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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19498, 5 June 1925, Page 8

At a meeting of the trustees of the Dunedin Savings Rank yesterday it was decided to make the following donations out of the profits; £750 to the Patients’ and Prisoners’ Aid Society and £750 to the Dental School in connection with the Otago University. The Mayor, Mayoress, and city councillors received last evening an invitation from the Dunedin branch of the South African Veterans’ Association to be pbeseut, on Sunday next (Vereeniging Peace Sunday), at the memorial service at the Boer War monument on the Oval. The invitation was accepted.

Speaking at a send-off last night at Port Chalmers tendered to Mr J. H. Gray on hi s retirement, Mr .lobn Mill paid a tribute to the worth of the District High School. A number of able men in every sphere of life, ho said, had been educated at the school. Of those he could recall on the moment such well-known names as those of the late Rev. Andrew Cameron, the Rev. Hector Maolean, Mr A. C. Hanlon, Dr Johnson (a distinguished practitioner in Richmond, 1/ondon), and Mr Mawson, the well-known missionary. In, regard to Mr Gray, lie had brought young pupils on as no other teacher had done. He |tbe speaker) had been connected with the school for 40 years and had had ample opportunity to arrive at conclusions. They had reason to bo proud of their school. The monthly meeting of the Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board held last evening was attended' by the Mayor (Mr H. L. Tapley), Cra Begg, Hancock, Shacklook, Wilson, Taverner, MncMnmrs, Larnaeh, and Mr Long-worth. The adoption of the Works’ Committee's import was mover! by the chairman of the committee, O Wilson. Gr Shacklook naked that the work going on in Cargill street should be expedited ns much as possible. There had very nearly been an accident there on Saturday. The Chairman said it was a work on which a great number of men could not be employed, but there would be no avoidable delay. The report was adopted. The report of the Finance Committee was adopted on the motion of Cr Taverner, a clause relative to salaries being discussed in committee. A tender of £755, submitted by Messrs Fletcher and Love, for the erection of the band rotunda at Tx>gan Park, was accepted at last, night’s meeting of the Exhibition directors. At the New- Zealand Rifle Brigade reunion last night Lieutenant-colonel Barrowclough said that arrangements were being made to hold a combined re-union of officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the brigade in _ February next during the period of the Now Zealand and South Seas Exhibition. A resolution to this effect was carried unanimously, and several ex-brigadesmen- promised to direct the attention of ex-soldiers in their respective districts to the function. City Council proceedings,, though open to the public,’ do not usually attract any ratepayers, Who evidently prefer to find their entertainment elsewhere, but last night two ladies were present from the opening of the meeting. The Mayor, Mr H. L. Tapley, mentioned that he had received a letter from the National Council of Women expressing the wish to have two of its me hers present at all council meetings. He presumed that those present represented the council, and he was sure the councillors welcome their presence. They were gratified to think that the ladies were taking such a keen interest in the affairs of the city 4 He hoped the ladies would be interested, and would not be bpred. Councillors usually indulged in smoking after 9 o’clock, and lie trusted they would not mind. The Indies present signified that they had no desire to interfere with this male privilege. The City Council, at its meeting last night, fixed the Mayor’s honorarium at the same figure as at present—namely, £4OO a year. The Mayor (Mr H. L. Tapley) informed a Daily Timas reporter last night that after further consideration ho had decided to postpone the public meeting called tor Monday next in connection with the death of Mr James Robertson in the Dunedin Hospital. Mr Tapley stated that the decision had been arrived at because the Otago Hospital Board hod been recently elected, and hud first, say in the matter. If, after consideration, the action of the board was n in keeping with public opinion, then he would call a meeting. A Wellington Press Association message says that a proclamation gazetted fixes April 21, 1926, a.s the dale for talcing the next census in New Zealand. The Cent nil Fire Brigade receiver! a call at 8 o’clock last night to a wooden dwelling of live rooms situated in Gladstone road, North-East Valley, owned and occupied bv Detective Roycroft. Two of the rooms and (heir contents w-ere badly damaged, and (ho other three rooms and their contents suffered badly from (he effects of smoke. The properly was insured in the State Office for £350 and the furniture and effects in the same office for £3OO. The origin of the fire is unknown. It was repotted at last night’s meeting of the Exhibition directors that the shares allotted yesterday amounted to 105, of wht 100 w-cre taken by the Iron and Steel ■ of New Zealand, and five In- Mr John A. Robinson The shares, previously allotted amounted to £80,623, and the total value of the sharers, including guarantees and donations, was £82,603. The local secretary of the New Zealand Surveyors’ Institute, Mr 11. L. Paterson, has received word from the headquarters in Wellington that an adjourned annual conference of the Institute will be held in Dunedin in November. The suggestion from Otago that a pro forma meeting t conform with the by-laws should be held in Wellington in August and that the meeting should then be adjourned to Dunedin in November has been unanimously adopted. This will give an opportunity to delegates from nil over New Zealand to visit the Exhibition. Excellent progress is being made with tin construction of the Exhibition buildings, which have been visited by considerable numbers of people during the current, week. Visitors from the country for the Winter Show have an excellent opportunity of getting first-hand information regarding the magnitude of the work in hand and th impressive nature of the Exhibition when it, is opened, ’those who desire to pay a visit to Logan Park are afforded eve: ■ facility for looking over the buildings. The question of the fruit exhibit in the Olago Court at (he Exhibition was referred to by Mr Bricigeman at the annual conference of the Otago fniitgrowers yesterday. He suggested that the fruit now on exhibition at the Winter Show- should not be pat into cold storage and used in the Court. It would be belter to approach the growers Inter and got supplies then. The Chairman (Mr E. C. Reynolds) said they wonted lo make the exhibition of fruit worthy of the growers of Otago and therefore they wanted the best fruit they could procure. They specially wanted apples, ami every -rower would later be asked to make special packs, and ihc* fruit would lie purchased ;nul nlaced in cold storage ponding the opening of the Exhibition.

A? a result of the recent conference between the Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. G. J. Anderson), and a deputation from the Canterbury Master Bakers’ Association an agreement has been reached (says a Christchurch Press Association message) by which bread will bo retailed over the counter at one shilling for the 41b loaf. Up to the present the price has been Is Osd, and this will still be charged for bread that is delivered. The position is to be reviewed in six months’ time.

When spoken to yesterday with regard to the alleged delay in the despatch of trains to Wingatui, as reported in our issue of yesterday, Mr K. J. Chambers (stationmaster at Dunedin) said that the only train for Wingatui which was not despatched sharp on time on Wednesday was the train which was timed to leave Dunedin at 10.25 and did not get away until 10.2&- —three minutes late. This delay, Mr Chambers explained, was due to the train from Clinton, which is timed to reach Dunedin at 10.25, not arriving until 10 28. This train, had to be clear of the points between the Rattray street crossing and the platform before the train to Wingatui could bo despatched. As a matter of fact the outward train was actually moving before the tram from Clinton had pulled in at the platform. The three minutee’ delay, which, as Mr Chambers explained, was unavoidable. meant that a larger number of passenger s than usual rushed the train, so that it did carry a heavy load of passengers. Regarding (he statement that investments were shut out of the totalisator as the result of the delay in the despatch of this train, passengers travelling by it could aaarcely have reached the course in time, seeling that the totalisator closed at 10.57 a.ni. Mr Chambers further added that the officials made special efforts to run theeo race trains to time, and he claims that they were eminently successful in this respect. Members of the Dunedin Waterside Workers’ Union held the usual monthly slopwork meeting yesterday morning. Tbo meeting was addressed by Mr Roberts (Wellington), secretary of the New ZetJand Waterside Workers’ Federation, and was in session longer than usual. The ships in port suffered as a result of the delay, and work on all vessels was not commenced until 10.45 a.m a loss of nearly three hours.

A Wellington Press Association message announces that his Majesty’s assent to the Shipping and Seamen’s Amendment A 1924, which is operative from June 1. has been gazetted.

The sun broke through on Wednesday morning for the first time in 10 days (writes our Cromwell correspondent). There waa a coalin-r of snow on the mountain, but nothing beyond an ordinary Juno fall, and it did not affect the sheep country. So far the winter period has been favourable for stock. Yesterday was bright and warm, and" the snow on the mountains disappeared under the influence of a bright sun. A well-known lacol motor owner climbed the range to Nevis and back on Tuesday, a feat almost unknown even in summer time.

The tramways maintenance staff is at present- engaged upon repairs to the rails at the Fountain, and as this work has of necessity to bo earned out after the tram, service has censed for the night, it is proving a source of considerable annoyance to the guests who are staying at the Grand Hotel' The work is accompanied fey considerable noise, and fey a series of brilliant flashes of light from the welding plant, and in view of the large number of visitors to the hotel for Show Week it has been represented to us that some more suitable time might have been selected for the effecting of repairs to this section of the line. The Long Tack Sam Company will give a special matinee this afternoon. Wc have received per the Perpetual Trustees Company a donation of £2O from “E. W. 5.," Crookston, for Pearsons Fresh Air Fund. A. E. J. Blakeley, dentist. Bank of Aue* Iralasia, comer of Bond and It at tray streets inert Telegraph Office). Telephone 1359. Acvt. . Save Your Eyes.— Consult Peter G. Dick* D.8.0.A., F. 1.0., London, consulting and oculists’ optician.—“ Peter Dick," jewellers and opticians, Moray place, Dunedto.— Adrt. ■