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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19528, 10 July 1925, Page 8

A motor car is not exactly the sort of possession that one could easily mislay and forget about, and yet it most be admitted that there are in existence cars which their owners might be pardoned for forgetting. It was a car of this class that the police found resting uncared for at one of the parking places in Cumberland street on Wednesday evening. With the aid of sundry strands of wire attached to projecting points they removed it to a safer resting place in the police yard, where it now stands bearing an unmistakable resemblance to its general appearance to the battered and dilapidated looking roysterers who sometimes occupy the adjoining cells. In the interests of truth, —and perhaps also it may strike a faint chord in the owner’s memory—it may be mentioned that the car is of a make known as the Ford. An important furnishing at present missing from it is the number plate.

In Chambers at Wellington on July 7 his Honor Mr Justice Sim granted probate in the estates of the following deceased persons: —William Alexander Notre an (Mr J. W. Thomson), Elizabeth Oroot (Mr Tonkinson), Alice Main (Mr Webb;, Andrew Cameron (Mr Haggitt), James West (Weston, Mr Main), Mary Marshall C. Stephens), Mary Ann Strain (Mr W. L. Moore), Louisa Bastin Logan (Kelso, Mr Haggitt), Henry Drake (Omakau, Mr W. A. Harlow), Samuel Clarke (Level's Flat, Mr R. M. Rutherford), Thomas Simpson (Papakaio, Mr Grave), Hugh Williams M“Coll (Mr Anderson), David Miller Marshall (Milton, Mr G. H. Thomson), Elizabeth Ann Campbell (Mr Brown). An interesting step forward in the progress of preparations for the Exhibition was the handing over yesterday of the Grand Court from the directors to the Horticultural Committee. The committee will now be free to go forward with all the preparations that the advance of the season will soon rapidly demand in order to make a brilliant floral display for the opening day. At the City Police Court yesterday morn, ing, before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., Albert Edward Arthur Hamilton was charged with (he theft of a bicycle, valued at £7, the property of some person unknown. Sub-inspector O’Halloran said that the accused had been committed to Woraroa training farm on a previous offence, and had since absconded from service at Hawke’s Bay. The Sub-inspector asked for a remand to enable accused’s papers to i.-e secured from the north. The Magistrate remanded the case till Wednesday next.

At tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, before Mr J. If. Bartholomew, S.M., judgment was given by default in the following eases: —A. and T. Burt, Ltd. v. Frederick William Robinson (Kapuka), claim £lB 8s 8d for plumbing and interest on account overdue, with costs (£5 6s); Dawson’s, Ltd. v. Francis James O'Grady, claim £3 10s for goods supplied, with costs (£1 4s 6d). A call was received by the City Fire Brigade at 6.40 p.m. yesterday to the comer of Valley road and Chambers street, where a motor van owned by Mr A. Watt had caught fire through tho engine back-firing. Tho van was slightly damaged. The vexed question of fires in country districts caused by railway engines waa again discussed at the meeting of the Otago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union yesterday. Some of tho members wore strongly of opinion that a number of fires were caused by the engines and that a liability attached to this Railway Department in (ho matter One of those present asserted that it was not safe for those who resided adjacent to railway lines to leave their properties in the summer time, and said he felt so strongly on the matter that he was prepared to contribute towards tho cost of getting a legal decision on the matter. The council eventually decided that the secretary bo instructed to write to bnuich secretaries asking for definite instances of fires that were cine to railway engines. Tho Government has entered into a contract for throe years with the Mackay Company of London for tho supply of metalmade artificial limbs for returned solders, and this company has token over the Weiling+on factory at valuation. In explanation of this to tho Auckland Industrial Association, (says tho Auckland Star), the secretary of tho Industries and Commerce Department stated that the department was unaware that all-metal limbs were both made mid repaired by any company in tho dominion, but that tho department was willing no have repairs required in the Auckland district put into tho hands of a local company •which specialises in sqU; work

The proposed now railway tariff was tha subject of much concern at the last meeting of the Teviot Fruitgrowers’ Associntier, at Roxburgh. While the rate on tbe carriage of fruit had not been altered, drastic alterations have been made in the freight on casing timber and returned empties. These, in the past, have been carried for the first 100 miles free and in view of the reorganisation of the railway tariff freights this was a concession which growers fully expected would be withdrawn. To this they could not reasonably object, but to the now system of charging there are serious objections which have been submitted to the Minister. It was pointed out that fruit cases in stooks, if charged on the actual weight when consigned from the mills, would be charged on double them seasoned weight, as they are then in a green condition. This would not be a just charge, and the suggestion was made that the rate should be on the dry weiai the cases when the grower is ready to use them. This is s!b on small oases and 101 bon largo cases. Another objection raised was that if the weather is wet when trucks are being railed the effect will be to increase the weight, which the grower would also have to pay for. The cooperation of other associations has boon solicited in protesting against the proposed rate, and Otago can be expected to press strrn"’ - for a reconsideration of them by the Railway Commission.

At the meeting of the Otago Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union yesterday Mr E. H. Mnmey read a newspaper clipping which stated that Mr G. V. Pearce had brought from the Old Country five English wood pigeons, which had been presented to him from the King’s parks in London Mr Murney stated that information in his possession showed that amongst grain crops those birds would t>e quite as destructive as a mob of fowls would be, and possibly more eo. He thought they would become a post in a short space of time, and that the Government should be asked to take steps to have them destroyed immediately. A motion embodying the suggestion pat forward by Mr Mnroey was carried unanimously.

, The second of a series of lectures to young men on “A Man’s Religion” was delivered last night at the Y.M.C.A. by Rev. L*. J. B. Smith. After speaking of the manliness of religion, the speaker illustrated his subject from the life of Charles Kingsley He spoke of him as preacher, scientist, writer, and teacher, and showed that the spirit of adventure permeating “Westward Ho” and “Hereward the Wake” ran through hie religious experiences and addresses. The ohair was taken by Mr N. Mollison, and the lecture was highly appreciated. Mr J. Eitohener (Waitaki) yesterday afternoon (reports out Parliamontiary correspondent) asked the Minister of Railways a question regarding the motorist who was recently nearly caught by an express train while he was crossing the Waitaki bridge. He was allowed on the bridge and only escaped from the train by increasing his speed. Mr Bitoboner also drew attention to the fact that recently a man had been prosecuted for exceeding the regulation speed of six miles an hour on the same bridge. This regulation, he thought, was a ridiculous one. Mr Coates replied that the information that reached him regarding the incident was different from the statements in the newspapers. The two statements did not coincide at all. It was stated that the signal was against traffic on the bridge. However, the department was mating an investigation and he would let the bon. member know the result of it. Reference to the Impounding Act was made by Mr J. Christie at the meeting of the Otago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Uqion yesterday. Mr Christie stated that they frequently saw advertisements in the papers to the effect that stock had strayed on to certain properties and that unless the animals were claimed within a certain time they would bo sold. He understood that such a course was illegal and that anyone who sold stock under those conditions would be liable to prosecution on a charge of stealing them. He also believed that it was allegal to turn the animas out on to the road, and that the only course that could be taken was ‘to impound them and let the authorities dispose of them. He moved that a copy of the Impounding Act be procured so that they might know exactly what their position was. The motion was agreed to.

In connection with the prolonged spell of wet weather at Wellington this winter, a Press Association telegram reports that it is recalled that excessive rain was experienced in 1874. From June to September inclusive the amonnt was 55.75 in, and for six months from May to October inclusive the total was 38.94 in. The worst winter this century was in 1904, when for the same period the total fall was 57.49 in, ending up with a record fall for Wellington of 12.94 in in October. The average for May and June this year is much higher than either of the previous years mention ou. The Lawrence branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union has forwarded a communication to the Otago Provincial Council suggesting that the Government Iks urged to establish in connection with the State Advances Department or the Public Trust Office a legal department to undertake all manner of work relating to the sale and purchase of land. The Provincial Council decided at its meeting yesterday to refer the matter back to the Lawrence branch for additional particulars.

Mr Bitchenor thinks we are not going on right lines in dealing with the rabbit pest (says our Wellington correspondent). Speaking in the House last night he said there were evidences that the rabbit post was getting the upper hand in his district. It was, of course, of far greater advantage to export wool than fur. Until, however, something was done to make summer skins of the same value as winter skins the pest would not be eradicated. There was a vast difference in the two classes of skins and they wore told that it would not pay to kill the rabbits in the summer.

Regarding the establishment of a Cathedral Chapter as decided upon by the Wellington Diocesan Synod, it has been decided (reports a Press Association wire) that it will consist of a bishop, and 16 archdeacons daring their tenure of office, and four lay members. The Poverty Bay Herald reports that one serious effect of the continued wet spell on the farming community has been the kisses caused in the hogget flocks, owing to hmgworm For some time now the disease haa been very bad, especially on low-lying lands, and many farmers have been drenching all their hoggets for months past. Heavy losses have been sustained by some of the farmers, and post-mortem examinations have shown the lungs to be absolutely riddled with worms. Farmers on the higher country have not, apparently, suffered to the same extent as those on the lower areas, but even there, on places where the disease has in the past been practically am known, there have been losses of hoggets through lung worm.

“People should be economically interested in the sea, because it is rich in life,” stated Mr A. E. Hefford, an English fisheries expert, in Christchurch. "It is an amazingly rich field in regard to organisms and to species. You have everything in the sea, from the smallest microeoopical primitive creatures to the largest known mammals, living or extinct. Solutions of some of tho most serious problems are referable to tho sea.. For instance, I heard a suggestion a short time ago thne goitre was caused by lack of iodine; that in remote ages, our ancestors were marine, or were related to marine organisms, and that we still need a measure of iodine which the sea supplies. Tho suggestion, as I hoard it, is that lack of marine foods causes lack of iodine, and lack of iodine causes goitre, and that tho use of more marine foods, probably would prevent goitre.”