The Levin Daily Chronicle THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 June 1936, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The establishment of a seaplane base at Picton is being- urged on the Government by the Picton Borough Council. “Judged by the results of proficiency and other examinations in both formal and applied work, the subject of spelling does not apear to be making progress/' remarked the inspectors in their annual report upon the work of the schools coming under the jurisdiction of the Wellington Education Board. “There appear to have been more positions offering for girls in shops and oilices in the last six months than there have been for a number of years," said Miss D, M. Arthur, principal of the Napier Girls’ High School, in her monthly report to the Secondary Education Board. The report continued: "I think almost every commercial girl who left school last year, and whom I consider capable and reliable, has a permanent position." The days when the armed defence of lives and homos was a desperate necessity wore recalled by the discovery at Moturoa, New Plymouth, at the weekend of an old rifle range, long since forgotten, where the early settlors of New Plymouth were taught to shoot. Belief workers excavating in the Ngamotu Domain have unearthed scores of old bullets which had remained embedded in the clay of the hillside for over half a conturv.

"In tills country we are too insular,” Mr. M. G. 0. McCaul declared at a meeting of the 'Wellington Chamber of Commerce wliou lie urged the need for greater population in New Zealand. "We sit down here, a small corner of the earth a long way from the centre of things, and think our thoughts and speak our speeches and imagine that the whole world waits, watches and listens. It doesn’t do anything of the kind. We are very small potatoes, really.” Approximately 200,00 feet of Southland beech is being shipped to Australia by the coastal trader Kiwitea, which left Bluff for Melbourne this week. This particularly large shipment (says the Southland Times) indicates the increasing demand in Australia and even further afield for a timber that serves so many purposes in such an efficient manner. Timber mills in Southland have been busier of late, and this increased activity is expected to continue.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board reference was made by the chairman (.Mr. E. F. Hemingway) to Mr. J. K. Hornblow’s record of 27 years as a member of the committee of the Foxtou School.- It was decided to place on record the board’s appreciation of his services and to express the regret of the board that lie had retired from the chairmanship after such a lengthy service. Mr. Hemingway said that the town of Foxton, the Wanganui Education Board and Mr. llornbloAV should be proud of his service to education. There is a Bishop of Melanesia and a Bishop of Polynesia. The Bishop of Melanesia, the Bight Rev. W. H. Baddley who is visiting New Zealand, when asked by a reporter to account for the difference in designation, said he did not know the precise origin of the two terms. He pointed out, however, that his diocese of Melanesia, although it embraced, including seas, about two thousand square miles, was more self-contained than that of Polynesia, in that the latter included aj number of different chaplaincies. This, he said, might be an explanation of the difference. Among the overseas clergy visiting Sydney in connection with the Bishop Broughton centenary was Dr. G. F. Graham Brown, who is Bishop in Jerusalem.

The golf match, “Ladies v. Men” has been postponed to Saturday, June -7th. A bogey match will be played on Saturday, the 20th June. Players will select their own partners. The first round of the Karakaramea Cup must be concluded by Sunday, the sth July. An unusual incident occurred at Kensington Park, Whangarei, during the playing of a senior Rugby fixture when the referee, Air. L. G. Miller, was temporarily knocked out near the side line, two players colliding with him. Play was suspended for a few minutes, but the official quickly recovered and resumed control of the game. A decree nisi, to be moved absolute in three months, was granted to Jessie Adams (Air. Shorland) by Air. Justice Blair, in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, against Kenneth Adams, on the ground of adultery. The petition was not defended. The. marriage took place in December, 1919. Petitioner was granted custody of the one child.

Experiments with the building of radio receiving sets are being carried out by the Government at the Railway Workshops at Lower Hutt. No ollicial statement of policy governing tho production of these sets is forthcoming as yet, but it appears that the aim is to evolve an efficient receiver at a selling price in the neighbourhood of £5 or £5 10s.

“The regulation requiring cyclists to have bells on their machines dates from the time when bicycles were the fastest things on the road,” said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M.. in the Children’s Court at Auckland, when a boy was charged witli riding a bicycle without a bell. The Magistrate added that bicycles-nowadays, us contrasted with motor-cars, wore comparatively innocuous to pedestrians.

Members of the Levin Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society have commenced rehearsals on Frederick Lonsdale’s brilliant light comedy, “Aren’t We All.” A strong cast has been selected and the Societys’ one aim is to uhopkl the reputation earned last year with “Dangerous Corner.’’ To that end the members are displaying keen enthusiasm and when the production is ready for presentation it should be well received.

Tho Maori love of the spectacular was evinced on the Taihapc football ground on Saturday afternoon, wdien the native team Iluia was due to commence its match against Mangaweka. A jersey of one of the members was missing. Could another one be procured in time ? As the team were about to file out on the playing area, the drone of an aeroplane was heard, and all necks were craned. With increasing roar, the ’plane swooped down over the field, and a brown paper parcel descended in front of the grandstand. Amid roars of laughter from the spectators, the übiquitous small boy retrieved and unwrapped the missing jersey.