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Evening Star, Issue 25894, 11 September 1946, Page 6

Plans for the coming health stamp campaign are well under way, said the chief postmaster, Mr E. J. Smith, today. In spite of the campaign starting a little later this year, the first sales being on October 24, a good response from the public was expected. The new post office at St. Clair was proving popular with the local residents, said the chief postmaster, Mr E. J. Smith, this morning. Initial reports he had received indicated that a substantial volume of business was being done. The office had provision for handling-telegrams, money orders, and savings bank business. A warning that by his conduct he. was qualifying for a term on tßoto Roa Island, was issued in the Police Court to-day by Mr H. TV. Bundle, S.M., to Robert Milne Stewart, ail electrical engineer, aged 47, who pleaded guilty to his second offence for drunkenness within the past six months. The court was informed that Stewart had gone to a theatre, entered the cinema operator’s box, and had made a nuisance of himself, the police being called to eject him. Stewart, who refused to take out a prohibition order, was fined £2, the magistrate saying that a person who went to a place of public entertainment and made a nuisance of himself deserved no Consideration.

Following the recent theft from the clubhouse of the Balmacewen course of a large quantity of golf balls valued at £ls. the police have located the offenders, who are to appear before a sitting of the Children’s Court. Some of the balls have not been recovered.

Last week 2i36 places throughout the Dominion, including all the principal centres, secured their National Savings quotas. Investments continue to be made very satisfactorily. The' Palmerston North and Invercargill districts .have now reached their annual quotas and Wanganui City has been similarly successful. The recent arrival of more than 2,000 sacks of seed' potatoes in 70,700 sacks of potatoes brought' from the south by the Samstrae and Samnethy was criticised to-day by seedsmen, who said that there had been too great a delay in shipment to suit Auckland’s planting season. “It is a case of too little and too late,” said one. “ Most of the seed potatoes should have been here over three months ago, and many of our orders are still unfulfilled. Others have been cancelled because growers consider it is too late to plant now.”

The latest Tattersalls sweep resulted in the first prize of. £IO,OOO going to “ Soldier’s Luck,” Wellington. “ H.G.11.,” Lyttelton, secured £1,250, and a further prize of £245 went to a Wellington syndicate.

A former Director of Medical Services of the Second N.Z.E.F. and a well-known Auckland specialist, Brigadier H. Selwyn Kenrick was appointed by the Auckland Hospital Board on Monday night, to . the position of superintendent-in-chief to control the medical, nursing, and teaching services of all the board’s institutions! The board decided last year to appoint a superintendent-in-chief, and it received 49 applications from medical men in New Zealand and overseas. The position carries a commencing salary of £2,000, rising to £2.250 by annual increments of £SO

The Moscow Academy of Scientists reports that in the past two years the Caspian Sea—one .of the world’s greatest, inland seas—has changed shape and dropped more than 7ft in depth, says a despatch from the Sydney ‘ Morning Herald’s ’ London office. The Gulfs of Komsomolet, Kaidek, and Kali, on its northern coast, have disappeared; and Cheleken Island lias become a peninsula. The Caspian has lost 8,000,000,000 ' cubic metres of water. Causes of these changes are unknown. A scientific mission is now investigating measures to arrest further changes threatening not only the sea itself, but rich agricultural areas bordering it. Evaporation is immense in the Caspian area, but it cannot account for the great drop, which may be caused by a fault in the seabed. The receding water on the eastern coast uncovered ruins of a Tartar city legendary in folk tales of the area.