TOWN AND COUNTRY

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 282, 26 August 1939, Page 15

TOWN AND COUNTRY

Items Of Interest From The Provinces

GUARANTEED PRICE Little Hope Held Out Of Getting 1/31

"If you get the same price this year as last you will be mighty lucky,” said the chairman, Mr. J. A. Nash, at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Farmers’ Dairy Union in Palmerston North, referring to the guaranteed price. “I hope you will get the 1/3*, but it does not look likely at the present time,” he said. The loss this year under the guaranteed price was estimated to be in the vicinity of £2,000,000.

“Armchair Churciunen.” "We have too many armchair churchmen today, too many who listen in, leaving the minister to preach to empty pews,” said the Rev. E. D. Patchett, of Whiteley Methodist Church, New Plymouth, speaking at a Presbyterian Church gathering. Those people, he said, did not realize what an influence their presence had. It was selfish of them not to come out, and he was sure they missed something. People today were not prepared to make the sacrifices of their forbears. The world could not afford at this critical stage to allow the higher things to slip. He wished they could understand the value of the life of the man who was godly; he influenced others unconsciously and the effect was so much greater when whole congregations were taken into account.

Effect of Universal Training. “I think all of us here agree that we would be better off with universal training, and if universal training had been in force since the war New Zealand would have had an army of 100,000 fully-trained men ready for any emergency,” said Captain P. J. S. George, speaking at the first reunion since the war of the Hastings branch of the ’Wellington Infantry Regiment. Had the compulsory system been maintained, he said, they could have put through recruits at the rate of 10,000 a year.

Diamond-back Motin Investigations made by Mr. D. H. Todd, of the Cawthron Institute, show that the white butterfly pest in Hawke’s Bay- is generally under control, but that the control of the diamond-back moth is one of the chief problems now facing entomologists in New Zealand. It is probable that work of investigating the diamond-back moth will be continued in Hawke’s Bay this summer. Hawke’s Bay A.A. Membership. The membership of the Automobile Association (Hawke’s Bay) is rapidly approaching the 7000 mark. At the last meeting of the executive it was reported that the membership had now reached 6602. Water Piping Replaced. The large water main across the town bridge in ’Wanganui, which, supplies the suburb of Durie Hill, was renewed on Thursday by the waterworks department of the Wanganui City Council. Part of the piping, which has been in service for many years, was renewed about two years ago, and the replacement carried out on Thursday was done in the new steel piping.Motor Camp Delegates.

. At a meeting of the executive of the Automobile Association (Hawke’s Bay) Messrs. W. E. Tyler and J. Fairclough were appointed delegates to the annual conference of the North Island Motor Union in Palmerston North, next Tuesday.