and benevolence. Since its inception, more than £5,000 has been voted to the relief of the widows and children of deceased bowlers. Mr Hobday is a bowler of internatiol . repute, and before returning to the Old Country, skipped for Tasmania in the interstate tournaments.

A fault in the electrical wiring resulted in a- motor truck belonging to a Mr Turner, of Kenmnre road, catching fire last night in the Kaikorai Valley. The Roslyn Fire Brigade received the call at 8.40, but no great damage was done.

Arrangements have been completed for the presentation of a novel broadcast from station 2YA, Wellington, on Thursday evening next. At the New Zealand Library Association’s Conference at Palmerston North, a forum discussion is to be held on Thursday, dealing with the social responsibility of libraries. The first 30 minutes of this discussion will be_ broadcast by 2YA from 8.30 as “ a kind of preferred radio play of five characters— ‘ Mr Citizen and Four Librarians.’ ” The broadcast will deal in a popular and interesting manner with the facilities which libraries offer—or should offer—to the average citizen.

Notifications of Sunday services as enumerated below appear in our Sunday services advertising columns:—Anglican: St. Paul’s Cathedral, All Saints’. Presbyterian: First Church, Knox Church, St. Andrew’s, Musselburgh, St. Stephen’s, Eoslyn, Kaikorai, Maori Hill. Methodist; Trinity, Central Mission, Mornington, St. Kilda, Cavershara, Dundas Street, Abbotsford. Baptist: Hanover Street, Caversham, Mornington, South Dunedin, JKoslyn, Sunshine, North-east Valley, Green Island. Congregational: Moray Place Church, United. Church of Christ: St. Andrew Street, North-east Valley, South Dunedin. York Place Hall, Salvation Army, Playfair Street Hall, Christian Science, Theosophical Society, Spiritualists, Orange Hall.

The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of a special cheap day excursion, Dunedin to Invercargill, on Sunday, February 19. Two fast trains will be run to Invercargill, returning the same day. The City Corporation’s annual picnic will be held at Warrington on Saturday next. A special train will leave at 9 a.m. Old-time dancing will be featured at the Eary Settlers’ Hall to-night. The Sports Orchestra and Hogg’s sound system will provide tho music.

Hitherto the New Zealand Institute of Secretaries has held yearly examinations in October. The institute has now decided to examine twice a year, in April and October. Elsewhere in this issue appears an advertisement regarding the examinations next April. This Sunday the St. Hilda Band will give its final performances of the Christ church contest selections at the Gardens in the afternoon, at 3, and at St. Hilda in the evening. Judging by the large and enthusiastic crowd at St. Hilda last Sunday there should be record 'numbers to hear this well-known combination on Sunday. Included in this week's programme is the own-choice selection ‘ Lorenza.’ This was the selection for the Wanganui contest in 1928, when St. Hilda carried off all the honours. The public arc asked to give as liberally as possible to tho collections and thus help the only band to represent Otago and Southland to attend the contest, which on February, i9s . ■' '