LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22214, 14 September 1935, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Aeroplane Rebuilt Tho Moth aeroplane ZK-AAL which was wrecked at Wellington about two years ago, has been rebuilt by the Auckland Aero Club. It will in future be used for instruction. All Blacks' Match Result The result of the first match of the All Blacks' tour, tho game against Devon, will bo received in Auckland to-morrow morning and will be exhibited outside the Hehald office. Owing to the pressure of other telephone business, it will be impossible to answer telephone inquiries for the result. Island Tomatoes in Bad Condition The shipment of Island tomatoes which arrived from Rarotonga by the Sheaf Holme on Wednesday was in generally bad condition, a large proportion being unsaleable. The balance realised about 2s a case at tho City Markets yesterday. A fair quantify of the oranges which the vessel brought from Mauke also were in bad condition. View of Mount Egmont Owing to tho exceptional visibility yesterday Mount Egmont could be seen clearly from the high sand dunes to the north of tho Waikato Heads, tho airline distance being fully 120 miles. From that point tho cone of the mountain, completely snow-covered, stood out conspicuously as tho only object on tho clear-cut horizon of a particularly blue sea.

Green Peas Cheapej Although the recent severe weather has affected the crop of &reen Peas, prices at the City Markets yesterday were slightly lower than those of last week. The early crops were mostly a complete failure, and it is expected that it will bo some time before good quantities are available. At the City Markets yesterday green peas sold at from fid to Is 3d a pound. Condition of Injured Boy Some improvement occurred yesterday in the condition of Theodore Peter Hammond, aged 10, son of Mr. anil Mrs. D. H. M. Hammond, of Dargaville, who was admitted to the Auckland Hospital on Tuesday suffering from head injuries received when he was thrown from a horse at Papatoetoe. His condition last night, however, was reported to be still fairly serious. Samoan Administration " The military mind is not suitablo for the government of Samoa," said Mr. F. Milner, headmaster of Waitaki Boys' High School, speaking at a meeting of the League of Nations Union in Christchurcb. " It should be governed by men versed in ethnology, anthropology and the traditions of the British Colonial Office." He stated that elsewhere British rule had done its best to preserve local institutions, and this should have been done in Samoa. Organised Relief Labour Properly organised relief labour can attain an efficiency that it lacks when haphazard methods of allocation to works are used, according to Mr. R. Mclntyre, Public Works Department assistant-engineer at Rangiora, who addressed the Canterbury Engineering Society in Christchurch. This had been proved, he said, in the development of the Ashley River control scheme. Mr. Mclntyre contrasted the methods used when the work was commenced in 1933 with the piecework system adopted later.

New Zealanders Praised The geniality of New Zealanders and the effective help given tourists by the New Zealand Tourist Department were favourably commented upon by Mr. W. de Hoog, of Johannesburg, when he arrived in Christchurch during a tour of the Dominion. He was greatly impressed, he said, by the helpfulness and kindliness of the people of New Zealand to strangers, and he had nothing but praise for the enterprise which had built up so varied an achievement in all departments of life within the comparatively short time that the country had been settled. Help for the Blind The Commercial Travellers' Associations in the four centres are at present engaged in raisiing a sum of £SOO to help Sir Clutha Mackenzie, director of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, in building up a Braille library for the blind. Speaking at the Auckland travellers' social gathering last night, Mr. W. H. Prentis, immediato past president of the United Travellers' Associations, said that all the associations had now done something toward this object, and he hoped in two or three months to be able to hand Sir Clutha a cheque for £SOO. Maori Carvers Busy The carvers at the Ohinemutir School of Maori Arts and Crafts, Rotorua, have been busily occupied for some months on carvings for a new meetinghouse, which is to be erected at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, and this week it is expected that most of the 24 largo poupou slabs and about 10 carved gable ends will have been completed. There still remain a number of smaller pieces to be carved, but work on these will be temporarily suspended to permit the commencement of necessary carvings for a meeting-house which is to be erected at Waitaru. by the Ngatiawa.

Hotel Trade "What would you say was the condition of the hotel trade compared with four or five years ago? " asked counsel of a witness in the Supreme Court, Dunedin, in a case concerning the rental of a hotel. " There has been a drop of nearly 50 per cent," replied tho witness. Asked if he thought there was an improvement at present, witness said he would not say so. People wanted more for their money these days, and, as an example of this, one saw " Wanganuis " (large glasses) in bars of leading hotels where some time ago they would not be seen at all. Hotels might be using more beer, but they were getting less profits. Friday the Thirteenth Superstitious folk were r.hlo to comment yesterday that tho day was not only tho 13th of the month, but that it was- also Friday, an extremely unlucky combination, especially so according to the loro of the sea. It is said that Friday tho 13th was a day upon which mariners at one tiino would refuse to sail for fear of dire consequences. A story is told of a sceptical shipbuilder who decided to break the superstition once and for all. He laid the keel of a new ship on the Kith of the month, and so contrived other important events in her building that they fell on the 13th of subsequent months. Finally the ship sailed on her maiden voyage on the 13th —and was never begird of again. Such is one of the stories which helped to perpetuate the superstition.