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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18748, 29 December 1922, Page 4

The Dunedin portion of the Moeraki’s United Kingdom and Australian mail came to hand yesterday afternoon, and will he delivered this morning. There are 66 bags and 29 parcel hampers from the United Kingdom, and 33 bags and nine hampers from Australia. It is expected that {ho Dunedin portion of the Maunganui’s Home and American mail will come to hand today. The vessel, which arrived at Wellington yesterday morning from San Francisco, brought 1367 bags and receptacles of mail for New Zealand. William James Quan, alias Quinn, alias Quancl, was arrested yesterday by Detectives Roycroft and Harris on a charge of stealing £l3 10s from, a property in King Edward road on Tuesday. He will appear before the court this morning, when the police will probably ask for a remand. A Christchurch Press Association message says that the Wahine left Wellington on Wednesday'evening in a gale, and until the vessel was well clear of Cook Strait the passengers had an unenviable time. Once clear of the harbour a large coil of rope wps whisked overboard, and some of the wooden coverings on the lifeboats were blown off and smashed against the masts and derricks. Fortunately the vessel had not to face the wind, and about 4 a.m. she ran out of the worst part of the storm. The St. Kilda police arrested yesterday a young man who will be charged at the City Police Court this morning with indecently exposing himself to some little girls at the St. Kilda lupins. A Gore Press Association message slates that the eighteenth annual summer dominion conference of the Presbyterian Church Bible classes is being held there. Over 1000 visitors are in the town. A civic welcome was extended the delegates last evening. The mornings and evenings are being devoted to meetings, and the afternoons to sport The conference concludes on January 6. Approximately one-third of the hewing at Black Jack’s Point has now been completed, and the remainder of the work there—including forming the straight lino to the point—will take about a year. The work is suspended during the holidays. Considerable indignation has been expressed by local exporters and others-owing to the action of the Port Chalmers Waterside Workers’ Union in deciding to stop work from 5 p.m. to-day till Wednesday next. As a result the Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner lonic, from London, via northern ports, which is due at Port Chalmers to-day, will remain idle till Wednesday, which means considerable delay, as the Kent, which went down to Port Chalmers yesterday, has all the available labour “’booked” to load wool and general cargo for Home. The Kent is to leave tomorrow morning for Wellington, Opua, and Auckland, where she will continue loading for Home. The Union Steam Ship Company’s steamer Paloona and the Federal liner Kent completed discharge and went down to Port Cnalmers yesterday morning. The former will dock for overhaul and survey, and the latter will load wool and general cargo for Home. Yesterday thp luaimoa employed six gangs, about 108 men, and the coastal steamer Breeze one gang, discharging and loading. Work will continue on the local waterfront till 5 p.m. to-day, and from 8 till noon to-morrow, when operations will cease till Wednesday morning next. The Queensland bowlers, .who are on a tour of the dominion, were welcomed on their arrival at Dunedin last night by the president of the Dunedin Centre (Mr W. Jacobsen), the vice-president (Mr W. Connor), other members and a goodly following of bowlers from the various eity clubs, The visitors will be accorded a civic welcome this forenoon at the Town Hall, and in the afternoon will play a match at St. Kilda. 'ihey will remain in Dunedin until Wednesday next, and will be suitably entertained during their visit. Matches have been fixed for the St. Kilda, Dunedin, Kaituna, and Caledonian Greens. It would appear that bee-farming is becoming ever more popular in Southland and that those who have been engaged in the industry for some time are bent upon increasing the volume of their produce. Chatting to a Daily Times reporter yesterday, a prominent producer mentioned that ho had doubled the number of his hives during the past 12 months, and that he hoped, within tile next period, to quadruple them. This, he said, was fairly typical of the development of the industry in fibuthlapd. Ho added that he- was surprised at the manner in which bee-culture had spread in Invercargill itself, whore practically all the food consisted of that grown in the household gardens, the main feed for bees in most places coming from clover. It is interesting to note that Southland holds the record for honey production per hive—a record, not broken since 1914, when Mr Robert Gibb, Menzies Ferry, took close on 20 tons. Indian resentment of the Australian policy of exclusion is growing rapidly, and a general boycott of all things Australian, and all banks and insurance companies having anything to do with this country, is spoken of. Already the Bombay Mts'hcipal Corporation—an influential body—lias agreed to the boycott (says our Sydney correspondent). It is almost in the form of threat that this' information has been disclosed by Sir Dorab Tata, a prominent Indian who is visiting Australia. Ho is the owner of the famous Jubilee diamond, said to be worth half a million, proprietor of the renowned Taj Mahal Hotel at Bombay and the newspaper Praja Mitrn, and is chairman of directors of several steel, hydro-electric, and cottonspinningl concerns. v lie says that the fear and ignominy of being turned back prevented many influential Indians from visiting Australia, and so possible avenues of reciprocal trade were kept closed. ' A little while ago the Now South Wales Children’s Department, whoso business it is to find foster parents for unwanted babies, was in the unique position of not having enough babies to go round. A small advertisement in the daily papers that State children were obtainable, brought such a rush of applications for adoption that long before they "had all been dealt with the supply of children had run out (writes our Sydney correspondent). ’Die department has not yet overtaken the demand, The situation will doubtless bo met, however, if the proposal to bring out English "war babies” and other young children is carried into eitect. The scheme is being exhaustively investigated by the Government, and, although there are a number of difficulties in the w-ay of its successful consummation, it is looked upon with high favour. During the war a scheme on somewhat similar lines was mooted in Sydney. It was proposed that a number of Belgian babies should be brought out and adopted into Australian families. The scheme was not gone on with, however, owing to the attitude of the Belgian authorities, who made it a condition that the babies should be repatriated at the end of the war. Nevertheless, the scheme aroused a great deal of interest, and hundreds of applications wore made for the adoption of the children. If fhe present project goes through it is not likely that any difficulty will be found in placing, say, a thousand orphan and neglected English/ youngsters in good homes, John Schott, who had been remanded for a week on a charge of drunkenness, appeared before Mr H. W. Biindie, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, .and was ordered to pay the cost of his treatment (365).

If the same hesitation that has been manifested in closing down the trawling industry had marked its establishment, New South Wales would be a little richer than it is to-day (writes our Sydney correspondent). But now the indecision has given place to a definite announcement that the titat© trawlers, plant, and equipment, are to be sold as soon as possible. The accumulated loss on the industry, since its establishment lour or five years ago, amounts to nearly £200,000. It hag had trial after trial to make good; indeed, the orocession of managers who have been given an opportunity to make the enterprise pay borders on the unique. The one and inevitable result bas been the continual narration of Ipsses year after year. The climax came when the Public Service Board reported after ex-, haustive inquiry that it was quite impossible for the industry to yield a profit on the amount of capital invested, and that even if the capital were written down to the present value of the productive assets the prospects of -making any substantial profit were too problematical to justify the of loss. The State timber yards are also to go. They have been an even greater drain upon the taxpayer, the accumulated loss amounting to £226,917. It has been argued that if they had been given away for nothing a few years ago the State torday would have been far better off. If the State Government is going to adhere to its policy of getting nd of all non-paying State enterprises it has still some distance to go.

A witness belonging to the Railway Department made the amazing statement in the Police Court at Auckland that the practice of destroying all old tarpaulins,' widen wag caustically criticised some time ago, was still adhered to, and that under no circumstances were railway goods sold. This very naturally prompted Mr Poynton; S.M., to observe that it was “a silly thing,” to which the witness replied that no such goods were sold when they became secondhand, so that stolen property could readily bo identified, all tarpaulins being numbered. ‘Tt is a silly thing,” repeated the Magistrate, “one of those rc-d tape businesses. It might save the department a little trouble to burn these tarpaulins, but numbers of farmers and others weald find them very useful and be glad to buy them at a reasonable price, I should think. It seems ridiculous —and wasteful—to burn such things.” A son of the brave rollicking voo Temsky, a name that is inseparably connected with the Maori War, has just died in Hawaii. Like his father, Louis von Tcmpsky was a man of the open air. A splendid, horseman, the “father of polo” Vil Hawaii, a congenial companion, Louis von Tompsky was the son of his father in a manner that does not always happen. He Was born ’in Glasgow 64 years ago. Pie came out to New Zealand with his father, and when a young man went to Hawaii and settled down at Maui, where he established a horse and cattle ranch that became famous. He was a noted, authority on cattle and horse breeding. Up to several years ago, when he met with an accident that crippled him, von Tempsky was a great open-air man, and his family followed in his footsteps, or rather ■ those of his mounts. His daughters accompanied him in his rides over his famous 1 ranch, and they, became as daring and skilful as any of the cowboys. H© leaves one sort and three daughters, and his .wife, who was a Miss Amy D. Wodehouse, died many years ago. A sister of von Tempsky’s is still living in New Zealand—Mrs Kettle, of Napier. The presence of mind of Gwen Hall,' the nine-year. old daughter of Mr E, Hall, of Masterton, saved her younger sister Myra from drowning the other morning. The two children were playing down on a flat near the river on the Te Parae station, while the father was working on a terrace £0 feet above them, and out of sight of the river. * The younger girl fell info the river, which at this particular part is about. A) feet deep, and was. soon out of reach from the bank. The father was called, but could not hear owing to the wind blowing against the voices. Realising the dangerous situation, the elder girl waded into the river, and, clinging to the rushes, stretched her leg out till her sister could grasp it, and in this manner she" was hauled to .the bank none the worse for her sudden immersion. Our Wanganui correspondent wire* that J. Devlin, one of the crew of the s.s. Waverley, has been missing for a couple of days, and considerable apprehension exists concerning his whereabouts. He is of roving disposition, and it is considered he may have taken it irtto his head to leave the boat without notice. It appears that Devlin returned from a visit to Patea with other members of the crew at 12.15 a.m., shortly before the vessel was timed to sail. He immediately changed his shore clothes for dungarees, and was seen going ashore shortly afterwards. From this time no further trace of him has been seen, and the boat left for Wellington without him. He is of slightbuild, anil sft 2in in height. There is a danger of his having fallen into the river, but it is thought that if such had occurred someone would have heard a splash. Moreover, Devlin was known to be a strong swimmer. At Seatoun on a recent evening a report was circulated along, the beach that a big shark had been seen by bathers close inshore (says the ''Dominion). One of the near-by residents secured a rifle, and, after keeping a sharp lookout along the Marine parade, was rewarded with a good broadside view of the visitor, only a few yards from the shore, and svvimming close to the surface. His first shot told, for at once there was a tremendous lashing as the shark whirled and spun round in his death flurry. In a few minutes ail was still, and the dead body of the shark was hauled up on the beach in triumph, amidst considerable excitement. On being measured the shark was found to be Bft 9in in length and 4ft in girth. As a warning to .bathers the dead body was suspended from a lamp-post outside a nearby store. Thirteen sharks up to 4ft in length were taken .by the fishermen in a haul made in Scorching Bay on Saturday evening. On the opposite side of the harbour a shark said to have t>een nearly 12ft long was hauled up on to the beach by local fishermen. At the inquest on William Jack, who committed suicide at Linwood, Christchurch, evidence was given that after he had been found hanging the body was left in that position for two hours. ’ The Coroner, at the end of the inquiry, said: “I feci it my duty to remark on the fact that the proper course for a person when he finds anyone who has hanged himself, or has been found in the water, is to satisfy himself whether life is extinct. In the 6ase of a man found hanging, the first thing to do is to cut the body down. This young man was left hanging. At least three, people saw him, but no one thought of cutting him down It may be that he hanged himself not long before the body was discovered. I suppose it is that people have a natural abhorrence of death, and do not like to touch a body. Of course, it is a shock to the relatives, but I must draw the attention of the public to the fact that in hanging cases the first thing they should do is to cut the body down.” Two archbishops who arrived in Wellington yesterday from their journcyings in the older parts of the civilised world expressed the opinion that Australia and New Zealand are not sufficiently advertised (wires our Wellington j correspondent). Archbishop Duhig, of Queensland, states that Australia and New Zealand are the poorest advertised countries in the world to-day. There was little news from either country circulated iu America, or on the Continent. Ho added that when the Maunganui, by which he was travelling, was approaching New Zealand, passengers were eager for news from the dominion and the commonwealth, but all that wafe received by radiograph were trivial items from America and blurope. There was not one word from New Zealand or Australia. “I found everywhere, and particularly iu America,” said the archbishop, “that the best advertisement for these two countries has been the Anzac troops, during the war. At a great military gathering tendered to me in Chicago by the regiment of a near relative of mine, one of the leading speakers declared that the men who had come out from the Great War with the best record were the Anzac soldiers. I was naturally very proud to hear that. American returned men, of whom I met many, always gave me a warm shako of the hand, and they never omitted to tell me how proud they were to have met our boys at the front.” Archbishop O'Shea stated that during his travels the absence of \ cable news from Australia and Now Zealand was ->’ery marked.

A monster carnival to raise funds for the improvement of Caroline Bay concluded -its first session last evening (reports a Timaru Press Association message), the takings over both days approximating £9OO. The carnival will be repeated on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, and will conclude during; the week of the dominion swimming championships at the end of January. Archbishop O’Shea, of Wellington, returned from a 10 months’ trip abroad yesterday. He attended the Eucharistic Congress at Rome, which was attended by 300 bishops from all parts of the world (wires our Wellington correspondent). .He describes the present Pope as a strong man, with a charming manner. Archbishop 'O’Shea says he found the Old World in a very troubled state. The cause of the trouble, he said, was largely the impossible and destructive conditions laid down in Versailles at the so-called Peace Conference. Even if the arrangements then agreed to were modified, it would now be too late to undo all the damage already done. The victors asked, for too much, and were now in danger of receiving, too little. They had upset the equilibrium of Europe, and injured themselves as well as their enemies. The visiting Queensland bowlers were in all likelihood cognisant of Dunedin’s widespread reputaticy for rainy weather, and in that case the very/heavy downfall which greeted their arrival at the Dunedin Railway Station last night would not be surprising to them. The party, which consists of 33 21 bowlers and 11 bowlers’ wives, and six members of some of thoar families—was met by practically all the Dunedin Centre delegates, as well as by members of several of the clubs. After cheers had been exchanged the bowlers were quickly despatched to their -respective hotels. They will be tendered a . civic reception this morning, and will play on the St. Kilda Green this afternoon. The world's butter-making record is now held by tiie Waharoa factory of the New Zealand Co-operat](ve Dairy Company (Ltd.) ’ (states the Hamilton correspondent of the New Zealand Herald). Its output on December 4 was 812 boxes of butter, totalling 20 tons 6e'wt, thus easily beating the previous best of 18 tons' mode by the Franktou factory. The factory at Waharoa is the largest individual butter factory in the world, and is capable of making 2500 tons of butter yearly under normal conditions. It is supplied with the latest equipment throughout, and on® special feature is that the latest churns instilled are lined with enamel. The churns are all driven by electricity, thus making the churn room conspicuous by the absence of the usual complex range of shafting. Another remarkable record established by one of the company’s factories is the performance-of the Franaton No. 1 factory in making in the month of November 10,558 boxes of butter, of Which every one was graded superfine by the Government grading officers in Auckjand. The average grade of this quantity of butter ' . was 94.46 points, and all butter exceeding 91 points is classed as superfine. With characteristic earnestness Lord Jellicoe outlined a touching spectacle during the course of his address at the opening or the ' Albany War Memorial Library (states the Auckland Stax). Speaking of the supreme quality of sacrifice, his Excellency Said that tue noble spirit of the New Zealanders was never better shown than on that first night on the Gallipoli Peninsula, when the crowded beaches, with their groups of jwounded men, agonised with,, the pain of ,their injuries, made hard work for the unselfish doctors, who worked the night through in order to ameliorate the sufferings of the incapaci-. tated, Dat there were many wounded and few to ''attend to them. Only the most severely wounded could be given attention, and many a brave fellow, although realising that it might cost him his life, realised too that if ho chimed attention others more in need might suffer worse. When asked if they were seriously injured, many of the men said 1 Oh, no!” smiling bravely despite the pain that they endured. “And history records,” added his Excellency, “that many of those who said ‘Oh, no I’ died during the night. If this same spirit were carried into every-day life the British Empire would be led on from one glory to another.” At 'an extraordinary general meeting of the Morrinsville Racing Glub last week the question was discussed of whether or not the club should carry on. There was a £4OOO mortgage on the property, and a debit balance on the, year’s working of ‘£ll7. Members’ generally supported going - into liquidation. The chairman said that two courses were open, either to go into liquidation or to hand over the property to the guarantors on their paying the liabilities. It was deoided that the club should go into voluntary liquidation; that the property should be allowed to pass into the hands of the mortgagee ; and that a subcommittee should set up to approach the bank and see what terms could be arranged on the part of the guarantors. A subcommittee was appointed as liquidators, and it was decided to hold a further meeting early in the New Year to receive the report of the liquidators. The racecourse property was bought some three years ago, when land values were inflated, the owner receiving -£BOOO in cash. Some 30 members guarantees the sum of £4OOO at the bank, the remaining £4OOO being raised by mortgage. Owing to the fall in the price of land, it is estimated that the guarantors will have to find £4OOO. Who should have charge of a hospital staff—the seoretafy of the board or the medical superintendent? This is a problem many hospital boards have faced. The Gis- . borne 'board has attempted to secure a solution satisfactory to both sides, as the following paragraph indicates; —The members of the Hospital Board had a “day out” at their monthly meeting. There was little for them to do, but, working upon the well-known old proverb, “Nothing to do and all day to do it,” they managed to make the meeting, which commenced at 2 p.m., last until 6.15. One of the matters which gave them most concern was the problem which has troubled them for some time past, as to who is in charge of the hospital—the medical superintendent, the secretary, or both? This matter came up in the form of draft, by-laws submitted by the Health Department, and after much juggling with words and phrases, some errata and addenda, the draft was revised to the board’s satisfaction, and is to be returned to the department for approval. In the form which the board decided upon, the secretary is to control a certain section of the staff, and the medical superintendent another section, though the department advised that the sole control of the institution should be in the hands of the medical superintendent.

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