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Evening Star, Issue 23375, 19 September 1939, Page 8

There was no sitting of the Police Court to-day. A gorse fire in Gamma street was attended to by the Roslyn Brigade late yesterday afternoon.

While football nautrally is in the background these clays, the coming Otago-Southland Rugby game at Carisbrook on September 110 is now becoming a topic of lighter conversation in relief to the . serious happenings abroad. Traffic by rail is not expected to be anything like as heavy as in former years, but ‘visitors to Dunedin for the game will bo well catered for by tbc Railway Department, which is despatching a special train from Invercargill at 6.25 on the evening of Friday, September 29. this being due to arrive in Dunedin a few minutes after 11. Early on Saturday morning a train will leave Invercargill, being due at Dunedin at 11.51. A return train will leave Dunedin at 0.40 p.m. on the Saturday, and on the Sunday there will bo a special train for tho south at 4.40 p.m. and the usual express at 5.30 p.m. In addition to the intorprovincial match many subsidiary fixtures have already been arranged for September 30, or are in course of being arranged. The Council of Scottish Societies has closelv associated itself with the activities of the Scottish Regiment in Dunedin, and has taken a major part in its formation. Actual contact with the personnel of tho regiment has not before been made, and it is for the purpose of meeting the men that the council is to' entertain them at a smoke concert on Monday. In constradistinction to the attitude of the public during tho Great War, no objection seems to bo made by the public to the purchase of German-made goods in the various stores; nor do retailers raise any objection to purchases of such goods from wholesale suppliers, states the Auckland ‘ Herald.’ _ “ The public is much more internationallyminded than it used to be,” said an Auckland retailer in referring to the. position. “It has lost most of the old illogical prejudices. After all, German goods in this country were acquired prior to the war, and paid for in return by purchases of New; Zealand butter.”

The Census and Statistics! Department has'issued this year a junior edition of the ‘ New Zealand Year Book ’ in a pocket compendium of 180 pages, in which are summarised, very comprehensively, the fuller facts of the standard ‘ Year Book.’ In a preface, tho Government Statistician (Mr J. W. Butcher) states that, while every endeavour has been made to avoid obscurities in the compendium, the necessarily brief compass of the work precluded any detailed exposition of methods of compilation or any interpretation of tho statistics, and reference should ho made to tho ‘ Official Year Book ’ and annual reports of thedepartment for greater detail. Free use has been made of graphical methods to illustrate important statistical data, and in particular a section in the introductory portion of the booklet is devoted to graphic representation of economic trends.

“ Despite the international situation, or even more so because of it, I think the motto of tennis clubs and players this season should be ‘ Business as usual,’ ” remarked the chairman. (Mr E. L. Hope) at the annual meeting, of the Dunedin Lawn Tennis Union last night. If men were required for overseas service, clubs would be badly hit; but at least until that happened, the best thing New Zealanders could do was to carry on business and pleasure as though times were normal. “ This is no time for brooding and moping,’’ he said. “ Let us get into it with more enthusiasm than ever.” These remarks received warm approval. In the Police Court yesterday afternoon David Budge (Mr C. J. L. White) was proceeded against on a complaint for a maintenance order in respect of his wife, for whom Mr J. P. Ward appeared. After lengthy evidence had been taken the magistrate dismissed the information.

A rarity occurred at a farm at Hook, Waimate, recently, when a three-quar-ter-bred ewe gave birth to quintuplets. All the Jambs are alive and stand a good chance of being reared, even though one or two might have to be mothered to another ewe. The same ewe, owned by Mr E. C. Wilkin, previously had four lambs at one time. There is knowledge of another instance in South Canterbury a number of years ago, when live lambs were bom on a property owned by Mr C. E. Kerr. Intensified cultivation of kitchen gardens was urged by the Hon. W. E. Parry as being a helpful and practicable way for members of the community to assist not only themselves but their kinsmen overseas during the war. The production of vegetables by householders of the cities, towns, and suburbs was, ho said, of great value from the economic and health standpoints, and in addition a pleasant, interesting, and recreative occupation for the average man and for, probably, his wife as well. A splendid service could be give.n by the city and townspeople in helping the farmers in their drive towards sending more of their foodstuffs abroad. The Maori people could also join in the work by turning much of their waste land into fields of healthy and profitable vegetables, and so assist in providing an all-round increase in the country’s national food production. His belief that woman’s home-making instinct had been one of the greatest forces making for human progress was expressed by Dr R. A. Millikan, the celebrated physicist, in a lecture at Auckland University College. The beginning of the process, lie said, had been correctly dated by Kipling from when the cave woman first hung a wild horse’s skin over the cave doorway and invited her husband to wipe his feet before entering. Dr Millikan added that four-sevenths of man’s staple food plants were descendants of wild grasses and tubers collected and cultivated by the American Indian squaw thousands of years ago.

“ Many medical practitioners arc very lacking in. knowledge of resuscitation, stated Mr H. H. Henderson last night at a meeting of the committee ,of the Ota mi branch of the Royal Life Saving Society of Now Zealand, when it was decided to distribute 500 copies of a pamphlet setting out the correct manner of applying the Schafer method of artificial respiration among all medical practitioners, schools, and clubs in the branch’s area. dwo Christmases ago,” ho added, “ a doctor in a broadcast gave an entirely wrong description of resuscitation methods, but I sent him one of the society’s handbooks, and in a similar broadcast last year he gave the correct methods. Wo should send one of these pamphlets to every doctor in the province.” The work of the local Red Cross is running along smoothly, and this week the organisation k starting knitting and sewing in rooms equipped for the purpose in the Queen’s Building. A number of women have signified their willingness to participate in this work. Willing workers will concentrate in the meantime on knitting socks, balaclavas, etc. a’nd the making of shirts and pyjamas. It is the intention to continue along these lines until definite information is received from Wellington as to what plan to pursue. Nest week the Red Cross is also starting a class for women transport drivers. This will be confined to women who have passed their first aid examinations and who can also pass-a medical test.

“ It’s an ill wind . . runs the old saying, and even the restrictions on the issue of petrol has had its advantage in one way at least. Visualising a shortage of petrol for some time, the head of one family hied himself to a cycle shop and equipped the entire family with bicycles. There were four members, counting the children, and the bill amounted to £32. However, taking the optimistic viewpoint, the initial outlay would be shortly recompensed in this case, as the father used well over 100 gallons of petrol a month. No doubt the cycle dealer was pleased. Edgar Basil Oliver (24), who had pleaded guilty to obtaining at Petone a cheque for £147 from Minnie Katherine Henry by falsely representing that a motor car on which he owed £144 16s was his property and was unencumbered, was admitted _to 18 months’ probation by Mr Justice Blair and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution.—Wellington Press Association.

While there is an adequate supply of ordinary sugar, there is a shortage of lump sugar, which in the past has not been manufactured in the Dominion. However, it is the intention of an Auckland firm to commence manufacturing lump sugar, and as soon as this factory gets under way adequate supplies will be available, it is considered. Another commodity of whiph there does not appear to be an overabundant supply is cornflour, but it is understood this also will be manufactured within the Dominion within tho near future.

Judging by the progress being made with the remodelling of the old Telegraph Building in Customhouse Square for the Social. Security Department, it should not be long before the latter takes possession of its new quarters. A glance through the now inner double swing doors reveals polished counter partitioned off not unlike the various divisions in the Chief Post Office. The interior walls have been completed, and. judging by the work now in hand, finishing touches are being appliedt