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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 4

The notice of readers is drawn to the advertisement in this i sue cancelling the open air concert which was to have taken place at Tahuna on lrt February Unforeseen circumstances have arisen necessitating this step, and the executive of the City Pipe Band regrets any inconvenience the artists may have been put to. Parents are notified in our advertising columns that Miss Barbara Gould is opening a kindergarten school at her home, 164 Tasman street, and will interview parents any afternoon. Alfred Gould advertises details of a •pocial auction sale of genuine Persian rugs, mahogany, Chinese furniture, etc., to be sold at rooms next Friday at 2 P-m.*

Tongariro Due To-morrow The New Zealand Shipping Com- | pany's steamer Tongariro is due at Nel- | son to-morrow afternoon to load meat, wool and general cargo for London and Newcastle-on -Tyne. Murchison Half Holiday The Murchison County Council at its monthly meeting decided on Saturday for the weekly statutory half-holiday m the county Record Entries for Rowing Titles That the Picton New Zealand Championship Regatta Committee’s enterprise in offering the record donations of £252 for the championship regatta to be held at Picton on Saturday, 11th February, 1939. was justified is shown by the record entries received for the regatta <states the “Express”). The exceptionally large number of 108 crews have been entered for the 11 events on the programme and this number must be a record for any New Zealand championship regatta, proving the popularity of Picton as a championship course. Clubs are represented from Bluff in the south to Auckland and Tauranga in the north, and it is doubtful if there has ever been such a comprehensive representation in the New Zealand championships. Crews from the following 23 clubs will be competing:—Auckland, West End, North Shore (Auckland), Tauranga. Poverty Bay, (Gisborne). Napier, Clifton, (Waitara), Aramoho. Union, Wanganui (Wanganui), Star, Wellington, Petone (Wellington), Picton, Arapawa, Blenheim, Wairau (Marlborough), Nelson, Kawatiri (Westport), Avon, Canterbury, Union (Christchurch). Awarua (Bluff).

Reflecting Pools at Exhibition Another step towards the lay-out of the Centennial Exhibition has been taken in the excavation of the large reflecting pools which will be a feature of the grounds, particularly at night. Exhibitions come and go, and within six months or so of the opening day the Centennial Exhibition will be handed over to the carters and the demolition gangs; the pools, therefore, are not built to last and are simply shallow excavations a couple of feet deep, with sides and bottoms of tongued and grooved timber. For a week or two they will leak splendidly, but after that the joints will take up. The largest of the pools will form a reflecting pool for the lights of the central tower and so runs east and west in the main plaza, in a line with the main entrance from Kingbford Smith street. Other pools, slightly smaller, are to right and left, nearer the entrance. As the material to be taken out is practically all sand, a deep cut is made and the sides are pushed in by a power leveller to obtain full width

Toll Taken by Shags The toll taken of small trout by shags was exemplified recently when Mr J. Ormond, a member of the Rotorua Rod and Gun Club, in three days shot no less than 64 shags on Lakes Rotorua and Rotoehu. In all cases the shags were found to have swallowed small trout, the length of the fish being up to 7in. Shortage of Carpenters Any qualified tradesman who came to New Zealand from Europe could secure work at his trade without any trouble and could hold it despite the language difficulty. That was the answer given a “Herald” reporter at Stratford by a builder and contractor who was asked about the feasibility of absorbing European tradesmen in New Zealand. The language difficulty was a comparatively minor one. the builder said. Methods of design ->nd construction of buildings were on practically a standard basis throughout the world. A foreign carpenter, shown a plan and given a few manual direction, would be able to do what was required, and the builder’s oast experience with foreign tradesmen had shown him that in a few weeks or a month or two at the outside the average intelligent foreign workman acquired sufficient knowledge of the language to be able to understand verbal directions. There was a definite shortage of tradesmen throughout New Zealand, he continued. He was himself employing only half the number of men he could use if he had them.