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Evening Star, Issue 25169, 8 May 1944, Page 2

' " I believe in bringing to the ;otico of youths the fact that their careers are largely made or broken in the first few years after leaving school," said the president of the Auckland Chamber' of Commerce (Mr F/. G, Baskett), addressing junior members. " If they do not shape their course right-lv in that critical period," he added, " they are heading to join the bio; army of mediocre workers 'who will never climb more than halfway up the ladder of success. I realise that every youth cannot gain a top position, but many more youths could be made much more efficient employees if, in their yoUng days, employers made an effort to inspire them with ambitionand to guide them on to the rails that lead to success. One of the main essentials is confidence—confidence itt one's self and confidence in one's eiitplo.ven Both are necessary, and one in of little value without the other. Tho will and the desire to work are founded on. enthusiasm and ambition, and the main pillar supporting the great driving force, ambition, is confidence."

A tribute to Mr H. Tai Mitchell, chairman of Te Arawa Trust Board, who died o.n Friday, was paid at Christchurch by tho Minister representing the Maori race on the Executive Council, Mr Tirikatene, when speaking at the Maori Girls' School. The Minister recalled that within a week the Maori people had lost three prominent- leaders. Mr Robert Gilbert and Mr Hoani To Heuheu, paramount chief of tho Ngatituwharetea, died early in the week. " and now we learn of tho sudden death of that great leader of Te Arawa people, Mr Henry Taiporutu Mitchell," said tho Minister. " Tho counsel of these men, who had the Welfaro of tho Maori people so much at heart, will be sorely missed in the years to come." ho added. "To the families and tribes now bereaved we offer our sincere sympathy." In moTe favourable weather iconditions than were experienced last year the gamo shooting season opened on Saturday. Near to Dunedin the sport expected was not obtained, though several wood bags of pukeko have been reported! The conditions for duck shooting were affected by the water lying on the Tnieri Plains, mid, although plenty of birds were seen there on Saturday afternoon, they were mostly flying too high. The shooting at the southern end of Lake Waihola. in the Clarendon district, was poor, hut on other parts of the lake there were more ducks. From reports so far received it would appear tbnt shooters in South and Central Otago secured good lings. The Dunedin Returned Services' Association has received the following donations and returns from Poppy Dav: Amount previously acknowledged, £3,496 Os 2d; Henley W.D.F.U., £1 10s; Mornington (additional), 2s; Caversham School (additional), £1; Middlemarch, £l3 17s 4«d; Outram, £l4 Is; total, £3.529 10s 6tl.

"It is not only married couples who are working and apartment dwellers who need these shops," remarked tho chairman of the Auckland Man Power (Industrial) Committee (Mr .1. O. Liddell), when Mr Milne, representing an appellant, emphasised the need for small shops which baked and sold cakes, pies, and similar goods. "My wife says she has no butter to cook with and has to buy cakes from shops, while, of course, some people have no gas to cook with." he added.

A mountaineer who climbed to the summit of Mount Egmont last week found the body of an opossum on the westerly peak of the crater. The opossum was well grown and appeared to have been dead only one or two days. Opossums are rarely seen above the bush line, and there is no indication how- this one reached such a high altitude. The first .two Europeans to reach the summit, Dr E. Dieffenbach and Mr Heberley, recorded finding the skeleton of a rat in the crater, but it was thought to have been carried there by a haw.

Although there have been many Americans in New Zealand in the last two years it should not be taken for granted that all have gained even an elementary knowledge of our geography. A Timaru pilot, recently returned' from the Islands, had a conversation there with an American serviceman who said that during his furlough in New Zealand he had had a fine time in a little town south of Auckland. Further questioning revealed that the little town was the capital, Wellington.

A recent report that shark steaks were becoming increasingly popular as food in the United States of America and that sharks were bringing the second highest average price of any fish sold on the Chicago market, was referred to recently by an official of New Zealand Fisheries Ltd., Wellington. He said that, though he could not speak for other centres, shark meat was never sold to the public in Wellington. Of the many varieties of shark found in New Zealand waters, there might he some that would mnike good eating, but, possibly because of the many other known edible fish caught, he had not heard of their being used as food. When his firm .operated trawlers they caught many thousands of sharks, but they were merely killed and thrown back into the water.

At a Nelson ward meeting addressed by the chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Board, Mr W, E. Hale, regret was expressed that the board's attitude was not fully explained at the time the Prime Minister announced the increased price. The meeting passed a motion as follows:—" The Nelson dairy farmers regret that the monetary reward in the new price is not a just one, either to the farmer or his employees, and deplore the attitude of tho Government as not sympathetic to the industry or more helpful _to the causo of additional production, but agrees that the efforts of all farmers should be pledged to meet the call for an increased output."—Nelson Association message.

For the fifth week of the present financial year 16 towns in the Dunedin postal district obtained their national war savings quotas, the successful places being Dunedin, Balclutha, Clyde, Heriot, Kaitangata, Lawrence, sMiddlemarch, Miller's Flat, Mosgiel, Outram, Palmerston, Ranfurly, Roxburgh, Tapanui, Waikouaiti, and Wanaka. The district position for the period is ns follows: District weekly quota, £5,990; investments for week, £20,164.