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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21300, 2 April 1931, Page 10

The Otlago Daily Times will not be published I ;to-morrow morning (Good Friday). [

The P(j>st Office advises that the Makura, due at Wellington On Monday next from) San Francisco, has 167 bags of mail lin'd 17 parcel receptacles for Dunedin. , The mail should reach Dunedin on Tuesday afternoon.

Alteratijons to the Otago Motor Club’s premises jn Moray place are now almost completed) and in the course of a few days the • members will have the use of club roonjis- as commodious, comfortable, and convenient as any in New Zealand. By the removal of a partition the assembly hall has [been enlarged to almost twice its original size, whilst the executive offices, the committee room, and the office of the South Island Motor Union now adjoin one (another, and occupy the Moray place eidq of the building. The comfort and convenience of members and visitors to the clulb have obviously been carefully studied, and the furnishings, which are in complete harmony with the interior ■scheme o| decoration, have been chosen so as to (jive a maximum of restful comfort. A considerable improvement has been effacted by moving the entrance door fronji the centre to the side of the rooms, this alteration now allows direct access from the offices to the club rooms. !

The firiiil list of awards for the season has been approved by the Otago Head Centre of! the Royal Life Saving Society as follows; —Teachers’ certificates 2, instructors] certificates 1, bronze medallions 8, proficiency certificates 20, elementary certificates 13, primary school certificates 20. In jail, 242 awards have been passed this season, the following being a detailed list:—Awards of merit 9, surf instructors 2, surf medallions 9, hon. instructors certificates 3, teachers’ certificates 6,‘ bronze medallions 52, proficiency certificates 56, elementary certificates 74, primary ; schools’ certificates 31.

Fat slieep were sold at higher rates at the Bursiside sales yesterday. There was a keen .demand, and prices for wethers showed -an advance of Is and for ewes from ls< to Is 6d per head. The fat cattle egl e opened at prices on a par with late rate's. Values then improved to 7s 6d per head for good prime bullocks, but the market eased later, and prices receded to last week's rates. There was a good demand / for lambs, and prices were_ a shade firmer. In the pig section baconerq and porkers were sold at firm rates, but values for stores were unchanged;, The fat cattle entry numbered 105 head, . and consisted of a number of prime bjillocks, a good proportion of cows, and a few prime heifers. Heavy prime bullocks sold to £l4, medium to £l2 ss,' light toi £9 10s; prime heifers to £lO, medium, to £B, light to £6 10s; heavy cows to,’. £9 ss, medium to £B, and light to £6 15s. 1 The sheep entry comprised 899 head, flt was a small yarding, and a large proportion consisted of ewes, while a numbj.T of fine woolly wethers were forward. \ The entry met with a good demand. I Extra prime wethers sold to 17s, prime til) 11s 9d, medium to 10s 6d; prime ewes toi Hs 3d, medium to 8s 3d, and light to 5s 9dl. About 800 lambs were offered. Theyarding was of mixed quality, but a number of prime heavy lambs and several pens of plain sorts. Extra heavy lambs sold to 16s, prime heavy to 14s 3dj medium weights to Us 6d, and light wjeights to 8s 9d. About 100 head of stocie cattle were yarded. The entry consisted of cows, medium steers, and heifers/ Prices were unchanged. Inferior /quality steers sold to £1 13s, one and a-Ealf-year-old heifers to £1 15s, and medium steers to £1 10s. The pig entry consisted of 44 fats and 20 There was a Stood demand, and the yarding was cleared at satisfactory prices. The prices obtained for porkers were equivalent to 7|d ami for baconers s|d per lb.. The : prevailing idea as to the joint owners! dp of a motor car belonging to one individual does not seem to be on the decrease. A car belonging to Mr James Dixon, 1 of 16 Hart street, Roslyn, was removed' from outside the Regent Theatre on Tuesday night between 7.30 and 10 o’clock, The car is a Buick, fourcylinddr. with a dark green body, a khaki (hood, 1924 model, and the registration nsimber is 157-769. Mr /Justice Kennedy has granted probate the undermentioned cases; —Delia Mary (Davie, of Dunedin, widow (Mr A. Sinclair); Alice Philp, of Dunedin, widow (Mr W. R. Brugh); Dougald Matheson, of Middlemarch, sheep farmer (Mr J. R. Lemoit); Thomas Seddon, of Dunedin, engineer (Mr E. E. Collier); Christina Macßaath, of Dunedin, widow (Mr Wood); Mary Anderson, of Dunedin, spinster (Mr C. J. Payne); James Blaikicr, of Clinton, retired farmer (Mr J. WiUkinson): Charles Dunham, of Dunedin, retired gardener (Mr J. E. Nichol); Lilias : Kate Tolmie, of Dunedin, spinster (Mr J/. S. Brent); William Wilson, of Port JVlolyneux, retired bootmaker (Mr G. J. (Kelly); Thomas Jenkin, of. Weston, retired! farmer (Mr J. H. Main); Edward John Moran, of Matakanui, farmer (Mr '/Sunderland); and John Mrvaugnton Bryant, of Lawrence, bootmaker (Mr FletcJ.er). Letters of administration were {granted in the case of James Crerar Naisrwith, of East Taieri, retired engineer (Mr jW. Allan). Representatives of the City Council have Jfiow completed details of the arrangement (with the Government for the supply of eljectrical power from the Waitaki hydrci-electrie works. The arrangement is for; the supply of power from Waitaki as scam as it is available, which, however, I will probably not be for at least 18 months. The agreement gives the City /Corporation the right to complete the flail development of Waipori, including t&e construction of Nos. 3 and 4 power stations. These two stations, however, canmat be put in hand earlier than eight yearsj f ronl t,ie P rese nt time, prior to whicifi, in the opinion of the corporation authorities, they will not be needed. “vjery satisfactory results have been obtained in the treatment of superficial skin j cancers,” states the second annual report of the special Cancer Committee of tltß Wellington Hospital, although most of tly; cases of cancer of the mouth which have- 1 ; come under the notice of the committee have been advanced ones with results, tthat have proved disappointing. During ifhe past year 302 cases have been revies,ved by the committee. When treated cases leave hospital they are kept undej- observation, and any further treatment needed recommended. Certain hopeless cases have not been reviewed by the committee, whose opinion is available to hospital patients and those referred to it by o>iiteide practitioners alike. “The committee has in many instances recommended the ' use of radium in the treatment of suita.ble cases. Up till quite recently this, has been employed exclusively in the form of radon, which is produced at the hospital emanation plant. The latter contains about 600 milligrammes of radium in solution. Recently through fun|la available from the Macarthy Trust purchase has been made of 60 milligrammes of radium in the form of needles of /suitable screenage and denomination. This material is available for both hospital and private use.”

The congress of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire has accepted the invitation for the 1933 congress to be held in New Zealand, and that year will see a most important assemblage of the Empires commercial leaders in the Dominion. As this will be the first federated congress to be held in New Zealand, the occasion will be a momentous one, says the annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. The Wellington commeN cial community is highly honoured for the congress is to be held there. The Executive Committee of the Otag» Rifle Association held its final meeting last night, when the sub-committees reported that everything was now in readiness for the Easter meeting at the Pelichefc Bay rifle range. . The entries already received were very satisfactory, and it was anticipated that the number of competitors would exceed that at the recent Trentham meeting. “ There is too much overtime paid itt this country,” declared Mr J. O’Brien (Westland), speaking on the Finance Bill debate yesterday. -If overtime were eliminated and every man worked just his eight hours a far better result would be achieved.” This fact was reacting detrimentally upon the standard of work turned out, Mr O’Brien said, and also upon the thousands of men already out of work and waiting for jobs which might be given them if overtime‘ was cut out altogether. If a man was unable to do » reasonable job in eight hours someone else should be put in his place. In connection with the attacks which were made on Tuesday at North-East Valley and at Anderson’s Bay by a man armed with a syringe containing what appeared to be ammonia, it is reported that Mr H. Wimpenny has not suffered to any great extent from the effects of the discharge which he received in the face. The case of Mr Thompson is, however, more serious, and it is stated that his right eye is now in a serious condition. At 3.35 p.m. yesterday the City Fire Brigade received a call to a house at 38 Walton street, Roslyn, owned and occupied by Mrs W. Clyde, in which a fire had broken oiit as the result of a defective fireplace. The flames were extinguished before any damage was done. The sum of £SOOO from the estate of Mr G. P. Donnelly has become available for the assistance of returned soldiers and their dependents in Hawke’s Bay. Originally (says a Press Association telegram from Napier) £IO,OOO was bequeathed to assist in establishing returned soldiers on the land at Kaiwaka, with a provision that the residue should .eventually go equally to the Salvation Army and the Y.M.C.A. for assisting returned soldiers. These bodies have now each received £2500, and the Napier Returned Soldiers’ Association has made a request that a comprehensive scheme be prepared for the use of the amount. Burglars have evidently been busy in the quiet little township of Palmerston, for several cases of breaking and entering have been reported to the police. In all, five business establishments have been entered. Three adjacent shops in Sandy street first attracted the attention of the burglar, or burglars, the other premises entered being in an adjacent street. Early yesterday morning Mr J. Moodie, who carries on a tailoring business, was- informed that a window of his premises had been broken and the building entered. He was inclined to treat the information as a hoax, ’ remembering that it was April 1, but when he discovered that two suits of clothes and a quantity of other goods had been stolen he realised the news was unfortunately only too true. The other pre-’ mises entered were the Star Stores, Ltd. (which have been visited by burglars on a previous occasion), the Friendly Societies’ Dispensary, the baking establishment of Messrs Capstick and Cosgrove, and the butcher’s shop of Messrs Martin and Turina. About £2l worth of goods disappeared from Mr Moodie’s shop. This is the third time Mr Hoodie’s premises have been entered, an attempt having been made to break in when the Star Stores were entered a short time ago. There does not seem to have been much taken from the other premises. The police are investigating the matter. Reference is again made to the influence of Australian banks in New Zealand in the annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. “ There has been a widespread impression in this Dominion that New Zealand banking affairs have not been entirely divorced from the Australian situation,” says the report. “ Pronouncement was made that the Dominion’s balances in London are quite independent of the Commonwealth’s, but the feeling still persists that Australian financial affairs have an influence in this Dominion; this feeling has been intensified by reason of the exchange rates prevailing between New Zealand and Australia. This was represented to the banks, and some concession now operates in favour of bonafide exports as compared with transfers of capital to Australia. However, the trade balance between the Commonwealth and this Dominion has been in favour of Australia for many years to a considerable amount, and in contradiction to this the rates that have operated during the past year have given a premium to Australian exporters to New Zealand (who are thus advantaged in trading _to the Dominion and thereby favoured in competition with Dominion manufacturers and producers) and have been adverse to the exporter from New Zealand _ (whose shipments help to .reduce the disparity in trade).