NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1938, Page 13

NEWS OF THE DAY

Pig-hunters Treed. In an exciting battle during which the party were treed for an hour, five well-known pig-hunters of New Plymouth finally managed to kill a big lamb-eater boar in the back country of Uruti. Not until 15 shots were fired, states the 'Taranaki Herald," into the pig did it give up its grim struggle and a section of its almost bullet-proof hide gives a clear indication of the formidable opposition that the hunters encountered. The hide formed a one and a half inch thick shield from shoulder to hip, and the .mout covered the palm of a mgn's hand. The remaining tusk was of formidable size. An Athletic Constable. Hamilton has an athletic police officer in Constable D. Martin, who recently demonstrated his prowess as a sprinter by chasing and overtaking a cyclist wh*o would not stop when called upon. Giving evidence in the Hamilton Police Court when the offending cyclist was fined 10s on each of two charges, Constable Martin said ho caught the cyclist in thirty yards. He was congratulated on his performance by the presiding Magistrate (Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M.>

Aeroplanes Christened. Two new Lockheed-Electra aeroplanes purchased by Union Airways were christened Kahu and Kaka at Milson aerodrome yesterday by the Mayor, Mr, A. E. Mansford, and Councillor D. F. Smillie, states "The Post's" Palmerston North representative. The function had been arranged by Union as a gesture to the city and «its associations with the development of commercial aviation. The extended services of the company come into operation on Saturday.. Friendly Italians. Archdeacon Whitehead, in an address at Dunedin on his recent visit to Italy, said that the Italians were the same cheerful and friendly people they had been when he was in Italy 15 years ago, states "The Post's" representative. They showed no hostility to the English, and were eager, for economic reasons, if-no other, to have them in the country, the finances of which seemed to be in a parlous state. He was much impressed with the industry of the people, who still keep up Italy's reputation as "the garden of Europe." No Sale for Guns. "As instructed, I have endeavoured to dispose of the guns in the Square gardens,.but I have riot been successful in finding a purchaser, for the reason that there is not cast iron worth the removal," reported the City Engineer (Mr. J. R. Hughes) to the ivorks committee of the Palmerston North City Council. "A local firm, however, is prepared to remove them without cost to the council for the sake of the steel undercarriage, which may be useful for machinery foundations." The council decided that the guns should be disposed of by public tender. Waitaki Fishing. Fishing above Lake Waitaki last week an angler landed eleven fish, all over 31b in weight, and another angler secured six fish, the weight of which is not available, states the "Oamaru Mail." The portion of the Waitaki from the dam to the mouth was in the best of condition for the opening of the season, and as a result anglers met with fair success. Below the dam one angler caught seven fish, the largest of which weighed s£lb, and at the mouth, where the fishing was fair, another angler took two fish, weighing 51b. Other fish of 4§lb and 51b were taken. The Farmer's Duty. "Whatever Government is in power and whatever that Government may do, the duty of the farmer is clear: he must work for the progress of the country. He can do that by maintaining the farming industry,'which is the main industry of the country, at the very highest possible level of efficiency," declared the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, member of Parliament for Hurunui, at the opening of the Amberley Lime Company's works, reports the "Press." "It is quality the farmer must aim at. We have keen competitors in our principal market at Home, but there is always room at the top. The farmer must make of his industry the very best that expert knowledge and experience can ensure, so that the name of New Zealand stands for the i highest quality of produce in the markets overseas." • War and the Church. . "To the Church war is not glorious fiut humiliating, not the consecration of manhood, but its desecration, not noble but cowardly," said Bishop WestWatson in his address at the Christchurch Anglican Synod service on Monday, reports the "Press." "For, as has been well said lately, war is just a way of escape, a running away from problems. Its attraction to man is that in place of complicated issues it offers him one clear-cut responsibility. But the problems, as we have learned to our cost since the Great War, are there waiting for him when the fighting is over. The difference is that they havej to be solved with impaired resources and under vastly more difficult conditions." - __^ -— __