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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19504, 12 June 1925, Page 6

It was agreed at last night’s meeting of Exhibition directors that the final day on which the public will be admitted to Logan Park will be June 22, after which the gates will ho closed. Mr Hainsworth stated that a certain amount of pilfering on the grounds had been reported. Workmen had missed tools, etc., and some of the treec» had boon damaged. Another sharp frost was experienced yesterday morning, and the weather remained lino throughout the day. In the early evening there were indications of a change, and shortly after 6 o'clock light rain oommened to fall, and continued for a couple of hours. The night was bitterly cold. The Port Chalmers Old Identities’ Assosiation hold its quarterly meeting in the Town Hall last night, and despite the wot evening it proved to be a pleasant gathering. The president (Mr James Pickard) was >n the chair, and welcomed (he visitors. He expressed indebtedness of the singers and musicians who so kindly assisted to make (he gatherings attractive. At a later stage of the meeting a .special vote of thanks to Mrs Nicolson was passed for her services as honorary pianist to the association. The Exhibition authorities have been advised tliat berths have now been definitely reserved for the members of the Band of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the Rotorua* which will leave Southampton on or about September 24, arriving in Now Zealand at the beginning of November—about a week prior to the opening date of the Exhibition. The vessel is scheduled to arrive at Wellington as first port of call and thereafter to come on to Port Chalmers. “I quote these figures just to let you see that wo have not boon standing still,” said Dr Realms (Director of Agriculture) at yesterday’s conference of fruitgrowers in Wellington (says a Press Association telegram). In 1915 the biological laboratory consisted of four officers, and the expenditure was £9OO per annum. In 1925 it had 20 officers and the expenditure was £5146 por annum.” The Port Chalmers Borough Council has been actively engaged for some time past in endeavouring to arrive at the best means of increasing the trough's water supply, and in connection therewith the Mayor and councillors have decided to inspect the water reserves on Saturday. In the meantime a defect hag developed in the valves whirl control the inlet to the water main leading from the reservoir. In order to permit of repairs being effected it will bo necessary to turn off tho borough water supply at 1 p.m. on Saturday. A good many hours may elapse before the water can bo turned on again, and householders are being notified (o make provision accordingly. Dir Hubert Carter, tho Palmerston North tenor who has appeared in Wellington with the Royal Choral Union, has been me-- 1 successful at Home, and is how reported to he firmly established ns one of England's leading concert and oratorio tenors. His engagement® during the season just ended have taken him all over tho Kingdom and quite recently he toured Scotland in the same concert company as Miss Gertrud Johnson, tho Australian soprano. Mr Carter has been engaged by the British Broadcasting Company for a year—a much coveted engagement in the profession—his voice having been found to possess s]v?cibroadcasting virtues. During the month ho is to sing at tho Municipal concerts at Harrowgate and Scarborough, and in December is to sing tho solo work in “The Messiah” at Bradford. A counter-blow at the United States was advocated by the Fruitgrowers’ Federation (says a Wellington Press Association telegram) when its annual conference unanimously adopted a motion urging tho 'Government to put a total embargo on American fruit importations. This has arisen out of tho United States’s action in barring tho importation of fruit from all countries infested by Mediterranean fruit fly and classing New Zealand among them. The dominion has never suffered from tho fruit fly pest, but a protest through tho Foreign Office was ignored, and the American authorities apparently refused to accept tho positive assurance of the Now Zealand Government on the point. It is now 18 months since legislation was passed, and growers have become impatient. At the moment importations from California are banned because of the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, but now it is advocated that tho ban should bo made permanent, even though (his may mean risking tho newly-opened market for New Zealand apples in Hawaii. A fire which means a big loss to a Lawrence farmer occurred at Mr Frederick Hogg's farm at 11 o’clock on Wednesday night, four stacks of oats being completely destroyed. They were insured for £l3O, and the owner estimates big loss at £l5O over that amount. The origin of the lire is a complete mystery, there having been no fires of any description within a wide radius from where (he outbreak occurred. There was a clean sheet at the City Police Court yesterday morning.

The City Fire Brigade responded to a call at 8.45 p.rn. yesterday to a hous., ( in Georye street, where a chimney had caught lire. No damage was done. A deputation from the Dunedin Presbytery waited on the Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergusson yesterday morning. The Moderator (the Rev. J. M. Simpson) addressed their Excellencies, and welcomed them in the name O* the Presbytery. The members present were the Moderator, Professor Dickie, Dr Merrington, the Rev. G. H. Jupp, the Rev. John Kilpatrick, and Messrs VV. Allen and W. H. Adams.

At Knox Church School hall on Thursday next an illustrated lecture will be given by Miss Ford. We have been asked to correct on ® r * roneous impression that has been created by the publication, in a letter by “factory Director,” in our issue of May 21, of the statement that Mr W. Robertson, a candidate for election to the Dairy Control Board, has been for 10 years, a director of a dairy company and “that he has stood security at the bank to tho tune of £IOUU to enable the South Island Dairy Association to finance its business. “Factory Director” has requested us to say that the statement should have been that the company, of which Mr Robertson is a director, has stood security at the bank for £IOOO. Upon referring to the manuscript of the letter, we find that it was by an erroneous construction of it that the statement appeared in the form in which it was published, and that it is now clear to us that the correspondent intended to say that Mr Robertson was a director of “a company that had stood security, etc.” At Knox School Hall on Thursday evening next an illustrated lecture will he given by Miss M. Ford in aid of the Sunday school building fund. As Miss Ford was a delegate to the World’s Conference of Sunday school workers in Glasgow she should have something to say of interest to teachers. . The “Square Deal” euchre tournament will lie held as usual in the South Dunedin Town Hall on Friday and Saturday nights, when another list of valuable prizes will be provided. A. B. J Blakeley, dentist. Bank of Australasia, earner of Bond and Rattray itreeti jnert Telegraph Otbce). Telephone Abvt. Save Your Eyes.—Consult Peter G. Dick, D.8.0.A. F. 1.0., London, consulting ami oculists’ optician.—‘‘Peter Dick,” jeweller* and opticians, Moray place, Uunedu*.— Advt.