Australian Mails

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22546, 13 April 1935, Page 12

Australian Mails

I The Makura, which is due at Wellington on Monday from Sydney, is bringing 27 bags of Australian mail and 12 parcel receptacles for Dunedin. The mail is expected to reach the local Post Office on Tuesday afternoon. King Edward Technical College An election was to have been held yesterday of a parents’ representative on the King Edward Technical College Board of Managers, but no nominations were received. ~ The board will now seek permission from the Department of Education to hold the election at the end of its year in August. Shoaling of Grey Bar A message from Greymouth reports that the bar has shoaled to a depth of )oft at low tide, and shipping is likclv to be retarded. Tuapeka Mouth Punt The Tuapeka County Council advises that the Tuapeka Mouth punt will be closed to all traffic on Monday and Tuesday to enable repairs to be carried out.

Cottage Extensively Damaged Extensive damage was done to a tworoomed -wooden cottage at 29 Forbury road when an outbreak of fire occurred' last night. The City Brigade was called to the scene at. 10.29, but the fire then had a strong hold. The property is owned by Mr D. M. Calder and was occupied by Mr A. Costello. The cause of the outbreak is unknown. Particulars of insurances were not available last night. Chinese Still Missing

Every endeavour is being made by the police to trace the Chinese member of the crew of the tanker Oilreliance, who failed to appear when the ship was due to sail on Thursday. Despite a thorough search of the city, the man had not been located last night. Lost Motor Cycle

A motor mechanic in Oamaru allowed a young man to have a trial run on a motjr cycle which he had for sale, and though the trial was commenced on Thursday, the owner of the machine has not since seen or heard from the prospective purchaser. The police are now looking for the machine, which is an Indian Scout, about 1928 or 1929 model, bearing. the registered number 22-002. The wheels and tank are painted white and the other parts red

Summer Time Nearing an End Summer time for 1934-35 will end on April 28, the last Sunday of the present month. Officially, clocks will be put back at 2 a.m. on April 28, but, as usuaJ, the majority of householders will recapture the " missing" half-hour by altering clocks and watches before retiring on the night of April 27. The present period of summer time has continued since September 30, 1934. Under the Summer Time Amendment Act, 1933, the period is fixed at for the last Sunday in September of one year to the last Sunday in April of the following year. Exhibition of Painting*

A filial opportunity of viewing the exhibition of paintings by the late James F. Scott will be afforded to-day and this evening, and the exhibition, which. has attracted a good deal of attention at the Pioneers' Hall during the past two weeks, will be finally closed to-night. There was again a large attendance last evening, and during the day a party of pupils of the Maori Hill School inspected the exhibition. Six sales were effected yesterday, the pictures concerned being "Silver and Green" and "A Meny Time," both of which are oils, " Barges in Chiswick," "-The River Port," and '" The Houses of Parliament from the Embankment," which are water colours, and a lino cut entitled "The Bridge of Sighs." The collection on view comprises 180 specimens of the artist's work, and it provides a striking illustration of his versatility. The exhibition has been- arranged by Mr D., A. Scott, a brother of the artist.

Municipal Organ Recital The city organist (Dr V. E.Galway) will give an after-church recital in the Town Hall to-morrow evening" at 8.15. An unusual degree of interest attaches to this recital, the organ items having all been drawn from the French school of composition. The French, always an artloving nation, brought organ building and organ playing-to a very high degree of efficiency. The programme, which will be opened with a brilliant ''Fanfare" by : m Lemmens, includes such items as "Piece Heroique" by Cesar Franck, who was the leader of a French school of modern instrumental composition; "Prayer and Cradle Song" and "Scherzo,", by Guilmant, a prolific composer of interesting organ music; "Le Cygne," by SaintSaens, one of the greatest of French composers; and "Toccata," by Charles Marie Widor. Other items , are Gavotte "Rocine" (Gossec), Prelude to the "Blessed Damozel" (Debussy), and "Coral" (Josef Jougen). The supporting artists will be Mr Leslie Dunbar, who will sing " The Friar of Orders Grey" and Miss. Hazel Walker who, with Mr Dunbar, will sing "Night Hymn at Sea" (Goring Thomas). THre will be no charge for admission. A Mean Device

Spurious coins are apt to appear in. the most unexpected places, but it was, perhaps, scarcely to be expected that a specimen would be included in a collection such as the Poppy Day appeal made by the Dunedin Returned Soldiers' Association yesterday. Nevertheless, proof that someone had not,been above obtaining a poppy in return for a valueless coin was found when a halfpenny, roughly soldered over to resemble a shilling, was detected among the £BOO odd of silver coins included in the day's takings. The coin was not even a good imitation and could have been passed only where the receiver did not anticipate such niggardly duplicity.

Naming of Karitane Mr W. Taine, of Karitane, writes interestingly of the naming of this popular seaside resort, and says that he believes his is the first explanation of the reasons leading to the naming. Mr Taine says: "The question is often asked, why was part of the town of Waikouaiti changed to the name of Karitane? In May, 1840, the Rev. Mr Watkin came to Waikouaiti. He was the first clergyman, and was loved by the Maoris and pakehas alike, and at the instigation of a Maori named Te Maire the ancient hill, " Hikowioa," 2045 ft high, was called Mount Watkin. When Mr Watkin left Waikouaiti in 1844 the Rev. Mr Creed took his place. He was also loved by the people, and held in very high esteem, so they decided to call part of the town of Waikouaiti after him. As the Maoris could not pronounce the Rev. Mr Creed's name very well, they called him 'Kare Tane,' '.th« man Creed.' Hence the name of Karitane."

The Scotsman's Modesty A new explanation for the traditional modesty of the Scottish people was advanced by the Rev. Dr Charles W. Gordon, better known as the author, Ralph Connor, at the civic reception tendered to him yesterday. After praising the New Zealand scenery very highly, he expressed the opinion that the people of the Dominion were not doing their duty in not letting the world know more about it. "That is probably because you are Scottish," he said. "It is one of the great struggles of a Scotsman to retain his innate modesty." A Printer's Error

A good story against himself was toid by the Eev. J. A. Asher at the gathering held in his honour in St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Napier. "It has been suggested that during my retirement I should write a book," he said. " I have done literary work in the past, but before very long I received a communication from the editor of the publication to which I was contributing stating that he would be unable to accept any further articles from me in the meantime because the typesetters could not read my writing. I once wrote an article for a publication," Mr Asher went on. "The heading at the top of it was 'No Cross, No Crown,' but when it came back from the printers it bore the heading, 'No Cows, No Cream.'" Bottle's Long Voyage A bottle has gone round the world in 2447 days, and is said to have established a record for bottles in. doing so. It was one of several sent out in connection with a study of the currents of the ocean, to discover the habits of food fishes. It was put out from a German barque halfway between Kerguelen Island and Tasmania, and sailing eastward on its long voyage, drifted at last to the coast of West Australia. A bottle set adrift by the British Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in July, 1933, has just come ashore off the Breton coast. Another, which started from Portugal, got to Cuba after floating about 4670 miles in two years. Another, despatched from the American coast, made the journey te Ireland at the rate of 15 miles a day.

Nature't Way How Nature had in one year done •way with much of the surplus production of America was recounted by Mr David Jones in his address to members of the Business and Professional Women's Club at Christchurch. He said that in one year the United States had given 500,000,000 dollars to its farmers to compensate them for a reduction in. wheat because of over-production. Then came the year of the great drought, wheii 5,000,000 sheep, many of them too weak to be driven off the farms because of starvation, were killed in Chicago. Over 6,000,000 cattle were treated in the same way and much of the beef was tinned for the unemployed in the winter. The drought actually caused a shortage of wheat and imports hßd to be made from Canada.

Radium for Southland "A great deal of correspondence took plaoo in the endeavour to have an adequate amount of Southland radium kept at the Southland Hospital. So far, our endeavours in this respect have been un•uccessful. Since the appointment of Dr C. C. Anderson as honorary radiotherapeutist, our patients have been laved the expense and inconvenience of travelling to Dunedin Hospital. The radium has to be sent for whenever it Is required, however, and this means an annoying delay of several days in each ease. If this position is not remedied, perhaps the ; board should take more drastic steps- to recover the radium," stated the medical superintendent of the Southland Hospital (Dr L. C. M'Nickle) in his annual report to the board. The board decided to write again to the Otago Hospital Board on the matter.

Securing Human Welfare **We cannot secure and promote human welfare by seeking cheap substitutes for trained minds, and by limiting the opportunities of our talented youth," said Dr J. Hight, rector of Canterbury College, in an address in Christchurch on Thursday night. "With the growing complexity of society, its more numerous, difficult,, and intricate problems, more, and better, not less, education is required. lam reminded of the answer made by one of our recent visitors from overseas to a friend who said to him: 'Dr Coffman, education has ruined civilisation. Can you make people competent to vote on public questions by giving them education?' His ready answer was: ' I know no other way.' Let us then see that our educators are so placed that their ideals and the means they possess of realising them are the best that the age approves."

Potential Energy Discussing the field of research in the further development of the modern motor car, Mr W. A. Sutherland, secretary of the Automobile Association (Wellington), addressing members of the Wellington Rotary Club this week,- said that one of the greatest aims was to obtain the greatest possible amount of energy from petrol. If by some miracle the energy contained in benzine could be completely and solely used for propulsion, a typical car could run 160 miles on one gallon at 60 miles ah hour, whereas at this speed to-day it did approximately only 12 miles a gallon. In other, words, only 13 per cent, of the fuel was used in the propul»ion of a car. Putting it. another way, there was enough energy in .a gallon of petrol to drive a small car 400 miles.

Passenger Business A further indication that the passenger - business is booming this season is afforded by the fact that the Rangitata, which arrived at Wellington late on Thursday afternoon from London, had no fewer than 327 travellers -aboard. This is the largest list of passengers (says the Evening Post) that has been, brought to New Zealand direct from "Britain for a very ' long time: Already in the past week 269 people have arrived in Wellington from overseas—6B by the lonic from Southampton on Monday moraine and 201 by the Wanganella from, Sydney on Monday night. The Eangit.ata's ; list will bring the inward total to. practically 600. Her passengers include a naval draft. The Wanganella left on Tuesday night for Sydney and Melbourne with 397 people on board, so that, in four days, nearly 1000 passengers have arrived at or departed from Wellington.

Humours of Angling The best nights for bully fishing for trout are ' the" dark ones. Under such conditions-some of the best fish landed during a season are caught, but the conditions are naturally unsuited to the untidy angler, who frequently becomes woefully entangled in -his gear, which, even with the most experienced, often wreathes itself into • impossible knots or becomes snagged in weeds or driftwood. NigLt fishermen of former days carried a lantern, but Mr R. H. Nimmo, in a lecture in Wellington on Tuesday evening, explained the advantages of a flat torch, attached to the belt at the centre of the body, with a handy switch, permitting of the gaffing of a played fish in comfort, with snags and other obstacles revealed "If the angler has contours, and many have," continued Mr Nimmo amidst laughter, " any desired angle of beneficent beam may be secured by slipping the belt tip or down." "..

The Pacific Starr-Bowkett Building Society will dispose of f2OOO. by sale and £2OOO by ballot next Tuesday evening. In this issue the Railways Department advertises particulars of alterations to the, time table of the road motor service covering the Easter holiday period, and its cancellation on Anzac Day. The Railways Department advertises in this issue that week-end excursion tickets to Queenstown will be discontinued for this season after Saturday next.

The Railways Department advertises in this issue particulars of a special cheap excursion Dunedin to Invercargill on Sunday, April 21. Two fast trains will be run to Invercargill, returning the same day.

The Railways Department advertises in this issue train arrangements in connection with the Easter holidays. A. Frank Anderson-, Dental Surgeon, Princes street, Dunedin, will visit Waipiata and Ranfurly, Monday. April 29; Patearoa, Tuesday, April 30.—Advt. Williamsons, the Jewellers, will remodel your old-fashioned YVedding King into the new neat style at small cost. Come in, and ask about it.—3l Princes street.—Advt.

C. W. Sundstrum. dentist, Dunedin, will visit Waipiata, Naseby, Ranfurly, on Monday, May 13; Oturehua and Palmer■ton, on Tuesday, May 14.—Advt. Donald Stuart, Limited, Slate Merchants, Experts in Asphaltic and Bituminous Applications, including Rock Asphaltes, Sheet Asphaltes, Bituminous Felts, Bitumins, Bitumen Paint, Bitumen Compounds, Cork Insulation, 82 Bond atreet. —Advt.

A. E. J. Blakeley and W. E. Bagley, dentists, Bank of Australasia, corner cf

Bond and Rattray streets (next Teie graph Office). Telephone 12-359.—Ad', t. To:-be-well, see well—see Sturmer.— W. V. Sturmer. Optician, 2 Octagon, Dunedin. Consulting Opticians: W. V. Sturmer. F. 1.0., N.Z.; A. R. Watson. F. 1.0., 5.D.0.. N.Z.—Advt.