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Southland Times, Issue 22187, 1 December 1933, Page 6

The Dominion Meteorologist last night issued the following information: Pressure distribution is irregular over New Zealand. Slight depressions are passing to both the north and south, but an anti-cyclone is now approaching from the Tasman Sea. Winds southwest to south-east prevailing. Strong in some exposed positions but mainly light to moderate. Seas in New Zealand waters rather rough on parts of the east coast, but otherwise smooth to moderate. In the eastern Tasman Sea moderate to fresh south-east to northeast winds and smooth to moderate seas. Weather cloudy on the east coast and in the far north, with mist or fog in places and some scattered showers. Elsewhere fair to fine. Temperatures warm.

Judgment by default in favour of the plaintiffs was given by Mr E. C Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday in the following civil eases: Thomson’s, Ltd. v. D. S. Ritchie for £6 18/2 and costs £1 10/6; The Stewart Island Fresh Oyster Company v. Alice Margaret Jones for £lB and costs £2 16/-; T. L. Lvall v. Frank Kingsland for £l2 16/6 and costs £2 15/-.

A boy who made a mistake when addressing a welcome to the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe, at a function at the Cheviot School on Wednesday, had his discomfiture considerably relieved when Lord Bledisloe turned the mistake to good account. The boy, a pupil at the school, intended to extend a hearty welcome to their Excellencies, but was overcome by the occasion and turned the phrase to one of thanks. When replying his Excellency expressed his appreciation of the premature vote of thanks, and ventured to hope that it would be deserved before he and Lady Bledisloe said good-bye to Creviot.

“I was very glad to hear you people sing the National Anthem prettily and so accurately,” said the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe, when addressing the school children at Cheviot on Wednesday. There were few persons in the Dominion who heard the National Anthem sung so often as their Excellencies, Lord Bledisloe continued. Many times he and her Excellency had heard it sung out of tune, out of time, and often very nervously. At Cheviot it had been sung in good time, in tune, and with confidence, as though the children really believed that they had a great King and a great man ruling them. “You have not only a great monarch, but one who has set a brilliant example to the Empire. Nor is there a woman who has set a nobler example to the women of the British race than her Majesty the Queen.”

“In view of the desperate plight of many teachers, the executive gave its approval to a rationing scheme propounded by the director, to be regarded as a temporary measure to meet the special circumstances of the time,’ states the New Zealand Educational Institute, in referring to unemployed teachers. “But the rationing scheme cannot possibly cope with the present situation. Since the scheme was agreed to, the position has grown steadily worse, mainly as the result of the economy measures of the Government. According to figures supplied to the secretary of the New Zealand Educational Institute by the education boards, there are 1456 teachers not in permanent employment. It is also estimated that about 200 teachers will be dismissed as a result of the exclusion of the five-year-olds, and 400 training college students will leave the training colleges at the end of the year—a staggering total of approximately 2000 teachers not in permanent positions.”

The Secretary of the General Post Office, Wellington, advises that mails which left Wellington on October 31 by the Maunganui via San Francisco, arrived in London on November 29.

A notice contained in last night’s Gazette announces amended regulations relating to teachers’ incorporation and the Court of Appeal. It also announces the appointment to the Teachers’ Superannuation Board of Messrs W. E. Arnold and N. T. Lamborune.—Press Association message.

“Within 20 years the Napier Harbour Board will be one of the wealthiest boards in New Zealand, and the development of its endowment areas will materially assist in making Napier a free port,” remarked Mr T. M. Geddis, chairman of the Napier Harbour Board, at the last meeting of the Napier Chamber of Commerce. The Harbour Board endowment areas, added Mr Geddis, had been vastly improved as a result of the earthquake.

Evidence as to the recent behaviour of William Davis McKay, a married man, aged 26, of Wyndham, who on Wednesday afternoon, by way of a rehearing, applied for a review of a two years’ disqualification by the Court of his right to hold a motor driver’s license was given by the applicant's employer, before Messrs James Ward and A. L. Adamson, Justices of the Peace, in the Police Court yesterday morning. On August 8 last McKay, having pleaded guilty to a charge of being found drunk while in charge of a motor car, was fined £2O by the Justices and declared unfit to hold a license for two years. The main ground of the application for rehearing was that the disqualification was gravely jeopardizing the defendant’s employment. In evidence yesterday, the employer said he was being greatly inconvenienced seeing the defendant had to engage another man to drive the grocery van. The young man had been very steady since the trouble, but witness did not think he could keep him on if the disqualification was not lifted. “The defendant certainly made a very bad break,” said the Court, “and at the time we considered .it was quite just to fine him £2O and to take away his license. Mr A. Smyth (his counsel) has not brought forward anything which was not advanced by Mr Gordon Reed at the original hearing. At the same time, however, we think defendant has had a very severe lesson. His employer has spoken in his favour and we have decided to grant him his license from January 8 next to the end of the current year, on condition that he drives only the grocery van. If he behaves himself then at the end of the year he can apply for his license in the ordinary way. We did think of increasing the fine and removing the disqualification, but the monetary penalty would inflict too great a hardship on him seeing he has a young family.” Their Worships then severely admonished the defendant and told him it was now up to him to “play the game. ’

In connection with the Gore A. and P. Show to be held this year, the Railway Department has arranged for the issue of tickets at cheap day excursion fares on Wednesday, December 6. Full particulars are advertised in this issue. —Advt.

Lovers of good pipe music should not miss the demonstration to be given on Sunday afternoon at the Showgrounds by the Dunedin Highland Pipe Band who are arriving in Invercargill by the special train. The band is considered to be the finest in New Zealand. The Invercargill Civic Band will also be present and will play a programme and give a quickstep exhibition. —Advt.

Compare our prices and quality. Then consider we give a cash coupon in addition.—Wicks’ Ltd., Cash Drapers. Dee street.—Advt,

The best is none too good in sickness. We dispense prescriptions from only the purest standardized drugs. Geo. I. Moffett, Chemist. —Advt.

Children’s summer frocks in dainty voiles, pique voiles, rayons etc. Latest styles and prices reasonable, 16 to 36 inch at Miss Noble’s, The Baby Shop, Dee street.—Advt.

Bulgarian Rock, Butter Scotch, and Malt Toffee quality sweets. Come tc us for delicious soda fountain drinks— Ayson’s two shops, 5 and 72 Dee street. —Advt.

LADIES in search of Baby’s gifts should see BETTY S selection hand made silk bonnets and hats 3/11. Crepe-de-chene frocks 5/11 and 7/11, fuji 2/11, Tay street.—Advt.

Now is the time to buy hosiery! At Thomson and Beattie’s hosiery counter, Full Fashioned Bemberg Silk Hose are offered in fashionable shades for only 3/6 per pair. Not fol' some time has such a splendid value in hose been offered, and a quick clearance is anticipated. Call early and inspect them. —Advt.

1500 Rheumatoid Arthritis sufferers cannot be wrong; creaky, swollen inflamed, stiff and painful joints restored to normal. Write for Free Book which describes how you, too, may be relieved of your aches and pains. Tavener, Arthritis Specialist, 183 High St. Ch. Ch. 5 weeks treatment 17/6 posted.—Advt,

AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT. ANNIE SWANS ANNUAL for 1934, 3/6. Postage Bd. We invite you to call and see our new range of PICTURES just landed from London.—N.Z. BOOK DEPOT, Esk street, Invercargill—Advt.

Being cut in half! The management at Carter’s has decided on account of heavy stocks and new goods arriving to cut stocks down by half. Newest suits and overcoats and all other goods being sacrificed at Carter’s Make Room Sale.—Advt.

GILSEAL DYES the most economical dyes on the market for silks, cottons and woollens. Suitable for hot water dyeing or cold tinting. Each packet contains sufficient to dye one or two pounds of materials. 1/- per packet. GILSEAL SHOE DYES in all shades, suitable for either leather or satin shoes, 1/6 per bottle. Obtainable from Stewarts Pharmacy, corner Dee and Don streets.—Advt.

“Dont’ forget your camera!” No picnic or home-gathering is complete without someone to take snaps of the fun. And, of course, vou’ll bring the films to BROWN'S PHARMACY for developing and printing. Each negative developed to bring out the best that is in it, so that when you want enlargements you can get good pictures. Everybody knows BROWN’S for VELOX PRINTS, clear, bright and sparkling. Velox Paper is maae by Kodak, Ltd., especially to meet amateur requirements. That is why your snaps turn out better even than you expect when you take them to BROWN. THE CHEMIST, 125 Dee street. —Advt. HOW’S THE COLD GOING? He: “I have not.” Not going at all—still hanging on. That’s the way with spring and summer coughs. They are always so hard to dislodge. What you need is Baxter’s Lung Preserver. “Baxter’s” quickly breaks up a cold, clears away that thick throat and restores a healthy condition to the air passages. “Baxter's” great tonic properties accelerate recovery. Get a bottle to-day from any chemist or store. Three sizes, 4/6, 2/6 and -1/6. —Advt.

It has been stated in some American journals that Jack Dempsey is to undertake a world tour, which will embrace Australia and New Zealand, where he hopes to referee a few important boxing matches.

“I am not troubled by the thought of a quota,” said the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, when speaking at Waikari on Saturday afternoon, “because I am perfectly satisfied that the capacity for absorption of the English market will soon be so great that we shall not be troubled by any limitation on the export of our dairy produce.” He added that so great was the population of Great Britain that the British farmer could not possibly produce more than one-third of the meat, onefifth of the cereals, and an infinitesimal part of the wool required.

That there is returning confidence among members of the farming community is shown by an anecdote retailed to a representative of the Christchurch Press by a leading Christchurch jeweller the other day. "During Carnival Week,” he said, “a farmer ordered a sterling silver cup and said, ‘lf my wool makes 1/- a pound I will collect the cup; if it does not, you can keep it.’ ” The cup, said the manager, was now in the strongroom, awaiting the claimant, “and this man was as nearly jubilant as I have ever seen a farmer,” he added. “He has sent word that he will certainly require the cup.”

An exhibition in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court the other day was a crepe de chine cape, the fiimsiness and scantiness of which seemed to belie the police statement that it was valued at £2. Its deceptive appearance was the subject of an amusing interlude between its owner, a solicitor, and the Magistrate. “By the look of it we’d say it was worth a shilling or so?” inquired the counsel. “A man would say that,” replied the lady whose property it was. “If a man has any experience he knows that the cost of such things is in inverse ratio to the stuff in them,” remarked Mr J. S. Barton, S.M.

There are few rites and observances at meetings of the Wellington City Council; no one wears a wig or a gown, there are no arms; theoretically the members discuss plain business with no frills, but one observance is never omitted. On the council table are arranged an indeterminate number of bouquets of generous size. Before each one councillors bow, the better to see if their names are on the tags. The Mayor does not take part, his tag being fairly well assured at all meetings. At the last meeting the bouquets were in abundant supply, 15 councillors, 15 bouquets of very beautiful blooms from the Botanical Gardens, but the generosity fairly swamped the vase supply, for a count revealed, three tall green pottery vases, three cut-glass vases, two not cut-glass vases, and—two .pound jam jars.