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Evening Star, Issue 25676, 27 December 1945, Page 4

In the Police Court to-day, Alan Raymond Putane, aged 35, a miner, was charged with assaulting James Macken, who was stated by the police to be in hospital suffering from injuries that were not serious.. The accused was remanded on bail of £lO until January 4. A first offender for drunkenness, a soldier from the Middle East, was fined 10s by the presiding Justices of tht Peace. Messrs H. E. Barth and E. Clayton. It is not often that the port of Dunedin is so congested that there is not enough berthing room for another vessel. That happened in the case of the overseas-ship 1 Reaveley, which is making heF'maiden visit to this port, and had to find temporary berthage overnight at Pert Chalmers following her arrival last evening from South Australia. Eight vessels were tied up at Dunedin yesterday, and with the departure tliis morning of the Waiana, there was enough space at the whnrf to" accommodate the IReaveley, which then came up the harbour. Incidentally, the vessel had on board two naval lieutenants who were given a passage from Australia.

The city organist, Dr V. E. Galway, will give an after-church recital in the Town Hall on Sunday evening, when the following programme of organ music, which has been drawn from those items considered the most popular during the past year, will be presented:— 'Trumpet Tune and Air ’ (Purcell); ‘ln Elysium,’ ‘ Orpheus ' (Gluck); ‘Overture to the Occasional Oratorio ’ (Handel); aria, ‘ See What His Love Can Do ’ (Bach) ; Andante from the ‘Haffner Symphony’ (Mozart); ‘Polonaise in A Major’ (Chopin): ‘An Old-time Tune ’ (Martin) ; and ‘Toccata in F’ (Wider). Dr Galway will be assisted by Miss Clare Neale, who will play ‘ Fantnisie Impromptu ’ (Chooiiri and ‘Ballade in G Minor ’ (Brahms).

The V class yacht Eclipse capsized and was lost off Whangaparoa Peninsula, Auckland, yesterday afternoon, the crew of two later being rescued and taken to Tiri Island. The accident was witnessed from Tiri, and a dinghy was rowed out to where the two occupants, Sehvyn Daniels and Stanley Hammond, of Grey Lynn, were swimming in the water. They were taken on board and rowed back to Tiri. The yacht became waterlogged and sank shortly after the accident. No trace of it has since been reported. .The sale of surplus stocks of gas masks to children by some of the local stores is causing the Health Department concern, in view of the prevalence of meales. It was pointed out by the department in a statement issued at Wellington that gas masks are firstclass receptacles for infection, and children who are allowed to use other children’s masks are running as great a risk as if they were allowed to use another child’s handkerchief. The number of motor vehicles licensed at the end of September was 289,599, as compared with. 275,383 at the corresponding date in. 1944, says the ‘ Abstract of Statistics.’ Motor cars numbered 192,624 (167,660 private cars and 24,964 business cars) in September, 1945, and 189„571 (165,939 private cars and 23,632 business cars) in September, 1944. During a furlough visit toPenchangi, a hill station where the Salvation Army has a rest home for officers during the hottest period of the year in India, Dr A. B. Cook, son of Commandant and Mrs H. C. Cook, Hastings, recently had the opportunity of seeing Mahatma Gandhi at his devotions. “ This famous man of India,” Dr Cook writes, “ was reclining on a raised platform for his evening prayers. All the audience were seated on the floor. His prayers embrace all religions. Some Parsee girls chanted a prayer, then a group of Brahmins sang a prayer. At times. Christians take part, as do also some Mahometans. Gandhi, all the time with bowed head, accompanied the singing with a gentle beat of his hand under his shawl.” That the Soviet Minister had sent' him a recording of the Soviet National Anthem, but, unfortunately, there had not been time to set up apparatus for playing it, was mentionel by the MayorT Mr-W. Appleton, at a civic reception in Wellington to Mr I. K. Ziabkin, first Envoy, and Minister Plenipotentiary to New Zealand from Soviet Russia. Mr Appleton inquired whether there were sufficient people present with a knowledge of the Soviet Anthem, but when lie found there were not, he said tlmt an opportunity would be taken at some other gathering to play tbe record the Minister had given l,ini. The British National Anthem was then sung.