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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20023, 14 February 1927, Page 16

“Good Manners’’ writes to the Auckland Press to say that there seemed to have been a number of men at Eden Park on Saturday who had never been to a cricket match before; at least, that was the most charitable explanation of the demonstration against the Victorian wicketkeeper. “Of course, it was annoying,’’ he writes, “that Dacre should go cheaply, but that did not in the least affect the right of the wicketkeeper to appeal, against the other batsmen. That the ‘barracking interfered with the play of the bowlers and batsmen was less important than the discredit it brought on Auckland’s reputation. I hoard someone say that the visitors were used to that sort of thing, but this is no justification at all. If some Australians like to behave badly at cricket matches, that is no reason why New Zealanders should do so.” Complaint was made at a meeting of the Council cf the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last evening of delay in the sorting the mail from Sydney by the Maunganui on January 31 (reports the Evening Post). Several members asserted that the fault did not lie so much with the postal officials as in the loss of time carrying out the medical inspection of passengers. Nothing could bo done in connection with the mails until after the visit of the port health officer. Mr C. M. Bowden said ho did not wish it to go out that the chamber was opposed to medical inspection ; but, generally speaking, attention should bo drawn to (he annovauce to which passengers were subjected under the existing conditions. The Chief Postmaster said he was unaware of any delay on the part of the Postal Department in the sorting and distribution of the mails received bv the Sydney boats. A committee was appointed to make inquiries, and also make representations to the proper quarter. A beacon of 1,000,000,000 candle-power, said to be the most powerful in the world, was inaugurated recently at Mont V’alerien, a hill near Paris, where it has been erected to facilitate air navigation.