NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Put Back the Clock.

As ■■ Summer Time officially ends at 2 a.m. tomorrow, all clocks and watches sometime tonight or tomorrow morning must be put back thirty minutes. Failure to do so carries with; it no penalty in the way of imprisonment with or without the option of a fine, but will merely make the offender thirty minutes early for church on Sunday or at the office on Monday morning. Summer Time will commence again on Sunday, September 29, just five months hence. ■ Unusual Interruption. v When Bishop West-Watson was addressing the congregation at the combined Anzac Day service of the Returned Soldiers' Association and the Toc.H on Anzac evening he was suddenly interrupted by a member of the congregation, reports the "Christchurch Times." His Lordship was emphasising the dangers of over-armament, which he saw growing ever greater as the years pass, and was expressing the hope that Toe H might be able to introduce, through its ideals of fellowship and fair-mindedness, a better understanding among nations, when the interruption occurred. At first the Bishop attempted to continue, but after a moment he waited until the interrupter had finished speaking. He then said "Thank you," and continued with his address. The Judge's Epitaph. "I am reminded of a story of the celebrated Judge Parry," said Mr. Justice Frazer, in an address to the New Plymouth Rotary Club. "He had just spent an arduous day adjudicating upon a rather complicated building case, and was travelling home on the train when he chanced to hear two working men engaged in the building trade discussing him. They were quite oblivious of his presence, and they spoke their minds freely. Finally, however, they summed the matter up by saying the Judge was 'a blinking old fool, but he done his best!' If," continued the speaker, "when very shortly I leave my position as Judge of the Arbitration Court, New Zealand will say of me that I was 'a blinking old fool who done his best,' I could not ask for a better epitaph!" Republican! The belief that New Zealand has very republican tendencies and that the Dominion would welcome the opportunity of breaking away from the British Empire is widely entertained among Americans, according to Mr. Tracy T. Gough, of Christchurch, who has returned after a four months' tour of the United States. Describing some of his impressions in an interview •jwith the "Press" on Wednesday, Mr. Gough said he had noticed a very decided feeling that New Zealand was a discontented community, and that, if the' opportunity offered, New Zealand would do what Ireland was doing. This view was not universal, but Mr. Gough had been surprised at the tremendous number of people who thought along those lines. Advertising New Zealand. After an extended visit to the United States, Mr. Tracy T. Gough, of Christchurcb, believes that New Zealand does not spend nearly enough money on honest advertising, both overseas and within the Dominion. He thinks that New Zealand has more to offer the tourist than America itself, and more than Americans are led to understand. He said on Wednesday that the American Government spent a great deal on internal advertising, and that New Zealand was far behind in enterprise and in technique, reports the "Press." New Zealand newspapers should be given much more scenic advertising, and advertisements sent overseas should paint a true picture of New Zealand's attractions, Americans were inclined to discbunt some of the lavishly-worded advertisements prepared for their consumption, and there was little doubt that many of them were overdone. New Zealand could scarcely overstate its case, but advertisements should be convincing and attractive —in short, they should be prepared by specialists..

Supreme Court Sessions. Owing to the King's Silver Jubilee the Supreme Court quarterly sessions at Wellington, fixed to commence on May 6, are to be adjourned to the following day at 10.30 a.m. It will be unnecessary for counsel, witnesses, and others to attend until May 7. Vanished Numbers. ; A young woman residing in Wellington recently discovered to her dis- , may. that Reserve Bank notes are not washable. She made the mistake of washing a garment that had a pound note and a ten-shilling note in its pocket, and when they were discovered the numbers on the pound note had completely vanished. The ten-shilling note, which was wrapped in the other, emerged undamaged. The note with- . out the numbers was presented at a • city bank, but as the most important part was missing it was not accepted. ' Returned Soldier with Byrd. ' Included in the complement of : Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition was a New Zealand returned soldier, '. Mr. P> Dorman, and the secretary of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' ; Association (Mr. J. Spence) has re- : ceived a letter from him, written on . Christmas Day, 1933. In the letter, which was posted at Little America ' and carried .to the United States be--3 fore being sent on" to its destination, 1 Mr. Dorman thanked Mr. Spence and t the R.S.A. for the assistance he received from members while in Wellington before going south. ; Ex-Serviceman Repatriated. i An example of what is being done . to aid in the repatriation of returned soldiers was provided in the annual 3 report of the Wellington Hostel: for - Returned Soldiers' and Sailors' Society. 3 During the year an Imperial ex-service- , man was repatriated to his home in Scotland. He was a spinal case, and 3 had been a resident of the hostel for 3 some two and a half years. With no t home and a sick man when he came j to the society, he was sent back well equipped and with a small sum of • money to receive when he reached f London. This was made possible as l the result of a raffle of brasswork, , with other assistance. The man was very grateful for what had been done 1 for. him.----f "Scraps of Paper." r "At the beginning of the war we 1 blamed Germany for making a treaty i into a scrap of paper," said the Rev. 1 O. FitzGerald at the Linwood com--5 memoration service on Anzac Day, j states the "Press." "We cannot talk t like that today considering how many other promises have been made scraps 1 of paper. Woodrow Wilson spoke of i a 'war to end war.' Mr. Lloyd George » said it was fought to make England t a land fit for heroes to live in. Yet we see returned soldiers, if not starv- " ing, at least unemployed. It ■is hard i to see some people who have not r enough while others have more than i enough. All soldiers should have homes and food. As "for helping to ; abolish war, I, at any rate, as a mmiii ister of the Church of England, am i ashamed how little I have done for , peace." Mr. FitzGerald said that he did not believe in refusing" to protect r one's country, but he was appalled 5 that, as civilisation advanced, weapons r of war became more and more brutal. He advocated weekly prayers for peace in the Christchurch Cathedral by all denominations. ■ < : Mutiny of the Bounty. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty, which1 occurred in the Pacific 146 years ago. Late in 1787 Lieutenant William Bligh ' was sent to the Pacific in charge of 3. the Bounty, and; his severity towards " his crew led to a mutiny on the vessel •on April 28,; 1789. The crew. - secured command -....of the vessel; i and set the' lieutenant and 18 loyal t sailors adrift in an open boat After T a voyage of 4000 miles, probably the f longest ever undertaken in an open . boat, the lieutenant and- his men i reached Batavia, having suffered, ter--1 rible hardships on the way. The mutineers took the Bounty to Tahiti, where some of their number were later- captured. The . remainder, accompanied " by several native women and three " men, sailed to Pitcairn Island, where :" they scuttled the ship and settled down - ashore. They failed to agree, and by ■ 1808, when they were discovered there, 2 only one—John Adams—remained, the. 1 others having died or been killed off ' r in quarrels that had taken place over '■> the possession of the native women. r John Adams, had repented of his 1 former mode1 of life and was ruling 2 the island and inculcating Christian ■- principles into the minds of the mutir neers' descendants. He died in 1829, 1 but his teachings were remembered 2 and the "islanders have lived a peacet ful and intensely Christian life until - the present day. At one time the.is- - landers left the island in a body and 1 migrated to Norfolk Island, but many of them returned a few years later.