NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 64, 17 March 1938, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

-‘This is a man -who has had a terrible disappointment because he advertised for a wife and got one,** said counsel in the Police Court at Auckland during the hearing of a maintenance case. “The wife did not come up to expectations, and she soon left him. Ever since he has had to keep her,** counsel added. “I seem to recollect that he did fall in rather badly, especially as the woman he married already had two children of her own,** said the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt. A number of tropical birds from the East were brought to Auckland by the South Pacific Lino steamer Swartenliondt, which arrived from Singapore. The birds are a gift to the Avicultural Society of New Zealand and were accompanied by their donor, Mr. H. C. Eustace, of Shanghai, a member of the British Avicultural Society, who proposes to spend about two months* holiday in New Zealand. Special permission was received from the Department, c-f Internal Affairs for the importation of the birds, which comprise 10 dyha's, five barbets and three fruit-suckers. Information that 350 applications had been received for the position of secretary was given members of tho Auckland Hospital Board at a meetiug when the question of an appointment to the position came before the board. It was decided to request the administration committee to reduce the applications to 20. Later the names of 11 applicants for the positions of radiologist and radio-therapist were read. The applicants were from Now Zealand, Australia, South Africa, England and Germany. “Australia is more prosperous to-day than she has been for years, and more men are being absorbed into industries than ever before the depression,** said lion. H. H. Olney, the leader of a party of Victorian farmers which arrived at Bluff by the Maun ganui. “Great development has taken place in the industrial life of tho Commonwealth, and this has put the country on a surer basis. Conditions have improved noticeably and the people rejoice in a new security. New industries are being established, the latest being the wood pulp industry for the manufacture of paper, and factories are being built in Tasmania and Australia.

The young kiwi hatched from au egg on the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society’s farm at Greenmcadows is now three months old and thriving on the treatment it gets at the farm. The chick was hatched by a kiwi which lives at the farm, and its arrival brought the number of these rare New Zealand birds at the establishment up to three. The curator of the farm, Mr. F. D. Robson, said that it was possible that another | addition to the kiwi colony would take place during the next three or four weeks. A kiwi chick takes about 18 months to attain full growth, if the example of one of the mature birds, which was brought to the farm as a chick, may be taken as a precedent.