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Evening Star, Issue 19803, 29 February 1928, Page 6

As to the handling of clocks on Saturday night or Sunday morning so as to have them back to the time as it was before the Summertime Act came into force, Dr Adams has told the public how striking clocks should bo put back, and his instructions are quite clear. But a simpler method suggests itself, and one that avoids meddling with the works. It is to stop those docks for an hour. A tilt to one side for a moment an hour before going to bed on Saturday night, and a restoration to the horizontal just before switching off the light, and everything is right on Sunday morning.

A letter received by the executive of the local R.S.A. last night from the Auckland 11.5. A. made tlie suggestion that women war workers should be admitted to membership of the association. The letter stated that the Auckland Association had decided to make the matter the subject of a remit to the next conference of the N.Z.E.S.A. The meeting decided that it could not agree with the proposal, and resolved to point out to the Auckland Association that provision was made for women by admitting them to honorary membership.

The brotherly-kindness of bowling clubs, manifested in many ways, has its latest example here in favor of the St. Clair Bowling Club. Its new green has suffered from the hot weather, and it is deemed advisable to close it for the season on Saturday of this week. Mr G. A., Bishop, the president, is calling members together on Saturday afternoon, and ho will then explain, after a game and a cup of tea, the steps that are to be taken at once—scarifying, manuring, top-soiling, and so on—to ensure a good surface for next season. Hearing of this proposal, the St, Hilda, Kaituna, Caversham, and Otago Bowling Clubs have offered the use of their greens tp the St. Clair members during the tail_ end of the season—a courtesy which is keenly appreciated, Dr M'Kibbin, director of public hygiene, notifies that mata tablets, which are used as a fuel for small heating lamps such as are employed to warm milk for infants, should not be tasted or left within reach of children. The Dominion Analyst has examined and found them to be poisonous. If this is confirmed by the Government Bacteriologist in Wellington steps will be taken to require a poison label. Emblazoned with the names of the many battles in which the men of the Otago Regiment took part in the recent Great War, the colors of the regiment will be paraded through the streets about noon to-morrow, when the regiment returns from camp at Matarae and marches through tho main streets as a conclusion to the week’s training in camp. On the occasion of the t inarch through tho town last year little deference was paid to the colors, which should be a source of pride to the residents of the city. What it cost to write tho names on the colors is well known to all, and it is suggested that as a mark of respect civilians should doff their hats as they are borne past. Tho monthly meeting of the executive of the British and Foreign Sailors’ Society was held on Monday evening, Mr D. L. K. Walker presiding in the absence of the president. The treasurer reported that the general account was £1(1 in arrears, and tho hope was expressed that iriends of the seamen would furnish sufficient funds during the next week or two to enable the year to bo closed with a credit balance, it was resolved to appeal to t tie public for £IOO to defray the cost of repairing and repainting the rest. Mr Buchan reported that only four overseas vessels had been in at the city wharf, and Mr Walker that seven had been in at Port Chalmers. Both sailors’ rests had been visited by a good number of the seamen, and oxccllent services had been held lor their benefit. Many had expressed their appreciation of the kindness extended to them. It was agreed that the annual meeting be hold on Monday, March 26, in the rest, Battray street, that two speakers bo invited to address it, and that musical items bo arranged for.

An actor, aged thirty-nine, charged in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury in flic Supreme Court at Melbourne, "was remanded on bail, and his name was suppressed in the meantime,—Press Association.

Mr T. M. Hickson, whose _ healing mission created such a stir in New Zealand and Australia a few years ago, is at present in Christchurch, having come to New Zealand on. a holiday visit, in search chiefly of rest. Mr Hickson declined to be interviewed, but stated that lie is now finished with mass meetings such as ho conducted on his mission tour in New Zealand, and he will, when lie has finished his six months’ holiday in New Zealand, conduct private missions. He has just completed a world tour, having held missions in every town of any size in England, America, and on the Continent. Christchurch correspondent.

Tho receipt of further returns of estimates of the wheat yields by Mr W. W. Mulhollaud, president of the North Canterbury Farmers’ Union, enables a more accurate forecast to be made, and the returns now available indicate an average yield of <‘13.3 bushels per aero. The estimated area sown is 270,000 acres, and of this estimate there is usually a smalt area, not threshed, which this year may amount to 3,000 acres. These facts would indicate a probable yield from this season’s harvest of about 8,900,000 bushels.—Christchurch, correspondent. The Ist Battalion, Otago Regiment, which has been under canvas at Matarac during the past week, returns to town on Thursday by a. special train, which arrives at 11 n.m. Tho men will then march through tho town, beginning at tho railway station, up Stuart street and along Princes street lo tho Oval, where they will he dismissed. Tho King’s and the regiment’s colors, which were presented to them by the ladies of tho Women’s Club, will bo carried on this occasion. Mr Malcolm Stevenson had a letter in last night’s paper asking as to an apparent discrepancy between tho railway charges for the carrying of beer and fruit. Inquiry tins morning pro-, duced an explanatory answer. The rate of 65s per ton for fruit and vegetables covers a special arrangement for the carriage of those goods by mail and express trains from Christchurch to Dunedin, whereas the ordinary goods rate for fruit and vegetables, with which the 52s 6d per ton for beer must be compared, is 32s Cd. Beer is conveyed by goods trains only. The 65s is a maximum rate, and incidentally covers the carriage of fruit and vegetables from Christchurch to Invercargill, a distance of 369 miles, as compared with 230 miles between Christchurch and Dunedin. The rate on beer is further restricted by the enforcement of a four-ton minimum load. No such restriction is placed upon the rate for fruit and vegetables.

A Hamilton Association message states that while undergoing a driving test an Indian fruiterer named Sala had his van struck by a slow-1 ravel ling goods train near Frankton railway station. The traffic inspector (Mr I*. Courtney) leaped clear before the impact, but the Indian remained at the wheel. He was uninjured, but the front of the van was extensively damaged. Fairleigh Alexander Marriner, aged twenty-four, a carpenter, of Dunedin, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, to unlawfully supplying to a woman noxious pills and medicine for a certain purpose. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail in £IOO and one surety of £IOO being allowed.—Press- Association.

A Queen street (Auckland) corner property, with a frontage of 30|ft to Queen street and 50ft to Swanson street, occupied by Kemp, tailor and outfitter, has been purchased by Samuel Vaile and Sons. Ltd., for £30,000. Press Association.

At a meeting this morning of the executive of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce the following resolution was carried“ That the executive desires to express its appreciation of the prompt action taken by the Otago hi arbor Board in providing the necessary extensions and accommodation to permit the docking of the C. A. Larsen. Outside the National War Museum in Wellington the club of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association has the best collection of war pictures in New Zealand. Photographs of all sectors of the Great War adorn the walls of various rooms in the club. A recent very valuable addition to these is a series of reproductions of the well-known sketches made on Gallipoli by Sapper Moore-Jones, of the New Zealand Engineers. They were presented to the club by Mrs Boxer, wife of the late Dr Boxer, who was on Gallipoli for considerable time, and who was president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association from 1918 till 1921, the most strenuous period of its existence. In addition Mrs Boxer has presented the club with five actual photographs of scenes on Gallipoli.