News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 17 March 1939, Page 6

News Of The Day

Dominion Monarch’s Record,

The new liner, Dominion Monarch, on her maiden voyage, has arrived at Fremantle, reducing the EnglandAustralia record by two, days.

Ohaeawai Road Sealing. in conformity with the Maim Highway Board’s policy of road sealing through all Northland townships and villages to obviate the dust nuisance, sealing was • completed a few. days ago through Ohaeawai. The dustless surface has been laid for several chains on the Kaikohe Road, and for perhaps 20 chains on the southern highway, as well as for an equal distance on the main North highway as far as;the saleyards. • < .• $ $ ;• Overseas Anglers Fined., Two overseas anglers pleaded, guilty in the Taupo Police Court, before Messrs R. H. Ward and R. F. Hutchins, J.Ps., to fishing at the Delta, near jTokaanu, Lake Taupo, without being the holders of fishing licenses.; John Frederick Clifford, of England, for having no license, for any district, Was fined £3, including costs; He pleaded ignorance of the law. "Hubert Dever De La Courray, of England, stated he had a Rotorua district license which, he thought was sufficient. He was also fined £3. V-

Blackberries Mean Money. The blackberry-buying at present being carried out in the Rotorua district by a jam-making firm furnishes a remarkable indication of the huge quantities of these berries to be obtained in the district. Consignments have been made by rail to Auckland twice weekly since the picking of fruit commenced. On the first day of I picking, 600 lbs. were bought, but on Monday the consignment sent forward was just 60 lbs. short of 4£ tons.- The firm has been purchasing blackberries at 2Jd a lb. from the pickers. $ * * ♦ Plant Research Station,, Built at a cost of £16,000, the new plant research station at Mount Albert, Auckland', will be opened by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, on the morning of Mai'ch 25. The building should be completed nexf week, when it will be handed over to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research by the Public Works Department. It represents the greatest advance yet made in the interests of plant research in the- Dominion. The building, of two storeys, contains 35 rooms, chiefly laboratories, and has accommodation for a staff of 27. It is fully air-conditioned with provision for cooling in the sumher 'and heating in the winter.