NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20031, 1 September 1939, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Rotary Conference in Sydney The biggest Rotary conference ever held in Australia is to take place in Sydney next week. In response to a warm invitation from the Sydney Club, the Wellington Rotary Club is sending a delegation, the members of which are Miss Low, executive secreary, Messrs. Frank Jones, R. ReesTones, J. Penman, J. Riddell, and F. V ickerman

Big- Potato Plantings There has been a big rush in Gisborne lately to purchase seed pota.oes, both in small and large' quanities. The household amateur and ;he market gardener, the farmers on .he fiats, and the .station owners on the hills have bought larger quantifies than usual, and within three Or our months potatoes should become plentiful, resulting in a sudden break in the present high prices.

Teachers’ Camp During Exhibition Approval has been given by the A’eLlington Education Board to a icheme whereby a group of teachers will be permitted to camp on school grounds bandy to the Exhibition during the Christmas vacation. The board has advised Mr. G. R. Ashbridge, secretary of the New Zealand Educational Institute, that it is prepared to agree to the application, subject to the consent of the school committee concerned.

Women Workers in Japan “Japan marches forward practically on the shoulders of her women,’’ said the Rev. Clarence Eaton, in an address to the Palmerston North Rotary Club. “They are not displeased with the conditions, nor are they disgruntled. The Japanese are firmly convinced that they are members of the only Divine race on this earth, and because they think that they also think they have a Divine mission. They consider that each Japanese soldier is worth two of any other, and they think they have a special ethical mission.”

Japanese Adaptability To give some idea of the adaptability of the Japanese, the Rev. Clarence Eaton, in addressing the Palmerston North Rotary Club, referred to the trend of music in Japan. He said that Japanese music was very •addening, and uninspu'ing to the European. And now because the music did not help them they had adapted Western music, and one could go through Japan hearing “The Blue Sells of Scotland,” “Annie Laurie,”

and other tunes. The Japanese had now sung these songs so much, added the speaker, that they thought they were their own. The Christian tunes they considered were particularly inspiring of confidence, and they had borrowed the hymns of the Christian Churches for purposes of aggrandisement and Imperial campaigning. Claims for Rent

“There is a general impression that if a tenant of a house fails to hand over the key to the landlord on the expiration of the /-tenancy, he is deemed to be ‘holding over,’ and so is liable for further rent,” commented Mr. J H. Luxford, S.M., when giving a reserved decision in the Magistrate’s Count, Wellington. Plaintiff claimed four weelcs’ rent from a tenant who did not hand over the key until four weeks after vacating the house. “That is not the position,” the magistrate added. “Failure to hand over the key may .be evidence, but is not .conclusive evidence, of the tenant’s intention to continue the tenancy. The court must consider the- whole of the circumstances in order to determine whether there is sufficient evidence of such intention. In other words, the evidence must establish a new tenancy.” The claim for additional rent was disallowed.