Missing Motor Car

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22825, 9 March 1936, Page 8

Missing Motor Car

The police were advised yesterday that a 1931 model Austin sedan motor car, belonging to Mr A. J. Holloway, of Somerville street, Anderson’s Bay, had been stolen from Lower Dowling street on Saturday night. The car, which is light blue in colour, has a black hood and mudguards and wire wheels, and boars , the registration number 37-147.

City Police Courjt For his second offence of drunkenness within sis months, Courtney Wilfred Higgs, aged 22, who appeared before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., in the City Police Court on Saturday morning, was fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. The magistrate warned the defendant that it he appeared before the court again on a similar charge he might be sent to Koto Roa Island.

Chimney Fires A chimney fire at Macnee street was attended to by the City Fire Brigade at 237 p.m. on Saturday. Ten minutes later the South Dunedin Brigade was called to another chimney fire in Macandrew road. No damage was done in either case. At 3.22 p.m. yesterday the brigade turned out to a chimney lire at Elgin road. Mornington.

Exhibition of Lithographs Comprising 72 prints and covering a wide range of work both in black and white and colour, the' loan collection of lithographs from the Senefelder Club, London, which is now on view at the Art Gallery at Logan Park, affords art lovers an unusual opportunity of studying the technique of lithography. This branch of art is comparatively little known in New Zealand, and the display. in which many of Britain's most uoted artists are represented, is, therefore, of particular interest. Air Mail Service

Elaborating his statement regarding the proposal to inaugurate'an inland air mail service in the Dominion, the Postmastergeneral (Mr F. Jones) said on Saturday that arrangements would be made for inward overseas air mails to be conveyed by the inland air services in the Dominion when, by that means, the delivery of such correspondence would be facilitated.

An Unpopular Tax Hopes for the early removal of the sales tax are expressed in the annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. " Strong representations have been made for the abolition as soon as possible of the sales tax, which has proved so burdensome and irksome Eind so costly in working to the trading community," says the report. " The tax was originally imposed as an emergency measure, but the original estimate of an annual yield of £1,000,000 has been greatly exceeded, and with steadily reviving Government revenues it is hoped that abolition will have early attention from the Government, and the heavy impost on living costs removed."

East Coast Airways Proposals for the extension of its services to Palmerston North and Auckland have been framed by East Coast Airways, Ltd., which at present operates a passenger and freight service between Napier and Gisborne. The extension to Palmerston North would give Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay aerial connection with the inter-island service of Union Airways. The company has been in operation almost a year, using two D.H. Dragon machines flown by Squadron-leader T. W. White and Flying-officer R. A. Kirkup. It is believed (says the Dominion) that the company proposes to extend its services to Auckland via Opotiki and Tanranga and to Palmerston North via Dannevirke. Rugby " Just a Game

" Much lias been heard of ' how referees arc killing the game,' and though we know that in reality this statement is not correct, we must'admit that there is a tendency to stick too much to the book and forget that Rugby football is just a game," said Mr A. C. Kitto, president of the Wellington Rugby Referees' Association, in a report read at the annual meeting of the association. " The rule book is just a guide covering breaches in every phase of the game, and literally it should only be used when one side obtains an unfair advantage over the other."

A Brighter Outlook " During the past 12 months," says .the annual report of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, "there have been many brightening signs toward business recovery and the improvement in prices for the principal products of the Dominion lias had appreciable effect in reviving business activity. There is plenty of evidence of an upward trend that is a most welcome condition after the strain of the past few years. With the more stable conditions ruling most business activities now have a' brighter outlook before them." A Hunt Club Grievance

Exception to the action of the Racing Conference in deleting trotting .events from programmes of Hunt Clubs in the South Island was taken by the master of the South Canterbury Hunt (Mr C. L. Orbell) at the annual meeting on Friday, when he described the action as " a low trick." Mr Orbell said that the decision had been sprung on the hunts as a surprise, and there had been "no time to prepare a case in answer. The delegates representing the hunts at the Racing Conference were not familiar with hunting, and no opportunity had been afforded the hunts to place a case before the conference. "It is absolutely wrong that a racing club should be allowed to run two trotting events at iis meetings and a hunt club none," he said. In the past the South Canterbury Hunt Club had staged a farmers' trot, and in fairness to farmers who took a keen interest in the lightharness sport, and whose country the hunt operated on during the season, the event should still be in the programme. The trotting event was an added incentive for farmers to attend the meeting. "I feel strongly on this matter," continued Mr Orbell, who added that it was intended to protest to the conference a.rid make an endeavour to have the trotting race reinstated.

Licensing Election "Tickets" Party. " tickets" will make their appearance at the licensing committees' elections to be held in Auckland to-mor-row. The workers engaged in the licensing trade are trying to secure direct representation on the committee, and they have nominated a ticket. They contend that in Wellington the trade employees were able to have one member returned to the committee, the liquor interests and the prohibition interests each having two. There are five vacancies to be filled in Auckland, and the franchise is that for a parliamentary election. The Labour Party is not producing a ticket, though a number of persons prominent in the Labour Party are candidates. Mr F. E. Martin, secretary of the Labour Representation Committee, said last week that the Labour Party members were contesting the election either as individuals or on behalf of a certain union. The committee as euch was taking no part in 'the election. Matriculation Examination

In answer to a question at the annual meeting of the Rongotai College Parents' Association in Wellington, the principal (Mr F. Martyn Renner) stated that during the last two or three years the headmasters and headmistresses of secondary schools had been asked by the university authorities to send in with the matriculation entry forms an estimate of the chances of the candidates of passing the examination. The letter A denoted a certain pass, B probable pass, C doubtful, and Dno chance. So far as he knew, those estimates were not used in marking the papers, although he had no doubt that such estimates, with a little further elaboration, might prove of very great value if they were used by the examiners, particularly in borderline cases. Their vahie, of course, lay in minimising the risk of doing a grave injustice to those isamlidates who had worked well and conscientiously and did not show up to advantage in a written examination.

Rails, Coal, and Oil The Minister of Railways (Mr D. G. Sullivan) confesses to a "thrill of enthusiasm " over his railway travel in oildriven rail-cat's, which "tell me of that new day when the railways will return 4o their unchallenged supremacy in the transport world. Maybe," writes the Minister in the New Zealand Railways Magazine, " the mental picture that I have conjured up is overdrawn; but, honestly, I don't think go. I think, however enthusiastic it may sound, that the future will prove it sober and faithful to fact, and if that is so, the railwayman can cast a look of derision at the comparatively slow motor traffic on the roads, and even at the mechanical eagle of the skies, because of its load limitation; and, with the new hope of better things in the domain of science and mechanics, there is, side by side with that, new hope for the public in improved and cheapened travel facilities in all parte of the country, and new hope for our splendid railway staff, in improved remuneration and conditions ot work. That these things will synchronise with the coming of the new Labour Government, with its strong humanitarian outlook and concern for those who are rendering useful service, is somethiug that I am devoutly thankful for."

Studies in Repartee Instant and vigorous use of repartee seems to be a quality with which stock auctioneers are naturally endowed. To hear them " coming back " at the circle of farmers round the pens is an education, but to hear two of the clan in a brisk, personal argument is almost equal to a postgraduate course. Two auctioneers (the Christchurch Star-Sun says) clashed for a few minutes at Hawarden ou Thursday prior to the opening of the ewe fair, and provided a very fair sample of a really bright conversation. The spark was a remark by one man which threw a very small doubt on the quality of a sheep in a pen under the control of the second auctioneer. No further urging was needed, for in a very short time the fire reached a blistering heat; but. as in all such cases, it died down as quickly as it burst into flame

Seventeen Inches of Rain In what are usually the best months of the summer, Napier has experienced no fewer than 17 inches of rain since th« beginning of the present year. Despite January's high recording of 5.13 inches, it paled into insignificance by comparison with the February total, which was just 10 points short of 12 inches. Flood conditions on two occasions' assisted materially in swelling the aggregate for the month, and in two days of this week tha rainfall totalled nearly 1\ inches. The rain which has been recorded in Napier during the first two months of this year is almost equal to twb-thirds of the rainfall of an average year

Freezing Works Employees It is practically certain that the Minister of Labour (Mr H. T. Armstrong) will call a conference of, all sections of the freezing works industry' in the Dominion at an early date to consider questions involved in the relationship of the freezing companies to the unions of workers in the industry. This was stated b.v Mr L. Glover (president of the New. Zealand Alliance of Labour) when • addressing a meeting of the Canterbury Freezing Work and Related Trades Union in the Christchurch Trades Hall on Friday night. Mr Glover is in Christchurch assisting the secretary of the union (Mr H. G. Kilpatrick) to organise the freezing workers' unions in the South Island. He told the men of *the progress which had been made towards that end and towards the organisation of all the unions in the industry in New Zealand on a common basis. Comparison of Farming Costs

The vast difference in farming costs between New Zealand and South Africa was the subject of comment by Mr John Fisher (principal of the School of Agrioulture, Cedara, Natal), who is travelling with th K touring Empire party. Labour in South Africa is purely native and, as is, land, cheap. Land in. New Zealand Mr Fisher regarded as expensive, and compared with South African standards, labour, costs were unduly high. This disparity, said Mr Fisher, / was one which made comparisons difficult between the two dominions' farming practices. After seeing the lands between Auckland and New Plymouth given-pro-longed growth by unusual rainfall,, Mr Fisher referred to the splendid pastures, grass plentiful to superfluity. In Natal the country received summer rains and dry winters, but New Zealand was fortunate in a more even distribution..

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