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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19472, 6 May 1925, Page 6

Mr H. L. Tapley, Mayor of the City, has received numerous requests that he should offer himself as a candidate for Dunedin North at the general election this year, and he has now decided to comply with these requests. Ho will stand as an Independent Reform candidate, his view being that there should bo a consolidation of the moderate political elements in the country in opposition to the extreme Labour Party. We have received from Messrs Fletcher and Love, the Exhibition contractors, a bound collection of photographs giving an excellent idea of the progress of the building operations at Logan Park. The collection will form a valuable historical record. It has been decided to hold an Industries Week in Dunedin from June 3 to June 10—Winter Show Week. The movement will give traders an opportunity to advertise their goods and, demonstrate to the public the advisability of purchasing locally-made articles. The support of every retailer is necessary in drder to make the project a success. Many traders have agreed to make window and interior displays, and with the object of furthering the scheme, a special meeting of local manufacturers will be held this evening in Mr W. E. C. Reid’s office. The Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association has also taken up the matter, and each manufacturer participating will be allotted a window for the display of goods. The City Fire Brigade received a call at 9.45 a.m. yesterday to the new automatic telephone exchange in Dowling street. It was found that an outbreak of fire had been caused by a Primus lamp which a workman was using on the cables in a pit underneath the two-storied concrete building. The flames were quickly suppressed with an ordinary hand extinguisher. The damage was very slight. The heavy rain on Monday night caused a slight depression in the main line about 100 yards north of the Dunedin Railway Station. In consequence, it was found necessary to bring the express from Invercargill to a stop -at the south end of the platform. AH north-bound trains started from this platform, so that they could bo switched on to the loop line in order to clear the portion of the main line under repair. In the Supreme Court yesterday five of the common jurors who had been called on for service applied to his Honor Mr Justice Sim for exemption. A man who was hard of hearing, the owner of a bakery business, and a law clerk were excused from service, while two others—a traveller for a wholesale drapery firm and a man in charge of a grocery store—were informed that they would be excused after serving for the day. One of the most important aspects of the forthcoming Exhibition is the housing of • the visitors, and with a view to coping with this problem the Exhibition authorities have established a Housing Committee which is making arrangements for accommodation during the Exhibition period. At a recent meeting of the committee it was reported that accommodation for 812 people was already on the cards. The women’s section also has sot up a committee of eight to assist tho mam committee, and to promote tho proper housing of women, girls, and children visitors. At a meeting of the Christchurch Executive of tho Returned Soldiers’ Association (says a Press Association message) a letter was read from the general secretary of the association advising that headquarters had decided to request Sir Andrew Russell, who is at present in London, to represent the Now Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association at the British Empire Service League Conference, to be hold in Ottawa, Canada, on July 2a After some discussion it was resolved that headquarters bo asked to send two representatives from New Zealand, as at all previous conferences this dominion had had two representatives. It was also decided to urge that Mr M. VP Cummin-, of Christchurch, be tho second representative. A Wellington message says that Cabinet has approved tho nomirihiion of Sir Andrew Russell as dominion delegate to the Conference of the British Empire Service League. Sir Andrew Russell is at present in England, and will accept nomination. Tho health authorities report that no further cases of infantile paralysis haver been notified in the Otago health district since Thursday last. The continued improvement in the position indicates that the epidemic has at last run its course. A Press Association message from Wellington states that for the past 48 hours only two notifications have been received —one from Christrchurch and one from Southbridge. A message from Christchurch states that a girl, 18 years of ago, whoso case was originally diagnosed as influenza, died after admission to tho hospital. It was discovered that her case was one of infantile paralysis. A Press Association telegram from Thames states that the local fishermen have entered upon what is practically a strike. They refuse to go fishing for the three companies operating at Thames, to which they are bound in a co-operative scheme. They demand 5d per lb for flounders and 2d per lb for schnapper. Tho companies will only offer 4jd and respectively. A conference hold on Monday proved abortive. In the meantime the men are not fishing. They allege that fish is scarce, and they are not able to earn a living. The companies dispute this, pointing out that last week two men obtained £7O worth in a week. The secretary of the Fishermen’s Union thinks that an understanding will be arrived at.

The Exhibition directors have approved of a suggestion submitted by the Horticultural Committee that a special treeplanting day should be held, and it has now been decided that the ceremony should take place on Saturday, May 16, on Logan Park, and that the directors and their wives, the members of the Works and Horticultural Committees and their wives and the chairmen of all the other committees and their wives bo present. When the Grand Jury was being empanelled in the Supreme Court yesterday morning, Francis Henry Lampen failed to answer when his name was called. He put in an appearance about a quarter of an hour later, and explained to Mr Justice Sim that he had been exceptionally busy during the morning and that his’engagement at the court had completely slipped his memory. His Honor accepted the explanation, and discharged the juror from further attendance. In the course of his address to the Bruce County Council yesterday in connection with the Otago court at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Mr W. B. Steel (provincial organiser) said that the Ashburton County had contributed £6OO, and the South Canterbury (including Timaru) £2200 towards the c£T’ of the Canterbury court. This showed that the other provinces intended to make the most of their courts, and it behoved the various local bodies in Otago to see that this province was worthily represented. The Senate of the University of New Zealand will meet in Christchurch on May IS. At a meeting of the Executive Committee qf the New Zealand Boy Scouts’ Association in Christchurch, the Chief Commissioner reported thdft he had received requests from the T/unodin Exhibition Jamboree Committee for recommendations for the appointment of a camp chief and a quartermaster, and he had recommended Commissioner J. D. Campbell, of Karotonga, and Mr J. Slipper, of Palmerston North, for these appointments. Communications had been received from Australia, malting inquiries regarding the visit of an Australian Scout troop to New Zealand next summer. As a result of negotiations by dominion headquarters toe Minister of Internal Affairs had written stating that Cabinet was prepared to grant free railway passes to 40 Australian Boy Scouts visiting the jamboree during the Dunedin Exhibition, and a 50 per cent, reduction in fares to over that number under the age of 16 years.' “This is an unfortunate case in which the defendant has been forced to steal by straitened circumstances,” said Chief-detec-tive Kemp, when a young married woman whose name was suppressed, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon at the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington on Monday by Mr C. R. OrrWalker, S.M. The chief-detective, in outlining the charge to . which the defendant pleaded guilty, said that she had frequently visited a friend’s house and the latter had told her that if she were not in at any tim6 she was to make a cup of tea for herself. The accused was shown where the key was kept. She had visited the friend’s house and had stolen the money which had been recovered. At first she stated that she had seen a man lurking about the premises when she visited there, but afterwards had made a clean breast of the matter. At last night’s meeting of the West Harbour Borough Council, Cr Fraser said he thought it was time that they had the 10.15 p.m. train on Wednesday reinstated and also that a train was put on at 11.15 every night. During the war the 11.15 train had been taken off, and, although a promise , had been made that the train would be reinstated, that had never been done. He moved that the Railway Committee of the Otago Expansion League and the Railway Department be written to asking for the improvements he had mentioned. Cr Harridge said the present service was disgraceful, and should bo brought more up to date. The Mayor (Mr H. E. Moller) pointed out that the Expansion League was contemplating suggesting certain alterations in the service. Cr Fraser’s motion was carried. The Buick Standard Six oar, which is at present engaged in a round-the-world-tour, arrived back in Dunedin last evening from Invercargill. This morning Messrs Cooke, Howlison, and Co. will again assume control, and will conduct the journey to Oamaru, where the Christchurch agent: will take the car over and drive it on to Lyttelton. Then the car will be placed on board a steamer at Auckland for Honolulu, and after traversing the Hawaiian .Island it will go on to San Francisco, where the long trek across the United States to New York will commence, and so complete the encircling of the globe. A remarkable instance of out-of-season fruit came under notice yesterday, when Mr L. Kerr, of Waikouaiti, sent 1 6 this office a box of strawberries, from some of which he has growing despite the lateness of the season. The berries were well grown and had a good flavour. The spot from which they were taken was quite exposed, and Mr Kerr says that • the fruit is doing better now than the main crop did some months ago. The United Starr-Bowkett • Society will dispose of £SOO in the No. 9 group to-mor-row night. We have received the sum of 5s from ‘‘J. ll.’’ for Pearson’s Fresh Air Fund. A nice quality Diamond is always admired Williamsons (next to the Bristol) sell only the good kind. —Advt. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs and Colds, never fails.—Advt. A. E. J. Blakeley, dentist. Bank of Au>« train aia, corner of Bond and Rattray streets (next Telegraph Office). Telephone 1853. Advt. Save Your Eyes-—Consult Peter G. Dick, D.8.0.A., F. 1.0., London, consulting and oculists’ optician.—“ Peter Dick,” jewellers and opticians, Moray place, Dunedin.— Advt.