Otago Daily Times Flying Scholarship

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22373, 21 September 1934, Page 8

Otago Daily Times Flying Scholarship

The first group of country entrants for the Otago Daily Times Flying Scholarship will he tested on Saturday when Flightlieutenant E. Olson, of the Otago Aero Chib, will fly to Middlemarch 'in one of the club’s planes and put the prospective flyers through the tests which have already been undergone by large numbers of applicants at the Taieri aerodrome. This will be the first of a series of such trips which will be taken by the club.’s testing pilot, as wherever the number of country applicants is ' sufficiently large, tests will be carried out at the nearest suitable landing ground.

Mails Reach London New Zealand, mails which were despatched from Auckland, by the Aorangi on August 21 for thie United Kingdom, via Vancouver, reached London on September 19. Australian Mails

. The Mariposa, which is due at Auckland to-morrow morning from Sydney, is bringing 20 bags of Australian mail , and nine parcel receptacles, for Dunedin. The mail is expected to reach the local Post Office on Tuesday afternoon.

Fire Brigade Calls A chimney fire in Moray place was attended to by the City Fire Brigade at 6;55 ajh- yesterday, and at 7,55 p.m. the brigade was called to the corner of Stafford and Melville streets as the result of a malicious false alarm. Disposal of Estate

The. estate of Mr F. \V. Court, of Onehunga, who died -on September 7 at the age of 94 ,years, has been valued for purposes of probate (says a Press Association telegram from Auckland) at £14,000. The whole of his estate is disposed of to memb'ers of his family.

Magistrate’s Court In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., judgment by default was given in the following cases:—John Mill and Co., Ltd., v. J. Wilson, claim £2 os 9d, for goods supplied, with costs (£1 5s 6d). A. Carline v. Glover Gray, claim £2 15s, for rent due, with' costs (£1 3s 6d).

Britain and Disarmament While stating that he preferred not to make, any comment on the subject of the defence of New Zealand, a noted soldier. Brigadier-general A. P. Home, who is now in Christchurch, said that generally speaking Britain had tried her best to secure disarmament,. but the time was coming when it would have to be realised that overtures'had in a way failed, and that revision had to. be faced, at all events with regard to the Air Force and the navy. Medical Education

The subject that claimed the special attention of the British Medical Association at its recent meeting was that of medical education. • General approval was given to a report on the question, which stated that the primary object of the medical curriculum should “ constitute such a co-ordinated course of study as will, by its mental discipline, make the student a really .educated person and not merely a skilled technician.” Special emphasis was placed Upon the- view that the student’s attention should be directed primarily to health, its preservation, perfection or restoration, and not to disease. A patient would then naturally come to be regarded as a person to be restored to the normal if possible, and taught to remain so, rather than, to quote one eminent authority, ‘‘an interesting vehicle containing some fascinating disease processes.”

Duty of Almsgiving “One of the great duties imposed on Christian people by Our Lord was almsgiving,” said Bishop Cherrington, : in preaching in St. Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton, on Sunday. The bishop said almsgiving was mentioned in the Sermon on the Mount, but some people would not agree that anything to do with money could be spiritual. He thought people’s readiness to give what they had in the service of God was a very real test of their sincerity. On the previous Sunday, he added, about 300 people attended church in St. Peter’s parish, apart from the out-districts, and the offertories totalled £5 ss. There were about 500 Church of England families in the parish, and if each of these families contributed Is per week, the revenue would total £I2OO a year. . With that income the cathedral could have its dean and assistant clergy, and there would be sufficient available to replace the roof and do other necessary work. The bishop said he could not understand why people did not set aside a definite sum each week for the church, and see that the church got it, whether they attended the services or not.

The Bristol Scheme

That the Dunedin public . has be*» quick to appreciate the value of Dunedin’s "More Work” Campaign ..(the Bristol scheme) is shown by the number of inquiries at the organiser’s office in the Town Hall immediately following the appeal through the newspapers and. the post. Early though it :is to expect tangible results, promises covering- some hundreds of pounds have already come to hand, proving that the slogan of the campaign, “Do it now,” was well: chosen and is being well followed. ,

Farmers and the Alsatian A sentence in a,letter from the New Zealand Kennel. Club asking the assoeia-, tion to protest against the Bill making it an offence to .allow Alsatian dogs to breed was greeted with laughter at the meeting of the General Committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association on Wednesday. The letter , claimedthat the Alsatian “is gradually coming into favour, as a worker of sheep and cattle, in addition to being a guard "and ' companion.” “Refer it to the Amuse- ■■ merit Committee,” suggested a member, amid laughter. Mr W. H. Nicholson ,ex- . plained that , the Bill had since been amended to provide, merely for c the muzzling and not the sterilisation of the dogs.' The letter was “ received.” Relief Legislation

Advice that he ,was not at present in a position to state whether legislation extending the term of the Mortgagors and Tenants Relief Act would be introduced this session was given by the Minister of Justice (Mr J. G. Cohbe) to a meeting of the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in Wellington yesterday. The attitude of the Government in respect of existing' legislation, he stated, would be entirely contingent on the trend of economic events. A Press Association telegram states, that the. executive, which had made representations against any extension of the existing legislation, decided to take no further action"in the meantime. ’ ■■ ■'

Art Exhibition; The, steady increase of public interest in, the exhibition of oils, water-colours, and etchings at present being held in the Early Settlers’ Hall by the New Zealand Society of Artists is evidenced by ■ the consistently improving daily /attendances, art-lovers and students finding much to, claim their attention in the, comprehensive and excellently arranged display. A feature of the exhibition is the modern note which is struck in maqy of the works, the result being a freshness and novelty that is distinctly attractive. Since the exhibition was opened two pictures, ■ “Mount Cook from the Black Forest,” by Phyllis Drummond Sharpe, and “ Baghdad,” an etching by J. M. Thbinasson, have, been sold.

In a Better Position

The opinion that the Australian dairy farmer was in a far better .position than the - New- Zealand dairy farmer was expressed by Mr W. Dynes Fulton, chairman of i directors of , the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., who returned to Hamilton a few days ago from a brief business visit to Australia. The equalisation scheme in Australia, .he said, had rendered valuable assistance to the primary producer. Prices were 140 s a cwt for all butter consumed throughout'the Commonwealth. The price was fixed from time to time, and was retained until there was justification, for alteration. It was paid into a pool and equalised at the end of the season by the returns received from export butter. The whole amount was pooled and-the same price was paid to all factories in Australia. On account of the effect of the equalisation policy, said’Mr Fulton, Australia was in a much better position to handle Eastern trade than New Zealand. She possessed direct shipping lines and ability to .undercut New Zealand prices.,