Local and General

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 November 1935, Page 6

Local and General

“A schoolboy,” said Mrs Knox Gilmer at Wellington, ‘‘was asked the question, ‘What is a- Conservative? ‘A Conservative,’ he replied, ‘is a large greenhouse full of hot air. 5 With that answer,” said Mrs Gilmer, ‘‘l am very much in agreement.” Mrs Knox Gilmer had been speaking about free milk for distribution people at her meeting at Wellington last night when an inter,ioctor said: “We don’t want free milk, vve want free butter.” “Yes,” said Mrs Gilmer, amid laughter, “you want buttering up, I think.” The Presbyterian General Assembly at Wellington yesterday discussed the broadcasting of church services. It was decided, inter alia, to take steps to form an inter-church broadcasting board with church representation, according to its strength in the population.

Although rain fell during the Royal Show on the opening day, the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society was not successful in winning the protection of £6OO insurance, for which it paid a premium of £53.. The rain did not start until well on in the morning, and by 1 p.m., the hour at which the insurance ended, 4£ points of rain fell. Ten points were necessary to secure the payment of the insurance.

The demand for whitebait in Wellington recently has been So heavy ns to exceed the- available supply, and advantage was taken of air transport the other day to convey West Coast whitebait to Wellington. Caught in Greymouth in the afternoon and despatched to Christchurch by goods train, the consignment was sent to Wigram aerodrome by motor lorry, where Mr J. J. Busch, commercial pilot to the Canterbury Aero Club, had it loaded into a Fox Moth, and just over two hours later it was being unloaded at Rongotai. The total weight of the fish was 5501 b.

Astonishment at the lack of control of pedestrian traffic in New Zealand was expressed by Air J. A. Haggitt. of Dunedin, who passed through Wellington recently when returning home from an overseas tour. “We noticed it as soon as we loft the Lurline in Auckland,” lie said. “it seemed as though motor cars were pulling up and slowing down here and there all the time to avoid people who were crossing the streets at all angles. After coming from Europe, England and America, we can honestly say that we never saw anything like it abroad.”

Directors of the North 'Taranaki, Waitoitoi, Uruti and White Cliffs Dairy Companies met at Urenui on Wednesday to discuss the question of overlapping of supplies to dairy factories.

The contention that the Prime Minister, Mr Forbes, became a different man when he returned from his first trip to England was made by Mr E. J. Howard, M.P., the Labour candidate for Christchurch South, .speaking at Addington. “I don’t know if it was coming in contact with dukes and jjeoplo like that,” said Mr Howard, “but he was certainly a different man.” “It might have been through attending mannequin parades,” called a vcice from the back of the schoolroom. “No,” replied Mr Howard. “That came later.”

“I can’t say for sure whether the Loch Ness monster is a reality or not,” said Mr P. Owen, of Foxton, in reply to a query put to him by a newspaper representative, concerning his visit to Scotland. “We sailed over Loch Ness, but never saw any sign of a ‘monster.’ There is one aspect of the affair that struck me, however, and that was the tremendous amount of money the of that locality are making out of the ‘monster.’ On all sides post cards and curios are offered to the tourists who flock there iii thousands hoping to catch a glimpse of the oddity and if it is not a reality it is certainly a very ingenious advertising stunt.” A practical demonstration of what lie described as a misconception about money was given this week by Air G. G. Littlejohn, manager of the Christchurch branch of the National Bank of Ncw Zealand, at a morning tea arranged in his honour by customers of the bank. “This,” he said, pointing to the food on the tables, “is value”.” Taking up the docket to be paid he said: “And this is money. I may tear the docket in four pieces, but the value remains the same. Some people think that by cutting up the money they could increase it.” As Aljr Littlejohn was speaking he tore the docket into four pieces. “Write your 1.0.1 J. on them and we will take them,” called an interjector. When the laughter had subsided Mr Littlejohn said: “If my 1.0. U. was on each one, well and good," but those with only 1.0. or part of the IT. would be of no use.”

In a world in which strikes—lightning strikes, general strikes, hunger strikes, “stay-down” strikes, sympathetic strikes and all the rest—are unhappily fairly commonplace, one might think it possible to discover a new kind of strike. Northern France, however, is providing a novel variety —a strike of voters. Some little time ago, in the village of Bouguemaison, a murder was committed. The murderer was found guilty, but insane, and his commune was ordered to pay for his maintainance in an asylum. This verdict .caused great anger, whether because people disagreed with the finding, or for merely financial reasons, does not appear. The voters, as the best way of annoying the authorities, decided to go on strike, and at the last two elections they refused to elect either a mayor or local council in their village. “Someone in North Auckland has a friend who is a member of the Sheffield Poor Law Institute,” said Air H. E. Davis, London manager of the New Zealand Control Board, in his Whangarei address. “Consequently the institute specifies for the asylums and all the institutes under its control the use of finest New Zealand butter, which must bo the product of the company named. The London office of the board is continually receiving urgent rings from the Sheffield Institute asking where this particular brand, which shall be nameless, can be obtained. It often happens that the company has made an f.o.b. sale, and that the butter has been kicked out into the blue. We will never get the goodwill enjoyed by Danish until we can give continuity of supplies. It is of litfle use chopping out existing selling channels, and selling forward to Scotland, when a reputation for the article has been made in the south of England.” The fireworks that were going on outside were nothing to the verbal explosions that shook the . usually peaceful walls of an Auckland hall where an election meeting was being held on Tuesday night. The speaker, Air C. It. Dodd, Democrat candidate for Auckland Central, was subject to continual sniping and at the end of his address he stood up to a barrage of questions. The first interjection came when lie began on the question of exchange. “Labour’s platform again,” said a. bored voice. “And now we come to the Government’s wonderful achievement in employment,” the candidate continued, after discussing the exchange rate with interruptions, “the No. 5 scheme ” A woman: The men liked it. They didn’t have to work. This broke up the meeting for the time being, but through it all the woman carried on a speech of her own, ignoring the chair’s appeal, “Lady, lady ”