In Town And Out

Southland Times, Issue 23375, 6 December 1937, Page 6

In Town And Out

Measles Among Police Another constable from the Auckland police barracks was admitted to the Auckland hospital on Friday night, suffering from German measles. The case was reported to be a mild one, and is the eighteenth which has occurred in the barracks since the outbreak of the epidemic a month ago.

Bledisloe Cup Destroyed It was disclosed by the Minister of Lands (the Hon. F. Langstone) at the centenary celebrations at Tuturau on Saturday that the cup presented by Lord Bledisloe for farming had been destroyed in a fire. “My department had to find £150,” he added, “to provide another cup.” Visit to Eglinton

During the week-end delegates to the quarterly conference of the South Island Motor Union were guests of the Automobile Association (Southland) on a visit to the Eglinton Valley. The roads were in first-class order and the visitors expressed themselves as pleased with the run and the variety of country through which it passed. A visit was also paid to the mouth of the Homer tunnel. Yesterday most of the visiting delegates left Invercargill for their homes by train and by car.

Excursions to Invercargill and Bluff

Three excursion trains from the Otago district brought hundreds of visitors to Southland yesterday. Two were from Dunedin and one was from Queenstown. The Queenstown excursionists visited Bluff and spent a busy day seeing the sights at the port. A number from Dunedin joined the Queenstown excursion at Invercargill and approximately 300 travelled Invercargill to Bluff. The Civic Band was present and played a programme of music on the wharf. Two vessels in port, the Napier Star and the Karetu, were a source of interest to the. visitors. Driver Sent to Gaol

Imprisonment for six months and disqualification from holding a driving licence for five years were the penalties imposed by Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court at Hamilton on Friday upon Reginald Hogarth, aged 23, rabbiter, of Putaruru, for negligently driving a motor-car on the Tamahere straight on the night of November 7 and causing the death of Reginald Taylor, aged 46, a farm hand employed at Tamahere, and for failing to stop and give assistance to the injured man. Prisoner was sentenced to six months on each charge, the terms to be concurrent.

New Silver Coinage The new silver coinage designed with the head of his Majesty King George VI is now in circulation. The amount of silver coin in New Zealand had been allowed to fall below the usual level, with the object of replenishing the stocks when these coins were available. The coins bear the same markings on the reverse side, while on the obverse is an excellent likeness of his Majesty in portrait form. The previous coins showed King George V attired in robes and wearing the Crown. The wording, “George VI, King Emperor,” is more widely spaced on the new coins, and occupies practically the entire circle.

Late Sitting of Parliament In apologizing for the absence of the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) at the Tuturau centenary celebrations on Saturday, the acting Minister of Native Affairs (the Hon. F. Langstone) said that there had been a very late sitting of the House of Representatives on Friday. He had left the House in the early hours of the morning for a sleep and when he left in an aeroplane for Tuturau at 6 o’clock the House was still sitting. “For all I know they may still be sitting,” he said. “They will have to stay there until Mr Hamilton calls off the stonewall. Not that I blame him. We did the same when we were in opposition.”

Slaughtering Methods Criticized “Without wishing to level criticism against those engaged in the industry, who are in the grip of a system out of which they should be assisted, I feel that better slaughtering conditions could be introduced,” said Mr Spencer R. Mason, president of the Auckland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at a meeting recently. “So* far we have been unable to convince the trade as to the seriousness of the conditions, but we hope to do so within a short period.” The method of killing beef cattle was stated by Mr Mason to be fairly satisfactory, although not beyond improvement, but the lingering death suffered by sheep and pigs was “extremely disgusting.” He understood that the reason for pigs being killed in this way was that slow death prevented carcase infection, although it seemed odd that such conditions were not tolerated abroad and carcasses did not suffer.