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Northland Age, Volume IX, Issue 16, 28 November 1939, Page 1

Germany has executed her first conscientious objector. He was August Dickman, described as “a fanatical member” of the Earnest Bible Students. ☆ ☆ * A Gallup survey poll in the United States found that 82 per cent of American citizens thought the Allies would win, 7 per cent Germany, and 11 per cent wouldn’t guess. But only 16 per cent of the votes favoured American participation, and 84 per cent thought America should keep out.

An Unusual Newspaper Issued by Centennial Exhibitor What surely must be a unique enterprise by a private exhibitor at the Centennial Exhibition is the publishing of a special little two-colour newspaper to publicise its exhibit. We- have just received a copy of this paper—“ Ford Exhibition News” —which is being issued periodically by Ford Motor Company of New Zealand Limited. It is distributed not only to the hundreds of members of the Ford Company’s own staff, but also to all Ford Dealers and associated Ford enterprises throughout New Zealand. The circulation of the paper runs into some thousands. The Ford exhibit, which is the largest one erected by private enterprise at the Exhibition—occupying no less than 10,000 sq. ft. of floor-space in the Transportation (Motor) Court—is not simply a display of motor vehi-

cles. On the contrary, it comprises a fascinating array of action displays, illustrating the part that research, continual testing, and advanced engineering play in the building of a modern motor vehicle. A special lounge and promenade 120 feet long has been built in the Ford Exhibit for the use of the public. ☆ ☆ ☆ It is estimated that, in the first few days of the war, over two million pet animals were destroyed in Britain by their owners, either in fear of air-raids or from a dread of not procuring food for them.

i Railway Timetable at Christmas and New Year i The Railway Department directs at- | tention to an advertisement appearing j in another column in connection with j the running of express trains during I the forthcoming Christmas and New | Year holidays. ☆ ☆ A flea with legs one-twentieth of an | inch long can jump seven feet in the air.