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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21529, 29 December 1931, Page 6

Overseas Mail* for Dunedin An Australian mail, consisting of 28 bags and three parcel receptacles, landed at Bluff from the steamer Ws.inui, reached Dunedin last evening. The Japanese motor ship Sydney Maru, which is due at Wellington to-day from Melbourne, is bringing three bags of Australian mail and one parcel receptacle for Dunedin. The mail is expected to come to hand tomorrow afternoon. The Monowai, which ; arrived at Wellington yesterday from Sydney, brought seven bags of Australian mail and seven parcel receptacles for Dunedin. The mail is expected to reach the local Post Office this afternoon. An American parcel mail, consisting of.four receptacles, landed at Auckland from the steamer Golden Cross, is expected to reach Dunedin this afternoon. University or Union Fees? 1 “I gather that you do not hold with unions,” said Mr J. H. Salmon to a debtor who appeared in the Magistrate a Court at Wanganui recently. Evidence showed that he was some £6 in arrears with his union fees. The debtor stated that he had five children,, the' eldest of whom was 20 and was at the university in Wellington. An an average it was costing him 32s 6d a week to keep his eon there/ Counsel for plaintiff said he thought that there was no reason why the debtor should not pay his union arrears if he could keep his son at university. “ Yea,” said Mr Salmon, “ but it is very creditable to him Jo endeavour to keep his son at university. No doubt if it were not for the fact that he is giving his boy that education he would ; be able to pay something off his debt.. I must make an order, but tq show the attitude of the court towards his position and his own attitude I am going to make a very small order, because I think he is doing the right thing.” Accordingly an order for 2s 6d a month was made, y The Game of Hazard* A police party raided a, house in Victoria street, Auckland, on Sunday afternoon, and found, about 27 men playing hazards. Three escaped through an upstairs window and reached a shop veranda and swarmed down the poles to the street. The others were arrested, and yesterday Mate. Dragicivieh, aged 33, wa« fined £25, in default two months’ imprisonment for keeping a common gaming .; bouse. Twenty-three others, who pleaded guilty to being found on the premises, were each fined £3 or seven days’ imprisonment. Most of them were Dalmatians. City Police Court Mr H. E. Holler, J.P., and Mr G. Stratton, J.P., presided over a. brief sitting of the City Police Court yesterday. A first offender, who pleaded guilty to a, charge of drunkenness, was convicted and discharged.

Trawlers Sink at Moorings Two steam trawlere, the Sir William Wallace and Result, were sunk at the dinner harbour, Napier, during the weekend. It is believed that the seacocks of .the former, which was the larger boat, were opened, and her sinking compelled the other boat, to which she was moored, to heel over. , Both vessels are the property of the New Zealand Trawling Company. The Pukeko Some complaints have been made by farmers, • notably in the Auckland district, of damage done to their crops by the pukeko. It is not apparently widely known that the pukeko, although catalogued under the Animals Protection and .Game Act, 1921-22, as an absolutely protected bird, can with the/signed permission of the Minister of Internal Affairs, be destroyed. It is advisable for any occupier; of land suffering from the depredations of the pukeko to write the Minister for authority to kill the birds. The pukeko is not classed among gun sportsmen as a good sporting bird, as it is practically tame, and one can get an almost close-up shot. The student of t natural history and the native bird-lover are admirers of the grace and beautiful plumage of the pukeko, and they are keen for the protection of the birds to be ■maintained. The “ Minister (Mr A. •Hamilton) has lately granted several applications by farmers to be permitted to . destroy the pukeko doing damage to their properties. -■ Pacific Relations The New Zealand delegate, to the 1n- ... stitute of Pacific Relations Conference in Shanghai, Mr W. T. G. Airey, lecturer in history at the Auckland University College, returned by the Maunganui from Sydney (says our special correspondent in Auckland). .The conference was held in the shadow lof the Chinese-Japanese crisis, and the official representatives of those countries ( absented themselves from its deliberations, but Mr Airey spoke confidently of the achievements of the conference. ’ Tobacco for Prisoner; * , A somewhat unusual, charge, that' of secreting tobacco for 4 prisoner, was heard at the Napier Magistrate’s Court last week, when William Scott, aged 3S, -1 of 1 Australia, pleaded guilty to leaving a letter and a quantity of tobacco about the prison where a prisoner was usually employed, for the purpose' of being - found or received by the prisoner. Detective Sergeant Fitzgibbon said that Scott had visited a prisoner at , the gaol and subsequently went, to a quarry, where he left a letter and some tobacco for the prisoner. The gaoler had stated that I the practice had been going on'for some I time, and it had to stop. If the secreting of goods for prisoners was allowed the results might be serious. The accused was convicted' and fined £5, in default three weeks’ imprisonment; with hard labour. •• ; . , ' Charge of Theft ■ •A man was arrested by Constable Maggin at Palmerston yesterday morning and charged with the theft of two cajfes of , petrol from the roadside. He will appear before the City Police Court to-day. Otago Power Board's Operations In\ connection with the work which is being carried- out by the Otago Power Board on its main south transmission line, the board’s engineer (Mr J. C. Collins) informs us that the delay in restoring ' power to the district yesterday evening wag ciused by a series of unforeseen mishaps, in one of which a truck was damaged and in another a man was fortunate in escaping with no more serious injury than a badly bruised and strained leg. The most important part of this work is now completed, and consumers are asked to believe that while the engineering staff regrets the delay that, occurred yesterday, it will make every endeavour to keep rip to time for the remainder of the week. We have received 10s from Mrs E. Laidlaw -(Hawera) for the Mayor’s Cheer Fund. . . - -- - • . It is because of /the great ease of operaand control that so many Austin I Sevens are the property of Lady Drivers. Ask, for a demonstration.—Austin Motors (Otago) Ltd., 284-286 Princes street. Phone 13-215.—Advt. Save your eyes, ] Be wise, and consult W. V. Stunner (optician, 2 Octagon), thus conserving good vision for old-age.— Advt. /:■ ' ■ s ; Gifts that please. Quality goods at reasonable prices. Let us help you to select that present for Mother, Father, Shfter, or Friend. Splendid assortment of Perfumes, Face Powders, Compacts, Fahey Soaps, etc.—H. L. Sprosen, Ltd., corner Octagon and George street, Dunedin.— Advt. ■■ , /.Did you get our fishing!catalogue? If ■ not, there’s one for you post free.—Barth Electrical Supplies, Ltd,, 5£ Princes street, DunediH. —Advt. A. B. J. Blakeley and W, E. Bagley, dentists, Bank of- Australasia, corner of Bond and Rattray streets (next (Telegraph Office). Telephone 12-359.—Advt.