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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22612, 2 July 1935, Page 8

All Roads Clear

While heavy rain and sleet showers fell at intervals yesterday throughout Otago, no cases of flooding have been reported. The secretary of the Otago Motor Club stated last night that all buses arrived on time, and all roads were clear.

Epidemic of Chimney Fires The City Fire Brigade was called out to no fewer than six chimney fires within a few hours yesterday. The first occurred at 9 a.m. at a house in Heriot row, and at 10.42 one at Gavell street, Musselburgh, ( tvas attended. At 11.2-3 the brigade was called to Lambeth road, at 12.5 p.m. to Kilgour street, Roslyn, at 12,39 to Pitcairn street, and eight minutes later to Beach street, St. Glair.

Shortage of Teacher* Reference was made in yesterday s issue to the shortage of teachers which was being experienced at the present time in Hawke’s Bay. This is, of course, in direct opposition to what obtains in most of the education districts in’ the Dominion. While no complete explanation can be given locally for this state of affairs, it is believed* to be due in part to the absence in the Hawke’s Bay district of a university centre. In Otago there are just now many teachers whose names appear on the board’s unemployed list and are occupying "rationed” positions, but who could, if they desired, obtain full-time appointments either •in Otago or in other parts of New Zealand. They are not seeking such positions, however, owing to the fact that they are attending classes at the University of Otago, and wish to complete their degree course before leaving Dunedin. A similar state of affairs prevails to some extent in the other university centres of New Zealand. In Hawke’s Bay, on the other hand, the teachers under the control of that board are not afforded the same opportunity of completing a university course, and are accepting full-time appointments whenever they are available. It is believed also that the presence of a university in a board’s district attracts young teachers from other districts, who help to accentuate the problem of employment. It is significant that at least one other education board without a university centre, in this case Wanganui, is finding a difficulty in securing sufficient teachers, and here also appointments from outside districts have had to be made. Wills Proved His Honor Mr Justice Kennedy has granted probate of the following estates: —Catherine Rutherford, widow, Poolburn; Philip Thomas Ruston, caterer, Dunedin; William Johnston, farmer, Oamaru; Amelia Watson, widow, Dunedin; John Huddart, retired mill supervisor, Dunedin; William George Grave, solicitor, Oamaru. : Letters of administration have been granted in the estate of John Stewart Kennedy, retired .railway employee, Dunedin. Infectious Diseases

There is one patient suffering from erysipelas at the present time in the Dunedin Hospital, one typhoid fever patient remains, and there are at present no cases of diphtheria in the institution, two patients having been discharged during the past week. One scarlet fever patient has been discharged from the Logan Park Hospital, and there are three at present remaining. A Case of Hardship

The case in Wellington of a woman with six children, with four of whom she had been living in a shed, was attended to on the morning following the meeting of the Hospital Board, at which the matter was brought up. Temporary quarters for the woman and children (says a Press Association telegram) have been found in one of the hospital properties until some arrangement is made about a house which it is hoped to secure within a few . days. The Mortgage Corporation The formal notice of incorporation of the Mortgage Corporation of New Zealand appears in the Gazette. The Acting Minister of Finance (Mr Adam Hamilton) “ gives public .notice ” that the full amount of the capital of the corporation has been subscribed. “And I further notify and declare that on the first day of July, 1935, the shareholders of the said Mortgage Corporation shall become a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and shall be capable of holding real and personal property, of suing and being sued, and of doing and suffering all, such other acts and things as bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer.” Presbyterian Grand Stand The following letter was received at last night’s meeting of the Otago Rugby Union from Alexander Macgregor, sen.: —“I have been requested by many patrons of the Scotch Hill--grand stand to ask your union if they would ask the Railways Department to shift those hoardings that obstruct the view of the games at Carisbrook, and to erect a row of seats inside the railings, so we may use our rugs. Our objection to going into the grounds is that we see enough offside play from the hill without paying for a closer view. Besides, Jock keeps us advised how the game should be played and about the goals he used to pot. He also reckons Harry should have been a 1935 All Black half. Trusting you will give our application a favourable hearing and thanking you in anticipation.” The reading of the letter was received with loud laughter. Community Singing in Empire Theatre The high popularity of community sings in Dunedin, and the atmosphere of cheerfulness and cotnaraderie they engender, have prompted the management of the Empire Theatre to incomporate in the Saturday evening entertainments at that theatre a community song session, commencing at 6.45 and concluding a quarter of an hour before the commencing of the picture programme. These sings, 'which will commence next Saturday, will be conducted by Mr F. H. Dampen, who demonstrated his ability as a leader in the community singe held in Dunedin a few years ago. An Uncomfortable Night \ A visit on Sunday to Bare Island, three miles and a-half off the mainland (says a Press Association telegram from Napier), resulted in two young men, D. Johnston and J. Gunn, having, to spend the night in the,open. They rowed across from Waimarama in a “ flattie,” having to suffer a severe buffeting in the process, and as the seas did not diminish they decided to spend the night on the island. They made a good fire with the large quantities of driftwood available, and with their upturned boat as a shelter spent the night in reasonably good shelter in company with the innumerable rats which infest the island. At dawn they were able to return in the boat to the mainland.

This Year’s Eclipses One of the current year’s many eclipses —a partial eclipse of the sun —took place on Sunday, but the phenomenon was not visible in New Zealand. If consolation is needed, however, there will be a total eclipse of the moon on July 16, and the latter part of this will be visible in these latitudes. On July 30 the sun will again be partially eclipsed to a very small extent, but this will be visible from only a small region of the earth’s surface to the south of Africa. New Zealand will have to wait until Boxing Day, December 26, before it sees an eclipse of the sun. On that date there takes place an annual eclipse which will be visible here, but even that will be rather disappointing, for the sun will be rising just about the time that the eclipse is terminating. To see it really well would necessitate a journey to the Antarctic Continent —actually to the South Pole itself for preference.

Science the O'ne Hope “ Science is not the disembodied sort of activity that some people would make put, engaged on the abstract task of pursuing universal"truth, but a social function intimately linked up with human history and human destiny, and the sooner we all realise this the better for society,” said Dr E. Marsden at the Dairy'Conference at Palmerston North, “All our hopes of progress are based on science. No business or industry can remain stationary; it must either progress or go to the wall. There are degrees of necessity, and a live* industry must not wait until the necessity becomes dire before inventing the measure to. overcome the difficulty. Moreover, in these days necessity is not the mother of invention; knowledge and experience are its only parents. The most prosperous industries in the world to-day are those which maintain adequate research services, and I know of the failure of no industrial concern which has adopted this policy.”

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