NEWS OF THE DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 207, 2 September 1936, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cheques for Teachers. When they return from their term holidays, school teachers will find cheques waiting for them—sums of money representing the retrospective pay duo them from July 1, consequent on the return of the 1931 rates of pay. The adjustment could not be made before the school holidays started, the teachers being paid at the lower rate before thev went on vacation. Cheques have already been signed for the retrospective pay. Ellerslie 'Rates. Remarking that the position was very satisfactory, and there were signs that an improvement was being felt among the ratepayers. Mr. H. .T. White, chairman of the Elierslie Town Board, at last night's meeting showed that tip to August 31 the current rates collected amounted to £4111, or 58 per cent of the total struck. On the corresponding date last year 52 per cent had been collected. Arrears of rates totalling £11SG had also been paid. Race Day Parking. Prior to the next race meeting at Ellerslie the Ellerslie Town Board will go into the question of parking on race days. At the board" meeting last night Mr. J. Gavin said there had been excessive parking in Walpole Street, and if this was to be allowed the board should appoint its own attendants to supervise the parking, instead of permitting a self-appointed attendant to do the work. The by-laws, it was pointed out, provided that no vehicle could remain in any street unattended for longer than one hour. In Pafimure Eoad the period was restricted to 15 minutes. In the Big Dominion. Foodstuff prices in eastern Canada are apparently not much different from current New Zealand prices. Advertisements of "food stores" in a recent number of the Montreal "Daily Star" provide an interesting list of food prices, which have been converted into New Zealand money at the current rate of exchange. Bread was 5d for a 1 Alb loaf, and butter 1/3 per lb. Beef roasts were fid per lb, rolled veal roasts 9d per 11), and spring lamb (leg cuts) 1/5J per lb. Bananas were 10 a shiFling, and Californian oranges nine a shilling. Tinned Australian peaches were 0d for a 20oz tin, and fresh-caught salmon (by the piece) was 1/3 per lb. Earlier Starting of Bowling. Taking advantage of the closing of shops in Morrinsville at 12 noon in future instead of at 1 p.m., as in the past, the Morrinsville Bowling Club decided at its annual meeting on Monday to make the draw for Saturday afternoon club games at 1.30 p.m., as compared with 2.15 p.m. last season. There was some difference of opinion as to how early play should start, some town members urging that a start be made at 1.15, and others holding out for 1.45 and 2 p.m. A farmer member considered that 1.15 was too early for farmers who had to come many miles to the green, and he moved that the club strike the happy medium by starting at 1.30. So Morrinsville bowlers will gain an extra 45 minutes of play as a result of the 44-hour' week for shops. 62-Year-Old Hiker. Mr. Edgar S. Day, a G2-year-old New Zealander, who is spending a two months' hiking holiday in Britain, called in to see me at the week-end, writes a columnist in a Glasgow daily of July 25. He had just walked overnight into Glasgow—sl miles at a stretch. But there were no sigijs of weariness on his healthily bronzed face. Mr. Day used to be in tlie hardware trade at Auckland, and on retiring he decided to take his first holiday abroad and see Britain on £20. He set foot on English soil at Margate, and walked to Land's End. Now he is bound for Inverness and John o' Groats. As a rule, ho walks about 25 miles a day. If a motor driver offers him a lift Mr. Day accents it, 'but lie never asks for one. His staple food is milk and biscuits. He has vowed not to touch beer. Livelihood Threatened. A resolution urging the Government to take steps to protect the Auckland small fresh milk producers and vendors from having their licenses cancelled or limited in any way was moved by Mr. R. Mills and carried at last night's meeting of the Mount Eden Borough Council. This was decided after some discussion following the receipt of a letter from the. Auckland Fresh Milk Producers and Vendors' Association, also one from the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council dealing with proposed amendments to the Auckland Milk Act. Mr. Mills said that if the amendment 'bill was passed it would mean practically financial ruin to 200 small farmers, who had been, and still were, supnlying their customers with a high standard of milk, and giving a satisfactory service. Ho considered it would be an injustice to those farmers who had put in years of hard work if their work was to go for nothing. Swedish Trade. The Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Sydney lias just issued the twenty-fifth anni--1 versary number of the Swedish-Australian and Swedish-New Zealand Trade Journal, in which is related the report of the chamber's anniversary dinner. The president, Captain A. E. Lundgren, C.8.E., when making a speech, related that the birth of the chamber took place on a ship in Sydney Harbour. When he was then first officer, the Consul, Mr. S. T. von Goes, came on board, and after dinner, with Mr. von Goes as chairman, a few Swedish gentlemen formed the chamber. The journal gives in most complete detail the increasing figures of trade between Sweden and Australia and Sweden and New Zealand, and it traces the recovery of Sweden, Australia and New Zealand from the depression to the prosperity that exists in trade to-day. Sweden, has about 57,257,070 acres of forests, and it 'is from these vast forests that she is able to maintain her supremacy in pulped materials .and allied products. - ' Modern methods of _ forestry now prevail in Sweden, in which they remove the thicker and better-grown trees and let the undeveloped brushwood forest stand. From a gathering of four or five, the chamber has become a large ancl representative body with representatives all over Australia and New Zealand. Racehorse Recoveries. The paragraph recently published in the racing news in the "Star" that the horse King Brierly had sufficiently recovered from a broken bone in the leg to be used as a hack was of particular interest to horse lovers, writes a correspondent. It was only a bone in the fetlock joint, but the injury was a serious one, and King Brierly's recovery was remarkable, for similar instances in this or any other country are extremely rare. Thirty years ago a horse named Welbeck ran third in a hurdle race at Riccarton, having broken one of the smaller bones in the leg. In such cases it is customary for a horse to be shot, but Welbeck was wanted for .stud purposes,, and so he was spared, to come successfully through a long' and tedious period of convalescence. There was also the case of tlie trotter Black Child, which broke down badly, but eventually recovered. Possibly the most notable instance on record in England was that of an aged hurdle racer named Submit, which was condemned to be shot after a breakdown, but came into the hands of a wellknown veterinary surgeon, Mr. Livock, who got him sound enough to win the Cesarewitcli, one of the principal handicaps at Newmarket. The case of Sunstar, which won the Derby literally on three legs, is also remembered, but Sunstar did no more racing after his remarkable feat.