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Evening Star, Issue 22142, 24 September 1935, Page 8

A new scheme to assist in the parking of motor cars in Christchurch has been introduced by the City Council. This is the painting of the kerbsides in areas where parking is prohibited with red lines and the letters ‘‘ N.P.” Areas over which a limit of 10 minutes operates will be painted with lines in some colour other than red, and have the figure 10 prominently displayed, and areas with a limit of 30 minutes will have lines in yet another colour and have the figure 30,

Important staff changes were decided on by the Board of Governors of Canter bury Agricultural College at Lincoln at a special meeting yesterday. These include the termination of the appointment of the director (Professor 11. E. Alexander, C.M.G.) as from December 31, 1936, and the appointment of two professors of agriculture. Applications for the two professorships in agriculture will be called early next year. One of the professors will be appointed director of the college.

A copy of an exceedingly precious ecclesiastical manuscript, a thirteenth century psalter valued at £15,000, has been received by the Dean and Chapter of Christchurch Cathedral, The copy, which itself cost £25 to produce, has been given by Mrs Emily Stannus, formerly of Christchurch, and has been sent from Canterbury, England. It is one of a limited number which have been made by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, and contains the autograph of the Archbishop of Canterbury, with his good wishes.

The ingenuity of modern kite flyers is amply proved in the achievement of two suburban youths who recently attached a small camera to their kite and succeeded in taking a “shot” of their neighbour’s backyard from a height of about 300 ft. The neighbour was highly pleased with the result, but was heard to remark naively: “But what is the use of my growing high hedges to get some privacy if you chaps are going to look down at mo with your camera eye?” Some months ago a paragraph appeared in this column stressing the need for the establishment of a public telephone booth at tho corner of Cannington road and Cairnhili street, Maori Hill However, as far as is known, the Post and Telegraph Department has given the matter no practical consideration. Undoubtedly the construction of a booth somewhere in this vicinity would be a great boon, for, us things are, a visit to the nearest public telephone involves a ten minutes’ walk uphill to the terminus of the Maori •Hill electric tram line. The sea lion which came ashore at St Clair about two months ago has evidently taken a liking to the locality, for he is still to be seen on the sand or in the St. Clair Baths almost every day. The chance of seeing him drew a very large crowd to the beach on Sunday afternoon but lie failed for once to make an appearance. Yesterday and to-day, however, ho was again ashore, and, as usual, attracted a large number of interested spectators. Quite tame, he allows people to stroke Ins glossy skin. A correspondent writes: *' I. vas xecently instructed by a traflje inspector that if I did not keep my, dog off the back of my motor I would be prosecuted,” and asks for clarification of his position. The motor regulations stale ”, no person shall operate a motor vehicle if the vehicle or its load or both are so arranged that the)°ad is n°t either safely contained within the body of the vehicle, or else securely fastened to the vehicle.” There ;s no specific reference to the manner m which dogs shall be carried, but the interpretation of the authorities is that they come under the category of a load, and, as such, must be securely fastened. It a man were driving a lorry with clog in it, and that dog was not fastened, he would be committing an offence. Ine purpose of the enforcement of the reepilation, however, is to. prevent the possibility of a dog leaping, off a car and causing an accident, or m any n ay obscuring the driver’s vision or interfering with his handling of the car. Hot ashes which were left against the wall of a detached wooden washhouse caused a fire at a residence in Larnach s road. Vauvhall, yesterday afternoon. The City Brigade was called at and the building was. badly damaged before the fire was extinguished. Jhe house is owned by Mr J. Wright and occupied by Mrs Winton. The postal authorities advise that the Wanganella left Sydney on Saturday with 15 bags of Australian mail ami 10 parcel receptacles for Duneclm, also tne London air mail despatch of September 8. The mail is due at the local office on Thursday afternoon. The annual parade of Clydesdale stallions to be held at Tahuna Park on Thursday will be the fifty-second m the history of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society. This fixture is the onlv annual show of Clydesdale entries in New Zealand to be held without a break for the last half-century. The South Island is regarded as the home of the Clydesdale in the Southern Hemisphere. The coveted prizes toi championships in New Zealand are the Wright, Stephenson Cup and the Donald Reid Memorial Shield, which, like the Cawdor Cup in Scotland, art held for a year by the winners. Ihc first and second prize winners at the last parade will not bo competing on Thursday, so that keen compel tion amongst the recent importations n expected.

“ The Otago scenery is comparable with that of the famous Canadian Rockies,” said Mr Raymond Beatty, a touring radio artist, who is broadcasting locally this week, when speaking to a ‘ Star ’ reporter. Accompanied by Miss Heather Kinnaird, another visiting radio singer, Mr Beatty spent the greater part of yesterday flying round Otago Central in the Aero Club s WACO, and both are full of enthusiasm of the remarkable beauty they saw from aloft. In the course of the trip they passed over five of the lakes in the Central district, and also had the opportunity of seeing the rich fanning and sheep-rearing country of the province. Their onlt regret is that they were unable to prolong the trip. A ballot taken for the election of two directors of the N.I.M.U. Insurance company at the annual meeting last night created an unusual amount of interest (says a Wellington Press Association telegram). Three nominations were received for the two vacancies, the retiring directors being Mr B. L. Donne and Dr E. E. Porritt, who stood for re-election. The new candidate was Mr E. A. Batt, chairman of the Wellington Automobile Association. After the meeting had lasted nearly three hours and a-half it was announced that the scrutineers could not complete the count for another two hours a*id a-half. The proceedings were adjourned till noon to-day. The meeting was open to members only. Precautions were taken to establish the bona fides of those seeking admission, checkers being stationed at the entrance doors to see that no one not qualified secured an entry. _ A request that automobile associations should be asked to move towards having pillion riding on motor cycles prohibited was before the general council of the Christchurch Automobile Association last evening from the Dominion conference of the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Unon. The council decided that it was not in a position to express an opinion on the danger of pillion riding, and that it should take an opinion from ono of the_ motor cycle clubs. In a brief discussion on the letter, however, several members said they thought the presence of a pillion rider sometimes made a motor cyclist more careful than lie was usually. Certainly there were not more accidents in which, motor cyclists with pillion riders were involved than there were accidents involving solo motor cyclists.

Representations are being made to the Prime Minister by the Canterbury Employers’ Association for an early election date, so that the December shopping period will not be interfered with. The association is thus giving its support to its sister body in Wellington. It is argued that an election in December would have an adverse effect on the pre-Christmas trade, and the Canterbury association, in its letter to the Prime Minister, has suggested Tuesday, November 19, as a suitable date.

A concert last night at Port Chalmers attracted a good attendance of the public to the Launer Theatre. It had been organised, by the Port Chalmers Rowing Club, and the programme, in addition to singing, included violin and elocution numbers. The concert party consisted of Misses Kvelyn Shepard (songs), Marjory M'Dowell (pianist), D. Judd (violinist), and Molly Baker (elocutionist), Messrs J. Davies, Arthur Lungly, and .). Patterson.

E. W. Walden, architect, 34 Dowling street, Dunedin, and 22 Hart street, Roslyn. —[Advt.] Bo Wise, See to Your Eyes. W. V. Stunner, Optician, 2 Octagon, Dunedin, Consulting Opticians: W. V. Stunner, F. 1.0., N.Z.: A. R. Watson, 1M.0., 5.D.0., N.Z.—[Advt.]

A further reminder is given for the spring sale at St. Kilda Methodist Church, opening to-morrow (Wednesday) an* Thursday. Entertaining programmes will be provided in the evenings.