NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Faraparatunu Motor Camp.

The* up-to-date motor camp which has been established at Paraparaumu, was referred" to in the roads committee's report. presented at.a meeting of the Automobile Association (Wellington), last night. The report stated that in addition to the usual camping area, a cottage had been erected with ten bunk rooms, and there were ample facilities for cooking, washing, etc. • Swimmer's Heart Seiiure. • Following a search conducted by his employer, Mr. John Ross, labourer, aged about 50, was found drowned in Lake Rotoiti early on Sunday morning (states a Rotorua correspondent). According to evidence given at an : inquest held on Sunday, afternoon, deceased's correct name is understood to have been Judd. He was also stated to have told his employer that he had a wife and children living at Wellington. He went for a swim in the lake late on Friday afternoon, his clothes being left on a jetty. Medical evidence was given that deceased was suffering from a type of blood poisoning which made it unwise for him to suddenly receive the shock of immersion in the cold water of the lake. A verdict was returned of death from heart seizure while swimming.. . • Level Crossings, Reference to the question of railway crossing elimination was made in the road .committee's report presented at a meeting of the Automobile Association (Wellingtc-n). last night. "The committee," states the; report, "expresses satisfaction that in consequence of the arrangement made between the Main Highways Board; the Railways Board, and the Unemployment Board certain crossings have.been scheduled for elimination in the Wellington district. The two with which we are directly concerned are Porirua and Paraparaumu., These at present constitute two hazardous crossings, and the construction of overbridges at these points will be a very material improvement." ;■ , . ■ .. ■ National Medical Service: The ■ establishment of xommunity types of hospitals and a national system of medical attention were forecasted by Dr. A. R. Thorne, superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, at a conference of local bodies in. Lower Hutt last evening. In,the community type of hospital; he said, patients had the right of nominating their own medical men, and^of course, paying for them If definite community hospitals were not established he believed community wards would be attached to public hospitals. • The question of a national system of medical attention was a popular one'with all political parties at present. He believed that it would como in the near future,^ Such a service would mean a modification of hospital services. ... Returns by Fanners. A suggestion that all statistical returns required of farmers should be furnished on the .one form and at the one time in order to lighten the burden of farmers in regard to their annual returns, was made at the last meeting of the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. Replying to a remit urging the adoption of this procedure, the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. C. E. Macmlllan) states that it would appear, after careful consideration, that the proposal was not a practicable one. He supplied for the information of the union a memorandum from the Government Statistician. "The Department," wrote Mr. Macmillan, "was definitely of the opinion that the adoption of a combined form would not offer any appreciable advantage in practice from the point of view of the supplier of the return; while it would certainly operate most detrimentally to the work of the Census and Statistics Office, not alone in respect of agricultural and pastoral statistics, but in respect of almost all its activities."

, A City of Bicycles. ! "I am much impressed with the city of Christchurch—especially the bicycles," says Colonel George Davis, 1 of the Salvation Army, who recently arrived in the Dominion from the United States. "We have cities in the United States of 7,000,000, 4,000,000, and 2,000,000, but you are superior, to any place in the United States in one thing —I have never seen so many bicycles in my life as in Christchurch." Colonel Davis-said that he had just written a letter to his wife, in which he had described Christchurch as "a wonderful city, where there are 40,000 bicycles, and where everyone rides them, from grandmothers to! small children." Payment of Clergy. "The low stipends paid in this diocese in the average cure are making it 'difficult tq fill' vacancies from-outside the diocese," states the "'Church News" (Christchurch) this month, commenting on the failure of some parishes: to pay the minimum stipend required. "In two of the North Island dioceses the average is much higher, and unless a clergyman feels a special calL to come here, there is no reason why lie should not accept work where the remuneration is higher." Summer Cruises. ; It is not the'intention of the P. and O. Company ■to extend its summer cruises to New Zealand waters this year to takeiin the South Island, according to a statement made by Mr. W..W. Service, the company's passenger superintendent for Australia and New Zealand, who is at present in Christchurch (states the "Christchurch "Star-Sun"). Extra distance and steaming and the added time necessary were so far insuperable objects, he said. It was possible that a call at Lyttelton might be made next season. Adjectival: Not Verbose. . W.hen. arrangements were being made for the speakers on behalf of a ■ deputation to wait on one of the Ministers of the Crown today it was |. suggested that after the two mam : speakers had had their say, if it were thought any adjectives were required to strengthen the representations one particular member should be appointed. The member sorted out for this job was quite willing, and his comment was neat and very much to the point. "Wellj" he said, "I'm glad to • think you regard me as being adjec- . tival and not verbose.'"