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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24635, 17 June 1941, Page 4

Floods «t Waipahi Following heavy rain in the district, .the Dunedin-Invercargill main highway at Waipahi was flooded yesterday to a depth of about 12, inches. The water, however, receded towards evening, and last night traffic was able to negotiate the section. Public Health Returns

The only ( cass of infectious disease receiving attention at the Dunedin Hospital during the week ended at noon yesterday was one of erysipelas. At the Logan Park institution, however, three cases of mumps were admitted, and three discharged, while four patients are still being treated. Two cases of influenza require further attention, as well as two tonsilitis patients. Safety Training in Schools

Officers of the Automobile Association (Otago) are at present concentrating their road safety instruction on country schools, which they visit to give short talks to pupils. The secretary of the association (Mr P. F. Harre) said yesterday that the system of road safety inaugurated many years ago in city schools was functioning well, but when the association’s staff was back to normal strength more attention would be given to a possible course of lectures in these schools.

Appeals for Seamen Appeals on behalf of 590 seamen who had been called in the ballots for overseas service had been made by the New Zealand Shipowners’ Federation, said Captain S. Holm, president of the federation, in evidence in the Court of Arbitration at a sitting in Wellington. Appeals against Territorial service had been made on behalf of 450 men, some of whom were included in the number appealed for in the overseas ballots. Captain Holm said he quoted the figures to show the view of the Shipowners’ Federation that seamen were in short supply on the New Zealand coast. Milk in Schools'

It has been found in an Analysis of the distribution of milk among schools, that of 55 country schools that'receive milk, in 14 of them all the pupils accept the milk. This is rather surprising because it is natural to expect that country children would have the opportunity of consuming as much milk as they desired outside the school. The Pirfe Hill School, within the city limits, yet in much the same position so far as the children are concerned, has 98 per cent, of the children accepting milk. On the other hand, only 50 per cent, of the Dunedin North Intermediate School pupils take the milk ration. “A Mouldy Exhibition ” That the Hur. is not always as efficient as he is painted is suggested by an anecdote in a letter from the Dunedin soldier after the retirement from Greece. “Jerry was trying to strafe a cargo boat just off shore from us one day,” it recounts, “ and each time- he had passed oyer us on his way to ‘do the dirty’ by the boat, we’d hop out of'the washout in which we were sheltering and lay the odds on his chances of success. It was a mouldy exhibition of bombing. In fact, they tried for hours without doing any material damage; but each unsuccessful contestant used to return* over us and machine-gun hell out of our possie.” A Snake and a Tank Anecdotes recounted by a Dunedin soldier in a letter written in hospital after the withdrawal from Greece suggest that there are lighter moments even in the thick of battle. He tells, for example, of the experience of one who was in a hurry to get away from a Hun bomber which machine-gunned their “possie” after bombing a cargo ship lying off shore. “He dived for an inviting-looking hole a bit away from us,” the letter says, “ and landed on a six-foot snake. He reappeared like a rabbit with a ferret after it. v f Take cover that man,’ an officer yelled. ‘ Cover be damned. I’m not a snake-charmer,’ yelled the lad as he landed in on top of us.” In the sarrie strain was the escapade of a despatch rider. He had a message for the P.O. and tore up to a tank, propped his motor bike up, and was right up against the turret before he realised that there was an outsize swastika painted on the side. The letter concludes the story thus: “ He rejoined us himself, but he didn’t go back for his bike.”

Attention is drawn to an advertisement in this issue of Hr H. W. Glynn, of Auckland, giving particluars of several farms for sale in the Auckland district. —1.

Coffee lor breakfast. Order from your grocer a tin of " Bourbon.” the coffee of quality. Instructions in /ery tin. Prepared by Dune’s, coffee specialists. 32 Octagon. Dunedin.—Advt.