NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Gored by Heifer. Severe internal injuries were suffered by a drover, Thomas Cook Paton,! aged 39, married, of Great South Road, Papakura, when he was attacked by a heifer at the Papakura dairy sale, states the "New Zealand Herald." Mr. Paton, who is employed by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, had just entered the ring to relieve another drover when the animal, without warning, knocked him against the side of the enclosure and gored him in the groin. He was taken to the Auckland Hospital, where his condition was reported to be not serious. Ice on the Windscreen. Motorists found little pleasure in driving in the early hours on Friday morning, states the "Christchurch StarSun." A city resident had been visiting friends in Riccarton and before he commenced the home trip at 1 a.m., he found it necessary to obtain hot water to remove the ice from the windscreen. Even then, his labour was almost wasted, for the windscreen was again coated with ice when he reached Hos- | pital Corner. Signals to Pedestrians. Even during the few days since greater attention has been paid to pedestrians at manually controlled points in the city, particularly at the intersection of Manners and Cuba Streets, there has been a remarkable improvement in the understanding between pedestrians, pointsmen, and motorists, proof that pedestrians will follow instructions when they are conveyed to them in such a way as to be understandable. For those few who deliberately ignore rules and signals definite penal action, with the assistance of the police if necessary, may be the only remedy. The value of understanding at one point will have its good effects at all intersections, for drivers and walkers alike will act with mutually greater respect and confidence in the other fellow doing his part. Hitler's New Title.

A new adulatory title has been bostowed on Hitler since Germany's absorption of Austria. Pro-Nazi Austrians refer to him, according to a letter recently received by an Austrian now living in Christchurch, by a phrase meaning "The Heaven-Sent," states the "Star-Sun." Instead of ending, as previous letters have done, "Your affectionate brother, Hans," or some such phrase, the last note that - the local member of the family received from home Concluded with "Heil Hitler," and then the writer's signature. It started, too, with the same phrase. Since the Nazi censorship extends to the opening by the authorities of all letters addressed overseas, to insure that nothing derogatory to the Third Reich leaks out, discretion demands that, whatever a correspondent's political views might be, he should use the approved Nazi forms of address, to save himself from the suspicion of disloyalty.

A Hole in the Road. Travelling north along the Great South Road in his car on Thursday, Mr. Reuben Bradbury, of Papakura, felt a severe bump at a point where the road crosses a short arm of a swamp just north of a wattle plantation about four and a half miles south of Mercer; states a Mercer correspondent. The jolt led Mr. Bradbury to think his back axle must have broken. He stopped and went back to investigate. He was amazed to find the smooth bitumen surface of the highway broken by an irregular hole about 18in in diameter and at least a foot deep. The hole waS right in the middle of the road. Mr. Bradbury found a stick and stuck this in the hole with a bundle of paper affixed to the top as a warning to the drivers of other vehicles. He then continued on to Mercer, where he reported the matter at the police station and repairs were commenced at once. It was found that only a shell of bitumen remained over an irregular cavity about 6ft in diameter and up to about 2ft in depth. A History of Wellington Province.

One of the means by which the Centennial year will be marked will be the publication biy the Wellington Provincial Committee, through the historical sub-committee, of a comprehensive and illustrated record of the development of the province during the hundred years from 1840. The history is to be written by a New Zealand author, and in its broad lines will trace the foundation of the Wellington settlement; the gradual extension to the outlying districts of Wanganui, Rangitikei, Manawi'tu, and Wairarapa; the growth of its governing organs; economic wealth; the rise of now settlements and towns; and political development under the provincial system. Up till 1877 or thereabouts the history of the province may be treated as a whole, but from that date onward the narrative may be less detailed, merely tracing the continued development up to the date of the Centennial. Similar historical records will probably be produced in other provinces, and will be complementary to one another. It is proposed that the first edition should be of two thousand copies.