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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18612, 21 July 1922, Page 4

English, Australian, and North Island mails will be delivered in tho city and suburbs this rooming, tho Dunedin portion of the Mahana’s English mail and of the Ulimaroa’s Australian mail, as well as the usual north mail, having arrived by the express last night. There are 59 bags of English, 15 of Australian, and 16 of North Island mail.

Lady Jelliooe has received by the last English mail a letter from Lady Ampthill, who was the prime mover in inviting the Red Cross workers and V.A.D.’s of, the Empire to subscribe toward® a wedding gift for Princess Mary. lady Ampthill states that the gift took the form of a diamond and emerald tiara, and that a deputation, on which the dominions were represented, went to Buckingham Palace on February 13 and presented the tiara to Princess Mary. Her Royal Highness was deeply touched by the gift, and sent Lady Ampthill a letter of warm appreciation and thanks. Lady Jellicoe, who was responsible for New Zealand’s share in the gift, has written to Mr Hugh Mitchell, secretary of the Dunedin section of the Red Cross Society and Order of St, John, expressing gratitude to the local centre and sub-centree for their ready and generous response to her invitation. Tho total subscribed by New Zealand was £lll 10s. Lady Jelliooe also encloses a replica of Princess Mary’s letter to Lady Ampthill, which* reeds as follows: “I am deeply touched by the beautiful present which has been given to me this morning by you on behalf of V.A.D. members from all over the Empire on the occasion of my approaching marriage. Please tell them how grateful I am and how much I shall always value this generous gift os the expression of the affectionate good wishes of the service to which I am so proud to belong.” Tho local Superintendent of MercantileMarine has been informed of a floating mine danger by the Marine Department ns follows“ Wireless warning received from the captain of the steamer Canberra states that the vessel passed a floating mine off Green Capo, north of Capo Howe, latitude 37.19 degrees South, and longitude 150 degrees East.” Green Cape is on the south-east coast of New South Wales, and Cape Howe is on the north-east coast of Victoria. Mariners are warned to keep o careful watch for tho mine. His Honor Mr Justice Chapman has granted probate in the Otago estates of Henry Wise, Sarah Ann Watt, Agnes Ward, Octavius Edward Franklin Admore, and Jcnnnie Gray. Letters of administration have 'been granted in the estate of Robert Anderson.

The four 4.5 amd four 6in howitzers for tho Central Battery have recently arrived from the Old Country, and are now in position. A quantity of howitzer ammunition is at present being transferred from the fort at the Heads, where it is stored in preparation tor some shooting practice. It is proposed to have a practice shoot in the direction of White Island on August 4. Tho dominion results of the shooting for the Military Challenge Shield, competed for by cadets in nil parts of the Empire, have just come to hand. ■ It is gratifying to learn that in the South Island of Otago Regimental District has secured seven out of tho first ten places in the senior diviaioa, and five out of the first tm. places among the junior cadets. The top se'-ior team has put up the remarkably fine score of 93 per cent. Last year some 1000 teams in all parts of tho world shot for iai» trophy. The competition was held on Juno 9 tow year, but it is not expected that ihs ffiwi results will be known until Octoboc. 1

The Otago Education Board’s truant officer (Mr J. E. Ryan) considers that there is at present more sickness among school children than there has been for years past

The regulation providing that Education Boards are not to be supplied with copies of inspectors’ reports concerning the work of their teachers was considered at the meeting of the Otago Board on Wednesday, when it was decided that the chairman should frame a suitable resolution of protest. At the meeting yesterday it submitted the following, which was adopted unanimously:—“The Otago Education Board desires to enter wa emphatic protest against the regulation of the department which prohibits the inspectors from supplying to the boards copies of the reports on the work of individual teachers. This board always has received those reports, considered them carefully, and acted upon thorn as they thought best in the interest of the school and of the teacher. It resents the withdrawal and would point out that the board is the legal employer of the teachers, and is therefore surely entitled to a report on the work. It would respectfully enter ah emphatic protest against the regulation.” At a largely-attended l meeting of the Photographic Society, hold in the club rooms, Mr S. Devereux demonstrated the toning of bromide prints. A feature of the evening was the exhibition given by Mr A. M. Macdonald, an Invercargill member, who exhibited a collection of 22 pictures, comprising landscape, marine, architecture, portrait, and figure studies. As the pictorial quality and technique of the work of this member are always of a very high standard, and all the pictures exhibited were enlargements mounted on 16 x 20 mounts, the collection was a most striking one, and an education to members. At the conclusion of the evening, the president (Mr T. A. Dawson) announced the intention of the of the society of holding this year, in November, in conjunction with the Art Society, an intercolonial exhibition, inviting entries from pictorial workers throughout Australasia.

A further 'sum of £583 ha* been handed to the Save the Children Fund by the High Commissioner (says our London correspondent, writing on June 9). This amount from the people of New Zealand is allocated to the kitchens at Saratov, and the secretary of the fund has officially notified Sir James Allen that the number of children now being fed by the dominion is 3665. Our Wellington correspondent wires that it was suggested to the Minister of Industries and Commerce by Mr H. Atmore (Nelson) yesterday that the Government should reopen the Turakohe cement works for the benefit of the whole dominion. The cost of New Zealand cement in the Nelson district, he mentioned, was excessive, and the Waimea County Council Had asked him to bring the matter forward. The Hon. E. P. Lee replied that ho was unable to state offhand what attitude _ the Government was likely to take, but he promised to give the matter consideration. Under the new Shops and Offices Act, 1920,, females employed in restaurants are forbidden to work after 10.30 p.m. This has led to the threatened dismissal of a number 6f women working in Wellington restaurants. f In the House yesterday (wires our Wellington correspondent), Mr G. Mitchell (Wellington South) presented a on behalf of thirty-three of these women asking that the Act be amended to enable them to work until 11 p.m. It is pointed out that such large restaurants did a big business between the hours of 10 p.m. and’ 11 p.m., when th© theatres and picture houses closed, and as a result of the Act tho management had notified the petitioners that their services must be dispensed with. The petitioners point out that this would impose a hardship upon them, as many had dependents to support. An Invercargill Press Association message states that Colonel Christie and Mr Bates of tho Empire Exhibition Mission, who arrived at Inyeroargill cm Tuesday night, were motored on Wednesday last through part of the district and entertained at a luncheon by the Chamber of Commerce, after which they met representatives of the commercial community and discussed matters in connection with the exhibition. . Among the subjects brought before Colonel Christie was the suitability of the climate of Southland for the .establishment of a cotton-spipning industry in connection with plantations in Queensland and the Islands, and he was asked, on his return to England, to bring the matter before th© Cotton Board and the Lancashire spinners.

A special meeting of the High Street School Committee was held last night for the purpose of appointing a janitor for the school. Out of a large number of applications, that of Mr Walter Bentley was accepted. It is believed that the successful applicant will bo a great acquisition, particularly in the way of resuscitating the school band. Mr Bentley is an ex-Itnperia! bandsman, having had a lengthy and honourable connection, with the Imperial .Army. He served with the expeditionary forces in France, and served with Fieldmarshal Lord French at Mona as a member of the “Old Contemptdbles.” , An evidence of the extent to which unemployment exists in Dunedin was furnished to the High Street School Committee last night, when upwards of sixty applications for the position of janitor of the sohool were received.

A meeting of members of the United Starr-Bowkett Building Society was held at Hugh Mitchell and Co.’s office last evening. Mr E. A. Rosevear, chairman of directors, who presided, stated that the new No. 6 group was filling rapidly, 1673 shares having been applied for to date. A ballot was then taken for the twentysecond appropriation of £SOO in No. 5 group, which resulted in cluster No. 107 being drawn, held by one member. A sale waa then held for the twenty-third appropriation of £SOO in No. 5 group, £2OO being purchased at £34, £IOO at £36, and £2OO at £55 per hundred. A ballot for the fifth appropriation of £SOO in No. 6 group resulted in cluster No. 11l being drawn, held by one member. The chairman referred to the loss that the valuer of the society (Mr George Simpson) had sustained in the death of his son. The meeting expressed sympathy with Mr Simpson. The quarterly attendance returns for the period ended 30th June, 1922, compiled by the Otago Education Board, show that there were 257 schools in operation in the Otago district. The average number on the rolls during the quarter was 20,255, comprising 10,652 boys and 9603 girls, being 15 more than for the previous quarter and 50 more than for the Juno quarter of 1921. The average attendances for the city and suburban schools wereForbury 704, NorthEast Valley 641, Oaversbnm 626, Kaikorai 571, Mornington 562, Musselburgh 561, Normal 561, Macandrew Road 556, Albany Street 542, George Street 499, High Street 482, St. Clair 436, Arthur Street 431, Kensington 354, Maori Hill 325, Green Island 302, Anderson’s Bay 278, Moray Place 276, Ravensbourne 202, Wakari 153, Concord 109, and Leith Volley 40. The averages for the Oamaru schools were: South School 554, North School 469, Middle School 112. The averages for the District High Schools v,-ero'—Port .Chalmers 476, BalcluJia 427, Mosgiel 348, Tolcomairiro 335, Palmerston 235, Alexandra 189, Lawrence 170, Tapanui 148, and Owaka 136 a During the quarter Table Hill and Tarara Schools were reopened and household schools were established at Forest Flat and Hamilton. Owing to decreased attendance, the secondary department of the Mosgiel District High School was closed on June 30.

“Industry, Industrial Policy, and Labour in Great Britain,” was the subject of Archdeacon Woodthorpe’s lecture, which was delivered to the Anderson’s Bay Class of. the W.E.A. on Wednesday evening. He reviewed the present position of the organisations of Capital and the various combinations of Labour. He explained the true moaning of the Democratic State, which is held together by the idea of “the common good,” and also that industry in its essential purpose is to serve the community. The Archdeacon said that we need a new spirit of brotherhood which will recognise this, and that employers and employees are subordinate to the community. The lecturer dwelt at considerable length upon the “Whitley” Council scheme, by which management and workers are both represented, and have their place in the organisation of the whole of the industries, and are responsible for its development. The aswmtial principle of the council is the wcognition of service for the whole oomlawnity. This system has greatly figured fa the dominler*

At a meeting of the Ironmaster’s Association, held last evening, it was*decided to send a message of congratulation to Messrs Stevenson and Cook on their securing the contract for the repair of the steamer Rona, now in dry dock in A Kokand.

Our Wellington correspondent wires that 9 recently a Christchurch newspaper described Dr H. T. J. Thacker as an elephant on a tight rope. The Prime Minister recoiled the description in the House of Representatives last night in the midst of a tirade by Dr Thacker against the press. “The big, fat Tory supporters of the Reform Party,” the doctor said, “had bought the press of this country.” “The Prime Minister,” added Dr Thacker, “is quoting from the Christchurch Sun. lam very proud of being an elephant. It is a wise and sagacious animal, and does a lot of good work. It lives in the land of the tsetse flies on the bonks of the Zambesi. Those. tsetse flies never narcotise or - chloroform the elephant, neither will tho Christchurch Sun narcotise or chloroform me.”

A Press Association message from Wanganui says that the Wanganui branch of the New Zealand Labour Patry last night resolved to contest the Wanganui Beat at the general election against Mr W. A. Veitoh, the sitting Liberal-Labour member. Under the will of the late Mr Henry Wise £IOQ has been bequeathed to the home missions fund of the Presbyterian Church, and £SO to each of the following: Dunedin Orphanage of the Presbyterian Church, Wellington Orphanage of the same Church, and the Salvation' Army Refuge Home at Caversham.

In connection with the wireless concert at the Otago University on Wednesday evening, Dr Jack yesterday received the following telegram from Christchurch: —“Concert excellent; words of presentation heard, also clapping; atmospherics bad.” Mr A. H. O’Keeffe, the well-known Dunedin artist, has just completed a threequarter life-sized portrait of the late Dr Scott, who was professor of anatomy at the Otago University, and also secretary of the 'Otago Art Society for a lengthy period. The portrait, which was painted to the order of the New Zealand Graduates’ Association, will be hung in the Medical School. Despite the fact that Mr O’Keeffe had only a small photograph of the bead of Dr Scott to work on—a photograph token many years ago with hia daughter—and that he hod to work on his imagination to enlarge the painting to three-quarter size, he has turned out a really remarkable likeness. Several people who were intimate friends of Dr Scott have given their testimony to the faithful likeness. From the artist’s point of view the picture is a beautiful production. It is enveloped in atmosphere, and Mr O’Keeffe has obtained a splendid light effect right through. The light and shade effects, indeed, the natural poise of the head, the expression in the eyes, and the detail of the clothes, and also of the chair in which the doctor sits, mark the picture for painstaking effort and true artistic worth. There is one point in connection with the painting of tile portraits of public men who have long since passed away. There are many people in Dunedin who will go down to posterity as public-spirited citizens and whose memorywill be revered by future generations. Why wait till they are dead and gone before their features axe limned to enable those who come after sufficiently to realise what they looked like when they lived and moved and had their being?

The phraseology used in the law courts of recent times has not invariably been marked by the care that is to be expected. “Although my client is a publican,” said counsel in a case in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, "he is, I am instructed, an honourable and straightforward man.” The following accused persons will come up for trial before Mr Justice Hosking at the quarterly criminal sittings of the Supreme Court, which will commence on August &Robert Arthur Kitchen, incest; Edward ’Andrew Axelsen, indecent assault on males (four charges); John Moloney, receiving stolen property; Arthur Henry Douglas M’Dougall, theft (two charges) and forgery (two charges); James Walker, assault; Alfred Edgar Brown, assault; Maurice James Heslip, Oliver Petereon, and Albert Harris, attempt to break and enter by night with intent to commit a crime; John Hargreaves, breaking and entering (four charges), and forgery and uttering (one charge). This list will probably be added to before the commencement of the sittings. The following persons will come up for sentence:—Georg© Thomson, breaking, entering, and theft; Alexander livingstone, breaking, entering, and theft; Charles Alexander Moore, indecent assault; Martha Agnew, false statement in the registration of a birth; Maurice Johnstone, forgery and uttering (ssven charges); Edward Hedley Kitchener Hughes, theft; Charles Walter Penrose, theft; Walter Stanley Carlyle and Andrew William Stott, theft

At the meeting of the Red Cross Executive in Wellington (says a Press Association message), it was stated that when the armistice was signed there were 1400 patriotic organisations m existence i now there were only 105. Mr Davis, the representative of the War Funds Council, expressed the hope that these would all be eventually merged in the council, since by law all funds raised for the object, which no longer exists, must go to the council. Strong objection was raised by some of the delegates to anything of the sort at present. The funds in the district hands (it was said) were wanted in those districts. It was also denied that there was overlapping, but it was stated that the Red Cross was taking over the work of some societies. Chaplain Mullinenx’s term of office in connection with soldiers’ cemeteries was renewed.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Forestry League (says a Wellington Press Association message) the chairman (Sir James Wilson) emphasised the necessity of conserving the forests, and spoke of the small cost to the Government of the department, this cost being only £7OOO apart from the £53,000 on capital account. Timber land was now bringing £SO an aero by way of royalty, which showed what a valuable asset it was. Sir James Wilson was re-elected president, and Mr P. W. Furkert secretary. During the proceedings it - waa mentioned that the planting of pines killed blackberry and other noxious weeds. There were no oases requiring the attendance of a magistrate in fhe City Police Court yesterday morning.

A meeting- will be held on Saturday evening in the North-East Valley School, when pupils who attended the school during Mr Murray’s head mastership will hare an opportunity of saying good-bye to Mr Murray, who leaves for Auckland at an early date. Pull, pull, pull j that’s all the HorleyDavidson motor cycle know*. Otago agents* W. A. Justice and Co., Imperial Garage, 292 Princes' street. Dunedin. —Advt “No-rubhing” Laundry Help means bettor times for housewives and better business for us. W. Blackwood.—Advt Here is one for the boys; Gaberdine Raincoats, smartly cut and up-to-date, fit boys 7 to 12 years, clearing at 15a lid at Mollison's Sale. —Advt, Why pay more? High-grads tailored suits, from £6 10s to £9 10s. Dress suit specialists. Every coat guaranteed tailored by hand, Satisfaction guaranteed. G. S. Roberts, tailor, Stock Exchange. Late night Friday.—Advt. The nip for nippy winter weather. Watson’s No. 10. Fine old Scotch whisky.., A £■ J- Blakeley, dentist, Bank of Australasia, comer of Bend and Rattray street* (next Telegraph Office). Telephone 1851*. Advt. Save your Eye*.—Consult Peter 0. Dfask, D 8.0. A., F. 10., London, consulting and oculists’ optician.—“ Peter Dick,” jewellers fcnd opticians, Moray place, Dunedin.—Advt