PRICE OF GOLD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 13 June 1939, Page 4

PRICE OF GOLD

'(I P.A.— By Electric Telegraph— (,’rpj r mht LONDON, 12th June. The price of gold is 148 s 5d per fine

Motor Safety Device A Wanganui resident has patented a gravity earthing by-pass switch for motor-cars which operates automatically should a car turn over. The ignition system becomes immediately earthed. which switches the engine off. thus minimising the danger of a car taking fire Publicity for New Zealand "New Zealanders don't know how well they are being advertised in parts of the United States,” said Mr Matthew Cowley, head of the Norman Church mission in New Zealand, in an address to the Auckland Junior Chamber of Commerce (reports the "Star”). He remarked that films of New Zealand life and scenery were being sent regularly to his home State of Utah and to other places, and that a New Zealand society with several hundred members was in active existence in Utah. Although he had been in the Dominion only a few years, he said he knew much more about New Zealand than about Utah, and he could describe all the wonders of Rotorua but none of those of Yellowstone Park, which contained the most famous thermal area in the world. Plums in June The mildness of the winter is shown by the experience of a resident of Wanganui, Mr F. H. Holdaway, of Niblett street, who has a tree that is still bearing plums (reports the “Herald”). The fruit is ripe and juicy. Threat to Kauri

Strong exception to the Government’s milling policy of the kauri in State forests was expressed at a meeting of the Whangarei County Council last week The chairman. Mr J. A. S. Mackay, and Mr A. Clarke were appointed to attend a conference of North Auckland local authorities that is to be called to meet the acting-Commissioner of State Forests, the Hon H. T. Armstrong, when he comes North. “In a few years’ time neither of the three big national kauri parks will attract a single visitor to North Auckland if the trees are to be taken out as proposed,” commented Mr Mackay. “It is impossible to keep fire out of the old kauri workings If you take out one kauri tree on a steep hillside it means that acres of ground are cleared of bush, resulting in extreme danger of fire. 1 had hoped that all the deputations which waited on the Minister would have impressed him that the kauri forests should not be touched.”