DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 24 April 1937, Page 10

DOMINION NEWS

(Per Press Association.) , AUCKLAND, Apiil 22

The creation of a bursary for medical students who have taken their first-year medical cour. e at -Auckland ' University College, and who are taking their seeond-year course at Otago University, has been decided on as the Casement Aiekin Memorial by the Auckland branch of the Biitish Medical Association. Subscriptions to the memorial fund amount to .£479. The committee of the association which organised the memorial hopes that its objective of £5OO will be reached. CHRISTCHURCH, April 22. Thrown a distance of. twenty feat after a bicycle he was riding was struck by a train from Rangiora at the |?ark Road crossing this morning, Cecil McKelvie, a boy aged ten, who lives at 75, Diamond Avenue, had a miraculous escape from serious injury. McKelvie was taken to the Christ, church Public Hospital suffering from concu.sion and abrasions to the face, but, his condition was stated to be not serious j WELLINGTON, April 23. • | One of a party, travell.ng north, on an athletic expedition, and concerned in the thiowing o f an automobile sign over Paekakariki Hill, a youth, was. to-day, at the Wellington olice Court, fined 15s. The Magistrate told him to go to his pals and between them they could make up the damage. “If there is any sportsmanship in them,’’ he said, “they will appreciate your action in com ng forward.” AUCKLAND, April 22. A whirlwind struck the property of Mr J. R. Cullen, a fanner of Orak.au, near Te -Awaniutu, shortly after 9 o’clock, and in a space of a few minutes cau-ed much damage. In its progress the whirlwind completely demolished a milking shed and a barn, and :uso overturned a nearby cottage. A haystack in an adjoining paddock, received the full force of the blast and was scattered over a wide area. Large poplar trees were uprooted and stripped of their foliage, and walnut trees which had stood for more than fifty years were razed to the ground. Damage was caused to power and telephone wires when a huge macroearpa tree was upiooted. A waggon, hay-mower and sledge, were also demolished. “I have never seen so much destruction in so short a time.” said Mr Cullen. “The wind was preceded by i a loud rumbling noise, and at first I thought it was an earthquake." The whirlwind, which appears tol have been puiejy’ local, did not damage the adjoining properties. AUCKLAND. April 22. The view that the tendency of farmers in their public utterances, vo present their vceat-on in its worst light and aspects, was partly responsible for the dwindling number of bovs taking agricultural instiuctton at high school, was expressed on be. half of the Otaliuhu Technical High School.

The principal (Mr F. Martin) ami the agricultural instructor (Dr. Hili) said that there had been a marked decrease in enrolments this year. The agricultural course had been in force at the Otahuhu School for four years and the peak enrolments were 81 in 1934. Last year the numbers dropped,

" to 49. and this year there were 37 > boys taking the course. It was stated that the school sought ; to present an agricultural course in ■ the most attiactive manner, but this 1 was ip part, at leas't, counteracted by • the tendency of farmers to disparage 1 their calling for economic and politi. cal teasons. This public disparage. ‘ mrnt had been given more publicly of recent years and had probably accen. 'th.iated the falling-off in enrolment-. The public decrying of farming as an industry had undoubtedly a diseou.’. aging influence on boys and parents seriously contemplating farming as a leareer ,