Donation for Mayor's Fund

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23201, 27 May 1937, Page 8

Donation for Mayor's Fund

The Mayor (the Rev. E. T. Cox) has received £244, Dunedin's allocation of the profits of "This For You" art union. The donation will be added to the Mayor's Relief Fund. Women and Money "It is not surprising that women constitute the bigger part of this audience," remarked Professor Ann G. Strong, who lectured to the W.E.A. Winter School in Allen Hall last evening on the subject of " Family Budgets and Dietaries." It was a fact that in America at least 90 per cent, of the money was spent by women, she said. Lower Portobello Road Blockage It was not expected that the slip blocking the road between Portobello and Otakou would be cleared until about noon to-day. The slips on the Cape Saunders and Spit roads have not yet been removed, and it is probable thai; the roadway may have to be built over the obstruction.

Burnside Stock Sale The bulk of the fat cattle entry at the Burnside stock sale yesterday was composed of poor quality, and there was a short supply of high-grade sorts, with a consequent easing in. values. Extra prime heavy bullocks made to £ls 12s 6d; prime heavy, £l2 7s 6d to £l3 12s 6d; medium, £8 17s 6d to £lO 12s 6d; light, down to £5 12s 6d; prime heavy cows and heifers, to £lO 7s 6d; heavy, £6 7s 6d to £7 17s 6d; medium, £4 17s 6d to £5 17s 6d; and light, down to £3 2s 6d. In the store cattle pens there was keen competition for a line of well-bred steers, which realised from £5 15> to £8 7s. Vealers were firm at from £1 10s to £3 17s 6d. The best young dairy cows brought up to £lO. The yarding of fat sheep, numbering 2063, was about on a par with last week's, and best wethers brought late rates. Extra prime heavy wethers realised to £2 Is 6d; prime heavy, £1 13s to £1 16s 6d; medium. £1 7s to £1 Us; light, from £1 2s; prime heavy ewes, to £ 1 10s; prime, to £1 7s; heavy, £1 3s to £1 ss; medium, 18s to £1 Is; and light, down to 16s 6d. The entry of 600 fat lambs found good competition, and late rates were maintained. Extra prime heavy lambs brought to £1 12s 6d; prime £1 6s 6d to £1 9s; medium, £1 4s to £1 5s 9d; and light, down to £1 Is. Fat pigs were in good supply, and as the sale progressed there was an easing in values. Heavy baconers brought £3 5s to £4, and porkers from £2 to £3. Best stores realised 15s to £1 4s, and suckers sold slowly at 6s to 10s.

The Drug Industry The proposals of the Bureau of Industry for the reorganisation of the wholesale and retail drug and chemists' industries, are expected to be announced shortly. These, it is believed, will provide for the rationalisation of the whole industry, although it is not possible to indicate any particular direction which the decisions of the bureau are likely to take. One large firm is reported to have withdrawn from the merger of manufacturers which was mooted by the Government, but the indications are that, in spite of that, the bureau has decided to go ahead with a scheme in which the remainder of the manufacturers will be brought together in possibly a similar manner to that, adopted in Australia. Safeguarding the Child "Because of the amount of responsibility thrown on individual judgment in these mattters, systematic instruction of the child in regard to sex has become increasingly necessary." said Professsor H. E. Field, of Canterbury College, in the course of a lecture at the W.E.A. winter school yesterday morning. "While in these delicate matters caution is essential, the present inaction is something more than caution—it is largely timidity due to the difficulties of the problem. In the long period interests of the children this is a matter which should be faced, since Ihe right education in regard to sex is a safeguard against some of Ihe maladjustments and difficulties which show themselves later on in family life." Huge Export Income Reference to the Dominion's huge export income was made by Mr William Machin, speaking at an Empire Day function in Christchurch arranged by the Women's Auxiliary of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association. He pointed out that for the year ended March 31 last, for the first time in the history of the country, New Zealand attained an export income of £60,000,000. No other country in the world with a population of 1,500,000 had an export income of that amount, said Mr Machin. adding that of the Dominion's big total of exports Great Britain took 90 per cent.

Municipal Organ Recital

Another of Dr Galway'a popular organ recitals is to be given on Sunday evening, when the outstanding items on an interesting programme will be "Suite Gothique " (Boellmann)," Fugue is D minor" (Mendelssohn), and "March from Eli" (Costa). In addition to these items, Dr Galway will be heard in " Variations on an Original Theme" (Hesse), "Air in D major" (Bach), "A Fountain Reverie" (Fletcher) , and " The Arbutur Tree," a traditional Irish air (arranged by C. V. Stanford). The assisting artists will be Mrs C. M. Barnett, who will sing "My Creed " (Hahn) and " The King's Way" (Elgar), and Miss Audrey M'Caul, pianist, who will play " Liebes-lied-Widmung" (Schumann-Liszt). At this recital, which will be commenced at 8.15 p.m., there will be no charge for admission. Motorist Fined In the City Police Court yesterday, James Spiers appeared before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., on a charge of failing to give way at a street intersection to traffic approaching from his right. Mr E. J. Anderson appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty. Outlining the charge, Senior Sergeant Packer stated that at 5.30 on the evening of January 30 the defendant, who was driving east along Ferguson street, Musselburgh, failed to give way at the intersection of Princes street to a car driven by a man called Hayes, with the result that Hayes's .machine was struck, and his two passengers slightly injured. The defendant's speed, when the accident occurred, was about 20 miles per hour and that of Hayes about 15 miles, and it was significant that after the collision the defendant approached Hayes, suggesting that there was no necessity to report the matter to the police, and expressing his willingness to bear half the cost of the damage. After hearing evidence, his Worship said that on his own statement the case against Spiers was conclusive. It was not a bad case, but the defendant had failed to take adequate care. He would be fined £l, with court, costs (10s), and witnesses' expenses (12s). Vandals at Work Individuals possessing that peculiar mentality which seems to impel them to interfere with any public amenity regardless of whether it is useful or merely ornamental, have recently been at work on the Cromwell-Queenstown main highway and have destroyed several of the red reflectors erected by the Automobile Association (Otago) to warn motorists of dangerous corners. It is difficult to understand vandalism of this type, more especially as* the reflectors were provided indirectly by the motoring public, and their removal might easily be responsible for a serious accident. Co-education for Children . " The education system, particularly at the secondary level, offers what is predominantly an academic education, but the provision of opportunities of training on the social side is .very inadequate," said Professor E E. Field, of Canterbury Colllege, when discussing some pyschological aspects of family life at the W.E.A. winter school yesterday. "People are still obsessed with the idea," he continued, "that academic learning ,is the main thing necessary for an allTround development of human personality. Social education of the child implies the opportunity to take part in social life. If boys and girls are to know each other as individuals, they require the opportunity of working and playing together, but it is an open question whether co-ordination at the secondary stage is or is not desirable. There are some strong psychological arguments for it, and some against it, as well as certain administrative difficulties, but the important fact is that ways and means should .be afrirved; at,6i[giving adolescent boys arid' girls the 'opportunity for this essential social experience." Over Arthur's Pass A wintry job is being done by Public Works linesmen in the construction of a 66,000-volt transmission line over Arthur's Pass to carry'power from the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric station to the West Coast. From Arthur's Pass the line will take power to a main sub-station at Arahura, near Hokitika, and from Arahura ,on to Dobson and up the Grey River to Blackwater, to supply various mining requirements and the Grey Valley Power Board's distribution system. The Diesel stand-by plant which was formerly in service at Lyttelton is to be reerected at Dobson to take the immediate overload in the Grey Valley area, and later will be available for standby purposes in the event of interruption of supply from Coleridge over the Arthur's Pass line; • •••.••■.•■•

Towing the Endeavour On her voyage across the Atlantic last week Mr T, O. M. Sopwith's challenger for the America's Cup, the yacht Endeavour, broke the towline from her convoy, the Viva 11, and had to proceed the rest of the way to Newport under the own sail. A correspondent of the Evening Post asked whether towing across the Atlantic is in keeping with the rules of the race, suggesting that the challenger is required to sail across. The original "Deed of Gift" of the Cup provided that the challengers should be built in the country to which they belong and should sail to the place of contests on their own bottoms. Later modifications, however, permit the towing of the challengers across the Atlantic when, because of light weather, their speed falls below five miles an hour. Appalling Frankness The League of Nations was supported in Great Britain by the cream of the intellect of the country, declared Mr lan Donnelly, in an address at the monthly luncheon of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers* Association. Many people, he said, were under the impression that it was supported only by cranks and pacifists, but that was not the case, and the peace ballot conducted in Great Britain prior to the last general election made an appeal to 11,000,000 adults. The importance of that vote was shown by the fact that the National Government practically went to the country on a League of Nations policy, and after the election the Prime Minister (Mr Stanley Baldwin) admitted that the Government had hoodwinked the country, as it had all along intended"to carry out a rearmament programme. He excused its action on the ground that it was necessary that the National,Government should be returned, but in his speech in the House of Commons he said that he had to treat the House for the first time with what he described as "appalling frankness."