Local and General

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1935, Page 4

Local and General

To commemorate the King’s jubilee the “Hawera. Star” on Monday will publish a special illustrated souvenir number.

The question of a magazine in the interests of New Zealand motorists was again discussed by the Automobile Association (South Taranaki) last night. Members of the general committee were sympathetic to the idea, but held that, it would have to be national in its character. The scheme was too big for one association to tackle. It was suggested that the matter should be referred to the N.T.M.U. for action.

How climate could! affect the quality of cheese was mentioned at the conference of dairy factory managers at Massey College by Professor W. Riddet. Ho stated that with a- long, dry spell as that experienced last summer, there was a drop in the casein content of milk as well as a change in the character of the casein. Whether climatic changes played a. more important part in cheese quality than soil changes, had yet to be investigated. Within a fortnight of the arrival in New Zealand of the new GovernorGeneral a street has been named after him. At a meeting of the Waimairi County Council a couple of days ago, a request was received for its approval to the naming of a new street, a cul-de-sac, off Wairarapa Road, to be named Galway Avenue. The required approval was given, so Galway Avenue has come into being. An arrangement for the supply of loose leaf itineraries and road information had been made with the Wellington Association, reported the seerotary. Mr W. G. Walk ley at a meeting of the Automobile Association (South Taranaki) at Hawera last night. The itineraries would be neatly enclosed in a folder cf convenient dimensions and 68 routes in the North Island would he available to members. The action of the secretary in making the arrangement was confirmed.

“We hear a lot in the Press about how New Zealand could capture the Danish butter trade,” stated Professor W. Riddet, director of the Dairy Research Institute, at the dairy factory managers' conference at Palmersston North yesterday. “Let me tell you that is all a myth,” he added. “It is a much more difficult matter than most people think.’’ Professor Riddet quoted instances of these difficulties, many of which were simply matters of custom. One grocer, for example, when asked to report, • saicl the New Zealand product was very near Danish, but it was not in the same kind of keg.

Owing to the precarious nature ol the -agreements with Great Britain, Mi D. O. Williams, economist at Massey Agricultural . College, told dairy factory managers in conference yesterday that it would he unwise for New Zealand not to fill competely the bacon quota this year. He. mentioned the general trend to produce pork rather than bacon owing to the better price obtaining for pork, but he thought the difficulty* could Ik> partly overcome by creating a price pool into which all the money received was placed and paid out to the producer pro rata. A small boy was the central figure in a little drama at Port Chalmers on Tuesday night. He was-found by a policeman on the George street wharf at 1.30 in the morning with his attention closely fxed on a large vessel with a gaily-painted funnel. Showing no fear and with a bright smile the little fellow answered the constable’s questions. He gave his age as nine .years, and informed the constable that he had been seized with an impulse to roam, and had walked from Dunedin to Port Chalmers on Tuesday afternoon “to see the ships.” The policeman, who described the lad as “a bright, plucky young fellow,” escorted him to the watchhouse, where he made him comfortable for the remainder of the night, and while alarmed parents were making intensive inquiries, the boyslept peacefully* with his friendly guardian dropping in at intervals to see how lie was faring. When liis mother claimed the lad after being informed by the police at Dunedin of her son’s whereabouts, lie showed little concern and departed quietly* with a greatly relieved parent. Hopes of Rugby* referees that they would be provided with passes to admit tlieir wives and sweethearts to Lancaster Dark were doomed to disappointment, when the Management Committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union met this week. When the application was made on behalf the referees the president, Dr W. S. Seed, said, “There are too many Roople getting into that park free now. It would lie interesting to know just how manv.” Members agreed that to issue the passes would be to set a precedent that would be seized too readily by other officials and club members. Hie request was not granted.