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Evening Star, Issue 25717, 14 February 1946, Page 4

Following the recent meeting of the board of directors of Tasman Empire Airways Ltd., which was held in Sydney, an offer has been submitted to the United Kingdom, Australian, and New Zealand Governments through tho Tasman Air Commission to operate a Pacific service to and from the United States in conjunction with the present trans-Tasman service. The company, announcing this, states_ that its policy is to use British machines as soon as suitable aircraft are available, but in the meantime the services would be operated- by American machines of Douglas manufacture (Skymaster type).

Yvonne, the royal Malayan tiger at the Wellington Zoo, gave birth to a litter of four cubs yesterday. Yvonne was presented to the zoo by Captain R. N. Matthews, of India, on behalf of "Viscount Galway, and is now eight years old. She had her first litter of five cubs about three years ago. One of the cubs was sent to the Melbourne Zoo and the others are,, still in Wellington. Of the latest litter, two are males and two females. Tho largest is about 19in long and the smallest 14in. They weigh between 3 and 41b. Incidentally, tigers, unlike lions and cats, are born with their eyes open. The father of the cubs, Prince, now four years old, is the biggest tiger in New Zealand to-day, said the curator, Mr C. J. Cutler to-day, and is probably the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere. He was bred at the Wellington Zoo. The new cubs are not to be bottle fed as their brothers 'and sisters were. They will have to take their chance of survival under the care of their mother.

" Arrangements have been made for . the importation of a very good quality solid fibre-board from Canada for the manufacture of boxes in New Zealand during the 1945-46 season," says the annual .report of the New Zealand Dairy Board. It is hoped to have imDroved machinery available at Penrose, which -will Tesult in a firmer corrugated board being available for the boxes made there. In co-operation with the Forestry Department, the Dairy Division, the Ministry, of Supply, and various commercial organisations, arrangements are also being l made to secure samples and test various types of boxes, so that the industry may be in a position to have its butter transported in the most satisfactory containers available. An unusual request considered by the committee of the Forbury Park Trotting Club last night was a claim for the cleaning of a " new blue suit." A. patron at the summer meeting advanced the claim on the grounds that new paint on the edge of the quick luncheon counter had left a T wide smear on his new suit. "Wo arc legally liable," said Mr B. S. Irwin, who recommended that the account bo met by the club.

Tho city of Dunedin would always be remembered by him by virtue of the fact that it had accorded him his first experience of a civic reception, said the-Rt. Rev. J. L. Wilson, Bishop of Singapore, at the function accorded his wife and himself to-day. Bishop Wilson, who was a prisoner of the Japanese during the war in the Pacific, added to the accompaniment of laughter that his reception during that period had neither been civic nor civil.

",Frankly, the position is that somo of the older British ships are not built to the high modern standards of crew accommodation, and there are limitations of space inherent in ship design which make it impossible to alter the accommodation as we should like during the vessel's lifetime,"' said MiBasil Sanderson, managing director oi the Shaw, Savill. and Albion Co., London, and president of the International Shipping Federation, when asked to comment on the increasing .number of ship desertions in the Dominion. "Improvements have been made to tho maximum extent possible •and will continue to be made," he continued. " Crew accommodation in the new ships, however, will be better than anvthing in the world to-day.

"It is hoped to start in various parts of New Zealand different kinds of group practices—no two alike—so that after some experience wo will bis able to decide which is the best form of group practice," said the Minister of Health, Mr Nordmeyer, at a civic reception given in the Town Hall, Auckland, to delegates to the New Zealand medical conference. "I am. pleased that the majority of members in a recent vote expressed themselves in favour or such a scheme." Modern thought demanded that medical men should cease to be isolated creatures, but should co-operate to a greater extent than they had in the past, said the Minister.' They should spread their (responsibilities and share their knowledge for their own good and the good of the community they served.

" The people of New Zealand are anxious for a change of Government," said Mr H. Johnstone, National Party candidate for Raglan, in, an address at Onewhero. "The people are generally uneasy about the trend of affairs," and I share that anxiety, said Mr Johnstone. "This Government has been more lavish in handing out the taxpayers' money than any m the world. I agree with many of the tonne-fits, particularly old ago and invalidity pensions, which I would increase, but a great proportion of the taxation is unnecessary. The Oivil service has trebled its staff since 1936 The people are beginning to wake up to the fact that the socialistic idea ,of paradise is that everyone lines up for something. The people are dependent on the State for benefits, coupons, licenses, and regulations. The Government also has failed to co-operate with the workers. Labour owes its success to its ability in driving a wedge between employer and_ employee, and that is why there is so much industrial unrest. I do not blame the workers, but the people who have misled them. A good example of the policy of non-co-operation as preached iby the Government is that of the miners."

Charged on three accounts of being in possession of an unregistered firearm, a Dunedin business man. whose name was suppressed, appeared before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., in the Police Court this morning. Seniorsergeant H. Hogg applied for a remand until February 21. Mr J. T. Ward, for the accused, stated that the matter was exclusively a family " boil-over," the occurrence taking ulace in the man's home at 5 a.m. to-day. Bail was allowed on a personal surety of £SO and another surety of £SO.

At the sitting of _ the Land Sales Committee this morning a renewal of the lease of the City Hotel property from Dunedin City Properties Ltd. to Louis Francis McCormaek and Nora Gertrude McCormaek at a weekly' rental of £55 was approved. In all there were about 60 cases set down for hearing.

Fire caused considerable, damage to tho washhouso of an eight-roomed wooden dwelling in Clyde street yesterday afternoon, and tho kitchen was also damaged by water. The house is owned and occupied by Mr J. 15. Frame. The cause of the fire was a defective chimney.