LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 14

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fog In City A fairly thick fog developed over higher areas in parts of the city shortly after 11 o'clock last night, and in the Ponsonby and Heme Bay districts motorists, while not greatly delayed, found driving conditions more difficult than usual. The fog did not extend over the harbour. Man's Identity Established

The identity of the man who was found unconscious on a ferry boat going to Pcvonport on Thursday night was established yesterday. He is John 11o.v Northcott, aged 22. it wius at first thought that his condition was serious, but he improved rapidly yesterday and was discharged to rejoin the Union Company's steamer Wainui, on which ho is a fireman.

Three Orange Shipments A shipment of Jamaican oranges will reach Auckland on Tuesday by the Port Line steamer Port Hunter, while a consignment of the California!! variety is being carried by the Mariposa, which is due from San Francisco on Thursday. The first shipment of island oranges this season will arrive on tho Matua, which will reach Auckland from Suva on Easter Monday. Missing Schoolboy

A schoolboy, John Birss, aged nine years, who boards with Mrs. J. Handy, Cleveland Road, Papakura, and who has I'een missing, from his home since Sunday, had "not been found up to a late hour last night. The last report of him was about 5..30 on Monday morning at Manurewa, when he said he was going to Auckland, and since then the police have not been able to trace him. Inquiries are being made in the city area. Massey College Course A decision to be represented at tiie one-week course to be conducted later in the year at Masse}' Agricultural College, dealing with the production, treatment and distribution of town milk, was made by the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council yesterday. The council will be represented by the secretary and the inspector. The course will deal with a variety of subjects of immediate interest to those in the town milk trade, and Auckland firms will probably be represented.

Heavy Easter Train Bookings Exceptionally heavy bookings have already been received for the Easter trains from Auckland to Wellington. On Thursday, April 14, expresses leaving at ;3 p.m., 7.15 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. are fully booked. All seats on the # '3 p.m. and the limited expresses on Easter Monday have also been taken. Advance bookings are much more numerous this year than last. Traffic from Wellington to Auckland promises to be equally heavy, and already one additional train has been added to tho Easter schedule. Edibility ol Dogfish

Many people in New Zealand eat dogfish without knowing it, according to Mr. David Graham, formerly of tho Marine Fisheries Investigation Station at Portobello, who gave an address to the Canterbury branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Dogfish sold well in Christchurch and Auckland, ho said, and the demand often exceeded the supply. There was no reason why it should not he eaten, for it was a clean-living fish, with crabs as a large part of its diet, and the flesh was good. "I can support that," said Mr. Edgar Stead. "Dogfish are very good to eat. 1 have eaten them often." " His Majesty "

The police constable who was on duty as orderly in the Court of Arbitration in Wellington this week elevated the title of Mr. Justice O'Hegan. When the Judge enters for the the first sitting of the day it is the duty of the Court orderly to call out: "Silence for His Honor the King's Judge!" and everyone present in Court stands until the Judge is seated. On this occasion the Court orderly went one better. As Mr. Justice O'Kegan entered the courtroom the orderly took a swift look at those in Court and called out: "Silence for His Majesty the Judge 1" If His Honor noticccl the slip, ho did not show it. The Bottom Foil Otit A gasworks stoker who was called in the Court of Arbitration in Wellington to detail the duties of stokers was asked by Mr. J. Roberts, advocate for the workers, when it was that the foreman was called out at night at the works at which he was employed. The witness replied that it was only when anything serious occurred that the foreman was called out at night. In this instance ho was called the branch manager. Replying to another question, the witness said that the last time the branch manager was called out was about three months ago when tho bottom fell out of the boiler. Mr. Roberts commented that it was high time for tho foreman to bo called. Butterfish for Goitre That the fish which were most valuable, because of their iodine content, for tho control of goitre, wore mistakenly rejected as food by New Zcalanders was claimed by Mr. David Graham, in an address to the Canterbury branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. "Where marine foods were widely used there was little goitre, he said. Green bone, butterfish, kelpfisb, or kelp salmon had been proved by the researches of Professor C. E. Hereus to contain 2-3 times as much /iodine as oysters. Yet because the fish had green bones and a blackish appearance people woidd not cat it, and sufferers from goitre would rather endure the complaint than be bothered cooking it. Tho prejudice against it was unfounded, because it was very tasty. City Roll Increases

The numbers on tho No. 1 supplementary roll to be used in conjunction with the main roll at the municipal election in the city on May 11 are steadily increasing, and when the office of the city returning officer, Mr, P. F. Notley, closed yesterday the total had reached nearly 12,000. As tho supplementary roll closes next Wednesday there are only three more days 011 which applications for enrolment can be lodged, but it is expected that another 5000 or 6000 names will be -Hided. The roll used at the 1935 municipal election contained 61,684 names, of which 17,699 wore on the supplementary roll. The main roll for this year's election has 45.8-17 electors listed, so that it is likely that by Wednesday the total of those entitled to vote next month will exceed the roll number of 1935.