LOCAL AND GENERAL.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 19 March 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The City of, Sydney for several days has been sweltering in a clammy heat, ihe thermomecer ranging among ihe nineties. Yesterday it mounted to 1001. For the convenience of the members of the Regimental Band attending the Calpdonian Society's sports meeting at the Showgrounds to-day a conveyance will leave the monument at 1.45 o'clock, members to wear navy uniform. The following Avill represent Union Cricket Club in its match with Weston this afternoon, play commencing at 2 p.m. on King George's park: Blair (2), Duggan, Ewing, Lamb, Maude, Meikle, Ogilvie, Sandom, Smith, Tonkin. In the Irvine Cup finals to be played on the Oamaru Tennis Glub's courts this afternoon Miss Romans meets the winner of the game between Miss King and Miss Nicholls. For the Familton Cup, played on the same courts McGregor meets Mulligan and G. Sumpter plays the winner. K. Familton meets C. Mollison and the winner enters the final. The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in today's issue that Returns of Land must he furnished not later than the 8th April. Forms of return may be obtained at any postal. moneyord^r office. • They will not he sent to taxpayers from the offices of ihe Commissioner of Taxes unless writ ten application is made for them. The New Zealand Dairy Produce Board has issued a circular stating that it has been found necessary to reduce shipping advances on any unshipped buiter and cheese (other than March gradings) to the following rates: Creamery butter: Finest grade, ls lid per lb; first grade Is Ofd; second grade llfd. Whey butter: First grade lOd; second grade, 9d. Cheese: Finest and first grades, 6d; .second grade 5fd; with k premium of 3s 4d per crate for finest grade cheese, A business and property transaction in Lambton Quay, Wellington, involvirfg approximately £100,000, in which the D.I.C., the Bristol Piano Co., and W. J. Littlejohn and Son are concerned, has just been completed. The price for che Bristol Piano Co.'s property was £45,000 and, based on the Lambton Quay frontage, works out at , about £1000 a foot, the highest price yet for a . Lambton Quay frontage. The transaction gives the D.I.C. an unbroken frontage to Lambton Quay between Johnson and Panama Streets. The price paid hy the Bristol to Messrs Littlejohn is in the vicinity of £62,000. William Alfred Mosdel was eharged at Christchurch yesterday with impersonating a member of the police force. Lena Dobbs, aged 17, gave evidence that while she was sitting on the beach at Sumner with a man. named George Hayward, accused represented that he was a policeman or beach patrolman, and spoke to them. He said later to witness that he could get her out of the case, but she must kiss him. Witness refused and, becoming frightened, went int'o a shop. Hayward gave evidence that accused said'he was a detective. Accused denied the charge and said he had not been at Sumner for 15 years. Accused was fined £25 and costs, the Magistrate remarking ; that the circumstances were very j had indeed and accused deserved j gaol. To record the tour "of the Duke j of York on celluloid is the task of ! Mr H. M. Bridgman, Government j kinematographer with the Royal | party, and^already films which he ; has taken of the Duke's activities in ! the north . are being shown in Aus- 1 tralia. Mr Bridgman has so far used j five thousand feet of film in "shoot- 1 ing" the Duke and Duchess since ] their arrival in the Dominion,. and j when the Royal visitors leave for i Australia next week he will have completed a comprehensive record of their tour. He is the kinematographer ,of the Government Publicity Depdrtment, and ihe completed film of ihe Royal tour will. be ex- j hibited throughout the Empire, showing many of the heauty spots visited> hy the Duke and Duchess in the Doipinion. i This week-end Oamaru is being favoured by the annual visit of the bright and' cheery girls from the Orphanage at Anderson's Bay. This represents a splendid side of the Army's work and is worthy of our best support. Tlrese girls give a programme of special merit and everybody gets full value for their money This home receives the highest praise from all authorities for its educational work and its general conduct is exemplary. Brigadier Burton, Commandant Baker (matron) and Adjutant Hildreth (sehool master) will be with the girls. The programme for tlie week-end is: Saturday, Enfield Hall at 8 p.m.; Sunday, all day at the S.A. Hall, Oamaru and then the great and final eoncert in the Opera House on Monday niglit.. Melbourne has ascored one over its jealous rival capital by putting on a special race meeting for the benefit of the Dulce. When the programme was being drawn up in Sydney the Australian Jockey Club received a hint from "the powers that be" that as the Duke of York was not fond of horse-racing, it was thought unnecessary to organise a special race meeting. The Victoria Racing Club, which runs racing in the southern State, was given no hint of the Duke's dislike of of racing, and it imraediately organiscd a special race meeting and has now received word that King George has decided to give a special gold cup for competition at Flemington on the day of the meeting. The commit&oe of the V.R.C. are naturally dcdighted, as no reigning m'onarch has ever accorded his patronage to Australian racing in this way. The cup will be manufacturcd in Melbourne at the King's expense and will be worth £100. The Duke of York will present it to Ihe winning owner. The club intcnds to stage a mile and a-half race for the trophy and to call it 'he King's Cup, ' * j

Rajces held by thc Oamarif Swlmming CJub this week resulled as follows: — 75 Yards Breast-stroke — Kinder (scr) 1, Hatton (2sec) 2, Crawshaw (5sec), 3. 75 Yards Open Race. — Crawshaw (scr) 1,* Hatton 2, Kinder 3. The private secretary of the Duke of York -has written to Mr F. Milner, Rector of the Waitaki Boys' High SchooL recommending that the hoj*s he granted a week's holiday to commcmorate the visit of his Royal Highness to the school. The request made by the 0; ."nu-u Burgesses' Association to the Mh:ister of Justice that a disLrl'l coroner be appointed with ker.dqiierters in Oamaru has elected the rcply that Mr H. W. Bundle. S.M.. is being asked to nominate some suil ■ able Justice of the Peace £er the position. Many boys fresh from the primary schools are walking the streets of Dunedin in a vain effort to obtain positions in the various trades and some of them are being compelled by necessity to accept deaclend jobs in the country. This is tivs position as stated by a leading loca' labour agent in the course of v chat on the present state of the labour marlcet. He added that numerous youths with high school education were in an iaentical position, in that they were unable to obtain situations in offices, due to the excessive supply of boys with secondary school education. At a meeting of the Cormnittee of the North Otago Horticultural Society Messrs A. G. Bull (Christchurch) and W. A. Grace (Wanganui) wrote in reference to the proposed South Island show of the National Daffodil Society of New Zealand. Both Dunedin and Christchurch Horticultural Societies have agreed on Oamaru as the most suitahle centre for the show. Mr Bull advised that Sir R. Heaton Rhodes has offered a £12 12s trophy for competition, and promised to endeavour to he present. The Secretary was instruicted to write for samples of vases, and also to the Dunedin Society for particulars of cost of their vases. The Secretary reported that on the. autumn show there was a surplus of £2 4s 7d. Mr j R. K. Ireland expressed his gratil tude to the ladies controllihg the j saies stall, which had netted £8 14s | 9d, and he proposed a hearty vote ! of thanks, which was carried by ac- • clamation. After outlinjng the year's j operations, the secretary said there [would be a small surplus at the bank.