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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20318, 28 January 1928, Page 10

If the invitation of the Otago Harbour Board is accepted. Dunedin will be the final port of call of Commander Byrd’s expedition to the Antarctic. At the meeting of the board last night it was reported that the engineer’s department had communicated with the American Consulate in Wellington offering the promoters of the expedition the facilities of the port. A reply had been received from the consulate that it had received no information as yet, and it assumed that the expedition was a private enterprise. The expedition was expected to start on September 10. The board was advised to communicate direct with the promoters. “ I take it that the board is in favour of doing everything possible,” remarked the chairman.

One of the greatest handicaps to the New Zealand tourist traffic is the lack of adequate accommodation and service in many of the hotels. This is the opinion of Sir Benjamin Fuller —an opinion which, it must be confessed, is shared by a number of overseas tourists who have visited the Dominion. Speaking to a Daily Times reporter, Sir Benjamin mentioned that he had recently stayed at a New Zealand accommodation house where three waitresses had to attend to the wants of 63 diners. “ And that’s no exaggeration,’’ he said, “ because I asked my daughter to count them. I myself am quite willing to rough it with anyone, but people come out here who are prepared to pay for the best service, and they cannot get it, simply because it is not to be bad. Well, it’s_ not a good advertisement for the Dominion, is is?”

A complaint is made by a farmer at Taiari Beach that on a recent Sunday the boundary fence between his property and that of his neighbour was set on fire by visitors to the locality. Ho intends to seek the help of the local Domain Board to have trespassers prohibited. The settlers are only too pleased to see visitors along or near the foreshore, but if privileges are abused, visitors need not be surprised if access to properties should be forbidden. Great care requires to be taken that fires lighted to “ boil the hilly ” are not allowed to spread. It was decided, at a meeting of representatives of the Dominion Swimming Council and of the provincial swimming centres held yesterday morning, that Misses K. Miller (Dunedin) and E. Stockley (Auckland), and D. P. Lindsay and L. J. Moorehouse, both of Christchurch, be nominated to represent New Zealand in the swimming events at the forthcoming Olympic Garner. Lindsay will be nominated for the men’s 400 and 1500 metres free style events, Moorohouse for the men's backstroke event, Miss Miller for the ladies’ 100 and 400 metres free style charapionsliips, and Miss Stockley for the 100 metres free style and 100 metres backstroke events.

At the music teachers’ conference in Christchurch this week. Miss V. Corliss, in a paper on “ Music and Psychology,” said that psychology in regard to music became an influence in so many directions that it was almost impossible to deal with it adequately (says the Sun). Imagination was the prime motive in music, music was an expression of the mind, and any observations of the process of composing, interpreting, teacliing, or listening to music were psychological in essence. . The composer was impelled to give utterance to his secret discoveries m the world of spirit. His mind soared beyond the conscious limitations of thought. Musio teachers wore a very important and vital part of that whole educational power which influenced other minds towards feeling, perception, judgment, appreciation, and expression in life. They were not teachers of this instrument or that instrument, but educationists in the highest sense. A true teacher combined the vision of the artist with the analytical mind of the psychologist.

The Union Company’s passenger steamer Manuka was delayed at Dunedin for two hours last night owing to a dispute which arose amongst the firemen regarding the signing on of another man. During the morning a fireman met with an accident to one of his fingers, and his place was not filled until the evening. Before a settlement was effected there was a lengthy conference between the firemen and the secretary of the Seamen’s Union. The large contingent of passengers and the big crowd of spectators on the Rattray street wharf bore the long wait with patience. Long before 8 p.m, dozens of coloured paper streamers were thrown by passengers across the wharf to relatives and friends, and the ends were held by the majority until it was announced tifat the dispute had been settled and that the Manuka would sail. A man was signed on the ship's articles at 9.45 p.m., and the vessel cleared the wharf at 10 p.m., bound for Bluff and Melbourne.

“ There are more laughs per head in Honolulu than in any other place in the world. Americans, Portuguese, Filipinos, Hawaiians, Japanese, Chinese, and all other races are pulling together for the common good, and they have made a big success of it. It seems to be the only instance available where the racial question has been settled completely.” This was the opinion expressed by Mr H. Willock, of Pittsburg, U.S.A., who arrived at Auckland by the Tofua from Suva. He added that the various races went to church together, and that a man was accepted in society for his culture, without any thought of his race or colour. Last year there were 1000 mixed marriages’out of 4000, and it seemed to be admitted that a white man and a Hawaiian woman was a match that left little to be desired. Sixty per cent, of the Hawaiian women had husbands of other races.

Since the enlargement of the scope of the work on Makogai Island as a leper station Tor the treatment of patients from all the South Pacific Island groups, including {in addition to Fiji), Tonga, the Samoan, and the Cook Island groups, it has been the custom to appeal for Christmas gifts for the sufferers. The response not only from Now Zealand, but also from the islands named, has been most liberal. Early last month a largo assortment of presents was forwarded from the Dominion by the External Affairs Department. A letter has been received from Sister Agnes, of the French nursing Sisters of the Order of Mary, who with Dr Neff (medical superintendent) carry out the medical and nursing work on the island, acknowledging the receipt of the gifts. The letter is full of gratitude for New Zealand s “wonderful interest in the sufferers.” Sister Agnes says the Christmas gifts were a. joy to every patient and an encouragement to the nursing staff. “ New Zealand is truly the friend of Makogai,” adds Sister Agnes. The thanks of patients and staff are heartily given to all those who in so practical a manner thought of the lepers at the Christmas season.

Seven years behind New Zealand, France is now adopting the electric totalisator, according to Mr A. M‘Donald-Smith, who returned to Auckland by the Ulimaroa on Tuesday. Mr Smith, who is well known in racing circles throughout New Zealand, supervised the installation of the first electric totalisator in this country, seven years ago, being then the representative of a large Sydney firm. He is now manager of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s ioialisa(or. During his visit to Australia, Mr Smith made inquiries into improvements in the electric totalisator in Australia. The French order had been received nine months ago, and the machine was to be installed and in running order by April of this year. “It is something to he proud of that New Zealand dropped the parimutuel system seven years before France,” declared Mr Smith. The French order is for a machine with 240 ticket issuers, which means that it will be four times bigger than that at Ellorslia.

Mr Justice Sim has granted probate in the estates of the under-mentioned deceased persons:—Hebert Adamson, Dunedin (Mr Irwin); David Buchanan, Green Island (Mr Webb); Bridget Tait, Kawarau Gorge (Mr J. C. Purcell), and Alfred Joseph Briggs, Cavcrsham (Mr E. Aslin).

The romance of money in Chancery has assumed a practical aspect for a Wanganui woman, who states that she has good evidence on which may be based a claim to a sum now known as the Clark millions (says the Chronicle). The person concerned is Mrs A. Sullivan, who, until recently, resided at the seaside suburb of Castlecliff, but who has left to take up her residence in the \V airarapa. Mrs Sullivan, who is taking legal advice on the matter, says that she can trace her ancestry back through a series of aunts and uncles, to the wife of one of the sons of the Mr Clark from whose money the fortune has grown. She is now 82 years of age, and remembers hearing the matter mentioned when she was a girl_ of 14, living in England. Mrs Sullivan is hopeful of getting a share of the money for her children, and on the arrival of her son in Melbourne, investigations will bo made concerning a branch of the family more closely connected with the original Clarks, who came to Australia many y-ers ago.

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