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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 6

The commander of H.M.S. Dunedin telegraphed yesterday to the police authorities in Dunedin requesting them to notify men on leave from the ship who may be in the city, at the present time to report immediately at Auckland. A similar request has been sent by the commander to other centres in New Zealand, and a call to the same effect was last night broadcast by station 4YA (Dunedin), The postal authorities advise that the steamer Ulimaroa, which is due at Wellington to-morrow from Sydney, is bringbags of Australian mails and 51 parcel receptacles for Dunedin. The rtfail is expected to reach the General ipPost Office on Wednesday afternoon, and the parcel portion on Thursday. The City of New' York, which left yes- . terday for the Byrd expedition base, took .down in cold storage a large quantity of (game. Mr J. R. Wilson, of Tawanui, the season organised several of sportsmen in Otago and Southland with this object of securing a good psupply of game. The bag consists of s several wild pigs, venison, duck, quail, i hares, and a number of pigeons that had ;gone wild and established rookeries in the sandstone cliffs in North Otago. The of the expedition are very grate- ’■ ul to Mr Wilson and his fellow sports;men for this unique addition to their as the game-will make a welcome .change m their diet. Some 10 weeks ago .when out with Mr Wilson’s party in the Catling district, the chief engineer, Air AlPherson, brought home in his pocket ■ a small Captain Cooker. This animal is °V Ar^ e u an ° r Bollin S> and weighs Ph , erson Proposes to Bring ■the pig back and take it on to New York when the expedition leaves New Zealand I Hr. 3 30 ? f t ! \ b ,°, at therc is m «ch speculation as to whether the men on the ice will be able to resist having fresh nork as an addition to the bill of fare Tht ; porky is so popular with the Bollimr’s crew, however, that one and all declare they will not kill it. oeciare

A Buick motor car, containing four or sve passengers, capsized yesterday while Xr* ? angma f nJe Gul, y from the U X\v, Th u e „ dr T er found * "hile dorta the hill, that the brakes failed to act, and attempted unsuccessfully to change from top to second gear. The rar struck the bank and capsized. anStwo ot the passengers received minor injuries A broken windscreen and a bent axle appeared to be the principal damage suffered by the car.

Evidence of the progress of the town of New Plymouth is afforded by the bmMmg returns for the past year, which show that the value of the new buildings “ ': h a lch per J nits - ' vere issued was £158,709, an advance of £46,355 on the previous, year’s figures. Included in the hst were 17 shops and 100 dwellings.

The building statistics for the past year constitute a record for the Borough oC Gisborne (says a Press Association telegram), 205 buildings, valued at £106,6, including 61 dwellings, having been com.menced. . In many ways the pursuit of pictures of big game is at least- as exciting as stalking with the rifle. Some time ago Mr Marcuswell Maxwell succeeded in procuring a remarkable series of lion pictures, and another exhibition of his skill in thi* respect appears in the Otago Witness, to be published to-morrow. In this adven-' . ture he has largely confined his efforts to elephants, and he shows the families in many guises. in their native habitat. Another page of informative photographs reveals the progress being made with the new road which will ultimately connect Otago and Westland through the Haasfc Pass. The mining crisis at Eothburv. where a* clash of arms resulted in much bloodshed, is a potent reminder of the tense feeling in the New South Wales dispute. Motor accidents are frequent ,? occurrences, but the photographs showing" ? the state of the cars concerned in the fatal collision on the Peninsula road record the force of an unusual impact which reeulted in serious loss of life. Some of the holiday sporting .fixtures are Also chronicled in picture, and several topical subjects complete the illustrated section oi an attractive issue/ Mr J. Watson. J.P., and Mr J. Tait. J.P. presided at a sitting of the Port Chalmers Court on Saturday. William Jackson and John Sorrell, seamen on the ' steamer Cornwall, pleaded guilty to « charge of stealing perfumery and other cargo valued at £5 while the vessel wa. at Lyttelton about December 20. They were convicted and sentenced to throe months’ imprisonment. Eight other members of crew—John Comer, Richard Bugless, Clifford James Williams, Frederick William Simmons, Leonard Wil- / Hams, Thomas Joseph May, Donald ' Richardson, and Ernest Parnell—pleaded guilty to charges of receiving the good* knowing them to have been stolen. They were convicted and fined 20s each. An impudent theft was committed recently in a small shop kept by Mrs Emily Croton in -Auckland. The thief, Christopher Daly, aged 24, a labourer, entered the shop and helped himself to a pound o{ chocolates worth 2s. Then he opened the counter till and abstracted 11 florins. While. Daly was behind the counter a woman entered and, mistaking the thief for an assistant in the shop, made her reqnirments known. “Just wait a minute or two, and the lady will serve- you,” remarked Daly, who left the shop in haste. Later Daly was arrested, and in thePolice Court he pleaded guilty to the theft of £1 2s and 2s worth of chocolates. The- theft - was ■ an ■ impudent one,” observed Sub-inspector M'Cartby, who stated, in outlining .the circumstances, that Daly entered the shop ’ 10 minutes before 6 -o’clock' in broad daylight. Hd was remanded . for a week. . Although the longest day of the year is now past by more than a, fortnight, people .. are not yet able, to, notice any'appreciable shortening in the length of the days. It is interesting to note that 1920 has had the minimum number of eclipses. • There cannot be fewer than two, and when there are. two they are both eclipses of the sun. The first took, place on .May 9, and was visible generally in the Indian Ocean an -Ni the Western Pacific, while the second—an annular'eclipse—took place on November 1, and was visible in England, the Atlantic, and Africa. ■ No eclipses were visible in New Zealand during the year. On his way from Auckland to his new post at the'Marine Biological Station at Dunedin, Mr David H,'Graham, formerly research officer to the Auckland Mosquito • Control Committee, ran his keen eye over Christchurch, and has been making comparisons. Speaking to a Christchurch Times reporter, he congratulated Christchurch on its extreme cleanliness. He ■ searched • Christchurch ' for mosquitoes, but failed- to find any, and he .■ put the fact down to the general cleanliness, not ■only in the streets, but in the business houses and dwellings. He found no stagnant pools, no, tins, of dirty .water, inwhich the mosquito could breed. In this respect he compared Christchurch very. favourably with Auckland. “ Ninety-five per cent, of the mosquitoes in Auckland, , ’ k _. he said, “ are accounted for by dirty They are allowed to lie. about anywhere! f The result is that Auckland is mosquitoinfested. Near the wharves in Auckland I caught the malarial mosquito and the ' yellow fever mosquito. These unwelcome visitors cannot be prohibited from arriving in a seaport like Auckland, but i£ the people of Auckland will clean up their city • and destroy their tins instead of leaving them about, and will make their cify more like Christchurch, they will eliminate the . chances of those' diseasespreading.” /' That the American people are very . j friendly in their attitude towards New iZealandera visiting the United States is Pthe impression formed by Mr J. R. Tampflin, a Christchurch electrical engineer ivho returned last week from an .extensive four of the United States and Canada. Air Templin said that he gave a number |pf talks on New Zealand to different organisations in America, and he found the people very keen to hear what they could fbout this _ country. Very little was ijcnown of New Zealand by the American, people, but the propaganda disseminated *py the Government Publicity Office was “|radually being spread throughout the country, and was having a good effect. 3fOur publicity chaps on the boats run--ping between America and New Zealand fj» re doing really excellent work,” said Mr “On several nights during the koyage pictures of New Zealand scenery pud the activities of the people in the ..‘Dominion were shown on board and the k passengers were most favourably im- ' pressed. To a certain extent, however, this propaganda is hardly sufficient. Coming out with *us were several wealthy i Americans who were greatly disappointed {because the tourist agency which ar- ' {ranged their tours had left New Zealand (entirely out of their itinerary. They {certainly had a few hours at Auckland fon their way to Sydney,' but thejP would ;very much have preferred to spend some | weeks in the Dominion if they had had its attractions brought under their notice when the itineraries were being mapped out.” Mr Templin said that what was needed was to persuade the big travel agencies in the United States to recommend people to include New Zealand fa ■their itineraries whep arranging world tours. If this could be done a good many more American tourists would be induced to visit New Zealand k * .¥« have received 10s-from "Anon” * o rr^“ e r, ea .T“ i quake sufferers’ relief fund. ~ Railways Department advertises in tnis that special trains at cheap excursioiSkfares be run from Invercar* gill and Oamaru to Dunedin on Sunday. January 12. • Railways Department advertise! iu this issue particulars of special excursion fares and special train in conncc* tion with the sixty-fifth anniversary celebrations of the Lawrence School on Jan- ■ uary 11. . 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