NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Group of Sunspots. After two months of comparative quiescence, the sun is again showing spot activity. Mr. G. V. Hudson reports that .towaruc the end of last week a group of three spots of fair size made its appearance on the sun's eastern limb. This group is at present favourably placed for observation and will shortly pass the sun's central meridian. The greatest length of the group is about 120,000 miles. None of the component parts is more than 40,000 miles' in diameter. Free "Fishing, Returned New Zealand servicemen receiving treatment i'or sickness or wounds in Rotorua have been granted free licences for. the trout-fish ing season which opened in the lakes and streams of the Rotorua acclimatisation district yesterday. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr. Parry) stated last night that a number of the men in the Rotorua Hospital, whose condition of health had much improved, desired to indulge in the sport. A similar gesture last trout-fishing season was much availed of and appreciated. Bible in the Schools. "Why is the Bible practically a closed book in our schools?" asked the Rev. Melin Davies, assistant to the principal, of. College House, Christchurch, when addressing the New Education Fellowship, states the "Press." Yet there was no volume in the English language, the speaker declared, that had a finer collection of stories suitable for the moral training of children! Mr. Davies, who made a strong plea for an educational training based on Christian ethics ancl instruction, said that the problem of sex instruction had been "pathetically tjadly. handled" in the past. "Let it be treated in the same wise way as oth.er morals," he said. "Let it be treated'-in the .home, in. .the school, in .the church, all working harmoniously together."