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Southland Times, Issue 18852, 18 June 1920, Page 4

Continued complaints are being made regarding the depredations of the rook in the Hawke’s Bay district (says the Herald).

For the first time in the history of Knox Church, Masterton, women have been elected to the Board of Managers (says the Wairarapa Times).

Shovels for employees of local bodies (states the Wanganui Herald) are an expensive item at present, the Castlecliff Town Board having to pay 13/4 each for them.

“In Eketahuna punctuality is regarded as a waste of time,” was an epigrammatic remark passed at a ratepayer’ meeting held recently in Eketahuna.

“The duty of a teacher is to educate the young people, but if his salary is so small he cannot afford to educate his own children,” was a remark by a school teacher at the deputation to Mr Veitch recently.

The householders in Arthur’s Point and Cardrona school districts failed to elect committees on the statutory date, and the .■southland Education Board notifies that meetings of householders in these districts will be held on Monday, June 21.

The shortage of labour in the Hokitika .(district (stales the Guardian I is delaying road works generally. Tradesmen for bridge work arc muon in demand and various jobs are held up for the want of the necessary expert labour.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Patriotic Association it was stated that the balance in hand at the end of the financial year was £239,412, The funds of the Association, had been reduced by £71,684 during the year, says a Press Association telegram.

“In all primary schools now, with but few exceptions, agriculture is a recognised subject, and dairy produce is fast growing in popularity,’ stated a report which was submitted to the Taranaki Education Board recently by one of the agricultural instructors.

A horse attached to a gig, driven by two women, took fright in Rosemont road, Wuihi, last Friday (says the local correspondent of the New Zealand Herald), and cashed through a shop window. The horse was much cut about and the women sustained minor injuries from the falling glass.

That a dockers’ strike in Norway should put an Oamaru firm out of business seems a little far-fetched (says the Oamaru MaiD, but it is the case with Mr E. Lane, whose factory will have been idle foi three months before he can obtain supplies of the codiiver oil used in the manufacture of his emulsion.

The “banning” of telegrams relating to belting is proving an absolute farce (says the sporting writer of the Taranaki News), and as an example it may be stated that the writer saw a complete list of dividends paid at the Dunedin meeting at 7 o'clock on the evening of the races. So much for rules and regulations.

“It was stated recently that if the price of miik remains as at present, the supply will fail off,” said Miss Blackmore at Christchurch meeting of women in the Chamber of Commerce. "My opinion is that it the price of milk is increased any further the demand will fall off. I have noticed that the family milk supply is always the first thing to suffer when economy is practised.”

The programme arranged for the Southland Ladies’ Hockey Association benefit at the Albion 'theatre this evening is more

than usually attractive, and together with the object tor which it is being held, should ensure a large audience and a substantial increase to the Association’s funds. The music id itcra« include a cornet duet by the Will ß brothers and songs by Miss Betleridge and Mr S. Richards. An old actor, who has seldom been heaid by local audiences since his retirement from the ;tagc. has also been induced to make a re-appearance anil the evening’s entertainment should be particularly enjoyable.

The Gatlins district, according to the secretary of the Sawmill Workers’ Union, Mr T. O'Byrnc, is at present experiencing a hitherto unequalled boom in the sawmilimg industry. About a dozen mills are working at full pressure, and others are in course of erection. At present, he slates, an undertaking of com iderablc magnitude is being carried out. umli r the supervision of Mr Colin Campbell. This is the shifting of a mill and all lire plant, including three engines. from the Tautuku Valley to another hush area six miles away. A steep hill 600 nr 7i)o feet high has to be crossed, and the wooden line on which, the plant is being carried has nut 'ocen used for three years, being consequently considerably rotten in places. However, the transference has so far been carried out with only minor mishaps.

I A New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ As.-o-I ciation lias been formed in Sydney with the object of bringing together old comrades in arms of the N.Z.E.F. resident in New South VVah's, in order to preserve and foster in civilian life the bond of comradeship and brotherhood formed anil cemented on (he various battle fronts. The Association also aims at giving advice to comrades arriving from New Zealand, with the object of placing them in employment should they cesire it, and to relieve, ns far as in their power, any cases of distress that may occur. The president of the Association is Mr T. V. Roberts, late Lieutenant A.M.R., and formerly Auditor-General of Tonga. The chairman of the Association is Mr llaroid Richards (late Captain N.Z.M.T.), and (he hon. secretary is Mr Norman L, Dahl. The patrons are the leading New Zealanders resident in Sydney. The present membership is about 200 ami this number is steadily growing. The Association is lo take its part in the welcome to the Prince of Wales, and proposes to arange a scries of social gatherings, in which New Zealand ladies residing in Sydney are kindly co-operating.

An unfortunate incident, and one which created something in the nature of a sensation, occurred at Opotiki last week, during the Ministerial visit. The incident apparently arose through a misunderstanding with reference to a letter which was handed by a settler to the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, for submission to the Minister of Public. Works. Subsequently the writer, proceeding to the Minister’s table, indignantly upbraided the Hon. Mr Coates for reading and discussing a private communication in a public dining-room. Mr Mac Donald strongly protested against the intrusion upon the district’s visitor, and the angry individual was induced by the proprietress to leave the dining-room. Outside in the hall, however, tile matter was heatedly discussed, the complainant being backed up by several others. A prominent Opotiki resident, who had dined with the Minister, voiced his feelings on the subject, declaring emphatically that he had not heard the letter read out, and that to say that it was, was utter nonsense. He declared that the Minister had been publicly insulted. On the Minister’s appearance from the dining-room he was angrily accosted by the irate settler, but Mr Coates declined to discuss the matter there. He subsequently granted an interview in the commercial room and invited anyone who had heard anything said to come forward. The matter was threshed out, and the Minister was tendered an apology, thus ending an exciting but unfortunate incident.

Not only during tenement cases are the troubles of the houseless ventilated in the Magistrate's Courts. A witness in a maintenance case at Wellington on Monday, stated that she paid 15s per week for a small house, but received that amount back from a married couple, who, with their five young children, lived in two of the rooms.

At the Police Court yesterday morning before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M., Stephen Allen Hagerty and Arthur Redwood Murphy were charged with being idle and disorderly persons without visible means of support. They were further charged with destroying gas meters and petty thefts. Senior-Sergeant Eccles aaked for a remand, stating that further charges were pending. Accused were remanded for eight days.

For some time past the receiving of entries for the payment of Customs duties on overseas parcels has been done at the office, but in future a Customs Officer will be in attendance at the parcels branch of the Post’Office every morning from 11 a.m. to noon to receive entries, check invoices and otherwise deal with parcels. This will bring the port into similar working with other towns.

The Postmaster-General states that the British Government announces that, commencing from June 1, 1920, the postage on letters posted in the United Kingdom, audre&sed to all places abroad included in the Imperial postage system is raised to 2d for the first ounce, and Id for each additional ounce. Postage rates for His Majesty’s snips and troops abroad remain unaltered for the present, but an early increase is in contemplation.

A number of photographs produced during the hearing of a ca.se at the Supreme Court at Auckland last week were the source of caustic remarks by the judge and counsel. The informant had been asked to identify the photographs as having been taken by the accused, whereupon the Hon. J. A. Tole, K.C., who appeared for the Crown, remarked; “No one could swear to these; they are more likely to swear at them.'’ His Honour: They seem to be part of the process of rendering a man invisible. Counsel for accused: One could not expect a good photograph for 2s.

“It’s a shame the way the agents in the Old Country are ‘kidding’ to the emigrants,” said two members of the crew of an oversea vessel in Lyttelton to a Lyttelton Times representative, in the course of conversation. "The emigrants are led to believe that when they reach their destination in New Zealand they will be met at the boat by other agents who will place them in work straight away. On their arrival they find there is no one to meet them and that it is very difficult to secure board and residence; in fact, as most of them are unskilled workers, it appears that they are in for a very rough spin. Those whom we know are desirous of coming out we have advised to remain at home for a while longer, and we have pointed out to them the house problem and other drawbacks that will confront the unskilled, worker.”

The third annual festival of the Wellington Competitions Society will be held in September next. An attractive programme of some 160 classes in vocal and instrumental music, recitations, character recitals, national and fancy dancing has been airanged. The leading features will be a choir contest, the sum of £73 being allocated as prizes in this section and a contest for male choirs with £ls as prizes. The Society are also offering £5 5s for the most suitable design for their programme cover. The judges in the various sections will be Mr Gordon Lavers (Sydney) music; Mr Stanley Warwick (Sydney) elocution; and Mr J. C. Fulton (Wellington), national dancing. The syllabus and book of words are now obtainable from any music warehouse, or will be posted direct on application to the secretary. Arrangements have also been made to enable competitors to travel at holiday excursion rates.

“Owing to the shortage of paper the strictest economy is to be observed in the use of paper in all offices of the Defence Department,” states a General Headquarters instruction. “Written communications are to be avoided unless absolutely necessary, and personal interviews between staff and departmental officers should take the place of written minutes wherever possible. Fullsized memo, forms are not to be used when a hall-sized form would be sufficient. Old Army forms: are to be utilised in offices for many purposes where foolscap has previously been used, and for this purpose the Ordnance Department will issue supplies of obsolete forms to all concerned. Special care must be taken to limit the use of envelopes in despatching memoranda and letters to one address; one envelope is not to be used for each communication, but ns many letters or memoranda as possible should be sent under one cover. Printing will be reduced to a minimum. The supply of the New Zealand Army List is temporarily suspended, and an abridged lisl will be periodically issued in lieu. Copies of orders and circulars which are now circulated in large numbers are to be reduced to a minimum, and the lists showing to whom such copies are issued will be carefully revised with a view to their restriction. Ail demands for Army forms, official paper, and stationery are to he reduced to a minimum by alt concerned.”

in his report on the Otago University School of Mines, Professor James Park, Dean of 1-acuity, makes a reference to resrhirh work done by the staff which is of interest to Southland. “In 1919.’’ he save, ‘(he Chancellor submitted a scheme to the Minister of Mines for the employment of the permanent staff of the School of Mines in research work for the New Zealand Department of Mines during the summer vacation. According to this scheme, each member of the staff was to be cml Eyed in the branch of research cognate to hts own department, without professional fee, provided that the Department paid out-of-pocket expenses and whatever field assistance might he required. The staif ag.ecd to the proposal which was approved by ihe Minister Professor Park made a geological and mineral survey' of the south-west district of Southland, special attention being directed to the extent of the Nightcaps. Wairio, Ohai and Waiitu coal mea.-mres. He ai.-o geologically examined Port Craig, Blue Cliffs, Hauroko, Monowai and Manapouri country' and collected numerous samples of clays suitable for tile and fire-brick manufacture. He discovered an ; bundance of limestone and marl suitable for the making of cement. This last will be of considerable importance in connection with the big hydro-elfctric scheme being initiated in Southland. Reports by Professors Park and Waters are now in preparation.”

“I suppose you will he surprised to learn” (writes Mr Henry Hill from Taupo, in a letter to the Hawke’s Bay Herald) “that. Bake Taupo contains quite a variety of sponges, i have in my spare hours made a hnbby of collecting the animal and vegetable life of the lake and during the past thiee weeks the sponges have been thrown on the north shore of the lake in fair number. Some of them are beautifully fresh, some are greenish and they assume a variety of forms. The fresh-water sponge is known as spongilia and in the autumn it usually begins tu suffer from cold and scarcity of food, and so it dies away and is thrown on the shore of the lake in rough weather. Curiously, my specimens, which are very numerous, were collected on the north shore. The oast side was tried for a couple of miles but only four small specimens of the spongilia were found and all of them were of a green colour. A hydrographical survey of Lake Taupo was made by two university students from Home some years ago, and they drew attention to the fact that sponge is found in the lake, but the collection made by me will provide work for a specialist in sponges for some time to come. The absence of univalve shells is a cause for some surprise. Not a single live shell has been found and only four dead ones. The bivalve union is fairly common and curiously it is fairly common along the coast where the sponges were scarce. There are several varieties of small fishes and of course the koura, which formerly supplied the Natives with plenty of food at this time of the year, is now comparatively scarce.”

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M., gave judgment by default for the plaintiffs in the following undefended civil actions:—J. J. Hiskens v. T. W. Buxton, claim £2 13 fid, costs 11; Matheson Ltd. v. R. Spiers, claim £3 8s Id, costs ss; Robert Henderson v. Albert Brown, claim £2 8s 3d, costs 11s; Margaret Henderson v. George Lowe, claim £3 ss, costs 10s; Robert Henderson v. William Davis, claim £3 4s 9d, costs £l.

The president of the Southland War Funds Association (Mr H. W. Royds) stated yesterday that that body was being 1 availed of by the Government, it was pleas- ! ing to note, in the distribution of gratuities to some dependents who, in the opinion of the Department, were not fitted to expend the moneys judiciously. Consideraable sums were being administered by the j Association’s secretary in this connection I so that the dependents had the full benefit j of them.

Speaking to a reporter, Councillor A. H. Mackrell said that a number of people seemed to be under the impression that he was the corporation officer referred to in the report of the last Borough Council meeting as having had part of his expenses incurred in a visit to Australia paid by the Council. Such an inference is unjustified as Councillor Mackrell, in his honorary capacity as councillor cannot very well be referred to as a corporation officer. The gentleman whose case was spoken of is a paid corporation official.

A new seaside township is about to be formed at Awarua Bay. Not many Invercargill people realise that this favoured spot is only twelve miles from the Post Office. There is a perfect motor road from Woodend to the beach. In fact very few people know that Awarua Bay at the top of Bluff Harbour is so close, but of recent years more and more people have discovered its beauties and accessibility. Messrs Traill and Co., Ltd., have in hand the disposal of forty sections fronting the beach at from £lO to £ls each, so that many will doubtless avail themselves of the opportunity for acquiring seaside property at such a trifling cost.

When Mr R. D. Martin asked the Arbitration Court, in Christchurch, to give a bonua of 3s to girls employed as chemists’ assistants, His Honour Mr Justice Stringer, in reply to a remark by Mr Martin as to the lower bonus to girls, said; “I’m not quite sure that they should get the same rate aa men. They are not under the same obligations. This is not a question of salary, but a bonus to meet the increased cost of living in the case of hypothetical married man with two children. Female employees don’t come within the category.” Mr F. R. Cooke, who championed the tailoresses in the Court, said that many of them helped to keep their parents and had to keep up establishments.

When paying a long price, see that you get value for it. You will get the best of value and satisfaction in a line of pure Indigo Serge at THOMSON & BEATTIE’S. This line is guaranteed for wear and fastness of colour. 56 inches wide at 37/6 per yard. Your inspection is invited for this and all other lines at “THE EXHIBITION.” (Advt.)

Cheaper Living.—Stop paying for booking, clerical expenses, lodgers, and bad debts, but save your money by buying your Groceries for ready cash from BAXTER’S. (Advt.)

Judging by the way in which the goods were selected from the Bargain Tables at PRICE & BULLEID’S, Ltd., yesterday, the public are evidently appreciating to the full the values offering. Each section has contributed a very line assortment of bargain lots for quick disposal. Prices are certainly such that it is a paying proposition of no mean order to patronise the “Colossal” of Winter PJ2O at PRICE & BULLEIU’ic, Ltd. (Advt.)

One of the most pleasurable occupations for children on indoor days is that of crayon drawing or water colour painting, llarrap's (of Loudon) have issued a delightful set of outline books for colouring, Robinson Crusoe, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and Hiawatha. In addition to the pictures there is descriptive reading and a page of suggestions for colouring. Hyndxnan’s, Dee street, sell them at 1/- each, or 3/6 set of 4; posted, 3/9.

Exceptional bargains in Men’s and Boys’ j Clothing, Shirts, and Underwear. Our big | Reliability Sale opens to-day. Piles of barI gains in all departments. .Here are a few iof our many specials. Men's Overcoats in | tweed, hydrotite, waterproof, etc., Sale : price 75/- to 115/-. Men’s Ready-to-wear j Suits, Sale price 110/- to 100/-. Suits to I Measure, Sale price 115/- to 200/-. A real j bargain in Men’s Hats in fur, felt, and j velour in plain and welted edges, Sale price ! 14/0 to 27/6. Over 100 dozen Shirts in I our famous make, Sale price 7/6 to 22/0. | Boys’ Shirts, Sale price 3/6 to 9/6. Big ( value in Wool Pants and Singlets, Socks, Scarves, Gloves, Ties, Handkerchiefs, etc., and all our boys’ wearing apparel at quick Sale prices. Inspection invited at H. <fc .1. SMITH, Ltd., Progressive Stores, Invercargill, and Gore.— (Advt.; “Ladies who want to preserve their stylish figure” must abandon the toil of rubbing the weekly' washing and instead, let "NO RUBBING LAUNDRY HELP” do th« bard work. — (Advt.) “What muddle superfluous preparation makes. ” —Stanus. Certainly' be prepared, for wise preparation means also the battio half won; but superfluous preparation i* ill-advised. Always be prepared during winter time, which to the unprepared u chronic cough and cold time. Baxter’* Lung Preserver is ample preparation, for this sterling remedy is a sure, safe, and prompt remedy. It nips the trouble in the bud and fortifies against the return visit. The home that knows “Baxter’s” i* cough and cold proof. Get large bottle of this 54-year old specific to-day. 2/6 *6 chemist and store.- —(Advt.; RAPID FIRST AID. By promptly rubbing Q-'iUL into a cut, burn or bruise, ail dangers of inflammation or festering wounds are avoided. — (Advt.; HATS lor men, youths, and boys—a fine shewing of all the popular styles and value prices. UNDRILL’S, opp. P.O, — (Advt.i Get rid of that stubborn cold. Take “NAZOL,” the penetrating, prompt and pure remedy. 1/6 buys 60 doses.— (Advu), MAs'lEEri, LTD., were the originators o| me j.O per cent, discount to returned solcuers. Other storekeepers have copied u* and we now go one better. We now invite all discharged soldiers and those wasting discharge to have their military hats reblocked, free of all cost, by the only hsttec m Southland. We still give a 1U per cent, reduction to all returned soldiers,—* MASTERS. LTD.. Deo street.— (Advt,) A Special Display of Exclusive Evening Frocks, Silk Dress Skirts and Blouses, now being made at THE “ECONUIidiC," Ladie*' Outfitters. Prices exceedingly reasonable, i Acvt.l Be emphatic. Insist on genumo •‘NAZOL.” Nothing like it for preventing or relieving coughs ana colds. No cold i* Nazci-proot. 60 doses 1/6. (Advt.)