ROTARY CLUB

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 106, 1 April 1930, Page 9

ROTARY CLUB

ADDRES-S BY ROTARIAN W. E WINKS.

Tho speaker at tho weekly luncheon of the Rotary Club yesterday was Rotarian W. E. Winks, who dealt with a recent visit to New South Wales and Victoria. Rotarian L. H. Collinson presided. Rotarian Winks opened his address with remarks on. the industrial methods adopted in Australia. The firms always handled two or three lines which made the work easier to supervise and much easier to handle. Ho had visited a large hosiery factory where each type of goods was entirely manufactured on its own floor wherever possible. Tho whole organisation, was on most modern lines. The speaker stated that he had experienced one particularly unpleasantly hot day in Sydney. At 9 a.m. in the suburbs the temperaturo was 93 degrees, while in the city itself it was 98 degrees. Later in the day it reached 112 degrees. _ The great heat was due to a hot wind from Central Australia. There was one death and oO peoplo were removed to hospital while many were treated in their own homes. Higher temperatures were experienced in Queensland but, owing to differences in the climate, they did not affect the people bo much. As a rule, said the speaker, bathing was not indulged in in the harbour in Sydney, but at what was formerly Shark Bay there was a shark proof net and this, although only a small beach, was immensely popular. Bondi was. of course, very popular and on cue hot afternoon he saw 80,000 people in the water. Coogee had impressed him most of all the beaches and these were also protected by shark-proof net, the installation of which had been most costly. A charge of one penny was made to enter the enclosure and it was anticipated that the whole cost of the net would be recouped in one season. At Coogee lie had witnessed the first night surf carnival to be held in the world. The march-past of the surf clubs was a magnificent spectacle. The events proved most interesting and the members of the clubs were very keen. Australia was probably the leading country in the world for swimming. On all beaches members of surf clubs were always on patrol and there was no doubt that hundreds of lives wen saved annually because of this proteition. Describing the picture theatres in Sydney ■ and Melbourne, Rotarian \\ inks stated that he did not see one any better than, if as good as a theatre in Auckland . During the holidays there was a great exodus from Sydney to the Blue Mountains. The invigorating air was a distinct contrast with the atmosphere of Sydney. The SVaitomo Caves were not in it with the Jenolan Caves, said the speaker. The wallabies were protected near tho caves and thero were large numbers to be seen every day being fed at the Cave House. The traffic in Australia he had found to be very “rafferty.” Cars would pass each other at intersections, on the* wrong side and at any speed. The North Shore Bridge would ue completed in about two years, said the speaker, in reply to a question. Rotarian F. R. B. Chin endorsed Rotarian Winks’s remarks about the Jenolan Caves, but pointed out that the glow worm cave in the Waitomo Caves was the only one in the world. Rotarian Law'son moved a hearty vote of thanks to the speaker, and this was carried by acclamation.