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Southland Times, Issue 21089, 22 May 1930, Page 4

Pomona Road is at present undergoing reconstruction. A solid foundation is being put down and in the spring a bitumen surface will be added.

The Dominion .Meteorologist last night issued the following information: There has been a considerable fall in pressure east of the Dominion, while barometers .have risen over Eastern Australia. Winds south-westerly to southerly, strong to gale force in and south of Cook Strait, and moderate to strong elsewhere. Seas in New Zealand waters moderate north of East Cape. Elsewhere rough. Strong southerly winds with rough seas in the eastern Tasman Sea. Weather cold, squally and showery. Snow on the high country.

The annual meeting of the Invercargill Beautifying ’Society wjll be held in the Southland League rooms on Tuesday, May 27, at 7.30 p.m.

“Wellington never boasts,” said a woman delegate at the Educational Institute meeting there recently, when referring to its sports record. The remark was greeted with loud laughter.

A Dunedin Press Association telegram states:—The Mahana, which arrived here on Tuesday, did not call at Pitcairn Island, consequently she did not bring back the two men who, stopping too long to see friends off, were carried away by the Corinthic from Wellington on April 9 and were later landed on Pitcairn Island.

Reserved judgment was. given in the Court at New Plymouth yesterday that the premises of a travelling photographer was not a shop, and ordinary hours need not be observed. The Labour Department proceded against a photographer for failure to observe a half-holiday. The Department will appeal.—-Press Association message.

Benjamin Holmes, aged 35 years, was sentenced to 14 days’ hard labour as a "peeping Tom” in the Magistrate’s Court at -Hamilton yesterday. Accused was found poeping through a window where a girl, who was usually alone at night, was in the kitchen. The father gave chase and found accused hiding under a hedge. —Press Association message.

Herbert Edwin Barnsley, an accountant, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court with that, on September 30, 1929, at Dannevirke, _he received the sum of £4 10/- on terms" requiring him to account for the same or pay the money to John Gibbs, and that he fraudulently omitted to do so. He was remanded to Danncvirke on Saturday. —Christchurch Press Association telegram.

One of the finest of New Zealand timbers is fagus fusca, or, as it is generally known in Southland, red beech. This l timber will 100 used for the construction of the new sewer outfall in Invercargill, and the first consignment may be seen on the Bluff Road near the sewer. The timber came from Hamilton and Cook’s mill at Kinlock, near Glenorchy, at the head of Lake' Kawatipu.

■ There were several bright spots during the annual meeting of the Aranui Burgesses’ Association at Christchurch the other evening, but the brightest occurred during the election of president. The retiring president (Mr J. D. Sprosen) was nominated, and his nominator began to laud the work done by Mr Sprosen during the year. However, he did not get very far before a tired voice from another part of the hall picked up, "Oh, kiss him and be done with it!”

Last Wednesday night a very enjoyable dance, organized by Messrs J. Fisken and W. Graham, was held in the Knapdale Hall. A full house rewarded the efforts of the organizers and everything went with a swing with Mr J. Fisken as M.C. Wallis’s Orchestra provided appropriate music for the various dances, while extras were contributed during the supper hour by Misses Kubala and Boyle. The door receipts were handed over to the hall committee and the tennis club and should swell their respective balances by an appreciable amount.

The Victoria Hall presented an animated appearance last evening, being thronged with visitors to the All Nations’ Fair. Harvey’s orchestra contributed a number of acceptable items and Miss Rene Wards pupils gave a series of graceful dances which were heartily applauded. The pupils of the Marist Brothers School appeared in a bright programme of marches and musical numbers which delighted the audience. The fair will be open this afternoon and' evening. At the evening session Miss de Reya’s pupils will give an exhibition of .physical culture and eurythmics.

Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court yesterday heard an application for maintenance brought by Jessie Mavis McLean (Mr B. W. Hewat) against Thomas Harold McLean, of Ix>chiel, farmer (Mr H. J. Macalister) in whose favour a decree nisi was granted last week in his petition for a divorce on the grounds of his wife’s desertion. The interim custody of the child of the marriage was given to the applicant, who now sought maintenance at the rate of 12/6 a week until the decree absolute should be pronounced. After legal argument, both as to the husband’s financial position and as to certain other aspects involved, his Honour reserved his decision.

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An Ashburton telegram reports: A branch of the Reform League was formed here on Tuesday evening, Mr W. Oakley being appointed president and Mr R. H. Loy secretary.

A Dunedin telegram states:—John Charles Tooman, a post office official, employed in the Dunedin clerical branch, pleaded guilty to five charges of stealing money or postal notes from letters and was committed for sentence.

The opinion that the extensive whaling operations in the Ross Sea must eventually have an effect on the supply, Is held by Captain H. F. Cook, master of the Hananui IL, a steam whaler, which operates during the season from a base at Whangmumu, near Cape Brett (says the Auckland Sun). Captain Cook’s vessel has come to Auckland for survey. During the off-season she has been lying at Russell, and she will return there, shortly, in preparation for the opening of the whaling season at about the end of this month. Captain Cook said that so far no decrease in the number of whales off the New Zealand coast during the breeding season had been noticed. Should the coming season prove to be a poor one, it would not be safe to attribute it to the Ross Sea killings, as seasons of plenty and’ of scarcity had both been experienced during the past. A tendency, sustained over three or four consecutive years, would have to be noted before it could fairly be assumed that the number of whales had been seriously diminished.

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