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Evening Star, Issue 23729, 9 November 1940, Page 10

The flying boat Aotcaroa arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday afternoon with 14 passengers and freight and mails. Seven of the passengers will proceed to the United States by the American Clipper, which is due at Auckland to-morrow.

Matters concerning the Home Guard will be discussed at a meeting to be held in the R.S.A. Booms on Monday night. Members of the reserve and retired list of officers are invited to attend.

During seven years children in primary schools under the jurisdiction of the Wellington Education Board have contributed £1,0113 to the maintenance of children in the Otaki Health Camp. At the annual meeting this week of the Wellington Health Camp Association, it was stated that this sum had been gathered in pennies. It takes 400,32(1 pennies to make that amount. The report described the appeal to children as one of the association’s main sources of revenue. The Wellington (Rotarv Club had given £1,028 since 1933, and last December a further £199, the report stated, and sinee the inception of the camp the T. G. Macarthy Trust had granted £4BO, including £BO in the last 12 months.! The difficulties caused to shippers in the United Kingdom through the decision of the New Zealand Government to cancel all fourth- importing licenses not used before December are illustrated in a letter received by a firm of merchants in Christchurch from their principals in London (says the ‘ StarSun ’). The letter says it will not be possible to complete all the orders on hand in time tor them to reach New Zealand before the end of this year. It adds that it is not always certain that goods can be shipped aboard the steamers that load, even though they are sent many days before the closing date. The shippers do not know the sailing dates or their times of arrival and cannot estimate when shipments can reach New Zealand. Specially made goods cannot be put into stock because the fourth period license has expired. :

That there would be no one left to tend the garden and do various jobs round his. mother's home was one of the reasons advanced by a young man who appeared before the Wellington Man-power Committee on Wednesday in support of his appeal for exemption from Territorial service. He said he had two brothers, one aged 19 and one a year or two younger, but said they could not look after the garden because they did not know enough about it. Urgently needed in Auckland for a medical case, a serum used in the treatment of asthmatic hay fever was brought by air over the 11,000-mile journey from Philadelphia in eight days. Use of this special senfm, which could not be obtained from" the Auckland Hospital, was decided on when a four-year-old child was threatened with a recurrence of “ cocksfoot asthma.” which nearly caused its death last year. The tracing of the origin of the trouble in itself was a problem, successfully solved by the doctor when he discovered if was due to inhalation of cocksfoot nollen. Further delay was threatened when it was found that none of the serums listed was designed for this particular ailment, but the Department of Agriculture was able to furnish the information that cocksfoot was known in the United States as “ orchard grass.” A cablegram was sent to a Philadelphia firm which specialises in the production of the serums, and a phial was despatched by air to San Francisco in time to connect with PanAmerican Airways’. California Clipper for Auckland. The disease was forestalled by an injection which will probably be instrumental in saving life. “ I am as fit as a fiddle, and would not change places with anyone in New Zealand for all the tea in China,” states an extract from a letter from a soldier of the First Echelon, stationed “ somewhere in the Middle East,” to his parents at Takapuna (says the Auckland ‘Herald’). “We are having a wonderful time; in fact, to me and several of my pals, it has been one glorious holiday. We have cricket, excursions, and lots of leave, and the company of a crowd of decent chaps.” High praise for the conduct of New Zealand troops overseas was bestowed by the officer commanding the Southern Military District (Brigadier O. H Mead) at a parade at Burnham this week. He said they had already earned a fine reputation for the respect they had shown to the property of others. He knew this was true, because the captains of two transports, on their return 1 to New Zealand after taking the troops overseas, had commented on the behaviour of the men. They had said that they would defy anyone to point to a penny’s worth of damage done to the ship during the voyage.

A draft of balloted men is to leave Dunedin for military camp in the north next week, but there will be no further drafts sent for training until after the New Year. Three calls were answered by the City Fire Brigade this morning, the first, at 9.51, being an accidental false alarm from Messrs Irvine and Stevenson’s factory in Filleul street. At 10.50 a chimney fire in Leith street was attended. and at 11.30 a call was received from Rattray street, where grass, just above Canongate, had caught fire. At 6 p.m. yesterday an automatic false alarm came from the Roslyn Woollen Mills. In connection with the episode on the banks of the Leith on September 28, when a brown duck was stoned to death, six boys, whose ages ranged from 13 to 16 years, wore brought before the Children’s Court this morning charged with having killed protected game. The young culprits were admonished by the presiding magistrate (Mr J. R. Bartholomew) and placed under the supervision of the child welfare officer for a period of 12 months. The city organist, Dr V. E. Galway, will give an after-church recital in the Town Hall to-morrow evening at 8.15. The programme is full of interest, two of the items—‘ Toccata ’ from the first Sonata (Guilmant) and ‘ Epithalame ’ (Salome) being played for the first time at these recitals. Bach’s brilliant ‘ Prelude and Fugue in A Minor ’ is an item worthy of special mention. Other pieces to be performed are;—‘Allegro Giocoso ’ (Handel), ‘ Fountain Reverie ’ (Fletcher), ‘ A Spring Song,’ by the blind organist Alfred Hollins, and ‘ Morning Star ’ (Dallier). Dr Galway will be assisted on this occasion by the Otago Girls’ High School Choir under the conductorship of Mr C. Roy Spademan. The choir will sing (a) ‘ Song of Hope ’ (Johnson) : (h) ‘ The Gentle Sounding Flute’ (Rathhone) ; (c) ‘ln Derrv Dale,’ arranged by Shaw; (cl) ‘ Night ’ (Fran/.); (e) ‘Wee]) Yon No More’ (Dermith); (f) ‘ Like to the Damask Rose ’ (Elgar). I

A full-dress parade of the National Military Reserve Battalion is to be hold next Wednesday evening at 7.30 in the presence of Major-general Sir Andrew Russell, Inspector-general of Military Forces in the Dominion. The parade will be hold at the Drill Hall, hut friends and relatives, and also the general public, are invited to he present to witness the parade, which promises to be one of the best held by the battalion.

Mr J. 11. Bartholomew S.M. presided over a short sitting of the Police Court this morning, when Henry Lynch and Arnold Aloysins Haggitt, both statutory first offenders, were each fined 20s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, on a charge of drunkenness.

Particulars of train arrangements in connection witli the Taieri A, and P. Show at Outram on November 16 are advertised by the Railway Department in this issue. The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of a special cheap day excursion, Dunedin to Invercargill, on Sunday, November 17. Two fast trains will be run to Invercargill, returning the same day.

Dunedin Burns Club will celebrate Hallowe’en at Ha/.eldean at His Majesty's Theatre to-night. Attention is drawn to an advertisement in this issue of a meeting of the Dunedin West branch of the Democrtaic Labour Party,