NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 180, 2 August 1938, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Ngabaur&nga Gorge Closed. As from yesterday the Ngahauranga gorge road, near VVellingtou, will be closed for a period estimated at 15 months while reconstruction of the highway is being carried out. Traffic to and from Wellington will have to take alternative roads. New Court Hours. A new starting time for the sittings of the Magistrate's Court in Palmerston North was announced by Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., yesterday. For many years it has been the practice to open proceedings at 10.30 a.m., but commencing next Monday his Worship will take his seat at 10 a.m. Pitcairn Rumour Falsified. The steamer Akaroa, which left Auckland on July 19 for the United Kingdom, has advised that she called at Pitcairn on Thursday morning. All is well at Pitcairn, further falsifying tho story of destitution owing to the rumour that there was typhoid there causing vessels to keep off. Conference at Massey CoUege. The tenth annual conference of the New Zealand Dairy Science Association will open at Massey College on Thursday morning next, and will conclude on Friday niglit. It is expected that an interesting angle will be given the conference by the presence of a number of veterinarians on this occasion. Met in London. During the weekly luncheon of the Palmerston North Rotary Club yesterday the president, Mr. A. Grigor, read a letter from Mr. J. C. Young, of Palmerston North, who said he had attended a meeting of the London club and among a crowd of strangers ho was surprised to find himself seated next to Mr. C. N. Rabone, also of this city. School at Racecourse. Between 70 and 80 children from Forms 1 and II at the Hastings West School took up new quarters at the Hastings racecourse yesterday morning, and will remain there until new building operations to be put in hand at the school are complete. The temporary classrooms provided at the racecourse are stated to be comfortable and warm, with good ventilation. To Study Marine Life. To study marine life in New Zealand an expedition is at present being planned in the United States on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. Its objects will be to obtain specimens of striped and black marlin, mako shark and other large gamo fish. It will be financed by a wealthy American who has conducted a number of such expeditions in many parts of the world.

Secondary School Visitors. A party of 60 pupils from tho Napier Intermediate School, after a four-hour trip from Wanganui, were entertained in Palmerston North on Saturday by Diembers of the Rotary Club. The party was returning to Napier after having paid a visit to the Wanganui Intermediate School, and were taken on a brief sight-seeing tour here. The visitors were in the charge of Mr. O. E. Johnston and Miss M. Kingston. Dominion’s Wide Jurisdiction. “New Zealand’s territorial and administrative responsibilities extend from tho South Pole almost to the Equator/' said Rev. A. li. Chappell when addressing members of the Auckland branch of the League of Nations Union. Mr. Chappeii said the Dominion’s sphere of jurisdiction began with a segment of the Antarctic embraced by the Ross Dependency and reached as far north as Nauru Island, which was about 30 miles south of the Equator. Always Good to Stop. Pleading that he had been blinded by the lights of an approaching car, a motorist in the Palmerston North Magistrates Court yesterday defended a charge of driving without duo care and attention. He had knocked a cyclist off his machine. Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., commented that it was always good practice to stop when so blinded. In 95 cases out of 100 there might not be anyone on the road ahead, but the time came when there was somebody there whom tho driver could not see.

Boys Buried in Sand. After feverish digging by 20 men, Leslie Carr, aged 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Carr, Bright street, Cobden, and George Williams, aged 12, living in Fox street, Cobden, were saved from death by suffocation by a narrow margin. When playing in a vacant section at Cobden on Thursday afternoon the boys entered a sand tunnel 10ft. long and 6ft. deep, which collapsed, burying them both. Help was called by companions and both were rescued alive. The boys, who suffered from shock, were attended by Dr. J. F. C. Moore before being taken to their homes. Unique Holiday. Nelson, with a cloudless sky, yesterday celebrated the first Monday in August. The holiday was instituted in the earliest days oy the first settlers, following the English Bank holiday; it then lapsed, but was revived in the 'Bo’s as a half-holiday and in later years was made a whole holiday. Actually the banks are among the few institutions which do not observe the holiday. It was August Bank holiday at Home, 21 years ago, it will bo recalled, that last-minute efforts were made by the British Government to stay Germany's hand against war, the British ultimatum expiring that night. Sacrifice Needed.

“The Centenary appeal is a call to all the members of our Church to show that they are prepared to sacnfico for their religion, just as many of our fellow Christians m Germany and other countries are prepared to-day to suffer, and to suffer greatly, for it," said the Bishop of Wellington (Rt. Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland) m a pastoral letter read at morning and evening services yesterday in all Anglican churches in the Wellington diocese. “Will you look on it as God’s call to do great things for Him, and to reveal to the people of New Zealand that tho Church of Christ has not lost the spirit of its Master, and that it has a life and a message which not only inspire it to dare the impossible, but also enable it to reveal tho fact that Christ’s power is mightily at work in the hearts of men to-day f"

The Tory Channel whalers have effected their 70th capture of the season, exceeding the previous record of 69. The season is now drawing to a close.