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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20431, 11 June 1928, Page 6

The latest issue of the New Zealand Gazette contains the notification o£ 21 bankruptcies, including 17 in the North Island. A debating team from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, will arrive at Auckland by the Niagara on Monday, June 18, on the fourth series of world tours sponsored by the college, which has a chair of oratory. There are three students in the team. They will appear in debates against Auckland University, and will afterwards visit Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin before going to Australia. Word has been received in Dunedin that the Norwegian Whaling Company has disposed of the Sir James Clark Ross and has purchased the Medic to take her place in the industry. “ The Prince of Wales, Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets.” This is the new title bestowed on his Royal Highness, and the Prince’s health was honoured with great enthusiasm at the gathering of shipmasters held in the Savoy buildings on Saturday evening. In speaking to the toast, Captain N. Beaumont said a great honour had been conferred on the merchant marine by his Majesty the King in making the Prince master of the merchant navy. Captain Beaumont then quoted the following passage from the speech delivered by the Prince at the banquet of the Honourable Company ,of Master Mariners held at the Mansion House, London, on March 21 of this year:—“There are to-day well over 30.000 crafts of this kind (and that total includes the biggest liners down to the smallest barges) on the register of the British Empire. Of these, nearly 4000 are the ocean-going vessels on which depend our communications. All these communications are utterly vital to our existence. To man these vessels implies in a round figure more than 250,000 officers and men, and, in addition to these merchant ships of the Empire, there are in Great Britain alone 20,000 fishing boats manned by 65.000 men. All of you here to-night are familiar with the statistics, but I have quoted them because they impress me very deeply. Until I studied them I had not absolutely realised that this is the merchant navy and the fishing fleets. I had not absolutely grasped the meaning and the importance of this new post of which I am so proud to be the first holder.” The postal authorities advise that New Zealand mails which were despatched from Auckland by the Niagara on May 8 for the United Kingdom, via Vancouver, arrived in London on June 6. Reminiscent of last week’s busy activities are the two full pages in the illustrated section of the Otago Witness to be published to-morrow, giving a pictorial description of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s Winter Show at Dunedin. The wool and vegetable stands, the bacon exhibit, the display of apples, the butter and cheese exhibit, including the fancy-butter display, the home industries section, and winners in the live stock class are all shown, and the whole makes an arresting feature. Events at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s winter meeting at Wingatui are also retrospective, and give a spirited idea of last week’s races. The rest of the issue covers a wide field of activities. “ Progress at Palmerston North ” shows new buildings and work on the proposed railway deviation; “At the Gore Dog Trials ” gives pictures of the winning dogs, and the committee; “New Zealand Bowlers in Great Britain ” portrays the team when it played the international match between New Zealand and Isle of Wight; and “Stalking Wapiti” depicts aspects of this sport in New Zealand. There are many one-picture subjects and a fine front page where photographs of Moke Lake, near Queenstown, and the poplar grove near Hastings, give an idea of the beauties of New Zealand as seen by an artistic photographer. Portraits include those of Princess Mary. Prince Carol, and General Nobile. “ That the Minister be advised to introduce legislation, in conformity with that in Great Britain, to prevent the exploitation for profit of children, and thus give that protection to child life essential in both city and country life.” was a motion proposed by Mr J. R. Kirk at a meeting of the Council of Education in Wellington. He stressed the evils of allowing children to be employed at late hours in theatres and elsewhere, saying that they were storing up nervous trouble for the future. The 'employment of children on dairy farms before school hours was another evil which they would have to combat. Mr C. W. Garrard said that retardation of children in country schools was largely duo to working before school hours. Miss E. A. Chaplin maintained that the children should not be made to suffer in order to help the parents. Other speakers stressed the economic aspect of the question, pointing out that under the existing law it was rather difficult to take action. The motion, being put to the meeting, was carried.

The Chrysler roadster motor car belonging to'Mr S. K. Barnett, of 89 Opoho road, which was stolen from outside his residence on Friday evening, was recovered undamaged in Eden street on Saturday afternoon. There is a popular idea that mining contractors, at any rate, as far as the Waihi mine is concerned, earn a high rate of wages. In the Waihi Court on Tuesday last (says the Auckland Star) a judgment debtor —a mining contractor with seven children —was under crossexamination, when counsel suggested that the latter’s earnings averaged £6 per week or more. Defendant produced a paper showing that his average earnings amounted to £4 10s per week. He said the figures were supplied by the pay clerk, but had not been signed by him. He admitted that his wife owned a motor car. Counsel submitted that in the circumstances defendant jhoitld be able to pay. The Magistrate (Mr G. L. Paterson) ordered defendant to pay £1 per month in liquidation of the debt. A motor car also figured prominently in a similar case, where the judgment debtor was also a mining contractor. The latter admitted he had a motor car :n his possession, but alleged that it was the property of his brother. The Magistrate made no order, but advised counsel for the judgment debtor to follow up the history of the car. The fastest run down the harbour from Dunedin to Port Chalmers is claimed for a racing skiff, which, equipped with a four-cylinder outboard motor engine, did the spin yesterday afternoon in 15 minutes. There was no wind and no ripple on the water. The four-cylinder engine, which was temporarily fitted to the Sunfisher hull, was not so unpleasantly noisy as some of the outboard engines which raced last summer. Its “ hum ” resembled a low-pitched pipe organ note. While the little skimmer was in the Lower Harbour she had a spin with Miss Bruce, with whom she held her own, although the engine was not fully opened out on account of it not having been sufficiently “ run in ” yet “I propose to add to your number by about 15,000, and it will be my endeavour to instil a spirit of business-getting into the railwaymen of this country.” said Mr H. H. Sterling, the newly-appointed general manager of New Zealand railways, in addressing members of the Auckland Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen’s Association at the annual dinner on Saturday evening. “ I believe that the railwaymen have such a spirit, and I hope to foster it and so build up a great business-getting institution that will place the railways where the Government and the people of the country would wish them to Be.” Mr Sterling said he was fully sensible of the privilege which had fallen to him in addressing Auckland business men upon his first public appearance as general manager of railways. A great compliment had been paid to him by the Government, and he had accepted the position with a humble spirit and with a desire to do the best he could for the service in which he had already spent many years. “ I do not know whether I am adequate to the task,” Mr Sterling said. “If I am not, I can assure you it will not be for want of trying on my part. There has in the past been much adverse criticism of the Railways Department, and this has proved wholly injurious. However, I believe the people of this country will yet realise the service for which the railways have been responsible in the development of New Zealand. I believe the potentialities of the service are as yet unexhausted.” The new tariff schedule brought into operation in New Zealand last year has not hitherto been put into force in the Cook Islands, a dependency of the Dominion which has continued to work under the 1921 tariff list. An Order-in-Council published in the Gazette last week brings the duties in the Cook Islands into line with the new charges in New Zealand, with the exception of those on black twist tobacco, which are subjected, however, to certain modifications. Black twist of not more than 4s fid per lb invoice value is to be charged at the rate of Is per lb when entered for home consumption in all parts of the Islands except Niue, where the duty is to be 2s per lb. Special provision was contained in the petrol tax legislation passed last year exempting the Cook Islands from the collection of that impost. Having revisited Taupo after an interval of 10 years, Mr C. L. Vizard, an angler from Ceylon, does not find himself in agreement with those who say the fishing there is not so good as it used to be. “Honestly, I enjoyed it very much indeed,” he said to a New Zealand Herald reporter. “ I did not get any remarkably big fish, but those I got were good specimens, and in the pink of condition. I need not say that we do not have anything like such fish in Ceylon.” The chief difference that Mr Vizard noticed was in the number of anglers. Where there had been two or'three 10 years back, he found dozens. In the favourite water there were certainly too many rods. It seemed to him, he said, that much might be done to ease this congestion by clearing away vegetation and so opening up other stretches of water. “ I do not think the license fee charged to overseas anglers unreasonable,” he remarked, “ that is, to those who remain the whole season or a large part of it. Judged by what one has to pay for fishing <#f any kind in Britain, the sport in New Zealand is very cheap, but I think it would be fair if the Government drew up a sliding scale, so that tourists who fish for a week or two and no more might not have to pay the same as those who stay the whole season through.” The fascinating theory thft somewhere deep down below One Tree Hill a river flows has (says the Auckland Star) led to an extended search there by the One Tree Hill Road Board for a water supply. A diviner was engaged, and after making some mystic signs in one locality indicated that below there was much pure water, although no indications could be given of the probable depth. A bore that was sunk passed through a cave and much lava, yet at a depth of 100 ft the hole was dry. The Road Board is still optimistic, and tenders are to be called fer another bore. “ Four-fifths of the world’s business is done on credit,” said Dr W. C. Poole, president of 'the World’s Sunday School Association, in an address to member;: of the Hamilton Rotary Club. Nothing c mid be so disastrous as influences that tended to weaken the faith upon which the credit system was founded. Everything should be done to reinstate in men an enthusiasm for creative effort. The art of thinking should be cultivated, so that an intellectual graps of life’s problems could be obtained and a differentiation mad’ between what was transient and what was permanent. Opposition to the excessive use of schools as polling booths was expressed by the Auckland Education Board last week. The chief electoral officer wrote stating in some districts schools were the only suitable places for oooths and teachers the only persons who could act as returning officers. It was decided to point out to the department concerned that the board objected to the use of schools only in cases where halls were available. “ Don’t ask me for money, because I haven’t any,” said the Prime Minister at Auckland, when a deputation waited upon him in regard to the proposed harbour bridge, a suggestion being made that the Government should contribute towards the cost of the preliminary investigations and preparations. The Prime Minister said that he had not received any definite information from the promoters of the scheme, end the only request was that the Government should build the bridge. There was no money at present for such a project. Very large sums had to bo spent on th? new Auckland railway station and the Westfield deviation, which were urgent works.

It was at a gathering of some of the intellect of Auckland last week (says the Auckland Star). A ladies’ literary circle had discussed and read the life and works of one of the leading contemporary ■writers, and were bringing their thought down to the every-day plane of firesides and hot bottles, when the appalling discovery was made that an over-zealous, careful co-tenant had left the building earlier and carefully bolted the grille exit. Unfortunately, the club secretary, who holds the key, was absent, and a scrutiny of the name-plates gave forth no hope. A momentary panic among the ladies, a fruitless search for a fire escape, a hurried ring to the watch-house, which was inclined to treat the whole thing as a joke. Watch-houses are not usually called upon to unlock doors, their specialty being locking up. However, with a little urging, they sent a stalwart to the rescue, armed with tomahawk, jemmy and other likely necessities. Perhaps they though it a ruse, for he brought some support in the shape of a mate, and there ensued an argument through the grille, eagerly followed by an admiring and amused crowd outside, as to the advisability of breaking the lock or awaiting the problematical return of the landlord. But one glance at the oncoming stream of women from upstairs decided the matter, and with one neat twist, worthy even of Buckley, the lock was wrenched off, and a little band of some 20 very relieved literary students emerged upon the street, leaving their rescuers to deal with the probleb of sealing the premises without a lock. *

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