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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 12

The necessity for sunray arc lamps at the Dunedin Hospital and the Children’ Convalescent Home at Kew, has been recognised by the honorary medical staff of the Dunedin Hospital. It will be remembered that at the last meeting of the Hospital Board a letter was received from the trustees of the Dunedin Savings dank, stating that it had been requested to make a grant of £2OO for the purpose of providing violet ray lamps on the verandah of the home. A communication from the Hon. Mark Cohen was also received at the same meeting, intimating that £62 10s stood to the credit of the fund for this purpose. The bank has been notified oi tho honorary staff’s decision. Rain has fallen practically every day during the past week (reports our correspondent at Middlemarch), and the ground is in a very sodden condition. Heat is urgently needed to put some substance into the grass and to bring away the -mall acreage of turnips that has been sown. Cereal crops are looking well, but if the present conditions continue most of 'them will become very rank.

At a meeting of the general section of the General Committee of the City Council, held yesterday afternoon, it was decided to instruct the town clerk {Mr Lewin) and the city engineer (Mr Alexander) to make the appointment of' a male attendant and a female attendant at the City Baths. At the meeting of the City Council of Wednesday night, the genera’ section submitted two names for each of the situations, and asked the council to make the final selection. The council, however, referred the matter back to the committee to make the appointment itself or take whatever steps it thought advisable to appoint the attendants. It is understood that the decision of the general season yesterday afternoon was arrived at by one vote.

Thirty-one cases of relief were dealt with during the month 1 the Benevolent Committee of the Hospital Board at a weexly cost of £l7 13s. The committee has also approved of casual cases for relief amounting to £235 7s 4d. Two applications lor relief were declined.

The Mid;Canterbury executive of the Farmers’ Union has appointed (says an Ashburton Press Association telegram) a deputation to wait on the Hon. W. Downie Stewart urging that a further embargo bo placed on wheat and flour imports. The union also protested against the local woolbrokers charge of Is a bale for ’nterlotting.

It was a case of the catcher being caught (reports our special correspondent in Christchurch). when Richard George Thomson, a city traffic inspector, was fined £l, and costs, by Mr J, G. L. Hewlett, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday for crossing the railway line at Wilson’s road when a train was approaching and the signals were against him. A suggestion that the crossing keeper and the signalman had laid the charge out of private malice was indignantly denied by both men.

The next Dunedin sitting of the War Pensions Appeal Board will be held early in December.

Further progress reports in connection with the towing of the old steamer Monowai from Port Chalmers to Gisborne roadstead were received in Dunedin yesterday morning. The captain of the Union Company’s freighter Kurow, which arrived at 8 a.m. from Auckland and East Coast ports, reported that the Katoa, with the Monowai in tow, was passed abreast of Akaroa at 5 p.m. on Thursday. The sea was smooth, and a light northerly wind prevailed. Iha Katoa was making splendid headway, steaming at the rate of over five knots. In the first 14 hours of the tow the Katoa covered about 85 miles, and another miles in the following 12 hours.

His Honor Mr Justice Sim, sitting in Chambers in the Supreme Court yesterday, granted probate in connection with the following deceased estates: —Henry William Partridge, Clyde (Mr W. A. Harlow); Rachel Mary Kellett, Dunedin (Mr W R. Brugh); John Colling, Cambrian (Mr J. I. Fraser); Albert Charles Todd, North-East Valley (Mr E. Aslin); and William Patrick Ormond, Dunedin (Mr J. B. Nichol). _ His Honor also granted letters of administration in connection with the deceased estate of William Porter, Port Chalmers (Mr D. J. Simpson). Double probate was granted in the estate of John Sidey on the application of Mr T. K. Sidey.

London, according to recent cablegrams,, has been making something of a song of the fact that magistrates with a practical experience of motoring have been appointed to preside over special courts dealing with traffic cases (remarks our Sydney correspondent). London wants to wake up. For a number of weeks now the pecial court in Sydney to deal with breaches of the Motor Traffic Act has been presided over by a specially-appointed man who combines with a knowledge of the law a practical experience of motoring. The appointment, which was made on the 'presentations of the Automobile Club and kindred bodies, has been an unqualified success. The motoring magistrate attends court every day to dispose of the cases.

As a result of proceedings in the Conciliation Council to consider the motor transport passenger service employees’ Dominion dispute the official report states (reports our special correspondent in Wellington) : A working agreement has been arranged in connection with all the disputed points, including wages and hours of work as far as service car employees are concerned. The working hours are to be 96 per fortnight, and the wages £5 per week. The remaining sections relating to taxi exployees, and those workers employed in suburban cars will be heard in Auckland on Monday.

Employment was found yesterday for six of the unemployed, which, with two additional registrations, brings the total number to 193.

Those who visited the Dominion Observatory’s exhibit at the recent Exhibition in Dunedin will recollect that photographs and slides were displayed on an ingeniou.uy arranged stand (states the Evening Post). This idea has been adopted in a new arrangement at the Dominion Observatory, Kelburn, where a four-sided frame, with yarious-sized apertures, contains 112 transparencies In the centre is hung an. electric globe, and the effect when the_ light is turned on is enchanting. Magnificent views of the sun, planets, nebulae, and other subjects of astronomical interest are thus displayed to the Greatest advantage, and as the slides in the frame will be changed periodically the public who patronise the observatory on Saturday nights will be continually having something fresh to look at, even if the hea T ens are too cloudy, as they frequently are, for any observation work through the telescope.

A suggestion has been made that Australia might be given an opportunity of staging the Olympic Games at some future date, but in view of the stupendous nature of such an undertaking it is hardly likely that any proposal in that direction would meet with the approval of the majority of the countries interested in the Olympic Games (states the Evening Post). At the same time there is no reason why Australia and New Zealand should not follow the examples of the Far Eastern and African countries in arranging, say, a South Seas Olypmic Games. Better still, perhaps, would he a proposal that the British Empire games be held biennially, so as not to conflict with the Olympic Gaines. A local official has this idea in mind, and when the time is ripe he may present full details of his scheme to the proper authorities. If a proposal ’n this direction is adopted it will mean that New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and Canada will in turn be able to stage a gathering second onlv to the world’s greatest meeting. Meanwhile Now Zealand and Australia are concentrating on the next Olympic Games, at which both countries hope to be well represented.

“The fifth wheel of a coach” used to be a common expression for something not only superfluous but an encumberance, out in these days actual fifth wheels are lot only popular but are cherished (states the Evening Post). The Upper Hutt Borough Council, at its meeting the other light, received a letter from the Welliugton Hospital Board asking what had happened to the spare wheel attached to the Upper Hutt •ambulance. Mr A. L. Harper reported that itwas missed on a return trip from Wellington, and had not been found, in spite of personal inquiries and advertisements. He concluded that it must have dropped off in the gorge and fallen into the river. The matter had been reported to the hospital engineer when the ambulance made its next trip to Wellington.

The much-discussed question whether motorists should dim their headlights when approaching other motorists at night on -‘lllit roads was referred to at a meeting of the executive of the North Island Motor Union on Monday evening (states the Evening Post). The chairman (Mr I. V. Wilson) referred to a recent court case in Auckland, where Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S-M., condemned the dimming of headlights. Mr Wilson reaffirmed his opinion that it was dangerous to dim lights. His views were supported by others, including Mr A L. Warburton, who said that one night ho met some unattended cows on the r utt road, and he considered that if ho rad dimmed his lights he would have crashed into the animals. The system of dimming on the Hutt road he described as “suicidal.” Mr Stott said that two "ears ago the union took up the stand that dimming was dangerous. The chairman said they should reaffirm their previous stand. He made it clear that he was not referring to dimming in well-lit city streets, but dimming on roads that were not veil lighted.

The heavy westerly wind which has prevailed during the past few days resulted in hundreds of tons of wood being washed up on Castlecliff beach. From the kiosk to the river entrance (reports our Wanganui correspondent) there are acres of wood, and no doubt in the next few days the axe and the saw will be busily plied in red icing the larger logs to manageable dimensions. There is sufficient wood lying on the beach at the present time to meet household needs for many a day. It should be a boon to the unemployed. Two false alarms were received by the City Fire Brigade last evening—one at 8.59 from the corner of Esplin street and Kenmure road, Mornington, and the other it 9.50 from the box at the corner of Black's and Opoho roads, North-East Valley. Reminiscent to a marked degree of days gone by is the presence of the big four-masted Finnish barque Oiivebank, at Port Chalmers. The towering masts and branching yards, with their maze of braces, bantlines, and other cordage are a source of wonder to the children, of curiosity to youths, and of satisfaction to the sedate longshoremen who recall romances of the restless sea. The phosphate cargo is being discharged into railway trucks by the ship’s gear, and the crew is taking an active part in carrying out this work. Harold Oliver Haggatt obtained judgment by default against George Watt, at the Port Chalmers Court yesterday for a debt of £3 3s, with costs (23s 6d), for professional services rendered. Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., was on the bench. Added interest will be given to the services at the Salvation Army Fortress to-morrow by reason oi those taking part. The holiness convention at 11 a.m. will be addressed by Treasurer Hughson, a local resident. The evening will be conducted by Lieutenant Cliff Vince, a one-time bandsman ox tne city corps. Special features will be a selection by the Silver Band, a solo by Corps Cadet Jane, a?}d a community sing led by Lieutenant V mce. In St. -Stephen’s Church the Rev. J. M. Simpson will preach at both services tomorrow. His evening topic will be “If not to Christ, then to * whom l" Miss Stokes will be tho soloist. The second of a series of lectures on the Second Advent of Christ entitled “Israel, Past and Present.’’ will bo given by Mr R. S. Cree Brown in York Place Hall tomorrow evening. The morning "preacher in Knox Church tomorrow will be the Hon. L. M. Isitt, and in the evening the Rev. Tulloch Yuiile will conduct a Scottish service and speak of Alexander Peden, tho Prophet of the Covenant, the tercentenary of whoso birth is being observed this year. The Square Deal Euchre Assembly will hold its weekly tournament in the South Dunedin Town Hall to-night. Attention is drawn in our advertising columns to a meeting of shareholders of the Dunedin Starr-Bowkett Building Society to be held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Stuart street, on Wednesday, December 1, when £2500 will be disposed of by ballots and sales. In the No. 5 Group £i. .J will 6e disposed of by sale and ballot, No. 4 Group £SOO by ballot, No. 5 Group £SOO by sale, and No. 6 Group £SOO by sale. Applications for shares in the No. 6 Group are being received. The Rev. W. Wills will conduct the morning service at Trinity Methodist Church, Stuart street, to-morrow, and tho Rev. H. E. Bellhouse will be the preacher in tho evening, taking as his subject “Tho Evangel of the Touch of Christ,” The Sunday School anniversary of the Dundas Street Methodist Church will bo celebrated to-morrow. Special singing will bo rendered by scholars at each service. A primary demonstration will be given at the afternoon service. Tho preachers will bo tho Revs. A. Watson, J. Richards, and E. O. Blamires, morning, afternoon, and evening respectively* The Hon, L. M. Isitt, M.L.C., who is visiting Dunedin in the interest of the Bible in State Schools League, will conduct the service in the Central Mission tomorrow evening. Mr J. W. Rodgers will render “The Soul’s Awakening.” The service will be broadcasted. Oarsmen and supporters are invited to be present at the Somerset Lounge to-night at 8 p.m. The United Starr-Bowkett Building Society will dispose of £2OOO by ballot and sale on December 9. Applications aie invited for shares in the new No. 10 Group. The Rev. E. S. Tuckwell, 8.A., will deal with “Prayer as one of the conditions of a Successful Church” at the Hanover Street Baptist Church to-morrow and in tho evening will preach on “The Pharisee s Thanksgiving.” A church social will "be held at the Hanover Street Baptist Church on Wednesday at which farewell will be taken of Dr Everard North,_ who is leaving early next month for Edinburgh, to sit for a further medical degree and thence proceed to India to_ take up medical missionary work at Shillong, Assam. An extended dance will bo held in the Trades Hall to-night. Mr J. W. Munro will be the speaker at the Labour Party’s meeting in the Trades Hall to-morrow night. He will speak on “What is Wrong with tho Labour Movement.” Mr J. M’Combs, Labour M.P. for Lyttelton, will address the members of unions which will meet next week in the Trades Hall. He will speak on questions, affecting Labour legislation, and the Arbitration Court. 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