NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 22, 25 July 1936, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Gun's Midnight Journey.

A low rumble and the sound of marching feet heard at an early hour on Thursday morning presaged something unusual and prompted an investigation, states the "Otago Daily Times." It appeared that the students of Knox College had suffered an affront by the removal from the precincts of the college of the cannon presented to them by the City Council. To borrow a student expression, this procedure had been authorised by •'some irresponsible individual" and not wishing to be robbed of their trophy a number of young men from the college set out to find the missing piece of ordnance and restore it to its proper resting place. Cheerfully, if belatedly, the "war veterans of the j future," as they described themselves, trundled their howitzer along King Street in the face of a cold, misty rain, and so back home. Once it was safely installed in the- college grounds again they proposed to institute such measures as would make the prospects of the cannon ever reaching the hands of the Japanese as scrap iron extremely remote.

Increased Construction Costs.

The rise in costs of labour and ] materials was forcibly brought to the attention of members of the Manukau County Council at its meeting on Thursday, states the "New Zealand Herald." An estimate of £589 10s for the reconstruction of a bridge in the county had been prepared in May by the county' engineer, Mr. J. R. Page, and the promise of a subsidy of £2 to the council's £1 had been obtained from the Public Works Department. As a result of the Government's legislation brought down since May, however, the tenders received by the council ranged from £756 to £1096 14s 6d. It was decided to accept the lowest tender, which represents an increase of 30 per cent, on the engineer's estimate, provided that the Public Works Department agreed to grant a subsidy on the increased sum.

The Haka,

"The sight of a pakeha doing a Maori haka gives us a pain," said Mr. Pine Taiapa. speaking to the "70" Club at the V.M.C.A. "It might be compared with a Maori trying to perform a Highland fling." In the first place Mr. Pine Taiapa pointed out that pakehas do not seem to understand that the "haka" should be worked up to a climax. It should not be one long "bawl" from start to finish.