NEWS OF THE DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 230, 28 September 1936, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A Fair Hearing,. Speaking at Te Papapa oil Saturday night, Mr. A. G. Osborne, the Labour candidate for Manukau, appealed to all to give his opponent, All 4 . F. W. Doidge, that same fair qnd impartial hearing that they gave their own candidate. He had made this request from every platform, and supporters should refrain from showing any hostility which would injure the platform of the Government and himself. Sensational Cricket "Opening." An alarming experience befell a young woman spectator at a cricket match played at Redwood Park, Swanson, yesterday. She was seated in a motor car watching the preliminary knock-up of the players when the ball, soaring through the air from a big hit to leg, crashed through the glass windscreen in front of her face. She had a miraculous escape from injury, fragments of glass being scattered all round her and one piece actually lodging in her hair. "Ancl they told me cricket was a dull game," was her comment,, after the alarm had subsided. Will Ris& Again. "The National party got a jolly good hiding at the last elections, but it will rise and fight again," said Colonel J. Hargest, M.P. for Awarua, on Saturday night at Onehunga, when speaking in support of Mr. F. W. Doidge's candidature for the Manukau scat. "The new National party is going to get a lender of whom you will all be proud. Win or lose, the party is going to fight to the end. It stands for liberty and freedom, and though I don't know who the leader will be I can assure you a good man will be selected." " Progress and Non-Progress." "In mv capacity as Minister of Justice I am afraid that I cannot look back oij 50 years of progress like the Auckland Manufacturers' Association," said the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, in speaking at the golden jubilee dinner on Saturday evening of the association. "The number of inmates in the Auckland prison is 207, and, turning back the. files when I was visiting the institution recently, I found that 50 years ago the number was 228. We have thus not increased in membership like the association." An Outsize in Pipes. Made by a man who is handy with tools and has a keen eye for fitness of form, there is a tobacco pipe in Wellington at the present time that could not be smokqd by any mere man. The pipe is about sft long, and its bowl ani stem are built to proportion, the former being large enough to hold about 51b of tobacco. Looked at from the outside, the bowl of the pipe appears to have been shafted from a single piece of wood like any ordinary tobacco pipe, but actually it was built of small/staves like a barrel, and these were shaped and polished after being fastened together. The although it has the appearance of a conventional pipe mouthpiece, was also made from wood, carefully shaped and enamelled black. Engineers' Needs. "No matter how broad the knowledge and experience of the individual engineer or group of engineers, they could have done little in preventing the recent depression," said Mr. J. R. Templin, in an address to the members of th» Engineering Society at Canterbury College. The depression had made those responsible for engineering education throughout the world take stock of the position, and it could be said that leading authorities recognised that students Should be thoroughly grounded in fundamentals and that education should be a broadening process, on which should be built the foundation of the student's life work. Health, ability to profit by mistakes and success alike, and the type of married life were important qualifications for success. Conditions for Native Plants. In his opening address at the fifth Cheeseman Memorial Spring Show of native flowers on Saturday, Mr. E. Phillips Turner urged that those 'who wished to cultivate native plants' should endeavour to grow them in the most natural conditions possible. With that end in view natural conditions should be studied and remembered, and in his own opinion the indigenous varieties should not be mixed with foreign orders. In some places native plants had been with foreign trees and shrubs, an act which the speaker considered was a species of vandalism and contrary to the intention of reservation. Plant lovers should do all in their power to prevent interference with indigenous plant associations. As an example Mr. Turner pointed to Rangitoto, the primitive beauty and interest of which, he said, had been diminished by the maltreatment it had received.

Railway Appointments. Mr. N. L. S. McPherson has been appointed stationmaster at Tuakau in the place of Mr. S. Jones, who has been promoted to chief parcels clerk at Auckland. Mr. McPherson comes from the head office of the department. A former stationmaster of Henderson, Mr." J. Bennett, hat oeen transferred from Taumarunui to senior clerk at Otahuliu. Circumstances Alter Cases. An anomp 1 — m regard to automatic vending machines, was mentioned by Mr. A. J. Mazengarb, of Wellington, in an address to the Manawatu branch of the Economic Society. TTp p<i ; 'l t.hpt one such machine fixed to a telephone pole did not constitute a shop, but If a tobacconist had one outside his premises he could be prosecuted and convicted for "selling after hours." Work for Manufacturing. Mr. J. A. C. Allum, retiring president, and Mr. J. Findlay, retiring secretary, were elected life members of the Auckland Manufacturers' Association on Saturday evening. There are now four life members. Tribute to the services of Mr. Findlay was paid by Mr. Allum, who, on behalf of the association, presented him with a cheque. In proposing the election of Mr. Allum, Mr. F. N. Ambler mentioned that Mr. Allum had been a member for 20 years, for ten of which he was president. "House That 'Jack' Built. An amusing incident in the House of Representatives was recalled by Mr. J. A. Lee, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Finance, in replying to a toast at the Auckland Manufacturers' Association's golden jubilee dinner. Mr. Lee said during discussion in the House of the Government s proposals to spend £3,500,000 on building an interjector referred to the "house that Jack built." The speaker said he immediately replied: "I thank God my name is not Jerry." Jumble of Incidents. A fire in a dust van, the actions of a nervous liorse, a collision between the dray and a brand-new motor car, a narrowlyaverted collision between a pedestrian and another car, near disaster to two policemen and a prisoner, and finally the extinguishing of the fire, all within the space of two minutes, formed a bustle in Dalton Street, Napier, whicfy caused great excitement among spectators. The driver, looking behind him at the smoke, narrowly missed a collision with the police car, then backed into a lorry, causing little damage, and finally managed to extinguish the fire. In the meanwhile, however, a young woman, her eyes firmly fixed upon the smouldering dray, stepped directly in the path of an approaching car, and the squeal of brakes testified to another narrow escape.

National Character. Denmark's strength as a competitor with New Zealand in the butter market was attributed by the Rev. W. J. Pellow, in a Dominion Day service at the Scott Presbyterian Hall, One Tree Hill, yesterday morning, partly to the Danish force of character, the outcome of generations of national and individual rectitude. Although New Zealanders should be proud of what their country had accomplished in the 20 years that it had been a Dominion, there were indications, as instanced in the amount spent 011 unworthy pleasures, that the spirit of the pioneers was fading. A people could not be legislated into greatness and righteousness, as the repeal of the prohibition legislation in the United States of America, after ten years' trial, had shown. There the idealism of the people had brought about the supposed reform, but their character Jiad not kept pace with their ideals. Request from Germany. An enthusiastic German stamp collector, Dr. Ing Roland Eisenlohr, of Frankfurt, has addressed a request to the Napier Aero Club to forward to him any air mail stamps procurable in New Zealand. In his letter, Dr. Eisenlohr points out that he is an old aviation hand, "and, being an enthusiastic stamp collector, I should like you to send me the various air mail stamps of your country 011 letters addressed to me by air mail. Moreover, please send me an envelope which has been mailed from one place to another in New Zealand." Dr. Eisenlohr concludes by saying that he be glad to do in return the same for any member of the club who was willing to enter into such a service. The envelope containing the letter is marked, "Mit Luftpost, Par Avion, via Indien and Australien." One of Germany's latest issues, the Olympic Games stamp, is a central feature on the envelope.