NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Bands to Play Soccer.

Permission was granted by last night's meeting of the management committee -of the Wellington Football Association for the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band and the First Battalion Band to play a Soccer match at the Kilbirnie Stadium on Saturday, October 8; It was stated that there was a possibility of four band teams playing in the association's competitions next year, Honouring His Home Town. A letter has recently been received by the Wanganui Rowing Club from Mr. W. J. Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand, saying that when visiting Ramsgate he saw a fine motorlaunch bearing the name "Wanganui." Being ah old\ Wanganui boy, he inquired into the matter, and found that the owner was a former Wanganui resident, Mr. T; G. Galbraith, who is now the motor commodore of the Medway Yacht Club. He found that Mr. Galbraith visits many countries in his launches, all of which bear the name "Wanganui." Mr. Jordan suggested that the club might care to present Mr. Galbraith with a club flag, or.that the city should present a flag. The Rowing Club intends to secure the interest of the City Council in the matter. Michaelmas Day. Today, -September 29, is Michaelmas Day, a day dedicated by the Christian Church since 487 to St. Michael and All Angels. It is also the day upon which the Lord Mayor of London is elected, and is one of the four English quarter-days. Several curious rites and customs are associated with Michaelmas, that of eating goose being one. The origin of this has never been satisfactorily determined. Michaelmas daisies are so named because they flower in the Northern Hemisphere about the end of September. Election Consciousness." "Is your name Savage or Nash?" Mr. J. R. Johnston was asked by electionconscious delegates at'the-annual meeting of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association when he put forward a scheme which he claimed was a certain method of raising substantial funds for the upkeep of the association's ground, Wilding Park, reports the "Press." Briefly the scheme consisted of asking every affiliated lawn tennis player in Canterbury to pay the large sum of a penny a week into the special fund; to ask every former player to do the same; and finally to approach 1000 sportsmen asking them to make the same contribution. Mr. Johnston claimed that the beauty of the scheme ■was that no work would be thrown on club players. A collector could be appointed on a commission, basis, and he was confident that the.associations funds would benefit by some £200 a year. "An Island Off the Coast." ' "It is a funny thing that in every dispute Is am concerned in Auckland always finds -a difficulty in following what applies in Wellington," said Mr. W. J. Mountjoy in conciliation council when the theatre employees' dispute was under discussion. The clause being argued was payment for Sunday work. It was pointed out that in Auckland double time was paid, but that this did not apply in the other industrial districts concerned. "Somebody once suggested that Auckland is an island off the coast of New Zealand," said an employers' assessor. I Daffodils Pilfered. Referring to the pilfering of flowers along the river banks, the superintendent of parks and reserves at Christchurch, Mr. M. J. Barnett, said that on a recent 'afternoon, when passing an area planted with daffodil bulbs along the bank of the Heathcote River, he had to check a boy and a girl who had no fewer than 120 blooms in their possession. On another afternoon, two girls were stopped vftien busily engaged in picking every bloom they could find. Mr. Barnett explained that during the autumn several thousand daffodil bulbs were planted in the grass along the left bank of the Heathcote. During the past fortnight many of those bulbs had commenced to flowef, but during the past few days the whole area had been practically stripped of blooms.

Red Reflectors Set in Road. Patented by two members of the staff of the New Plymouth Borough Council, a permanent method of marking pedestrian crossings is being used experimentally for one crossing in the borough, states a New Plymouth correspondent. If the experiment is as successful as is expected, all crossings in the borough will be laid down in the same way. The advantages of the method are that even on wet, dark nights tlie crossings will be clearly visible to motorists, and the heavy periodical cost of painting crossings will be avoided. It is stated that the system is much superior to other patents with similar objectives that have been seen at New Plymouth. The system is the joint invention of \ the town clerk, Mr. F. T. Bellringer, and the foreman, Mr. W. G. Bethel. The patent covers oval blocks of a special white concrete mixed with marble chips, red reflectors being inset.