Boy Missing

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21542, 14 January 1932, Page 6

Boy Missing

Horace John Parker, 15 years of age, has been missing from his home at 78 Easther crescent since 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday. He is 4ft 2in in height, has straight brown hair, brown eyes, fair complexion, and sharp features. When he left home he was dressed in a grey jersey, dark grey short pants, navy skull cap, fawn, blue and white tie, black stockings, with fawn, and white tops, and black boots. Damage by Fire

An outbreak of fire in a five-roomed wooden duelling at, 9 De Carle street, St. Hilda, was attended by the City Fire Brigade at 4.10 p.m. yesterday, but so firm a hold had the fire gained that the house was badly damaged before the outbreak was finally quelled. The house, which is owned and occupied by Mr Archibald M‘Millan, is insured in ’ the Eagle, Star, and British Dominions Office for £425, the contents being covered in the same office for £250. The cause of the fire is unknown. * s - ■ .

Burnside Stock Sales

Moderate yardings of fat stock were offered at the Burnside sales yesterday, and most classes were sold at prices about equal to those which ruled at the previous sale. The fat cattle entry numbered '260 head, the yarding including several pens of extra prime heavy bullocks and a fair number of good lightweight animals'. The cows and heifers were mostly aged and unfinished. There was a drop of about 30s per head on heavy bullocks and 20s on light weights compared with last week’s prices. Heavy bullocks sold to £l2, heifers to £B, and cows from £4 10s to £6. Heavy bullocks sold on a basis of about 24s per 1001 b. Approximately 1650 sheep were penned. The entry comprised principally ewes, only three consignments of prime wethers being forward. This class sold at an advance of Is 6d per head, as compared with the rates obtained at the previous sale. Extra prime ewes and young ewes were in keen demand, and sold from 15s to 18s 9d. Aged ewes were worth from 9s to 10s. Prime wethers sold to 255, medium weights from 19s to 225, heavy wethers from 22s to 255, medium from 18a to 20s 3d, light from 12s 6d to 16s, extra heavy ewes to 18s 9d, heavy from 14s 6d to 17s 3d, medium from 10s 6d to 12s, and light sorts from 7s 6d to 9si 6d About 500 lambs were penned. The quality was good all round, and as several export buyers were in. attendance, prices were fully equal to those which ruled at the previous sale. Heavy lambs sold to 18s, prime to 15s*, medium to 12s 6d, and unfinished sorts to lls 6d. In the store cattle section several pens of two and three-year-old steers sold from £4 10s to £5. The remainder of the yarding consisted mostly of aged cows, and these were disposed of at prices ranging from 25s to £4. Pigs met with a dull sale, but prices showed little variation from those realised last week. Baconers were worth from 4Jd to 5d and porkers about 6d per lb.

City Police Court There was no business a.t the City Police Court yesterday morning.

The Magic of Hard Work Referring to the current depression in his address to the annual meeting of the Senate of the University of New Zealand yesterday,' the chancellor (‘Professor J. Macmillan Brown) suggested that no magic but that of hard work and thrift could be expected to undo -the havoo wrought by persistent depression. "I conjecture,” he said, “ that this depression is not going to pass completely and speedily away any more than its postNapoleonic predecessor of a century ago did. There is no political or economical magic, such as some of our Labour friends are so fond of suggesting, to conjure away the results of this financial blizzard. We shall have to replace the vanished capital by the same toilsome work and thoughtful , thrift as slowly built it up. What comes by gambling generally goes in the same easy way. It is only by hard work, aidedby thought, that a stable basis of prosperity is attained, and in attaining or restoring this the very powers that originally gained it are strengthened and renewed.” .

New Zealand Meat in London A New Zealander who was recently in the Old Country brought back a price list issued by a well-known butcher in Finchley road, Hampstead, in order to show some of his friend's the wide disparity between the price of English and Scottish meat and New Zealand frozen meat. New Zealand is most concerned with the lamb prices. The Hampstead butcher’s list shows Devon and Somerset lamb ranging from Is Id a pound for ribs to Is 8d a pound for hindquarters and leg, while triqimed chops go' up to 2s 2d a pound. New Zealand prices range from 7d a pound for ribs to Is a pound for leg, and the trimmed chops sell for Is 2d a pound. English and Scotch mutton sells from Is Id for neck to Is 9d for trimmed chops, while the New Zealand mutton ranges from 7d for shoulders and loin to 10d a pound for trimmed chops. The man who brought out the price list said the difference in prices emphasised the absolute necessity for New Zealand to keep up the standard of its meat, particularly of its lamb. He mentioned in* cidentally that while he was in the Old Country he sampled New Zealand cheese whenever he got the chance, and there wa? no doubt there had been a deterioration in quality. New Zealand must keep u{ the quality of its exports at all costs; once the good name of the New Zealand article was tarnished it would take a while to rehabilitate it.

Marine Mishaps Formal inquiries will be held before a stipendiary magistrate and assessors into the mishaps to the coastal steamers Storm and Breeze on December 18. The inquiries will be held at Christchurch, the dates to' be fixed after the assessors have been chosen.

Impressions of Java “ I spent very little" time in Java, not long enough to learn much about the country,” said Mr J. E. Strachan, principal of the Raugiora High School, in an interview in Wellington on Tuesday. “ Still, I could see that the chief asset of the Dutch in Java is the Javanese people. The other great assets are the climate and the extreme fertility of the soil. The scenery in Java is very beautiful, but no New Zealander who knew his own country well would rave over it. The Dutch have been credited with being great colonisers, but I think their success in the Fast Indies is mainly due to the things I have mentioned, the industry and high character of the native people and the natural advantages of the territory.

Bright Future for Dominion A note of optimism concerning the not distant future of New Zealand was struck by Sir Mark Sheldon, a prominent Australian business man, in' an interview at Hokitika’on Tuesday. “New Zealand" eaid Sir- Mark, “ although suffering from the low prices of primary products, is comparatively well off, as against even the richest nations of the world. This country is going to have, until the spring, a severe time of contraction; but once the people recognise the inevitable, cease public borrowing, and curtail the operations of the local bodies, matters will adjust themselves very quickly. As a stranger to New Zealand/’ continued Sir Mark, “ I think that the Dominion is adjusting itself to modern conditions, and I shall he very surprised if at the end of the year, or early in 1933, New Zealand does not show an upward tendency in economic life.”

Canterbury Freezing Works The freezing works throughout Canterbury are passing through the quiet period which follows the rush of milk lambs each year. “We are now marking, time for the final rush of artificially fed stock, which will be later this year on account of the dry spell,” said an official .on Tuesday. “Indications are that the season will be much the same as last so far as North Canterbury is concerned. We do not expect to be at full pressure ..until the end of February or the beginning of March.” Some of the South Canterbury concerns are rationing the work. _ Smithfield and-Pareora have opened since the holidays, but are working at only half their full complement. The Fairfield works were busier than usual up until New Year, after ,which work slackened off, and now rationing has been-resorted to. In North Canterbury the works are not quite so busy. Borthwicks have been working full time, but broken time has been worked at Islington since the holidays.

A Need of Democracy Speaking of the importance of education in democratic communities, the chancellor (Professor J. Macmillan Brown, in his address to the annual meeting of the Senate of University of New Zealand yesterday, said: “It is one of the foremost duties of a democracy to itself and to its future to keep raising the calibre and intelligence of the average man and woman so that their votes in the election to their Parliaments and boards may be efficient. But it is even more essential for its wellbeing that the exceptional talents of each generation be properly developed and trained for the organisation and management of, its vital industries and the solution of their problems. Of the two the more important is the latter, especially in a time of depression like this, when the very heart seems to have gone out of the community, which has lost its way and needs some guidance to lead it out of the pathless tangle. The rank and file need training and support, and still more do they need faith in the capacity of their leaders to discover and point the way. Times like those we are now passing through demand economies; but the least economical and- most unwise of economies ' is to stint the system that selects and develops the exceptional talents demanded by the fundamental industries.”—. (Applause.)

Midnight Dash It had just struck the hour of midnight, the time of departure of the last ferry for the night (says the Auckland Star). And as the last stroke echoed a would-be passenger dashed into the entrance of the ferry buildings, through the narrow gates guarding the approach to the ferry tees, and raced along the wharf at top speed. At the-' end of the tee the ferry was just moving. The runner saw nothing but the ferry. He dashed to one , side of the gangway, then, thinking his chances of a flying leap would be brighter from the other, he ran round and poised himself for the jump that would save him a long, weary, cold, lonely wait for the early morning launch. Then he looked and saw a group of people waiting on the boat, listlessly and unhurried, near the place where the gangway was to fall. That gave him pause. He turned round in a furtive manner, and there behind him was a line of amused spectators, watching a man prepared to risk his life to catch a boat—that was just coming in.

Cooling of Milk The opinion that the New Zealand practice of keeping milk overnight might have an adverse effect on the quality of produce was expressed by Mr G. L. ilost, Consul-general for Denmark in Australia and New Zealand, in an interview at Hawera on Saturday. In Denmark. Mr Host pointed out, the air temperature, was much lower than that in. New Zealand, and that was a great advantage. In Denmark, too, milk rooms were specially built to keep the milk cool overnight, and, in some cases, they were underground. In New Zealand he had noticed open milk stands, often in warm places, that must detrimentally affect the produce. New Zealand dairymen needed to evolve methods of cooling and the overnight storage of milk. This was the more necessary, since New Zealand producers made bulk butter and cheese in summer. That .was another weakness. In New Zealand dairying the manufacture was purely eeasonal, a fact which affected the marketing of produce. In Denmark, production was maintained at a constant level all the year round.

Use of Wireless Beacons The opinion that the installation of wireless beacons would be of considerable value to vessels when approaching New Zealand or when navigating between coastal ports, was expressed on Saturday by Captain J. H. Gaskell, the commander of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner Mataroa, now at Auckland. Captain Gaskell cited ,an incident which occurred ■when the Mataroa was recently proceeding from Auckland to Gisborne. The vessel left Auckland in a moderate northeasterly gale, with heavy misty rain, which reduced the visibility so much that a wide berth bad to be given to East Cape, outside the 100-fathom line. After rounding the Cape. Captain Gaskell arranged with the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Rangitata, which was at anchor in Tokomaru Bay, to exchange wireless bearings. Captain Gaskell immediately put the ship’s head on the bearing indicated, and so accurate did it prove that the Rangitata was made right ahead. “This surely demonstrates not only what a great aid it would be to safe navigation on this coast, but what a comfort it would he to masters of vessels if they were able to verify their positions by means of wireless Beacons similar to those established round the coast of Great Britain and most other places in Europe and said Captain Gaskell.

Christmas an Norfolk Island The Christmas and New Year period at INorfolk Island was a time of wild ihilarity, according to a letter received ;in Wellington from a resident. Natives and whites sang carols, and joined in the ■merrymaking, though rain somewhat marred the celebrations. A ball was held ■at Government House, which was the •scene of brilliant gaiety. New Year’s Eve was even more hilarious than Christmas Eve, singing, dancing, and first-footing being indulged in. Some traditional ceremonies of the natives were watched by many of the white population, who took part in the games of feasting of the islanders.

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