NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22761, 6 October 1948, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

English Women Entertain Germans. “English women, who suffered so much during the war, are doing a ■magnificent thing, I consider, ’ said Miss Amy Kane yesterday, speaking to women in the Army Hall. “The English institutes are inviting small groups of German women to England, showing them English institutions and organisations and generally showing them hospitality and friendship. ’ Unusual Dustmen.

Palmerston North will see some unusual dustmen collecting excess rubbish early in November. They will be members of the junior Chamber of Commerce, who have discussed plans to spend a Saturday, probably November 13, doing practical work to further their “clean your city” campaign. Mr. T. G. Turley, city council sanitary inspector, was present at the meeting, and made tentative arrangements for the chamber to use the council’s rubbish trucks. Gin and Squash.

“Is it more squash than gin, or more gin than squash?” asked Mr. Rex C. Abernethy, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court in Christchurch when a police witness produced a flask, which he said he had found in the hip pocket of a man at a dance- The witness corked the bottle. “I am not asking you to drink the stuff,” said the magistrate. The witness handed him 1 the flask. The magistrate sniffed the contents. “It might be highly medicinal,” he said- The defendant was convicted and fined £l.

English an International Language “It struck me very much that ail the delegates there spoke English and that we did not have to use interpreters," said Miss Amy Kane yesterday, speaking at the opening of the Women’s Institutes’ handicraft exhibition, 1 on the recent international countrywoman’s conference in Amsterdam. She said that English definitely seemed to be becoming an international language and it was the first time that she had attended an overseas conference where interpreters were not indispensable. Delegates had come from Western European countries, Ceylon and Sweden, as well as from Englishspeaking countries. Wheat-Growing in New Zealand. The possibility of New Zealand growing enough wheat to meet the country’s requirements in bread and grain for human and poultry consumption—estimated by the speaker to amount to about 12,000,000 bushels—was discussed by Mr. A. H. Flay, lecturer in farm management at Lincoln College, in a talk given before the Christchurch branch of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand at Canterbury University College. Wheat had been grown in this country from the earliest settlement days, and in the sixties and eighties substantial quantities of flour had been exported, said Mr. Flay. Since 1913, however, apart from 1922, 1923. and 1933, imports had exceeded exports. In time of adversity, when all other produce had fallen in price, the area grown in wheat had gone up. Students Sprout Beards. A few weeks ago an invitation appeared on the students’ notice board at Canterbury Agricultural 'College, Lincoln, soliciting entries for an unusual type of sweepstake. Students with half-a-crown and a strong sense of determination were asked to enter a beard-growing competition. Ten students, most of them in their second and final year at the college, signified their willingness to take part, and although the competition has now reached the stage where it is exciting an increasing amount of comment, there have so far been no withdrawals from the field. The contest will close on December 15, when the hirsute 10 —if they are still 10 —will be judged by the wool classer of the college. According to the terms of the competition, the student with the “longest and strongest” beard will be the winner and will collect all the entry fees.