NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1930, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Train and Car Collide., A collision between a train and a motor-car 'containing three people occurred at the entrance to the now Railway Workshops at Lower Hutt this morning. The driver of the car was Mr. John Minchin, Of Belmont road, Lower Hutt, and ho had with him as passengers his wife and young daughter. The car was not badly damaged, and Mr. Minchin escaped uninjured. His daughter received severe injuries to hor left log, and also suffered from shock, and his wife suffered from injuries to tho head, concussion, and shock. Both were attended to by Dr. Harding, and wore then taken by the City Ambulance to tho Knight's Road Hospital at Lower Hutt. Novel Visiting-card. Visiting-cards have gone much out of fashion, but business people still find them of much use. One of the Canadian party who came by the. Aorangi to induce New Zealand to take more Canadian timbers hit on a good scheme for "dressing tho part," says, the '' Auckland Star.'' His card was really a" plank of wood, with his name and address, etc., neatly printed on it. It was the usual size of an ordinary card and nearly as thin. People who' handed such a card for the first time would wonder how wood could be shaved so fine and still retain enough strength to stand handling. Intensive Culture in Germany. "Germany is going in for farming and intensive culture on an enormous scale," said "Mr. M'Kellar of Christchurch to a ", Press" reporter, in giving his impressions of a trip to Europe. "No part of the country is uncultivated, and I saw fine crops of ■wheat, oats, and barley." The principal manure appeared to be liquid, which was carted over the land in specially constructed barrels. He noticed very few expensive cars in Berlin or other German cities, and thero were no signs of surplus wealth. Tho people, wore all well dressed, however, and everybody was hard at work. It was nothing unusual to sco three generations toiling on one farm, or bands of girls of about 25 years of age in blue dungarees, bare-loggod, and barefooted, hooing root^crops. The young people wcro healthy, thick-set, and sturdy, and appeared happy and contented, and Germany- was apparently irrevocably Republican. To Be Taken With. Salt. It happened in a Taranaki township, according to an exchange, and tho truth of it can be vouched for. A young lady was proud of the wonderful whito radishes she had grown, in her garden, and was persuaded by a friend [to enter some in the produce section of tho show. She naturally selected the biggest and best, and took them to the hall, placing them with radishes which, to her eyes, were much inferior. She felt sure that she_ must gain first prize. She did, but not in the radish class. A steward noticed heir exhibit, and placed it with the turnips! The judgo apparently considered her radishes an extra good type of turnip, and had no difficulty in awardin ghor first prize in that class. A" Whale Bird. An unusual visitor to Invercargill, a whale bird (Priori vit Vittatus), was found in the yard of the police station the other morning (reports the "Southland Times"). A. number of sparrows were attacking the intruder wnen it was found. The bird is about nine inches long, and is a light blue colour, shading to whito on tho breast. The legs and feet are blue, and the.beak is black. Tho feet aro webbed, and a rudimentary roar toe sliows at tho hool. The beak is of unusual shape, being about three-quarters of an inch wide at the base, with tubular nostrils between the eyes.