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Evening Star, Issue 20137, 30 March 1929, Page 12

The postal authorities advise that an English pa reel mail by the Huntingdon I now at Auckland) should reach here on Wednesday next.

An interesting suggestion, which provides greater safety lor motorists at level crossings, is now being considered hy tiro Railway Depart.merit. This suggestion i.s that there should he a, track lor between 7 00ft and 200)1 constructed on the left-hand side of each dangerous crossing, to enable the motorist to turn off if be is unable to pull up. The track would be laid upon tlie railway reserve, so that little extra expense i.s involved if the plan is carried out. It is recognised that such a, track would enable cases of accident to bo avoided which now occur when a motor driver becomes .(lurried at sudden sight of a. train. The distance would also allow reasonable chance to pull up after the turn is made.—Wellington correspondent. The postal authorities advise that tin; mails which left Wellington on February 2(i per the R..M.S. Makura via. San Francisco reached London on March 27. A Hokitika Press Association telegram states that Mr Isaac Frown, well known in the cycle business, died yesterday morning, aged sixty-eight. * During the week-end four persons were arrested (or drunkenness in four different streets of the city. In the Police Court this morning two first offenders wore fined 10s, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment - , a, third first offender had another halfcrown attached to this line, and Kitty Stewart, who had offended lor life third time within six months, was fined 20s, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. Mr H. K. Moller, .7.1’., and Mr R. Ferguson, J.P., were on the bench.

To-morrow is Master Day, and as such Hie core uf the Easter period, being the day on which the resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated the world over. The word Easter is probably derived from the name of a Saxon' goddess whose annual festival was kept in April. According to existing arrangements, which it is now proposed to amend, the date of blaster is determined by tiie moon—not the actual moon in the heavens, nor the mean moon of astronomers, but an altogether imaginary moon whoso periods are so contrived that the non- (calendar) moon always follows the real new moon, sometimes by two,or even three days, (t is a compulation that to the people at large seems uselessly complicated. The one thing sure about the date of Easter is that it can never occur before March 22 nor after April 25. This year the weather in Dunedin was somewhat threatening hut actually fine for Thursday and Friday, the days on which our folk usually choose for journeying, and the travelling to distances was on a_ somewhat greater scale than usual. Yesterday was a elo&o holiday, and the conditions were favourable to campers and picnickers. To-dav showers fell about breakfast time, and the sky nrospects all the morning were unpromising; still the outings were mostly gone ou with.

Tho Gas Committee has. authorised the gas engineer to purc.hase and instal a small spare boiler, for which he has received a quotation of £135, erected at the works. This boiler is required as a spate when tho waste heat boilers are shut down for yearly inspection, and it will also enable the department to have more steam available for other purposes at that end of the works, should it bo required. The Tramway Committee lias authorised the department to invite new tenders for the supply and delivery of a new rope for the main Mornington line. At present there is a rope en route to New Zealand for the line, but it is considered advisable to obtain prices now for a new rope instead ol waiting till the next rope is put in, as has'been the case in the past. The Ulimaroa left Sydney on Thursday last for Wellington with twenty bags of Australian mail, seventeen parcerrcceptaeles, and forty bags of overseas mail. The letter portion of the mail should reach here on Tuesday next, and the balance in the following day. A Bccfton Tress Association telegram states that a large and representative gathering of citizens met the Canterbury delegation at Manila Springs yesterday, and motored them to Reefton. A meeting held last night was attended by Greymqutb, Bnllcr, Murchison, Reefton, Amur! and Christchurch citizens, when the _ billowing resolution was passed unanimously “That this meeting of representatives from Canterbury and tho West Coast, affirms the national importance of the speedy construction of a-motor road between Canterbury and the West Coast by way of Lewis Pass, and that the Government be urged to have the work undertaken and carried out without delay.”

Of cheap railway excursions in Now Zealand, that which is now on, a journey from Christchurch to Dunedin and back-, is an outstanding example. A special train wa* chartered by the Corsair Club, an organisation for promoting sightseeing tours. It left Christchurch last night, and arrived this morning with 800 passengers, who bought return tickets at I(3s per head, taking their chances as to getting first or second class accommodation. Light hundred at Ids means £(!IU, so tho department makes a bit out of it even at that cheap faro. Tho Corsair Club originated with a few persons of humble position, who pressed the right button to get a hearing.

Artificial Eyes.—W. V. Sturmcr, G.A.0.C., D. 5.0.1., specialises tho fitting artificial eyes, also their comfortable adjustment.— [Advt.j You will be delighted with the selection of wedding gifts available at Williamson's, the jewellers, next Tho Bristol.—[Adv I.] The Railway Doparlincut advertises in tins issue particulars of cheap week-end excuVsions (Friday to Tuesday!, Dunedin to Pembroke.