UNPRECEDENTED SCENES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 8, 5 October 1926, Page 5

UNPRECEDENTED SCENES

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION IN AUCKLAND. Dominion Special. Auckland, October 4. Unprecedented scenes were witnessed at St. Patrick’s Cathedral last evening, when the jubilee mission was brought to an inspiring close.' There were exceptional attendances at the services during the day and the communicants totalled 1000. At the evening service the congregation numbered 2000, the largest which has ever attended St. Patrick’s Cathedral and which is stated to be a record for the Dominion. From Auckland the Roman Catholic missioners will proceed to Christchurch, where a mission is to be opened at the cathedral.

NELSON NOTES —; t . .. PROPOSED ERECTION OF OIL STORAGE TANKS. Dominion Special. Nelson, October 4. Arising out of a report submitted to the Nelson Harbour Board to-day by Messrs. 11. U. Holmes and Son, it was decided to approve of the proposal to reclaim four acres of the foreshore in the vicinity of the wharves for the purpose of erecting oil storage tanks. The cost of the work is estimated at £6lOO, aud providing the Marine Department approves of the plans the expenditure will coihe out of reserve funds. The project to erect storage tanks was originally placed before the board by the British Imperial Oil Company, who signified their willingness to take a 21 years’ lease of a portion of the land. It is understood that other oil companies are also likely to acquire leases. Rumours which have been circulated to tho effect that flesh collapse had been discovered among apples in the Motueka Cool Store Company’s store at Port Motueka, are stated by the secretary to have no foundation. Mr. R. Waters, of the Department of Agriculture, was m the store a few days ago, and everything then was proceeding very satisfactorily. , ~, William Leggatt (aged 55), a settler of Collingwood, who was admitted to the public hospital on July 18. died in the institution yesterday. He sustained grave injuries to his spine owing to a horse he was riding falling down and rolling on him.

Forty or fifty years ago kiwis wers fairly numerous in the North Island (says an exchange), and their soft brown leathers were in great demand by the Maoris for mat-making, but such is their rarity in the North Island now that a well-perserved kiwi mat is worth anything from Jl3O to J£G<J. The kiwi gets its name from its cry, "ki-wi, ki-wi.” It is understood that kiwis lost their wings purely through laziness, as in days gone by they had no occasion to use them. There is a legend which says that a duck was once jealous of her neighbour the kiwi, and having told her that wings were "not being worn that season,” they both decided to cut then) off. The duck did not keep to her promise, and when the kiwi found out that she had been taken in she ran around calling “ki-wi, ki-wi,” while looking for her lost wings, which never returned 1

The audience at Sir Truby King’s lecture in the Town Hall in Auckland (says the "New Zealand Herald’’) was given a practical demonstration of an ultra-violet-rays apparatus, the subject being a boy. His back covered ifi paper to prevent burning, he was exposed for two or three minutes to the blue rays of the prism, and at the close of the lecture his back was exhibited to the audience to show the stimulating effect. Ultra-violet-rays, it was explained, were the invisible rays of light beyond the violet rays of the prism. They are the curative and health-giving rays and cannot penetrate glass. Hence the fallacy of supposing it to be as healthy to be in a room with the sun streaming through the windows as it is to be out of doors.

Amid the noise and bustle of constructional activity in many business premises, fife demolition of a small tworoomed shack attracted little if any attention, yet this wooden structure, tucked away behind modern business houses, was one of the oldest, if not the oldest, building in Invercargill (says the "Southland Times’’). This hut was built over G 5 years ago by .the white settlers for the convenience of Maoris visiting the town, a place where they could rest, for a day or two before embarking on thbir homeward journey. In spite of its age the timber was reported to have been in sound condition and doubtless would have remained so for a few more years had not the extensive alterations and additions to business pre. mises necessitated the unceremonial removal of this old land-mark.