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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20320, 31 January 1928, Page 8

Arrangements are being made by the Mayor (Mr W. B. Tavomer) for the reception in Dunedin of Mr T. R. Bavin, Premier of New South Wales, and Mr W. ForganSmith, Deputy Premier and Minister of Agriculture in the Queensland Labour Cabinet. Mr Forgan-Smith wiii arrive on Saturday, and will leave on Monday morning for Queenstown. 'Mr Bavin i s expected on Thursday, February 9. He will remain in the city for two or three days.

The following are the returns cf infectious diseases at the Dunedin and Fever Hospitals for the week ended at neon yesterday:—Diphtheria—Discharged 1, remaining I; scarlet fever—discharged 1, remaining 5; typhoid fever, remaining 1 ; erysipelas, remaining 2; cerebro-spin.il meningitis—admitted 1, remaining i ; acute anterior poliomyelitis—admitted 1. died 1; ophthalmia neonatorum—discharged 1; —totals: Admitted 2, died discharged 2, remaining 10.

The sum of approximately £6075 will be added to the city rates in the coming year to meet the outlay by the City Council on work provided for the relief of the unemployed last winter. This is equal to id in the £ on the rateable value cf the city. At last night’s meeting of the Otago Acclimatisation Society Mr Turner made reference to the illegal quad shooting in the Cromwell district, and said it was suggested that th e society should issue a quail shooting license at 10s. There was a number of young fellow s in the district who would take out licenses at the reduced figure, but would shy at a fee of £l. He thought the society ’ should recommend ;t 10s fee for 1028. He ako said that the proposal to limit a bag of duck s to 10 :n place of 25 wa s hardly satisfactory. An objection should be lodged to that, and a recommendation made not to limit the bag as suggested. Another member of the council remarked that sportsmen would be lucky if they got 10 ducks in a day. The criminal sittings of the Supremo Court will be held in Dunedin on February 7, and thetcivil sittings will follow. The court will open sess;on 3 at Invercargill on February 21, and at Oamaru on March 7.

Informations against Charles Gray and John Edmund Nixon, in a licensing case, were dismissed by the magistrate, Mr R. W. Tate, in the New Plymouth Court on Thursday. Gray, a sheep farmer, who had booked at an hotel one afternoon, was charged with unlawfully supp.y.'ng liquor tio Nixon, - who was prosecuted for being ilCegally on the premises. Mr Guilliam, who appeared for the defence, applied for a dismissal on the grounds that Nixon was a 'Jbona fide guest and that section 205 of the Act did not touch the circumstances in Gray’s ease and applied only to those who' had access to stock. Sergeant Martin said "the police contended that Nixon was not a.'. bona fide guest, but if the case sgainsp him failed, that against Gray must fail afeo. The Magistrate said there was no contest whether Gray was a bona lido lodger, .but vhe case hinged upon whether Nixon \va s a bona fide guest. Hod Nixon been unlawfully on the premises the supp.y of liquor;to him by Gray would have constituted on offence. If a lodger asked a man in vfor the mere purpose of having a drink, tlhat man might be convicted of being unlawfully on licensed premise-" under section IS4. and the lodger could be convicted* of supplying, under section £CS, " I think it a very great pity that these men should hare caused themselves, the police aiscf others so much trouble by the inexactness of their statements,” added the Magistrate. This would never have conic about had 1 (Jray not., made the sergeant understand that he had invited Nixon down for a driwk, and inviting in for a drink is just the, thing section ,204 was intended to cower.‘ The informations will bo dismissed ”

Under instructions issued by the Education Department ■ the number of new students to bo ndn *ttod to the teachers’ training colleges thin year will be reduced (reports our special correspondent in Wellington). “This is tfba result of the policy adopted by the department in 1925 when it commenced supervising the number of entries to? training colleges with tion to the number of position likely to he available some years aheeid," said Mr T.;B. Strong (Director of Education) yesterday. "No D Division students; will be admitted this year. Those effected by this decision are students who have pass id soine section of the D Division examist'.tion and who have had some experience .in teaching at schools which may be non-St* te or country institutions, but who are no(» probationers. The department considers that it is under no obligation to accept D Division students. It has never taken th«sv students as probationers and does not feel called upon to find them positions/’ I ■ has been decided also to fill the grade places from B grade positions.

The trunks of the ancient forest*' revealed by the erosion of the Waikato JUver in its new channel on Waitete Flgt ,at Arapuni are now bare to root level, and their almost uniform height i 3 about 4Oo£ (says the New Zealand Herald). Some ha.'tas been undermined by the water and have fallen, but many are not now touched by the current and may stand for years as a itncniument to the works of modern man and as a reminder to a generation, very tvcck■ahoop about itself, that even the trn »k of a ritnu tree may be preserved by swan p water for as long as a Pharoah’s mummyand without losing its bark. Numbers iof these tree s are still clothed with apparenfSsr sound bark.

“ This might mean an expenditure oUI £SOO,GGO and we do not see how the country’s can afford it at the present time,” said \ Mr A. G. Lunn, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, at. a meeting of the council on Thursday, when correspondence was received advocating the purchase by the Government of native bush alongside main tourist routes, with a view to preservation. A letter from the Napier Cham- , ber of Commerce stated the preservation of native bush along the chief tourist routes need not be an expensive matter.. It was not urged that all bush along such routes should be purchased, but only strips of bush sufficient to maintain the scenic value. The chamber felt many land owners would be prepared to give the land free and others would negotiate on liberal forms. In a reply forwarded to the Napier body, Mr Lunn said the Auckland Chamber was in sympathy with the suggestion, the only question being the cost. When examining a judgment debtor at the suit of certain creditors recently a Taranaki solicitor took strong exception to one item that appeared in the judgment debtor’s statement of expenditure, and remarked emphatically that if th,> debtor could not pay the ordinary tradespeople he was mt justified in incurring expenditure in keeping his son at a boarding school. Some of the plaintiffs to whom the money was owing could not afford to send their sons to such a school, he added. The Magistrate agreed that in the c’Tcumstances s uch expenditure was not justified.

A resident of Whakaraarama, westward of Tauranga, reports that stoats are increasing, and are to be met wilh in any part of the bush. When cornered they will attack man or dog without hesitation, as the following incident will show. Quite recently two youths put up a stoat in fairly open country, and promptly «et a rough cattle dog at. it. The dog would not bite the stoat. Finding it could not get away th e stoat attacked the dog. getfug a good hold under the throat. The dog howled and fought, but could not get rid of the stoat, so one of the lads scirnd a stick, and, at (he second attempt, knocked it off, only to be attacked in turn, Using his boots and the stick, ho quickly finished 02 the stoat.

Reports regarding fishing without a license, and other breaches of the laws governing sport w:th rod and gun caused c good deal of discussion at the meet-’ng of the Otago Acclimatisation Society last night, and those present voiced their opinion in no uncertain manner that such irregularities must be put a stop to. 11timately it was decided to prosecute in a, number of eases. The excuses offered fer breaking the law were many and varied, and not a little ingenious in gome instances. Another subject that gave rise to lengthy discussion was 'the pollution of certain streams, concerning which a close investigation was decided upon. “It is, no doubt, a serious problem.” said the Mayor (Mr R. VV. Hall) at the meeting cf the S!t. Kilda Council last niglu when a copy cf a remit.to the Municipa l Conference from the Green Island Council ; was read urging that the resnonsibility fer 4 the maintenance of main roads be assumed by the Main Highways Board. He be- . lieved, the Mayor stated, that the time would come when the board would take over all main ■ roads. ■ The St. Hilda Council would not bo affected .if the change were made, but he thought that the mam- 1 tenonce of main roads should be a bnrden on the public purse rather than on struggling local bodies. It was decided to support the remit when it came before the conference. Damage done by teas on sheep' stations adjacent to the main ranges within the Mount Cook Reserve and Fiordland National Parks will receive a decided check, for the destruction of the bird in those reserves has been authorised (states the Christchurch Sun). A letter was received from the Prime Minister (Mr J. G. Coates) at Thursday’s meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Sheep Owners’ Union, with reference to the destruction 'of the kca n sanctuaries and national reserves, stating that the Minister of Internal Affairs had authorised the commissioner of crown lands or his servants, act’ng under his written authority, to take or kill kea found within the Mount Cook Reserve and Fiordland National Parks. Thi s would enable licenses to be issued by the commissioner to trustworthy persons to d»troy keas within the arei s referred to. It was resolved that a letter of thanks be sent to the Prime Minister for the attention which Cabinet had given to this question, which has been the cause of considerable anxiety to sheep owners adjacent to the rosin ran'ros. The arrangement come to with the Minister of Internal Affairs removes th e anomaly of fin: Government wPh sheen owners po-m" a subsidy for kea destruction while at the same time the birds were allowed to breed unmolested on the national reserves. That e'nss, aptly described as '* hangerson,” is to be found all over the world — even af the Ratana Native settlement. According to a Wanganui resident who visited - the Maori village last. week, some of the people who have rested their caravans at the locality are certainly not credits to the place. -'There is a good type of Maori at Ratana,” the resident told a Chronicle man. ‘‘hut why on earth some of these hnugers-on are tolerated. I do not know. They seem to be of assorted nationalitv—some are white men—and apparently have to keep to themselves. But in my opinion, they are no credit to the town.” One comparatively young man struck a party of Wanganui visitors as being _ ludicrous. Modelled obviously on the lines of a Western film star, he was replete with a cowbov hat and even had a ha.f-b&ard adorning his lip and chin in the approved 'Ppyas—or would it be Montana—sfvle. “ He was quite the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.” said one visitor. The eccentric wae seated in cowboy style—as portrayed on the films—against a house leisurely gasmg across country. Offensive odours in one Street of the village caused the visitors to name .ip “ dirty alley.” Close by was * building possessing a sim labelled Kealta Office " Such is a small picture of Katana as described by the visiters, who were unfavourably impressed by some of the eccentricities observed there.

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