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Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 6

During the week-end (stales a Palmerston North Association message) the office of the Aslilmrst Railway Station was broken into and the sum of 16s 2d in copper and 9s 6d in silver was taken.

A Sydney visitor to Dunedin, doing the round of the beauty spots a few days ago, drove with a lady to the waterworks and parked his car in a chosen spot. The tour of the plantations and tho hillsides proved so rpleasant that it was- prolonged till dusk, but it didn’t matter, because they could speed to town in a few minutes. So the visitors thought. But it took a couple of hours or more, firstly, because the car was missing and had to be searched for, then because when found, it was in a gully from which it could not be extricated, and lastly, because they had to vip f k to tho tram lino. Presumably sfrme person or persons had seized tho car for a joy ride, and so bungled affairs as to get it into the hollow. Under the heading of “ A Noble Request,” the ‘New Zealand Methodist Times’ reports: “The late Mr AV. Penrose, of Dunedin, lias left a legacy to the Methodist supernumerary hind amounting to £1,643 Bs. This is the first legacy received by the hoard, which greatly appreciates the kindly thought of the late Mr Penrose for the ministers of our church. This bequest is just in keeping with the gracious spirit that always characterised the attitude of .Mr Penrose to the church and its ministry. The Supernumerary Fund Board proposes to allocate £1.200 of tho bequest to the investment fluctuation reserve account, and the balance to the benevolent fund ol the supernumerary fund, which is used chiefly to assist widows and supernumerary ministers in receipt of very small annuities.

A. Gisborne Association m#).sage states that the two-story Four toon-roomed homestead of Mr J. Prendergast at Puha was destroyed by fire last night. A small outbreak had occurred in the washhouse in the afternoon, and it was believed to be extinguished. Mr Prendergast, while endeavoring to save some effects in the upper story, had a narrow escape, a benzine lamp exploding and necessitating his breaking through a window to get away. The house was insured for £2,000; the contents were not insured.

Not a great deal of rain has fallen on the Dunedin watershed since the weather broke on Saturday night, but every little helps, and it is satisfactory to bo able to announce upon authority that the Waipori supply is now believed to be safe for the season.

The Otago Harbor Board has a definite arrangement with the company that owns the stranded whaler C. A. Larsen for the use of the tug Dunedin for any or all services that may be required of her—a comprehensive contract that includes towage to a repairing port if the floating Is accomplished and ■ the company so desires. No time was lost in despatching the tug last Thursday, and in all ways possible the Harbor Board is helping in the salvage. The probability is that if the C. A. Larsen is got off and patched sufficiently she will come to Port Chalmers for docking, but the immediate desideratum, to get her afloat, is meanwhile occupying the company’s attention.

Yesterday the weather in Dunedin and throughout the south definitely declared its corroboration of the almanac as to the transition from summer to autumn. The low-temperatured and blustering wind from the south-west, bringing showers, some of which were rather heavy, particularly after sundown, had almost a wintry touch in it. Men and women who had to go out promptly selected top-coats that had been getting dusty, stay-at-homo folk stoked up the sitting room fires, and the church attendances in the evening once more showed a preponderance of the sox which, nominally tender, is certainly the hardier according to the weather test. The night was not only relatively, but actually, cold, and this morning the alternations of_ sunshine and rain brought about no rise of the mercury, so that business men who a dav or two ago went forth scantily clad took their woollen gloves and umbrellas. Heavy rollers on the coastal sea indicated the bursting of a storm in the higher latitudes. Cricketers and bowlers are temporarily handicapped, but farmers’ smiles will balance all lamentations, for the corn crops are safe in most districts, and the rain will bring on the turnips. Of importmice also is the refreshing water supplies.

Sir Trilby King announced from Dunedin bis crusade against faulty baby nurture, and the society widen no formed has its headquarters here, so our people are in close touch with the scheme, and therefore must be peculiarly interested in ihe information contained in the ‘Journal of the American Medical Association ’ (Chicago) that in Detroit the collection and resale of human milk has actually been put on a commercial basis and is considered to lutfc passed the experimental stages of development. Several institutions have discarded the use of wot nurses, and aro securing breast milk from reliable mothers, who deliver it in sterile containers with the same regularity as the everyday milkman. The amount paid tho mother is 10 cents an ounce, plus her car larc. Only healthy women, free Irom tuberculosis and showing a negative Wassennan roao tiou, are chosen. They must nurso their own healthy babies up to eight mouths, express milk at least twice daily, and supply a minimum of IGoz a day. bio stipulation concerning the diet of the producer us laid down. An electric machine is being installed at the bureau in tho hope of getting more* milk from each producer. Smokers will be pleased to learn that, consequent on a drop in tho wholesale prices of Viking, Capstan, and imperial Alliance tobaccos, the retail prices of those lines aro reduced as from to-mor-row morning as follows;—Viking, is (id per tin, reduced from is Del; Capstan, Is i.Ud per tin, reduced from 2s; imperial Alliance, 9d per oz, reduced Irom Rid.

inquiries made at Auckland as to reports of more than usual Josses of sheep after dipping, have elicited the statement that this is duo to tho sheep being dipped while in a heated condition during the excessively hot weather.—Press Association.

Representatives of tho irrigation settlers in Ida, Valley have expressed a desire to join in the movement to secure a Royal Commission to investigate irrigation in Central Otago. A copy of tho petition, therefore, lias now gone into circulation in that district, but the time for the obtaining of signatures will possibly prove too brief for Ida Valley to show tho practically 100 per cent, approval which other irrigation districts are subscribing to the prayer of the petition. It had been thought that tho position,of Ida Valley in respect of irrigation was so fortunate, because of its relative ago and its water storage (with which other schemes aro not equipped) that it had no grievances in common with settlements served by other schemes. It appears, however, that it has, and that any difference in treatment accorded is one of degree and not of kind.

“New Zealand's percentage ol' prison population is ten times that of New South Wales, but it lias to be remembered that in the dominion we have the most efficient police force in the world,” said Mr E. C. Gotten, S.M., when addressing the Auckland branch of the Howard League for Penal Reform (reports the 1 New Zealand Herald’). “In this country there are few people not in gaol who should be there.” Actually, he added, New Zealand had a high moral tone, although statistics might appear to contradict it, for the reason that so great a proportion of criminals was apprehended. A cablegram received from London intimates that the following were successful in fellowship examination held in Dunedin in November last by the Trinity College of Music, London Pianoforte; Miss Winifred Gardner (Mr Max Schcrek). Elocution : Miss Mollic Gallagher, Miss Sheila Neilson (Miss Bessie Thomson). The Premier has forwarded to the Mayor of Wellington (Mr Troup) a letter in reference to the site for the national war memorial, national museum, and national art gallery. The Government has decided that the proper site for all these purposes is that known as Mount Cook. He understands that the bells for the carillon are due to arrive at the latter end of this year, and that plans have been made for the erection of a campanile, and to provide also below a hall of memories. This can bo made the main feature of the group of buildings for the purposes indicated above, and the Government is prepared to make the Mount Cook sise available on the understanding that the campanile is erected in such a position ns not materially to interfere with the present Defence Department buildings, which remain in use by the Crown until such time as money up to £IOO,OOO, which the Government has agreed to subsidise on a £ for £ basis, has been collected. The Government ■would then be prepared to vacate the site entirely and to hand it over to a board of trustees.— Press Association.

For several weeks a Harley motor eyrie with a side rliair lias lain on the side ot' the road about a mile on the soul hern side of Otokia. Whether it is a stolen maeliine or whether it was discarded no one seems to- know; but the number (30-993) should enable the question to be settled. If the owner does not turn up soon, however, there will not bo much left for him. The week before last the front wheel was taken, and last week the back wheel went.

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There will bo unveiled in the Anderson’s Bay Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening a stained glass window as a memorial to the late Dr Cameron, who for thirty-four and a-half years was minister of that congregation. The service is to begin at 8 o’clock, and the memorial address will be delivered by the Rev. Professor Hewiteon, master of Knox College.

The attention of members of Otago Mutual Starr-Bowkett Society is drawn to a notice advising that the annual meeting of the above society will be hold to-morrow-, and £I,OOO will be disposed of at this meeting—a free loan of £SOO in the No. 2 group and £SOO in the No. 3 group.

The Otago Women’s Club is giving an at home on Friday afternoon to welcome its president. The Dominion Building Society will dispose of £12,000 at its annual general meeting to-night.