NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1937, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

a A New "Scotsman's Grandstand." 11 Wellington has long' been noted for its well-endowed "Scotsmen's Grand--1 stands," but the officials at the Mara--1 nui-University swimming carnival on Saturday discovered that the new j Karori Baths have a splendid gallery ■ from which impecunious or thrifty '• spectators can enjoy an uninterrupted t view of all swimming events held in 1 the baths. On Saturday, the boundaries of the Karori School grounds, immediately above the baths, were 1 lined with spectators, who numbered f at times almost as many as those who ■, paid for admission. Despite appeals !. from officials, the non-paying public refused either to make a donation or • to go away, and nothing could be done > about it. 1 "Stretching the Law." ' "I' think it is stretching the law too t much to say that a golf club runs its i business for profit," said the Concilia- , tion Commissioner, Mr. M. J. Reardon, J when the Napier Golf Club sought exemption for citation in* the dispute between the Hawke's Bay Builders and General Labourers' Industrial Union of Workers and the Hawke's Bay Builders and Contractors' Industrial Union of Employers and others, I reports a correspondent. He con- : sidered that on a strict reading of the i law they wer§ entitled to exemption, , but it shoulcP #not be abused. The , union advocate, Mr. R. J. Reardon, said that at one country club he had sden a boy of twelv£ pulling a roller ' across greens for nine hours a day, > and he considered that action was an , abuse. The question of citing the | club was left in' abeyance in the meantime. A Meteorological Puzzle. Many people may have wondered why the recent depression, which produced such low pressure and several days of high winds, was not productive of more rain. Other less deep and extensive depressions, it may be argued, have resulted in Wellington getting a good wetting, but the recent depression caused very little local rain. The reason lies in the extensiveness of the disturbance: the whole of the Dominion was within the area of low pressure, the centre being away to the south and south-east of New Zealand. Conditions, therefore, were not favourable to much rain, although in Westland and on the ranges there w6re some heavy falls. Liberation of Pheasants. The first year's breeding operations at the Internal Affairs Department's game farm near Rotorua have been most successful, and it is hoped to have 1000 pheasants ready for liberation. The farm, which covers 13 acres, is alSo to include a new trout hatchery which should be completed before 1 the next stripping season. When the 1 Government recently granted approval '■ to proceed with the scheme no time was lost in the erection of the neces- : sary pens for the stock, birds, and 1 chicks and other buildings. A large 1 brooder and three incubators have been ] installed, together with storehouses for - feed, and temporary living quarters ] for the curator, Mr. J. Digby. There 1 is a large fowl run where the hens used 1 for hatching the pheasant eggs are ac- J commodated. Tenders are to be called 1 shortly for the erection of more per- ' manent quarters for the curators of 1 both the game farm and the new trout 1 hatchery. 1 ( Real Mosquitoes. < "They bite through the curtain, and 1 keep their sting in, levering themselves I through the net with it"—that is how 1 the camp cook in a northern bush camp £ conveys the tenacity of the mosquitoes, i which have plagued the little settle- 1 ment during the last few days. Workers £ on the job (reports the "Northern i Advocate") say that an orchestra * strikes up as soon as the lights are s extinguished, and despite every pro- 1 tective measure, and the fact that the t bushmen are working 10 hours a day, sleep is impossible. The intense heat, t following the rain, has brought the f insects out from breeding grounds, s which are full of to fid water. A re- c turned soldier, who is one of the party, t says that he slept in the Jordan Val- 8 ley, said to be the world's worst place * for mosquitoes b but the species in this camp has got*him, beaten. 11