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Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 8

A more devoted follower of any sport could hardly be imagined than the father of Milner, a member of the Australian hockey team now touring New Zealand. Mr Milner is so wrapped up in the game, no doubt on account of his son’s success, that he travelled for nine days over a distance of more than 2,000 miles—from his home in Perth to Sydney—in order to accompany his son on his visit to New Zealand. This fact was related by Mr J. Hogg, president of the Otago Hockey Association, at a complimentary dinner to the Australian and New Zealand test teams on Saturday night. A Gisborne Association message states that an outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis is reported from Tolaga Bay. The disease was found in the first instance to have affected a settler’s wife and her three children, one of whom died after removal to Cook Hospital. The seven-years-old son of another settler has been removed to the hospital. The district health officer, Dr Turbott, has charge of the situation, and is taking all the necessary precautions. No news has been received (states a Press Association telegram from Greymouth) of Mr William D. Murray, a florist, who disappeared some days ago. He was last seen on the Greymouth wharf.

Mail contracts let to private enterprise in the South Island expire on December 31. Tenders for the letting of fresh contracts, to commence on January 1, 1935, closed on August 29, and all post offices in the south are at present dealing with the tenders received. When satisfactory arrangements have been made the successful tenderers will take over the contracts to deliver mails to inland districts for a period of three years. North Island contracts are dealt with at a separate time, new ones being let from the beginning of this year.

Within a minute of the end of the Soccer match between Y.M.C.A. and Ponsonby on Saturday the ball burst just as a player was taking a kick at goal. The score was then 2 all, and as no other ball was available the match must he replayed.—Auckland Press Association.

Although warships are a common sight in Auckland Harbour and at the naval base at Devonport, it is seldom that they berth on the city side. At the week-end the cruisers Dunedin and Diomede berthed side by side at the Queen’s wharf and were thrown open to the public yesterday. They were crowded with visitors, who at one stage were arriving at the rate of fifty a minute.—Press Association.

Since the discovery of the Loch Ness monster, almost every country has produced a rival. Now it is Australia’s turn. Three men in a launch near Brisbane declare they saw a dark object on the surface of the water, which they thought at first was a whale, but suddenly it raised its head eight or ten feet out of the water. Then they saw it was like a huge snake, from thirty feet to thirty-five feet in length. It had a head like a turtle and a body like a ribbed hose. The men had no fifle or they would have shot the monster. Fishermen also declare that they have seen the beast.

To-day was the Jewish New Year, this being the year 5695 of the Jewish world, Yom Kippuk, the Day of Atonement, falls on September 19, and the Feast of Tabernacles on September 24.

“ Melbourne, the Garden City,” is the title to be adopted in all forms of centenary advertising (says the ‘ Age ’). As the Publicity Committee informed the Centenary Council, other cities have their pet appellations, why not Melbourne? Sydney is known as the “ Harbour City,” Brisbane as the “ City of Sunshine,” and Adelaide as the “ City of Churches.” 11 It is felt,” ran the Publicity Committee’s recommendation, “ that Melbourne is quite entitled to be called the Garden City, and if the expression is used freely during the celebrations the name may remain for all time.” Cr Kane told the committee he and his colleagues had spent half an hour cudgelling their brains to get a nice slick slogan, and they believed they now had one. At this stage a voice called out: “What about the ‘Golden City?’” But it was pointed out that Bendigo had already pre-empted that title. Mr S. Myor murmured that Melbourne had more diamonds than any other city, but no one seemed disposed to suggest the “ Diamond City.” So “ Garden City ” we are to be, and few will deny the aptitude of the name, though it is unfortunately only too true that many slum pockets and ghettos yet remain in the inner suburbs, a challenge to the humanitarian instincts of the individual and to the energy of the entire metropolis.

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