Gift to Sarjeant Art Gallery.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 10

Gift to Sarjeant Art Gallery.

A delightful little water-colour by J. S. Lamorna Birch was hung this week, in the Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui. It is entitled "Grey Weather, Raetihi," and is the gift of Mr. F. G. Maunsell, of Masterton. The gallery has possessed for several years another picture by the same artist, an oil, depicting a ( scene at "Lamorna, Cornwall." \ Peanut in Lung. j 'Believed to have a peanut lodged in j her lung, Gloria White, the infant c daughter of .Mr. Allan White, a farmer J at Hairini, near Te ' Awamutu, was j admitted to thje Auckland Hospital •'on Monday afternoon (states the "New Zealand Herald"). It was stated that , the removal of the peanut would re- , quire an 'operation of a similar type j to two recent cases, when a needle , was removed from a child's lung and ; a home-made dart was removed from the lung of another lad. The child's , condition is not serious. ' ] Choir's Proposed Visit. ' A movement is on foot for a visit to ' be paid Wellington in the near future by a South Island choir of a hundred selected voices. This choir would be f drawn from various 'choral societies : and musical organisations, and the ob- j ject of its visit would be to stimulate interest in choral music and to promote } interchanges of visits. At least one , concert would be given in Wellington. Mr. V. C. Peters and Mr. K. G. Archer, , conductor and secretary respectively of j the Chrif^hurch Harmonic Society, , will come to.Wellington at the end of t this week with a view to seeing what . arrangements can be made about the proposed visit. A Telling Phrase. "Thirty.shillings a minute since Jesus was born," was the telling phrase used by a speaker at a meeting in Palmerston North last evening to give a conception of the magnitude of the sum of £1,500,000,000 being spent ( by Great Britain for expediting re-arma-ment, reports the "Times." The speaker was Mr. V. Christensen, during question time at a meeting addressed by Professor' Wood, president of the League of Nations Union in New Zealand. "Or," said Mr. Christensen, "if the amount of the loan* could be turned into sovereigns, they would more than girdle the eartla at the Equator:" New Rugby Ground. Within the next . week the Hutt Valley will have a new Rugby ground, well turfed, adequate in length, and having good dressing-room accommodation for players. It will be 'at the Trentham military camp. Last night, the Wellington Rugby Union was advised of the ground by Sergeant-Major J. S. King, president of the Wellington Referees' Association. The ground was offered to the union for club games on condition that one. of the two Army teams in the competitidn was. playing on the ground. "We shall be very pleased indeed to accept the new ground," said the chairman, Mr. J. N. Millard. "It sounds almost too good to be true." In offering the ground SergeahWVTajor King remarked that "it was a Twickenham to Strand Park." Sportsman Injured. '■' A well-known, sportsman, ■ Mr. Benjamin Myers, of Auckland, was seriously hurt in a motoring accident near Cambridge on the HamiltonCambridge highway on Sunday morning/and was brought by the Hamilton St. John Ambulance to a private hospital in Auckland on Monday, suffering from an injury to the top of his spine (states the "New ■ Zealand Herald"). Mr. Myers had been at Tokaanu on a fishing holiday, and was returning to Auckland when the motorcar in which he was a passenger skidded and hurtled into a ditch at the side of the road. The machine turned over, and Mr. Myers was seriously injured. A St. John ambulance from Hamilton carried him to the Hamilton Hospital, where a series of X-ray photographs indicated an injury to vertebrae at the back of the neck. Pohutu Geyser Active. Probably as a result of the sudden rise in the level of Lake Rotorua and the consequent backing up of the streams, the Pohutu Geyser again became active on Monday, when it gave one of its best displays for many years past (states a Rotorua correspondent). The cauldron was unusually active on Monday afternoon and after suddenly overflowing dropped again as a prelude to the display of the Prince of Wales' Feathers, which usually heralds the activity of the geyser itself. The leathers gave a fine display to a height \qf: about iOft, arid immediately afterwards the geyser, with a roar, shot its plume to an estimated height of 120 ft afterwards dropping and continuing for some time at a height of about 80fti As the weather had again cleared there was a fair number of visitors in the reserve and they were fortunate in seeing one of the best displays of the geyser in 'recent years. • Union of Churches'. "The union of Christianity cannot be far away," said Bishop Cherrington in an address to the Waikato Diocesan ponference of the Church tof England Men's Society (states a Hamilton correspondent). The four fundamental tenets were the apostolic creeds, the apostolic Scriptures, the apostolic sacraments, and the apostolic ministry, said the bishop. * Christians were all agreed' on the first three of these tenets, and the divisions which still existed among the churches turned" upon the varying interpretation of the fourth', , Bishop Cherrington said a comparison between the Napoleonic and great post-war periods would do much to abate pessimistic views held by many people today on the standing of the church in the community. Church history showed that the state of affairs after the Napoleonic wars was far worse than it was after the Great War. ' Fairy Spring Damaged. -, One of the most unfortunate aspects of the weekend storm was the serious damage done to the' famous Fairy Spring, one of the most popular of, the tourist attractions of the' Rotorua district (states a Rotorua correspondent). Overnight the high fern-covered bank on the western side slipped away, and, after almost covering the pathway from which visitors view the trout, also partly filled in a large area of the pool itself. Tons of fern and debris fell over the path and into the pool, and where once was an attractive hillside with fern and underbrush is now only an ugly yellowish scar of soft mud. Fortunately, it was found that many of the trout were still shoaling in the shallows, but it' is' feared that some might have' been covered by the debris. Immediate steps were taken to clear the pool of the debris, and within a few days it is hoped that, with the exception of the scar left on the hillside, all trace of the slip will have been cleared away.