In the News

Southland Times, Issue 24166, 1 July 1940, Page 6

In the News

Wharves Being Guarded

Evidence of precautions being taken to ensure safety on the wharves is now to be seen at Bluff. A police watchhouse has been placed at the main approach and a 24-hour watch is being maintained. Across the western railway approach near the main wharf, a massive gate interlaced with barbed wire has been erected and this barricade extends for a short distance on either side of the bridge. Return From Leave Detachments of soldiers in the Railway and Forestry units left last night on their return to camp after spending their leave in Invercargill. Cameras Stolen Gaining an entry by boring a hole through the door, a thief or thieves broke into the chemist shop of Mr W. Stewart, Dee street, on Thursday night and stole two movie cameras and a projector. Inquiries are being made by the police.

Hockey Association’s Gesture There will be no matches in the Southland Men’s Hockey Association’s competitions next Saturday. The association has decided that, as the Southland Rugby Union is staging a match between the Army and Southland at Rugby Park on Saturday, all men’s hockey matches will be postponed. It is thought this might add to the success of the fixture.

Car Raffle In Dunedin The Red Cross art union for a Hillman Minx motor-car was drawn in Dunedin on Saturday, the winning ticket being No. 133,832 held by Mrs G. Tulloch, 25 Silverton street, Anderson’s Bay. The raffle realized £2BOO, and the sum of £4200 was obtained in a £5OO raffle.—Press Association.

Mails Lost On Niagara Three weeks’ postings of mails for Canada, the United States, Hawaii, Tahiti, West Indies and South America (south of and including Brazil) were lost on the Niagara, according to advice which has been received by the chief postmaster at Invercargill (Mr H. Miller). In addition there were two weeks’ postings for Fiji. Other than 700 letters for onward despatch from Honolulu by air, there were no European mails lost.

Early Lambs Although it will be some time before the real beginning of the lambing season, lambs are making their appearance in slowly increasing numbers in the Auckland district. Some have already arrived on the farm at Mr W. R. Franke, of Karaka, at what is considered to be an exceptionally early date and, in spite of a return to bleak weather, both ewes and lambs are making healthy progress. It is considered that an early and successful lambing would be of marked assistance to New Zealand producers in their war effort.

“Fours” or “Rinks” Something of a conundrum came before the New Zealand bowling conference in Christchurch when it was asked why the term “fours” had been adopted in place of “rinks.” “A rink is what you play on. You can’t play a rink on a rink. You can’t play a rink on a green because a green is three rinks. Half the work of the last year has been changing ‘rinks’ to ‘fours.’ For goodness’ sake don’t give us all that work of revision again,” said an executive member, in explanation.

New Tunnelling Method » Good progress is being made with the preparation of designs for the steel shields and hydraulic rams which are to be used in driving the 6000-feet tunnel for the projected hydro-electric power station at Tekapo. The use of these shields instead of timbering will, as the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) announced recently, be a new development in tunnelling technique in New Zealand, although it has been used successfully overseas. The Public Works Department has the preparation of these plans in hand, and Mr T. G. Beck, the district engineer to the department, told a reporter that within two or three weeks ways and means of manufacturing the necessary material within New Zealand would be discussed. With the assistance of the railways workshops it was expected that the shields could be fabricated at the department’s workshops at Temuka The electrically-driven oil pumps for the hydraulic rams would probably be manufactured by contract.