News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 17 March 1941, Page 4

News Of The Day

All-Purposes Appeal. Contributions to the £1,000,000 allpurposes patriotic appeal fund now total over £520,000, states the Dominion organiser (Mr Abel). The total represents an increase of over £20,000 in the last week.

Barometer Falls, For the first time for some weeks, the barometer reading in Whangarei is below 30. Although there has been light rain on many days during March, the barometer reading has not fallen to any extent till Sunday, and since then the fall has been rapid.

Mushrooms Plentiful. The light rains of the last few days have brought on the mushrooms and there has been a good crop. Advantage of this and of the off-business days of the weekend was taken by many Whangarei residents who were out in the country gathering this delicacy for their meal tables.

Hitler’s Mission. “I often, think that Hitler's mission in the universe—though he little knows it—is to bring about the living unity, not the political unity, of the whole English-speaking race,” says a writer from London, in referring to the wonderful spirit shown in England under Nazi bombings.

Favours State Tenants Owning Houses Asked, at the conclusion of his meeting at Maunu on Saturday, whether he was in favour of State tenants being given the opportunity to own their own homes, Mr H. W. James said that he was. His address followed the lines of that delivered at Maungakaramea. There was an exceptionally good attendance presided over by Mr Harding Hawken. A resolution of thanks to Mr James was passed at the conclusion of his address.

Seamen and the War,

Stating that many men were applying to join the Seamen’s Union, the acting-secretary in Auckland, Mr. H. Williams, told the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board that he thought a considerable number of these were simply trying to avoid their military obligations. The chairman, Mr. C. R. OrrWalker, S.M., said the same thing had been experienced in the Great War. All the same, he added, those going to sea in overseas ships were taking great risks and were brave men. As far as coastal services were concerned, the position was different.

Fertiliser for North Island. Advice that the Government had cancelled its original plan to ship 20,000 tons of super-phosphate from the South Island to the North Island was received by the North Canterbury District Council of Primary Production at its meeting last week. A further letter from the Minister of Agriculture stated that only a small percentage of the 20,000 tons originally intended had been shipped to the North Island, and steps had been taken to cancel the movement of further quantities. No more would be allowed to be shipped until the future of the industry was clarified, and in any case the requirements of South Island grain crops would be safeguarded to the highest possible extent.

Culture and Industry. ‘‘l have always believed that one of the essentials in this .country was an expansion in our manufacturing industries,” said Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P., leader of the Democratic Labour Party, in an address to the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association on Saturday evening. Mr. Lee went on to say that the origin of his belief was not entirely economic, for diversity of production had a cultural as well as an economic value. “I have great faith in the talent and ability of New Zealanders,” he added, “and I wanted to see our boys and girls given an opportunity to express themselves in every craft and every industry. I could never see how we could become a rich community, culturally, if we were all engaged in producing butter and cheese.”

Bathed in Two Pints of Water “I had a bath yesterday in two pints of water—and made a good job of it.” This comment, apparently referring to the highlight of the day, was written in a letter from Private Ken Campbell, of Whangarei, who is serving with the Long Range Desert Group.

Gutsized Vegetables In the vegetable section at the Wellsford Show on Saturday some huge exhibits came to hand. A feature of this class was the entry of an outsize pumpkin and marrow grown by Mr P. G. Greenwood. These two vegetables weighed well over 1121 b, and attracted considerable interest.

Railway Excursions About 150 people from Whangarei patronised the railway excursion to the Bay of Islands yesterday, and the same number participated in the weekend excursion to Auckland. Although weather prospects in Whangarei did not appear good for the day, the trippers to Russell experienced only one shower, and that was while they were still in the train.

Kensington Croquet Club’s Competition. The following are the results of games in the Kensington Croquet Club competitions: Mrs Courtney and Mrs Johnson beat Mrs Nisbet and Mrs Smeaton for the A buttons; Mrs Simons and Mrs Smith beat Mrs Barriball and Mrs Fairley for the stars; Mrs May and Mrs D. Snow beat Mrs Sirl and Mrs Neale for the B brooches; Mrs Fagan and Mrs Massey beat Mrs Brewer and Miss Hilford for the C buttons.

14 Point Wapiti Head. A fairly good 14-pointer Wapiti head, as well as several smaller ones, was secured at the top of the north arm of Lake Te Anau by a party of sportsmen who have just returned to Balfour, states a Press Assn, message. The 14-pointer had a heavy beamed head, with a spread of 45 inches by 44 inches. The party enjoyed fairly good weather, but consider that they would have had more success if the trip had been delayed a fortnight, as it was too early in the roaring season for easy stalking.

History Repeats Itself. —An illustration of history repeating itself has been brought under our notice by Mrs C. L. Dale, of Ewing’s Road, who has in her possession a copy of the “Buckingham Express,” published during the World War. This paper, normally the same size as an eightpage edition of the Northern Advocate, was reduced to four pages of three columns each. The columns were nine inches long. This reduction in size was due to shortage of newsprint, which is again causing papers to appear in very abbreviated form.

Henry Wilson has large stocks of beys’ heavy and fine serge shorts. The materials are all-wool, fast dye and made of hard twisted yarn and absolutely guaranteed to withstand the hardest wear. All strongly lined and they are well cut, having plenty ot length from the fork to the top oi waist. Prices, as usual, are right. W 9