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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18857, 9 May 1923, Page 6

Mr H. C. Jones, of the St. Clair School, has tech appointed advocate for the Otago teachers who wish to appeal -against their position on the grading list. Mr Jones will meet any teachers who are interested in the matter at the Y.M.C.A. Rooms between 3.30 and 5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. Appeals should be forwarded so as to reach the authorities in Wellington by the 18th inst.

At the Auckland City Police Court, Edgar Calvert, a prisoner at Mount Eden Gaol, was sentenced to 12 days’ solitary Confinement with bread and water, for making false complaints against a responsible officer of the institution (says a Press. Association wire). Calvert became notorious as a bogus collector for the Jubilee Institute for the Blind.

In'connection with the appeal now being made to place the Otago A. and P. Society on a sound financial basis, Mr E. C. Hazlett received by yesterday morning’s mail a letter from Mr Alexander K. Mackenzie, solicitor, Wellington, enclosing a cheque for £25 as a contribution from Messrs S. Mackenzie and 00., Kyeburn Station, towards the appeal. Such a voluntary donation is much appreciated by the committee, and encourages them in their efforts to raise the total amount—namely, £IO,OOO, which was decided on at the general meeting.

Sir Alfred Pickford, Overseas Commissioner for the Boy Scouts’ movement, accompanied by Mr L. M. Isitt, M.P-, will arrive in Dunedin on the evening of June 13. Ho will address a meeting of boy scouts and others interested in the movement on June 14, and he and Mr Isitt will address a public meeting on June 15. At a meeting of the local association last night it was decided to ask the Mayor to accord Sir Alfred Pickford a civic reception, and a sub.-committee was set up to make the necessary reception in connection with the visit.

A Press Association message from Hawera says that the Waitangi, which is ashore at Patea, rests well up on a sandy bottom. She has two holes well above the waterline. Hopes are entertained that tho vessel will be refloated next spring tides, in about 10 days’ time.- Her cargo is one of chaff, not coal, as previously telegraphed. It is undamaged, and is being salved. The report that a sailor was injured is without foundation.

The epidemic of plague in India has led the Health Department to notify local bodies that measures for, tho extermination of rats | must not .be relaxed. The local health authorities are taking every precaution, especially in regard to ships arriving from India. A Press Association message from Greymouth says that in contrast to the experiences in almost every other part of the dominion during the , last few weeks, the weather on the Coast has been abnormally sunny. The rainfall for the last six weeks is only Sin. Apart from a little wind, ideal weather has prevailed during tho last few days. The rainfall registered at Station Peak for the month of April was 229 points. Rain fell on five days, the highest being 182 points, on tho 22nd. In 1922, for April, 49 points were recorded, making 726 points for the four months of that year, against 816 for the same period this year, A Dunedin resident who has just returned from the Stmth-Taieri district informs us that the farmers round about Middlemarch have had an unfortunate experience this season. The harvest was one of the best experienced for many years, and operations up to stacking were completed under fairly favourable conditions. The recent rains, however, disclosed weaknesses in many stacks, into which the water penetrated, with the result that the sheaves have had to be opened out again in order to give tho grain a chance to dry. In the course of his presidential address to the Otago Institute last night on the subject of nutrition. Dr Malcolm had occasion to describe an interesting experiment on the growth of wool carried out in Germany during the war time. It was now known that cystin, which is one of the amino acids-found in protein, is an imports ant constituent of hair and wool. During tho war it was found that the wool of German sheep was becoming impoverished, and a - Berlin professor known to Dr Malcolm conceived the idea that if cystin could be added to the diet of those sheep their wool would improve. Cystin is abundantly. present in hair and hoofs and hides,, and the professor devised an experiment by which it could be separated from this refuse. A group of sheep were then taken under observation and half of them supplied with cystin in their diet. A marked superiority was found in the growth of their wool. Dr Malcolm said he hardly thought it would bo worth while to try the experiment in New Zealand and start boiling up old hoofs and hides, because for one thing it might not be necessary. The meeting of the Port Chalmers School Committee on Monday evening was attended by Rev. W. M. Grant (chairman), R. B. Jack, A. R. Sutherland, A. D. Asher, W. Thompson, J. Osborn, W. J. Johnston, and Dr Edgar. It was decided to provide hot tea this winter for children who required it at lunoh-tiine. The rector reported the average roll in the primary department to be 451 and the average attendance 423; secondary department—average roll 25. average attendance 22; The attendance shield was won once each by Standard VI with 98 per cent., Standard I with 99 per cent., Standard II wi,th 92 per cent., and for the last week Standard I and Standard II tied with 99 per cent. The attendance was very bad during the flood week—3B3 against. 438 the previous week. A pupil of the secondary department passed the Public Service entrance examination ' and got a position in tho Department of Internal Affairs in Wellington. Tho Visiting Committee reported that a number of matters required attention, and the committee decided to have these attended to.) Mr W. Thompson and Mr D. A. Asher were appointed a visiting committee for, the month. The county elections to-day includes the election of two members for the Blneskin Riding of the Waifcouaiti County. Mr P Briscoe, of Waitati, and Mr C. M'Laehlan, of Purakanui, are standing for re-olec-tion. The i riding returns two members. Mr Peter Wilson, a well-known resident of Evansdale, aspires to a seat at the council table, but, in order to serve the community in that capacity, will have to defeat Mr Briscoe or Mr M'Lachlan, both of whom have been councillors for several years past. Mr Walter B. Morgan, of Port Chalmers, and Mr Henry S. Shoat, of Bushey, are candidates to represent tho counties of Waihemo and Wriikouaiti, also the boroughs of Palmerston, Port Chalmers, and Waikouaiti, on the Hospital Board. In connection with this election, polling will take place in the Town Hall, Port Chalmers, to-day. A family parting in unusual and upsetting circumstances occurred on the departure of the Marama for Sydney (says the New Zealand Herald), when a steerage passenger who had booked passages for himself, his wife and five children, was forced to make the voyage by himself. He had been engaged all the morning conveying his'household effects, including a piano, to tho wharf and on to the vessel, and the other members of his family were to have come into the city by train and join him on the vessel. Sailing time drew nigh, however, but no family appeared. As the minutes flow by tho “man worked himself almost into a. fever seeking by telephone for news of the truant ones. The intervals between the telephonic communications , were occupied, greatly to the amusement of the onlookeri. whose sympathies for him were not proof against the humour of the situation, in running to and from the entrance gates, in the fast-diminishing hope that the eleventh hour would end his troubles. No sign or word of the truant ones, however, was forthcoming, and as tho final departure bell_ rang he made hurried arrangements with his friends for their care and comfort. With a last frantic look along the wharf, the bewildered husband jumped on to the vessel’s deck as the gangway was being let go. The mooring lines were cost off, and a few minutes later the Marama was steaming for Sydney minus six.intending passengers.

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