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Evening Star, Issue 25928, 21 October 1946, Page 6

The Wilhelmsen Line motor ship Tarn, which arrived at Dakar on September 27 with fire in two holds, will resume her voyage from Oslo to Auckland via ports on vTuesday, according to, advice from Wilhelmsen Agency Ltd., of Svdney. The Tara will require, further repairs at Cape Town, and no indication can be given at present of the time this work will take. The company’s head office at Oslo, Norway, has been asked to give, if possible at this stage, details of the cargo damaged by; fire and water. After loading at Scandinavian ports, the Tarn called at Lisbon to pick'up 1,400 tons of ■ general cargo, including a lapge amount of: cork consigned to freezing works in New Zealand. Cabled advice received at., the end- of last mouth stated that the fire, which broke out at sea, was reported to have destroyed the cork deck cargo and the crews’ quarters, and that the ship had put into Dakar.' She was originally due at Auckland via Cape Town and Australian ports about the middle of next month. •

The Clothes for Corso Appeal in Wellington met with a very generous response. Mr Laurence D. Webster, the chairman of the Wellington Provincial Executive, says that its success was so overwhelming it will need hundreds of helpers for several weeks, to come, to sort and pack the mountains of invaluable material now at the central depot. Fifty large cases have'already, been packed ready for transport overseas before the northern winter sets in, and there are neraly 1,000 more cases yet to be packed. Clothes for China are being shipped direct to Bishop Hall, .of Hongkong,' while clothes for Greece go to the Greek Red Cross.

Owing to the shortage of waiters and waitresses some customers had to wait a considerable time to be served with meals in Auckland restaurants and hotels on Friday night. At one large restaurant (records the ‘Herald’) people queued up for accommodation, and when they finally did get seats had to wait up to three-quarters of an hour to receive their meals. Many people unwilling to wait, left without being served. A large city hotel had only eight waitresses to serve a crowded dining room,. and several people at this hotel waited nearly an hour for attention; The conduct of patrons of wrestling and boxing matches in the Town Hall was adversely commented on at a meeting of the Auckland City Council last week and the Mayor, Mr J, A. C.' Allum, said there would have to be some improvement in their behaviour while.they were in the hall. He said it should hot be necessary for the council to have to mend, broken seats after the matches, and he stated that it would bo necessary to discuss the matter with the associations which con-' trolled the two sports. It was stated that, after each boxing and wrestling match, tlie ball keepers collected many broken chairs and often a harvest of beer bottles. In their endeavours to obtain an uninterrupted view over the heads of those in front, the patrons stood on tho chairs, smashing the backs, legs, and seats. It was also stated that women who attended tne matches were bad offenders.

“ Next month mo shall be called upon to record our votes in a General Electiou, and in the meantime candidates for election will be conducting an election campaign, which I am sure we all hope will be conducted with tolerant good humour and freedom from bitterness,” said Bishop Fitchett m his address at the opening of the Anglican Synod this afternoon. “ Officially the Church lias no political party attitude, so it is quite beyond the function of a bishop to attempt to give any guidance or advice to members of the church as to hoy they should vote, and in my opinion quite wrong that ho should do so, But it is a bishop’s function to state that to disobey the law, church as* to how they should vote, and a grave dereliction of Christian duty.”

Four principles to be observed in the establishment of the proposed obstetrical and gynaecological postgraduate hospital at Auckland were mentioned by Sir William Fletcher Shaw, of the lloy'al College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, in an address to the Rotary Club to-day. They were, he said: (I) Staffing by men in the forefront of obstetrics and gynsecology; (2) each group of doctors under instruction to be in residence fog, a month; (3) research work to be undertaken under a hospital head with an inquiring mind; (4) the basic training to be given to a small group wishing to practise specially obstetrics and gynaecology. Sir William said that in obstetrics important cases occurred at all hours of the day and night, and really beneficial instruction could be given only if the doctors being instructed were in residence.—Auckland Association telegram, The first New Zealand shearing championship held in the Dominion was conducted at the Gisborne show oif r Saturday, unci resulted-I. V. Bowen, Tc Puke, 4min 57see, 1; J, Edwards, Gisborne, smin 57sec, 2; W. G. Bowen, To Puke, smin 30sec, 3. Press Association,