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Southland Times, Issue 22510, 19 February 1935, Page 6

Last evening the Dominion Meteorologist issued the following weather report and forecast: A moderate anticyclone is centred over the North Island, but a very shallow depression, advancing from the Tasman Sea, has reached southern Otago. Forecast: Winds, light to moderate, northsrlies at first from Dunedin northwards; southerlies thence southwards extending over the Dominion during the next 24 hours. Force, light to moderate, later freshening. In the Eastern Tasman Sea, moderate northerly winds, changing to south-west. Seas moderate. Weather: Fine and warm in most districts, but cloud increasing in the southern districts and a few scattered showers probable later on the East Coast and in the far south of the South Island.

As the motor cycle races on Thursday night will be the last grass track meeting of the season, keen competition is assured. Great interest is being taken in the sash races.

Lord Moyne’s luxury yacht, Rosaura, paid a surprise visit to Napier early yesterday, says a Press Association telegram. She arrived at eight o’clock and landed Lord Moyne, who is travelling overland to Taupo, Rotorua, and Auckland, leaving again for Auckland before mid-day.

Writing to a friend in Otorohanga, several American correspondents give interesting and contrasting views of the slump in the United States. One writer, an bld Thames boy, mentions that his son, 36 years of age, has had nothing to do for four years, and has no prospects. Another friend, whose business had been ruined by a chainstore organization, was glad to take a job as manager of one of the branch stores at the equivalent of £3 a week. All he does is to write out the dockets at the cash desk when the customer has selected the already-packed goods and has brought them up for inspection. On the other hand, another New Zealander, a woman, got aposition with Cook’s Tourist Bureau, and from there has gone from one post to another until to-day she is the secretary of a women’s institution where 180 people are employed, and her salary is £l6 a week.

Two of the nine boys who escaped from the Weraroa Training Farm last Tuesday were arrested by detectives in Wellington last evening, leaving one still at liberty. The other six were recaptured when a car which they converted crashed over a bank near Wanganui on the Monday following their escape.—Press Association message.

In the Maintenance Court yesterday before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., Henry Agnew, for disobedience of a maintenance order, the arrears under which amounted to £3 17/- up to November 5, 1934, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended upon payment of all arrears to date. Christina Elizabeth Preston, of Bluff (Mr M. H. Mitchel) was granted separation and maintenance orders against her husband, George Patrick Preston, of Greymouth. Maintenance was fixed at the rate of 15/- a week.

The immediate effect in Dunedin of the introduction of the Mortgage Corporation Bill to the Legislature is to sense a lull in the property market, (says the Evening Star). Investors had just begun to return to the belief that freehold property is as sound a security as can be found, and business was looking up a bit, when this Bill, which threatens to dislocate existing mortgage arrangements, has caused them to cry a halt and see what Parliament actually does with the proposals. This unsettling influence is unfortunate at a time when transactions were increasing in number.

A singularly fortunate escape from drowning was experienced recently when a cloudburst occured in the gorge of the Sowburn Creek, about two miles above Patearoa, and a prospector who was working at the lower end of the gorge was able to climb out to safety just as the wall of water reached the place where his sluice boxes were situated. (remarks the Auckland Star). The deluge which followed the cloudburst washed a large quantity of debris into the stream, and the volume of water caused two dams to break, with the result that in a few moments there was a raging torrent rushing through the gorge. Considerable damage was done to the land on either side of the stream as far down as the main road through Patearoa.

Mrs W. E. Clarke, the wife of one of R. L. Stevenson’s great missionary friends in Samoa, who once soundly scolded Stevenson for taking part in a paper chase on a Sunday, is still alive, living in London. She told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself for setting so bad an example, not only to the natives, but also to the young Germans and young Englishmen there. It is said that Stevenson meekly accepted his “dressing down,” and publicly admitted that he had done wrong. The story was told at a recent meeting of the Robert Louis Stevenson Club in London, when a speaker was describing Stevenson’s early prejudice against missionaries that eventually turned to admiration and sympathy. Later Stevenson referred to them as “ the most useful citizens in the Pacific,” probably more because of their social and humanitarian efforts than their spiritual work. Mrs Clarke’s husband, he said, he esteemed and liked “to the soles of his boots.” The meeting of the club sent a letter of good wishes to Mrs Clarke.

A meeting' of the recently-formed South Invercargill Plunket Rooms Committee was held last evening when Mr E. E. Boyd presided over Mesdames H. M. Rout, H. A. Brumby, W. Powley, Roy Anderson, E. E. Boyd and Nurse Mclntyre and Messrs W. McChesney, W. Powley and E. J. Greenwood (secretary) and Dr A. F. Ritchie Crawford. A suitable site was suggested, and it was left in the hands of the chairman, Dr Crawford, and the secretary to pursue the matter further with power to finalize by way of purchase. Plans, with an estimate of the cost, were submitted and discussed, and it was resolved to forward them to the central committee for favourable consideration. The chairman’s action in interviewing the MacKinnon Trustees who, he said, had given a sympathetic hearing to him, was approved. The secretary was instructed to write to the Minister of Internal Affairs seeking a share of the profits of a future art union, and it was decided to ask Mr J. Hargest, M.P., to support the application. Various ways and means of raising money were discussed and they were held over until a further committee meeting next Monday evening.

“Good Judges prefer ‘DEWAR’S WHISKY’.”—Advt.

Ladies’ Cream Interlock Vests, 36 inches long; no sleeves and short sleeves 1/9, at Wicks’ Ltd., Cash Drapers, Invercargill and Gore.—Advt.

Children’s hats must be cleared. Panamas 2/11 and 3/11, flops 1/6 and 1/11, helmets 1/-, straws 9d to 1/11, floral bonnets 1/6 at Miss Noble’s, Dee street. —Advt.

SNAPSHOTS that are pictures. Brown, The Chemist, will produce the best possible results. GEORGE H. BROWN, Chemist, 125 Dee Street.— Advt.

Big savings by shopping at Carter’s Stock Reducing Sale. Men’s Twist Shirts 2/11; good Khaki Shirts 3/11; Business Shirts 3/11; Collars 6d. Pet One worsted Socks 2/9 quality now 1/11. School Hose, all sizes 2/6. See Advt. front page.—Advt.

Besides the attraction of a Genuine Bargain Sale, THOMSON BEATTIE have a delightful display of Autumn Fashions arranged for your inspection upstairs on the second floor—Coats, Suits, Frocks, Millinery, etc.—Advt.

PRINTS that will not fade, discolour, or lose their first day brilliance. That’s the kind we make. GEORGE H. BROWN, Chemist, 125 Dee Street. —Advt.

Any lady who is contemplating a New Fur Coat this Winter, would be well advised to inspect our range of the finest quality Fur Coats in Southland. All classes of skins at prices that are truly the lowest in the trade for the high quality of the goods offered We make up on the premises to your own style, any class of coat at no extra cost. Your own choice of linings, etc. Satisfaction guaranteed. Inspection invited. THE MUTUAL FUR COY, Manufacturing Furriers, Tay Street, — Advt.

FOR BEST RESULTS Let STEWARTS PHARMACY Do your DEVELOPING and PRINTING. —Advt. “TO SOOTHE THE SAVAGE BREAST.” Music is accredited with charms to soothe the savage breast, but when the trouble is a deep-seated cough or cold, then music must give way to Baxter’s Lung Preserver. “Baxter’s” has been thoroughly proved to be the most effective and re'liable remedy. It quickly soothes and relieves chest and bronchial troubles and helps build resistance. Suitable for all ages. All chemists and stores 1/6, 2/6, 4/6.—Advt.

FlLMS—Bring them to Brown, The Chemist, and get better results. Bright, i snappy prints. That’s the kind we make. Prices right too. GEORGE H. BROWN, 'Chemist, 125 Dee Street—Advt