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Evening Star, Issue 22464, 8 October 1936, Page 8

Some weeks ago the Wellington office of tho State Placement Service received an order for the supply of one hundred painters for a “ rush ” job of painting the new Tasman liner Awatea, and had the men available within a few hours. Another order for a bulk supply of helpers has been received by the New Plymouth officer, who has been asked to assist in procuring between 80 and 90 caddies for tho Dominion golf championship, which is to be held in the vicinity of the Taranaki capital towards the end of the present month. Strange as it may appear, this order will be more difficult to fill than that for the painters, the reason being that, as the caddies’ services will be required over a period of about 10 days, few boys of school age will be available during the whole of the time. The problem will be solved without a doubt.

A return of the Labour Department shows that at the end of last week 953 men had been placed in employment in Dunedin under the State placement scheme —-623 in permanent work, 135 in casual jobs, and 195 in temporary positions. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Republic will fall on Saturday, October 10. Chinese citizens of Dunedin will observe a full holiday, and all businesses and market gardens will be closed. On October 10, 25 years ago, Dr Sun Yat Sen proclaimed China as a republic, and ever since the day has been observed all over the world by Chinese citizens as their national day. The holiday is regarded as the most important of the year. The local celebrations will consist of a picnic and a sports meeting at Evansdale. A very fine exhibit of gold from the Central Shotover claim was shown in the window of a George street jeweller’s shop to-day, and attracted considerable attention. There are 120 oz of the precious metal, ranging from line gold to quite substantial nuggets. Dr V. E. Galway, city organist, will give another of his popular afterchurch recitals in the Town Hall on Sunday evening next, and has chosen a delightful programme for that occasion, including such items as ‘ Chaconne in F’ (Purcell), Gavotte from _ ‘ Iphigenia ’ (Gluck), ‘ Prelude in D ’ (Bach), Recitative and Finale from Sonata No. 1 (Mendelssohn), ‘The Question ’ and ‘ The Answer ’ (Wolstenholme), request item, ‘ Allegretto Leggiero ’ (Edgar Ford), ‘Dreaming,’ from ‘ Scenes of Childhood ’ (Schumann), ‘Triumphal March’ (Alfred Hollins). The assisting artists will be Mrs N. R. Henderson, of Invercargill, whose appearances on the concert platform have been causing a great deal of enthusiasm. Mrs Henderson will sing ‘ A Song in the Night ’ (Loughborough), ‘ Solveig’s _ Song’. (Grieg), and “ ’Twas a Dear Little Song ’ (Stanford Robinson). _ There will be no charge for admission. As anticipated, there was » slight drop in the value of fat sheep sold at Burnside yesterday afternoon. Prices: —Extra heavy weathers, 37s to 40s; prime, 34s to 36s 6d; light, 23s 6d to 28s; extra heavy ewes, 32s to 35s 3d; prime, 28s to 31s; light, 21s to 25s 3d; best quality hoggets, 26s 6d to 30s; light, 20s 6d to 235.

“ Good carpenters are at a premium,” said the secretary of the Carpenters’ Union (Mr R. Ross) this morning. He explained that he had had on tho union’s list a number of men who had been unemployed so long that he had test touch with them. He would be pleased to make contact with them again, because if they reported he would have little difficulty in placing them in a job. There is a dearth of good cottage carpenters, and men for country work are almost unprocurable, even men to take charge of country jobs. Men were not being sent to country jobs where country allowance was not being paid. During this week 29 carpenters have been placed in work.

New Zealanders talk and act more like Americans than English people do, according to Mr W. W. Lechner, an American visitor, who has come to the Dominion for the first time, and arrived in Christchurch yesterday. He had high praise for the tourist attractions of tho country (states the ‘Press’), and said that New Zealand would soon need more hotel accommodation, as Americans were becoming “ fed up ” with visiting Europe, particularly because of the present unrest, which sometimes made it impossible for travellers to know whether they would be able to leave for home. _ Many now preferred to go to Australia and NewZealand.

The opinion that any propaganda designed to induce immigration to New Zealand would fall on deaf ears in England, was expressed to a representative of the Christchurch ‘ Press ’ yesterday, by Mrs M. W. Evans, of Papanui, who has just returned from a 12 months’ holiday visit to Groat Britain. Her observations led her to believe that it would be difficult to induce even those in poorer circumstances, with little or no future, to leave England for any other country. The fact that an era of prosperity had returned to the United Kingdom was undoubtedly a factor against emigration. Revisiting the Homeland after an absence' of 17 years, she found people in the same old groove, content to stay there even on a pittance, and fearful of any prospect which would cause them to part with institutions and ways of living so dear to them. They might grumble at times, but to sever the tics which hound them to England was to them unthinkable. In Mrs Evans’s opinion. if New Zealand wanted English immigrants, her only hope lay in child immigration. Englishmen wore naturally very conservative, and once they became set in their ways, nothing would shift them. The new scries of British stamps have reached Dunedin, the denominations carrying the portrait of King Edward Vlll. being Id, Id. lid, and 2}-d. The printing is marvellously pood, and the portrait itself shows the King wearing no hat. and is sot in the middle of a beautifully coloured background. It is exceedingly clear-cut and is a splendid likeness, there being a very tiny crown on the top right-hand corner, and at the bottom there is merely the word “ Postage.”

At a short sitting of the Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., judgment, with costs, was given by default in the following case:—D.l.C. Ltd. v. Andrew Wilson (Otokia), 13s Bd, balance owing on goods supplied. Horace Keilor Camp and John Hector Williamson were nominated to-day for the vacancy in the Port Chalmers Borough Council, caused by the recent resignation of Mr T. F. Maokie. As only one councillor is required an election will be held on October 20. Mr Williamson is an ex-councillor, and Mr Kemp missed election by _ a small margin, of votes at the 1935 election.

A Pied Piper is wanted at Footecray, where the rats are attaining a degree of cunning worthy of a gang of bandits (says the Melbourne ‘ Age ’). Whether or not they have been taught by the ants, which have been admired since ancient times for their faculty of organising for forays or defence, they appear to be making mass movements as though directed by a Fuhrer of their own. Gr Farnbaoh, of Footscray, is a chemist, and he says the amount of rat poison sold in the course of a year is astounding. But sporadic attempts to poison the rats are useless, he says, for the cunning rodents know poison when they smell it, and merely move next door. If poison is laid next door also the rats move into the. next block, and so on. These rearguard actions will continue indefinitely, says Cr Farnbach, until the day when the people of Footscray also unite and strike as one man. This they would accomplish by laying rat poison at every home at one and the same time. After he had laid these facte and suggestions before the Footscray Council’s Health Committee the health inspector was instructed to report on methods for ridding the municipality of rats.

The novel experience of _ riding on a tram that was being driven backwards was experienced by passengers on the 8.56 from St. Clair this morning. When the tram- was travelling along Cargill road trouble developed in the motorman’s control box, and failure to rectify the fault left the driver no alternative but to drive the vehicle from the rear, in reverse. Standing passengers were asked to shift to the sides so that the motorman could look right through the car to the' front. Further, the conductor stationed himself at the front to sound the alarm i bell at street crossings and signal stops to the driver. The tram was cautiously driven to the Stock Exchange, shifted to the outward line, and taken back to the sheds.

The city fire brigade responded to an accidental alarm from the premises of Messrs Brown Ewing and Co. Ltd. at 6.36 last evening. A small fire behind a baker’s gas oven was subdued by the brigade in the factory of the Phoenix Company at 6.7 p.m., there being no damage. A constable on his rounds in Ward street discovered an outbreak of fire in the buildings of the Royal Ice Cream Company, and summoned the brigade at 12.32 a.m. When it arrived, the fire had a moderately strong hold, but was quickly extinguished with a single lead ef hose. There was little damage done, the fire appearing to have its origin in tho boiler house. At 7.21 a.m., a justifiable call was answered to the premises of Mrs B. Knox, in Melbourne street, where some coal on her fire had caused a minor explosion, the summons being given for preventive measures.

A suggestion that the practice of drinking at dances could be overcome by the formation of an association of masters of ceremony, with authority to control the conduct of patrons, is made by the Rev. J. D. W. Raine, of Douglas, Taranaki, in an article in the current issue of the Waikato Diocesan Magazine. “ AVe know that most of the liquor at dances is located in cars outside the halls,” writes Mr Raine, “ but it is clear that once there is proper control within the hall no one would sit in a car all night, even though there was plenty of ‘ free beer to drown the sorrow of non-admission to the hall. The Master of Ceremony Association would need to impose restrictions on hall committees to prevent them from supplying liquor for public functions, either for friends or lor sale.” Mr Raine also suggests that competent women should be appointed to take charge of the ladies’ cloak rooms to check the consumption of Honor by women patrons of the dances The custodians of the cloakrooms 'should also be members of the Master of Ceremony Association. As referees at football matches are chosen and endowed with specific authority, so masters of ceremony could be chosen and appointed, he adds Iho scheme would eliminate the scandals inside and outside the dance halls during the progress of any social function.

Kvo strain —for eye comfort for better vision, consult Slurmer and Watson Ltd., rvfwMirm 2 Octagon, Dunedin. —TAdvt.l “^ho"quarterlyI"meeting 1 "meeting of the School Committees’ Association of Otago will he held in the Education Board room this evouevening next during the service at Moray Place Church an augmented choir, assisted by soloists, wi! render Sullivan’s oratorio The Prodigal Son ’ which is shorter and of a lighter typo Urin the usual oratorio. It preserves the eo'iitinuitv of the narrative, and in addition io melodious solos and choruses contains verv effective organ accompaniments. JMe soloists will be: Miss Agnes Guy soprano; Miss Margaret Green, conlralto; Mr Rowland Dunbar, tenor; and Mr John Pringle, 'baa*. The work will he under the direction of liio organist, Mrs H. C. Campbell.