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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 283, 27 October 1934, Page 6

Under the American scholarship scheme of the English-Speaking Union 12 British public school boys left England in September to spend one school-year in various American private schools: Eight teachers on the rationing list are being sent to Hawke’s Bay to take up positions in that province (says an Auckland paper). At present there is a shortage of young teachers at Hastings and Napior, and, as Auckland has an overplus, the Auckland Education Board is supplying the teachers to hll the vacancies. Sir Malcolm Campbell told members of the City of London Rotary Club in September that he hoped to go to Florida next January, and that with luck he would achieve his ami of creating a new speed record. Sir Malcolm s aim is to increase the world s land speed record to 300 miles an hour, the petrol consumption of his 2650 h.p. car is 2.9 gallons a minute. “The main thing is to concentrate on quality at the present time and 1 we supply this we will make a demand at Home for our product, said Professor W. Riddet when commenting at a meeting of the Manawatu-Oroua t ig Recording and Development Club on the position of the pork and bacon industry. He commented that the result of Mr D. Jones’s negotiations should be known shortly. “We should know within a month,” -Professor Riddet added, hinting at the possibility ot a quota being imposed on pork. The mysterious powers possessed by the natives of one of the islands in the Fiji group to call turtles from the sea was mentioned by Dr A. H. B. Pearce to a Dunedin Times reporter. Dr Pearce, who is the chief medical officer for Fiji, said that these natives lived on the Island of Kadava. The native girls would climb on to a high rock overlooking the ocean and commence a strange chant. Before long a big red turtle would swim up from the depths, and on some occasions he would be joined by a second. Dr Pearce, who said he had himself seen the performance, was. unable to account for the power which the natives possessed, and no satisfactory theory that would explain it had ever been put forward. Tlie natives never fed the turtles, and it was, therefore, not the desire for food that caused them to answer the summons*

All cricket fixtures arranged in Palmerston North to-day were postponed on account of the wet weather and the condition of the grounds. During a junior cricket match in the primary schools competitions 'at Palmerston North yesterday, a boy, T. Hood, took four successive wickets with four balls.

Another irrigation scheme in Otago Central will probably be put in hand at an early date. Two thousands acres of the Hawea Flat will be supplied with water from Timaru Creek. A memorial arch to the memory of the Pilgrim Fathers, who left Plymouth 314 years ago, was unveiled on the Barbican, Plymouth, in September. The causeway from which they embarked has long since been superseded by a quay, but the place at which they joined the Mayflower has been marked by a tablet let into the road.

Advice that the meat discussions between the British Government and representatives of the Dominions will bo resumed in London on Tuesday was received yesterday by the Minister of Finance (lit. Hon. J. G. Coates). New Zealand will be represented by the High Commissioner, Sir James Parr, and Mr D. Jones, chairman of the Meat Board.

Mr F. T. Badcock, Otago _ cricket coach, on his return to Dunedin from abroad, stated that the League football clubs in Lancashire were anxious to procure the services of New Zealand players. They were prepared to pay £3OO for a season, plus passage money, and if it were desired would find employment for the player during the summer months in England. Suffering from a broken leg, the result of being thrown from a milk brake when two horses bolted at the Kiritaki factory, Mr S. Swenson, a young man, was admitted to the Dannevirke Hospital on Wednesday. The rattle of the cans when the vehicle was going down a slope frightened the horses. They ended their mad dash in a hedge, after smashing a telegraph post and chipping a concrete post.

“People should calculate the speed of cars at feet per second instead of miles per hour. This would give them a greater sense of the danger when travelling at high speed,” stated. His Honour Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court yesterday. “The calculation is simple,” he added, “for if a car is travelling at 15 miles per hour you divide that figure by two, bringing it down to yards, or 22ft. per second. A well-known property, Brittain’s Building, in Manners Street, Wellington, has been purchased for £17,000 from the trustees in the estate of the late Mr H. Brittain, a prominent figure in the business life of early Wellington. Brittain’s Building was erected in 1910 and is believed to be the first steel frame structure to appear in the Dominion. It was also the first to have a cantilever veranda. The transaction was a cash one.

Practically 2000 applications have been made to the Unemployment Board for subsidies under the board’s new building assistance scheme. Of these 1567 have been approved, involving a total expenditure of 121,029,000, and the employment of 6561 workers. Applications declined by the board total 203, and applications now being considered 151. The Acting-Minister of Employment, Hon. J. A. Young, quoted these figures in the' House of Itepresentaives yesterday. “A tourist has the longest memory of anyone,” said Mr R. H. Nesbitt, Trade and Tourist Commissioner for Australia, in an address to members of the Auckland Travel Club. “What lie especially remembers,” he continued, “is the worst meal he has ever had, the hardest bed he has ever lain in, and the place where he could not get a bottle of wine.” Mr Nesbitt said that if travellers enjoyed their stay in a country they were the best travel agents a country could have. As a practical gesture towards encouragement of the study of music, the Carnegie Corporation, New York, some time ago appointed a committee to draw up a list of special gramophone records, ful orchestral scores, and a library of books on music with a view to the presentation of such a set to each of the British Dominions. Otago University has been selected as the New Zealand recipient of this valuable gift. The total value of the set is 2500 dollars, which means that it is worth under present conditions the best part of £IOOO.

Seeds of a rare spruce tree which has not yet been grown in New Zealand have been given to the Wanganui City Council’s nursery by Air It. 0. Dairymple, of Bulls. The tree is the picea omoriha, and was secured from the valley of the Drina, Serbia, by Mr Dairymple. Its compact, narrow, pyramidal habit, and flattened leaves, which are a lustrous dark green below with white bands above, make it one of the best for ornamental purposes. Its branches curve downwards and ascend abruptly at the ends, presenting an unusual artistic effect.

Owing to the effective work of the Anglican vicar of Clevedon, Rev. W. H. Heaslip, the excitement among some of the Alaoris of the district, which reached a climax about two months ago when they were awaiting the end of the world, has ceased. Air Heaslip has visited the Alaoris regularly. and on Sunday a special service was held in the Alaori church at Alataitai when the vicar baptised his own infant son and a Alaori boy of the same age The church was filled to overflowing. A notable feature was that fully 90 per cent, of the natives involved were present at the service. “In New Zealand, in spite of the recent acute industrial depression, the consumption of electricity for a variety of purposes has been significantly progressive and hopeful,” said Lord Bledisloe in the course of his address at the opening of the Waitaki hydro-electric power station this afternoon. “During the last nine years the number of consumers, which is now nearly 335,000, has more than doubled, the number of electric ranges has increased 25 times, that of electric water heaters has increased eight times (and by 20 per cent, during the last four years) and that of electric milking machines five times (since 1928 by (50 per cent).. Last year 17,000 milking machines were driven by electric motors of approximately 28,000. aggregate liorse-power.”

The engineer in charge of the construction of the Waitaki hydro-electric works, Air R. H. Packwood, is to leave next month on a visit to Sardinia, Alorocco, and Sweden, to inspect big engineering works in progress in those countries. The Government hopes that Mr Packwood’s experiences overseas will be of value to the Dominion when he returns and applies them to construction works here. The Italian Government is building a large hydro-elec-tric plant in Sardinia, under conditions which are somewhat similar to those existing at Arapuni, Alorocco has a great irrigation dam and canals under construction, and Sweden, one of the homes of big-scale hydro-electric schemes, has several jobs on hand which should prove intensely interesting to a New Zealand engineer.

Whistling kettles. Our now stocks have arrived. 500 English aluminium whistling Kettles. They are built for quick boiling and non-rusting. They save you moneyno more wasted gas or electricity, when it has'reached boiling point. No household is complete without one. Usually 5s lid, sa lo price 3s lid. 4 pint capacity Only at Collinson and Son, Ltd., Broadway.