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Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 8

At the community sing to-day Mr J. Hore, the Otago and New Zealand representative Rugby player, stated that although he was retiring from active participation he had no intention of losing touch with the_ game altogether, but would confine his efforts to refereeing. Passengers by_ the Rotorua, which berthed at Wellington yesterday, are expected in Dunedfn by to-morrow afternoon. “ More_ sherry is consumed in New Zealand in 12 months now than was the case in three years up to five years ago,” said a city hotelkeeper to a reporter this morning in replying to a statement made in the * Star ’ on Wednesday night by an importer who said that sherry was in very little demand in this country and that the so-called sherry sold in New Zealand was, in many cases, execrable, and was mostly South African, which had not even sherry characteristics. The hotelkeeper stated there was so strong a demand for sherry that he stocked seven different varieties, and sales’ of sheny were increasing. With regard to the other statement he said he had never seen South African sherry and had never been asked to buy it. “ There is no doubt that sherry is rapidly coming into popular favour,” he concluded. Comment on the position in Spain as related to the import of sherry is contained in a letter to Mr A. A. Paape from a firm of sherry shippers, who state they are considerably in doubt as to whether they will get sherry shipments from Spain through in the more or leas normal routine, or whether they will be held up by the constantly recurring strikes in Spain, resulting from the revolutionary disturbances, which have caused- quite a lot or damage in the sherry districts, as in other parts of Spain. They state that so far their troubles have been confined to a sort of dictatorship as to whom they should employ in the bodegas and whom they should discharge. Under the new regime, it seemed that the best workers who had been with them the longest were to be turned out, presumably because they were loyal servants, and that others much less desirable and with very few qualifications, were to be taken on in their places. “ Probably,” the writers add, “ the intention is to foment as much trouble as possible, and thereby further the glorious cause of class freedom, even it they lose a livelihood in the process.” A Christchurch Association message states that a sample shipment of Japanese beer was landed at Lyttelton today from the Chifuku Maru. Diphtheria is now a rare disease in this country, but during the last week one suspected case has been reported in Otago. The Health Department has also been notified of one case of scarlet fever in Otago and another in Southland, while four cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were reported in Otago and two in Southland. The reports of the consulting engineers on the progress of works in connection with the Waipori pressure tunnel during the last two weeks show that during the period a further 300 ft of tunnel was squared out in readiness for the laying of pipes, and a further 320 ft of tramway laid and invert concrete placed. The quantity of concrete placed during the two weeks was 46 cubic yards. The contractors have 18 men employed, the whole of these being on the pressure tunnel section. Considerable interest was manifested last evening at the Otago Anglers’ Association smoke social when Mr C. Wilson brought before the company a shag which he had tamed. The object was to demonstrate its capabilities in the eating of fish, but unfortunately the bird was confused by the largo attendance, and refused to comply. Mr Wilson stated that the daily consumption of fish by that particular shag was 10lb weight while the bird itself weighed only 71b. The Roslyn Fire Brigade turned out to Ellis’s mattress factory, Kaikorai, at 12.20 this afternoon in response to an automatic false alarm. Eye strain—for eye comfort, for better vision, consult Stumer and Watson Ltd., opticians, 2 Octagon, Dunedin.—fAdvt.] ‘ The Venerable Bede, Translator and Historian ’ is the title of the address to be given by Rev. W. A. Curzon-Siggers before the Classical Association in the Museum lecture room on Monday evening, at 8. The public are invited.