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Evening Star, Issue 24005, 2 October 1941, Page 6

An interjoctor who shouted, ‘‘ What’s that got to do with it,” when Sir James Elliott was referring at the protest meeting in the Auckland Town Hall to a letter previously read by the mayor, Air J. A. O. Allum, recording how a doctor in the Middle East braved enemy bombing to case the last moments of a dying comrade, received a crushing rejoinder. “ I’ll tell you if you won’t bo quite so rude,” Sir James replied. “ The answer is that that doctor was one of my own sons.” (Prolonged applause.) The use of the names “ feesoo ” and “ yarsec ” for tho units of speed iu feet and yards a second respectively was suggested! by Mr Justice Blair, in an address before the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers. Mr Justice Blair remarked on tho number of cases which came before the court dealing with speed as a factor in accidents. He painted out that the usual manner of alluding to such speeds as miles _ an hour ivas deluding, even to the driver of the car, and advocated that all drivers of motor vehicles should make themselves acquainted with speeds in terms of feet a second. A Bluff resident has achieved consideiable success in defeating the efforts of the white butterflies to destroy his cabbage patch. Noticing that these pests always shied clear of a glass bottle, ho conceived the idea of trying it out in his garden. Placing ordinary bottles on sticks and putting them in the ground at intervals along the rows, ho found that tho butterflies ceased their attacks and would not settle near. Although the idoa_ may seem a bit ridiculous, a visit to his garden will prove that there must bo something in it. for the cabbage at the back of the garden whore there were no bottles iplacod are ruined. being full of eggs and caterpillars, while the ones near the bottles are perfectly clear of them. As these pests are always on tho move in bright sunlight it may be_ that the reflection from the bottles drives them off.

In tho Police Court this morning before Mr H. J. Dixon. S.M., George Anderson, aged 62. was charged with having obtained from Alice Linn M‘Minn the sum of Is 7d by false pretence. On the application of Chiefdetective ' Holmes the was remanded until Monday next.

A board of inquiry sat yesterday to hear an appeal brought by the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Co. against the Dunedin City Corporation’s refusal to approve of a plan of sub-division in respect of part section 50, block IX., North Harbour and Blueskin district. The board) consisted of Messrs H. IV. Bundle, S.M. (chairman). J. G. Alexander (appointed by the City Corporation), and P. J. Williams (appointed by the appellant). Lengthy evidence -was taken and the matter was adjourned sine die, the board suggesting that in the meantime the appellant might confer with the City Corporation engineer with a view to ascertaining whether any modified scheme of ..sub-division might be adopted in the case under review. Including cadres, there are at .preeut approximately 870 men in the Territorial camps at Forbury Park and Wingatui. To build) up the training strength men have been drawn from districts between Invercargill and Christchurch. Yesterday there arrived 264 men from Canterbury and North Otago to join the Second Canterbury Infantry Regiment at Wingatui, find 114 men from the same districts joined the Second Battalion Scottish Regiment at Forbury Park. The day previously the Scottish _ Regiment was augmented by 51 Territorials drafted from Invercargill. The. Wingatui camp is slightly the larger of the two, there being 450 on the cadre and training strength, while at Forbury Park the number is 420.

Everybody knowns that a clicker occupies an essential place in a boot factory, but most people are unaware of the exact nature of the job. An appellant in the Appeal Board’s sitting this morning explained that lie was the man who cut out the uppers of hoots and shoes. Once, this work was done by hand, and the knife made a clicking noise as it went round the corners in the leather. Nowadays the clicker worked a press which cut out the leather in the one operation. “ A clicker has to be a pretty smart young follow ” explained the appellant, a factory manager, detailing at a later period the difficulty of replacing such men. Tlio Government was asked in the House this afternoon by Mr Richards if it has considered the appointment of a Now Zealand representative in Geneva to collaborate with the International Red Cross in furthering the welfare of New Zealand prisoners of war, and in obtaining the earliest direct information for the next-of-kin. The Prime Minister replied that the Government had raised this question, and he had personally discussed it officially when in London. He was then informed by the Red Cross headquarters in London that neither the Swiss Government nor the International . Red Cross favoured the idea. However, further representations were being made through the United Kingdom Government. —Pa rliamentary reporter.

lu the Magistrate's Court this morning Mr H. .). Dixon, S.M.. gave judgment by default, with costs, in the eases of Koddoils Ltd. v. John Weaver. £'•"> ‘is. for goods supplied, and National Mortgage and Agency Co. of N.Z. Ltd. v. James Cowio (Waitiri), £l3 16s Bd, for goods supplied.

A Nelson Association message states that the public filled the Theatre Royal last evening for the protest meeting against the Social Security Amendment Bill. The speakers were given an enthusiastic hearing, and motions protesting against the Bill and asking for an independent investigation of the scheme by commission carried.

The refusal of Auckland fishermen to venture out of port at night because of the danger of floating mines, and an acute shortage of labour both on the boats and in the curing sheds, aavc made the current fishing season one ot the poorest on record. In addition, the weather at sea during the past six months has been worse than usual, hooks and nets are difficult to replace, and there has been a scarcity of most fish at the recognised fishing grounds.