NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 3518, 16 August 1921, Page 25

NEWS IN BRIEF.

At a special meeting of the Otago Womens Club it was resolved to raise the annual subscription from a guinea to a guinea and a-half. Mr John Dwyer, who recently retired on superannuation from the position of Superintendent of tlie Canterbury Police Force, was met by a representative gathering of citizens on the Bth and presented with an illuminated address and a cheque for £7OO and an oak bedroom suite for Airs Dwyer. Ensign it. Coombs, who has come to Dunedin as the Samaritan officer in connection with the Dilnedin division of the Salvation Army, and who has also been appointed by the Government as a probation officer, took up her duties on the Bth inst. In the evening the Ensign was accorded a hearty welcome at the barracks in Dowling street. The Executive of the New Zealand VVomen s Christian Temperance Union, at its conference, decided to establish its national headquarters in Wellington as a memorial to the late Mrs A. R. Atkinson, who lived, loved, and laboured for the cause of humanity. Mrs Johnson Wright and Mrs James M‘Donald were appointed joint treasurers of the Headquarters Memorial Fund. The launch Eileen Bell, owned by Mr W. P. Bronlund, and valued at £ISOO. caught fire on the Bth from an explosion caused by fumes from cargo. Mr Bronh.mu had a narrow escape from the cabin, the roof of which was blown off. The Auckland Brigade extinguished the flames. '! he cabin was destroyed, the hull somewhat damaged. and the engine damaged to the extent of £SOO A conference of Auckland men interested in the Island trade discussed Auckland’s position in view of the Fijian Government’s arrangement with the Commonwealth Line for steamship connection between Great Britain. Fiji, and Australia. Emphasis was laid on the decline in Auckland’s’ trade of recent years, and on the need for a regular service to recover it. A committee was appointed to confer with the Chamber of Commerce. A young man named John APLean was arrested at Waihi on the 9th on a charge of breaking and entering the Pnerog railway and removing a number of handbags, also of the Iheft of a brief hag containing £l9. and sundry articles from a hotel in Te Aroha. The money was hidden in the proeincts of a lodging lmuse in Wuihi. and was discovered by the police. Accused was formally charged on the ICih, and remanded till the 18th inst. The Wellington Provincial Industrial Association has decided to hold a tariff exhibition at ihe Wellington Town Hal! from October 22 te November 5. The date of the combined New Zealand Industries Exhibition, promoted by the Wellington industrial Association and the Wellington I fades and Labour Council, was indefinitely postponed. The president- of the Association dated that the success of the tariff exhibition - was assured by the applications for space which had already been received The second annual reunion and smoke concert of 1 lie Otago Mounted Rifles, held on the 11th inst., was presided over by Major Mitchell, and proved very enjoyable. Major Lampden. in proposing a toast, said it was a scandal that a town like Dunedin had not yet erected a memorial to the fallen, whilst the smallest of the towns in Otago all possessed their own memorials He referred to the fact that the late Oolonoi Bauch op. the first commanding officer of the Otago Mounted Rifles, and Captain Bruce Hay, squadron commander, were both killed on Gallipoli. He also referred to the death of Sergeant D. Travis, known as the King of No Man's Land-