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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21774, 13 October 1932, Page 8

Mails from Oversea • •

The R.M.S. Makuru, which* is due afc Wellington on Monday from Sau Francisco, is bringing 95 bags of European, American, and Canadian mails and six parcel, receptacles for Dunedin. The mail should reach the local Post Office next Tuesday afternoon. - . ,

Land Ballot A ballot for-seven' sections of what is generally known as the Naseby Commonage was conducted at the meeting of the Otago Land Board yesterday. There were 15 applications for land, and the following drew sections Murray- Here' (section 84), P. H. Hoffman (section 85), B. G. Brown- (sections 83 and 86), I. J. Parfitt (section 88), R., C.-Tait (section 89), and A. J. Brown (Section, 90). City Fire Brigade The City Fire Brigade received a call at 1.39 p.m. yesterday to Wain’s Hotel, where a chimney had caught .Tire. No. damage was done. Burnside Stock Sales - There was little'change in the prices obtained for most classes of stock at the Burnside sales yesterday.. Fat cattle sold at' prices similar to those, which; ruled at,, the previous sale, while wetliei‘s ahd.l&mbs. were a shade easier. The yarding of 272, head of fat cattle included a large, number of extra heavy bullocks, a fair con-, signment of prime medium-weights, and a big selection of cows.. One consignment of bullocks brought from £9 10s to £lO 10s, and several pens' of prime bullocks sold from £8 10s. to £9 10s. Only a few heifers, were penned, and these brought from £6i>loa to £7 7s 6d. . Cows realised from £6 to £7 10s. The prices for prime ox beef averaged,about klspcrlOOlb. Afew extra heavy cattle sold at 20s, and' heifers and cows were worth from 18a to 20s per 1001 b. The chief attraction in the store cattle entry wab a line -of 40 head of good steers. The highest price obtained for this consignment wia £5 7s6d, and the whole line averaged just over £4 per head. Old cows made up the balance of the yarding and sold at late rates. About 2000 sheep were forward.. There was a fair yarding of prime heavy, wethers, along with several trucks' of good heavy ewes and a fair number of medium light ewes. The sale for wethers opened with a drop of Is per head . compared, with last -week’s rates. Early in the salethe top price-realised _was 17s 6d per head for several pens of wethers., Good handy-weights,sold from.-14s to 16s, and a few pens of extra prime ewes'brought from 12s to 12s 6d. -The majority of the ewes, however, realised from 10s to lls. Wethers were equal to 2id- for heavyweights and 2Jd for light, while ewes were worth IJd per lb. ‘ There was a larger yarding of spring lambs, and several pens sold from 25s’ to 25s 6d, with lighter sorts bringing from VJs 6d to 20s. The whole yarding averaged about 8d per lb. In the pig section 97 fats and 128 stores .were offered. Good quality was featured in most of the pens. Baconers were soft at an advance of about 5s per head, but porkers were a. little easjer ,in value. ', ... ' ',

A Tragic Situation The Auckland Society for the Protection of Women and Children has decided’ to request Parliament to introduce legislation to prevent the employment of white' girls and Maori girls by Chinese. Officials of the society said that there were oyer 60 illegitimate half-caste Chinese babies in Auckland, and that the number, of" Maori girls living with Chinese men was increasing alarmingly. Unless the suggested legislation were passed the only remedy was to allow Chinese women t:v enter the country, or to prohibit the entry of Chinese men. The present position was tragic. v-.:

Strawberry Prospect* Prospects for the strawberry season are good, .plants in districts Supplying Auckland being well forward and in healthy condition. It is expected that , the crop this year will be about the same quantity as last season, or possibly a little larger (states the New Zealand Herald). Although there were some losses in all districts at the time when plants were lifted and set out, growers immediately made replacements, and slightly more than the usual number of plants were transplanted Although they' - , were inclined to be back;; ward a few weeks ago on account of the heavy weather, the plants have come forward exceptionally well after the recent rain and are now well advanced. Root rot has not been so prevelant as last season, when many plants in the Northcote and Birkenhead districts were affected. A small number of strawberries was offered at the city markets last week, these coining, from the Birkdale area, where the season will be earlier than in other districts. The other gardens at Northcote, Birkenhead, Mount Roskill, and Avondale South are little behind, while berries from Albany qnd Henderson, where there .are small plantations, should be on the market, in good time. Growers expect to commence picking in two weeks,, and supplies should come, forward from all districts by the end of the month. The majn portion of the prop should commence to reach the, market by the first week in November, provided the weather remains favourable;'

Onions front .CuMIM; A consignment of Canadian-groWn . onions, landed from the Aoyangi at Auck- .. land on October 3, reached Dunedin ye* . terday afternoon by the. steadier Wingfctui. The consignment, comprises oyer 1000 bags and crates, and should be aysflfiibl*' on the local market to-day. The Wingatili - also brought other lines of Canadian carffa... , carried by the Aorangi; ' 'r .. Horse-Range Rdad .' '. r

The secretary of the Otago Motor dub has received advice from the Waihemo County Council that on account of •’ * wash-out the Horse Range road,' near Palmerston, will be closed to traffic'until , Saturday.

City Police Court - ? , In the City Police Court yesterday John ■ Gordon Scoullar appeared ,be|or:e.Mr J. ‘ R. Bartholomew, S,M., on a charge of drunkenness, and was .fined. 20Sj iiP.de* fault 48 hours’ imprisonment.' 'The Adjourned case .in which Harold M'Cormack { was proceeded 'against pi a iclaim for affiliation and maintenance orders In re* sp.ect of an illegitimate .child of which he was alleged td.be the.; father also dame before the court. After traversing the evidence the magistrate held thaf the. com. plaint had hot been substantiated and dismissed the case, . ; ’ r, Tourist Prospects

Indications are still being given that the tourist traffic within tlie Dominion during the coming season will be touch better than last year, and a good manyinquiries are being made at the local agencies for trips to various resorts in the South Island, as well as farther; afield. Very satisfactory bookings have been received for a round trip'to Queenstown at Labour Day week-end, while Mount" Cook has also received its share of attention, and" an unusual feature is that those who intend travelling -at Christmas are’ already making Arrangements with 'the touristcompUnies. Although^the greatest activity is experienced dunhg the holiday-sea-' sons, the reduction jn railway fares'-has had the effect of increasing the number of travellers at other times of the year, with the result that within the next month or two thete wiil be many making -trips to the North Island and various points in the. South Island who 'would' ptherwise. have waited till Christmas."

Otago Anglers’ Association The Otago Anglers’. Association has nowarranged its competitions for , the current, season, and the first of these will be Held on the Shag River on Labour. Day, wjiile others-, will take place pn , the; Tomahawk Lagoon, and the Waipahi, Waikouaiti, and Shag Rivers. A special, competition for boys will be held on the Water.br 1 Leith bn October 29, anti arrangemVpts are being made to take whp. are license-holders to the Waitati; hatchery on Saturday afternoon. There they.- will be enabled to see the fish in different stages of development,-, and willhave an. excellent opportunity ta'study their habits and breeding, etc- ■ There -are at present : two millions- and a-half -ova in the ponds.,.

Valuable . Bequests,.,; . /.„/ Miss 1 Archibeila Joan Wilson,- of Westniece, Auckland* who. died last week r . left £35,000, including £SOO ■ to the Auckland Hospital Auxiliary, fiPQ to the Salvation Army £4OOO which, is. to'.be ip-Yfistcd and the interest paidrtp Auckland Society for. the-Prevention of-Crueity tp.Apimals, and,<£6oo to the Presbyterian -Church., - Dunedin Drainage Board t The monthly, meeting, of the''P : upedin Drainage and Sewerage . Board was bold last night, the. Mayor ..(Mr R.- S.,Black) in the chair.. There were also present: Crs P. W. Mitchell, W., Begg, .J: J., Marlow, J. Wilson, F. Wilkinson, J. B. Shacklock, A. B. Allen, J. J.■ Clark,. Messrs; G. Glue and, j. Beattie. The reports’of the Works and Finance Committee, : were : adopted, withont.,discussion of Charles Glagsou for, the construction, of a . dra;in .in cpmpi(^'bnjibb &^gnal a Hill'. .road at-a priceipf £54.Ts. T was, acenpted^ A Valuable Estate J Probate .JiaS- been - Supreme Court in. Auckland of , the-.will of Major John Whitney, fbiinder ailid chairman of directors'of the "Colonial Anynynition Company, whose estate :(says aFress Association telegram) ■is valued for-p rebate at under £25,000'. Major Whitney died on September : 6 at the agfe of 96. His, estate is disposed; of to relatives. Denniston Mines ; I?, if-,” -The management of tlie Coal Company at Denniston,-; harvservbd the Miners’ Uniofa kith a notice .(says the ■(brreapondeht';oif - ’the-Christchurch , Tidies) that, all tools are.to. be taken out'fptrthe '■ ;pits_.-to-day. as. the company, prbppsptwithr .drawing the-pumps.; ;This virtually/means the closing of the mines: at Denniston. A “ Sunday School. Baxaar ”/ 1 The -disgustof the: ffiembers ipf vthe executive of the Canterbury .'Rowing v Association wasdeep whentheTistof articles for which raffles are permitted was read .jtoj .them 'vt-mch- was enclosed-'in a v tha. Department-of Internal Affairs refusing the association permission to conduct a raffle f pr. gold, began- by,. enumerating paintings, drawings, pieces of sculpture, and engravings, * and worked itp way . through - dressed dolls and fhandrpainted screens to art needlework articles and finished with poker-wprked cushions. “ Does he.thinkweare. running a Sunday school bazaar? ” asked one member scornfully./' The Investment of Capital :r : i . 4

vThose who have’ followed' the activities on- the Stock Exchange ; during s: the" 'i>aßt few months will have noticed that therb -hiis ’been .an unusual demand'- for'Government bonds arid mining shares-of, all de- ; scriptions; In 1 '- conversation with ‘a' Daily Times reporter yesterday brie who hat for many years been intimately .’associated with stockbroking stated that this is 4 phase of the share’ market Which’ always becomes evident in of -depression. At such periods the average. investor it inclined to look askance at ordinary commercial propositions, \ which Ore then usually-able to offer at the very’best only a decidedly moderate" return-on the capital invested, while in the general financial; nervqurness which prevails th« security is often; called- in The ■ person in" search of an outlet for his'savings, therefore, turns his attention first of all to what he regards as the safest of investments—Government bonds. The scope in this field is, of .course! hot,-un-limited, and after the largest portion of the money at his disposal has,-.beeh |ulils in stock of this -thafactcr, the. speculator casts; round in search. of some" .Other; t -pr<V position offering a reasonable return..for, his money. The unattractive natjire of ordinary industrial shares, coupled with the . psychological- , effect of pe^cSl'of financial, .stringency,. which-“app'eafs t» - introduce into the' community. a .tendency to gamble, results in a marked stimulation in interest in;-mining*-ventures. At the present ,time this attitude has been strengthened/by . tbh ;riSe in the price of gold,'and'it is proh&blO that. not for many-years-has so much money been invested in Otago in the gold mining industry, as is the case to-day. It if reliably stated that the paid-up capital of mining companies listed, on the Dun* edin Stock Exchange at the moment amounts to no less a sum than £457,567. In addition to this there must be reckoned the private ventures and small parties, whose capital,, it- is stated, -must, at 4 ■ conservative, estimate, reach the total of £200,000. It is considered that the whole of this capital Jras.bieeji jjpiei within Otago, The mpney.ingested id, on® large company which last,.week wont to allotment", bht ik»i yel been listed on the Exchange, is not ii*» eluded in either group. and it will, therefore, be seed that at the present time the gold mining industry has absorbed almost three-quarters of .ia. million ponndi* of Otago capital.

Jhe T«l-Wagfer*’ Club The secretary of the Tail-Waggers’ Club (Mr P. R.Wingrove) informed a Daily Times reporter last .evening that since ,bis arrival in Dunedin last week he has secured' 75 members in this city for the ''club.'. The interest of the public in this organisation for the welfare of dogs is ' steadily increasing, and it is anticipated that during the next few days many new dogs will be enlisted as; members ,of -the r«lub. The splendid. Alsatiap, Prince, who* ; yith. a collecting hox on his. back, has ,already become a familiar, figure on,the etreets, has been instrumental in raising a . substantial gum, locally for the coffers of the club, and yesterday he broke all records for street collecting work of this description by raising the sum of £3 Os lid.

. Trouble' at Grey Power Works the opening of the Grey Power hydtb plant at Kaimata bn Septein- , her 21 it haS been stated that the plant has not been operating entirely satisfactorily. it is (says the' Greymouth correspondent' of the Press) that the steam plant at Dobson is being used to carry '■'half the load. Mr Vickerman, of Messrs Vickerman and, Lancaster, consulting engineers, Wellington, made ah inspection son Monday. His opinion is that the surge chamber is the cause of the trouble. Ifi an endeavour to overcome this, a. hole is . to be cut in the surge tank tp give an outlet, for the overflow, of the surge, which . is to be carried away, in a timber flume. ■The cost is estimated at £3OO. Apparently the surge is not dealt with, by the governors, as. was anticipated ,by the . engi'Peers. The cutting of a,hole ia.expected efficiently to decrease the ,down surge, and, ■cut off the upward surge, making the plant absolutely efficient. Mr Vickerman . stated-at-a meeting of the power. Board ; ..on Monday,evening, t,hat ij£#ouW. H ,■'able to avoid -apy surge ,4t (he .tank wer p made larger»but tp increase the capacity would, cost .£30.0.0. He favoured. cutting a : in the. present tank rather than increasing tbe : size of the.tank. man pointed put that the repairs would take six weeks.. The board would lose at the rate of. £l5O ,a week, making £9OO, which, .with the.cpst of, alterations, brought „ the maximum cost, to £1200,.. Mr yickei)man was authorised to. proceed with the work. ....... • . «. . , Chets Player’s Thirty-two Opponents; A former chess champion "of Middlesex Vend New South Wales, 'Mr-Ml E, Goldstein, took part in 32 games simultaneously in Auckland on Saturday evening. He wt m 21 of "them and lost five, the remaining six being drawn.' The games occupied nearly four, hours, It was one of the most ndtable simultaneous games'ever. ‘ held in Auckland.. A short,time ago Mr "..Goldstein played 18 games at oilce, being defeated _in. only one contest. ' . • Bullock at Large - Some time before the weekly stock sale ' 'at Opotiki commenced last week a .rather vfviM'Hereford bullock,, with .a fine spread of horns, broke out of . the sale yards wit.i • tt' tremendous crash, mingled with the shouting of excited men. The, enraged animal made for the'Waioeka'main' highway and" raced along towards the dairy ' factory. One - young man on a bicycje braved the fierce, looks and advances of the bullock, arid, got safely past. Next the bullock made towards another ypfjipg v' niafi pushifig' a- idredm r on ja handcart. The-sight* of the-bullock was too much for him, however, and-he mads a wild dash oyer a, gat®-, The animal continued along the ' road ? and was ftfl* i' lowed by a youth on a bicycle onhis way to the factory; ■ A well-known stockman trmd tbntop the animal, thinking it was being driven by the youth on the cycle. After being greeted with a few yells arid waving ■of arms, the bullock tossed his ! Jiead and decided to turn back, and'with ( a fine turn of speed made a wild daifli ‘ straight for the cyclist'. The latter de* ‘ : ’cided that' discretibri whs the better part of valour, dropped from his machine and fled. He quite' expeefted to see his cycjesmashed' to 'pieces,* Brit the 'wild'beast leaped right over thp. .and, finding his quarry gone, continued his way .’ along the road, to fie eventually rounded up and put'hack in the kale yards,| ;

• ’ ' '.The concert and dance of the . Orkney, and Shetland Society wijh.be. held, . in the Returned Soldiers’. Association s ' rooms. on . Saturday evening. . Austin the name implies British Quality Motor Car. See the latest Ten Four—£2B9 complete.—Austin, , Motors (Otago), Ltd., 284/6 Princes street',. phone 1i ’ i 13-2151—Advt. -V- I'■ 1 '■ : Save your eyes. Be wise,-and; consult W. :V. Stumer, optician (2 Octagon), thus conserving;good vision, for o)d- age. Advt. .•. .. ‘ k '• _ . • ' New season’s Fishing Tackle ndw on display. Catalogues ready.—Barth Electrical Supplies/ Ltd., 56 Princes street, Dunedin .—Advt. A. E. J. Blakeley, and W. E. Bagley, dentists, Bank" of Australasia, corner jof ■t Bond and Rattray streets; - (next: Telegraph Office) ■/. Telephone 12-359.—Advt. ■