GENERAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 2 June 1937, Page 10

GENERAL NEWS.

Having completed his seventh trip into the wapiti country at the back of Lake Te Anau, Mr. t Ken Sutherland, of the Wairarapa, has arrived in Dunedin with two fine 15-point heads, the larger of which was 53 inches long, 48 inches wide, and 11 inches round the horn. During his stay on the block he saw about 13 wapiti, hut was struck by the fact that there were very' few his opinion being that the cows were too fat to breed. He was convinced, however, that the wapiti were still plentiful in the more -inaccessible valleys towards the coast."

The spouting of whales about a mile off the Taranaki coast was seen on Sunday by a New Plymouth resident, who considereti from the frequency of the half-dozen spouts that there must have been more than one whale. The whales were heading out to sea.

An indication that he favours a radical change in the present system of charging differential rates for electricity in different parts of the Dominion is given by the Minister of Public Works (Hon. R. Semple) in a letter to Mr ’l'. H. McCombs, M.P., in reply to a petition from settlers in outlying parts of Banks Peninsula who are compelled to pay rates to the Banks Peninsula Power Board although they are not in the supply area. The Minister says that under the existing law lie is unable to do anything to help the petitioners, hut he will look into the question. He expresses the opinion that the system under which one district is able to make large profits while people in another district have to go without the benefits of electricity is wrong.

There were three official languages in Palestine, said Rev. J. D. McL. WilSon in an address at New Plymouth. Signs and public announcements were printed in English, Arabic and Heb-

row. The schools ivere in different areas. In a school in an Arab area the children were taught English and Arabic, and ill Jewish schools English and Hebrew.