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Evening Star, Issue 23415, 4 November 1939, Page 12

Anticipating an increased price for English and American periodicals that will become fixed if it is sanctioned by the Price Tribunal, bookshops in Dunedin have introduced a tentative advance on the cost to the public of most magazines. The reasons for the increase (which is already in force in the north) are the fluctuations in exchange and to some extent high freights and insurance rates. The advance varies _ for American magazines, but generally it is from Id to 2d on a periodical previously costing Is. The advance in the price of the Plnglish magazine is not expected to be as great as for the American one. Because of the drastic jump in the cost of newsprint booksellers here anticipate that there may soon be another increase.

The evidence taken at the departmental inquiry on the fatality at Lyttelton, when the fishing boat Dolphin was sunkj and at the inquest on the death of the victim, was oeing considered by the Government, said the Minister of Defence (Mr Jones), in reply to an inquiry last evening. The Minister indicated that he had nothing to add to this statement at the moment. In the Police Court this morning Alexander M‘llae, aged 18, was charged before Mr J. y R. Bartholomew, S.M., with breaking and entering the shop of Victor Harold Brightmore," at Green Island, and stealing therefrom goods and money to the value of £4 11s Bd. On the application of the police the accused was remanded until Wednesday next, bail being allowed in the sum of £SO with one surety of £SO; accused to report daily. Our report (a supplied one) of the Forhury School concert mistakenly referred to Mr E. P. Drew as “ primary school music director for the Education Board.” Mr Drew writes to say that he simply acted as conductor at this particular concert.

Armistice Day, November 11, has been selected as the date for the St. John Ambulance Brigade annual inspection, which will be held at 3 p.m. in the Queen’s Gardens.

The Hon Adam Hamilton met with an enthusiastic recaption when he addressed a meeting of.about 500 of the National Party’s supporters at Tauranga last night. He left there this morning for Te Puke, Edgecumbe, and Whakatane, where meetings were to be held to-day. He then goes on to Raetihi. He urged the party to be prepared for any political crisis that might arise.—Press Association. Applications for enlistment in the Special Force to serve in or beyond New Zealand have halted abruptly in Dunedin. Since Tuesday there have been no enlistments recorded at the Drill Hall. Recruits who do register will form the second echelon, which is to proceed to camp to join the first echelon of the Special Force. The latest enlistments, those of Bert M'Ewan (Oturehua) and John Thomas Sinnamon (Poolburn), in class 2, and Alphonsus Crawford (Dunedin), in class 3, bring the total for area 11. to 1 169. To await the arrival of the first drafts of the second echelon, three drafts of officers are to leave for camp next week. The Maori Battalion is also accepting recruits, restricted in personnel in the South Island to those who are at least quarter-caste. , All four YA stations, as well as the auxiliary stations of the National Broadcasting Service in the smaller towns will participate in a relay of the opening of the Centennial Exhibition on Wednesday, at 2.30. The ceremony is to be performed by His Excellency the Governor-General (Viscount Galway). Music will be played by the band of the New Zealand Royal Air Force, and there will also be a'combined choir conducted by F. Stanley Oliver. Speakers will include the Mayor of Wellington (Mr T, C. A. Hislop) and the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Hon. D. G. Sullivan). Chief among the associations which the name of 11 New Zealand” has in the minds of a number of Germans are memories of the Great War. Three Germans who talked with Mr T. Lionel Crooks, of Ashburton, on his recent visit to the Continent, said, when they heard that he came from New Zealand, “ That is where the Anzacs came from, isn’t itP ” Being assured that it was, they said, ‘‘ They were great fighters.” Even until a few days before the war was declared, most Germans Mr Crooks met believed that there would be no war.

History attaches to the two large oaks growing.at the main gates of the Queenstown domain, and an outline of their history will be forwarded by the Southland Progress League to the Plant Research Bureau of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Affairs, which is seeking the whereabouts of historic trees in view of the New Zealand Centennial. Mr Edward Palck (Dunedin) wrote advising the executive of the Progress League last night that his father had been postmaster at Arrowtown in 1863 and at Queenstown from 1864 to 1875. One of the oaks bad been planted bv the writer’s mother, Mrs Isabel Falck, about 1870. Evidence of the efficiency of the drainage system laid by the Public Works Department at the Central District Mobilization Camp, Trentham, was the fact that, on Monday in spite of torrential rain the night before, no water was to be seen lying about (says the Wellington ‘Dominion’). Before the tents were erected all the turf was taken up and metal laid down and this measure has proved to be most successful. Tents have given little trouble, hut as soon as one is found to be leaking it is replaced. The camp has an adequate reserve supply.

Stocks of tinned fish such as sardines and salmon, which play a big part in summer dishes, are practically exhausted in Wellington, and cannot be replaced, for the latest import restrictions prohibit their importation. One of the biggest Wellington merchants 1 stated that he doubted if he could find five cases of tinned fish in his warehouse; they were just not in the country. This applied also to other merchants.

Criticism of the commercial broadcasting service .and its value to the country was levelled by Mr W. A. Sheat during an address to farmers who attended a mass meeting at Hawera. Mr Sheat alleged that positions were being found in some Government services to reward men for their political services, and he said the time had arrived when the Government would have to face the facts and stop such practices. “ I refer to the commercial broadcasting service,” said Mr Sheat, “ one of the most parasitic institutions in New Zealand. It puts over sloppy sentimentalism and bad economics under the cloaik of religion, and they tell people of the ‘ blue bird of happiness ’ and how to help Dan and Bill to build a nation. At the same time we are being asked to grow more by people who couldn t produce threepence worth of parsnips. Public expenditure is being pushed up to such, levels that the country cannot carry on much longer, and I say that if the Government is sincere it will push out a lot of these parasites and. lighten the burden of the country.” Oamaru will be the centre of the largest band function for years to-mor-row with the holding of a contest in which nine bands will compete. This event is a part of the jubilee celebrations of the Oamaru Municipal Band, and among the contestants will be the Dunedin Artillery, the Kaikorai, and the Green Island Bands, which travelled to the North Otago town by the express to-day.

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, Roslyn, Kaikorai, Maori Hill, Wakari Methodist; Trinity, Central Mission, Mornington, St. Kilda, Caversham, Dundas Street, Abbotsford, Cargill Road, Maori Hill. Baptist: Hanover Street, Caversham, Mornington, South Dunedin, Roslyn, 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, Salvation Army (North Dunedin). The weekly old-(ime dance will be held to-night in the Early Settlers’ Hall. The musical programme is being arranged by the Sports Orchestra and Hogg’s sound system. The attention of artists is drawn to an advertisement in this issue regarding the National Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand art which will tour the Dominion during 1940. Artists are invited to submit not more than two examples of their work for the consideration of the selection committees at Wellington, Auckland. Christchurch, and Dunedin.

The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of a special cheap day excursion, Dunedin to Invercargill, on Sunday, November 12. Two fast trains will be run to Invercargill, returning same day. On Tuesday evening the Port Chalmers Regatta Committee will hold its annual meeting in the Council Chambers.