The Levin Daily Chronicle SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 March 1938, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The first field day to be conducted this year by the Ilorowhcnua Jersey Cattle Breeders’ Club will take place on Wednesday next on Air. R. L. Horn 's farm at Ohau. Activities will commence at 11.30 a.m., and refreshments will be provided. All dairy farmers and others interested are invited to bo present. The Railway Department announces the running of an excursion train to Wanganui and Xcw Plymouth from Wellington at 9.40 p.m. on Friday, 25th March, arriving at Wanganui at 3.17 a.m. and at New Plymouth at 7.11 a.m. on Saturday. Return train leaves New Plymouth 2.50 p.m. and Wanganui 6.20 p.m., Sunday, arriving at Wellington 11.47 p.m. The fares are at a very low rate and seats will be reserved free. See advertisement in this issue,

The South African footballers tour of the Dominion last year has brought quite a windfall to the Horowhcuua Eugby Union, in that a cheque for £IOO was received’ this week from the Now Zealand Eugby .Union, Those unions that were not granted a game with the tourists shared a percentage of the proceeds of the three Test matches, and this sum represents Horowhenua "s proportion. Incidentally, the amount of the cheque greatly exceeds what was expected.

One of the loneliest islands in any sea, selected by Fletcher Christian, leader of the .Bounty mutineers, as a safe refuge because of its very isolation, Pitcairn Island, in the South Pacific, has for the first time established regular means of communication with the outside world. A modern wireless telephone transmitter, powered by a wind-driven dynamo, has linked that desolate isle across more than a thousand miles of sea with America, Australia and New Zealand.

Sign of unsettled conditions in the East, the words “Eotula, Holland” appear in heavy lettering on the sides of the Dutch motor-tanker Eotula, which is discharging motor-spirit from Singapore at Western Wharf, Auckland. The Eotula generally trades in Eastern water, and the lettering plainly indicates her neutral nationality. Ships of the Yaraashita Kisen Kaisha Line visiting Auckland have,' in some cases, the name of the line similarly displayed.

Koputaroa will be en fete on Wednesday next for the hall society’s bazaar and dance, an effort which should prove to be most successful. The function will commence at 2 p.m. -with a baby show, and best decorated bicycle and best dressed doll competitions. Admission is free and afternoon tea will be available. The evening will be given over to dancing, and for the benefit of local patrons a free bus will leave the post office at 8 p.m. Admission to the dance is Is 6d for adults and fid for children.

The Railway Department announce the issue of reduced fares and special train arrangements for the races at Awapuni on 25th and 26th March, See advertisement in this issue.

Easter is only a little over a month away and already preparations for several Easter weddings are well under way. In the majority of cases, the wedding gifts are being chosen at K. Shaw’s, not only for the excellent range of gift ideas shown at this popular store, but also because everything is marked /at city prices.

A missionary from India, in the person of Mr. W. J. Noble, will be the speaker at the Queen Street Hall for to-morrow's services. All interested are invited to be present at an address at : 2.15 p.m. and at the Gospel service at 7 p.m, | The harvest thanksgiving services of St. John’s Methodist Church will be, held-to-morrow, when suitable anthAnsj and hymns by the choir will give sigm [ : fieance to the occasion. On Monday: evening a short musical entertainment, j will be given to supplement the sale! of gifts. This function will commence at 7.45 p.m. in the Century Hall. A spectacular jumping feat was provided by a sheep during drafting opera- j tions at the Westfield stock yards, ( .Auckland, recently. After being penned,! the sheep jumped into the adjoining, pen, repeating the performance several! times and clearing with ease the | hurdles of about 4ft. Finally it jumped out of the pens altogether, and escaped from the yards by jumping through a gap in a high barbed-wire fence into a paddock. •

“Australian aboriginal art never rises above the standard that may be seen in the pictures commonly exhibited by the so-called moderns,” said Mr. ■Percy Leason, a well-known Australian artist and cartoonist, and an authority on Australian native art, who arrived at Auckland on his way to Melbourne. Mr, Leason is well-known as the creator of “wire grass” cartoons. The pictorial art of the aborigines is a very poor affair, he said. “In my opinion it is not equal to the art of .the cave people of France, or the African bushmen.” Referring to moderns, he said, “You know that even if people don’t understand a particular form of art, they are always willing to give the artist the benefit of the doubt and think that there is something there that their inexperience can’t understand.”

Startling figures concerning the number of drowning accidents in N»vr Zealand were given by Mr. F. G. Dunn, of Christchurch, President of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, in an address at Auckland. Drowning fatalities were twice as many as the monthly average of deaths .*vj road accidents, the figures being 24 and 12.06 respectively. Over the period of approximately six weeks of the school holidays there were 40 cases of drowning, and for the last three mouths the total deaths by drowning were 80. Mr. Dunn said a large number of lives could have been saved if the victims had been able to swim only five yards. The whole of the Government's grant of £560 would be spent on furthering swimming instruction in schools, and the New Zealand Council had given an undertaking to the Government to have every school child a swimmer in two years.