NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 80, 15 October 1928, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Summer Time in Force. Without fuss or inconvenience Sum mer Time, tho clocks being advanced half an hour, came into force at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Wireless enthusiasts who were listening to the transTasman flight may have been awure of the actual change, but most people were asleep, the domestic clocks being altered the night before or on Sunday morning. At one time yesterday it looked as if the daylight would be hardly worth saving, but the weather improved later in the day, and it was pleasantly fine, although chilly, when the daylight finally flickered out shortly after 7 p.m. The Way of Peace. Giatificatiin at the manner in which the bowlers of Wellington had refrain ud'from asking the City Council for grounds and financial assistance was oxpressed by the Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup} at the opening of the Welling ton Bowling Club's green on Saturday afternoon. "We are badgered by other sports bodies to provide them with everything under the sun," said Mr. Troup. "We shall soon have to provide them with refreshments while their rjames are going on. (Laughter.) What a pleasure it would be for the Mayor "of the city if the whole of the citizens were bowlers. Then the way of the Mayor would be the way of peace." (Laughter and applause.) Appreciated by Someone. Gorse, the very mention of which to the New Zealand agriculturist is enough to make him use unparliamentary lan guage, is not without its admirers. The delegates to the Empire Forestry Conference, who have just completed a tour of the South Island, were much struck with the beauties of the gorse as seen on the train journey from Christchurch to Dunedin and elsewhere. '' Its flowers are very much more profuse and richer in colour than they are in England," one delegate remarked upon his return to Wellington yesterday. The phenomenal growth of the blackberry on the. West Coast was also remarked upon. The same delegate said that from what they had heavd they' expected to see more rabbits than they actually did. "It was the same in Australia," he added; "we did not -see half as many rabbits as we had expected. If your rabbits thrive as well as the gorse and blackberry heaven help the farmer!" Yule Street Miseries. The effects of heavy traffic on a bad road surface in a residential area inspired a member of the Lyall Bay Progressive Association to draw a vivid picture at the meeting of the association last week. Yule street, which now ear ries the main traffic from the Seatoun quarries, was pointed to by Mr. P. E. Cairns as a way that, in view of its heavy service, should be paved witli bitumen, instead of being tar sealed. He stated that residents in that street had suffered considerably owing to the City Council's apathy or ignorance thai it was a main highway. The road at present was heavily marked and abounded with potholes. Houses were badly shaken and ornamei ts broken, and residents unfortunato enough to be confined to bed were nerve-racked with the incessant vibration. It was resolved to request the City Council to bitumenise Yule street and that part of Endeavour street in frequent use by the heavy traffic as early as possible. i Public Service Salaries. In an article in the "Public Service Journal' dealing with the salaries of officers of the Public Service, reference is made to the increase recently granted to members of the Police Force. "The position at the: moment,' it is stated; "is quito anomalous, and it is both unreasonable and unjust that one group of Public servants —however deserving that group may bo—should enjoy salary improvements while all the other groups are loft unsatisfied. The Prime Minister's hint that some improvements may take place in tho scales at next year's re-grading was beside the point, as well as unconvincing. The honest arid honourable course open to the Government is to extend the Police increase proportionately over the whole Service.' "The ' Same Old Story." It is not an unusual thing to hear a defendant in a maintenance case in the Magistrate's Court say that he has paid money to his wife, and in reply to this to hear "a flat denial from the complainant that she > has received any money. Such a position occurred today, but the defendant in this action added that probably his wife would deny she had got the money from him. "It is the same old story," remarked the Magistrate (Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M."* "If you don't pay through the Court there is no check on the money." Lord Jellicoe's Wish. "Tho land which will always be homo to me,'' was the manner in which Lord Jellicoe, former Governor-General, recently expressed his opinion of New Zealand. He had beon invited to a function arranged by Colonel Freyberg, V.C., in honour of the New Zealand team which competed^ at the Olympic Games, and it was in a letter of regret at not being able to attend'that he indicated that extent of his fondness for New Zealand. In wishing the team a pleasant return voyage' to New Zealand, Lord Jellicoe also expressed the wish that he could go back there with the members of his family, who also had the same desire. Geological Burveys. A programme of the geological survey of New Zealand was mapped out over twenty years ago, but in spite of the fact that most of the country has been surveyed from a mapping point of view there still remains more than half to be investigated regarding its mineral contents. This coming summer various expeditions will be abroad in both islands, special search being made for limestone and coal in the Te Kuiti and Taranaki districts, for old indications north of Wairoa, and for sulphur deposits in the Kuapehu districts. In addition to coal outcrop and petroleum investigation," it is intended to examine the upper reaches of the Bullcr River with a view to discovering further deposits of alluvial gold. In each case the investigating party consists of a geologist with four or five assistants, the work to be done involving considerable feats of transportation in getting camp equipment' and instruments to almost inaccessible back country districts. The weather conditions play an important part, and it is necessary to compress as much work as possible into the six summer mouths. Earned His Blazer. One of the difficulties of teams going overseas is that of keeping fit on the voyage. In order to assist the New Zealand Olympic team in this respect a Wellington enthusiast offered his services as masseur, and arranged to work his passage Home on the same vessel as thatf by which the team travelled. Finding at the last minute that this would preclude his being of any practical assistance to the team, he booked his passage at his own expense. He was with the team right up to the time that it had completed its engagements after the Games, and it was only then that he turned his attention to the private business which he had to transact in England, and which prevented him from returning with the team. That enthusiast was Mr. C. Dickinson, and his service to the team was not overlooked when eulogies were being made at the official function on the team's return to Wellington. "No member of the team has bettor earned the blazer that the council has given him," remarked Mr. J. W. Heenan.

"Man is Always Wrong." Is man always in the wrong? A defendant in a maintenance case which came before the Magistrate's Court today assured the Court that lie was. He said that his wife was now in a better position than him. "The woman gets away with everything," he added. "It is the man who is always in the wrong." 3?.fe Bathing. Referring to patrol work on the beaches, the Maranui Surf and Lifesaving Club in its annual report statea that the increasing number of bathers' at Lyall Bay amply proves that the general public have every confidence in the clul. as a life-saving institution Although thore had been v '.jreat num ber of drowning accidents throughout New Zealand during the season, not one fatality occurred on the Lyall Bay beach while members were on duty. Teams patrolled the beach every week end and on holidays, and gave displays on all possible occasions. Minor assistance was rendered in many cases, and a careful watch was kept on all who ventured out far in the breakers Conserving Timber Resources.' "What we must •achieve is a si'heine that will enable the Empire to develop its timber resources continuously," pointed out Lord Clinton, chairman of the Empire Forest Conference, upon his return to Wellington yesterday "AH the nations of trie world," he went .on, "are practically eating up ther timber as fast as, or faster than, they are planting it. But we are realising now that this will not do, and that wr must look to the future to conserve "He expressed himself as highly phased with the steps being taken in this direction by the New Zealand Government, the Forestry Department being in his opinion a very live concern. Sport for Peace. The value of sport in bringing about a closer relationship between the peoples of different countries Was stressed at the reception to the New Zealand Olympic team in Wellington. "The Olympic Council did not need the incentive of Morgan's win at the Games to feel that it. had been justified in sending a team," remarked Mr. J. W. Heenan, of the Ne,w Zealand Olympic Council. "We do not look upon absolute success as the aim of representation at the Games. One of our aims is to make the world realise that New Zealand is athletically fitted to take part with other countries in the world's greatest sporting festival. That has been the standard we have set. . . . I personally feel that we have come to a crisis. We have worked up to a success in actual competition at the Games, but competitive success is not everything and is not the principal aim of the Olympic movement. The aim is to use sport as the means of making the various peoples of the world realise one another's views, and so lead to mutual understanding that will make for peace. If you get the people of the world to play together, then, when the pinch comes, they will find it harder to be altogether unfriendly to one another." On Common Ground. "We want to make the Olympic Association the meeting ground of all sports, so that they may realise that it is not their particular sport that matters so much as sport in general," said Mr. J. W. Heenan at the official welcome home to the team which repre-, sented New Zealand at the Olympic Games. The speaker paid. a tribute to the Now Zealand Rugby Union for its efforts on behalf of the Olympic movement. Although Rugby football had been eliminated from the Games', it was gratifying to know that the New Zealand Rugby Union realised its responsibility as the governing body of New Zealand's greatest sport in giving whole-hearted encouragement and practical support to the movement. New Auckland Cathedral. - The.first public donation toward the building fund for the permanent Church of England Cathedral in Parnell, Auck : land, upon which it is hoped to commence work when finances permit, was received on Friday by Archbishop Averill (states the "Herald"). The Primate informed synod last evening that an anonymous donor had handed him £20. In a note to the Archbishop the donor said he intended to give £100 as a thank-offering, and although he would probably never see the completed cathedral, he would like to think he had given a few bricks. He hoped his action would suggest the worthy nature of the cause to other Aucklanders better able to give larger amounts. ■ The Shining Cuckoo. With the progress of spring comes the shining cuckoo. This seasonal visitor to New Zealand was noticed by.Mr. H. Carey, of^Puni, near Pukekohe, on 27th September; and on Friday Mrs. Cartwright, of Union road, Mauku, saw a shining cuckoo sitting on a post within a few feet of her residence Its distinctive notes attracted her at(states the "New Zealand Herald"), tention. The Modem Youth. "I.do not think those of us approaching middle-age realise the rapidity of the change coming over the minds of young people, and it is going to be extremely difficult for us to keep pace with the psychological and social changes," said Canon H. K. Archdall, headmaster of King's College, in addressing the Auckland Diocesan Synod on the question of work among the youth of the Church. "We cannot for ever go on with the same well-tried methods in instruction. The principles will be the same, but the methods of application naturally will have to be somewhat different. After two years' residence in this country I can see an enormous difference both good and bad between, the boys of New Zealand and Australia," Canon Arehdall said, in referring to the influence of early Church teaching upon the youth of the country, later in the evening. "There are two separate and distinct nations growing up side by side." He had observed the awakening of a national consciousness in New Zealand, and there was an atmosphere and method of approach in numerous things which 'were already' characteristic of the Dominion.