The Levin Daily Chronicle MONDAY, JULY 11, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1938, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle MONDAY, JULY 11, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Variety is almost unlimited in the range of goods now carried by air, and the cargo list of the Union Airways monoplane Kcreru, southward-bound from Mangere last week, included some unusual items. One box, weighing two pounds contained a live bird, consigned to .Dunedin, and there were also three parcels of frozen fish for Christchurch, packed in watertight containers and wrapped in scrim. A business house sent two packages weighing SO pounds to its Christchurch branch.

Serving to remind the people of this hemisphere that the other half of the world is now enjoying summer sunshine, a large party of American school teachers and several families were round-trip passengers by the Monterey, which called at Auckland en route to Australia. Over 100 school teachers are spending their summer vacation on the voyage, and while a number intend to make a tour of New Zealand, the majority will remain with the vessel during its visits to Sydney and Melbourne.

The use by the Department of Agriculture of sound Alms for the purposes of agricultural instruction has been the subject of a complimentary letter to the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, by the Dominion executive of the New* Zealand Farmers' Union. The executive has suggested to the Minister that his department should make a few sound film machines available in various centres so that they may be used at farmers’ meetings. The Minister has promised to consider the suggestion.

“The investment market in America, in the light of recent Wall Street developments, seems to indicate that the nation is going to emerge from the depression and subsequent recession on a firmer and higher basis than ever,’’ said Dr. Harold Korn, of New York, a round trip passenger by the Monterey. Dr. Korn, with a degree in philosophy from Columbia and New York Colleges, was formerly political editor of a Republican weekly, and chairman of the -Speakers’ Bureau in New York, when Mr. Calvin Coolidge stood for President.

Sidelights on Maori social customs were thrown by an elderly Maori woman who gave evidence before Mr. device Reed in the Orakei land dispute, Alien she told of the visits of Mangere Maoris to their friends at Orakei, Mr, V. R. Meredith asked how long the visitors would stay. “It would depend upon how long the discussion lasted,” was the reply through an interpreter. “How long would the discussion go on —a mouth?” pursued Mr. Meredith. “They'would eat a lot of food if they stayed a month,” came the cautious answer. “So I should imagine,” said Mr. Meredith.

The great majority of American youth was comparatively indifferent to religion, as it always had been, but in other sections there was a quickened interest, according to Professor H. P. Van Duscn, professor at the Union Theological Seminary, New York, who arrived from America by the Monterey. Professor Van Dusen said that among the various groups interested in re. ligion there had been a noticeable improvement in activity ’within the past few years. He attributed that mainly to a number of factors. One was the depression, although it was not, perhaps, the main one. Another was that; youth had its day for roughly a decade immediately after the Great Wan, when it threw off most of the restraints, traditions, morality and religion, and ''went pretty well to the limit.”

Street collections in England for the benefit of hospitals and charities for the* sick in memory of Queen Alexandra amounted to about £51,000, the highest since 1931, says a British Official Wireless message.

I think it is a shocking waste of time honouring a man after he’s dead,” said Air. R. W. Eothamley, at the monthly meeting of the Makara County Council, when the possibility of erecting a memorial was under discussion. "If people want to recognise his worth,” he added, they should do so while he is alive.

Hopes are held of the salvage of th<* British steamer Harmantoh, which went ashore in the Straits of Magellan in May, according to advice from Vancouver. The Harmanteh visited Xew Zealand in December. When proceeding frnu; Santos, Brazil, to the Pad lie Coast, she struck rocks and was holed .orward, water entering her engineroom, bunkers and two holds. It wa* stated that if work was begun immediately, the vessel could be refloated.

There is a good deal more than appears on the surface in the placing of British orders for aircaft in the hands of American manufacturers, according to Mr. William J. Wilbur, of Xew York, who passed through Auckland by the Monterey, en route to Sydney. In his opinion it represents the first part in the liquidation of the war debts owned by Britain to the United States, and is significant of the close harmony in which the two nations are working.

The Customs Department at Wellington is at present confronted with an unusual problem in classifying for duty purposes a "musical saw” imported by a Wellington resident. Although to outward appearance the saw is an ordinary article of hardware, it can be played as a musical instrument, using a type of bow and two small hammers. As a musical instrument the saw would be assessed at a considerably higher duty than if it was admitted as an article of hardware.

Davie’s Great Sale is still going strong. The winter goods are moving out freely—costumes, millinery, curtain nets band drapings are the special goods on display in the windows for to-morrow, Tuesday, but all the goods are genuinely reduced, so come along and share the great savings at “Davie's”, the ladies’ outfitters.*