Business Premises Entered

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 8

Business Premises Entered

The premises of two firms of timber merchants in Dunedin were broken in|to during the week-end. The office of j Messrs M'Lachlan and Wright, in Bguchop street, was entered, a window at | the rear of the premises being broken and a door being forced. The olier firm to be victimised was Messrs Hj V. Haddock and Co., whose office in Richardson street was also entered, the intruders gaining access to the buildin(g through a window. The extent to wfhich the two firms have suffered as a result has not been determined. i. Sli ipwreck Relief 'Mr E. S. Wilson, secretary of the Shipwreck Relief Society, yesterday forwarded the sum of £2O, to be equally divided among the four members of the crew of the ketch Yvonne, \Thich was wrecked near Coromandel cm May 13. Charity Football Match ' The Management Committee of the Otago Rugby Union decided last night to present the sum of £SO from the proceeds of the charity match on Saturday to the King George V Memorial Tund. The amounts to be given to the other organisations which will benefit .from the match have not yet been •decided. [.Education Reserve Leases Thirteen education reserves in the Otago land district were offered for lease at public auction yesterday, three being passed in and the remainder being leased as follows: —Mrs M. A. Wise (Clyde!, Mr C. H. Hitchcock (Clyde), Mr J. Ure (Herbert), Mrs M. Weatherall (Lawrence), Misses A. and E. Crowley (Lawrence), Mrs Emily Bruce (Lawrence), Mr F. W. Gray (Purakauiti), Mrs E. Buist (Oamaru), Mrs M. J. Cunningham (Oamaru), Mr K. A. L. Haggitt (Queenstown). i Warrants of Fitness There has been considerable confusion among motorists concerning the application of their warrants of fitness to the 1937-38 registration numbers, which have just been issued. The warrants, which they were obliged by law to have by March 31, bore the 1936-37 registration numbers, and the difficulty foreseen was to reconcile those warrants with the new numbers. There are. however, definite instructions placarded in the registration booth that owners of motor vehicles must amend their own warrants, replacing the old number with the new one. “It is a most unsatisfactory system,” commented one motorist yesterday. “The two should go together and be handled ■entirely by the department. Then it would be possible to keep an accurate check on all vehicles.” Runner Wina A novel wager was decided in the Temuka district last week. A wellknown New Zealand athlete undertook to run round what is known as the Levels block, a surveyed distance of six miles and a-half. in as many minutes as another person took strokes to do a nine-hole round of golf on the Temuka links. The golfer took 47 strokes, and the runner completed his task in 39 minutes, which was a very creditable performance considering the hard surface of the road.

The King’s Birthday It is reported that a suggestion that the King’s Birthday, which is to be observed on June 9, should, after this year, be honoured on the Monday nearest to that date is receiving wide support in Wellington. It does not appear likely that it will be generally popular in Dunedin, though. The secretary to the Otago Employers’ Association (Mr A. S. Cookson) said yesterday that it had not been broached to his association. It would not be so well received in Dunedin, he thought, because of the fact that the holiday fell in the Winter Show Week. The argument in favour of the proposal is that it would make a long week-end break, which would be appreciated by employees and which employers would prefer to a break m the middle of the week. It has been suggested in Wellington that representations will be made to the Government.

Public Health Returns A total of 26 cases of infantile paralysis remained in the Dunedin Hospital up to the week ended at noon yesterday, one patient having been discharged during the period. At the Logan Park Hospital one case of scarlet fever was admitted, three were discharged, and there are at present two patients receiving treatment.

Drivers’ Licences The number of drivers’ licences issued by the City Traffic Department for the 1937-38 period easily exceeds that of any other year, and up till 8 o’clock last night 4968 had been taken out, compared with 4432 last year. Yesterday the issuing office was exceptionally busy, 21 men being required to deal with the large and almost unending queues of people doing last-day business. Over 400 licences were issued last Wednesday, and each day since then the figures have increased until yesterday a one-day record of 955 licences was made. The previous record for one day’s business was 575 licences, but despite the fact that this total was almost doubled yesterday, the arrangements made to deal with the rush of applications worked smoothly, and no delays were experienced.

Wapiti Stalker’s Success Having completed his seventh trip into the wapiti country at the back of Lake Te Anau, Mr Ken Sutherl and, of Wairarapa, arrived in Dunedin yesterday with two fine 15-point heads, the larger of which was 53 inches long, 48 inches wide, and 11 inches round the horn. Mr Sutherland told an Otago Daily Times representative last pight that the increasing numbers of shooters working the western shores of Lake Te Anau had had the result of driving the wapiti back towards the coast, and he had been compelled to strike well into the high country which had not previously been touched, in order to secure his heads. During his stay on the block he saw some 13 wapiti, but was struck by the fact that there were very few calves, his opinion being that the cows were too fat to breed. He was convinced, however, that the wapiti were still plentiful in the more inaccessible valleys towards the coast.

A Minor Catastrophe Domestic life in St. Kilda was rudely disturbed about 10.30 yesterday morning, when, without warning, the water supply was cut off. It was washing day, the clothes Were ready to lift from the copper for rinsing, and there was not a drop of water with which to rinse them. Husbands* at home for the morning and doing a few odd jobs about the house, had to suspend operations and dash off to see if anything could be done, while the borough office staff spent a busy hour explaining to anxious inquirers that the break in the supply was merely temporary. From hastily-convened conferences over back fences emerged an informal but entirely unanimous vote of noconfidence in the Borough Council, and for a time the matter assumed the proportions of almost a minor catastrophe. Finally, the water was turned on again, and the great Monday industry resumed its interrupted progress. It was explained at a meeting of the St. Kilda council last evening that the trouble was due to an employee of the contractors who are relining the water mbins inadvertently shutting down the valve which controls the whole water supply of the borough.

Psychology and Education Progress in education began when psychologists began to study the learner, said Mr H, C. D. Somerset, M.A., in a lecture to the Society for Imperial Culture in Christchurch on “Life and Learning.” The society, he said, was interested in the spresid of enjoyment from the appreciation of human effort at its best. It aimed to develop the community sense, the national sense, and, if possible, the world sense: for co-operation was necessary for the reaching of full capacity. Until recently there had not been sufficient study of the pupil in the education system. Peace by Conciliation Rear-admiral Richard E. Byrd recommended at a peace rally in Philadelphia on April 22 that the American Constitution should be so amended that the United States could not engage in a foreign war unless it was voted by the citizens of the country. “Of course, when our country is attacked. the President and Congress should have power to act quickly.” Admiral Byrd said. “I submit the right of peaceful nations to demand that, in time of crisis, conciliation be substituted for war. In fact, it is more than a right—it is a solemn duty that a nation owes to itself and humanity,” he said. The meeting adopted a resolution urging Congress to submit to the States a constitutional amendment requiring a popular referendum before war could be declared, except when the country was invaded. Freedom of the Press A great deal has been made about the Labour Government’s intention to curtail the freedom of the press of New Zealand by a censorship, said the Acting Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser) at Hawera last week. This was quite incorrect, as the Government had never considered such a step. The opinion that such a step might be taken, Mr Fraser said, had undoubtedly spread from two injudicious attacks on the press of the Dominion —one over the air by Mr C. G. Scrimgeour and the other in the Labour Party’s weekly newspaper, the Standard. The Minister said he did not think the broadcast attack should have been made, and he had made it his business to inquire into the article in the Standard. This, he stressed, was the opinion of one man, and a man not particularly prominent in the Labour movement at that. It was not the considered opinion of either the Government or the Labour Party. Mr Fraser said that at the next election the whole of the press of New Zealand would be allied against the Labour Government. It was all very well to claim that the press gave the Government members plenty of space. It did, particularly if in an unguarded moment a member of the Government made a remark that could be misconstrued. It then appeared in headlines in every daily newspaper in the country.

The Railways Department advertises particulars of special excursion fares and train arrangements in connection with the King’s Birthday holiday, the Dunedin Winter Show, and the Dunedin Jockey Club’s races. We have received 4s from “ Bridge Players ” for the Crippled Children’s Fund. Buy British Electrical Appliances at Barth Electric, Ltd., 36 George street. See window display. Radiators, Toasters, Irons, Kettles, Jugs. Shades, etc. Rogers' Radios. Jobbing and contracting; repairs our specialty.—Advt. Eye Strain.—For eye comfort or bettor vision consult Sturmer and Watson. Ltd., opticians. 2 Octagon, Dunedin.— Advt. A. E. J. Blakeley and W. E Bagley, dentists, Bank of Australasia, corner of Bond and Rattray streets (next Telegraph Office), Telephone 12-359. Advt.