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Evening Star, Issue 25699, 24 January 1946, Page 4

The Clan Line Company's steamer Clan Macaulay, at present at Lyttelton, still carries some of her war.scars. As a result of an unexploded aerial torpedo passing through her large funnel, patches are still visible, and there Is also a number of other holes caused through shrapnel from machine-gun fire. The vessel was leaving Malta in 1942 when an enemy aircraft attacked her. She was then bound from- Malta to the Middle East to pick iup Australian, and New Zealand ex-prisoners of war. Sharpnel marks on her. bow are a legacy of this attack, in which one naval rating was injured. A lawyer who spent two years in Italian prison eamps was frequently shown by fellow-prisoners letters from home so that he could advise them on* legal problems. One Australian private had the following letter from the girl he left' behind. u Dear Jim,—lt seems as though you' will n'ever return. Frankly, I just got tired of waiting, and last Saturday, I your father. Love, Mum." A most unusual scholastic performance, the obtaining of the degree of bachelor of commerce while still a secondary school pupil, has been achieved by a Christchurch boy, Rex Anderson, of Addington, who passed the 15* subjects of the examination in only three years. Anderson, who had just turned 19 when he sat his final examinations, was a pupil of the Christchurch (Boys' High School. He sat no fewer than seven subjects in the examinations at the end of last year, and passed them all to complete his degree course. .. It has been possible, for very many years, to start a good argument about the correct spelling of Nae Nae or Naenae, Now that it has become a populous Wellington suburb, with a railway station of its own, the matter (says the ' Evening Post') has had to be settled officially and finally. The name is Naenae. This form has been adopted by the Railways Department and the P. and % Department after consultation with the New Zealand Geographic Board. The board published a list of approved names in 1934, giving Naenae as the correct form, " not Nae Nae, Nai Nai, or Ngae Ngae." The word is said to be one of the Maori names for mosquito. The national savings weekly quota receipts have commenced very promisingly in the new year with 250 quota successes throughout the Dominion last f week, out of 336 quotas allotted. With less than 10 months of- the financial year elasped, 127 places have already attained their full annual quotas, and in 11 of the 20 postal districts the full district quota has been recorded. The campaign to encourage young people just commencing work to open national savings accounts in the various groups is already yielding very gratifying results. At Wellington alone, over 100 new group accounts were opened during the past week, «ukT employers generally are offering every encouragement for the development of thrift among their staffs.

" Most school principals are taking a serious view of accrediting and are setting a high standard," stated the retport of the liaison officer, Mr James Thompson, on Auckland University College, presented to the Senate of the University of New Zealand. " To be an accredited pupil ought to be a reward given only to those who, by conscientious work and satisfactory results, have proved themselves worthy of the distinction. If this view of accrediting is generally adopted and consistently carried out, the accredited pupils will come to the University with the guarantee of their school that they arc thoroughly equipped to attend lectures in at least three specified subjects." *

Referring to a cable message from Copenhagen published on January 19 claiming the death of the world's oldest horse at the age of 41' years, Mr ■A. J. Langmuir, of Auckland," formerly of Taumaruniu, who is visiting Taumarunui, claims that he once owned a mare named Kitty which lived 47 years. He and Mr C. Richards, of Auckland, started business at Poro-o-Tarao in 1900 and they bought the eight-year-old mare Kitty at Frankton in that year. Kitty worked in the store brake for several years and later in cuttings as a tip horse when the Main Trunk line was being constructed. She was finally bought by Mr P. O'Shea, of Taumarunui. and became a "familiar figure in the streets of Taumarunui until she was pensioned off. She eventually stumbled 'into s, drain and died about the end of 1939, when she was 47 years old. For the third night in succession the waterside workers employed at Chelsea refused overtime, _as no rationed meats were included in the evening meal menu.

Consideration of the establishment of a school in veterinary science in New Zealand is to be deferred until the need for such a school' becomes greater. The Senate of the University of New Zealand has decided that a veterinary school shall not be set up until there are prospects of the Dominion's employing a minimum of 200 veterinarians. At present only 70 are employed throughout New Zealand. Conciliation proceedings between the master bakers and their employees for a new Dominion a;vard were opened in Auckland yesterday under.the chairmanship of the Conciliation' Commissioner, Mr S. Ritchie. The proceedings are bound up with the dispute which has affected the Auckland public recently, inasmuch as the New Zealand Baking Trade Employees' Union has included a five-day week of 40 hours in its award claims. _ The sit T ting is not expected to finish before Friday. A motion to have a special committee set up to review the whole question of medical education in New Zealand ) produced very little discussion when it was introduced by Professor R. J. T. Bell (Dunedin) before the Senate of the University of New Zealand on Tuesday. • The motion was seconded by Mr W. H. Cocker (Auckland), and carried unanimously. The following committee was selected:— The Chancellor, Mr Justice Smith, the Vice-Ohancellor, Sir Thomas Hunter ■(convener), Mr W. H. Cocker (Auckland), the Very Rev. D. C. Herron (Dunedin), Messrs J. H. E. Schroder (Christchurch), T. D. M. Stout (Wellington), A. H. Johnstone (Auckland), the Dean of the Medical School, Dr C. E. Hercus, Sir Hugh Acland (Christchurch). ' The Minister of Railways, Mr Semple, stated yesterday that in a further effort to assist the business community, the Railways Department would run a Sunday Limited express between Wellington and Auckland. A train would leave each terminus at 7.15_ p.m. Mr Semple said that the service would start next Sunday, and although the sleeper accommodation would be 'limited, it was felt that the needs of tho travelling public would be met. It w,as some considerable time, the Minister added, since the Sunday Limited was discontinued, and the position would now be that such expresses would run on Fridays, Sundays, and Mondays. The new ,degree of Bachelor of Divinity _now_ authorised by New Zealand University is commented on by Professor S. F. Hunter, principal of Theological Hall, Knox College, who' points out that Otago University has set up a faculty of theology and has recognised the three Church colleges in Dunedin as teaching centres—namely, Knox. Selwyn, and the college of the Associated Churches of Christ. As the lecturers' receive their salaries from the Churches concerned, and the colleges are already in existence, Professor Hunter suggests that no additional expense will be added to the University, as college and< examination' fees will probably more than cover all expenses. The degree will be open to candidates throughout New Zealand, Students living in the vicinity of Dunedin will have to " keep terms " by attending lectures, but others prevented from attending lectures may secure exemption and keep terms by passing a college or terms examination. John Bernard Newman, a truck driver, aged 29, who had pleaded guilty yesterday to the theft of motor car tools valued at £6 a'nd to a charge of unlawfully converting a motor car, was before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., in the Police Court this morning for sentence. The Magistrate said that he had received a report from the probation officer concerning the accused, who appeared not to be of a criminal type, and who had a good war record. In the circumstances, added His Worship, he would take the unusual course or admitting the accused, who was already on probation for the theft of petrol, to a further term of 12 months, dating from the expiration of the existing period. Further conditions were that he dispose of his motor car and make restitution of the sum -of 5s 7d, value of petrol used. The Magistrate warned the accused of the consequences likely to follow any further appearance on his part before the,court. A first offender, on a charge of drunkenness, was convicted and discharged.

A dropped lighted match is thought to have caused a fire to break put in a building at 271 Moray Place, used by Neil Mcßae and Co. Ltd. as a rubber merchant's warehouse. One room and its contents on the first floor were slightly damaged by fire and water.