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Southland Times, Issue 20462, 14 April 1928, Page 6

Advertisements regarding For Sale and To Let, Trespassing, Board and Lodging, Lost and Found, etc., appear on Page 2.

The Dominion Meteorologist last night issued the following forecast: —A rather vigorous low pressure disturbance has been located over the Tasman Sea. Extensive anti-cyclone east of New’ Zealand and also enveloping Australia. North-west to westerly winds, fresh to strong and reaching gale force at many places. Later a change to southerly advancing from the south and west across the Dominion. Seas high on the West Coast south of Cape Egmont. Elsewhere generally rough in New Zealand waters. Strong north-west to south-west winds to gales and rough to high seas over the Tasman Sea. Weather generally cloudy, unsettled and squally with rain in most districts. Some heavy falls in Westland and Otago. Thunder probable at scattered places. Cold temperatures later. At the Gore Police Court yesterday morning before Mr Thomas Taylor, Justice of the Peace, Arthur Cecil Reeves Parker was charged with having insufficient legal means of support. He was remanded to appear at Gore on April 19, with other charges pending. Mr B. Fraser, son of Mr J. Fraser, of Ermedale, whilst cycling home on Thursday afternoon was thrown from his bicycle near the Riverton cemetery, and rendered unconscious. He was found by Mr R. Davis and conveyed to the Riverton Hospital, where his injuries were attended to. At the Labour Party conference, a motion was presented deploring Mr Semple’s action in sending a congratulatory message to Mr T. D. Mutch, New South Wales, during the election there. Mr Semple’s explanation was accepted and the motion was rejected by 101 votes to one.—Wellington Press Association message. How a Maori youth dressed in feminine garb and imposed on other Maoris was told in the Court at Wellington yesterday, when George Grace, aged 19, pleaded guilty to being idle and disorderly. He also admitted the theft of a ring and ten shillings at Tangaio. It was stated that he imposed on Maoris at Levin, Otaki and Porirua and was of an effeminate nature.—Press Association message. After years of patient toil, Mr H. Driver, an old identity of Colac, has by his own efforts erected a beautiful memorial to the soldiers of Colac Bay who lost their lives in the great war. The memorial is a lifesize figure of a soldier carrying a rifle, and is erected on Mr Driver’s property at Colac, the names being inscribed at the base of the statue. The surroundings are beautifully laid out with ferns and native foliage, and reflects the greatest credit on the donor.— Western Star. The fate of Presbyterian ministers after 70 years of age, in relation to the church's beneficiary fund, was discussed at the meeting of the Christchurch Presbytery on Tuesday, when it was found that the rules of the fund stipulated that years of service of ministers over 70 years of age could not be taken into account. When the Rev. D. Erwin argued that if a minister was in good health his years of service over 70 should be taken into account, it was stated in reply that the rule was definite, and could be altered only by resolution of General Assembly. The Moderator (the Rev. T. W. Armour) : Are there any of the younger men present who would like to think of their chances at 70? Voices: It’s too far off. The Moderator (philosophically) : We apparently must be content to spend our eventide in shallow waters.— (Laughter)

Excavations were commenced yesterday in the Post Office Square, where it is intended to lay fresh drain pipes. The Ohai correspondent of the Southland Times advises that the Orawia and Morley streams are low and clear. Early last night a man armed with a 6 foot section of half-inch pipe smashed nine window-panes in the office of the Hon. J. A. Young in Parliament House before he was secured by messengers and held until the arrival of the police.—Wellington Press Association message. When on the topmost peak of Mount Ruapehu at a height of 9175 ft above sea level, a party from the Auckland Tramping Club on Easter Monday found the fresh spoor of a big stag. “I have never seen indications of deer so high on Ruapehu before,” said Mr W. D. Mays, who acted as guide to the party, ‘‘and the curious feature was that on the highest pinnacle where the marks were found there did not appear to be room for a stag to turn.” Described as a labourer, 27 years of age, Wallace Athol Guy Smith was charged with the theft of two cheque forms and jewellery valued at £35 from two dwellings, states a Palmerston North Press Association message. He pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. On a charge of obtaining goods and money by valueless cheques accused, at the request of the police, who stated he was awaiting sentence on more serious charges, was convicted and discharged.

During the absence of Sir Joseph Ward from New Zealand, all his correspondence will be dealt with promptly if addressed to him as usual in Wellington.—Advt. Invitation holders please note that the Dance in aid of the Girl Guides’ Carnival will be held on Thursday, April 26.—Advt. Weekly euchre tourney in new Labour Hall, Esk street, Wednesday, 18th inst., at 8 p.m. sharp. Liberal prizes. Come in your hundreds.—Advt. Mr Arthur Malcolm, rheumatic expert, is again visiting Southland. For full particulars see advertisement on front page of this issue.—Advt. * If it is Vest or Hosiery we say fit them at Wicks’ Hose and Vest Shop. Cheaper.— Advt. Mr A. W. Martin, rupture specialist, from Dunedin, is now on his twenty-third annual visit to the centres of New Zealand. He will be at the Club Hotel, Invercargill from Saturday, April 14, to Thursday, the 19th, and may be consulted free between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Will be at the Southland Privtfte Hotel, Gore, from Friday, the 20th, to Monday, April 23. (Advt.) The strongest and lightest draft Tractor Implements are the Oliver. They are made of High Carbon Steel and the prices are right. Enquire from Carswells, Agents for T. <fc S. Morrin & Fendwick Ltd. (Advt). Nightcaps—Arthur Malcolm, the rheumatic expert, with over 381 years’ practical experience, who can conscientiously come to you and help you regain your health, will visit Nightcaps on Saturday, April 21, at the Railway Hotel. Hours: 9.30 to 4.30 p.m. Tuatapere, Waiau Hotel, on Monday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Consultations Free.—Advt. The Sales of DEWAR’S IMPERIAL Whisky considerably exceed combined sales of other brands.—Advt. “Very satisfactory.”—These are the words used by Mr Baxter’s customers. They find his goods of the best, prices the lowest, and the service prompt and careful. Town and country customers all say “Baxter’s for Satisfaction.”—Advt. Few, indeed, were the regrets I had As piggie’s throat we slit We’ll get him back in bacon rolls From Hitchon’s, where they cure it. (Advt.)

Is your hair healthy, or are you troubled with that wretched scurf and dandruff? Price’s Albanian Hair Restorer is a' never failing remedy for this unpleasant condition. Ask your chemist for it, or it may be obtained post free for 3/- from T. J. Price, Chemist, Riverton.— (Advt.) It is not often you get a chance to get high-class goods at special prices at the beginning of a season, but you can do so this season at Thomson and Beattie’s where the upset through alterations makes a rapid reduction of stocks a necessity. Take full advantage of this chance.—Advt. Without a doubt the big book of the year is Alfred Shepard’s “Here Comes An Old Sailor.” It is much more than the average novel. It is a great piece of writing, almost a Pilgrim’s Progress. We confidently recommend this book to discriminating readers. Price, 6/-, posted 6/4. Hyndman’s, Dee street, booksellers.—Advt. Giving you a start! Here’s Big Tree. There’s no better starting power. It gives your car just the energy it needs. —Advt. BETTER PRINTS. Leave Your Films at STEWART’S PHARMACY. The Fastest and Best SAME DAY SERVICE in Southland.

“Round about two o’clock, he stripped to the waist to let us poor stay-at-homes see what the scar of the wound made by a tap of a lion’s paw looked like on a human back. It looked like the map of Australia. An assegai wound over a foot long across the front of the body looked like miraculously avoided death; and the lion’s chew mark below the shoulder looked as if it must have been painful. Oh, yes. Aloysius Horn is real; he is scarred with truth for the confounding of sceptics.” The above incident occurred at a reception recently given to an old trader. If you would like a really good travel book then secure “Aloysius Horn” (Etheldreda Lewis), experiences on the Ivory Coast in the early ’7o’s. Price, 10/-, 10/8 posted. N.Z. Book Depot, Esk street, Invercargill.—Advt. Victory belongs to the most persevering.” —Napoleon. The most persevering of all cough and cold specifics is Baxter’s Lung Preserver. With “Baxter’s” victory is certain. As a remedy for coughs, colds, sore throats, bronchitis, and all chest and lung troubles it has stood supreme for over sixty years. Baxter’s Lung Preserver safeguards your health, because it is an excellent tonic, too. Rich, red, warming and soothing. All chemists and stores sell the three sizes. Bachelor’s bottle 1/6. Generoussized bottle 2/6. But the best plan is to get the large, economical size at 4/6.—Advt.

When the film has been exposed you are naturally very eager to have a look at the finished pictures and see if they have come up to your expectations. You want them to be as good as the best possible work can make them. Then bring them to the experts—Brown’s Pharmacy, Dee street, Invercargill, where we develop and print your films on Velox in record time, yet speed is never allowed to mar the perfect work for which Brown’s are noted. You want bright crisp prints from all your Kodak snaps —prints that show all the delicate detail and all the subtle variations of light and shade —that is why we use Velox. Velox is made by the Kodak Company specially to suit the amateur’s negatives. There are often several exposures in each roll that need expert finishing to get the best results. The careful methods and scientific formulae employed by Brown’s assure you of the finest negatives possible. You can’t get better. The results we achieve justify you in entrusting your films to our finishing department. Why not get the best possible prints of your negatives? It will pay you to bring your films to Brown’s Pharmacy. Try us! Make no mistake be sure you leave it at Brown the chemist.— , Advt.

A party consisting of Mr J. Hansen, of Argyle Station, and Messrs G. C. Hamilton, D. Cronin, R. Telfer and D. Mulvey, of Gore, has returned from a very successful deer-stalking expedition in the Umbrella ranges during the Easter holidays. Mr Hansen was the lucky one of the party, securing a very fine 12-pointer. Wool traffic over the railway middle district (which extends from Hinds to Milton) this season has been particularly heavy, no fewer than 69,941 bales having been transported by the Railways Department. The figures for the district for the corresponding period of last year were 68,529 bales, so that, this year, an increase of 1412 bales is shown. “It is sometimes said that ministers’ sons are bad ‘eggs’ and that they will turn out to be no good,” remarked the Rev. R. Inglis amidst laughter at the last meeting of the Wellington Presbytery. That was not the position, he added, so far as Mr Justice Macgregor, the late Mr Justice Salmond, and Mr Justice Smith were concerned. They were sons of ministers, and had won high distinction.

In spite of the opposition of the Government authorities to allow of the liberation of opossums in the fiord lands of South Westland, these animals are making their appearance in fairly large numbers there (says the West Coast correspondent of the Christchurch Press). This may be gathered from the fact that on a recent trip to Milford Sound a party who made only a brief excursion into the bush in the vicinity of the shore there came across a number of carcases of skinned opossums, showing that there are enough of the animals about to attract the attention of illicit trappers. A scheme whereby Salvation Army officers in Australia and New Zealand will exchange positions was arranged at a recent conference in Australia, attended by Commissioner J. Hay, head of the Array organization in New Zealand, who returned to Auckland by the Aorangi and later left for Wellington. Commissioner Hay explained that it had been arranged to exchange 20 staff and social officers in June, the object being to obtain the benefit of new ideas in evangelical work The exchange was nominally for a period of seven years, but the Commissioner said that, should the officers concerned desire to continue in their exchanged positions for a longer time, no difficulties would be placed in the way. The Celestial is nothing if not a patron of horse-racing, and an equally keen patron of the “tote.” On Saturday a bland Chinese went up to the selling window at Ellerslie (says the Auckland Star) and asked for two tickets on a certain number. The attendant issued the two little pieces of card, but the purchaser, glancing at the number, refused to take them, declaring that he had requested tickets on another horse. Argument followed, but was ended by another Chinese in the queue, who exclaimed, “All li’ missee; me takee ’em; might be lucky.” Whether these two men of the East foregathered after the race is not known, but the prophecy of the second was borne out by the collection of nearly £BO for the two rejected tickets of his countryman.

As a sequel to the development of motor traffic, many historic inns in France have, it seems, now come back into their own In this regard, Dr. A. L. Singer told members of the Gisborne Rotary Club that quite a large number of them were situated at handy points on one’s journey and proved most interesting stopping places (states the Gisborne Times). It did not, however, follow that one thoroughly enjoyed one’s sleep in one of these inns on account of the incessant noise occasioned by the constant stream of traffic at night. When one was not worried by the disturbance caused by a vehicle which seemed to be conveying a load of empty benzine tins, the warning note of the approach of a motorist held his attention. “If the Frenchman is fond of one thing more than another,” added Dr. Singer, “it is the opportunity to sound his hooter.” Commenting upon the financial position of the Wellington Harbour Board as disclosed in the reports submitted at the annual meeting, Mr C. H. Chapman remarked that a number of applications for increases in wages had been turned down by the board. He thought that in the circumstances the employees might have been treated more generously. If the board was going to increase the efficiency of the staff by adopting labour-saving devices, which enabled fewer employees to be used, the men doihg the work must be paid higher rates to enable them to live up to a higher standard of comfort, and thus create further avenues of employment for those who were displaced. “I want to know,” said the chairman (Mr J. G. Cobbe), in replying, “where there is a better employer in New Zealand than the Wellington Harbour Board. We must bear in mind that we set the pace for wages in other industries, and if we pay a certain rate other workers outside want the same rate.”

There is published in the latest issue of the New Zealand Gazette an Order-in-Coun-cil, declaring the Timaru-Queenstown road, via Tekapo and Lindis Pass, a main highway. The declaration concerns all that road or portion of road in the Vincent and Lake Counties, commencing at the north-eastern boundary of the County of Vincent at Lindis Pass, and proceeding generally in a southwesterly direction via Lindis Valley to Tarras; thence in a north-westerly direction via the left bank of the Clutha River to Hawea Flat; thence in a south-westerly direction via Camp Hill, Albertown, Cardrona, and Crown Range; thence, via Palmerston, Queenstown; via Beck’s main highway to Arrow bridge; thence in a northwesterly direction via Arrowtown; thence in a south-westerly, direction via Arthur’s Point, but excluding that portion common to the Palmerston-Queenstown, via Beck's main highway; and terminating at the northern boundary of the Borough of Queenstown at the intersection of Boundary street and Skippers road, being a distance of approximately 99 miles.

The appearance of from 30 to 60 motorists in the Auckland Police Court every Wednesday and the certainty of a further tightening of traffic regulations in that city has revived the suggestion (says the New Zealand Herald) that the Court procedure could be obviated by the American system of flat rate fines payable without | a Court hearing if the offence is admitted. Only one case in 10 is defended in the Auckland Court, yet the lengthy process of serving summonses is followed in every instance. The opinion that fines should be paid at the offices of local bodies is held by many members of the Auckland Automobile Association. The Minister of Justice for New South Wales, who has been travelling in the United States, has made particular note of direct fining in order that he may consider a system for Sydney and other cities. The difficulty in Auckland would be in the co-ordinating of policy between the police, city traffic department, and almost a dozen local body traffic inspectors. In the vicinity of the various volcanic cones around Auckland numerous underground passages have been discovered (says the Star) and investigations show that these often extend for a considerable distance In the wet season they frequently serve as watercourses, but in the summer it is possible to walk along them by the light of a candle or torch. They origin* ated during the volcanic upheavals of centuries ago, as air pockets and steam passages in the molten lava. Recently afternoon a system of such passages was discovered in the One Tree Hill Domain. A charge of explosives had been set off in the bottom of a well which was being sunk for a water supply for the district, and, after the smoke had cleared away, workmen were surprised to find that the bottom had disappeared. The charge had blown through the roof at the intersection of several passages, which had a height of about 4ft. The walls and floors were damp, and there were signs that water had recently been flowing along.