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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 March 1935, Page 6

The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of the alteration to trains on the 7th instant in connection Avith school excursions.

' ‘“‘There’"life still' rather many young people' who are prepared to relax their educational efforts as soon as they obtain a position, and do nothing further to make themselves secure in their jobs and prepare for promotion,” said the principal of the Christchurch College, Dr D. E. Hansen, in a report to the Board of Governors of the college. “While the system of continuation of education through evening classes has some disadvantages, it is-,a great aid to young people —and older people, too—who have the ambition to make good in the callings they have taken up.”

During the hearing of a charge at the Waipukurau Magistrate’s Court of “driving in a manner which in all the circumstances might have been dangerous to the public,” the defendant expressed surprise qt the wording of the charge. While admitting that he was travelling at a good speed, he said that the time was 6.30 in the morning, and there was no one else on the road. “The charge is framed in legal phraseology,’ ’said the magistrate, Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M. I often have to ask what a charge means, and it may turn out that it means ‘cutting the corner,’ although it takes about 1000 words to say it.”

Reference to the differences between the bank notes of Australia and New Zealand was made in Christchurch on Thursday by Mr. A. V. Winchester, retiring manager of the’Bank of Australasia, when replying to a presentation from the bank’s customers. Touching on the question of Australia’s loyalty to the Crown, Mr. Winchester reminded his audience that the bank notes in Australia bore a picture of the King, and as a watermark, a picture of the Prince of Wales. New Zealand’s notes had pictures of a Maori chief and a bird. Both, he said, were very pretty, but. were hardly associated with coin of the realm.

According to a story current m certain circles, there has been a slump in opium in Auckland during the past fortnight, and the cause of the slump suggests that, while honour might be found amongst thieves, it is rare amongst opium smugglers. About a fortnight ago, goes the story, a large number of tins allegedly containing opium were sold, and the buyers discovered later that each tin contained only a layer of opium on top. of treacle or some other sticky fluid similar in consistency to the genuine article. The unscrupulous vendor is alleged 'to have left with a handsome profit and to have spoiled the sale of a fairly large consignment that was landed later, the sale of which hung fire so long that the importer had to let his stock go at a much reduced price, in order to get rid of it.

“I am amazed at the number of new singers who have come on during my absence in New Zealand,” writes Mr Hubert Carter, the wellknown tenor, now in London, to a Wellington friend. “Many of .the singers who were at the top of the tree have disappeared and the majority of the recitals in London are by artists with foreign names. Choral singing has had a decided setback, and there are now by no means the number of societies in the provinces that there used to be. This is undoubtedly due to broadcasting and the system now in vogue. The provincial towns and people get the wireless programmes as well as all London, and they are good programmes. Consequently the audiences are in the homes, not in the halls.