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Evening Star, Issue 23726, 6 November 1940, Page 6

There were no cases set down for hearing in the Police Court to-day.

The Education Board has notified the Mosgiel District High School Committee that, owing to the increase in the roll number, the school will be placed in grade Vl.a (sub-grade) as from February 1 next. The committee at its meeting last night expressed pleasure at the announcement and offered its congratulations to the rector (Mr Kaye).

The Borough of Green Island will participate in Saturday's collection of waste materials, and it was reported at last night’s meeting of the council by the town clerlk (Mr R. J. K. Gillies) that 700 circulars setting forth the procedure to_ be adopted had been delivered to residents by Boy Scouts. Nonferrous materials only are required, and residents nro asked to have materials ready on Saturday morning, when the collection will be made by the Scouts. Non-ferrous materials comprise aluminium, brass, bronze, gunmetal, copper, copper wire, foil, load, zinc. The No. 4 Transport Authority (Air A. G. Raines) sat again yesterday afternoon, when representations concerning the proposed schedule of charges for town carrying were submitted by representatives of the Town Carriers’ Association, the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association, the Dunedin City Corporation, and individual operators. The most important representations concerned the application of the contract clause, several operators maintaining that there should be no limitation .of the amount of the contract, and that the right of private contract should be preserved. The hearing was adjourned sine die to enable conferences between the various carrying organisations on the proposed schedule of charges to be held. An application by W. Waldron (Dunedin) for a license to carry lime and fertiliser between Dunedin and Cape Saunders was further considered during the afternoon and refused.

Pedigree rubber trees, developed in the same manner as thorougbred horses and other stock, supplied tbo greatest part of the world’s output, said Mr G. C. W. Reid, managing director of Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills Limited, in a luncheon address to the Auckland Junior Chamber of Commerce. He said these trees, which yielded three or four times the rubber obtained from unsclected seedlings, were registered and advertised according to the strain to which: they belonged and commanded high prices.

It is estimated that about ’-’OO of the Northern Military District men drawn in the first ballot for service with tho Territorial Forces have not responded to notices calling them to medical examinations (says the Auckland ‘Herald’). In some cases thus is thought to be due to the fact that the reservists have changed t!i ir addresses without notifying the Army or National Service authorities, but it is suspected that some have deliberately overlooked the notices. It ‘is pointed out that failure to present himself for examination makes a reservist liable to trial and punishment for the offence of desertion or of absenting himself without leave. In the last war such men were gazetted as defaulters,

An unusual contribution has been forwarded to the Otago Provincial Patriotic Council in the form of 470 tickets purchased in the several art unions recently run in conjunction with tho Queen Carnival. The tickets have been presented by the staff of Messrs Sto«c. Son, and Co. Ltd., in the hope that the council will benefit by winning a major prize or two.

Apples and pears produced in Hawke’s Bay during the _past season amounted to more than 150,000 cases, according to figures which have been made available of quantities handled at assembly points and at the canning factory. So far as the coming season is concerned, it is anticipated that the apple crop will bo slightly lower, but the pear crop will probably be higher. On the whole, the Government Orchard Inspector, Mr G. H. MTndoe, anticipates that a greater quantity of fruit will be handled next season than was dealt with during the past season. Lot us never forget, whenever we consider the war of nerves, that the enemy, in spite of his advantages, especially his material advantages of distance' and number, is more vulnerable than we (writes Mr Hilaire Belloc). He also is under a ..train within his own society, and looks forward with apprehension to the future. Ho excels in tenacity under conditions of full military organisation, as the whole history of the Prussian army proves. But that history equally proves that he does not excel in fighting against odds after defeat begins. Indeed, he has hardly ever undertaken the task. When lie breaks he crumbles. Drastic action is to be taken in future by the Green Island Borough Council against residents not taking the proper steps to remove gorse and other noxious weeds from their properties. Cr T. M‘Ahan reported at last night’s meeting of the council that excuses were invariably advanced by offenders which enabled them to evade the law. and unfortunately the law as it existed lent support to some of the excuses. In the meantime, through the lack of cooperation shown by those who had the plant growing on their property, gorse was becoming a definite menace in the borough. After discussion, it was decided to institute legal proceedings against all offenders, butit was further suggested that the question of the law be taken up with the Municipal Association to see if it could not be amended so that evasions would not hold good.

The Mosgiel School Committee met last evening. The rector reported that the attendance had increased and that there was evidence that additional accommodation and playing areas would soon be required. The committee decided to take steps along these lines at an early date. The need for a school water supply was again before the committee, and various proposals, including tho borough water .service, will be further discussed at a special meeting nest week. A party of Port Chalmers boys brought the proceeds of their Guy Fawkes collection to the mayoress and handed it over to the gift.-fund for our boys on active service. Most of the coins were half-pennies. Mrs Scollay thanked the boys. Apart from malicious false alarms, there were a few small fires which occupied the attention of tho City Fire Brigade last night. At 8,;)3 the brigade attended a grass lire in Norman street, and at 9.33 turned out to a call from Messrs Hogg and Co.’s tiniber yard in Roberts street, where a slight outbreak of fire in the boiler house was extinguished. A justifiable false alarm from tho Taieri and Peninsula Company’s factory in King street called the brigade at 11.15. The brigade turned out again to-day at 12.55 p.m. to a 5-roomed twostory wood and brick building at 44 King street. Slight damage was done to the floor and wall of an upper room, the cause of the outbreak being a defective chimney. *

Glaring of bonfires in all quarters of the city last night coincided with the screaming of fire-engine sirens, and this morning the brigade had a larg# number of malicious false alarms to report. Between 8 o’clock and 9.30 last night there were no less than five. Machines had to turn out at short intervals to districts as widely separated as Slornington and Tainui. Most of the calls were from the Mornington area, and at one stage it was considered advisable to call in the reel from Green Island as a standby. Consequences of what are described as stupid actions might indeed have been serious, yet there was every incitement in many instances last night for people to call the brigade. In the valley behind the Montecillo end of Mornington the sky was glowing redly and alarmingly, as though a large fire had broken out. Investigation showed that two large bonfires, tended by children, were responsible. Anyone sounding an alarm would have every excuse to do so. Apparently, however, people who rushed into sounding -the alarms did not realise that the action entailed a responsibility—that of standing by until the arrival of tho brigade.

The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of Sunday excursion from Timaru to Dunedin on Sunday, November 10.

The Railway Department advertises in this issue that another special train at cheap excursion fares will be run from Invercargill, stopping at Balclutha, Stirling, and Milton, on Sunday, November 10, returning same day.