NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 153, 1 July 1938, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

The duck shooting season closed yesterday. Pair bags were reported. Mr. H. M. Scott, M.A., rector of the Technical High School, speaks at the Citizens' Lunch Club on “Vocational Guidance 0 to day. Mr. M. H. Oram will bO in the chair.

The hope that the day would come when practical experience Would be necessary for membership o' the New Zealand Accountants’ SoOietJ*, Was expressed by Mr. M. F. Spence, F.P.A., N.£., of Napier, president of the society, when addressing accountants in Palmerston North last evening. No petitions in bankruptcy were filed with the D.O.A. at Palmerston North (Mr. F. C. Litchfield) during the month ending yesterday. Two petitions were filed during the corresponding period of 1907. During the six ntoiChs ending yesterday 10 petitions have been filed, as against six for the first six months of tho previous year. Now nearing completion at Dundee, a new SCOO-ton steamer, the Tambua, v/ill leave in August for Australia, via the Panama Canal, to .ioin the fleet of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. She will be under the command of Captfii*. Wallace and she Will serve, witli the Rona and Fionh, in the company’s trade between Fiji and Australia and New Zealand. The success of the pupils in the class foi learning the Ma'wi language at the Palmerston North Technical High School has induced a number of fresh applicants to seen admission. This would entail an extra class for novitiates, which is being considered. It is also hoped that when the broadcasting station is opened in this city that means of extending the good work thiougkout the Dominion will be made available. Shot on Lake Hunia near Himatangi on Wednesday, a black and white mottled swan was an unusual exhibit at last evening’s meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. Members could not rocall having seen such colouring before, all the wild swan in New Zealand being entirely black. There are a few white ones in captivity. The general opinion was that the bird was a “sport” and not a cross. One of the finest specimens of kiwi ever found in the North was brought to Whangarei, having been caught by a dog at Parua Bay, and killed before the owner of the dog could save it. lt is intended to send the bird, which is about Ift. in height and has a beak sin, in length, to the Department of Internal Affairs to be stuffed and mounted, when it will be returned and placed on show at the Whangarei Museum. It is hoped to gain perihission to display the bird at the Winter .Show before sending it to the Department.

Tho lagoon adjacent the Manawatu golf links at Hokow'hitu is always a good sanctuary for wild duck and at present it is estimated that as many as 3000 birds are “in residence” there.

During May, dune and July trout make their way up to the headwaters or streami for the purpose of spawning and at last evening’s meeting ot the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society members reported that many fine specimens of fish had Lten seen making upstream. A proposal to visit some of the spawning grounds or “redds” as they arc known to fishermen, is contemplated.

The recent announcement of the allocation of £IO,OOO for investigation into the causes of facial eczema in livestock in New Zealand has evidently been iu terpreted in Australia as meaning that a reward of that amount is to bo offered for a euro for ordinary eczema. Dozens of letters and cablegrams have been received by the Miuistcr of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, from Australians who are under this misapprehension. It is necessary to reply td each one explaining the position and pointing out that the facial eczema, socalled, is really the culminating point of a nutritional disturbance in livestock.

A list of the descendants of the original French settlers at Akaroa is being compiled by the Department of Internal Affairs and w T ill bo used as an important reference when the New Zealand centennial is celebrated in 1940. Tho French Nanto-Borqolaisc Company sdnt the Comte de Paris to Akaroa in 1340, and it arrived With 63 immigrants, who were to found a French colony on Banks Peninsula. It was not until some years after their arrival that tho settlers realised that they had been forestalled by the British in the annexation of the .South. Island. French people were in New Zealand waters and interested in Banks Peninsula some time before the arrival of -the settlers in the Comte de Paris. Soon after the colonists came Akaroa was a quaintly international settlement, with French, British, German and Maori families among those living all within the one small hamlet.

Tlie death occurred suddenly at Oarnaru on Tuesday morning of Mr. Malcolm Kennedy AlcCulloch, the first assistant teacher of tho Waitaki Boys’ High School. Mr. McCulloch was born at Caversham, Dunedin, iu IBSO. He was educated at the Otago Boys’ High School, aud graduated at the Otago University. His first appointment an the teaching profession wds that of pupil teacher at the Kaikorai .School in 1897, which position he held lor three years. He entered the Otago Teachers’ Training College in 1902, and took his B.A. and AI.A. degrees with honours in French and English at the Otago University. He was appointed assistant at the Hampden District High School in 1903, and assistant resident master at the Nelson Boys’ College in Hie third term of that year, remaining at Nelson College until 1906. la February, 1907, he was appointed to the staff as resident assistant-master at tho Waitaki Boys’ High School, and he had been with tho school ever since, completing 32 years of service udder the Waitalci High Schools’ Board of Governors. He became first assistant master at Waitaki in 1914.

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