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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 77, 14 March 1935, Page 6

The Byrd Expedition ships Jacob Ruppert and Bear of Oakland sailed i from Dunedin yesterday for Panama, via Easter Island, tvhere they will | rendezvous. 1 hey were given a rous- | ing send-off. Admiral and Mrs Byrd left by train lor Wellington. They have not yet decided when they will leave the Dominion for the leader to rejoin his ships at Panama. A resident ol Henderson was snr- , prised on a recent evening to notice i some distance irom her house a patch i ot what she described as a silver glow, j 'This proved on examination to be a j large pine trunk which had been i brought near the house for firewood. Throughout its thickness it. was highly luminous. Portions chopped oil retained the glow, which disappeared on being brought into the light. It was ' explained yesterday that the luminosity was probable due to one ot the lower numbers ol the fungus family, the threads ot which had completely , penetrated the i < lls ol Ihe wood. A tier visiting orchards in the vieiit i ity ot Auckland, in company with Air j J. A. Campbell. Director ot the HortiI cultural Division of the Department oi Vgricim ore. the Fruit Export Board decided that lh< ravages ol codlin moth in Deli< mils apples are nut so ' extensive as to justify an embargo on i the export ot this variety, as has been I suggested, but all apples tor export will 'till be inspected by officers of ' the Agricultural Di partioent Ot the , 13i),lxX) cases oi apples which arc to I be exported trom Auckland this seai son, 62,000 rases will contain Delicij oils apples. A small proportion will I go to Canada and America hut the I bull, mil 2" to England.