NEWS OF THE DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 52, 2 March 1929, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Kiwi Taken Prisoner. While travelling from Patea to Wanganui recently, two coin frier ci a 1 travellers had the unusual experience of seeihg a kiwi oh the road. A hurried application of brakes brought the car to a stop, afld immediate chase was given, resulting in the capture Of the bird, which was brought ihtb wanganili. ft is Surmised that the kiwi was driven from the scrub by fire. Mr. George OrahJrat Mononred. Ih recognition of his long arid valued services to the Auckland Institute and Museum, Mr. George Grahafri has Beefi elected a life meinber. A tribute to hi& services ih the cause was paid at yefctetday'ri meeting of the Museum Council. It was reported that the membership how Stands at 6i3, including 1(® life members, the total having been materially increased during the last few Weeks. Dreams Which Deceife. A Hatiitai lady recently informed a local paper that as £ feiiilt of her experience at the Wellington trots she has abandoned all faith ih the inspiration of dreams. She dreamed of a divorce, and for the first race decided to support tWd horses, Nonsuit and Gang Awa', the names of which appealed to her as the ihost applicable; Keither btit is . dang AWa' ran into fourth place she resolved, for the fifth race, in which both were again starters, to entrust the daughter Of PeterWih with a double >nve«trhent. To her chagrin, Nonsuit WaS the firSt to piss the judge's box. Bays add trolleys. There was agalh demonstrated to-day in a very practical, hut paitifiil inanhef the danger Of small boys ruhnifig their trolleys on the main Streets Without inf Control. TWo small hoys were gliding dowh itfobSon Stfeetj Sliding ih ifid out of the motor tt&ft c* which at nine o'clock is very congested; When suddenly a motor van pulled out from the side. To dodge this the boyS lost control, and ran into a stationary car alongside the pavement, and, having nO Make oii their vehicle, they were pulled Up very forcibly by the contact of one of the boys' noses and the back of the Standing car. Fortunately the apparent exterit of the damage was a ''blood nose/' a good fright ifid a damaged trolley. "ftew Zealand, Australia." "Auckland, New Zealand, Australia," Was the address oh ft letter recefitly receited by the Museum and institute Council. It was, however, a particularly codrteoiiS Communication, coming from the trustees of the Roerich Museum ih New York, and tendering a cordial invitation to members of the Auckland Council to attend the foundation stone laying ceremony this month. They offered fraternal greeting! ih the cadie of art artd culture. It #11 decided to reply thank- 1 ing them fdf their good Wishes and regretting that it would not be possible tof Auckland to be personally represented at the. Ceremony. The Roerich Museum, fiaftted after the contemporary artist, Nicholas Horich, ifl ft 24-stofey building. Architect's den*foftity, Churches of various denominations ih Ifew Zealand have experienced the generosity of a retired architect of Hosiyn, Dunedin, Mt. A. C. Stewart, a Baptist layman, whose hobby Of designing and SUpervillfig neW Work was mentioned at the Methodist Conference yesterday; fft the past Seven years Mr. Stewart has erected ten chtirches, ahd is at jjfesent cOheefned with his eleventh at Wairoa, HaWke's hay. The construction already completed fey Mr. St«WAft Without charge for hie services ihcludeS a iitimber of North Island churches, the list being as follows:—Tahakapa MisSitin Hall ahd cottage, built in lfeSj North Brighton, 1924j Mornington of Ridgeway, Wellington, 1926; Ettrick Methodist Chtireh, 1920, Ohai Methodist Church, i 92? j Linwood Baptist Sunday school building, i92f} Tawanui Presbyterian Church) 1928; Hawera Baptist Church, 1928; Island Bfiy SuddSy school, 1928; Lower ftutt church, 1928-29. Curios for the Museum. Some of the recent gifts to the Auckland War Memorial Museum are of unusual interest, One is a Malayan blowpipe ahd set of darts from Malay, given by Mr, it. Hardcastle, of Rotorua, and another the spear of a striped merlin, cut out of the shoulder of a iliako shark recently Caught by Mr. E. C. Bloriifleld. Mr. R. K. Isaacs has given sectiohs df the fonhifig Island cable, which was cut by the Germans during the war, a ® valuable hei tiki has been presented by Mr. Frailk Moore, an Aucklahder who is now in England, Much interest Was shown at yesterday's meeting in the Set of pigeon Spearheads giveft hy the Messrs. Campbell, of Whatatlltu. They are hefttififtilly carved of bone, and several are delicately ifilaid with pdda Shell, The Maoris uSed to spear the haliVe pigeon as it was roosting, and great skill was shown. Native pigeons are now rigoreusly protected.

A Chftplftin's Yritatt, ''the hospital ward Woines the Church in which sacred truths art learned," says thfc Set. John Haseldefi, Anglican Chaplain at the Auckland Hospital, in & letter ifl the "Church Gaeette." "1 am b«ing constantly impressed with the eviden«j of Christian tMchJfijjj Which can be heard and seen in the hospital. Thfe honorary staff give their skiH, expert knowledge and hard work free of all dh&rge, just iof the good that they can do. The resident doctor# A fid nurses give kind and loving service in ttiost trying circumstances, and iihoW real ability in the Way they do their Work. A highly skilled fcrtgrneer is In charge of the machinery; a kindly Christian iriati is in cliafge of the kitchenj ft body of inert carry the patients about and prevent tlletn getting hurt 011 the war *?. opiating rooms and up and down in lifts; dents And porter 9 help tlie sick in ft kirtdlv 111# liner i cheer the patients and say a Word to brin» therfi neafef t6 Clod. All this' toj/ether With the Church Services and thfc work of the chaplain, is Ifflpfessififf an men, w«men and child; teii In hospital Wardi, the teaming of the Lord J«BUs." Canal td Straights Stf6Am.

| A selieme is tinder consideration by the lafeapuna Borough Cburieil and the oWfierS of properties Abutting Upon the Wairau Stream whereby the Sinuosity 6t the course of the stream, in its middle reached Will be doflg awav j 1 The scheme is Similar to tliat which was adopted to straighten out the cotlfaes of the PiAkd ahd R&iigitaiki Itivers, in the jfauraki Flams. There have been Several meetings between representatives of the eouftcll Ind of the landownefs, Afid negotiations for carrying Out the work are flow well Admitted, It is expected that a report on the subject, by the bofoUgh engineer, will be retdy for presentation at the ftext meeting of the ootmeil. The W6Tk, it is Understood. will cost about £1000, whieh, according to provisions ifl the scheme, Will be shared by the council afid the landowners. The benefits which the landowners will receive from the cut' ting of the canal will lie in their being able to subdivide ifld drain theif fcdidhlgs property, while the ratepayers' advantage will be the simpliflea* tiofi of the scheme for the sanitation of the extensive western area of the bdfotigh. The proposal Which the engineer submitted to the ratepayers was the putting of a straight eanal from the vicinity of Sherriifs Bridge to Alma Road, a length Of a bolt t 80 chains. Along the course of this eatial will run the main sewer for the western area, and Will discharge into the maindme sewer to be eanstrurted fr«MB Milfard Beaai across the Milford section of thi bofoughi