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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23717, 26 January 1939, Page 10

Overseas Mails

The Empire mails despatched from Dunedin on January 2 reached London on January 16.

Burnside Stock Sale There was a marked easing in values for cattle at the Burnside stock sale yesterday, when there was a very large yarding of 432 head. Three ,or four trucks of prime quality bullocks were included, but the remainder of the offering was not of good quality. Prime heavy bullocks made to £2O 12s 6a; prime, £l4 10s to £l6; medium, £lO 15s to £l2 ss; light, down to £8 10s. Extra pi’ime Ixeavy cows and heifers were worth to £l2 17s 6d; prime, £9 5s to £lO 7s 6d; medium, £5 12s 6d to £7 2s 6d; and light, down to £4 7s 6d. Up to £lO 14s was paid for the best thiee and four-year steers offered in the store cattle section. The sheep yarding was also an exceptionally large one, 3300 head being forward, with ewes in the majority. There was a decline of 2s a head from the start, and there was a further easing later. Prime heavy wethers brought to 26s 6d; prime, 21s 6d to 23s 6d: medium, 18s 6d to 20s; light, down to 15s; prime heavy young ewes, to 20s; prime, 16s 6d to 18s 6d; medium. 11s 6d to 13s; light, down to 7s 6d. There were 1400 fat lambs forward, mainly of average quality. Extra prime heavy sorts made to 29s 9d; prime, 23s to 25s 6d; medium. 19s to 21s; and light, down to 16s 6d. Both porkers and baconers were firm at late rates.

State Sawmill The machinery for the State saw mill at Conical Hills, which arrived at Bluff by the Orari, has been transferred to the site of the mill and the work of assembling the plant will begin soon The mill will be engaged mainly in the production of box timber. The creosoting plant at Conical Hills has also begun operations, and it is expected that there will be a keen demand for posts and poles. Struck by Boomerang

A Boy Scout from Pahiatua was the victim of an unusual accident at the international jamboree in Sydney not long before the Dominion contingent sailed by the Awatea for Wellington. Another Scout was demonstrating the throwing of a boomerang, and, in the course of the missile’s flight, it struck the boy, Ivan Merrie, on the back of the head. As the boomerang was of the type used by the Australian aborigines for killing animals, the wound was rather serious, and four stitches were inserted in it by a doctor. The boy was admitted to hospital and later was transferred to the hospital on board the Awatea before the vessel sailed. By the time he arrived home he had made a good recovery.

Victorian Refugee Fund While travelling by car from Auckland to Wellington, Mr Cecil Mason, managing director of Columbia Pictures for Australia and New Zealand, who is on a business visit to New Zealand, called at The Chateau-Tongariro. He had with him Frank Capra’s new film production, “You Can’t Take it With You,” and exhibited it to the large assembly of guests. At the conclusion he made a collection, the substantial proceeds of which will be added to the Victorian bush fires refugee relief fund. Steady Saving

How many boys can save £750 in 10 years? The answer is obviously not many. 1 ' The Government Youth Centre in Christchurch, however, can , (the Star-Sun says) offer boys 16 years of age such a prospect. A graph has been prepared and displayed in the centre’s office revealing how such a saving is practicable in the farming industry to-day. The table is based on the award wages announced J>y the Government in September last. Under this award a boy receives £1 a week and,lodgings during,his first year on a dairy farm. Of this amount the centre has allocated 7s for pleasure, 7s to be banked for clothing, and 6s for the building up of a nest egg. At the age of 21 the wage rate has increased by yearly rises to £2 12s 6d, from which 14s is still set aside for pleasure and clothing account, leaving £1 18s 6d for savings, which by this time have grown to just on £250, At the same rate of saving during the next five years the total amounts to £750.

Cable Out of Order There has been no telephone communication between Invercargill and Stewart Island since January 9, when the submarine cable service was interrupted. Stormy weather delayed the „ tests carried out to locate the, fault in the cable, which lies between Ocean Beach and Lee Bay. A party headed by Mr K. D. Grocott, telegraph engineer at the General Post Office, Wellington, left Bluff by boat on Tuesday afternoon to find the damaged length of cable, which will be replaced. The new length of table has to be obtained from Wellington, and it is not expected that communication will be restored before the end of next week. Although there is no telephone service to Stewart Island at present, wireless communication is being maintained by means of an emergency transmitting and receiving set at the Post Office at Stewart Island.

Still Unspoiled “The countryside of England is still unspoiled, and thousands of villages in England are still in their mediaeval state—pump, pub, parson, policeman. But thatch is giving way to tiles, and the village shopkeeper is being replaced by the chain store,” said the Rev. Canon S. Parr, of Christchurch, on his return from a trip abroad. He described the ribbon-building along the new roads as an unsightly blemish of new tiles and bare brick. The new buildings, however, were rapidly becoming covered with creeping plants, and the new type of building was confined to the large towns. Albatross Still Thera

The albatross, formerly of Hororata, and now residing at Akaroa, has not, as was reported yesterday morning, left the port (the Press says). The alarm which was felt when it was discovered that the bird was no longer in the enclosure where it had been placed was allayed when the albatross was caught taking a stroll up a hill. The albatross was put in a pen, which is at the mouth of a six-foot culvert leading a creek Into the sea, and at high tide the pen is flooded with sea water, Mr F. R. E. Davis, Mayor of Akaroa, has, so to speak, taken the albatross under his wing, and many visitors have been to see it. It is in good health, and has been eating well, both of fish and bread. Some who have seen the albatross lately have expressed the opinion that it will not be able to fly again, fearing that the wing, though not broken, may be dislocated. The bird seems unable to stretch the wing to its fullest. The injury occurred when an unsuccessful attempt was made to leave Hororata, and the albatross, came down in a north-west wind and hit a clothes line.

Tenders are invited by the Public Works Department for the supply of— Suspension type insulators, stone crusher, compression ignition engine, portable belt conveyor, and galvanised pipe and fittings.

For all youi requirements in Fishing t’ackle. Electrical Appliances. Electrical Repairs Contracts, and Jobbing call at Barth Electric. Ltd 36 George street Dunedin Fishing Catalogues *til) available.—Advt.

A. E. J. Blakely and W. E. Bagley, dentists, Bank of Australasia, corner of Bond and Rattray streets. Telephone 12-359.—Advt.