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Southland Times, Issue 20116, 1 March 1927, Page 6

Advertisements regarding Tenders will be found on Page 8 of this issue.

The Government Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) last night issued the following forecast—Present indications are for variable winds, but moderate to strong southerlies prevailing and cool, changeable weather generally with scattered showers. Barometer unsteady with a rising tendency.

Despite the uninviting weather there were many visitors to the Gardens yesterday, most of these being passengers by the Moeraki occupying their spare hours enjoyably.

That a milestone has been reached in connection with radio* in New Zealand was the opinion expressed at a meeting of the Wellington Radio Society. Secrecy in connection with the activities of the Broadcasting Company would be a thing of the past—there would be a revolution in the programmes broadcast, and what was coming would be worth waiting for. Country radio enthusiasts, it was < suggested, would appreciate an earlier evening programme, in order to enable them to follow the custom of “early to bed” when there are cows to be milked in the morning.

As the necessary pile-driving to strengthen the railway bridge at Parnassus has been completed, the bridge is now available for road traffic without restriction of hours (states the Christchurch Press). The work was carried out owing to the change in the direction of the stream. A groyne has been constructed with the idea of diverting the flow of the river back to the old channel, and if the expected shingle bank is formed against this groyne, the success of the operations will be ensured. The only danger at this stage lies in the coming of any large flood that might sweep the whole groyne away.

Thomas Alexander Longstaff Kellahan appeared before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M., yesterday charged with failing to maintain his wife. A plea of not guilty was entered. Sergeant Fox stated that accused had been arrested at Lumsden on a Dunedin warrant. In the meantime his wife, who had laid the information and had come down from Wanganui to trace him, changed her mind and stated that she did not wish to go on with the case. Kellahan explained that he had no intention of leaving his wife destitute, but had come to Southland to get work. The case was struck out in view of the wife’s request.

There has been no increase in the number of applications for work filed by unemployed at the Government Labour Agency during the past week, the total recorded yesterday—36—being the same as for the previous Monday. During the week 28 new applications were received, but as 16 were placed in private employment and 12 names were withdrawn, the total was balanced. The list of unemployed now reads as fol-lows—Twenty-one labourers, four farm hands, a blacksmith, a clerk, an engineer, a threshing-mill hand, a flaxcutter, a carpenter, a painter, a harvester, a motor driver, and two bakers.

The Secretary to the Department of Internal Affairs has written to the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society stating that it had been announced in the newspapers that the society was making inquiries as to importing Californian quail, and that, in dew of the damage by those quail in different parts of the Dominion, it had been decided not to authorise the importation of any more of that species. The Chairman of the society (Mr E. F. Stead) said that in the North Island, where the bush had been burnt and grass seed sown, the quail had taken a certain quantity of the seed, but in established country he did not think that they did any harm whatever.

Charges of being found drunk in a public place, and of procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, were preferred against John Francis Magneil, of Bluff, in the Police Court yesterday morning before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M. Defendant failed to appear. Sergeant Tonkinson informed the Bench that defendant when he had recently been before the Court on similar charges, had been warned that a further appeat'.nce would result in his being sent to the i? -nd. Magneil had failed to heed the warn’ng and had been drinking even more heavily. In view of the non-appearance of defendant and his consequent inability to give, reasons why he should not be committed to a home, Mr Cruickshank adjourned the case till the sitting of the Court at Bluff on March 8.

The ancient sage who was responsible for the adage that “horses should never be changed while crossing a stream,” evidently possessed the power to foretell the future and so worded his axiom that it would apply with equal weight to the modern motor car. The aptness of the old-time saw was amply justified in Napier recently when a young woman and a male friend went for a jaunt round the district, the former be. ing at the wheel. On returning to Napier, and when opposite the brick works in Hyderabad road, a change of control was affected, the young man in question at tempting to take charge. The result was a calamity, the car, seemingly objecting to its new* pilot, making a swerve to the right and charging full tilt through the fence bordering the roadside and very nearly landing in the sticky tar and mud deposits situated in that unhallowed locality. Fortunately, the car suffered only minor damage and the occupants escaped uninjured.

“Please let me have the name and address of the worker, and I will send him the day’s wages, which any decent owner would have been only too pleased to have parted out under the circumstances,” writes “Disgusted,” of Christchurch, in connection with the paragraph which appeared in the Auckland Star about three weeks ago, telling of a man who worked all day in clearing a section, only to be refused payment for his labour. The man who did the work had been unemployed for weeks. He was on the verge of starvation when a section-owner gave him a day’s work in clearing a suburban plot. However, mistaking the directions he cleared another man’s section, and the owner refused to give him a halfpenny. The paragraph was reprinted by the Christchurch Press, and the Star’s correspondent felt, so keenly about it that he wrote making the offer quoted. The pity of it is that his philanthropy cannot be accepted (states the paper), since the unfortunate man is now in America, friends in San Francisco having sent sufficient money for the fare of himself and wife.

Mr William Gardiner, chairman of the Waitaki County Council, who is a prominent farmer, and has for years been one of the strongest supporters of the Reform party in North Otago, in a letter to a local paper says: A few days ago I was in receipt of a memo from the Department of Labour in regard to the vexed quention of unemployment asking the farmers to employ extra labour, even if it is only of a temporary character. I would like to ask the Minister of Labour how he can expect the farmers to employ extra labour if the Government is going to continue to allow the flour millers to exploit the farmers and wheatgrowers as they are at the present time doing. The millers are offering the ridiculous price of 5/3 and 5/4 per bushel for prime milling wheat, and at the same time they are retailing second quality or fowl wheat at 7/per bushel. What about profiteering? So far as the wheat growing industry is concerned the millers are killing the goose that lays the golden egg, but what do they care? They are millionairies, and well they may be. We all know the money they made during the war, a good profit of which should have been handed over to the wheat producers of the Dominion. Mr Coates, take off your own coat and burst up Distributors (Ltd.), etc., and compel them to give the wheat growers a fair deal, otherwise you cannot expect to continue to get the support of the producers of God’s Own Country. I would like to know what per bushel is the cost of Australian wheat landed at Oamaru.

Both the beer and Customs duty for the past month show an appreciable drop on the figures for the corresponding period of last year. Beer duty for the past four weeks was £355 18/8, as compared with £446 3/11, and Customs duty £11,867 12/4 in comparison with £17,194 11/8.

An exciting experience befcl the Minister of Health, the Hon. J. A. Young, on Wednesday afternoon, when the mail coach in which he was travelling to Mangawai capsized just before reaching its destination. The driver and Mr J. ,T. Waugh, the Minister’s secretary, were thrown out, suffering slight bruises, but Mr Young escaped unhurt. The remainder of the journey was made on foot.

Fire early on Sunday morning at Ohawune totally destroyed an auction mart occupied by Mr J. Quirk and a bootshop occupied by Mr J. Wilson, states a Press Association message. The buildings were insured for £6OO, the stock and auction mart for £650; the stock in the boot shop for £125. The fire brigade made a brilliant save. Practically all the business area was threatened owing to the strong wind.

At a sitting of the Gore Police Court yesterday morning, Mr A. H. Aitken presiding, Henry Charles Rees was charged with being unlawfully on the premises of Florence Shea at Riversdale on February 25. In asking that the accused be remanded until March 7. Sergeant Packer remarked that Rees was found in the back yard of the house adjoining that which was broken into on the same day. The application for remand was granted.

The activity of the building trade is indicated by the permits issued by the Town Engineer during the past month. Permits were issued for ten dwellings at an approximate cost of £8,784, nineteen alterations and additions to buildings at a cost of £1,613, three business premises at a cost of £10,630, and five alterations and additions to business premises at a cost of £1,363. The approximate total sum to be expended was £21,290, as compared with £19,476 for the month of January.

“I have heard that Caroline Bay is the finest bay in the Southern Hemisphere, but Australians, when thinking of their own beaches, will do anything but admit this,” said Mr G. Dash, Mayor of Waimate, at a luncheon held in Timaru last week. Mr Dash, told a story of an argument between Australian and Dominion sailors which took plade in Timaru recently. One of the visiting seafaring men centred the discussion around sharks. He boasted that he was immune from sharks, and no matter where he bathed no shark would molest him. One of the New Zealand sailors asked him the reason. “Well,” replied the Australian, “on one arm I have tattooed a picture of Caroline Bay, and on the other is inscribed the words, ‘Caroline Bay is the finest in the Southern Hemisphere.’ No shark would swallow that.”

“At Auckland they wanted to start a class in wireless telegraphy which would benefit but a few amateurs, who, for a ridiculously small fee, would receive valuable instruction at a loss to the department.” This statement, made by the Minister of Education, the Hon. R. A. Wright, in Nelson, was taken exception to at a meeting of the board of governors of the Seddon Memorial Technical Collegs in Auckland last week. The principal, Mr G. J. Park, said the statement was totally at variance with facts, and. he thought the board should point out its inaccuracy to the Minister, and also protest against wireless being excluded from the technical school syllabus. The class that was started had been conducted entirely on the funds raised in fees from the pupils. There had been no assistance from the department. The report was adopted after a short discussion.

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The Nev Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has just received a cable from its representative in Australia, advising that 23,860 carcases of lamb were exported from Australia for the fortnight ended February 25, 1927.

A Christchurch angler, Mr C. Piper, landed a quinnat salmon just over 301 b. in weight on the Waimakariri, near Brooklands, last week-end. Subsequently he brought to land another fish which when cleaned tipped the scale at over 401 b. This is said by Christchurch anglers to be a New Zealand record.

The nett customs duties collected at Dunedin during February, according to a Press Association message, reached a total of £59,540/16/11 and the beer duty amounted to £19,498/14/1. The figures for the corresponding month of last year were:— Customs revenue £65,873/1/3, beer duty £19,079/17/2. At the monthly meeting of the Southland Motor Association held last evening, it was decided to write to the County Council expressing appreciation of the wonderful improvement which had been effected on all the roads under its jurisdiction. It was also resolved to write to the Bluff Borough Council commenting on the improvements made for the convenience of motorists on Ward’s Parade.

At the monthly meeting of the High Schools’ Board last evening Mr P. de la Perrelle raised the question of conducting a medical examination of students who intended entering the teaching profession. Mr Perrelle said that in several cases pupils had spent years studying the course and had then been turned down by the medical test. A recommendation along the lines of Mr Perrelle’s suggestion was passed. A laugh was raised in the Napier Supreme Court the other day when a witness was giving evidence as to the distance between two given points in Hastings. “How far was it between the two points?” asked his Honour, Mr Justice Ostler. “Oh, it would only be a matter of chains,” replied the witness. “Well,” persisted his Honour, “was it aquarter of a mile?” “Oh, no sir,” blandly replied witness, “it was only about 25 chains.” “Well,” exclaimed Mr E. J. W. Hallett, one of the counsel engaged in the case, “that is a bit Irish.”

When the Franconia crossed the Line on February 8 on her world cruise, Father Neptune visited the ship in all his old-time splendour, accompanied by his wife, Amphitrite, and son, Polyphemus. Davy Jones also came aboard. At dinner that night it was found that Neptune had been very kind in providing many and varied viands from his larder, such as boiled Old Man of the Sea and Fried Flying Fish, served with Whale Blubber Sauce. One of the chief joints was Sea Horse. There was also Beachcomber’s Salad, and the sweets included such delights as Mermaids’ Whispers.

It was mentioned recently by Mr H. H. Sharpe, inspecting engineer to the Public Works Department, that most of the Speaker’s chair and canopy in the House of Representatives is made from stout puriri stringers, which were in the original traffic bridge over the Waiwakaiho River at New Plymouth. Mr Sharpe recalled the hunt for suitable puriri timber which engaged attention at the time, and remarked that, the long time the stringers were in use on the bridge, the wood required a considerable amount of seasoning before being ready for fashioning into the chair.

“The present rate of consumption of approximately 100 gallons per head is excessive for a town of the present characteristics of Palmerston North,” states the report of Messrs R. W. Holmes and Son on the municipal water supply scheme, which was placed before a meeting of the Borough Council. “We feel certain,” continues the report, “that if meters were installed the consumption would be reduced by at least half, while we believe the same useful benefits would be obtained. The daily consumption per head in Melbourne is 54 gallons, in Sydney 44 gallons, and in Auckland 50 gallons has been allowed for in their new installation.”