NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 172, 18 April 1939, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Sickness In Auckland Probably as a result of the long dry spell the outbreak of gastric influenza appears to have gained larger proportions in Auckland. The influenza has been prevalent for the past month and ordinary colds are also reported to be fairly numerous. Teachers’ Salaries. Reference to the new .salary .scheme for teachers was made in the annual report of the Wellington School Committees’ and Educational Federation. “Under the new arrangement,” the report stated, “it will be possible for teachers to obtain promotion without the necessity of transfer. It is hoped that this will have the effect of stabilizing school staffs and obviate the changes that have been a drawback to the children of our schools.” The International Brigade. That the International Brigade, whlcn fought on the side of the Government during the Spanish War, drew its personnel from al classes as well as all nationalities was made clear in an address in Christchurch by Mr. I-I. R. Bryan. His company commanders, ho said, included an able seaman of the British navy, the .son of a titled-Eng-lish family, a Welsh miner and an Oxford blue. His sergeant in the last Ebro offensive was a Jewish boy, aged 19. from the East End of Loudon Advertising New Zealand. A tribute to New Zealand’s publicity on the Continent was paid in Auckland by an experienced traveller, Genoral R. A. Voiuz, Paris, who has just concluded a seven weeks’ holiday tour throughout both islands. He said the Dominion’s propaganda was very well done and a great deal was known about the country in France. He had been fully rewarded for the long journey by what he had .seen. “We know about your attractions,” he said, “but the trouble is that you are too far away.” Potato and Orange Embargo. “The Australian embargo on New Zealand potatoes and the New Zealand embargo on fruit are relative, unimportant questions,’’ said Mr. C. E. Critchley, Australian Trade Commissioner, in an address to the members of the Wellington Junior Chamber of Commerce last night. “They have been given an importance quite out of keeping with, their true value.” It was interesting that since Australia had partly lifted the embargo practically no potatoes had been sent to Australia, the weather m New Zealand having been unfavourable. First Anzac Day Recalled.

When the dawn service arranged by the Australian Imperial Force Ex-Ser-vicemen’s Association takes place at the Auckland Cenotaph on Anzac Day there will be a close association with the first Anzac commemoration service held in Westminster Abbey on April 25, 19.16. At the Westminster service the Last Post and Reveille were sounded by Mr. R. C. Johnston, who was then attached to the First Field Company, New Zealand Engineers. At the forthcoming dawn service Mr. Johnston will be in charge of the 10 buglers who will again sound these calls. 6000 Beds a Night Wanted.

‘The Exhibition Company estimates that 5,000,000 individual entrances will be made to the exhibition during its course and, taking 160,000 people in and around Wellington and allowing them 20 visits each, an average figure which I consider very much on the high side, we find that there will be an additional 1,800,000 entrances made by visitors,” stated Mr. C. J. Mac Gibbon, chairman of the Wellington Junior Chamber of Commerce, at its annual meeting last night. “The exhibition will be open for approximately 155 nights, so that there will be 12,000 visitors’ entrances a day and. allowing two entrances a day a visitor it is a simple calculation to discover that an average of 6000 visitors will have to be accommodated every day. This is the average figure—peak days will probably be double this number.” New Zealand Sheep Popular.

Further evidence of the Australian demand for New Zealand Romney Marsh sheep was the sale recently by Wright Stephenson and Company, Ltd.,, of the whole ewe flock of Mr. A. E. Anderson to a New South Wales breeder. Mr. Anderson, whose property is situated in Clareville in the Wairarapa, established his stud in 1922 on sheep bred by Sir William Perry. He has maintained a very high standard throughout his flock and his sheep have never been force fed or pampered. The flock, numbering 250 head, is being carefully mated and will go forward later. This is understood to be one of the largest Romney Studs ever to be shipped intact to Australia, and the quality of the sheep should certainly impress Australian breeders.