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Evening Star, Issue 23677, 10 September 1940, Page 4

Mr Justice Kennedy has granted probate in the following deceased estates : Margaret Jones, of Dunedin, widow; Andrew M'Kinnon, of Dunedin, retired merchant; Clementina Sarah Sizemore Williamson, of Duntroon, married; Fred Baxter, of Oamaru, painter; Richard Craigie. of Dunedin, farmer; John Gray, of Maungatua, retired farmer; Elizabeth Manson, of Dunedin, married; Edith Mary Nicolls, of Oamaru, widow; Charles Weaver, Earnselcngh, fruitgrower: and Douglas Harris Hastings, of Dunedin, journalist. Letters of administration have been granted in the estate of Joseph Gough, of East Taicn, labourer.

When Cr K. J. Sniitli inquired at the City Council meeting last night why concession tickets were not being sold on the Mornington trams Cr H. L. Gibson informed him that the sale of these tickets on electric trams was in the nature of a trial, and it had not been thought wise to transfer sales to cable trams until the trial had ended. lie remarked that sales of concession tickets were going satisfactorily: electric tram revenue had dropped 5 per cent., which he attributed to the disposal of these tickets in preference to ordinary tickets.

Speaking at the annual conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation in Wellington, Mr T. C. Brash mentioned that one of the delegates to a provincial conference for many years had retired from fruit-growing because of his age—more than 70. This grower had looked round for something easier, and eventually decided on dairy farming.

Men from Hillside were still being taken up the Glen road to their homes after work by the special corporation bus. replied CT H. L. Gibson, chairman of the Transport Committee of the City Council, to a question by Cr E. J. Smith, who contended that the route was narrow, steep, and dangerous. The engineers had expressed their opinion that the road was safe; besides this, most of the men were resident in the Government settlement, and the route suited both parties concerned. “ It is a pity that there is no fulltime chair of anthropology at any university college in New Zealand,” said the president of the Auckland Institute (Mr W. A. Fairclough), who was chairman at a public lecture given by Dr Raymond Firth in Auckland recently. There was a part-time chair at Otago University, he continued, but that could not be considered sufficient in a country which had produced two such anthropologists as Dr Firth and Dr Peter Buck. Both of these had been lost to the Dominon, except for occasional visits, because there were no jobs for them. They were examples of the truth that New Zealand gave a scientific training to many men in order that they might utilise it elsewhere. Although it had been intended to build a new staff social room at the car sheds, the outbreak of war had put an end to the scheme, said Mr H. L.* Gibson at last night’s meeting of the City Council. He pointed out that the authorised extensions to be made to the present room, involving £lllO, had met with the approval of the Tramways Union, while the expenditure would be made over a period of years. It had long been recognised that better provision should be made for the' social activities of the employees, he said. Chasing a cat underneath a building in the business section of Opunake, a dog had a remarkable escape _ from drowning recently, and as it was it had to show more than the usual amount of canine intelligence and endurance to save its life. For more than 15 hours the dog was at the bottom of a 20ft well in fairly deep water. When a rescuer dug under the foundations he discovered the dog had fallefi into'a disused well the location of which had ipreviously not been known, while carcasses floating in the water at the bottom indicated the fate of several cats. The dog had dug its way behind a pipe running down the side of the well. When a fruit case attached to ropes was lowered to the level of the water the dog was persuaded to jump in and was hauled to the surface.

An a pplication from the secretary of the Otago Queen Carnival executive for permission to conduct a high-class concert on a Sunday night under the auspices of the Commercial Travellers’ Association in aid of the Navy Queen was discussed in committee by the City Council last night. After lengthy deliberation the application was refused. Heligoland, Germany’s island fortress in the North Sea, fell into British hands 133 years ago last Saturday. In 1807 Britain was blockading almost the whole of Europe, as she is now, in her struggle with Napoleon. The Danes then owned Heligoland, and were using it as a base for smuggling goods into Europe,. so a British force took possession on September 7, 1807. It was formally ceded to the British Crown in 1814, but was given up to Germany in return for the recognition of certain British claims in East Africa in 1890. After the Great War its fortifications were dismantled under the Versailles Treaty, but they were restored in 1936. On August 28, 1914, a British naval force sank four German warships in tho Bight of Heligoland. Although fog hindered a decisive action, the German naval policy was thereafter mainly defensive. Apart from air raids by the R.A.F. early in the present war, Heligoland has been little in the news. Auckland employers state they have no knowledge of any move by the Government to send skilled workers to Australia to assist in the manufacture of munitions there, as was suggested as likely by the Minister of Supply, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, on his visit to Australia some weeks ago (says the Auckland ‘Herald’). They point out that when Mr Sullivan’s statement was made there was little idea tho New Zealand- engineering industry could manufacture certain classes of munitions. Since then, however, investigations show the capabilities of the industry are much greater than was previously supposed, and there have been developments toward the manufacture here of munitions.

The request of the South Duuecliu Ratepayers and Householders’ Association that the City Council establish a receiving office in the South Dunedin area so that citizens might have a convenient point at -which to pay various accounts had the approval in principle of the Finance Committee of the council, stated the chairman (Cr W. B. Taverner) at last night’s meeting of the council. It was a proposal which had been made many years ago, he said. As there would bo over 20 members of the treasury staff entering military life very shortly, the committee could not recommend proceeding with the proposal at the present time, ho said.

A well-known Simmer resident lias received from his son, a New Zealand solicitor now with the forces in England, a story of his experience ns a guest of the presiding magistrate in a London Magistrate’s Court (says the Christchurch ‘Star-Sun’). The New Zealander was invited to attend the court with a young Maori friend, also a solicitor, and to their surprise, they received an invitation to sit on the Bench, one on each side of the Magistrate. During the hearing of several of the cases, the Magistrate consulted his two young guests regarding the custom of the courts in this country. Then to the amazement of the New Zealanders, the next culprits to appear before the Bench were two New Zealanders, both of whom, seeing the trio in front of them, became both puzzled and very anxious. Finally the Magistrate, perhaps with some compassion as a host to his legal guests, qualified a fine of one shilling with the remark that the accused from the Antipodes would probably find the cost of living in London high enough without the addition of farther encumbrances. There were at least four happv New Zealanders that morning in the heart of the Empire.

“ Some people have other ideas on tho subject of art unions and gambling in general, but I am convinced that the proceeds of tho Government art , unions are going in the right direction—that is, for the service of the people,” said the mayor of Christchurch (Mr 11. M. Macfarlanc, M.P.) when speaking at the annual, meeting of the Mayor’s Coal and Blanket Fund Committee yesterday on the dependence of many such charitable organisations on grants from the art unions. “ I do not know where the mayors of the four cities would be if it were not for the assistance they receive from these grants,” said Mr Macfarlane, who said that with so many patriotic appeals charitable organisations were reluctant to hold street collections and make other public appeals. Still, in spite of tho war the work of this committee and of other similar bodies must bo maintained if severe hardship were not to bo imposed on some of the less fortunate members of the community.

The memorial stone to Archbishop Julius, to be placed in the outside north wall of the chancel of the Christchurch Cathedral, will be unveiled by the Governor-General (Lord Galway) on Sunday, October 6. The erection of the stone is preliminary to the major work of extending the chance!, which is the planned memorial to the Archbishop. Lord Galway’s acceptance of the invitation to nnyeil the stono was received yesterday at a meeting of the memorial committee. Recommendations that the stone be of Timaru stone and the inscription coloured bright red were approved. Sub-committees were set up to arrange the unveiling ceremony.

A mild repercussion of the decision of the New Zealand Bonding Association that the term “ fours ” bo officially adopted in preference to the term “ rinks ” occurred at a meeting of the Canterbury Centre last evening (suys the ‘ Press ’). Mr T. D. Lcnnic objected to the use by Mr A. Dickson of the words “ three-fours competition ”in a report. “We all know what a rink is, but if wc make this change we will think wc are playing golf,” he said. The president (Mr J. 15. ’Cagliardi) pointed out that, the association ruled that “ fours ” be used since a rink was the green on which the competition was played. At a recent meeting of the directors of the Caledonian Society a letter was received from a member ' (Mr J. Sutherland Boss) advising that he would bo pleased to supplement bis previous gift of a bursary scholarship lor another three years’ course of study for a son or daughter of a member of the society at the University- of Otago under similar conditions as previously. The directors in accepting have expressed their deep appreciation of Mr (Ross’s generosity and interest in the educational side of the society’s activities

To-nighl, in Wallace .Hall, Training College, Logan Park, a musical programme will be presented by the College Choral .Society, under the baton of Mr George K. Wilkinson, £1)0 major works, are Dimhill’s "Tubal Cain 1 amt I!husky Korsakov's ‘Polonaise,’ while Ihe College Orchestra will be heard in two selections.