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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21384, 11 July 1931, Page 10

The postal authorities advise that the Wainui left Melbourne for Bluff on Wednesday with 21 bags of mail and three parcel receptacles, and the Maunganui left Sydney for Wellington on Thursday with 12 bags of mail and six parcel receptacles. The mail by the Waiuni is due at Dunedin on Monday evening, and that by the Maunganui on Tuesday afternoon. ■ The Rangitata, which reached Wellington yesterday morning from London, has 68 bags of mail and 37 parcel receptacles for Dunedin.. This will be to hand by this afternoon’s express. The mails which left Auckland on June 2 by the Monowai, via Vancouver, reached London on June 30.

Thirteen flying members of the Otago Aero Club are now ready to undergo examinatoan for their “ A ” pilots’ license, and it is expected that Flight-lieutenant Somerset Thomas, of the staff of the Wigram Aerodrome, will arrive in Dum edih on Tuesday next to examine the candidates, 1 .

The Baby Austin motor car belonging to Mr J. D. Hudson, which was removed from Highgate on Wednesday night, was recovered by the South Dunedin police in Reid road. South Dunedin, on . Thursday night. The car was undamaged, but it had apparently been run some distance, as the petrol tank was empty when it was found. ■ ' -

The Main South road has been greatly improved for motor traffic during the past few years, but one work which is especjally welcome is the recent overhaul of the Taieri Ferry bridge near Henley. The stebl w'ork;; was recently repaired, and the bridge was redecked, and both the bridge and the awkward curve at the south end have been provided with a bitumen surface. It is proposed to paint a white line down the centre of the newly paved portion as a guide to motorists. It is considered that, the work which lihs just been •’ completed ‘. will lengthen the life of the bridge appreciably. Considerably less than two miles of the paving which is being carried out under the present contract remains to_ be done, and when this is completed motorists will be provided with-18 miles of paved road between Lookout Point rand Henley.

The Public Works Department has commenced work on. a scheme which will provide partial irrigation for a small number of settlers in the Idaburn Valley, near Oturehua. It will involve the construction of a dam 30ft high in the Idaburn Gorge, and it is expected that the work, which is providing 30 men with employment, will be completed in time for the next irrigation season.

In response to the representation of Mr F. Waite, M.P. for Clutha, to the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr P. A. de la Perrelle) for an extension of the opossum trapping season in Otago, the Acclimatisation ? Society has notified its . agreement to an extension of the season for one week on account of the bad season and the extra men that are likely to be employed. ' This action has been endorsed by the Minister and Mr Waite telegraphed -the - decision south yesterday.

. No further developments are reported by the police (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington) in connection with the mysterious disappearance of Phyllis Avis Symons, aged 17,-a fortnight ago. The gang of men working under police direction on the spoil dump at Kilbirnie was augmented to 80 yesterday. Bad weather is considerably hindering their operations. Many rumours are current, including tales of the girl being seen in various places within the last fortnight, but these are not substantiated.

A varied and attractive programme has been arranged by the city organist (Dr V. E. Galway) ' for the organ recital which will be given in the Town Hall tomorrow evening. Of special interest will be the Bach Fugue in G major, Grieg’s "Peer Gynt” suite, and the Tschaikovsky “ Coronation March.” Faulkes, Mansfield, Bernard Johnson, and Massenet will also be presented. Dr Galway will be assisted by Miss Molly Mr C. Williams, and Mr J. D. M’Kechnie, three fine vocalists, whose songs should add considerably to the enjoyment of the evening. The recital will be commenced at 8.15 p.m. ,

The War Appeal Board, of which Sir Walter Stringer is chairman, concluded its Dunedin sitting yesterday. The Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association sponsored 12 of the cases which were heard and eight of these appeals were successful. In six cases it ■was attempted to prove that disability was due to war service, and four of these cases were successful. ■. ■ -A.

It has been rumoured in the city during the past few days that the Mayor (Mr R. S. Black) intends to contest the Dunedin North seat at the forthcoming elections as an Independent Labour candidate. When asked by a Daily Times reporter yesterday whether there was any truth in the reports, Mr Black stated that they had not been authorised by him. It was true, however, that hg had been asked by a large number of people, representative of various interests, to contest one of the seats, but he had not yet made any definite decision. When asked in what interests he would stand if he decided to accede to the requests, Mr Black answered that his first consideration would be the good of New Zealand.

The frost which was experienced on Thursday night was probably the hardest that has been known in Dunedin for-some years. At 8 .a.m. yesterday the thermometer was standing at seven degree* below freezing point, and at no time during the day did it rise above 35 degrees in the shade, the ice in the gutters of damp streets remaining unthawed, whiß at various places the white frost could be seen lying when night settled down again. It was reported yesterday that ice had formed on Blueskin Bay, and at Sawyers’ Bay at high tide the water wa« lapping against the. ice. Further inland / the frosts were even more severe, and it was stated that at several places th« Taieri River was frozen completely across, At a late hour last night a clear, starlit sky and a low thermometer reading gav® promise of another hard frost this moro* ing.

The Mayor (Mr R. S. Black) has revived advice that a bonspiel will be held next Monday and Tuesday on Mr Lance Hore’s dam at Naseby. The ice has reached a thickness of eight inches, and there are at present 24. degrees of frost in the district, so that the conditions promise to be ideal for curling. It is expected that, there will be a full attend ance from eight clubs, with the result that 64 players will be on the ice at one time. A party of 40 has made arrangements to go up to Naseby for. the weekend to enjoy the skating and tobogganing, for which the conditions are also excellent. .

When the report of the Tramways Committee was under consideration at the meeting of the City Council on Wednesday night, the Mayor (Mr R. S. Black) referred to the decx'ease in the revenue dor the year, and added, “ Too many cheap rides for friends, I suppose.” Mr Black has asked us to make it clear that he was referring to the fact that motorists, by giving rides to their friends, are depriving the department of revenue. He k;ates that he was quite correctly reported, but that a number of people have read into his remark a reflection on tram conductors which was not intended.

That the law does not allow a lodger in an hotel to become the means of access by which his thirsty friends and casual acquaintances and others may reach liquor in an hotel during closing hours was made plain yesterday by Mr E. Page, S.M., in his reserved judgment at Wellington in the case in which Myles Barrington Williams was charged with having aided, assisted, counselled, and procured the commission of an offence of two men found after hours at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Mr Page said it was clear the men were invited into the premises for the sole purpose of procuring liquor, Williams was convicted and fined £2. On 'the application of Mr Perry,, who said the case was of some importance to licensees, security for appeal was fixed.

Some festivals have' their day and cease to he. The grandeur that was many a feast day for our fathers, is in rums, and fallen every purple Caesar’s dome, but the glory of the high carnival of folly that is the capping saturnalia of the Otago University Students’ Association does not fade. It is about -to burst once more on its good-humoured public, as witness the customary prelude in the form of advance copies of the Capping Magazine, which have been in the hands of the fav- * cured few for some days. It is another full-blooded, boisterous production with the usual plenitude of cleverly sketched caricatures, lilting limericks, piquant and spicy, and a delightful fund of topical allusions in which close: attention to civic and social affairs is displayed by poets and parodists whose deft rhymes and neatly turned phrases are in the best tradition of capping irony and nonsense. Though the sketches include many a “hardy perennial,” a refreshing wealth 'of new faces and figures is to be found within the 64 pages of intelligent entertainment which are enclosed by a colourful and suitably extravagantly conceived cover. Student genius takes strange and wonderful form in verse and farce and song and in the case of this year’s Capping Magazine we may say what Mr W. B. Yeats has said of a distinctly different kind of creation in art: “All is in the wine-press, all is in the drunken ecstasy, and the grapes begin to stammer.” From the stammering lips of youthful exuberance and student ebullience has emerged a compound of wholesome humour, clever fooling and frequently penetrating irony that will amuse all tastes, and npt least of all those at whom the authors have directed their shafts of gentle ._ raillery. It is good genuine, stuff and will , undoubtedly be made more than welcome when the magazine sellers appear on the, streets in Tuesday.. . New standards and styles in advertising make their appearance in good measure, and the commonest household necessities are ingeniously made the subjects of effective and humorous boosting. In a letter to the Postmaster-general (Mr J. B. Donald) on the subject of the future control of broadcasting, the Can-’ terbury Chamber.of- Commerce set out its' ' attitude on the subject and referred to the report that the .Government intended taking over control.; and requested that an additional Government department be not created. The Postmaster-general has replied as follows:—“I beg to state that there is no proposal on the part of the Government in this direction. Possible methods of control which are receiving.the • consideration of Cabinet at the present time all definitely preclude any extension of the duties of the Post and Telegraph Department in the broadcasting field. The actual resolution of your chamber, being based on incorrect premises, therefore requires no comment. On the general principle enunciated. however, I am in complete agreement with the chamber.”

A former Taranaki girl, who is now married and settled in London, says that .the days of romance are not over in the big city, and that boys .'to-day with only the proverbial sixpence in their pockets are going into the heart of the city, against what almost seems hopeless odds,

and finding work. Her eldest 'son, a lad ( of 14, finding that his father was'having severe “ cuts ” in' his salary, decided to leave school and go and seek work in a shop. After a week’s hunting he still found himself minus a job, but persuaded Ms mother to give him another sixpence to go to Bishopsgate, where he might see something. There he saw a notice up in a window, “Respectable boy wanted.” lie went in and got the job, with one of the biggest upholsterers’ merchants in that ' important locality, at 12s 6d per week. ' He is able to give his mother 6s 6d per week, it costs 2d per day for fares, and the other 'ss he reckons will keep him in clothes. His grandfather, who settled as a youth under the shadow of Egmont in the troublous times of the early eighties, must have handed on to his grandson some of the grit which the pioneers possessed in such large measure.

The report that Mrs H. F. Butler, of . Arney crescent, Remuera, had been the victim of a “sandbagging” outrage at her home on Sunday evening last is regarded with scepticism by police officials in Auckland. Having made inquiries detectives are of opinion that the woman received her injury by a fall. Inspector • Hollis states that there has not been a sandbagging case in Auckland for 30 years. There was not a tittle of evidence to show that sandbags were used in this or the other cases reported. Investigation of recent cases showe’d that several had been due to hysteria. Only a few weeks ago a young Epsom woman alleged that her house had been ransacked, but afterwards confessed that she, herself, was responsible for the disorder.

Theft occurred at the home of Mr H Wilson, of Waitemata road, Takapuna, on Wednesday morning (states the Auckland correspondent of the Christchurch Times). The sum of £3 was stolen, but the intruder overlooked a diamond ring, other jewellery, and a sovereign in the ransacked drawers. This is the eleventh occasion since their marriage that the Wilsons’ home has been broken into.

“ Creditors are often remiss in attending a bankruptcy meeting as representatives of firms and companies without providing themselves with a proper authority to vote at the meeting.’' said the official assignee in Christchurch (Mr J. H. Robertson) on Thursday. Mr Robertson explained that in most cases creditors were unanimous on motions before them, and then the point did not arise, but when the right of a creditor to vote was called into question, the matter became of some importance. The Bankruptcy Act provides that where a creditor is not present in person, he may be represented by proxy, or by some person holding a power of attorney from the creditor empowering him to recover debts on behalf of the creditor. “The mere fact that a man is the manager or the accountant of a firm or company is not sufficient in itself to allow him to vote at a meeting, although there is no objection to such a Serson watching proceedings/’ said Mr .obertson.

A nine-year-old boy who escaped from the Caversham Industrial School at about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon was found by the police riding a bicycle in the city atr 1 o’clock this morning. He had been cycling for the greater part of the evening and was taken to the police station pending his return to the institution.

Half-crowns are scarce in Auckland. The cause is believed to be that many people leaving New Zealand are taking as much silver as is allowed under the regulations gazetted in April, and that as halfcrowns are exclusively of British mintage they comprise the bulk of the silver leaving, the country. At least one Auckland bank found it necessary yesterday our. special correspondent) to impose a limrt on the number of half-crowns issued to firms for paying their weekly wages bill.: Since the 10 per cent, cut in wages became general there is a greater demand for 'silver, because many whose salary used; to be computed in round figures, now ifind considerable odd silver reposing in tHeir pay envelopes. „ Thp dissolution of all Australian Parliaments and- the appointment of Lord Irwin (former Viceroy of India) to rule the Commonwealth “ with a free hand ” is advocated by the Anglican Bishop of Willochra (Dr Richard Thomas) writing in his quarterly diocesan paper, which was published on July 2 t Bishop Thpmas declares that parliamentary government in Aiistralia continues to be unsatisfactory. f “An unsound. basis of political franchise,” he says, “has resulted in the election of parliamentary members who are, generally speaking, incompetent for the task of making-laws in the best inof the community. Some of these men are obviously' time-servers and selfseeker's, and if we may judge by their speeches and actions, they give the impression that they are not guided by any high .principle. For some years now these men, on behalf of the country, have been borrowing money recklessly and spending it foolishly. When we consider ‘that some of the members probably do not'..possess enough ability to run a store a small township and make it pay, we can hardly wonder at the present financial debt in which Australia is involved.”

The much-discussed embargo on the importation of stock was considered by the conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union oh Thursday evening. Generally delegated were not in favour of the embargo being lifted, but a few voiced different opinions. Mr ,H. B. Stuckey (Dannevlrke) said that there was more chance of : foot-and-mouth disease coming into New Zealand through packing than through live stock. He referred to the quality of New Zealand meat, and said that the opinion had been expressed that New Zealand was likely to lose her position on the market because of the deterioration of the stock. , Other countries were getting the cream of English stock, and they would take New Zealand’s place on the English market unless farmers here were careful. Oh the other hand, the consensus of opinion was that the danger to jbe run, if ; the embargo was lifted, was too great, and the following remit was carried:—” That this conference emphatically protests against the proposal to lift the embargo on imported live stock from countries infected with foot-and-mouth, disease, or from, or. through the agency of, any other country, and urges the Government to refrain from giving effect to any such proposal.”

To have the greater nart of a week’s washing stolen was the experience of the Eev. Mr and Mrs Metson, of Christchurch, on ing was hanging on a, clothes line at their home,' 67' Brougham street, on Wednesday evening, and nearly'all of it was gone on Thursday morning. Mrs Metson considers that the thief was a discriminating man, as a .tea towel with a hole in it and some worn handkerchiefs were left, but all the good things were taken. The value of top stolen goods is more than £B. Mr and Mrs Metson spend a great deal of time in the relief of distress, and therefore recent the theft extremely.

“One factor which will help us more present diffir. cult times isj a determination not to suspend our. normal public functions if we can possibly! help it,” .said the Mayor (Mr G. W. Hutchison), in opening the Auckland Wibter Exhibition on Wednesday. “ The .peculation of money at present is very .desirable, even if it leaves little profit in the hands through which it passes. There are hundreds of people who have panaceas for the economic • ills ■from which-we are suffering, but our troubles will be most quickly remedied by each'individual who has. a job to do endeavouring to perform’ it as : efficiently and optimistically as possible. Instead of expending (i his mental energies in endeavouring to save ; the world, the man in a job might profitably consider whether he can make some personal contribution to the position by .employing one extra, person in his,home or business for the next! few months or by buying local manufactures, wherever they are obtainable.” ' i.v/ ■

The Railways Department announces in this issue that the station master at Waitahuna will, be withdrawn after July 18 and a porter will be in charge. The monthly entertainment of the Dunedin Bums Club ‘will be held in the Early Settlers’ Hall on Wednesday evening, when a short dance will follow an attractive programme. v ■ ' In conjunction with a lecture ,by Dr Marion Whvte. the married ladies class of Mr J. V. Hanna’s school of-physical culture will give a'.demonstration-, thisevening in Burns Hall. All women are invited to attend. 1 _ .... 0 The United Starr-Bowkett Building Society will dispose of £IBOO by , ballot and sale on July 16. „ , The Otago High School Old Boys annual reunion will take the form of a dinner to be held in the Somerset Lounge oh Monday, August 3, at 7 p.m.. Tickets for the dinner may be obtained from members of the committee of the Old Boys Society or from the secretary. Tfe annual Sunday service will be held in the school hall on Sunday, August 2, and all past and present boys are cordially invited to attend. ’ , We have received 4s from the Flag Swamp school children fop. the Hawke s Bay Earthquake Relief Fund, for which the Otago Daily Times list has been closed at £11,971 16s sd. ' ~ • .<■ A. Frank Anderson, dental surgeon, Princes street. Diinedin, visits Waipiata Thursday, June 25; Ranfurly and Patearoa, Friday. June 26. —Advt. Save your eyes.' Be wise, and consult W.-'V. Sturraer (optician, 2 Octagon), thus conserving good vision, for old age.— Advt. ■ „ „ . A E. J. Blakelfey and W. E. Bagley, dentists, Bank of Australasia, corner of Bond and Rattray streets (next Telegraph Office). Telephone 12-359. —Advt. New lines to hand: Shavex, Liquid Nail Polish. Is; Tangee Lip Sticks. Is; Fausta, new French Face Powder, Is 6d; sample Combs to suit everybody; Wave Setters, Is a card of six.—H. L. Sprosen, chemists, corner Octagon and„George street, leading toilet specialists, agents for Zann Pile Cure.—Advt. • Supplies still available of the Listeners’ Guide, 2s 6d copy, 2s lOd posted.—Barth Electrical Supplies, Ltd., 56 Princes street. —Advt. To see well, see uS. —Peter-Dick, jewellers, watchmakers, t and opticians, 490 Moray place. Dunedjn.—Advt.