NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Women and Blitz,

Two reported sayings of London women in regard to the war were detailed by Dr. L. H. Hough, the American theologian, in an address at^, a luncheon in Auckland on Friday. A good example of British aplomb, said Dr. Hough, was the woman who, when asked how she got on in an air raid, replied, "I reads my Bible, I says my prayers, and then I says, 'To 'ell with .'ltler,' and goes to sleep." The fine art of understatement, he added, was displayed by another woman in mentioning the satisfaction she got out of her little radio set: "I like to listen tr Mr. Winston, because he seems so interested in the war." Late Lord Auckland. Sent not long before its writer, Lord Auckland, was killed in the big German air raid on London on April 16, a letter has been received by the Mayor ol Auckland Sir Ernest Davis. In it Lord Auckland referred with en thusiasm to the worK of New Zealam flyers, and he also mentioned that he and Lady Auckland hoped to visit 'he Dominion after the war. "Your boys are doing wonderfully well over here, Lord Auckland said. "Some of them were in my wing in France during the early part of the war, including the famous 'Cobber* Kain. It was a great pity he was killed. He was a splendid boy in every way. Lord Auckland said for the last five months in France he was one of the assistant air attaches in Paris. Finally he drove mt through Spain and Portugal and put Lady Auckland on the clipper from Lisbon to New York, and his mother on a ship for Calcutta "Everything is going splendidly for us, and 1 am sure it will continue to do so," Lord Auckland concluded. No Wapiti and Few Birds. In a report to the Government Mr. E. J. Herrick, a well-known deer stalker of Hawke's Bay, states that a party of which he was a member saw no wapiti on an expedition covering a wide area in the Fiord National Park of the South Island. Two years ago in the same area he saw 22 and shot six. Mr. Herirck also states that he was struck by the absence of bird life. His party saw in all only four wekas and heard one kiwi. "But what we did see at an elevation of about 4000 feet, in the snow," continues the report, "were the footprints of two separate stoats or weasels, which, as you know, are death to bird life." Commenting on Mr. Herrick's report the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Parry) said most of the reports coming to the Govern ment today contained some reference to the deadly work of the stoat and the weasel among the birds of all kinds in the Dominion. "Mr. Herrick," the. Minister added, "has had extensive experience of the bush of New Zealand, and his observations on its bird life have always been sound The discovery he has made carries a plain recommendation for the killing of every stoat and weasel one sees." Unusual Football Incident. Diversion caused at a football match on Satuiday provided an experience well out of the ordinary run of those where over-keenness of enthusiasm leads to a show of feeling In this case a difference between two line umpires led to their staging a

sidelight of the kind by which players, if they cannot restrain their feelings, receive marching' orders. The referee was not at a loss for a decision in Saturday's incident. The line umpires, who had come together when a kick at goal was being taken, were ordered off!