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Evening Star, Issue 23690, 25 September 1940, Page 8

Dame Fortune reserved her smiles in connection with the lucky ticket for last Saturday’s patriotic football match, and now that all unsold tickets have been returned it has been ascertained that the lucky ticket, for which the prize was £5, was not sold. The ticket in question was available for sale _in the streets from the day of printing until the day of the match. In view of this the committee lias decided to divide the amount of the prize money among the three bands which took part on Saturday and contribuetd so much towards the success of the effort. The bands were the Kaikorai Band, Dunedin Highland Pipe Band, and Kaikorai School Bugle Band.

To a certain extent the restrictions which prevented stamp collectors from exchanging specimens with their contacts overseas have been lifted, according to Mr A. Clark, secretary of the Dunedin Philatelic Society. Mr Clark has not been idle since the embargo on sending stamps away was instituted, and last night ho received advice that in the meantime amateur collectors would be able to send stamps away, but to British countries only. This will be welcome news for most amateurs. At the time of going to press the notice which heralded the embargo was still in place above the letter boxes at the Post Office.

The triangulation survey at present in progress in the southern portion of the South Island is part of the geodetic triangulation of the Dominion. This work, has been in hand intermittently for some years. The North Island has been completed, and a start was made with the South Island in Marlborough and Nelson early in 1938. Since then Canterbury and Otago have been covered, and the survey party has recently established its bnso at Riversdale to carry out operations in the Southland district. When the main network has been completed throughout the South Island further trig, points will be provided in the closely settled areas so that all surveys may readily be connected to the new triangulation, The work, which makes heavy demands on the men engaged in it, is being conducted by the I,amis and Survey Department, and is being carried out by Mr W. G. Nelson, under the control of the Surveyor-General.

People arc said to throw away their money at race meetings, but they do not do so in the lake at Wanganui racecourse. This lake, a reproduction in miniature of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, has been drained and cleaned by the men of tho Ist Battalion. Wellington Regiment, encamped at Wanganui. It yielded up a penny and a halfpenny and a wrist watch from its depths. Now the men use it for a swimming pool. It is also used as a repository for social offenders against unofficial laws of the rank and file.

An unusual design has been adopted by the Public Works Department for the new bridge which has been built over the Wairan Stream on the main north highway about a mile north of Takapuna. The bridge is situated practically at the apex of a sharp bend in the road, and to make the curve easier to negotiate the structure has been banked on a principal known as superelevation. To the casual observer three of the corners of tho bridge appear to have subsided to varying degrees.

Manufacturers and companies at Home which have made the presentation of special prizes to the King Edward Technical College will continue to do so although Britain is in the throes of a terrible conflict. This pleasing news was conveyed to the board of managers bv the principal (Mr W. G. Aldriagc) at the meeting yesterday afternoon, when members commented most favourably upon this action by the firms concern c'l.' There were no cases to come before the Police Court to-day. One hundred and ten thousand trees, of which the mosl_ matured are 10ft high and have been in the ground three years, have been planted out by the 'Roxburgh Returned Soldiers’ Committee, while 11,000 seedlings are ready for planting, reported Mr A. M'Hutchon at the meeting of the executive committee of the Dunedin association last night. “ The afforestation scheme is growing into a considerable asset,” ho said, pointing out that the land planted was riverbed area. “ I don’t think there lias been 1 per cent, of failures in growth after planting,” remarked the president (Mr W. K. Cameron).

There was every indication of trouble on an outward-bound tram (says the ‘Auckland Star’), when one of those incorrigible practical jokers tried his art on a short-tempered friend who was reading a newspaper. The joker applied a match to the bottom of the sheet, and the victim suddenly discovered he was holding a miniature fire. The flames got away with a rush, and there was much stamping and gesticulating before the blaze was controlled. Needless to say, there was not much paper left to read, and the owner of it had some hard things to say to his practical joker friend, who seemed badlv shaken at the unexpected success of his fun. Eventually, the matter was settled amicably, but it is certain that the joker will not again choose a tram in which to stage his surprises. • It’s a red-letter day for the college.” said Mr P. G. Smellie when the Joint Committee of the Board of Managers of the King Edward Technical Colfego reported that the plans for the nev domestic wing had at last been sent to the Public Works Department, pre, aratory to the commencement of the work. “ It’s glorious news,” agreed tin chairman (Mr J. J. Marlow). The new building plans, it was reported, had proved to be precisely those prepared by the board at its own expense in April.

German propaganda in many overseas countries, particularly among those in North and South America, has produced an impression that it was useless sending orders to England, as goods could neither bo made there nor shipped, according to statements made in letters received from British manufacturers by Auckland importers. In comment on the fact that it had suffered a withholding of orders from abroad because of this propaganda, a Bradford manufacturing firm remarked that it was surprising that the German stories were believed. There was no chance, of course, that Germany would be in a position to stop Britain’s export trade, and there were very large supplies of raw materials in England.

It was one of those .jobs that the suburban gardener puts off from week to week—a large and unsightly tree stump at the bottom of the garden (records tho ‘ Auckland Star ’). The day of reckoning arrived, however; the amateur logger approached the object of bis intended endeavours, and the job looked less attractive with each advancing step. That Stump was about 74ft high and about 18in through at the base of the trunk. He decided that the best way to tackle it was to chop through the upper portion and then_dig out the stump. Equipment was limited —a medium-sized axe-»-but he set manfully to work. Fortunately the trunk was pretty dry and the chips flew merrily. But there were difficulties, in that the tree was alongside a fence. After much expenditure of perspiration and the acquiring of a few more blisters, the new recruit for a forestry company stood back in self-esteem. He proceeded to fasten a rope to the uppermost part of the trunk and put his weight into it. Now would come that fine loud cracking and a cry of “ timber ” from the winged army of dead and gone big timber men! _ He heaved again—but the crack didn’t come. Instead, the whole trunk, pins root, came neatly from the soil. It was rotten at tho root. Wasted effort or not, it was a great relief.

Information that New Zealand leads the world in milking machines manufacture was revealed, strangely enough, at the King Edward Technical College board of managers meeting yesterday afternoon, while another “ first ” —that New Zealand! was in the lead with seedcleaning machines—was also noted. It was further revealed that the Vocational Guidance Officer (Mr T. Conly) was the sole New Zealand expert on th patents of the former, on which even America had to look to the Dominion for a lead.

The Conciliation Council sat to-day to the Otago and Southland Cardboard Box Workers’ (female) industrial dispute, the commissioner (Mr S. Ritchie) presiding. The employees’ assessors were Misses J. Ruuciman, F. M'Laren, I. M'Queen.and R. Moores, and the employers’ Messrs J. R. Luff, J. B. Robertson, J. Elliot, and A. S. Cookson. The present rates ranged (from 35s to £2 10s a week, and the settlement which was . reached provided for rates ranging from 17s 6d to £2 10s, in addition to which there is the cost of living bonus of 5 per cent. A complete agreement was reached on all other points.

So far London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, largely duo to the heroism of tho men who removed the monster time bomb from its vicinity only recently, has come through the war unscathed, a matter of great satisfaction to the Empire as a whole, for St. Paul’s seems as much the heart of the Empire as London itself. This great cathedral has stood since the seventeenth century, when, under plans designed by Sir Christopher Wren, it was built on the site of a decaying old church which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London. Pudding began on June 21, 1675, and the church was opened in December, 1697, although the final stone was not set until 1710. This historic church is the subject of a fine pencil drawing by Mr Frederick Sykes, of this city, and his work is at present attracting a good deal of interest, as it is exhibited in the window of a lending bookseller in Princes street. Mr Sykes’s artistry is well known to citizens, and his drawing of St. Paul’s, from an unusual angle, is typical. The appeal made to the pupils by the head master of the Dominion lload School, Auckland, to forgo their Guy Fawkes celebrations and devote the funds to patriotic purposes has been brought under Lord Galway’s notice by tho school committee secretary, who suggests the possibility of making the appeal a national one. Lord Galway has replied that be is arranging for the proposal Ip he discussed bv the National Patriotic Fund Hoard.—Press Association-. ,

The sitting was concluded yesterday afternoon of the Conciliation Council in the industrial dispute of the Otago and Southland preserved foods, jam, and starch factory employees, the commissioner (Mr S Ritchie) presiding. Agreement was reached on all points except that relating to wages, which was referred to the Arbitration Court.

Thft annual parade of Clvdesdata stallions will be held at Tahnna Park 10-morrow.