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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 22 July 1937, Page 8

The Otaki dairy factory, which is to be definitely closed, ie to be dismantled, reports the ‘‘Standard’s” Otaki correspondent. “There is no such person as a really lazy child. It is not his nature to be inactive. In any serious case consult a doctor,” remarked Dr. William Boyd, of the University of Glasgow, when speaking to the New Education Fellowship at Wellington yesterday on vocational guidance. “Swing” music, which has become a very popular novelty in the United States, was dismissed summarily by Mr Anderson Tyrer, examiner in music for the Trinity College of Music, London, when asked in Christchurch how it was viewed by musicians. “It lias nothing to do with musicians,” he said.

Whilst the make of cheese at the Taikorea Co-op. Diiry Co., Ltd., was up to 405 tons, or 22 I* 31 " cent - on tlw previous year, the coal and power account was down £lll, a very satisfactory reduction in costs, it was reported at the company’s meeting yesterday. The wages cost was up 6s 8d per ton, and orates were up from Is 9Jd to 2s 55d each, and 450 more crates were needed for the extra ontput. All costs were up approximately 5s 5d per ton on the previous year. Although the majority of New Zealanders are accustomed to pronounce the name of the South African Rugby Rugby football team as it is 6pelt, there is now' coming forward evidence to show that this is incorrect. According to New Zealanders who have lived in South Africa the name Springbok should be pronounced as if spelt “Springbuck,” with a clipping of the final syllable almost to the 60und of “buk.” Broadcasting from Auckland last night, the manager of the visiting team used this pronunciation.

“Our basic method of approach to child guidance is educational. I am a thorough trades unionist in this,” said Dr. W. Boyd, of Glusgow', in an address on Education and Vocational Guidance at the New Education Fellowship seminar in Wellington yesterday. “I do not favour ministers and doctors coming into our schools to do part of our job.”' People should be educated to turn to the teacher for advice. Most children needed a little help for the best development of character. His clinic w r as an experiment in this direction, and w r as generally successful in its efforts. “Until yesterday ours was a rural world,” said Dr. Edmund de S. Brunner, of Columbia University, New York, in an address on Rural Education to the New Education Fellowship in Wellington yesterday. “In the days of my grandfather the United States of America was 90 per cent, rural. He saw it become a nation 00 per cent, rural. To day slightly less than half our people live on the tarms and in the small tow'ns.” Japan to-day was more than half urban. Most'spectacular had been the shift in Australia. That continent had reached the point where the strictly rural population was actually less than two-fifths of the total. The drift also was clear in China, in South America, and was even beginning'in India.

Waipukurau is suffering acutely from a house shortage. It is estimated that the erection of 40 new houses would hardly meet the position-

The Government’s new Bureau of Social Science has embarked on one of its first major undertakings—a survey of living standards in dairying districts.

Practical appreciation of the good worko f three Taranaki hospital boards on behalf of the Maoris has been shown by the Taranaki Native Trust Board, by a donation of £3OO. AVlien the Wellington Diocesan Synod assembled yesterday. Bishop Holland announced that he had received a further gift of £2O for the cathedral fund, from Bishop and Mrs T. H. Sprott.

Members of the choir of St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, have arranged to erect a brass tab.et to the memory of the late Mr Robert Parker, C.M.G., who was organist and choirmaster there tor over 60 years. The famous Poplar Grove on the Pakowhai Road, between Hastings anu Napier, will have a life of a further twenty years according to Mr A. I. Rainbow, president of the Hastings and District Progress League.

In a.n inter-schools soccer match at Wanganui yesterday afternoon the Wanganui Technical College eleven defeated the Palmerston North Boys’ High School team by 12 goals to 1. The Wanganui team outweighed the visitors and had the advantage of greater experience.

Evidence of an exceptionally mild autumn in Napier this year is furnished by the abnormal length of time chrysanthemums have been in bloom in the triangular flower bed on Marine Parade. The chrysanthemums have just been lifted to make room for the planting of tulips. In accordance with the request of the Archbishop, the Wellington Anglican Diocesan Synod has agreed to the postponement till the time of the Church Congress which was proposed Selwyn centenary in 1942 of the as part of the New Zealand Centenary celebration in 1940. At this morning’s meeting of the Palmerston North Retailers’ Association a letter was read from the town clerk asking that a delegate from the association be appointed to the Palmerston North Jubilee Committee. It was decided to ask Mr L. H. ColJinson to accept the position. • Direction signs to be placed on motor roads in.*Fiji are being prepared by the Auckland Automobile Association, and early next month a patrol will leave New Zealand to supervise the erection of the familiar yellow-and-black signposts, which will bear the additional words, “Colony of Fiji.” Reports of an intensification of the serious shortage of iron and steel material among British manufacturers were received in Auckland yesterday by overseas air mails. They also gave information of a large number of price advances among metal manufactured goods, as well as a rise of £1 a ton in foundry pig iron prices.

The Wanganui Education Board decided, at its meeting yesterday, to sell the old College Street School building and set aside the money received for the erection of an assembly hall at the new College Street School. In moving the motion, Colonel J. H. Whyte said that the* old building was falling Into a state of disrepair and was becoming very unsightly. * The Wellington Diocesan Synod has been advised by its centenary committee 'that Rev. H. A. Walke has intimated his desire to make a gift to the diocese of the portrait in oils he has of Bishop Selwyn. The gilt has been accepted with warm thanks and the portrait is to be suitably framed and offere dto the National Art Gallery for exhibition on loan until such time as the diocese has suitable accommdoation for it.

“People in New. Zealand do not realise it, but the Dominion lias a high reputation overseas tor the manner in which it handles tourists and the tourist trade,” said Mr J. A. Malcolm, manager of the New Zealand Government tourist and Trade Bureau, Melbourne, who arrived in Auckland yesterday. There was a remarkable increase in the number of tourists visiting the Dominion last year and the Melbourne office handled more than ever before. There was every likelihood of the coming season being as good or perhaps even better, said Mr Malcolm. At the annual meeting of the Taikorea Dairy Co., held yesterday, the chairman (Mr S. E. Algar)" said that whilst the company was able to pay 14.52 d per lb for butterfat— a very good return compared with 12.79 d the previous year—there was not the differance of lp] above butter factories. When the guaranteed price was announced it was believed that cheese companies would be able to pay more than butter companies. Itepresentations were made to the Government and there was every possibility of a further payment for last year being received, whilst a revision of prices for the new season was already being considered.

“I want a tree removed,” said Cr H. Watson at a meeting of the Port Chalmers Borough Council. “I know it is a ticklish matter in this borough, and I do not want to start a tree war. The tree I want removed is an ugly, borer-vidden maorocarpa at the end of Bellevue Street, and the reason 1 want to be rid of it is to provide a suitable spot for some good plants.” Cr L. G. Jack gave his support to the suggestion. “The tree is disgraceful,” he , said, “and that is all that can be said for it.” While some councillors indulged in a reminiscent smile at the reference to a “tree war,” none offered a word of criticism, and the death warrant of the old macrocarpa was signed.—Otago Daily Times.

Americans have been interested in the gradual development of government in New Zealand for many years, according to Dr. Harold Rugg. of Columbia University, New York. In the course of a lecture to the New Education Fellowship Conference in Dunedin, he said that thinking Americans and students of government had watched the policy of governments in New Zealand from as far back as the .’eighties. Personally, he would fake back to America interesting results of a fairly close-up view of New Zealand’s present attempt at social control of economic life, and he was convinced that a great many people would be keenly interested in the outcome of what had been begun in the Dominion.

The timely arrival of a neighbour probably saved two Chinese in a Dunedin suburb from the serious effects of gas poisoning on a recent morning, reports a Dunedin exchange. Hearing an unusual noise outside his bedroom window, the neighbour, on investigating, was surprised to observe a Chinese, clad in night attire, stumble through the doorway of his residence and collapse in the garden. On going to his assistance, he became aware of the smell of gas and, on entering the house, he discovered a second Chinese lying on a bed apparently overcome by fumes. After removing the latter into the open he re-entered the house and discovered that the gas was escaping from a heater which had been knocked over unknowingly by one of the Chinese. who had risen from his bed earlier to light it on account of the cold, which had prevented him from sleeping.