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Southland Times, Issue 18974, 22 June 1923, Page 4

The north express was an hour late last night, due to delay on the other side of Dunedin.

The will of the late Joseph John Allan, of Nightcaps, who died on May 5, 1923, provides that after the payment of certain legacies the residue of the estate is to be paid to the Soldiers’ Club, Invercargill.

The North and St. George schools and the Southland Girls’ High School are at present closed, owing to the outbreak of influenza. The Middle and South schools are carrying on with greatly depleted rolls.

The Southland League decided yesterday to approach the Railway Department for an assurance that a special train would always be run from the Bluff to Invercargill on the arrival of the direct inter-colonial steamer from Melbourne.

Snow fell in several parts of Southland yesterday, the countryside being completely covered in the Nightcaps district. The heaviest fall, however, occurred in the Lakes district, near Arrowtown, where the school had to be closed, as it was snowed in.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M., judgment was given in the following undefended civil cases:—Kingsland and Ferguson v. Annie Prendeville for £4 8/6, with costs £1 11/6; Stout and Lillicrap v. George Aitken for £ll 13/3, with costs £1 6/-.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M., Mrs J. Blyth proceeded against John Kernane’for 5/-, being an amount of money alleged to be due as part of the cost of construction of a fence. Mr Eustace Russell appeared for the defendant and Mr Macalister for the plaintiff. His Worship gave judgment against the defendant for the amount claimed, with £1 6/- costs.

A Press Association message from Wellington states that the Rotarians of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin met in conference yesterday, the Hon George Fowlds presiding. In his address the president stressed the influence Rotary movement could have in the community if members adopted the spirit of service before self. The business to be discussed by the conference will consist of short addresses and various social functions.

Extensive alterations and additions are at present being made to the Salvation Army Hall in Tay street. The original hall is being completely renovated, while a twostoried brick addition is being made at the back to provide a band room and class rooms for a Sunday School. The improvements, which will cost about £3,000, should be completed by about the middle of August, when the building will be officially opened by Commissioner Hoggard or the Dominion secretary, Colonel Henry.

In connection with the appointment of Mr Bollard as a Minister, Mr J .A. Young, member for Hamilton, said (says a Press Association telegram from Hamilton), he wished to tender his sincere congratulations to Mr Bollard and he hoped he would make a success of the portfolios allotted to him. When asked the question Mr Young said he had no remarks to make on the wisdom of the choice. That was entirely the business of the Prime Minister. He wished to express his great appreciation and thanks to the press of New Zealand for the manner in which they had generously advanced his claims to consideration for appointment to ministerial office.

Some discussion took place at the executive meeting of the Southland League yesterday on the Highways Bill and the constitution of the Board which has been appointed to carry out the provisions of the Bill. Strong exception was taken by Mr Winsloe to the personnel of the Board which is to consist of six members, five of whom are residents of the North Island which he maintained was likely to adversely affect the chances of the South Island getting a fair and equitable share of the proceeds obtained by the operation of the tyre tax. Mr Winsloe further stated that he thought the League should support the Counties’ Conference in their opposition to the proposed Board and also that a letter of protest should be forwarded to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Works against the establishment of one Board and suggesting that two Boards should be set up, one for each island. The League decided to take action on the lines suggested.

The Director of the Meteorological Office (the Rev D. C. Bates) advises that he expects a southerly storm with rain and sleet and snow in the high country and much colder weather and that the barometer is expected to rise fast soon.

“There is one part of it that you can call sound. We are only getting about 10 miles to the gallon, and will soon want a set of tyres all round. I earnestly recommend a change that would save both men’s time and running costs.” In this manner the Waimairi County Council electrician extolled the merits of the county motor lorry. The councillors took a serious view of the matter and referred it to a special subcommittee.

Miss Elsie Prestidge, the girl whom Albert Frederick Maxwell Kissel, the youth charged with the murder of J. H. Mackenzie at Coldstream, stated that he had shot on the same night that Mackenzie was killed, is resident in Christchurch and has not seen Kissel for over five years or even corresponded with him. She was in the same class as Kissel at St. Michael’s School some years ago, says the Lyttelton Times. The statement that he had shot Miss Prestidge was made by Kissel to Mr R. J. Martin, the manager of the Coldstream Estate, at the time he admitted having shot Mackenzie. Another allegation by Kissel that he had shot horses was also found to be incorrect.

The foolishness of attempting to drive over a level railway crossing when a train is approaching was brought home to a man in Hastings recently (remarks the Hawke’s Bay Herald), and no doubt the lesson he then received 'will stand by him for the rest of his life. He was driving a motorcar, and, disregarding the signals of the crossing-keeper to pull up, he proceeded on his way. When on the railway line the car stopped, and an accident seemed inevitable. Realising the situation, and failing to get the car to move, he jumped out, and by an almost superhuman effort pushed the car over the line just in time. It was a miraculous escape.

When making his rounds on the Mararoa on Monday morning on the voyage from Lyttelton the watchman, Donald Shaw, found a passenger who had booked under the name of R. McLean lying on the deck apparently asleep, but on shaking him, it was found that was dead. At the Coroner’s inquest yesterday (says a Press Association message from Wellington), a postmortem on the body revealed the fact that the deceased had died as a result of cyanide poisoning. Deceased was last seen alive at 6.50 a.m. on Monday, and was discovered at 8.30. Nothing further is known of the man. As a brother had missed the boat from Lyttelton, the inquest was adjourned until to-morrow.

“Aim to make the compulsory age for leaving school sixteen,” said several members of the Christchurch Technical College Board of Governors (reports the Lyttelton Times) Mr H. Worrall strongly opposed the suggestion made recently in Wellington that apprentices to a trade should Jjegin work at the age of 14 and afterwards attend school half-time and work half the time. “Fourteen,” said Mr Worrall, “is too young for a boy to go out and take part in the work-a-day world.” Mr J. A. Black said that New Zealand should aim at giving the children something better than a primary school education until they were 14 years of age, with an apprenticeship and technical school classes after that.

The fitness of women as School Inspectors came before the Council of Education yesterday (says a Wellington Press Association message), when Miss Coad moved that women should be appointed to the Inspectorate. Mr Caughley, Director of Education, while, agreeable to the suggestion, said he did not think that women could undertake all the duties that fell to the lot of an inspector, for instance, they had to make long and tiresome journeys into the backblocks and had to rely for shelter in the wayside huts. It was, he said, a common occurrence for an inspector to pack up his swag and ride on horseback for days over the roughest country in the Dominion. Miss Wilson said that she was quite capable of performing the work of a male inspector. The Council decided that women should be appointed only in special

The love of Aucklanders for their city and the public-spiritedness and generosity that are frequently being manifested by its citizens have made Auckland the most richly-endowed place in the Dominion in the matter of private gifts (states the Star). Other cities can boast of State grants and Government assistance, but Auckland has been the envy of the whole Dominion in the generosity of its sons, native and adopted, for the betterment and beautification of their home town. Among the many striking instances of this private munificence and civic spirit are Cornwall and Campbell Parks, Myers Park and Kindergarten, the Costley Home, Leys Institute, Dilworth Institute, Knox Home for Incurables, Ellerslie Convalescent Home, Leslie Orphanage, Mack>lvie art bequest and Atkinson Park. In brief their name is legion, and another has now been added to the long list by the Hon Arthur Myers by his gift of £5,000 towards the establishment of a Karitape Home in Auckland.

Mr Fenton Macpherson, formerly foreign editor of the London Daily Mail, paid high tribute to the New Zealand Press when speaking before business men at Wellington last week. “Well informed, admirably edited, wonderfully put together,” he called it, and said that he had studied it with great interest and profit. Like Lord Northcliffe, he was struck by the great number of newspapers which he had seen in the Dominion. “Every town of any size has its daily newspaper, morning or evening, and everybody reads them!” He had seen working men on their way to toil, and each and everyone had a copy of the morning paper under his arm. He did not know whether this was because the New Zealand working man had more time for reading than his English brother.— (Laughter), lie admitted, following on a hint by Mr J. Myers, that British papers had not been well served with New Zealand news in the past; but that was all over now. The people hero appeared tp have a thirst for news; (hey advertised, too, with a rapidity and to an extent which he had found admirable.

“A man cannot be a good citizen unless he lives in clean, happy, and wholesome surroundings,” said the Rev. C. H. Grant Cowen, at Auckland, when the need for more and better homes for the people of Auckland was advocated. He said that if young couples had to commence their married life in only one room, one could not wonder that unhappiness was caused. Only quite recently half a dozen families came to him asking for references so that they might forward applications for a four-room-ed “whare.” Another speaker at the meeting, Mr Oscar M‘Brine, remarked that the question was a serious one from the economic point of view, since too large a portion of the weekly wage was consumed in rental. Good public health was an impossibility with a crowded population, while it was improbable that children living under such conditions should become clean-mind-ed, moral citizens, reports the Star. Mr M‘Brine said that private enterprise had failed miserably in the building of houses. Such being the case, he thought that now public enterprise should be given a trial. In respect to a recent departmental announcement that no further applications by ex-soldiers for advances for settlement purposes could be entertained at present, as the State fund was exhausted, and that some of the applications in hand would have to be deferred for the same reason, Mr F. Murdoch, M.P., for Marsden (states the Northern Advocate) telegraphed to the Minister of Lands asking what the actual position was. Sir Francis Bell, acting for the Minister, has replied to Mr Murdoch as follows: “With reference to your telegram all applications for loans which have been accepted by the Department will be considered. The Government is now considering the question of providing further funds to enable applications on hand to be disposed of.”

“ When I first came to New Zealand from Australia 23 years ago, I noticed that the children were very well clothed and fed, as compared with the Australian children in some of the towns,” remarked an old resident of Palmerston North to a Standard reporter.

“From the manner in which the sand is drifting, I can see that the present bathing house will soon be covered like the ruins of Pompeii,” said Councillor Body at the last meeting of the Castlecliff Town Board (reports the Chronicle). “It will come in useful as a foundation for the new bathing house,” retorted the chairman.

“ I don’t think you want Anzac Day on the Coast,” said Mr Croskery in the Greymouth Conciliation Council (reports the Grey River Argus). Commissioner Newton: “Yes. Seeing the way they enjoy themselves on Sunday I should say so, too. The Act provides that Anzac Day must be kept up as a Sunday in every respect.”

According to a Press Association message from Blenheim the premises of Finlay Bros, chemists, were entered on Wednesday night and about £35 removed from the safe, which had a defective lock. A later message states that a man named Charles Arthur Peterson, 19 years of age, has been arrested in connection with the burglary and that the money totalling £4O 17s 6d had been recovered. The proposed change in the present method of apportioning seats on Education Boards which, according to the Education Department has been found inequitable, was discussed by the Wellington Education Board yesterday. A letter from the Department stated that the Minister was considering the question of amending the Act in several directions, but before proceeding further he wished each Board to consider the proposals as far as they effected its district, and the Minister would consider any suggestions received within a month from date. The general effects of the proposals would be to reduce the number of members in most of the districts to give rural districts better representation and to apportion representation more equitably. After the Board had ascertained from the Department that it was hoped the matter would be pushed through this session, a discussion on the proposal took place, during which members expressed disapproval of the suggested change.—Press Association. Just opened a large consignment of beautiful goods secured in Melbourne and Sydney; on sale at SMITH’S.—(Advt). Hyndman’s sell “Comfort” in the shape of Hot Water Bags. For Cold Nights or Sick Days—for Aches and Pains, the accommodating heat of the Hot Water Bag is at once “Grateful and Comforting,” and a curative physic of the best kind. Hyndman’s, Dee street, offer the dependable “Glasgow” and “Unique” quality Bags at 8/6, 9/6, 10/6, 12/6. Posted 6d extra. — (Advt). A sale of action, not talk! Lewis’s 61st anniversary sale now breaking all records. There’s a reason.— (Adv*). RADIO! RADIO! Just landed a big shipment of components for Wireless Receiving Sets, Condensers, Terminals, Switch Levers, Contacts, Valve Sockets, Amplifying Transformers, etc. Come right in and inspect our stocks.—THE DOMINION ELECTRIC CO., Don street. — (Advt.) Tea rooms and observation roof. For pleasant relaxation from shopping visit the tea rooms at Southland’s premier emporium, where the most wholesome and refreshing morning and afternoon teas are served daily. Here the latest musical successes are rendered every afternoon. See Invercargill and our environs from the observation roof of Lewis’s, Southland’s Shopping Centre since 1862.—(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).

To country clients! Make a convenience of our “Shopping Service.” Don’t carry your parcels round. Leave them at “Southland’s shopping centre.” They will be delivered to your train, whether they are purchased here or not. If this should prove a convenience to you it will be a pleasure to us. Lewis’s, Ltd., Southland’s Shopping Centre since 1862. For efficient and courteous service.— (Advt). KORTLANG AT PAPEETE. Mr. Kortlang enthused Messrs. Bambridgo Dexter and Co., who have taken over the Oceania Agency for Fluenzol and Q-tol. They ask for an urgent shipment.— (Advt). AEROPLANE SALE. This is indeed the largest and most successful sale of .general household linens and furnishings ever held in Southland. Satisfied customers from all parts of the province congratulate us on our beautiful stocks, and the wonderful low prices. It will be to your advantage to join the crowds of happy shoppers, and get your share of these splendid bargains. 33in terry coloured towelling, in stripe and floral effects, suitable for gowns, jackets, was 5/11, sale price 2/11. Brown terry towelling, 18 to 22in wide at 8 Ad, 9d, 1/-, 1/3, 1/6. Brown towelling 24in wide, was 2/11 for 1/11. 500 pieces white and unbleached sheeting for double beds, all guaranteed pure, at 2/6, 2/11, 3/6, 3/11. 4/6. Sheetings for single beds, at 2/3, 2/6, 2/11, 3/3. 500 dozen coloured towels at 1/11, 2/6, 3/6, 3/11, 4/6, 4/11 to 9/11. 300 dozen white towels, 3/11, 4/6, 4/11, 5/11, 6/11 to 9/6 per pair. Extra large white blanket towels at 10/6. 12/6, 13/6 per pair. Best navy ground prints, 30in wide at 1/3. Horrockses double width prints, 40in wide at 1/11 a yard. Inspection invited at H. <t J. SMITH, Ltd., Progressive Stores, Tay and Kelvin Streets, Invercargill, and Main Street, Gore. — (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). A few Clothing Specials for Saturday at Lewis’s Big 61st. Anniversary Sale:—Men’s Tweed Overcoats, usually 85, 95/-, 100/-, ! 105/-, 110/-, 125/-, clearing at 65/-, 75/-, I 80/-, 85/-, 95/-, 105/-. Men’s Waterproof Coats 85/-, 95/-, 125/-, clearing at 35/-, 45/-, 69/6. Men’s Suits, usually 85/- 95/-, clearing at 55/-, 59/6. Men’s Saddle Tweed Trousers, usually 24/6, .30/-, clearing at 19/6 and 25/6 pair. At LEWIS’S, Ltd., Southland’s Shopping Centre since 1862. (Advt). The following are some of the many different diseases and ailments we have successfully treated 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.). Ever since 1862 Southlanders and those from further afield, too. have been buying and recommending Lewis’s quality merchandise. Over 61 years of steadily increasing business proves convincingly the superior enduring qualities of the class of goods for which we have long been famed. Lewis’s, Ltd., 61 years pre-eminent.—(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 Kawakawa solicitor, Mr F. A* Bone, has not been heard of for three weeks (states the Auckland Star’s correspondent). At a meeting of creditors, the Police Department having asked for guarantees for extradition expenses, it was resolved to communicate with the Auckland Law Society, and request them to make representations to the Government with the obpect of the Government paying expenses. The sum of £5O was guaranteed by those present under strong protest, the meeting considering that, as the alleged embezzlement of trust moneys was involved the Government should bear the extradition expenses.

A suggestion to popularise Rotorua still further was made by Mr T. H. Kelly, an Australian visitor to Wellington. “When I was in the Grand Canyon, in the United States,” he said, “I could not help being struck by the effective display given by the Indians. They are

established there, in their national costume, mocassins, beads and all. There is a complete Indian village, and the old customs are religiously preserved, while the Indians go about their tasks, supplying hand-made articles to the visitors. It seems to me that if a Maori village were erected at Rotorua, and the customs and habits of the tribes were maintained, visitors would get a good deal more pleasure and interest from their visit. The Maori is being allowed to slip into a kind of slip-shod Western civilisation.”

An exchange of library assistants between Auckland and Toronto, Canada, has been approved by the Auckland City Council The chief librarian recently reported that the Toronto chief librarian had suggested sending to Auckland Mira Moir, araociata head of the Toronto Library (reference department), and that if the plan were approved he proposed sending in exchange to the Canadian city for 12 months, including travelling time, Miss Maud Ballantyne, of the local library staff (states the New Zealand Herald). The Library Committee has recommended that this scheme be adopted. Miss E. Melville, who presides over this committee, stated that the schema would involve the council in no expense other than the gap between Miss Ball antyne’s departure and the arrival of Mias Moir. Miss Ballantyne was prepared to pay her own travelling costs. She would have nine months in one of the best libraries in America, and the proposal was an excellent one.

Captain Edwin T. Pollock, Governor of American Samoa, has forwarded .the following appreciative letter to the president of the English-Speaking Uxion at Wellington: “Our time in your most hospitable country was so taken up that I had no opportunity to write you, as president of the EnglishSpeaking Union, before the ÜBS. Ontario sailed from Auckland, how much honoured the officers and I were that you invited us to be present at the first meeting of the English-Speaking Union of Wellington. On looking over some San Francisco papers, en route to Samoa, I saw that at a similar meeting in San Francisco, our Admiral Sims was a speaker. He feels, as we do, that an English-Speaking Union will tend to draw our countries together, as well as to help the whole world to a better understanding of the principles for which the union is striving. I consider it a great honour that we should have been able to be present at your first meeting, and hope to meet you all again.”

A cycling event took place on the Avenue road in New Plymouth at an early hour on a recent Sunday (relates the Taranaki Herald). It was intended to be witnessed by only a few carefully-chosen spectators, but was seen by the borough inspector, and it is understood the “official” account of the race will be recounted before the magistrate at an early date. Evidently in an unguarded moment someone “in the know” let the “cat out of the bag,” and the inspector, sensing a “catch,” secreted himself well out of view at the chosen rendezvous, and in due time the invited guests began to arrive, being preceded, however, by “scouts” sent out to see that everything was clear. In due time a couple of motor cyclists arrived, and after a preliminary trial over the course, set out on the “dinkum” race. The arrival of the inspector, with the query “Who won?” caused a little consternation, but someone was ready with another question: <f Won what?” It is understood that names were taken and “Who won what?” will be explained in the Magistrate’s Court.

Wagoners on the Wangamoa Hill have enough ordinaiy dangers to guard againat without meeting with accidents through the road collapsing, declares the Nelson Mail. But this was an experience through which a driver went about 4 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. He was proceeding along with an empty wagon about a mile from the top of the hill when suddenly, and without any warning whatever, the three homes in the lead of his team disappeared, as it were, through the solid road. He was soon aware, however, that the road was anything but solid, for a cavity 10ft deep, 9ft wide, and about 18ft long opened out to view. Immediately the leaders disappeared he jamed on the brake, which held ths wagon fast, and slashed the leaders adrift. By such means he was able to prevent the whole team going down the hole and drawing the heavy wagon on top of it. But even as it was, he had three horses floundering about in the deep hole, and the problent was how to get them up again. One of the horses was suffocated, being pushed in a position in the hole where the roof was low. Meanwhile about eight service cars had arrived on the scene, and efforts were centred on recovering the surviving horses, which was by no means an easy matter. The accident, it is thought, wm due to the rotting away of an old birch culvert, and from this cause gradually a big cavity had been formed under the road with just a small portion of the road surface holding-up.

Make a point of securing some of our “Saturday Specials.” Inspect the quality, compare the price, then ask yourself: Can I do better? You will undoubtedly be convinced that you cannot! Lewis’s, LtcL, Southland’s Premier Emporium, for quality, value, variety, and service.—(Advt).

Special value in Artificial Silk Hoee can be secured at Thomson and Beattie’s during this week; in Navy, Coating, Grey, Nigger and Black, 4/11, for 3/11. Colours as above in self stripes 5/3, for 4/9. Artificial Silk Hose with Cashmere feet and tops in Mole, Nigger, Grey and Black 9/11, for 5/3 per pair.— (Advt).