Wills Proved

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 12

Wills Proved

Mr Justice Callan has granted probate of the following estates: —Robert Sherriff Black, of Dunedin, rabbit skin exported; Archibald Alexander McWilliam. of Hillgrove, county and town slerk; Herbert Francis Payton, of Dunedin, accountant; and William Mason, of Dunedin, retired confectioner.

Port Chalmers Court

At a sitting of the Port Chalmers Court yesterday, before Mr J. .R. Bartholomew, S.M., George Rutherford Forgie applied for an order for possession of a house owned by him at Sawyers’ Bay from Hilda Reeves. After hearing evidence the magistrate made an order for possession within 14 days, with costs (£2 3s) against the defendant.

Victorian Scots’ Visit/

The party of Australian Scottish tourists, which is at present In Dunedin, made a tour of the Otago University Museum yesterday morning, being shown round the exhibits by Mr R. H, Dagger. The tourists later visited the University of Otago and the Early Settlers’ Museum.

Harbour Works

It is anticipated that the Birch street wharf, which has been undergoing virtual reconstruction for some considerable time past, will be opened about May, thus providing accommodation at the port for two more overseas vessels. Portion of the berth has recently been dredged to a depth of 25 feet, and when the wharf is opened it will carry three sets of railway tracks, as well as crane rails, with the result that facilities for the easy handling of cargo will be much improved. Tenders were recently called by the Otago Harbour Board for the supply of piles and decking for the George street pier at Port Chalmers, and the board’s engineer (Mr J, McG. Wilkie) is hopeful that this work will be commenced about May. The board’s dredging programme will be accelerated as from Monday next, when the Otakou will start working double shifts, with the result that she will be operating from 4 a.m. until 8 -p.m. Dredging will be carried out in both the Upper Harbour and the Lower Harbour, and all the material, with the exception of the stony spoil which is to be dumped off the Heads, will be pumped ashore, mostly at Mussel Bay.

Radio Receivers for Ambulances In accordance with a recent decision of the board, the eight cars of the Wellington Free Ambulance are next week to be fitted with radio receiving sets. The sets will be tuned in to 2ZB, and a code word will be used to ensure that every call transmitted is genuine. This will enable the service to function more efficiently, each car being kept in constant touch with the main station. Cars will be able to proceed at once to the scene of any accident in the same locality as that in which it happens to be, and thus there will be a saving in mileage. Hikers’ Dilemma

Nothing to eat, no change of clothing and no where to sleep—this was the predicament that faced Miss Phyllis Scott and Miss Ivy Smith, of Dunedin, who set out recently on a trip to Milford Sound. The two girls had arranged to have their clothing and sleeping bags railed to a certain station, but when they inquired for them it was discovered that they had gone on to Invercargill. During their journey they found a beautifully rigged model yacht, but proud as they are of this possession, it did not compensate them for the great inconvenience they experienced.

Road Safety Signs “ In no portion of the United States of America, Canada, or Australia is guidance for motorists so well established as in New Zealand,” said Mr F. E. Baume, editor of the Sunday Sun, Sydney, who arrived at Wellington from Auckland on Thursday in the course of a motor tour of New Zealand. Mr Baume is a former New Zealander. “ The progress of the automobile associations and their concern for the welfare of the travelling public is something which Australia, for one country, should follow,” he said. The Australian traveller is able to get into his car in Auckland, and, without knowing anything about the country but a map, travel through every province with merely reasonable care, completing his journey as sound in wind and limb as when he started it. I drove down from Auckland this morning, and was able to go across a long and difficult hill such as Mount Messenger in blinding rain by merely observing the signs and doing what they said. The toll of life from road accidents is growing In our country, as in this,” Mr Baume added. H ‘ It might be advisable, one day, for a conference between the motor associations in Australia and New Zealand to be held, so that standard signs could be adopted. This would certainly help the tourist, who knows little about the roads other than what the signs tell him.”

A Difficult Swim

A difficult task, and one that will call for a more than ordinary degree of physical endurance, will be undertaken to-morrow afternoon by Mr T. V. Mulhern, of Oamaru, who will endeavour to swim from Dunedin to Port Chalmers. Mr Mulhern has been training for his long swim for some time, and should he be successful, he proposes later to attack Cook Strait. The swim will be under the supervision of officiate of the Otago Swimming Centre. As far as can be ascertained, the only other occasion on which this swim has been attempted was about 30 years ago, when Mr G. Elsom started off from the old cement works at Pelichet Bay and got as far as Black Jack’s Point before the rough , state of the water forced him to give up.

A Formidable Indictment

Shorn of their legal phraseology, some of the charges laid in the City Police Court are not nearly ;»o formidable as they might at first appear. This, for instance, was the information a motorist had to face yesterday: “ That on December 4. at Dunedin, being the driver of a motor car on St. David street, and when approaching the intersection of Castle street not controlled by a police officer or a traffic inspector, to which another motor car was approaching from the right so that if both continued on their respective courses there would be the possibility of a collision, he did fail to give way and allow the other motor car to pass." Boiled down, all this just meant that the motorist failed to give to traffic approaching from hisi right.

Industrial Dispute ■■ ,, r The adjourned proceedings pf the Conciliation Council in the dispute between the Dunedin Fire Brigade Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers and the Dunedin Metropolitan Fire Board were completed yesterday, when a complete agreement was reached on all points, with the exception of parttime workers, uniforms and the scope of the award. The sitting was presided over by the commissioner (Mr S. Ritchie). Messrs J. Robinson; H. Johnston, G. Goldsmith and R. Gorkin were the assessors for the union, and Messrs W. W. Callender, John Wilson, N. D. Anderson and A. S. Cookson for the employers. The amended scale of wages will come into operation on February 1. Hostel at St. Helene

From the beginning of the University year next month, the old St, Helens Hospital building in Queen street, which has been shut down since the Queen Mary Maternity Hospital was opened, will be used as a hostel for students of the Home Science School. The Health Department has handed the building over to the University Council rent free for 10 years for use as a hostel, and as it is in reasonably good order, it is anticipated that very little alteration will be required, although it will, of course, have to be refurnished. Accommodation will be provided for about 34 students, thus relieving the pressure on the two Studholme Houses, which were not able to cope with,: the demands made on them last year. Standing in beautiful grounds and on a particularly fine ' situation, St. Helen’s should be particularly well suited to the purpose for which it js being adapted.

Uncommon Coin Found A coin valued at one-third of a farthing, which must be one of the smallest denominations ever minted, has been fopnd by Mr S, D. Sutton in the garden of his home in Clyde street, Christchurch. Mr Sutton was raking a path, composed of ashes and earth, when he noticed the coin. Thinking it was a threepenny piece, he began to clean it, and was surprised to And that it was of copper,.’ On one side ,of it there is a crown, above the words, “One third farthing,- 1868.” On the other there is the head of Queen Victoria, with the words, “Victoria D.G, Britt. Reg. F.D.," about it. Mr Sutton’s home is an old house, and as the coin was found close to a fence it has, no doubt, lain there for many years.

Casein Factory to Close The pioneer factory for manufacturing casein in New Zealand, which is owned by the New Zealand Casein Company, Ltd., at Aramoho, will close at the end of this month (says a Wanganui paper) as a result of the falling off in supplies. Most of the supplies which the factory formerly received and which can be used to manufacture cheese have been diverted for that purpose, as this is found by suppliers to be more satisfactory under the Government’s butter and cheese purchase scheme. The balance is not sufficient to warrant keeping the factory open. The factory has been operating for 25 years, and about three years ago, when it was employing 50 men, its output for the season was as much as 1500 tons. At the beginning of this season it was expected that the output would be about 900 tons, but it Is understood that the company manufactured only about 300 tons.

Globe Trotler’a Impression* Once a Wellington resident and a well-known architect, but to-day a cosmopolitan traveller owning no home, Mr J. H. McKay arrived back this week by the Awatea in the course of a protracted world tour. He said that travel was his hobby. Mr McKay said he had been travelling the world since he retired some years ago. London and Sydney were his mam bases. Recently he had been through Austria, Bohemia, and Central Europe. He had been down the east coast of South America, and had visited the United States and Russia since he was last in Wellington two years andlahalf ago. It was his impression that Germany was casting covetous eyes on South America. There was a large German population in Brazil, and m Peru and Chile there was a Nazi element among the large foreign population He was favourably impressed by his visit to Russia, «a?d himself a Communist. Mr McKay said that he intended to spend about three months in New Zealand. Having spent some 30 years here, he regarded hflnself as practically a New Zealander,

We have received £4 from K. A. N. A. towards the Mayor’s fund for the adoption of Chinese refugee children. Further anticipated expansion of the air wing of the Defence Forces is evidenced by the publication in this issue of an advertisement inviting applications from young men for _ appointment to short service commissions in the Royal Air Force and in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Those selected will be trained either,in England or at the Flying Training School. Wigram, and will serve for four or Sve years on the active list and five or six years on the reserve. To-night, at the Embassy dance, Mr Laurie. Hawaiian guitar player, will render several numbers, and Mr Tom Dillon, vocalist, will appear on the programme. There will be modern and old-time dancing to the.music of the Mayfair Dance Band. A. F. Anderson, dentist, visits Middlemarch, Waipiata and Patearoa, Thursday, January IS, Ranfurly, Friday, January 20. Oturehua, Monday. January 23.—Advt. '

Foi an youi requirements' in Fishing laekle. Electrical Appliances. Elecrical Repairs Contracts and Jobbing call ai Barth Electric Ltd 30 George street Dunedin ' Fishing Catalogues still available.—Advt,