NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 47, 25 February 1938, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Mr Fred Cousins will venture to speak on * 1 Tho inner life of Hollywood” at tlic Citizens’ Lunch Club today. Mr H. McDavitt in the chair. On the opening day of the shooting season hundreds of wild ducks find sanctuary in the garden lakelets rouud Mr R. Tanner ’» home at Karere, where they remain to rear their young. When there is a food shortage the mother brings her brood to the doorstep to be led. Under the sausage casing importation regulations published with the Gazette last night, tho prohibiibn which has been in force on the importation of sausage casings! of animal origin from California and certain neighbouring States, is to be removed as from March 1. The restriction was imposed owing to foot-and-mouth disease in those States. The steady growth of the Catholic Church in Nevir Zealand since Bishop Pompallier celebrated the first Mass in Thomas Poynton’s home at Hokianga, in 1838, was referred to by the Rev. Father Blcakloy when speaking at Hamilton of. the birth of the Catholic faith in New Zealand. Although immeasurable hardships and to be suffered by the early missionaries, the Church had made rapid headway and to-day there wero 20C.000 Catholics in New Zealand with 450 priests, 2000 religious teachers and 60! churches. Opinions against the amalgamation of power boards in the Dominion were expressed at the monthly meeting of the Wanganui provincial executive of the New Zealand Fanners’ Union. The question was considered at a previous meeting, when it was decided that Messrs. W. Morrison, who is a member of the Wanganui Rangitikei Power Board, and A. L\ Melville, should submit reports to the executive. These reports, which were not in favour of amalgamation, were received and adopted. While gathering wood at the Ocean Beach, Foxton, on Monday, a resident discovered a small bottle washed well up with the spring tide, and seen to contain a piece of saturated paper. Visions of a message of an exciting nature were shattered when the note was found to contain an address in College street, Palmerston North, with the intimation that it had been cast into the river at Palmerston North on January 26 of this year. No doubt the writer of the note will be disappointed to know that i 1; has proceeded such a short distance on its intended travels. “Is it not tho fact,” asked Mr. Justice Callan of an insurance company manager in the ISupreme Court at Auckland recently, ‘ 1 that if I go to be insured on a certain day the company does business with me on the assumption that 1 am going to live for a certain number of years; but if 1 go ou the same day to buy an annuity they do business on the assumption that I am going to live for a different number of years'?” The witness agreed that that was so. “And the difference each time is to the advantage of the insurance company? ' cont inued his Honour, and again me witness agreed that that was There is a prophetic significance in the word “ lvopu awhara, ” the name of the place when* 21 persons were last week hurled i o death by rushing waters. The word can be translated into English as "struck down in ii deep river bed.” This interesting interpretation of the name was referred to by Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, who agreed that thi;j construction could be given the word. “Kopua, ” he said, meant tho deep trough-like part cl a fiver or perhaps a wide, deep gully. ‘ Whara” would mean, according to the context, wound, damage or injury by accident. Bishop Bennett said that he had recently learned from an old Maori that there was a well-founded legend of a great cloudburst that had overwhelmed a Maori pa on the upper part of the Tutaekuri, many bodies being swept down and scattered over what is now the river-bed.