The Levin Daily Chronicle THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 September 1935, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"We are striving to make the practise of Christianity possible. That is our ideal," declared Captain H. M. Rushworth, M.P., Dominion President of the Douglas Social Credit movement, when speaking at the rally in Palmerston North.

A definite and significant sign of returning prosperity is reflected in the boat-building industry of Auckland. A tctal of £20,000 is an estimate of the amount being spent at present in the construction of new yachts and launches for the pleasure fleet of the Waitemata.

Napier Borough Councillors were confronted with a record agenda paper at the 'September meeting of the council this week. The agenda contained 70 pages of type-written matter for consideration, while a supplementary paper was laid before councillors, with a further 10 pages.

"The Royal Navy at the present time, I consider, offers most excellent prospects for anyone who goes into it, for lam convinced that the Navymust expand again," declared Commodore the Hon. E. R. Drummond when speaking at the annual dinner of the English Public Schools' Club at Auckland. The chances of promotion for young officers, he added, were extremely good.

Within the next few weeks, provided the river rises sufficiently, there will be launched on the Molyneux Eivcr, Otago, two of the largest dredges that have ever been used in New Zealnad for the winning of gold, states the Otago Daily Times. The companies owning the vessels are backed by English capital and have as their objectives the dredging of the bottom of the swiftest river in the Dominion. Six months of construction work have ben completed and it is expected that dredging operations will begin early next year.

An 800 miles ocean race, which was won by half a ship's length, is recalled by the arriy-al of the steamer Simonside, at Lyttelton. The Simonside won this race to settle which vessel should first enter the port of Fort Churchill, on Hudson Bay, which is open only between August and October each year for loading wheat. Each year vessels gather in Hudson Strait until about August 18, when a race to Fort Churchill is started. Four steamers took part in the 800 mile dash last year, and the Simonside got home by half a length after racing neck and neck with her opponents the best part of the way.

disappointment at what has been done in the way of rebuilding A.rinentieres x so familiar to New Zealandors in the Groat War, was experssod by Mr D. M. Rao this week, in an address at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Armontieres had been rebuilt, lie said, for about I~> years now, but it had almost got back to the condition in which it was when the New Zealandors first went there in 1915. "That is to say," he added "it is not a very sanitary town." Those responsible had not had sufficient imagination to see the opportunity to improve the town immensely when rebuilding, hut had simply reproduced all its old features, including rows of ugly tenements and a very unsatisfactory drainage system.

When she went to Kaai Hau, near Canton. China, six years ago,, kidnapping was rife, said Miss Annie I. James, a New Zealand Presbyterian missionary, who recently returned an furlough, in an interview. The head of the police had warned her on no account to allow her little adopted Chinese girl, Po Chan, out on the street alone. One day a dozen women gathering charcoal on the hillside

were kidnapped and held for ransom. In the following year, however, a new local magistrate was appointed, and the penalty of death for anyone ongaged in kidnapping was established. This put an end to the practice, and Miss James said she could now move about at all hours of the night without fear.

At a private party held recently in Christchurch, the sum of £222 was raised for one of the participants in the queen carnival. Fifteen thousand people watched the recent liaufurly Shield game, in Christchurch. Five train loads of supporters poured in from Greyiuouth. Booths, the famous English chemists have acquired properties in Willis .Street, Wellington, and in Queen Street, Auckland. Eadv Angela St. Clair Erskine, who visited New Zealand last year, is now hostess at Gosford House, a hotel in East Lothian, managed l>y the Earl of Wemyss. "We are bursting through the thresh old of a new land and we will lead the movement. "—-ColonelS. J. E. Cloecy, Dominion organiser, when speaking at the Douglas Credit rally in Palmerston Jforlli. Special interest is centred around the dance of the seaso'n. which takes place in the Kimberley Hall to-night under the auspices of the Kimherley Women's Institute. Cards will he provided for non-dancers and a happy evening is assured all who attend. Music will he supplied by Mr S. Parsons (piano) ami various other instruments.

A distressing incident occurred on a farm between Carterton and Gladstone the other 'day .A young woman was missed from her home, and was found some hours later at, the foot of a deep well. When recovered sue was suffering severely from shock, and it was almost a miracle that she was not drowned, as the well contained several feet of water.

The most startled man at a dance in the Fitzroy Hall, New Plymouth, on Saturday night was the pianist in the orchestra, when the instrument lie was playing disappeared over the edge of the dias and crashed to the floor among the dancers. Fortunately the heavy instrument fell into a vacant space among the large crowd. The piano was standing near the edge of the orchestral dias, and apparently the vibrations set up by the dancers and the music caused it to work gradually to the edge of the polished platform.

Falling .120 feet, a boulder of solid rock, estimated to weigh 700 tons, was dislodged during blasting operations at the Cohden quarry recently.* The mass rolled over several times before coming to rest, but, fortunately (says the Greymouth Star), there were no men and no machinery in the path. When it struck the ground, after its sheer descent, it made a holo three feet deep and ground the rock surface to powder! It is considered that the impact was greater than the striking of 80,000 tons force, or much force of a Ifi-inch naval projectile.

A cat was responsible for a motor accident on the Marine Parade, Napier, shortly after 11 o'clock on Monday evening. In order to avoid killing the animal, which ran across in front of the car, the motorist swerved quickly. The surface of the road was wet, as.it was raining at the time, and the ear went into a skid, and swinging round ran up on to the footpath to finish up against a telegraph pole, facing the opposite way to which it was going. One wheel was badly damaged and the car- was unable to proceed under its own power. The occupants were unhurt.

An appeal for greater encouragement of New Zealand talent by New Zcalandcrs was made ~by Mr Stanley Oliver, music judge at the Hawera competitions, at a Hawera Rotary luncheon. "You have plenty of talent in this country—some'beautiful voices —and there is no need to go overseas to secure your radio artists," he said. Mr. Olliver added that a Wellington woman, who could not get a radio engagement in New Zealand, had gone to England about a year ago, and after singing for the British Broadcasting Corporation, had been invited to accept the post of radio instructress in either singing or speech culture.

Following its usual custom, the Weraroa Tennis Club held a dance in the Weraroa, Hall last evening as a fitting wind-up to the official opening of the courts. There was a sood attendance of dancers and a jolly evening was spent in tripping the light fantastic to music, supplied by Messrs 11. Varnham (piano), E. Biirrell (saxophone) and E. IPrntt (drums and effects. A delectable supper was provided by lady members of the Club, ' and added a great deal to the social success of the function. The proceedings were continued merrily until the small hours under the direction of Mr C Curtis as MjO.

"Every hick of soil in Japan is doing something)." said Mr Norman Rutherford, of Mcndip Hills, who lias returned to Christchurch after a to'ur of the Par East. "Even the hilltops are cultivated and in the yards behind business premises they grow crops of rice. On the tops of the little ridges that turn the water in the fields you will see beans (growing." The density of the population deeply impressed the visitor. In a seventy-mile drive from Kobe (population 800,000) through Osaka (3,000,000) to Kyoto (1,000/00) he saw only fifteen miles of what could be called country, all the rest being town. The port of Yokohama (800,000 people) and the town of Tokio (3,00'0,000 people) were one city.

'The meeting of! the Young People's Entertainment League, called for this evening, will be held in the Druids' Hall a t 8 o'clock.

With the approach of summer, tennis will he iu full swing shortly. " Both the Levin and Caledonian Clubs are holding their annual general, meetings to-night, when all members and intending niemibers are asked to attend.

A particularly pleasing feature of the evening opening of the annual, spring ilower show conducted by St. diary's Ladies' Guild on Tuesday was the musical programme. This was provided by Mrs Powell's orchestra, consisting of Miss 0. Stallard (piano), Mesdames Powell, Wise and Miss Cowan (violins), Miss C. Nation ('cello), and Mr J. W. Hayheld (viola). The rendering 0 f selections by this combination added a' great deal of interest to' the display.

There are still many absentees from offices and factories in Christchurch owing to' the prevalent, complaint of influenza. Wliil e it is not on a widespread scale, it is sufficient to cause some depletion in staffs. Doctors stated that the worst appeared to be over, but with the changeable weather a few cases were still occurring. Much of what was described as influenza was little more than the common cold in an acute form, but the term iuiluonza appeared to provide a more "reasonable excuse for absence from work than a mere cold.

pomfort is |assured in tlie new Regina slippers no'vv featured at Dempsey's. Two values are listed in this issue, which are deserving 0 f the attention of the most fastidious of prospective purchasers.*