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Southland Times, Issue 18971, 19 June 1923, Page 4

ANSWER TO A CORRESPONDENT. B.C.—Pointless.

The next meeting of the Bluff Harbour Board, will be held on July 26. Thereafter the Board will hold its usual meeting on the fourth Thursday in each month. A meeting of Southland dairy factory delegates will be held in Invercargill in June 29 to discuss the Cool Stores’ proposal. Fairly large consignments of fish and oysters were lifted at the Bluff yesterday by the Moeraki for the Australian market. The vessel also carried a large quantity of timber from the Southland mills. Another Southland river board is mooted, this time fcr the Otautau and its subsidiary streams. A fair amount of the preliminary work has been finished, and a general meeting of those interested will be held about the beginning of July. A periodical return prepared by the secretary of the Bluff Harbour Board, for the first half of the financial year, gees to show that the Board’s financial position is slightly in advance of the corresponding period last year, which was a record one in the Board’s history. An Auckland Press Association message yesterday stated that Athol Courtney Forbes 30, pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence on charges of having received £3O from a Auckland carnival committee. He failed to pay it to his employers, Dixieland Ltd., cabaret proprietors, and with also having stolen £43 6/ 1 * and £9 14/-, from his employers.

It is understood that the canvassers appointed in connection with the Waihopai River Board petition are meeting with very satisfactory results. With the exception of one district the farmers are freely signing the petition, which will shortly be ready for presentation to Parliament.

A motor-cyclist travelling along the North Road in the direction of town yesterday, collided with a passing tramcar, but without serious injury to himself or his machine. While passing the tram near the Waikiwi route the cyclist skidded on the slippery road and struck the rear part of the tram. The damage to the tram was very slight.

It is too early to give indications as to what effect the change in the half-holiday will have upon the tramway returns, but last week there was a noticeable falling off in the returns for Wednesday and Friday. A marked increase in the Saturday traffic, however, was sufficient to make up for the decrease shown on the two days mentioned.

A severe thunderstorm was experienced in the city at 4 a.m. on Sunday ,says an Auckland Press Association telegram. The residence of Mr W. Birkenhead at Mt. Eden was struck by lightning, a wireless plant apparently acting as the receiver. The chimney top was shattered and a considerable portion of the fireplace blown out, the hearth and tiles being damaged. The occupants escaped injury. At Parnell a chimney was damaged and some telephone wires broken.

The Crown’s appeal was allowed by Mr Justice Adams at Christchurch yesterday in the case, Bing Harris & Co. v. the Railway Department, a claim for £49 17/- for property, ex Ruapehu, lost in transit on railway trucks between Lyttelton and Christchurch. The Magistrate had given judgment for Bing, Harris & Co. The judge held that there was no evidence that the goods were delivered into the trucks from the ship, and ordered the case to be remitted, and the Magistrate to enter a nonsuit.

Trade reciprocity between Canada and New Zealand is the subject of a question to be asked in Parliament by Sir John Luke (Wellington North) of the Minister of Customs as to whether any progress has been made since last session of Parliament in respect to the matter. Sir John Luke states that imports into New Zealand from Canada were—l92o, £2,386,000; 1921, £1,687,000 —as against exports from ■ New Zealand ihto Canada amounting to £1,357,000 for 1920 and only £454,000 for 1921.

The effectiveness of a pea-rifle bullet formed the subject of discussion in a case heard at the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court recently (states the Taranaki Daily News). Counsel stated that no one would suggest that a man would go pig-hunting, for instance, with a pea-rifle, but the Magistrate (Mr A. M. Mowlem) replied that he himself had actually done such a thing. The effectiveness of a pea-rifle bullet, he considered, depended on the variety of the pig. “Old boars cannot be touched with a pea-rifle bullet,” he said, “but young pigs, which are not so tough, certainly can.” Some bright flashes illuminated the discussion at the Auckland farmers’ conference on Wednesday, states the New Zealand Herald. One speaker, advocating political action by the union, said it had been stated that the great body of farmers was not behind the union in the matter. “What I want to know,” he said, “is how you can get the farmers behind you unless you get in front of them.” Another speaker on the same subject said the* idea of a farmers’ union trying to work in the interests of farmers without taking political action was like endeavouring to drive a totara wharf pile with a bale of wool.

An interesting phase of the work at Otira, says a correspondent of the Hokitika Guardian, is the construction of a large embankment to guard the railway yard and power-house from possible encroachment by the river. The boulders for the embankment are at present being obtained in a somewhat novel manner. Men loosen the stones along the course of a large waterfall on the other side of the river. At the bottom of the fall chains are placed round them, and they are hoisted by means of a steam crane into ballast tanks. The embankment bears a very solid appearance at the present time, and it seems to be an adequate guardian of the thousands of pounds’ worth of property in the vicinity of the railway.

The right-to-work principle of the Labour Party is the subject of a question to be asked in Parliament by Mr P. Fraser (Wellington Central) of the Prime Minister. Mr Fraser desires to know whethet the Prime Minister will state what the Government is doing to relieve the present widespread unemployment; and whether the Government will introduce legislation this session recognising the right-to-work principle, and providing that every unemployed person able to work shall he provided with employment, or failing the provision of employment, the payment to such person of an unemployment allowance sufficient to provide for the needs of himself and his wife and family, or other dependents.

“Don’t sent anyone to me who is collecting for the unemployed,” said a Christchurch resident to a reporter. The reason for this extraordinary statement was that the resident was being kept out of his home, which is undergoing some repairs, owing to what he considered the somewhat unreasonable attitude of the carpenters and plumbers, who ceased operations for four days last week on the grounds that “the house was too cold to work in." The resident was promised that the work would be completed in a week, but that period had passed, and the work is only half finished, meanwhile he and his family have to continue residing out of town, much to their inconvenience.

Amongst those who are called the poor in the city there is still a good deal of independence, as was -shown by a woman who is well up in years, who said that she was living in a room where there was no fireplace, says the Auckland Star. She was down on her luck just now, but she hoped the time would soon come when she would be able to afford to pay for a place where she could have a cheery fire in the cold weather. She was not going to complain, because she went to bed at night with feet as warm as toast, for she made it a habit to take at least a mile walk each night, which made her breathe deeply and gave such a glow to her body that she slept soundly all night. People, she thought, missed a lot of happiness through want of effort, and she found great delight- in making the best of what she had. A gas ring was sufficient to cook all the food she required. She was complimented for what was described as her sturdy independence by the chairman of the Relief Committee.

During the shooting season local residents frequently receive gifts of game, which gifts invariably give much satisfaction to the recipients (remarks the Northern Advocate). Generally the brace of pheasant or duck, or the usual pair of rabbits is the result of a promise fulfilled. When such edibles arrive unexpectedly and without any indication of the identity of the donor, however, the gifts may be expected to be even more welcome. A few days ago a shopkeeper in Bank street radiated satisfaction when a lad, having handed him a parcel containing a duck, dressed and ready for the oven, departed hurriedly without explanation. In a short time the duck was frizzling in the oven, and the shopkeeper’s family were preparing for a feast. Then the telephone bell rang, and a well known dealer in poultry asked whether a boy had delivered the duck which he said was meant for a bank official of the same name. The poulterer intimated his intention of sending the lad back to take the parcel to the intended recipient. The awkward situation created was, however, happily surmounted by the shopkeeper extending a hearty invitation to the bank clerk to hurry up and go along to dinner. Whether he did so with a good grace has not been stated.

Taranaki has a name for its roads, and so has Taranaki’s hinterland (states the Taranaki Daily News). Recently the Minister of Public Works rode out from Whangamomona through a quagmire to visit the Mangare district, where it will cost £lO,OOO to give access of a kind to seven settlers who run there or four thousand sheep. A deputation from this district told the Minister that their storekeeper lost fourteen pack horses in one year while sending goods by horses to the settlers. Mr Coates inspected the road and promised the settlers that he would have men put to work to give access for the coming summer. i

Steps are to be taken by the Hawke’s Bay County Council to have the law protecting rooks suspended so far as to allow of the birds being kept in check without being exterminated (reports the Tribune). This decision was reached at a recent meeting of the council, when a letter was received from the Farmers’ Union, asking it to take action against the pest. “It. is not a question of extermination,” said Mr C. C. Smith. “The settlers merely want the pest kept in check. The birds do a lot of damage and also a lot of good. I move that the necessary uteps be taken to check the increase of the pest, and to see that they are not exterminated.”

A further phase of certain trouble through two players being ordered off the field in a recqjit Lyttalton-Sydenham-Marista match was introduced by the referee, Mr K. H. Perrin, at a meeting of the Canterbury Referees’ Association (states the Lyttelton Times). He stated that he had received anonymous correspondence, but had decided to let the matter drop until he received another letter purported to have been written by a lady, which, he said, in reality was written by a man. The letter was couched in rather sarcastic terms, telling him how much admired he was and suggested an appointment, the time and place being named. The letter has been placed in further hands, said Mr Perrin, who wanted to know what the Rugby Union were going to do about it. “The appointment is going to be kept,” he said. (Hear, hear). It was decided that he should report to the next meeting.

A member of the audience at Mr J. W. Shaw’s-lecture at Auckland related an interesting anecdote of the late Bishop Selwyn (reports the New Zealand Herald). It was the custom among certain Hawke’s Bay fanners, he said, to deal with the tramp nuisance by hanging to their gateposts a bag of wheat and a steel mill. A notice attached to the bag read: “Grind a hopper of wheat, or go on.” The result was that “those who walked and prayed that they might not work” were compelled to do some useful work before they were vouchsafed the hospitality of the canny farmer. Bishop Selwyn, in the course of one of his pilgrimages among the Maoris, was confronted on one occasion with a notice bearing the inscription mentioned. “He happened to be a close friend of the farmer in question,” said the speaker, “but, impelled by the democratic spirit, and fearing to break any rule of the place, he set to work, ground the wheat, and entered his friend’s abode to earn a welcome meal." A case of bag-snatching, the first reported to the Auckland police for some time, occurred in Park avenue, Grafton, at about 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, when a man obtained possession of a lady’s handbag, and made good his escape. The circumstances were that two ladies crossed Grafton Bridge from the city, and walked along Park road, and then turned into Park avenue. About 50yds along the latter road the man ran up behind them and endeavoured to snatch a handbag from one of the ladies. She maintained her hold of the bag, and in the struggle was forced to her knees, but the man finally wrested the bag from her hand. He immediately ran back into Park road, and then along Seafield View road toward Khyber Pass. He was followed by two men as soon as the alarm had been given, but the chase was not successful (states the New Zealand Herald). The bag contained a fair sum of money. The police have been supplied with a description of the man.

Visit Smith’s Aeroplane Sale for men’s shirts, 150 dozen to clear at 5/6, 6/6, 7/6, 9/6. They are wonderful value.—(Advt).

Good Food—Cost of living reduced at Baxter’s. Prime bacon, rich new cheese, old tasty cheese, factory butter, prime potatoes, Victorian onions—all at lowest rates for ready money.— (Advt).

That quality and low prices can go together is amply proved at Thomson and Beattie’s. Visit their Manchester department and you will see many lines at prices lower than for years past. Frilled pillow cases at 2/3 pair. Heavy white calico at lid yard. Horrockses longcloth at 1/3. (Advt).

A nice clean show of men’s clothing and mercery is to be seen at McNeil and Clark's shop front in Dee street. What strikes the visitor is the complete absence of poor quality goods. Each article is high-grade of its kind and on comparison prices will be found to be as low, and in many cases lower than anywhere in Southland. This is a firm statement, come and compare.— (Advt).

Bracing outdoor exercise is the best tonic, and the surest preventative of body ills. There is no better inducement for out-of-door play for either boys or girls than a football. The backyard, the footpath, the verandah all offer happy playgrounds for the little people, with a sturdy leather ball for playing. Every family should have a football. Let Hyndman’s, Dee street, supply you. Prices 3/9, 4/6, 7/6, 8/6, 9/6. Posted free anywhere.— (Advt). KORTLANG AT PAPEETE. Mr. Kortlang enthused Messrs. Bambridge Dexter and Co., who have taken over the Oceania Agency for Fluenzol and Q-tol. They ask tor an urgent shipment.—(Advt). The following are some of the many different diseases and ailments we have successfully tretted by Professor Kirk’s methodes in our Institute: Asthma, bronchitis, Ulceration and dilation of stomach, hip disease, synovitis, sciatica, lumbago, rheumatism, eczema, bladder troubles, neuritis and nerve troubles of all kinds. Consult Mr D. Marshall, Kirk’s Institute, Leet street. Tel. 315. (Advt.). AEROPLANE SALE. To-day and onward, we are making wonderful price reductions on the whole of our extensive stocks of millinery. Choice millinery, just opened from our London buyer, is included in this big sale. It will be to your advantage to walk through our commodious premises, and see the beautiful goods on sale, at these bargain prices. Smart trimmed hats, in the newest styles and colourings, 15/6, 17/6, 25/6. A table of trimmed hats, in very smart styles, were 29/6 to 52/6, all 19/6. Coloured velours 14/6, now 7/11. Coloured ribbon hats, suitable for sports wear, were 25/6, now 9/11. Matrons Toques 12/6 to 17/6. Smart, ready to wear hats, in flush, fur-felt and straw, were 17/6 to 29/6, now 9/11. Embroidered silk hats in sky, saxe and violet, were 15/6, now 5/11. Ready to wear felts, 1/11, 2/11, 5/6. Black plush hats and tarns, were 19/6, now 12/6. Coloured silk velvet tarns, 8/6. A table of smart ready to wear hats, in velvet, silk, straw and felts, were 12/6 to 22/6, now 5/6. Also a large assortment of flowers, wings and mounts, 3d, 6d, 1/6, at H. and J. SMITH, Ltd, Progressive Stores, Tay and Kelvin Streets, Invercargill and Main Street, Gore. (Advt). NO RETURN OF PILES. “I was a sufferer for six years—was ordered an operation by two doctors. After using Zann Treatment I am now quite cured. That was two years ago, and I have had no return of the trouble since.”— W.H.T., Wellington. New Booklet. fully describing the Zann Double Absorption Pile Remedy post free on request. Money refunded if not satisfied with Zann Treatment. Address, in confidence, *Zann Proprietary, Box 952, Wellington. Booklets and stocks of “Zann” can be obtained from Wm. Stewart, Chemist, Dee street, Invercargill—(Advt..).

“A few years ago the attitude of employers was, ‘Oh, technical schools! All theory, no practice.’ Now they say ‘Give the boys theory; they can get the practice from us.’ " The Director of the Greymouth Technical High School (reported in the Grey River Argus).

A somewhat, interesting point in connection with a judgment summons was mentioned in a case in Hawera (relates the Hawera Star). His W’orship said that a debtor had no right to be paying old debts voluntarily and neglecting an order of the Court in another debt. But he added that if a man was preesed to pay any debts the fact of a judgment summons would be accepted as a reasonable excuse for not paying them.

An unpleasant accident occurred at the annual meeting of the Edgeware Tennis Club (says the Christchurch Preu). The business was in full swing when a heavy picture crashed down from the wall on t4> the head of the secret ary-treasurer, Mr A. W. Jackson. Mr Jackson was knocked unconscious by the blow, and he did not come to until a wet pack had been applied to his head. Ten minutes later he was well enough to bid the other members “good night."

“The idea should be put prominently before everybody that the nose and mouth are the chief means germs have of. entry into the system,” said Dr. Home at a lecture in New Plymouth. “Bad and decaying teeth materially help the spread of disease, and. if not attended to. cause the tonsils to become overloaded with injurious bacteria, until, instead of being a natural means of combating the evil, they actually become a medium for infection. As tonsils cannot be sterilised they have to be removed when this stage is reached, thui leaving the throat without its protection.— Taranaki Daily News,