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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21020, 8 May 1930, Page 8

The postal authorities , advise-that the steamer Gabriella, which is due at'Greymouth next Monday from Sydney, is bringing 10 bags of Australian mail and 13 parcel receptacles for Dunedin. The mail is expected to reach the local Post Office on Tuesday afternoon. rr As a sequel to the fire at Hiawatha House, at St.. Clair, some, months ago, a case was to have been heard in the Supreme, -Court, yesterday in ;which the mortgagee, J, Fletcher, claimed £ISOO from the Standard Insurance Company in connection with an insurance policy on the building The case, however, was settled out of court, the company, it is understood, making a-payment of £IOOO. •Recruiting for the new No. 2 Subdivision of-the Otago Division. R.N.V.R., lias now been completed, bringing the total' strength.'of the unit up to 134, 0 f which number 14 are officers, four petty officers, eight leading seamen, and 108 ratings. This is the .full strength authorised by the Navy Office, aqd the recruits will be supplied with their uniforms as soon as the necessary .kits arrive from Auckland.; The division will parade by subdivisions, No. 1 on Thursday and No. 2 on Tuesdays. .An. unusual-position in regard to-the .employment of apprentices in the carr pentering and joinery trades, was revealed at a meeting of the Canterbury Builders’ Association (says a Press Association'message 1 from Christchurch). ■ It.was stated that .a .deadlock had, arisen, op the Apprenticeship Committee as the result, of the workers’ representatives refusing to, agrqe to the granting of any applications for new apprentices at the present time. The union, it was said, had 1 applied to the Arbitration Court for power- to restrict the number ; of . apprentices . on account’ of the depressed 'state v , of • the building teade,

Prices for fat cattle showed a decline at the Burnside stock'sale* yesterday,'due to some extent. to the large yarding aud the. absence of country buyers. , There was another large yarding of sheep/which met .with a fairly .brisk market. The prices for .ewes showed .an advance of about 3s per head, due to the presence of a buyer from Christchurch. Lambs sold at prices equal-to'last week. Exporters bid keenly for all lambs suitable .for’the export trade., Prices for pigs were a little firmer, and several good lines of store cattle met with keen competition. Four trucks of extra prime wethers and one truck of extra, heavy ewes were included in the sheep yarding of 2500 head. •The balance -of,.the’ eptry 'consisted of plain wethers-and light'ewes.- 'Best heavy ewes sold to’-245, and'medium weights from 18s to 21s. Extra heavy wethers sold to 365, heavy to 31s ‘ 9d, medium to 28s 3d, and light to 20s. Prices for extra heavy wethers • were' equivalent* to 4id per lb, prime light wethers -sd, ;and extra heavy 3Jd.‘ Very few prime lambs were forward. Several pens of extra- heavy animals sold, to, 275’.6d, but the bulk were sold at prices ranging from 18s to 20s. The • values - realised for prime lambs were equivalent to' 7d and 73d per lb. .There. were several pens of extra. pidme,,,auimals.;ih an entry of'2oß fat cattle. The balance of the yarding comprised plain sorts, including steers. Prime bullocks sold to £2O, and a 'line from Taieri realised-.£lß 10s. Mediumweight cattle sold from £l4 to £l7, pr.imo heifers to £l6, light to £l2,' and “light cows to £l2. . The prices obtained for .prime ; bullocks were, equivalent 'to.:4%p, for medium-weight .cattle 40s, and prime ’ heifers 35s per 1001 b. The store’ cattle entry included about’loo head of good .steers from Cattle Flat. . These \met with keen competition; aid’ the highest price’ obtained was-, £l3 10s. The -whole line. averaged £lO 15s ’per head. The balance of . the yarding consisted’of . old cows and several pens of lightweight steers, and all these sold at prices on a par with those secured at the.previous sale. Steers sold to £B, and cows from £6 to £9 per head. The pig entry was smaller than usual, consisting of 91 fats arid .61 stores. Thete was a fairly, keen demand,, and baconers and porkers were a shade dearer. :Prime;baconers‘sold'on a basis of about 8d - and prime porkers about 9Jd per.lb. The City Fire, Brigade received a- call early yesterday morning to a fire which had broken out. in'one of the class rooms of.the Albafiy Street School. The outbreak, which otiginated from a bucket of ashes left .against a wall,' was iextinguished; before much damage had,been done! Neithc)■the builditig .nrir the contents were .insured. The. brigade was called out again at 11,12 p.m. to the top of Lcckhampleu Court, Caversham,' %yhere a ’ gorsfe lire showed signs, of endangering nearby IIOUSeS.. If: was checked’in’time, liowevei-. and no damage Was done. At the meeting of-the Mosgiel Borough Council last, evening, - the Mayor (Sir W. E. .McLean) referred to the great activity in the i bullding’ : trade during the past few months. . - In; March, there were .seven houses in the course of erection, arid during April building permits for five aioi-e houses, ,at an estimated cost of £6500, had been issued. • He.understodd' that 'a large number ofother buildings -were contemplated, and inquiries 1 had shown that workers > in’ the city were-now;,beginning < to realise the advantages of living -out of town..' Land values. in the city and suburbs were high; compared, with the -lower values'-im Mosgiel. Train fares :were- as: cheap, -.or ; cheaper, . than tram fares, the cost , of Jiving was; reduced, and with suitable- train services Mosgiel ‘now appeared, to ’■ be -coming into its otvri; and taking a decided step towards becoming a popular place -of residence' for ..city workers. The Mayor’s remarks were endorsed by several of the' councillors.’ ... At a Bitting of the City Police Court •yesterday morning, . before Mr J.. R. -Bartholomew,, S.M., • John Henry Avery pleaded guilty to a : charge of having stolen -at Maungatua, a saddle valued'at £9, the properly-, of | Eqbeto ,Thqmspn.; Chief’J)e. : tectiye .Cameron., stated that j.th’e - accused had, been . employed -by Thomson -for. about a week, and when "he left‘hc'stole the .saddle and came into town • -where ho sold it for. £2. The saddle had,'been sold several times sirice, but the chief detective, believed that he could recover' it. The accused was arrested at Timaru on a" warrant fqr/’matat&itnee?'" In 'sentencing the accused to two months’ irripij^on l : ment, the magistrate Stated that-iri .view of his previous convictions he was.not ; entitled to any further consideration. ,r i “The CrbwnJs.’out. to get-conriictions,” Said ..Mr . Dickson, When addressing' the jury ini 'Auckland on Behalf of rin accused person in the'.’ Supreme Court (says ’ our special correspondent). This drew a prompt- protest .from the Crown Prosecutor (Mr Meredith)' and a tribute to .the fairness of the-Crown'from Mr Justice. Herdman. ‘‘You must not say that,”said his Honor. ■ “Cases for the. Crown here are conducted as faitly as is possible. That is a most unwarranted - suggestion.’’ Mr Dickson; promptly' withdrew - the ’remark, arid added , by way of'explanation that the .Crown had to put the ease from, the police or.-prosecution point of view. -.. The first of the new type of’second class carriages has been put into .service on; the Duriediri-Christchurch express. The vehicle is of,a, much higher standard than those now used. . Well-upholstered .scats, with backs.the same height as those iri.thc first class carriages, are provided, and the .floors, are 'covered with,: linoleum. The new carriage’ is a “smoker,”'hut; ithas riot been provided with spitoonfe, as these created draughts, and did not,encourage cleanliness on the part- of . travellers. The accommodation in the new car is..comparaßle with that in the present first class carriages. v - ■ ’ . ’■ At a meeting -of householders on Monday night the Mayor, of Stratford* (Mr P. •Thomson) said that he liad not been a supporter of’ the school dental clinics as at present constituted, believing that work of that kind should be : .done by private members of the community. . However, the Government of the country, which each year was becoming more- paternal, ' had seen fit' to institute cliriits where treatment was open to all children, whether their parents'were in a position to pay for the work .".or “not. Barents - could make donations to the cost,: but in Stratford .the response had been poor. ' It seemed that the people pf New Zealand more arid more each year expected further social services from the Government, and 'though able to do so were not prepared to pay. for those. services, even , when they were -given at' much less cost than if a private practitioner were patronised. He had heard some of the services Being rendered to the public described as simply another form, of the “dole.” Exception might be taken to the use of this term, but there was little difference ■ between acceptance of the dole arid acceptance ; of -public -services by people who could afford,, to pay arid did not. Those present at the meeting did not agree with the Mayor’s Temarks. Users of the main road between Christchurch and Dunedin, who are so often delayed at the ,long bridges over the Wai- , taki apd Rakaia Rivers owing to ’their joint use by road and rail traffic, will be keenly interested in negotiations nowiproceeding between the Main Highways’ Board and the Railways Department. The latter’ is considering the erection 'of bridges at these points to carry heavier axle loads ’ ‘in. accordance with the development of railway transport conditions. It could either, reinforce.’the- existing structures or build new ones, arid, if it can make satisfactory arrangements'with the Highways Board and JocaT authorities for the Sale of the oltPbridges,-.these would 'be used exclusively for road'traffic, A substantial sum would be involved; in this transaction, as the Rakaia bridge is the longest wooden structure invNcw Zealand, being a mile and a quarter, is length. The Waitaki bridge, three-quar- • ters of a mile in length, is built of steel. Both are capable of mariy years’ use, A large proportion of .the. piirchaseljirice would-:be'foutid; from the-main highway* funds, but; loeril bodies will also be asked

•The report that the Finnish barque Olivebank is long overdue _ does not appear to be borne i out" by’ a letter which has been received at Gisborne. A'cablegram from Melbourne published on May 2 stated that'the" vessel left Sweden for Australia nearly six months ago and was last reported 'north of the equator in December. Op December 14, however, a Gisborne lad, who is a member of • tile OliyebdnkV crew,’ wrote from Hudiksvaal, Sweden,- prior to- the vessel’s departure, stating, that he ■ did not expect the vessel ■ to reach her destination befbre the; end of April or the beginning of May at the earliest.' As a result his parents in Gisbornq feel no anxiety. ' The Olivebank is one. of the' 20 vessels owned by, Mr Gustav Ericksen, whose headquarters are on the little island of Aland in the Gulf of Bothnia, north of the Baltic. She visited Auckland a little-over a year ago, and it was then that J the Gisborne' lad joined the ship. He experienced considerable difficulty . in doing so, but . was •Stimately'signed; bn' as an ordinary' seaman, Later be became an able seaman. On' completion, of. discharge at Auckland the Olivebank proceeded in ballast to Port Lincoln, South Australia, whence she was , despatched laden with wheat for the United Kingdom, via Gape Horn. She ran into .a typhoon', off the American coast. Whep she "reached Queenstown,Ireland,' the barque was ordered on to ■Belfast, Where' she discharged 56,000 bags Of. wheat. • From; Belfast the Olivebank went in ballast. to . Sundsvaal, Sweden, where she commenced to load Baltic pixie for Melbourne'. After ' some weeks she proceeded •to Hudiksvaal, a few miles south of Sundsvaal, to complete loading. She left-, there ,on December. 14,-which is only about four months and a-half ago and not six ' months as the cablegram would indicate. • • •An extraordinary accident, fortunately Without-serious consequences, was experienced by Dean G. R. Barnett, of • Hamilton, on Sunday afternoon. Dean Barnett, . who-had had an exceptionally heavy day with services' in all parts of; the. parish, was motoring- back to Hamilton from Gordonton, ■ When three-miles from town, he, lost. consciousness. He • recovered to find’ his car in a tangle of blackberries in a ditch 10ft below the level of the road. He scrambled out, and found that he Was unhurt; - The dean wont to the house of a, neighbouring farmer, who: drove 'hihF hack to Hamilton. The car did. not ,ap-‘ pear to be damaged. Dean Barnett: was able to take the evening’s service-'at the cathedra], and the congrogation were'unaware of the experience- he had- passed through. ’ ■ ■ • something “ the wrong way ” responsible for admitting a remarkable number of cases to .the New Plymouth Hospital during the past few weeks. One child swallowed a halfpenny, the wrong 'way, another child a plum stone,’ and still- another child , small carrot. In each case* operations bad to be performed and the- articles > removed . from the region of ■ the'throat and lungs. c The fourth case .wak'that of a- young man who swallow’ed a dental-plate,'and a 'similar: method of extraction, had to; be"employed. In all cases, the . patients'soon recovered from their trying ordeal. The part taken in the opening of the shooting season this yean by the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe, and, the high standard of sportsmanship set by, the viceregal party,' has brought .to mind (says the-Aupkland Star) many instances in the old-daya of traditionally British, methods of, shboting. One keem.oldjsportsmanisaid ’ he remembered'a time lOErg'ago'when Sin George Grey was 'induced’-to go to Taranaki to see' the'way:'the’ pioneers there conducted their duck-shooting expeditions. Sir George, who had a great love for bird lifej was one of the. truest’sportsmen who over shouldered a gun, and was delighted with whafr he saw. Most of the shooting was done on horseback, the horses being specially trained to remain steady while the shooting took place. Sir -. George mounted a very fine hdrfe, which'stpdd’ motionless as he took amr leay-. - ' ing the . reins 'thtown' ]6osfely'Ofr , 'il's''neck., ~ > H e; , b rbughfdbp^ marked that'in all his Idiog'eSpe'riehce He hail never seen anything belter.' The birfis. were never shot till they were" on the -wing, after being disturbed ■by the ■ horsemen, who ‘ Were anxious that' no advantage of ahy'kind.wpuld be taken which wojiltf. mean,'that the. birds were '.taken ufiawares. The old'settler remarked'that although the aport for many' years had degenerated a-good deal because a “ big bag ” seemed to count for more ! .than, sportsmanship with some people,'yet ‘hc_ was glad to think that thegood, example set thefn'i,New Zealanders would revert to the.good old way.' 1 :