General News

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25022, 2 November 1946, Page 8

General News

Snow at Hororata The weather at Hororata thig week has been most unseasonable, and in addition to rain at intervals nearly every dgiy there has been a thunderstorm and hail. Yesterday, at 122.30 a.m. the ground was covered with snow, but it disappeared in the early afternoon. It is reported that most of the small fruit has been ruined by late frosts throughout the district. U.S. Capital in Australia The increasing tendency of American capital to drift to Australia to participate in Australian industry on a partnership basis was referred to by a prominent Sydney, industrialist, Mr Angus MacDonald, who is travelling in the Monterey to the United States. He said that as a direct outcome of the Pacific war, and in line with the policy to build Australia into a strong and self-supporting industrial nation, every encouragement was being given to foreign capital as well as British. However, strikes in Australia were still a tremendous deterrent to expansion plans.—(P.A.) Y.M.C.A. in England The service given by the Young Men’s Christian Association in England during the war years was praised yesterday in an address by Mr C. Cassels, the New Zealand delegate to a Y.M.C.A. conference in Geneva. “This, service could aptly be described as colossal,” said Mr Cassels. “In 1939 there were in England 12 service Y.M.C.A. centres; in 1945' there were 1300 centres. Two hundred centres provided accommodation for 14,000

men, and in London the association provided 167,000,000 meals for servicemen. The Y.M.C.A. had to raise its own funds, and received no Government support for its war service. It found accommodation for 1,300,000 American personnel monthly, and its trading turnover amounted to £28,000,000. The British Y.M.C.A. today is organising extensive welfare work for the army of occupation in Germany and has a big programme to carry out at home.” Endorsed School Certificates Endorsed school certificates were being issued this year for the first time by the Education Department to pupils who had done an advanced. course for one year after passing the school certificate examination, said the principal of the Christchurch Technical College (Dr. D. E. Hansen) in his report to a meeting of the Board of Governors last evening. “Students who remain to receive this endorsement are entitled to a grant toward their tuition fees at a university. Our recommendations cover 12 pupils," he said. A Prudent Policy. When reviewing prospects of the English cricket team at present in Australia extending its tour to New Zealand, Mr D. E. Wariklyn, chairman of the management committee of the New Zealand Cricket Council, said at the annual meeting of the council last evening that for the first time in history the M.C.C. had given permission for its team to travel by air, and if the proposed tour eventuated, the team would be flown to New Zealand, and in New Zealand. When permission for the use of aircraft was sought, the committee was requested to supply details of what aircraft were available. Apparently, Mr Wanklyn concluded, amid laughter, they were satisfied with the types of aircraft in use in New Zealand. He Had His Reasons Electors had sat patiently for two hours in a small hall a mile or two from Hamilton listening to an address from an election candidate. When question time came a man near the back of the hall rose and asked the chairman an innocuous question. He then remarked: “You know. I merely rose to stretch my legs. These seats are very hard. You need not take any notice of my question.” Free Places for Students “This year it has been found difficult to implement fully the more liberal'provision 1 of free places arranged by the Education Department toward the end of last year,” said the principal (Dr. D> E. Hansen) in his report to a meeting of the Christchurch Technical College Board of Governors last evening. “The provision now. is that any person who has turned 19 years of age and has not already had five years of free education may hold a free place by taking one subject only, instead of a course of subjects. There is a restriction that the subject and the class taken must have the approval of the principal. This will help more persons to take up recreational or hobby work if accommodation and classes are available, and it should enable the board to provide more free classes in community centres. It will also enable more of the students taking classes here at university standard to receive free tuition.” Tasman Shipping Service With three passenger steamers arriving from Sydney in six days. Auckland is temporarily receiving the best Tasman service it has known since Before the war. The Monterey carried 902 passengers when she went through Auckland yesterday on her -voyage from Sydney to San Francisco. About 60 travellers landed here and a similar number embarked. Making a special voyage under the control of the Australian Government, the Wanganella is carrying about 350 passengers, 90 of whom will land at Auckland on Monday. The Nellore will leave Sydney to-day with 50 passengers for Auckland, where she will load stores and cargo for Kure and Hong Kong. The arrivals of these ships coincide with serious port congestion, and although a berth is available for the Wanganella, the Nellore may have to land her passengers and move to an anchorage.—(P.A.) Social Security

“There is something we should not forget about Czechoslovakia,” said the Mayor of Wellington, Mr Will Appleton, at the Independence Day celebrations in Wellington on Wednesday. ‘‘That little country established social security as far back as 1919. So you can take it that New Zealand, after all, did not lead the world in that respect.” Growth of Y.M.C.A. in United States Extensive plans were being prepared in the United States to follow up the war work of the Young Men’s Christian Association, said Mr C. Chappel (New Zealand delegate to a conference of the Y.M.C.A. in Geneva) in an address at Christchurch yesterday. “During the war years the standing Army of the United States increased to 13,000,000, and the American Y.M.C.A. co-operated with the churches in welfare work for the services at a cost of 35,000,000 dollars,” Mr Chappel said. “Last year 30,000 churches took part in the Y.M.C.A. centqpnial eelebrations. The American Y.M.C.A. motion picture bureau has become the largest distributor of ‘nonentertainment’ films in the country. The association in the United States specialises in investigation into social problems of the country, and recent studies have been made of the negrowhite relationship and the conditions affecting young people in the aftermath of war.” Mail from Australia More than 1000 bags of mail, almost all remaining from the accumulation which built up-in Sydney during the lull in Tasman sailings, were brought to Auckland by the Matson liner Monterey when she passed through the port yesterday. As a result the Hud-dart-Parker motor liner Wanganella, which will arrive at Auckland from Sydney on Monday, is carrying only a small quantity. A further consignment will probably be taken by the Eastern and Australian Line steamer Nellore, which will leave Sydney today for Auckland, where she is due on Wednesday.—(P.A.) Teaching of Arts “The technical schools are said to give a purely utilitarian education, but in New Zealand the technical schools have led in the teaching of the arts of drawing and painting,” said Mr C. A. Stewart, principal of the Southland .Technical College, in an address in Invercargill. Mr Stewart added that the technical schools were also fostering an appreciation of music, and he believed that among all the secondary schools of New Zealand the Dunedin Technical College led the way in promoting an appreciation of, and intesest in, music among the children. Millbrook Floodlit Many of the beds of choice shrubs in the Millbrook Reserve are now floodlit on fine evenings.