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Evening Star, Issue 23718, 28 October 1940, Page 4

There was no business to come before the Police Court this morning. Ono of the largest sharks ever caught by hand line in Tauranga Harbour was lauded by two Ilotorna residents, Messrs A. Josephs and W. Reid, near the Omokoroa Wharf. A shark observed swimming near the launch was hooked on an ordinary hapuku lino after four attempts and finally landed after a battle of over an hour and a-half. The shark was 12ft long and weighed 4501 b. Mr Josephs and Mr Reid both received cuts on the hands from tho line. The shark was later brought to Rotorua. A passenger liner struck a whale in the Tasman Sea recently. The whale became fast on the bows of the ship, which hud to go astern to free tho carcass. Tho collision with tho whale did not cause a noticeable jar, but members of the crow who were working on the bows saw the whale just below the surface. They reported to the ship’s officers, who considered that the huge carcass would impede the vessel’s progress. Accordingly they decided (o go astern. The same vessel hit a whale in the Tasman Sea about two years ago.

After tlie opening procedure of the foundation conference of the Democratic Labour Party at Wellington the; report of the parliamentary party was presented by Mr J. A. Lee, who gave a comprehensive outline of the attitude be bad adopted during the recent sittings of the House of Representatives. The secretary, Mr F. M. Earle, reported that the party had (35 branches, of which between 50 and (30 were directly represented at the conference. The formation of other branches was being continued. A large audience, a considerable proportion being holiday visitors attended Dr V. E. Galway’s organ recital on the Town Hall instrument last evening. The outstanding items on a well-chosen ; programme were Purcell’s ‘ Chaconne in F,’ Bach's powerful ‘ Fugue in D Minor’ (‘The Dorian’), and Vidors exciting ‘ Toccata in F.’ These items, handsomely registered by the city organist, served to display the inli power of the organ; in lighter vein wore the lovely ‘Revo Angelicpic_ ot Rubenstein, Guilmant’s ! Lamentation, and a Hollins bracket. ‘ Morning and Evening.’ ' The assisting artist was Mi's Blanche Erriiigton, a contralto ol merit, who sang with great acceptance ‘The Almighty’ (Schubert), Death and the Maiden’ (Schubert) ami O Could 1 But Express in Song (Malashkin). Decently washed up on V) aihi Beach in an exhausted condition and sent to the Auckland Zoo for care, two giant petrels are thoroughly content in their new home. They are now fully recovered and spend a great deal of their time on a small pond near the elephant house. The birds arc free to fly away, but, although they make short flights, they always return to the zoo. To recognise her sou in the uniform of the Australian armed forces in a photograph published in the ‘ Auckland Star "after having lost trace of him for five years was tlie unusual, experience of Mrs A. Whitworth, of Auckland. Mrs Whitworth’s son went to Australia over five vrars ago, and little had been heard of'him since. Tlie photograph showed her son and another Australian in uniform chatting to a coster-ivonian in London, and the likeness was unmistakable. Dr R. Lawson, Professor of Education at the University of Otago, in a critical address on tho theory of Freud given at the New Education Fellowship Conference at Christchurch, said-: “ Frond makes the family begin in pure animalism—the male wants to keep the female near him, the mother wants protection lor her young. I suppose the truth is that in our web of life the strands of animalism and ideal humanism are so interwoven that it is impossible to disentangle them. For note that even Erer.d’s statement, ‘ the mother wants protection for her young,’ is another way of saying that she lias extended her idea of selfpreservation to that other part of her -—the child. And this is the beginning of all morality—thought for tho wellbeing of another. But in the midst of all these attempts at explanation I find myself always left with some inexplicable residuum—and I firmly believe what Plato declares, ‘ Man is a heavenly, not an earthly, plant.’ ” “ The puzzle is that although homo sapiens—i.o., ourselves and our noble ancestors —has presumably been using mind for about 50,000 years, we are not yet agreed on what it is, how it works, and whether it call ho changed by social alteration.” said Dr R. Lawson in an address to tho New Education Fellowship at Christchurch. “ The Behaviourists solve the puzzle by abolishing mind and describing all our actions as derived from the workings of the gut—their word, not mine! And someone once asked: What is Matter? Never mind. What is Mind? No matter.”

Without any prompting from their elders, a number of schoolboys in a seaside town not far from Dunedin have shown a fine patriotic spirit. Pooling their pocket money, they have sent a number of parcels of comforts to men from the district who have gone overseas with the forces, and have also sent letters to the men. The whole scheme was arranged among themselves, and it only became known when they had to ask' for assistance for an amount of postage of which they were short.

The City Fire Brigade at 9.43 last night turned out to a chimney lire in Manor Place. A malicious alarm called the brigade out at 12.53 yesterday morning, and at 8.43 p.m. a gorso fire in the railway embankment at Green Island was extinguished. Distribution of the first of the patriotic fund parcels to troops encamped in Egypt caused great excitement (writes Sapper D. 11, Dawson to relatives in Rangiora). “ They certainly did us proud,” lie says. “ Among other things, f received a writing block and a tin. of cigarette tobacco. The tobacco hero is crook stuff, and it is great to have a real smoke again. ]f you are sending a parcel don’t forgot that tobacco makes an ideal surprise. Socks are also in great demand.” 11 What 14 ordinary citizens working together can do 1,500,000 ordinary citizens working together can do in a larger way,” said Mr A. T. Donnelly, who was chairman of_ the committee of the Economic Stabilisation Conference, in a broadcast speech last night. Ho said, that as chairman ho had a detached, impartial view of the work of the committee. If the Government accepted the whole or important parts of its recommendations, all should be asked for the time being to give up some part of their personal, social, and financial rights and freedom to save the balance of them during the war and the whole of them after the Avar. A bag-snatcher who, although using some force to attain his ends, gained little booty, was at work in Cargill street on Saturday night, when a young woman while proceeding to her home about 11.15 o’clock was molested by a man and a handbag containing a small sum of money was snatched from her. The man ran off, and the bag, minus the contents, was subsequently found in Hanover street. Moved probably by that enterprise and love of investigation which earns for the average hen a close confinement behind wire netting, a batch of chickens which normally live in a brooder in a city shop window, discovered a new and exciting world. Negotiating a drop of perhaps a foot or 15 inches to the shopiloor proper, they found themselves in a chicken’s paradise. Boxes of tender young plants, set in interesting-looking black soil, were strewn everywhere—an open invitation which they speedily accepted. A ‘ Star ’ reporter spent an interesting five minutes watching them demonstrate their health, activity, and genera! efficiency among the potential flower beds. The American Clipper arrived at Auckland from San Francisco on Saturday afternoon with eight passengers in charge of Captain It. J. Nixon. She left Noumea at 7 a.in., and after a sniontli and uneventful journey arrived at 3.20 ii.in. The Clipper was to leave thisi morning on the return journey. 'Hi- WenibVy linin'- dull will lioM a dance in llie I'.ip iy SVuieiV Hail u -ai-ln.