LOCAL AND GENERAL
Tofua For Japan The Union Company's island steamer Tofna, which has been sold to Japanese buyers to be broken up, is to go into dock this afternoon to have "her hull cleaned. The vessel is to sail for Japan early next month. She will be manned by Japanese officers and seamen, who will arrive from Japan via Sydney.
Lectern Given to Church A lectern for use in the Eoskill Mis sion Church has been presented to the Rev. P. S. Small field by Mr. .Albert Lloyd, aged 65, who is an inmate of the' Veterans' Home. The lectern, which is constructed of rimu and stands about sft. in height, is a fine piece of work. Mr. Lloyd at one time followed the cabinet-making trade.
Two Small Boats Adrift Two small boats were picked up in the harbour on Saturday morning. One was a dinghy which had broken adrift from a yacht at Devonport on Friday evening and it was claimed shortly after its recovery. The other derelict was a flat-bottom - boat, which was found drifting off Devonport, where it was taken after being picked up by a boat's crew from H.M.S. Laburnum. Walnuts at Akaroa The walnut harvest at Akaroa has now begun and the sound of the threshing pf the trees can be heard in all parts of the district. The crop this year is good, with clean nuts and only a small percentage of bad ones. The disease prevalent some years ago has almost disappeared. It is estimated that the yield will equal those of former years, when upwards of 1000 sacks were shipped away.
Plunket Street Appeal The final returns show that the response to the annual street appeal of the Plunket Society-on Friday resulted in a total of £435 being collected. This amount represents an increase of about £5 on the figures available on Friday night, when the final returns from Takapuna and Devonport had yet to be made. Last year £366 was contributed on the day, and later donations brought the total up to just over £4OO.
Tramcar Derailed As a result of the rear bogey wheels jumping the points at the junction of the Victoria Avenue line with the main City-Meadowbank tram route, an out-ward-bound tramcar became derailed at about 11 o'clock last night. Fortunately the tram was travelling comparatively slowly at the time and little damage was caused. However, considerable difficulty was experienced in replacing the tram on the line, and eventually a second car had to be sent from the Epsom depot with gear for pulling the derailed tram back to the rails. New Zealand Beech
That a market for New Zealand beech timber is assured in England would appear to be indicated in a letter received by a South Island resident to the effect that the first bulk shipment of beech from the Dominion arrived in London some weeks in satisfactory condition. As this shipment was looked on more or less in the nature of an experiment, the news that the timber has found favour with tho English buyers is distinctly encouraging, and should assist materially in stimulating the timber trade, especially in the southern districts where the beech grows so well. The letter concludes: "Go on cutting."
Sparrows and White Butterflies " Although sparrows seem to attack the white butterfly in no very marked manner, they relish the caterpillar of this pest in a high degree," writes Captain E. V. Sanderson, president of the Native Bird Protection Society, to a Wellington paper. " The trouble is, however, that the caterpillar does not appear to be getting attacked until it has done drastic harm to the cabbages and other vegetables. This is no doubt owing to there not being enough birds to go round. Insects increase with prodigious rapidity in comparison with the comparatively slow rate that birds increase. The remedy is to carry a lot of birds through the winter, by feeding them, in order that we may have a good capital stock to multiply in tho. spring."
Boy Scouts' Night Out Aground on a mud bank in the Tamaki Creek for four hours, a launch party of Otahuhu Boy Scouts had an interesting night on Saturday. The troop of over 40 boys spent the day on Rangitoto, and when returning to Otahuhu in the evening tho launch failed to negotiate a mud bank in the shallow stream. Tho troop master, Mr. J. F. Steele, took several boys ashore by. dinghy, and they walked about seven miles to Otahuhu to advise parents of the occurrence. As the launch was firmly aground, tliere was no alternative but to wait for the tide to float it off. Tho scouts spent the interval in community singing, and making coffee and boiling potatoes. The launch returned to the wharf at Otahuhu at midnight and delivered a thriiled crew of boys to waiting parents. San Francisco Mail Service
Sixty-four years ago to-day the departure of the steamer Wonga Wonga from Sydney marked the inauguration of the Sydnoy-Auckland-San Francisco mail service. Tho vessel arrived at Auckland on April 1, 1870, and sailed the following day for Honolulu. Commenting on the opening of the service tho Hkium* in an editorial on the day of the arrival of the Wonga Wonga said: "Jb has the very great advantage of bringing Auckland and California into direct communication . . . .
The ultimate effect which such constant communication may have upon our commerce it is scarcely possible to predict at present, but that it will be beneficial there is no room for doubt. The Americans are evidently intent on securing as much as possible of the traffic and commerce of the Southern Pacific." Criticism of New Coins Under the Heading "The Atheism of New Zealand" the current issue of the New Zealand Baptist criticises the omission from the Dominion coinage of the letters indicating that King George is King "by the grace of God."-After explaining that no perturbation is felt regarding the droppings of the letters "F.D." (Defender of the Faith), the article proceeds: "Why omit D.G.? The letters ara surely a reminder of two things. Tho first, that the King has a. King other than the people, an Eternal Lord to Whose sceptre he bows. The second, that all the pageant of State ana all the intricacy of trade must at last bo tested by tho external laws of righteousness. We think we are entitled to know who is responsible among our politicians and their advisers for this lapse into nominal atheism. To Australians and the British George is King D.G., but not to officialdom in New Zealand."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21759, 26 March 1934, Page 8
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