NEWS OF THE DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26707, 28 February 1948, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Availability of Petrol Coupons Petrol coupons Nos. 1,2, and’3 may be redeemed at face value during March and April, and the April issue of coupons Nos. 4,5, and 6 may be redeemed during March, April, or May. This was announced yesterday by the Oil Fuel Controller, Mr G. L. Laurenson.

Charitable Bequests Under the will of James Lawrence Williamson, of Oamaru, which has been sworn for probate purposes at a value of under £ISOO, the following charitable bequests have been made: —North Otago branch of the Crippled Children Society, £25; Mission for Lepers, £l2 10s; Makogai and Pacific Islands Leper Fund, £l2 10s.

Judges of Quality “We may live below the forty-fifth parallel, but most of us come from north of the Tweed,” remarked Mr W. H. McLean (Otago) at the annual conference of the United Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen’s Association in Dunedin yesterday. Mr McLean was emphasising the attention that members of the Otago Association paid to the quality of articles. Costly Flight The Air Department charged the North Canterbury Hospital Board £392 10s for a Catalina flying boat which went to the Chatham Islands recently to bring to the mainland a sick child who needed surgical treatment. The board is paying the account, but is trying to recover fares for employees of the Public Works' Department and others who returned to the mainland on the aircraft.

Springboks Worried “South Africans are very keen on sport, and they have been looking forward to the visit of the All Blacks. But they are a little worried because the standard of Rugby football is not so high in the Union as it used to be, and the success of the All Blacks against the Australians last year did not encourage their hopes,” said Mr H. Donald, a former New Zealander, who has been in South Africa for the last 28 years, in an interview with the Daily Times vesterday. Counsel’s Views on Women “ Women have not the same judgment or acumen as men. Women just have not got it up here," said Mr J. K. Moloney, tapping his head, when he criticised a woman’s evidence in a Supreme Court case in Christchurch in which he was counsel for the defendant and was addressing the jury. “There is no evidence of that, Mr Moloney,” said Mr Justice Fleming. “It is a f matter of historical background, your Honor,” counsel replied. Twins in Parsonages Some amusement was caused at the annual Methodist conference in Christchurch when the treasurer of the children’s fund account of the church, the Rev. W. A. Burley, asked for an increased grant to the fund. In the last 39 years, said Mr Burley, nine pairs of twins had been born in Methodist parsonages, but this year there had been three pairs. Because of “ conditions over which the treasurer had no control.” he had to ask for an increased grant. , Use of Cosmetics “I am certain it is part of women’s duty in life to be as attractive as possible, and if the handmaiden of art can be brought into use, then well and good.” said the Rev. E. Blackwood Moore at the annual meeting of the Auckland Y.W.C.A. He deplored criticism of things which were not in themselves bad—even if make-up was sometimes applied by the young with rather too much enthusiasm. It could provide quite a “ moral uplift ” as well as improve the appearance of things, he commented, amid laughter. Municipal Organ Recital

The city organist, Dr V. E. Galway, will give an after-church recital in the Town Hall to-morrow night, when a programme will be performed comprising Choral Song and Fugue (Wesley), from the “Little Organ Book”: (a) “Lord Christ, the Eternal Son of God,” (b) “Blessed be Thou, Lord Jesus,”, (c) “In Thee; is Gladness” (Bach); Fugue in E flat (Bach); Melodie in E (Rachmaninov); Symphony No 6 (first movement, Widor); Adagio (Robin Milford); Berceuse (Jarnefelt); and Epilogue (Healey Willan). There will be no charge for admission. Film Slump When asked if there was a slump in Hollywood, Mr N. B. Freeman, managing director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer organisations in Australia and New Zealand, on his arrival at Wellington, in the Arawa, said: “There is, in a sense, a slump in the picture industry all over the world.” He attributed this to poor management. Although the industry must live within its means, technique would not suffer. Economies could be made; for instance, in shipping casts to Europe from England or the United States, instead of building elaborate studio sets. The demand for good pictures was as keen as ever in Australia and New Zealand. The demand for higher quality meant that the works of good authors and playwrights were being bought by film companies at increasingly high prices. Wapiti Herd in Danger It is the belief of Colonel John K. Howard, of Boston, Massachusetts, a member of the wapiti .expedition which visited the Fiordland National Park, last March, that the wapiti herd in the Fiordland will soon be a thing of the past if killing operations continue to be allowed on the same scale as in past years. In an interview in Invercargill, Colonel Howard said that members of last year's expedition had come to the conclusion that the total herd of wapiti could not number much more than 1000. It therefore appeared that the herd could not stand such killings as the 100-odd animals which were destroyed in the late 1930's by the Government cullers, or the commercial skin hunting that was going on last year, when parties were reported to have accounted for 70 head with a probable estimate of another 30 head destroyed for the year.