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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21998, 6 July 1933, Page 6

Overseas Mails

The R.M.S. Monowai, which is cine at Auckland on Sunday from Vancouver, is bringing 100 bags of European, Canadian, and American mails for Dunedin. The mail is expected to reach the local Post Office on Tuesday afternoon.

A Welcome Find Motorists who possess standardised cars are constantly faced with the problem of mistaken identity with regard to their machines. The owner of a well-known make of car left it standing in Rattray street yesterday, only to iind on his return that someone had placed two small parcels on the front seat. Imagining that his wife had put them there, as was her custom on seeing his car in town, he drove home, only to find, much to his amazement, that his better half had not been in town at all that day. The net result was that the owner of a similar machine went short of a brown loaf and a pair of flounders, whilst the articles in question, on account of the impossibility of finding an owner for thorn at such a late hour of the day, formed a welcome addition to the motorist’s breakfast menu.

Soldiers’ Membership Campaign At the end of June the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association had a lead of 255 over the Christchurch Association in the membership campaign which was commenced at the beginning of the present financial year. The figures were; Dunedin 1352, Christchurch 1097.

New Zealand Naval Recruits According to Commander E. Lyon Berthon, officer in charge of the Devonport naval base and captain of the Philomel (says our special correspondent in Auckland), the boys who are now ready to bo posted to cruisers are among the best recruits he has ever trained. “In the course of the year they have developed marvellously,” Commander Berthon said, “ both physically and from a service point of view. At present we have a class composed entirely of advanced recruits, and this is not by any means usual. The general standard of recruits trained in New Zealand is far higher than that of those who enter the service in England. The experience of fleet work would make them the equal of anything in the world.”

Burnside Stock Sales Quality was not a dominant feature in the fat cattle yarding at the Burnside sales yesterday. The number penned was 230 head, and, with the exception of only a few consignments of prime bullocks, most of the cattle displayed a lack of finish not uncommon at this season. Values showed an easing tendency at the opening of the sale, but the last two races firmed to almost 10s per head better than last week’s rates. Prime ox and heifer beef was in demand throughout, but cow beef did not advance. Some extra prime heavy bullocks from Ida Valley made up to £l2 12s (id. Prime bullocks averaged from £8 to £lO, and light and medium from £5 to £7 10s; best heifers were worth from £8 to £8 2s (id: medium from £5 to £0; prime heavy young cows sold to £7; medium-weights from £4 to £5 ss; and light from £2 5s to £3 10s. In the fat sheep pens only a few really prime wethers were included in a yarding ct 2000. There was a wide selection of ewes, and although prices fluctuated slightly, all prime sheep were firm at last week’s rates. Medium ewes, of which there was a large number, opened about Is per head easier, but prices soon firmed up. Representatives from the Belfast freezing works again operated for ewes and wethers suitable for export. A few selected prime heavy wethers sold from 24s to 28s, prime heavy from 20s to 235 ; medium from 17s to 19s, light and unfinished from 13s to 16s. Extra prime heavy ewes sold to 19s 9d, prime from 15s 6d to 17s 6d, medium from 12s 6d to 15s, and light from 8s to 11s. Competition from outside butchers assisted the market. The yarding of 2500 lambs to a large extent comprised the clean-up of the season’s output, as practically all freezing works will cease to operate after July 10. Farmers took the opportunity of selling right out, and consequently the quality was not good on the average. Any prime heavy lambs were keenly competed for, but values for these fell short of last week’s rates by 2s per bead. Medium and light-weight lambs did not suffer to the same extent, and competition from graziers helped values for this class. Prime heavy lambs sold to £1 Is, prime from 16s to 18s, and light and medium from 13s to 15s. Probably on account of the enhanced values in tbs store cattle section last week, the largest yarding for some time was submitted for sale, the entry totalling 270 head. There were several pens of well-bred, good-conditioned steers forward, and these sold under keen competition up to £5 6s. The latter price was obtained for three different aonsignments. Vealers were in over-supply, and vendors had to accept reduced values. The usual assortment of cull cows were disposed of at late rates. The entry of fat pigs numbered 83. Competition was keen throughout, baconers, in particular, participating in a rise in value of fully 5s per head. Store pigs, of which only a few pens were yarded, sold on a par with last week’s values.

A Hint for Motorists There is little that the average service bus driver does not know of what makes for safer and easier driving, and yesterday a Dunedin motorist, who has just completed a tour of the South Island, informed the secretary of the Otago Motor Club that he had received from one of them a hint that seemed to be well worth passing on to other car owners. Whilst travelling on the road from Nelson to Greymouth he experienced a good deal of trouble through moisture freezing on his wind-shield and interfering with visibility to such an extent that on several occasions he was compelled to stop the car whilst ho cleared the glass. It was during one of these stops that a service bus came along, and the driver, on learning the cause of delay, advised the motorist to open the rear clip on the driver’s side of the bonnet and lift the leaf a few inches, at the same time jamming it in this position with a piece of wood or anything else handy. This, the bus driver explained, allowed the fan to drive a current of warm air from the engine on to the screen, and so prevent ice from forming on the glass. The motorist gladly, accepted the suggestion, and for the remainder of his trip he was free of at least one motorist's bugbear — a frosted wind-shield.

A Visitor from Scotland Mr J. 13. Gumming, a director of John Walker and Sons, Ltd., distillers, of Kilmarnock and London, arrived in Dunedin' on Tuesday. Mr Gumming is on a business journey which, by the time he returns to Scotland in January, will have comprised a tour of the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and the East. “In the States," he informed an Otago Daily Times reporter yesterday, “ there is widespread dissatisfaction with the experiment of prohibition, which has proved impracticable and is unpopular with the bulk of the population. This fact has been stated in the press for a number of years, and the X'esults of the polling in different States seems to bear out fully that no people will be content to have a statute on their books which is treated with almost universal contempt. It is hoped that next year the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment will be carried. A majority of two-thirds of the States ,is required to make the repeal effective, and already 10 States have voted in condemnation of the continuance of prohibition, rolling in (he other States—32 in number —will probably take place within the next year." The chairman of the wellknown firm represented by Mr Gumming is Sir Alexander Walker, a grandson of the original founder. Two of the principal distilleries, Mortlach and Cardow', are situated in the north of Scotland, within 1 " a few miles of the River Spey. The blending is carried out in Kilmarnock,. -where the bottling stores are also situated. Bottling for the English market is done in the firm’s premises in London. Mr Gumming will leave Dunedin this morning for Auckland.

Mosgiel Post Office The Mosgiel Borough Council a month ago endeavoured to have additional accommodation added to the Mosgiel Post Office, so that more privacy and quicker attention could be given to business transacted. The Postmaster-general’s reply, which was read at last night’s meeting, was not sympathetic’. He considered the present accommodation was ample for normal requirements. Should any matters require special privacy, the postmaster’s room could be utilised, and at a time of abnormal pressure of business the department would consider using a room in a nearby building. The council referred the reply to the General Committee. West Coast Coal Trade Representations were made to the Minister of Public Works (Mr J. Kitchener) at Westport by the president and secretary of the Millerton Miners’ Union, asking that (ho importation of coal from Australia should cease. During the last three months, it was stated, 28,000 tons had been brought into the country, to the detriment of New Zealand mines. It was unfair that Millerton miners, who were worse off than relief workers, should be compelled to pay the wages tax. The membership of the Medical Association had fallen from over 500 members to less than 200, and were it not for the assistance of the Hospital Board, they would have difficulty in retaining the services of their doctor. Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, was of the opinion an embargo should be placed on all importations. The agreement which Air Downie Stewart entered into with Australia could have been terminated at six months’ notice. He was of the opinion the wages tax should not be paid on earnings below £2. Mr W. H. MTntyre, M.L.C., also supported the requests of the deputation. The Minister said ho would place the views of the deputation before the Commissioner of Unemployment as soon as possible.

Relief Worker’s Car When a man’s name was called in the Magistrate’s Court in Auckland yesterday in a prosecution for using a car without registration plates, a woman stepped forward and said that she was'representing her husband. The magistrate asked why he was not present, and the wife replied; “Oh, he is in a relief camp.” The police said that when the defendant had been stopped by a constable he explained that he had just driven home from a country relief camp and bad intended to lay up the car when he returned into camp. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed. Time to pay was allowed. Broadcasting Aids Music

Both Mr Frederick Moore, examiner for the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, and Mr F. A. Tyrer, examiner for Trinity College, who arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Rangitiki. commented on the beneficial effects of the broadcasting on music. Mr me said that wireless had upset music at .irsl, but it would do good in the end. The English School of Composition had never been in a more flourishing state since the days of Elizabeth, Mr Tyrer said that a largenumber of new young faces were to be seen at symphony concerts, which suggested that the broadcasting of music was creating a new and expanding audience of concert-goers. Wives of American Sailors

The fact that New Zealand girls married American sailors at the time of the last visit of the. American Fleet was mentioned by a deputation from the National Council of Women that waited upon the Minister of Justice (Mr J. G. Cobbe) in Auckland on Saturday. The deputation stated that hardship was imposed on these women as a result of the inequality of sexes in relation to nationality. In the event of war, it was stated, they would be regarded ns aliens. Found in Time

Found hiding in the funnel of the Shaw. Savill and Albion motor ship Coptic before she left Auckland for London on Sunday morning, a young man was put ashore before the vessel left the wharf, and no action was taken against him. He was covered in dirt. The young man evidently did not realise the danger of hiding in the funnel, and it was fortunate for him that he was discovered in the course of the routine search of the ship, ff he had been in the funnel when the motors of the ship were running, he would probably have been overcome by the poisonous fumes from the oil engines.

Remarkable Golf Round The New Zealand open and professional golf champion, A. J. Shaw, was responsible for a sensational round when playing at Pupuke on Saturday, when he lowered his own record for the course from 64 to 61, eight strokes better than the scratch score of the course, 69. Though the course contains a preponderance of short holes—there are only four five .bogeys—it calls for good iron play, and Shaw’s masterly control in this phase of the game was evidenced in his round. He commenced with two threes, added another at the seventh hole, and capped it off with a two at the next. Coming home, he had no less than six threes, two strings at the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, and at the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth holes. At each of the long holes, bogey five, his prodigious length off the tees paved the way for fours, to which he was equal. The champion made the outward journey in 31, and came home in 30.

East Taieri School The annual meeting of the East Taieri Ex-Pupils’ Association was held on Tuesday night. The forthcoming anniversary will be the eightieth, and to cerebrate it it was decided to hold three days’ celebrations in November, followed by a church parade to East Taieri Church. Early in November a meeting will be held to further the arrangements. Progress o£ British Films

“ Next year fewer American and more British pictures will be shown in Australia and New Zealand. In each of these dominions the demand by the public for British pictures is growing, and the output by British studios in increasing.” This prediction regarding the motion picture industry was made by Mr F. Beaumont Smith, managing director of the J. C. Williamson Picture Corporation, who returned to Sydney by the Wanganella last week from Auckland. The Sydney Morning Herald states that Mr Smith, during a short visit to New Zealand, helped to make an agreement for the establishment of an all-British picture theatre circuit, involving theatres in the principal cities and towns of the Dominion. A contract was signed some weeks ago by representatives of the J. C. Williamson Theatre Corporation, John Fuller and Sons, W. R. Kemball Theatres, Ltd., and the Fuller-Hayward Picture Corporation, with British-Dominion Films for the establishment of this allBritish circuit. Mr Smith stated that he would now devote bia attention, in association with his company, to the production in Sydney of Australian talkies. The first picture to be undertaken would lie “ Hayseeds,” the production of which he would supervise.

Mishap to Lake Steamer The s.s. Ben Lomond, which is at present carrying on the service on Lake Wnkatipu, blew her boiler yesterday at some time during her rim to and from Kingston, with the result that she will have to be withdrawn from commission until the necessary repairs have been effected or the cracked plate is replaced. The mishap, occurring at the present time, is particularly unfortunate (telegraphs our Queenstown correspondent), as the s.s. Earnslaw is at present undergoing her annual overhaul. Both of the larger launches plying on the lake are also being overhauled at the present time, but it will be possible to press one of these into service to-day. The service will be carried on in this way until the Earnslaw can take up the running, which may not be for two or three days. The Ben Lomond had just undergone her overhaul, and had only taken up the running a few days ago.

Payment by Cheque Though legal and commercial men are aware of the fact that, a cheque is not legal tender —not money—there are many people who arc not. A petition has just been dismissed by the court in Wellington because the £lO deposit which was required by the Act was lodged by way of cheque. A prominent barrister, who commented on the subject recently, pointed out that a cheque on a banker is simply an order to the bank to pay the sum stated —it is not, in itself, a payment of that sum. Where the law stipulated that a deposit of money must be made, it was no compliance with the Act to deposit a cheque. In the case of the Wellington petition, if the cheque had been cashed before the expiry of the time limit and the money had been received, the law would have been complied with, but the position was that at the expiry of the time limit the money had not been paid. The barrister stated that in most official payments, such as the payment of court fees, etc., the cash had to be paid over. Legally, the position between a banker and his customer was that of debtor and creditor, and the cheque was merely an order to the banker to pay the sum named. A payment by cheque was always conditional, and if the cheque was dishonoured the creditor could sue for the debt. In commercial practice, the cheque was used almost generally, because of its greater convenience and safety, as compared with legal tender. The cheque, however, was only a qualified payment, and the debt was not discharged till the banker had honoured the cheque. ,

Better Suburban Services

At the monthly meeting of the Mosgiel Borough Council last night the General Committee reported that it had agreed to support the Green Island Borough Council in an endeavour that was being made to obtain better railway facilities on suburban lines.

Early Lambs The first of the spring lambs have made their appearance at North Taieri, where yesterday five healthy little ones were to be seen making the most of what little sunshine was available. The hard frosts of the past two nights should try their strength.

State Fire Office in Christchurch In accordance with its recently adopted policy of stimulating industry by the prosecution of important public works, the Cabinet lias authorised immediate erection of the State Fire Office in Worcester street. Christchurch. In making this announcement on Tuesday night, the Acting Prime Minister (Mr J. G. Coates) said that the Government would issue shortly a statement detailing the different public works which are to be undertaken, and the amounts which are to be applied to each. The State Fire Office building will not, of course, be included among these, since it is the responsibility not of the Public Works Department, but of the State Fire Department. Mr Coates indicated clearly that the Government has come round to the view that it should push ahead with public works wherever possible, but within reasonable limits, as a,means of defeating the depression. It is understood that the new building in Christchurch will be put in hand as soon ns possible.

City Police Court In the City Police Court yesterday, before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., Charles Hunter pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. Two first offenders, similarly charged, were fined 10s. in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, and 20s, with an alternative of 48 hours’ imprisonment, respectively.

TVIr F. H. Milner, recently appointed secretary for New Zealand of the Sudan United Mission, will arrive in Dunedin on Tuesday next, and on the following evening will deliver an address at 8 o’clock in the Y.M.C.A. on the work of the mission.

See the consummation of 27 years’ progress of the Austin Car at Austin Motors (Otago), Ltd., 284/6 Princes street, Phone 13-215.—Advt.

A. E. Blakeley and W. E Bagley, dentists, Bank of Australasia, corner of Bond and Rattray streets (next Telesraph Office) Telephone 12-359 Advt Radiators and Radiator Repairs by Radiator Repair Experts.—Barth Electrical Supplies, Ltd., 56 Princes street, Dunedin.—Advt. Save your eyes. Be wise, and consult W. V. Sturmer, optician (2 Octagon), thus conserving good vision for old ags.— Advt.