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Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 52

Eleven bankruptcies were notified in the latest issue of the New Zealand Gazette. Nine of the number were in the North Island. At the conclusion of ~ deputation to tho Prime Minister on Saturday, Mr S. B. Macdonald (chairman of the Otago Expansion League) said the members of his executive desired to compliment the Railway Department on the magnificence of the management of the railways during the period of the Exhibition. The Mayor (Mr H. L. Tapiey, M.P.) said he was pleased that Mr Macdonald had brought the matter up. He could endorse what had been said hv him. The traffic had been enormous, and the manner in which it had been handled was a credit to all concerned. From the traffic manager and. stationmaster downwards he had heard nothing but praise concerning the worjc of the railway staff. The members of the staff had been the essence of courtesy, and the work had been carried out most efficiently. Hie Prime Minister said that nothing would give him greater pleasure than to convey the kind remark of the speakers to the Railway Board, which, in turn, would eee that it was passed on to Mr Kent, divisional superintendent for the South Island, to Mr H. P. Wist, traffic manager, and other members of the staff. “There is no doubt,” said Mr Coates, “that these boys have risen to the occasion, and it is a pleasure to me to know that ft has been recognised. T will see that the complimentary remarks rf Mr Macdonald and the Mayor are conveyed to the proper quarter.” It cannot be denied that one or two restaurants have been reaping n rich and by no means fair financial harve 1 from unfortunate visitors who, on account of the great pilgrimage to the Exhibition, must take what they can get. On Friday, for instance, three hungry folk entered a restaurant, and asked for K>iled eggs. They were served after a long delay, and .then, came the reckoning—2s 3d each. Boiled eggs can be demolished with a certain amount of rapidity, and that may have accounted for their 6ense of grievance in parting up, but even apart from that the price seems out of all proportion to the retail cost of eggs, which is certainly high, but not high enough to justify 2s 3d for two and a cup of tea. Clink, quod, durance vile, the stone jug, the booby hatch—these are few though only few of the synonyms which describe, more or less, the temporary place of residence of offenders against the law, to wit, gaol. But “the University” as a term to describe a prison*»must surely be a new one. However, that it what the lock-up is called in the island kingdom of Tonga, the reason, as explained by a correspondent of the Samoan Times, being that so many of its inmates have been through the Tongan Colleve. He adds that numbers of these have gone from the college into the Government service, have then committed defalcations of one kind of another, and finally “have graduated to the high position of unpaid workers in ‘Her Majesty’s Hotel.’ ” Sitting in Chambers in the Supreme Court on Friday his Honor Mr Justice Sini granted probate in connection with the following deceased estates:—Jessie Wright Jack (Mr T. O’Shea) and William Alison, Inchclutba (Mr G. J. Kelly). No further “carriers” have been discovered among the qjiildren attending the Balclutha Primary School, and the health authorities do not consider that there is any danger of diphtheria becoming epidemio in Balclutha. and that parents can quite safely send their children to scho b Tho “carriers” have all been isolated in their homes, and forbidden to attend school. Work on the Balclutha-Tuapcka Mouth road, the highway designed to take the place of a railway, is expected to commence very shortly. Road-making plant from the Dunedin-Waitati road is to be taken to Balclutha next week. "Tie Public Works Department is arranging with tho Balclutha Borough Council for a lease of land at the borough’s quarry at North Balclutha for the purpose of establishing a depot and erecting temporary office and 3tore buildings, also for tho lease of two acres nearby on which to erect workers’ huts. Three motorists from Methven, Messrs G. S. Holmes, .*. Wilson, and Nordquist, en route to the Exhibition in the early hours on Friday morning struck a cow with their car about 20 miles north of Palmerston. The vehido turned over twice, and the occupants were thrown out. The first express for the north conveyed the injured men to Ashburton, where it was found necessary to send Mr Wilson to hospital. His injury consisted of a severe gash on the left leg. Mr Holmes received cuts about the head, and Mr Nordquist injured* a foot, but they wore able to proceed home.