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Southland Times, Issue 18930, 2 May 1923, Page 4

During April 17 permits were issued for new buildings and additions, estimated to cost £7,947.

A Wellington Press Association message states that the Opunake Harbour loan of £50,900 was heavily over-subscribed.

The Town Council, at its meeting last evening, gave permission to the local committee of the Barnado Homes (London) to hold a street collection on May 11.

The following further additions to the Poppy Day funds have been' received by the Returned Soldiers’ Association: Colac Bay £1 16/6, Red Cross 13/-, Southland Hospital Nurses 19/-. The total amount received is now £322.

“A boy of sixteen out here is equal to one of eighteen in the Old Country,” said the Dominion Chief Scout, Lord Jellicoe, at the annual meeting of the committee of the council for New Zealand of the Boy Scouts’ Association at Christchurch.

A first offender for drunkenness, who appeared before Mr W. T. Gilbert, J.P., at the Police Court yesterday morning, was convicted and fined the amount of his bail, 10/-. James Douglas Hopkins, who was arrested by Constable Dunn at Queenstown on a charge of disobeying a maintenance order made at Greymouth, also appeared and was remanded to appear at Greymouth on May 7.

Invitations for the chairman of the Electric Power Board to give a public address at Tapanui and at Kelso were read at the monthly meeting of the Power Board yesterday, blit were held over for further consideration after the appointment of a new chairman at the annual meeting of the Board on May 22.

A Dannevirke telegram states that on Sunday three residences in different parts of the town were visited during the afternoon and evening, while the occupants were absent, and sums of money and a bicycle stolen. The proceeds of the burglaries amounted to about £5O sterling.

Sharks are stated to be very plentiful off the northern coast of New Zealand at the present time. The crews of trawlers which reached Auckland during last weekend state that almost every haul brought up numbers of young sharks. This is said to be accounted for by the fact that the young sharks are at this season of the year leaving the shallower waters of the breeding grounds and finding their way into the deeper water further off shore.

During a conversation with a representative of the Southland Times yesterday afternoon, a local business man stated that he was very pleased to notice the interest displayed by the retail business men in the matter of insuring that the Invercargill public was given every opportunity to purchase its requirements from the local retailers. He expressed the hope that the retailers also would in turn do their utmost to see that they purchased their requirements from the local wholesale houses instead of placing large orders with northern firms. “Of course,” he added, “if the local wholesale firms cannot do the business at a competitive price the retailer would be justified in placing the business in the north but many instances have come under my notice where retailers have placed the business with northern firms and after they have added shrinkage of weight and charges, the local wholesale price wa« ** business proposition.”

Hie annual meeting of the Grocers’ Association will take place in the Chamber of Commerce rooms at 11 o’clock this

A deputation from the Southland Motor Association is to wait upon the Garages’ Association on the 7th instant for the purpose of discussing matters of mutual interest.

The caretaker of the Municipal Theatre reported last evening to the Council that the takings during April amounted tn £159, and during that time 24 performances had been given in the Theatre and 9 in the Victoria Hall.

The executive of the Eastern Sub-Com-mittee of the Southland Branch of the Farmers’ Union will meet in Gore next Saturday morning, and in the afternoon a meeting of the fertiliser committee will take place.

The Electric Power Board at its meeting yesterday instructed its engineer to lock into and report on the question of procuring surplus power available at Mataura falls foi the purpose of making its available to manj consumers who desire to have electricity available on their farms before the next dairying season.

The abattoir manager, in the course of his report to the Town Council last evening, stated that during April the following stock was slaughtered:—Bullocks and heifers 390, cows 28, calves 7, pigs 36, maiden ewes and wethers 1132, breeding ewes 497 and lambs 29. The stock condemned during that time consisted of one bullock and seven sheep.

The Wahine made a fast trip from Lyttelton on Thursday night, covering the distance in just on ten hours. Her departure was delayed, waiting for the southern express, and it was 10.26 p.m. before she left the Lyttelton wharf.. Godley Heads were cleared at 10.47 p.m. and the steamer passed Pencarrow at 7.40 o’clock on Friday morning, and berthed at 8.20 o’clock. Her average speed was knots.

The secretary of the Sawmill Workers’ Union (Mr T. O’Byrne), reported to the meeting of the Union on Saturday night that he had visited three milk in the Otautau district; also Scott Gap, four mills at Tuatapere, two mills at Hedgehcpe, also Te Tua mills, and Glencoe, and three mills on the Seaward Bush line. All mills were working full time with plentiful supply of orders, and the industry appears to be in a flouridling condition, and all members were fully employed. Port Craig is already employing abcut seventy men, and still requires several good bush hands.

The British Empire Producers’ organisation, London, which aims to make the Empire self-supporting, and has for its objects the developing of trade within the Empire, recently organised a deputation of Empire producers which waited on the Imperial Parliament, requesting preference with respect to Government and municipal contracts. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board was represented at the deputation. A cablegram has now been received advising that the War Office, in calling for tenders for frozen beef and mutton for delivery to various military stations in the United Kingdom, states that preference will be given tenders within the Empire. Tenders, which close on May 14, are for approximately 5642 tons, spread over a six months’period. —Press Association.

“Foreign insects can be introduced in all manner of ways, per fruit, seed, packing cases, ballast, or almost in any old way, and often quite undetectably. Some of these immigrants will find very congenial conditions here, with few or no natural enemies to keep them in check. Having landed in such an El Dorado for them they would proceed to increase amazingly to our national' loss. There are many terrible borers of wood, and fruit pests, which have not yet arrived, but may come along any day. Let us therefore keep our defenders, the birds, in good force. They may quite easily save us millions, and our forests from total destruction. A word of warning was given on this matter by the late Sir David Hutchens.”—Mr A. Seed, secretary, Dominion Sawmillers’ Federation.

Signor Constantini, late of the Sistine Choir, and who is settling in -Auckland, spent seven years in Russia. The first six years “everything was beautiful.” Then came the revolution of Kerensky, followed by the revolution of Lenin. The foreigner fared no better than the unfortunate Russian. Signor Constantini had 33,000 lire in a Russian bank and this was at once confiscated. When he asked for its return. “What!” said the Bolshevik official. “We know you are trying to leave the country. You made the money here, and here you will leave it.” Anyone who crossed the border was rigorously searched by “Customs officers,” and relentlessly robbed of all money and jewellery, which was confiscated to the State. Finally the singer made his escape from Murmoa .in an English ship and regained Italy penniless.

The proposal of the Town Council to introduce a new system of payment in regard to gas and electric light accounts has been misunderstood by a number of consumers, who are under the impression that the Council propose to increase the charges by the imposition of a 10 per cent, penalty. "When spoken to by a Southland Times re porter yesterday, the Town Clerk (Mr F. Burwell)- said that the present price of gas was 10/5 per 1000 cubic feet, less a discount of 1/8, making the net ccst 8/9. The Council’s proposal was, he said, to charge consumers the net price, viz., 8/9, and to add a penalty of 10 per cent, for all accounts unpaid on the due date. In regard to the electric lighting accounts, Mr Burwell said that the system cf charging was somewhat different, but the Council was taking steps to place the charges on a better basis, though it was not intended to increase the present charges in any way.

“What,” asked His Honour, Mr Justice Stringer, at Hamilton, “is a balloon dance?” The case was one in which a Rotorua board-inghouse-keeper sought an injunction against the owner of a hall to restrict dancing, skating and Maori concerts in the boilding (states the Waikato Times). The annoyance which it was complained was caused by hakas, jazz bands, balloon dances and similar noise provoking amusements, led to His Honour’s query. Mr C. L. MacD armid appeared for plaintiff, and said His Honour apparently cpuld not have engaged in this particular form of amusement. A balloon dance, he explained, was one where the ladies tied toy balloons to their ankles, the object of the men being to stamp on and burst the balloons. The result was a general tangle, men and women getting tied up in the balloon strings. The result was general squealing, laughter and noise.

An important judgment, of interest to dairy farmers, has been delivered by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the case in which R. Hemingway claimed £l4 from the Kaikoura Co-operative Dairy Company, says a Christchurch Press Association wire. The plaintiff having declined to accept from the Company shares in lieu of this money, some time ago, the Company put in a butter plant and it was agreed that the money should be raised by the issue of butter shares, the suppliers to take one share for each two cows milked. Plaintiff, who is a shareholder in the defendant company and a supplier to the factory, declined to take shares in lieu of cash for butter-fat sold. In the course of his judgment, the Magistrate said that the legal position was well expressed by Mr Justice Salmond in Donald v the Normanby Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd., (1922 G.L.R.); —“A company cannot issue or allot shares except to a person who has agreed with the company to accept them. Shares have their sole origin in a contract between the company and the person to whom they are originally issued.” In the present case the plaintiff had never contracted to take up more shares and he should have had the money held by the company paid to him as balance of the price of butter fat sold. Judgment was accordingly entered for plain*:ff for £l4 and costs.

Speaking of the necessity for all returned soldiers to support the R.S.A., Dr. Gow, president of the Levin branch, said at a general meeting, that it was not a matter of what a man might make out of the R.S.A. personally, but of keeping up an organisation which could help any of their comrades who might require assistance. As long as there were comrades who through wounds, etc., were unable to fight the battle of life for themselves, it was the duty of every Digger to remain a member of the R.SA. in order to help them. The last issue of the Gazette contains regulations under the Health Act, 1920, for the registration of eating houses by local authorities. These include the precautions to be taken in the storage of food, cleaning premises, accommodation of staff, etc., and clause 6 (e) provides that “Every kitchen on the premises, and every place in which food is prepared for serving to the public, shall have all windows, doors, and ventilators adequately protected by movable gauze screens or by other effective methods so as to prevent the entrance of flies.”

The Court of Appeal gave judgment yesterday, says a Wellington message, in the case of Macfarlane v Commissioner of Taxes which was argued before the Court on October 20 last. The majority of the Court, consisting of the Chief Justice and Justices Stringer and Adams, were of opinion that the appeal should be allowed. Justices Salmond and Hosking dissented. The result is that both assessments of the Commissioner of Taxes are cancelled. Coste were allowed appellant on the highest scale. The Solicitor-General was granted conditional leave to appeal to the Privy Council. The Court of Appeal further adjourned the hearing of an application to strike A. L. Denniston off the rolls of barristers and solicitors until the next sittings of the Court.

Mr H. Harding, a well-known business man, writes from London to the Sydney Sun: —“English butter was 2s 4d a lb., when I was at Mayfair, Piccadily, and it was tasteless. I could not find any Australian butter there, but New Zealand, which is sold as ‘salt butter,’ was fetching 2s 2d, and was very much better than the English product. At Chelsea ‘Australian’ butter is offered at 2s, and I do not believe it is Australian at all, certainly not Clarence River butter, for it is rank and unsaleable. It is sold in round pats with the imprint of a flower on the top. I think the butter question needs very close investigation. I have been unable to obtain here butter anything nearly as agreeable to the taste or sight as Grafton butter. Danish is now selling at 2s and is fairly good, but it is not up to Clarence River butter.”

“I was in America for six weeks, and I must confess that I never felt so well in- my life,” said Mr M. Cable, electrical engineer to the Wellington City Corporation, who has just returned to that city. “I am not quite sure what it was, but I think it was their way of living, which I found suited my health. They drink a lot of water there. A pitcher of iced water is served at all meals, winter and summer, and I got to like it, and it seems to invigorate one. The fact that it is iced seems to remove its insipidity, if one might call it such. In America they do not drink tea like we do—neither do they at Home. In America they take coffee for breakfast, and after dinner in the evening, but tea-drinking as we know it does not exist, not even in the offices. There are no breaks for afternoon tea for the girls in America—that sort of thing would not be tolerated. One thing I noticed in connection with the water supply,” continued Mr Cable, “was a regular service of water from some special spring. This is contained in big glass jars or cisterns, which are taken round to office buildings by motor,waggons. I did not learn if the water had any medicinal value, but it was evidently special water that was much in demand —even when the snow was on the ground.” Ashley’s Hall to-night at 8 p.m. The usual dance will be held this evening. Good music for dancing. Sub.—Ladies 1/-; Gents 2/6. — (Advt).

Smith’s have ( huge stocks of beautiful ribbons piled out at real bargain prices.— (Advt).

Meccano, the great engineering hobby for boys, has come to be recognised in thousands of homes as a necessary, essential and highly desirable part pf a boy’s training. It keeps him keen, alert and intensely interested, quickens his thinking capacities and teaches him considerable manual dexterity. Parents and relatives interested in the welfare of boys will do well to study carefully the possibilities that meccano provides. Hyndman’s, Dee Street, are meccano controllers for Invercargill

Special values in Coloured Cashmere Hosiery are offered at Thomson apd Beattie’s. These include plain and rib in all shades at 3/6, 4/6 and 5/11 per pair. In T. & B. Quality, Black Cashmere Hose. Best finished and best value Hose ever handled at “The Exhibition” are priced at 4/11, 5/11, 6/6, 7/6 to* 9/11 pair.— (Advt).

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