News of the Day

Northern Advocate, 28 July 1939, Page 6

News of the Day

League Team Farewelled. The New Zealand Rugby League team was farewelled yesterday in the Prime Minister's rooms by Cabinet Ministers and other members of Parliament. The Hon. P. Fraser presided, in the absence of the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, who was temporarily indisposed. -* •» * Figures Like Venus. Principal G. H. Purvis, of Usk Agricultural College, told a meeting that if Welsh girls drank more milk they would have figures like Venus! Welsh people, he said, drink on an average less than one-third of a pint of milk a day, which is less than is drunk by the people of nearly every other country in Europe.

By Bicycle To Auckland. Owners of modern high powered motor cars are not alone in making travelling records between Whangarei and Auckland. Recently, Mr Norman Robson, of Wellington, after visiting friends in Whangarei, left at 6.15 a.m. on a very ancient bicycle. By G p.m. the same day he was dining with his parents in Morningside, Auckland. He found the grade easy, and the road surface quite comfortable for travelling, so that he suffered no ill-effects whatever. One puncture was the only incident of the trip.

Cars Harmful to Toheroas. Commenting on the restrictions placed on the removal of toheroas from the Ninety-Mile Beach, a Kaitaia resident who has visited the beach regularly for more than 40 years, told an “Advocate” representative he was convinced, from his own observations, that there were serious losses of toheroas in the early stages of their existence as a result of motor vehicles £ being driven rapidly over the beds, f Young toheroas, he said, lived within | a couple of inches of the surface, and V the passage of cars so close to them f was fatal to their sensitive organisms, i i Another destructive agency was the j east wind, which tended to check the? flow of the tides and carry dry sand f from the dunes until what might be? described as the nurseries of the tohe-1 roas were covered with sand. In this | way, it was believed, millions of the* shellfish were destroyed in infancy, i

Steamer From Portland. The Union Company’s steamer Komata is expected to return to Auckland from Portland on Sunday and sail on Monday for Wellington, via Napier, taking Wellington cargo in place of the Waiana. * * Broken Leg in Sledge Accident. Mr William Jack, of Titoki, and formerly of Whangarei, was admitted to the Whangarei Hospital yesterday, suffering from a break in the large bone of his right leg, above the ankle, the result of falling under a sledge. His condition is satisfactory.

Teas For Businessmen. With the object of making the Kaitaia Businessmen’s Association a live and active body throughout the year and retaining interest, a series of monthly teas or luncheons is being instituted, and the first of these will be held on August 7. At the meeting, business questions of importance will be considered, including the association's first contribution to the cost of improving the motor camp in the A. and P. Association’s grounds. * Kaitaia’s Worst Winter. Now that Mr Rowe, who was the official ran recorder at Kaitaia for many years, is taking up his residence in Auckland, the records are being kept by Mr J. McCullock, who for the first month of his office has had something to record practically every day. Yesterday morning there was a heavy fall of hail, something very unusual for Kaitaia, and heavy showers driven before violent, cold, south-westerly blasts, have continued day and night for some days. Kaitaia is experiencing one of the worst winters within memory, and stock is faring very badly. Feed is scarce, and if the weather does not improve there is a likelihood of serious losses during the calving period.