NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 124, 21 November 1935, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

The Motor Menace. lipeaking last evening at the meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board, the Hon. Mark Fagan, M.L.C., referred to the increasing difficulties confronting the authorities in England with regard to motor traffic. Every week in Great Britain, as a result of road accidents, 155 persons were killed and over 5000 were injured, and lie had heard the population described as consisting of "the quick and the dead." The public had apparently become accustomed to the tremendous loss of life entailed, and treated it as a matter of course! A prominent public man in London' had said to him that New Zealand must be a wonderful little country with its wealth of delightful and varied scenery and beautiful climate, adding that he would just love to visit this Dominion, but hesitated to come because he was afraid of our earthquakes. He ex-i pressed surprise when informed that road accidents accounted for more deaths and injuries in any one week in Great Britain than the total caused by earthquakes in New Zealand during the past 94 years. Undoubtedly, said Mr. Fagan, a great amount of harm had been done by the loose, misleading ! and exaggerated accounts sent abroad i about the extent and damage caused by earthquakes in New Zealand. British Good Will to New Zealand. The wonderfully warm and genuine deep feeling of friendship and respect towards the Dominion of New Zealand by the people in all walks of life in Great Britain was commented upon by the Hon. Mark Fagan, M.L.C., when acknowledging a welcome extended to him at the meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board last evening. Before leaving New Zealand he had often heard that New Zealanders stood high m public esteem in the Old Country indeed he had been under the impression that comment in this connection had been overstressed. However,-'as a result of observation and personal .contact, obtained as a result of his visit, he was convinced it would be difficult to overestimate the very valuable and tremendous amount of good will that existed towards our Dominion by the people of Great Britain, and this feeling of friendship was not confined to any one section It existed amongst all classes, and he had found it in evidence, without exception, in every county he had visited. Penguin tor Museum.

The white-flipped penguin is a comparatively rare bird, found only in the vicinity of Banks Peninsula, and is not nearly as common as the blue penguin which is found along many parts of New Zealand's coast line. One was recently washed up on the beach at New Brighton and this specimen has been acquired for the Dominion Museum where it is at present bein°stuffed and mounted. This penguin is very much like-the blue one to look at, being distinguished only by the white mottling and blotching on the back of the flippers, which in the blue penguin are black.