NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

An American Throne Room.

The only throne room in the" United States is being redecorated to restore it as it appeared during the days of the Jlaiwaiian monarchy. The room is located in lolani Palace, which is now the Capitol building for the U.S. territory of Hawaii, housing tjhe-guber-natorial offices and the assembly and committee rooms for the .territorial legislature. Restoration of the historic room where Hawaiian kings and queens held court during the days of the Hawaiian monarchy will establish it as a uniaue museum and show place for visitors. The restoration will be accomplished by replacing all the old furnishings, or authentic copies of those no longer available. Old photographs and records are bein.g studied by the Acting Governor, Charles M. Hite, who, as secretary of the territory, planned the restoration. Parasitic Worm. A type of parasitic worm, has been kept in a glass jar by Mr. W. W. Smith, New Plymouth, for ten months for observation purposes (says a Taranaki exchange). During this peritod it has grown from 22 to 24 inches long. It lives entirely on bacteria in fihe water, and is very active when its w,ater is changed, which is done once a day. In its normal state the worm lives' in the intestines of birds until it is iully fed, when it passes into the water and lays its eggs and dies. The eggs v are swallowed by the bird in search of food and hatch into worms in the bird's stomach, and so the cycle goes on. Mr. Smith hoped that his pet would lay eggs, but apparently the environment is ,not right and so far, in spite of a dailjy search of the water, with a microscope, no eggs have been found. The Navy League. Advice by letter has been, received from the general secretary of the Navy League, London, that Earl Beatty has consented to become chairman of the league, and it is felt that the assistance he will be able to give the president (Lord Lloyd) will be of imriiense advantage and will be a means of increasing the league's activity. Besides being the bearer of a famous naval name, Lord Beatty served in I;he Navy to the rank of lieutenant,, and as Viscount Borodale was for same years a member of Parliament and Parliamentary private secretary to ithe financial secretary of the Admiralty. "His experience, there," the letter adds, "as well as his position and influence will be of immense value to tiie Navy League, and we are sure that all our branches will be unanimous, in their welcome to pur new chaimjian."

Growth of Kotary.

The growth of Rotary was strikingly illustrated to the New Plymouth Rotary Club by District-Governor for New Zealand (Mr. F. Hall-Jones), says the Taranaki "Herald." He said that at the present time there were 4335 clubs throughout the world and they were increasing at the rate of 300 to 400 a year. The members totalled 185,000, and they were increasing at the rate of about 15,000 a year. Hospital Districts. The Minister of Health (the Hon. P. Fraser) announced yesterday that Cabinet had approved of the amalgamation of the Thames, Waihi, and Coromandel hospital districts as from December 1, 1937, and that effect would shortly be given to this decision by Order tn Council. The Minister also stated that it was his intention to recommend Cabinet to approve of the amalgamation of the Wallace and Fiord hospital district with the Southland hospital district. Greeting in Maori. To be hailed with the Maori greeting "Tenakoe" in Bingen, on the Rhine, was the odd experience of Mr. F. W. Schramm, M.P. for Auckland East, one of the delegates to the Empire Parliamentary Association's conference in London, who returned to Auckland this week after a tour which included Great Britain, Germany, and France (states the "New Zealand Herald"). Mr. Schramm was about to board a river steamer on'\the Rhine when the familiar cry was heard. Turning, Mr. Schramm saw a smiling party looking at him. It was a group of New Zealand farmers, some of whom Mr. Schramm knew, who were touring Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark. Good Will of Men. "Peace is not founded on facts, palaces, or treaties, but on the good will" of men," said Mr. F. Hall-Jones, district governor of Rotary in New Zealand, in an address to the New Plymouth Rotary Club, says an exchange. He told the Rotarians that this realisation was brought home strongly to' him when he visited the Palace of Peace at The Hague. The palace was begun in 1905 following a gift by Carnegie and finished in 1913, just in time for the Great War. A Noteworthy Reunion. The Terrace Congregational Church, though numerically only a small body of people, has two missionaries serving the London Missionary Society. Both of these have arrived in Wellington on furlough from opposite ends of the carth —Miss Ngaire Mill, Principal of the Girls' High School, Atauloma, Eastern Samoa, and Miss A. R. Edmanson, Nursing Superintendent at the McKenzie Memorial Hospital, Tientsin, North China. They have both been through strenuous and highly important service in their respective fields. They will be welcomed by. the congregation of the Terrace Church at the close of tomorrow evening's service. Centennial Exhibition. State Departments are to participate in the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, and to that end the Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) has called a conference of Departments to discuss proposals they have been asked to formulate. Mr. Sullivan said last night that it was a unique opportunity for the public to acquire some definite knowledge of the work the various Government Departments are performing. ;, "I propose, as Minister responsible for the general supervision of exhibitions, to call a conference of the Departments within the next few weeks to discuss the various proposals which each Department is asked to formulate," said the Minister. "The public are assured that the displays which will be featured in the Government court will be even more attractive and interesting than those which were shown at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in 1925. By the time the Centennial Exhibition is opened, 15 years will have elapsed since, the Dunedin Exhibition, and I feel certain that Government Departments have kept pace with the great progress that has been made in science and industry during that period, and where these developments are applicable to State Departments, full opportunity has been availed of, resulting in increased efficiency."