A Thought For To-day.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 255, 26 September 1942, Page 4

A Thought For To-day.

True happiness can never be founded on falsehood. The profits of lying arc much over-estimated. It pays to be true. At least we shall be at peace with ourselves. —Dame Nellie Melba.

Dominion Day. To-day was the 35th anniversary of the elevation of New ZeqJ.ind from the status of a colony to that of a Dominion.

Sneak Thieving. Further instances of sneak thieving are reported in the city, one resident having suffered the loss of two rhododendron shrubs, while other gardens have been robbed of choice blooms.

National Savings. There was a better response in Palmerston North this week than last to the National Savings campaign, though the quota of £l9Bl. was not reached. The sum of £1644 10s 6d was attained. A Slogan.

“Scrap the Jap with scrap” is the slogan adopted in a Save the Waste Material Campaign in America, and a letter to the Reclamation Board at Christchurch suggested that the slogan might well be adopted in New Zealand. General de Gaulle’s Ancestry.

General de Gaulle, who opened a Free French House in Edinburgh, said afterwards that his great-grandmother was a Scotswoman. Her name was Fleming and her family came from Glasgow. She married an Irishman named McArtan.

Halfpenny Swallowed. A bronchoscope operation for the removal of a halfpenny lodged at the base of the bronchial tube of Emanuel Davis, aged two years, was successfully performed by the superintendent of the Mangonui Hospital, North Auckland. The child is progressing Blind Student’s Success.

T. E. Utley, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who has been blind from childhood, has takon the degree of bachelor of arts. He was in the first class of the History Tripos ■with distinction, being the only man so placed. The college elected him to a foundation scholarship. Raft Washed Up. Measuring 10ft by sft, a raft which was washed up near the shore on the, coast of Dargaville was recovered and' taken above high tide mark for inspection. Painted battleship grey, the raft, which was built to accommodate j 25, has large cork floats. A brass nameplate indicates that it was built by an aircraft company in England. Appeals For Teachers. | Appeals for about 100 teachers whoso names appear in the latest ballot will be lodged by the Auckland Education Board in consequence of the difficulty experienced in staffing a number of its schools. Over 300 of the board’s teachers are serving overseas and a further 200 are with the Forces in New Zealand, the total being about 50 per cent, of the male teaching strength. I Cycling in Blackout. j Reports on the last blackout in Christchurch showed that some cyclists did not understand the lighting requirements yet, said the chairman of the Emergency Precautions Services organising committee (Mr W. Machin). A bicycle should have a front light, masked with the equivalent of two sheets of paper, and a tail-light, and then coukl only be ridden by an authorised person. Tribute to Sea Power.

A leaflet placed before posting in a London Aveekly magazine received in Auckland showed in colour a convoy of merchant ships, escorted by destroyers and aircraft. It bore the wards ‘•‘Arrived safely—thanks to sea power.” On the back, the same sentence Avas repeated in English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, and'several other languages not readily identifiable, though one appeared to be Arabic.

Reserve Bank Notes. “While checking over some hank notes I noticed that, printed on the face of some of them appeared the following, inter alia, ‘Pursuant to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act, 1933’, Ist August, 1934, and signed by the then governor of the bank, but on a later issue, I notice that this wording is left off the note. 1 can hardly imagine that this is a printer’s error, but feel sure there is a reason for this omission. Can anyone tell me what it is?” writes a correspondent, “Accountant”, to an Auckland paper.