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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20991, 2 April 1930, Page 8

' The Otago Acclimatisation Society’s new hatchery at Waitati is being prepared for the work that will be done there during the winter months. The work of erecting buildings has been finished for some time, and the majority of the ponds have also been laid out. With the exception of the oldest fish, all the stock fish from the Clinton hatchery have been taken to Waitati and placed in the ponds there, and they are reported to be doing very well in their new home. The water supply has proved quite satisfactory so far, but it has not yet had any severe test. The work of laying out the grounds is being continued. Stripping operations on the stock fish will be commenced towards the end of May and, when that is completed, work will be commenced on the rivers.

Applications for sections in the Tapanui Estate (generally known as Brooksdale) closed with the chief clerk of the Lands Department at Dunedin at 4.30 yesterday afternoon. A total of 15 applications were received. Applicants will be examined at Tapanui by the Land Board to-morrow, immediately after which the ballot will be drawn. There are nine sections available.

During a discussion of the conditions of employment of female apprentices at the Conciliation Council hearing of the hairdressers and tobaconhists’ dispute yesterday, Mr A. S. Cookson referred to the fact that girls did not address themselves to their work with the intention of making a life-calling of it. Their one aim was to°get married as soon as possible. Mr W. W. Batchelor objected to this on the grounds that girls to-day were not prepared to enter the married state younger than 25 or 30 years. That gave the female apprentice at least 10 years’ employment in the trad»

Reference to the calendar will show that Good Friday and Anzac Day fall on successive Fridays. This means that retailers are deprived of their late shopping night for two weeks in succession. The Shop Closing Act provides for the appointment of another day in each week as late night. In this connection it should he,of interest to the public generally to know that Thursday, April 17, and Thursday. April 24, will be observed as late nights by city and suburban retailers in lieu of Friday, April and Friday, April 25.

The large number of stowaways who have been found recently on ships that arrive in. New Zealand from Australia was added to yesterday (says our special correspondent in Wellington), when four stowaways were discovered on the Ulimaroa, which had arrived from Sydney. Two of the men were Australians and two were from the Old Country.

The annual balance sheet of the Auckland Rugby League states that the working expenses for the year ended December 31 were £2634, which shows a profit of £1742 for the year. The gate receipts were £3465, and the grand total of the revenue was £4377.

The Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) announced at the civic welcome to hint in Auckland last, night (says a Press Association telegram) that as an old member of the Council of the British Association he had, with the consent of the Government of this Dominion, despatched a cablegram asking that the. association should hold its annual meeting in New Zealand in 1934, He explained that he had taken-tine step in recognition of the work that was being done in many branches of science in this country. He had every reason to believe that the invitation would be accepted.

A 100-mile run from Palmerston North to Wellington will be attempted by Douglas Sinclair, a member of the Brooklyn Harriers and of the Tararua Tramping Club, during the Easter holidays. Since Christmas (says a Wellington paper) he has been training under Archie Leckie, jun., of Dunedin, for this run, and ho hopes to complete the distance in 17 hours.

The first batch of new railway carriages for use in the South Island will he in commission shortly (says the Christchurch Times). Seven of these carriages, under construction at the Addington workshops, are rapidly nearing, completion. Embodying many improvements and modem principles, the new carriages will introduce new features of comfort for passengers, and will also show a distinct advance in appearance over the carriages at present in use. Although slightly behind schedule, owing to concentration on the construction of goods trucks to meet the demand of producers, the department is now pressing on with its programme of improving the passenger rolling stock. When, a motion for a decree absolute was being considered by Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court at Wellington on Monday, counsel for the wife, whose cross-petition for divorce had been successful, urged that before the decree was made her maintenance should be ensured in case the husband married again'. I submit that before he gets off with the old love and on with the new the question of permanent alimony should be settled, ’ he said. “We may have trouble in getting anything out of him if he re-marries,’’ His Honor: "You won't have any difficulty in getting the order.” Counsel: w be a, question of tho amount. He may .come to - court and say tliai ke kas got a new wife and can’t afford to pay alimony.” His Honor; “I want him to understand now through counsel that it won’t make the slightest difference.”

Many Canterbury farmers are becoming alarmed at the length of the present spell of dry weather. A good soaking rain is urgently needed to give the fastwithering pasture a new tease of life. At present the prospects for winter feed are not at all bright, and, if little or no rain falls within the next fortnight or three weeks, the plight of the farmer during the winter will be a sorry one. Many farmers are holding heavy stocks of sheep, and the problem will be how to carry these through the winter. Lucerne, the .deep roots of which make it an ideal drought-resister, is the only -type of feed showing green now* Farmers who have obtained a good stand of lucerne ere congratulating themselves on their forethought, but even this valuable feed will, soon be eaten bare if no rain comes to revive the pastures. “The insurance business in New Zealand during the past two years has been bad and the fire loss of 21s 9d per: head is the highest in the world,” remarked Mr Edward L. Lumley to a Christchurch Press reporter on Monday. Mr Lumley, who is managing director of Messrs Bennie S. Cohen and Son, Ltd,, Lombard street, London,' and an underwriter at Lloyd’s, is at present touring New Zealand. He said that .it was a tribute to New Zealand that the burglary hazard was very small—probably smaller than in any other country. The fire insurance waste on the other hdnd, was the highest, and at the present time amounted to about £SOOO a day. Statistics, however, showed that these kappenings came in cycles, and the insurance companies hoped for an improvement. Asked if he could assign a reason for the fire waste being so high, Mr Lumley replied that one factor was the large amount of electric wiring done during the war with inferior material. Then there were many more wooden buildings in New Zealand than in either Australia or England. In > comparison with New Zealand the loss by fire in Australia was not great.

Messrs Philip Myers and M. M. Heinemann, president and treasurer respectively of the Wellington Hebrew congregation, paid a visit to Government House, Wellington, to present an address of welcome, of loyalty, and respect from the Hebrew congregation of the four centres of New Zealand. The address read as follows: —“ We respectfully ask to be permitted, on behalf of the Hebrew congregations of the principal cities, to tender to you and her Excellency this word of welcome on your arrival in the Dominion to undertake the duties of the high office of Governor-General, and to assure you of the loyalty and devotion of the Jewish communities to the Throne and person of his Gracious Majesty the King. We desire also to express our sincere hope that your Excellency’s period of office in New Zealand may be attended by prosperity and good health to your Excellencies and your family. We have the honour to be, your obedient servants, Philip Myers, president of ' the Wellington Hebrew congregation; N. Alfred Nathan, president of the Auckland Hebrew congregation; P. Selig, president of the Canterbury Hebrew congregation, and D. E. Theomin, president of the Otago Hebrew congregation.” His Excellency voiced his pleasure on receiving the address,. and returned his thanks to Messrs Myers and Heinemanh.

The big steamer Matakana, which sailed yesterday from Port Chalmers for London via Panama, is the first of three Shaw, Savill steamers making Otago Harhour their final port of departure this month from New Zealand. The Melskana’s loading, besides large consignments of wool, cheese, beef, and mutton, includes about 50,000 cases of New Zealand apples. The vessel is commanded by Captain H. P. Thurston, who is a very reliable shipmaster. The other vessels of the company to make this the final loading port is the Raranga, which will sail about the 11th for London via Montevideo, and the Zealandic about the 25th for London by way of Panama. Other Shaw, Savill vessels calling hero this month are the lonic about the 18th and the Tairoa about the 25th, both of them to discharge and also to load. The recent dredging done by the new dredge Otakou has deepened the approach to the wharves at Port Chalmers, an improvement that is said to be appreciated by the masters of deeply laden steamers.

A Press Association message from To Kuiti states that the premises of A. D, M'Lennan, chemist, were entered by burglars on Sunday night, and £3O taken from the till. Other attempts made to break into business premises failed. " Don’t use the word ‘ peasant' when you - mean the Irish farmer,” said an Irishman in Auckland the other day. The man he was addressing had quite innocently spoken of the industry of the “ Irish peasantry.” " Peasant,” went on the Irishman, “is an offensive word to apply to such a case. -It is one of those words that are so commonly misused or misunderstood. It really means a country labourer; and has nothing to do with , the ownership of the land, i In Ireland we speak ‘of the ‘ smallholder ’ or the ‘ small farmer’; we object to, the word ' peasant.’ ” A dictionary whicH was consulted gave the meaning of peasant as being "country labourer,” while another gave it as “a rustic,' especially one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries." “ Another .word that is almost, invariably misused,” continued the Irishman, “is ‘ anon.’ Nino people out of ten will tell you it means ‘later on,’ and that is the sense in which it is used to-day, but its real meaning is ‘immediately,’ and as such it is used.by Shakespeare and other old writers, in whose day it was a word in common use.' When a dictionary was consulted, the Irishman was found in this instance to be only partly right. Webster gives three meanings: (1) Straight away; (2) soon, in a little while, and. (3) at another time, then, aga'in. Like many other words, “ anon ” has been so, carelessly handled that it threatens to end up by moaning just the reverse of what it did when it started out in life. There was a clean sheet at the City Police Court yesterday morning. “Is the blowing of a church organ, an industry? ” This question was raised at the Deyonport Borough Council the other evening (says the New Zealand Herald), when the.vestry of Holy Trinity Church asked for a reduction on the water, account on the ground that the quantityused was over 100,000 gallons per halfyear, and that therefore they qualified for a special discount given to manufacturers and industries. The council demurred to the suggestion, and expressed the opinion that there was a difference between the community ! *Value of using water to produce musical sounds and employing it as an agent to make bricks or wash clothes. They suggested the advisability of installing an electric motor, pointing out the municipality’s main concern was not the selling of water, but its conservation. The vestry replied that its difficulty was a 'financial'"one, and so long as it had to pay full rates for water it could not consider the purchase of a motor. “ It’s all a matter of raising the wind,” commented a councillor, and a motion to adhere to the standard charge of Is Cd per 1000 gallons was carried. , , Mark the happy day with a ring made by Williamsons, the ring specialists. .It’s a good 1 Princes street. — Advt. W. V. Stunner, G.A.0.C., D. 5.0.1.. optician. Consulting room, 2 Octagon. Dunedin. Most modern scientific equip-’ raent for sight testing;—Advt. A. E J. Blakeley and W. B. Bagley; dentists.. Bank of Australasia, corner of Bond and Rattray 'streets (next Telegraph Office) Telephone 12-339.—Advt. Choice Jewellery.—Compare our values. Just landed, large selection Diamond Rings, Reliable Watches,. Jewellery and Silverware. —Peler Diels, tte most finable -jewellers, watchmakers, and opticians, 490 Moray place. Dunedin.— Advt.. 1 ‘