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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23335, 29 October 1937, Page 10

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Mr Justice Kennedy will sit at 9.30 this morning to make fixtures for the remainder of the Supreme Court session.

Air Mails Reach London The air mails despatched from Dunedin on October 4 and 6 reached London on Wednesday last. Wooden House Damaged

Slight damage to one room of n fiveroomed wooden dwelling occupied by Mrs Patton at 23 Baldwin street, North-East Valley, was caused yesterday through a fire being started by a painter's blow-lamp. The City Fire Brigade received the alarm at 5.3 p.m. Opening of New Hospital

The Otago Hospital Board, at its meeting last night, approved of the form of the ceremony to be used at the official opening of the Queen Mary Maternity Hospital on November 8. The ceremony will be opened with a prayer by the president of the Council of Christian Congregations (the Rev. C. H. Olds), and will be followed by short speeches by the chairman of the board (Mr J. W. Dove), Professor J. B. Dawson, the Mayor (the Rev. E. T. Cox), and Dr D. G. M'Millan, MP. An address will then be given by the Minister of Health (Mr Peter Fraser). The presentation of a key by the architects and the actual opening will conclude the ceremony. Solomon Islands Mission

The missionary work being carried out in the Solomon Islands by the Methodist Church was explained by the Rev. Balshazzar Gina, a native of the Islands, during an address at a luncheon tendered to him by the Rotary Club yesterday. Mr Gina, whose father and grandfather were both head-hunters, is a fully ordained minister of the church and has given up his life to teaching the Gospel to the people of the Solomons; and by his work the darkness, savagery and superstition of the islands are being banished to be replaced by a new and understanding life. The successes and failures, the difficulties and the joys of his mission, were fluently explained by Mr Gina, who dispelled the belief held by some people that "natives were best left alone" with the statement that there was no happiness in heathen lands. That had been proved during the 35 years in which the Methodist Mission had'been labouring in the Solomon group. New Tourist Facility

Reciprocal arrangements for the passage through the Australian and New Zealand Customs of tourists' motor cars at a minimum of expense and time have been completed. The system obviates the necessity -of a. motor ; car owner who takes a car into either country making the deposit of a sum equal to the duty on it as hitherto. If he is a member of a motorists' organisation there will be available for his use the guarantee which the organisation maintains permanently for the purpose. The arrangement applies to all associations in New Zealand. Extension of the system to other countries besides Australia is contemplated.

Laxity in Family Life "The number of separated parents seeking to admit children to our homes is a pertinent comment upon the present laxity with regard to family and married life," states the twenty-eighth annual report of the Presbyterian Social Service Association of Canterbury. "We have reaffirmed the principle that our first responsibility is for orphans and then for those children whose remaining parent is unable to care properly for the family," the report adds. "It is only in exceptional circumstances that we admit the children of separated parents."

Youth and Sport The contention that the "sport of kings" is universal is apparently true if the work of one lad at the Kaikorai School is any criterion. Beneath his spirited drawing of a trotting horse appeared the caption "Red Shadow in the lead." This exhibit caused considerable interest at the school's exhibition of work yesterday. Among other examples of the efforts of budding sportsmen was a sketch entitled "Trevathan Kicks a Goal." One enthusiast expressed his appreciation of his province's doughty deeds in the realm of Rugby football by writing a long poem. Wrestling was the subject of a large scrap book belonging to some potential follower of this form of sport. Infantile Paralysis Prevention

A method of preventing infantile paralysis by spraying the nasal passages with a solution of zinc sulphate, sodium chloride and pontocaine hydrochloride in distilled water, is the 'subject of an article in the American journal Time. The method is stated to be a new but thoroughly tested one of preventing a disease which has crippled thousands of people in the United States, and the work was carried out chiefly by Dr Edwin W. Schultz, of Stanford University, who made his experiments on the assumption that the virus entered the body only through the nerves of smell. The Dean of the Medical Faculty of the Otago University (Dr E. C. Hercus) stated yesterday, however, that while the method described was obviously the line ot possible prevention, it was still in the experimental stage and had by no means reaqhed the stage when it could be used practically. It had been known in New Zealand for some years, and, indeed, was almost identical with the method of prevention used during the influenza epidemic, but as it tended to produce irritation of the nasal pharynx, with a possible predisposition to encourage the disease, it had not been universally advocated in New Zealand. Some " Kick " in It

Among the numerous samples analysed last year by the Dominion Laboratory were some of cider. These were found to contain from. 14 to 20 per cent, of proof spirit, and this potent drink was on open sale m single bottles in various unlicensed premises. Another interesting analysis was that of a forged pakapoo ticket, and it was found possible from an examination of the ink and the paper to discover the method used by the accused. In the case of a forged receipt which was said to have been through the washtub, it was possible to show by means of absorption of eosin from ether by the paper fibres that as little as 30 seconds' immersion in water would have removed the 3izing of the paper.

" Luxury Motor Service " Application was made to the No. 3 Transport Licensing Authority at Timaru on Wednesday by the Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Tourist Company, Ltd., for a licence to operate a passenger service from any point in the Dominion to any other point in the Dominion. On behalf of the applicants, Mr W. J. Sim said that there was a growing demand for such a service by tourists, who preferred to visit the various resorts in .their own time. The company proposed to meet tourists arriving by the Maunganui at Bluff when the service with Melbourne was begun, and transport them to Te Anau, the Homer tunnel, Manapouri, Queenstown, the Hermitage, and back to Bluff by way of Omarama, Oamaru, and Dunedin. The service would be largely a luxury one for tourists who wanted to be picked up anywhere, and taken round the South Island. Similar services were operating in the North Island, taking parties from the steamers. Mr E. Brittenden objected on behalf of the Railways Department, has grounds being that the service would undermine existing ones and would also conflict with servicesyjperated by the Railways Department. The decision was reserved.

Japanese Whalers Japan hopes that her four whaling fleets in the Aantarctic this month will win 70.000 tons of oil. which itf"at present worth £ls a ton. This -statement was made by Captain Yoshio Oma, master of the factory ship Tonan Maru No. 2. which reached Fremantle on Saturday last on her way to the Antarctics. The Tonan Marau No. 2 is a new vessel, built at a cost of £1.000,000. and has a capacity for 20.000 tons of oil. She is accompanied by eight chasers, each of which was recently built in Japan at a cost of about £20,000. She has been preceded to the Antarctic by the factory ships Tonan Maru No. 1 and Nissnin. Maru No. 1. A fourth factory Maru No. 2, is expected at Fremantl* shortly. ' . "" '

A Rare Collection Postage stamps, coins, and cigarette cards may have their admirers who collect them assiduously and take pride in adding new and rare specimens to their collections, but the collectors of used drivers' licences must be comparatively few. Traffic Inspector D. Cameron, of Timaru, is among the minority, and his international collection of licences totals more than 70. Besides having samples of the tickets isssued by the majority of New Zealand licensing authorities, he possesses used licences issued in about 12 other countries. A few he showed to a reporter included permits from Calcutta, Suva, France, New York, Barbadoes, Capetown, East London, Toronto, Hampshire, and Louisiana. Generally, the licences are those that have been handed in when renewals were, being made, but one or two. have been "sent to Inspector Cameron by persons who knew that he was a collector. :

Home in a Stable

Unhealthy living conditions, encountered during a recently-completed housing survey of the Mount Eden borough were detailed in au report by the supervisor of the survey. (Mr P. J. Crump). "Apartment houses constituted the worst feature of the survey," Mr Crump said. "In almost every case where houses have been converted into apartments, living and sleeping accommodation is deficient. Many of them are old, and require a lot of attention. Fire would have disastrous results in some cases, and persons living in basement rooms would be trapped." The report added that there was a case of a family of four persons living in a converted stable. Four adults cooked and slept In parts of washhouses, three in sheds, two in garages, one in, a, tent,,,and one in, a summer-house. Two locfcup : . shops provided homes for three adults. Classed as unsatisfactory, 156 private dwellings were regarded as being capable of repair. It Was recommended that three should be demolished. - '

" Neglect of South Island " "And now, I'want to pay a tribute to our excellent newspaper press in New Zealand," said Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp, president of the Canterbury branch ,of the Victoria League, at a reception of welcome given in her honour. Mrs Tripp has just returned from a tour of the world, travelling; to Britain and Europe via America and returning, by way of Australia, so she is qualified to speak of the relative merits of newspapers in many lands. " But," she added, "what are we.to do to attract more attention to the South Island?" She returned to New Zealand, she said,, from Australia by the Awatea, a comfortable and modernly-equipped ship.. On board there was a good supply of Auckland arid Wellington newspapers, but there was not to be found oh the ship one copy of a South Island newspaper. There were' travelling by the Awatea many South Islanders anxious for news of home, and much disappointment was expresssed at the dearth of their own newspapers. Why was it, they asked, that the South Island should be so neglected? Sermon on Communism

A protest made by Communist, organisations and by at least one trade union in New Zealand against an alleged attack on Communism contained in the broadcast of a sermon from a Roman Catholic church in Wellington has drawn from the broadcasting authorities a promise that such a sermon will not again be given. The Director of Broadcasting (Professor J. Shelley) said 1 that he had replied to the organisations which had protested stating that such an attack would not again be heard over the air. "It was a pure mistake that sermon ever going of the air," he told a reporter. The; reply that controversial matter must in future be avoided in sermons did not mean that the script of sermons would have to be submitted to the authorities before permission was given to broadcast them, Professor Shelley said. It was the understood practice laid down for the church committees that controversial matters should. be avoided in sermons. The sermon, which was broadcast by Station 2YA from St. Gerard's Church, Wellington, was given by a Dedemptorist priest, Father K. D. Crowe. The same night as it was given the Westland Timber Workers' Union sent a strongly-worded telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr Savage) asking him to take some action against the preacher for his attack on Communism.

Mr R. G. C. McNab was incorrectly reported to have said, in his address to the Scottish Society of Dunedin on Wednesday night, that the poems of Dunbar were even better than those of Shakespeare. Mr McNab's statement was that the poems of Dunbar were even better than those of Burns. Eye Strain.—For eye comfort or better vision consult Sturmeir 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. For rings, watches, and jewellery try Peter Dick, jewellers and opticians, 5t Princes street, Dunedin.—Advt.