Overseas Mails

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23109, 8 February 1937, Page 8

Overseas Mails

The postal authorities advise that the Awatea sailed from Sydney at 8.47 p.m. on Friday evening w/ith 39 bags of Australian mail for Dunedin and the London air mails of January 20 and 25. The air mails may reach the local office this afternoon. This, however, will depend on the time of the vessel’s arrival in Wellington. The ordinary mails will reach Dunedin to-morrow afternoon. The Oronsay, which reached Auckland .on Friday from Brisbane, had three bags of Australian mail for Dunedin. It is expected to reach the local office this morning. City Police Court

There were no cases set down for hearing at the City Police Court on Saturday morning.

Trout Record Disputed Game Fish Records, recently published in London, contains an interesting reference to the big trout of New Zealand. The author, who veils his identity under the nom de plume of “ Jock Scott,” gives the brown trout record to a 391 b fish from Lake Rotorua, caught in 1933. Disputing this claim, a writer in The Field mentions a brown trout of 3941 b caught in Loch Awe, Scotland. The author, of the book justifies his claim for the New Zealand fish on the ground that the Scottish specimen had been questioned, the suggestion being that it might have been a salmon. “The suggestion is not very sound.” states The Field’s critic, “ for no fish of such size would ever be ’ assumed ’ to be a trout; il must certainly have been thought to be a salmon when first captured, and the fact that it was definitely classed as a trout at all argues careful examination. A mere supposition that it might have been a salmon is quite insufficient .to disallow an established record.” Waikato Diocese A mission to interest friends in England in his diocese in New Zealand was successfully undertaken by the Bishop of Waikato (Bishop Cherringlon), who returned to Auckland last week, after an absence of about a year. Bishop Cherrington said he had succeeded in creating considerable interest in the work of the diocese. He had not, however, aimed at any fixed sum, and could give no details of the amount likely to result from his efforts. Two mission workers who intend to serve among the Maoris accompanied Bishop Cherrington and Mrs Cherrington from England. They are Mrs K. Brigham and Miss E. Allan. The party also included the Rev. F. Hart, who will be attached to the Waikato diocese. No comment was offered by Bishop Cherrington in connection with criticism expressed in New Zealand following the publication of statements credited to him in England. He said that he would need time to study the criticism before he could reply, and in any case he did not recollect making certain of the statements with which he had been credited.