NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 184, 7 August 1939, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Figures Like Venus Principal G. 11. Purvis, of Usk Agricultural College, told a meeting that if Welsh girls drank more milk they ■would have figures like Venus! Welsh people, ho said, drink on an average less than on-o-third of a pint of milk a day, which is less than is drunk by the people of nearly every other country in Europe. Sporting Constable “I told him (the accused) that lie was not in a fit state to make a statement, and that if I was him I would sec a. solicitor before 1 said anything/’ said Constable J. 11. Beaton, of Ractihi, giving evidence in a motor collision case in the Supremo Court at Wanganui recently. Sir John Reed: “Very] snorting of you, constablcl" Constable : Beaton: “I’m Scotch, sir! 0 In Father’s Footsteps Behind the pack of the Horowhenua primary school representative team which played against Manawatu at Palmerston North ou Saturday was a small Maori boy who seemed to possess a good knowledge of the game. Perhaps this should not have been any cause for surprise, seeing that his surname is Jacobs and his father none other than the redoubtable B. Jacobs, who had such a lengthy and distinguished career os a Rugby football player in the years after the war. \ Demand for Eggs “The impression is existing that there will be an exceptional demand for eggs tlis year because of the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington, and also through the small carry-over of pulp in the cool store, compared with a year ago/ said Mr. (J. Ferguson, secretary of the Canterbury Egg Farmers' Association. “In the event of eggs being available for export this year after local demands have been met, the assistance of the Govcnrment, through the Internal Marketing Department, would be much appreciated. 0 Liner’s Now Insignia For the first time in nearly 50 round voyages in the Pacific service the Matson liner Monterey passed through Auckland from San Francisco on Friday bearing the company ’a initial “ M ° in blue on each side of her two yellow funnels. The sister liner Mariposa will also have the insignia placed on her funnels when sho reaches San Francisco this week. The Mariposa had the initials when she first came into the New Zealand service, but they were later removed. The new practice will bring the two ships into line with the Lurline and Matsonia in the San Francseo-Hawaiiau trade. Maoris and India

Ou his recent visit to India the Bishop of Aotearoa, Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, was given some evidence corroborating in a rather xemarkable way the belief of scientists that tho Polynesian pooples, including tho Maoris, came originally from Southern Asia. In a lecture at Auckland the bishop said that when he had occasion to mention tho Arawa tribe ho was told that there was a people of exactly the. same name in India, and lie found later two other names of groups or tribes very like those of two other tribes in the Bay of Plenty. A few common nouns in Maori also had Sanskrit equivalents in sound and meaning. “Was it Hot?”

A former Dunedin lady, now resident in New York, in a letter just received, makes an interesting comment on the visit of their Majesties the King and Queen to tho United States. “They were not so guarded as it is reported. Tho officials, of course, required to tako precautions, but the King and Queen rode in open cars. Why, my own car has bullet-proof glass at all times. Practically all cars have bullet-proof glass, so there was nothing in the King and Queen’s carriage having it. They made a wonderful, even a national, impression on our people—tho King stately, tho Queen fascinating and exceedingly natural; but was it hot? Boy!° Historic Legal Records Moved no doubt by the rapidlyawakening interest in local history, ‘ho Auckland District Law Society is appealing to practitioners to search for and preserve old volumes or records which may have definite legal or historical interest. It is known that in Ike past valuable records were destroyed by firms simply to secure much-needed space. Tho society offers to house aud care for any such material in the space which it has available in its library. It is particularly anxiou3 to secure early official publications with a view to completing sets in the library, and asks for early Provincial Council and Government publications, general works on New Zealand and old photographs. Mr. Chamberlain's Successor

Tho possibility of a successor to Mr. Neville Chamberlain was mentioned by Mr. F. XV. Doidge, M.P. for Tauranga, addressing the Wellington Rotary Club. Mr. Doidge said that he recently received a letter from a member of tho House of Commons who said that the younger members of tho House “made a book 0 one evening on a successor to the Prime Minister should Mr. Chamberlain by any chance retire. They had come to tho conclusion that the odds were as follow:—Lord Halifax, 7 to I; Mr. Anthony Eden, 12 to 1; Sir John Simon, 20 to 1; Sir Samuel Hoarc, 25 to 1, and Mr. Churchill, 40 to 1. As far as tho Munich and Rome conferences were concerned, Lord Halifax had remained in the background, but recently ho had been coming very much to tho front and had made n deep impression. Cat on Power Pole. Two days on tho top of an electric power pole during cold weather and without food were experienced by a cat at Midhirst. On Friday the Taranaki Power Board received a telephone message that the cat was on the top of the pole, and had been there for two days. Immediately a faultman went to the rescue and the cat was returned to the ground early in the morning. What induced the cat to climb tho pole is not known, but apparently, once there, it was afraid to go down again, in spite of the cold and its hunger. Even wheu a man came to its rescue it was dubious about letting go and had to be lifted by tho scruff of the nock from its porch. Apparently still fearing it was going to fall when it reached tho earth, the cat spreadeagled itself on the ground and held on in the same manner as when it was on the pole.