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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 6

A gift of 48 acres of land at Waitakere lias been made to the city of Auckland by . Mr John Alexander, C M.G. The land is bush clad, and is part of the area which was much admired by Sir Arthur Hill, Director of Kew Gardens. He recommended that as much as possible, of it should be preserved for all time. The Nelson Aero Club’s first pageant, organised witli the of the Wellington club, was held on Saturday in perfect weather. Ten aeroplanes, representing the Wellington, Auckland. Western Federated, Wairarapa, Marlborough, West Coast, and Canterbury clubs, took part, a splendid display going off smoothly without mishap. There was a large attendance. Last month £164 12s 8d was lost from the office of the North Canterbury Hospital Board. Later, reported the finance committee to a meeting of the board, last week, a bank note of £IOO was discovered ill a draweV between two sheets of paper. “It is obvious that the whole packet of money had been stolen, and whoever took it had some difficulty in changing the note and placed it where it was found. The matter is in the hands of the police,” added the report. Killing two birds with one stone is nothing to the double feat performed by a member of a party of young men from New Plymouth who went on a pig-shooting expedition in the district near Matau recently. After tramping for some time, the party found two pigs side by side, which the marksman shot with one bullet, striking one in the head and the other in the shoulder. Later two eels were found feeding on some rubbish in a creek With careful aim, and allowing for the deflection of the bullet by the water, the same marksman shot both with the one bullet. Dr. A. ltose-Innes, who has returned to Nelson after a visit to Great Britain said that he found New Zealand affairs much more widely discussed at Home than had hitherto been the case. Our efforts to meet the changed conditions brought about by the depression had been examined by many observers, and the leading dailies and financial journals had more frequent comment on the measures taken by the New Zealand Government. New Zealand produce was much better known now than was the case nine years ago. The advertising campaigns were doing much in this direction.

“Don’t disturb them and they won’t disturb you. There is no danger as long as you keep away from rotting vegetation.” On the subject of how best to avoid being bitten by katipos, poisonous spiders, which are to be found in the marram grass and driftwood on the sand, that was the advice given by two New Brighton doctors, who were interviewed by a representative- of the Christchurch Times. Several of the spiders have been found at New Brighton recently, but an old resident stated that they are not in any greater numbers now than in the past, when they were always the cause of a certain amount of uneasiness among visitors to the seaside. In a part of his annual report dealing with the causation of mental disorder, Dr. Theo. G. Gray, DirectorGeneral of Mental Hospitals, said: “One would be tempted to expect that the distress arising from the prevailing economic difficulties would be reflected in an increase in our admissions. Actually the total admissions, including voluntary boarders, are ten less than in the previous year, and one can only surmise that the spirit of altruism, which is always at its height at periods of national danger and anxiety, is working as it did during the war years. The great occasion is one of real stresses which leave no room for petty vanities and morbid imaginings and introspections; there is a call to action, an exaltation of the community spirit and a self discipline which tends to sanity.”

Orakei when Captain Hobson landed there in 1841 died at Auckland yesterday within a few hours of one another. They were Te Hira Pateora, aged 92, and Watene Tautari, aged 99. Speaking at the anniversary services of the Palmerston North Baptist Church Sunday school yesterday, the Rev. E. N. Goring, of Wellington, in pleading for a necessary discipline, stated that when he was very young he was somewhat like the old Salvationist who went to Sunday school "in the fear of God—and a broomstick."

“Long prayers in the presence of children are an abomination,” said the Rev. E. N. Goring at the evening service at the Baptist Church yesterday. “No boy with a healthy mind and body can keep either that mind or body still during a long prayer. Nothing creates a spirit of irreverence more than long, theological prayers in either home or Sunday school.” The thirty-ninth anniversary of a great maritime disaster in the history of New Zealand I ell yesterday. Bound from Sydney ’o Auckland with passengers and cargo, the steamer Wairarapa, of 1/86 tons, ran into a dense fog v, hen coming down the coast of the North Auckland Peninsula, and was wrecked at A'.ner’s Head, Great Barrier Island, on October 29, 1891, with the loss of 126 lives

After a career of nearly 70 years, the coal-hulk Dilpussund, which long has been a familiar object on the AVellington water-front, has been sold by the Union Steam Ship Company to a firm to be broken up. To the present generation, little sentiment would appear to attach to this battered and weatherbeaten old hulk, which for over a quarter of a. century has been a storehouse for coal, aud as such has been the humble servant of her successors the modern liners. The Dilpussund to-day is but the ghost of the once trim little ship that, in the seventies of last century, made two voyages from London to New Zealand, bringing several hundreds .of new settlers to try their fortunes in a new land. “I am not one of those who believe in the equality of the sexes,” said Miss E. Andrews when addressing a meeting of women at New Plymouth. “I have frequently stated I do not believe that woman is the equal of man any more than I believe that man is the equal of woman. Neither of them is superior to, nor inferior to, the other. They are different; and it is this difference that makes it so necessary that woman’s point of view should not be lost sight of in the ordering of the affairs of this or any other nation. Only from balanced judgment can right thinking emerge, and balanced judgment can never be obtained while one sex predominates so overwhelmingly in Parliament.” Auckland, according to an interesting extract, forwarded by a correspondent to the “Standard,” from an American publication, had, at the end of 1932, over ten telephones per 109 of population, and was in twenty-third position among the cities of the world making the largest use of the telephone. Proportionate to population, its telephones are stated to exceed those of London and Sydney, which occupy 26th and 27th places respectively. Auckland is more advanced on this basis than such big European centres as Vienna, Budapest, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid, Warsaw, etc. San Francisco heads the world’s list with 39.1 telephones per one hundred persons. Washington and Stockholm come next. Russian cities such as Moscow and Leningrad are relatively low on the list, having about-one telephere per one hundred of population.