NEWS OF THE DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1932, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY.

"Speed On, Big Eoy." An Auckland motorist has hit on an original way of informing the drivers of cars who pass him on the road that he has no intention of matching the speed of his car against that of theirs. His opinion of excessive speed is clearly expressed in the lettering on a triangular metal sheet that lie has attached to his number plate. '"Speed on, big boy," the message reads, and it concludes with the following cryptic sentence: "Hell's no half full yet!" Glacier Gold. Eirst-class samples of gold have been found bi the last few weeks near the foot of the Wataroa Glacier, where 25 prospectors, including half a dozen Christcliurch men, arc located. Their camps are situated from eight to twenty-five miles up the Wataroa Gorge, the farthest inland being almost at the edge of the glacier. Much of this country has never been previously explored, and the prospectors have to traverse rugged and precipitous hillsides and river bed 'in order to | get likely gold-bearing places. Country Advertising. An agent of the A.A.A. declared, in a letter received at last night's meeting, that he removed advertising signs from trees with a tyre le\cr. He wrote to the association deploring the practice of fixing metal advertising signs to trees along the roadside, and of pamphlets to country bridges. The association decided to write to all county councils in the Auckland Province asking them to prohibit the erection of signs on countiy roads and bridges, and to take action against offenders. Taihape's Claim to Fame. Speaking at the public farewell held in the Taihapc Town Hall on Tuesday in honour of the Olympic Gaines representative, C. V. ("Don") Evans, Mr. John Quirk averred that the Dominion was well served in sport by the township of Taihapc. It boasted being the home town of E. A. ("Moke") Belliss, ex-captain of All Blacks, 'J l . C. Lowrv, captain of the New Zealand cricket team. .T. P." Mortland, who was considered when the Kirk-Windeyer Cup golf team was being selected, and Cyril ("Don") Evans, the half-mile record-breaker. The Taihape Gun Club holds the C.A.C. Cup, the virtual championship of New Zealand shooting clubs. Like a Concertina. When the extent to which a concession to a bus company might prejudice a service run by launch was being investigated yesterday by the licensing authority, a naive reply was made to counsel for one of "the parties. Counsel had shown that the proposed twice-weekly road service with a seven-seater ear at 1/ a passenger would only earn a maximum of 28/ weekly. "Do you seriously suggest that that would affect your service to such an extent that you would be unable to carry on?" he asked the launch owner. The latter hesitated and then retorted: "A motor car is like a concertina; it is never full. I have driven one myself." Learning and Beauty.

"Some people have foolishly assumed that these English schools do not lay great emphasis on knowledge and hard intellectual work. Nothing can be further from the truth," said the Rev. H. K. Archdall, in his lecture on Tuesday on English education. .Mr. Archdall emphasised the high standard of scholarship reached in the great public schools, and the secondary schools, and said that the authorities believed not in "soft pedagogy,", but in hard work. At the same time the pursuit of wide culture was encouraged. The schools had shed their Puritanism, and keen interest was taken in music, drama and art. What was being done in aesthetics, indeed, had astounded him on his recent visit. At Oundle he heard a performance of Bach's "Ma6s in B Minor," a diflicult work. Unusual Motoring Mishap. A motoring mishap due to an unusual cause occurred on the Tirau-Rotorua Road 011 Saturday night. Messrs. G. A. Williamson, G. Ormrod and J. Lyons were motoring from Auckland to Rotorua, and they occupied the front scat of the car. Just after crossing the bridge over the Wainiakariri River, not far from Tapapa, the ear strnrek an obstacle, causing the door oil the drivers side to fly open. The driver, Mr. Williamson, was dislodged from his seat, and, though he hung to the wheel, he could not prevent the car from striking the bank and overturning. Some workmen camped nearby went to the assistance of Messrs. Lyons and Ormrod, who were pinned beneath the ear. Mr. Ormrod was taken to Rotortia, where it was found he had a broken jaw. He is progressing favourably. The other two men escaped without injury.

"Take the First Job." Boys leaving school are advised by the Hon. R. Masters, Minister of Education, to take the first job that comes their way. Speaking at the opening of the Otahuhu Junior High School yesterday afternoon, Mr. Masters said that the present .was not the time for boys to set their hearts on a particular occupation. His advice to them was to take the first job that offered and to look for others afterwards. Opportunity, he assured them, would come in time. There had never been a time when the necessity for a good education was greater than at the present. He had realised the seriousness of boys being allowed to wander the streets out of work, and because of that danger arrangements had been made for them to remain a year longer at school. He was convinced that a boy was better at school than out of work. Large Iceberg Seen. Seen on a moonlight night, a large iceberg that was sighted in the Southern Indian Ocean by the motor ship Karamea had a beautiful silver appearance. Officers on the Karamea, which arrived at Auckland from Liverpool, via Capetown, last evening, estimated the berg to be 500 ft long and 100 ft high. It was seen early in the morning of May 23, when the motor ship was in latitude 44 degrees 52 minutes south, and longitude 53 degrees 25 minutes east. The Karamea passed the berg at a distance of about one mile. Although the iceberg was plainly visible in the moonlight, it would have been a menace to navigation on a dark night or in thick weather, and the master of the Karamea thought it best to broadcast information concerning the position of the berg, its estimated drift, and the weather conditions. Dramatic Rural Vendetta. The following story of an event that is said to have occurred at Cowslip Valley, near lienwick (Marlborough) List week is related by the "Marlborough Express." On Mr. Newman's property a sheep dog and a common hawk had for some days been conducting kind of guerilla warfare, and hostile demonstrations occurred every time each espied the other. Recently the bad feeling between beast and bird came to a head, the hawk, after being chased about a paddock and prevented from settling, descended upon its tormentor, viciously attacking it with its pinions. The dog was ignominiously bowled over by a scries of blows from the bird's powerful wings, and a rough and tumble ensued on the ground. When the contestants broke apart, the hawk flew off, and neither appeared to have suffered much injury. Now comes the extraordinary part of the tale. Observers saw the hawk return from a nearby hillside carrying some object, which it dropped beside the dog, which had pursued the circling bird. When the hawk flew back to its hillside perch, the dog began to eat the object it had dropped. Shortly after the animal was noticed to be acting strangely, and within a few minutes it had died. Upon examination it was found that the hawk's "present" to the dog was the remains of a poisoned rabbit, which, was still i charged with strychnine.