LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23121, 20 August 1938, Page 14

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Birthday of Princess The eighth birthday of Princess Margaret. 'Rose, younger daughter of Their Majesties King George VL and Queen Elizabeth, will be celebrated to-mor-row. Princess Margaret Pose was born oil August 21, 1930, being four years younger than her sister, Princess Elizabeth, who was born on April 21, l'J2(3. Motor-cyclist Injured A fractured shoulder was suffered by Mr. John Winter, farmer, of To Aroha West, Avheu the motor-cycle oil w Inch he was riding involved in a collision with a motor-ear on the Fairfield bridge yesterday afternoon. He was taken to the Waikato Hospital in a St. John Ambulance. Gift to Soldiers' Home The recent gift of a wireless set by Mr. B. Myers to the Kvclyn Firth Home has been greatly appreciated by the men and is proving a constant source of information and entertainment to them. It has been set up in the ward and is specially enjoyed by the men for the contact it gives them with all sorts of sporting fixtures in the Dominion and in Australia. Ihe inmates of the home usually nunibet about 20. North Auckland Highway A temporary bridge has been constructed to carry traffic over the section of the North Auckland main highway which recently subsided, and motorists are advised by the Automobile Association (Auckland) that this afternoon they will no longer have to detour at Albany, as it is anticipated that the work will lie far enough advanced to permit the main route to ho used. The bridge is a single-car structure. Appropriate signs liavo been erected bv the association.

Car Caught by Tide A practically new motor-car was wrecked on the Opunake Beach, Taraiialti, when it became stuck in a tail race and was caught by the tide. Alter successive unavailing efforts to extricate it from the tail race, helpers were beaten by the tide and the car was abandoned. During the night a heavy sea carried the car out on to the rocks. After several attempts by two lorries and a van, all connected with heavy chains and three cables to the car, it was salvaged.

Old Graving Dock The old Auckland graving dock was first opened for use (JO years ago today, when the Auckland-built vessel lon a was the first to take advantage of tho facilities it offered 011 August 20, 1878. The work of constructing tho dock had been put in hand some two years and three months previously. The dock continued to be used for small vessels until in 1913 it was abandoned and the site filled in. Consideration is now being given to a proposal to uso ( ibis still vacant site for a new building for the Harbour Board. Children Leave for Holidays The railway station was kept busier than usual yesterday, and there was a considerable increase in traffic, owing to tho number of children leaving Auckland for the second term school holidays. A good proportion of the passengers on the expresses were children and the accommodation on the afternoon express and the limited to Wellington was fully taxed. Bookings were not as heavy on the extra express to Wellington, which ran half an hour .after the limited express, but it left Auckland a fairly full train. Memorial Window The. memorial window which has been placed in St. Matthew's Church by parishioners and friends of the late Canon C. H. Grant Cowcn, vicar of the parish from 1920 until his death in 1934, will be unveiled at the morning service to-morrow by Archbishop Averill. The subject depicted in the window is "Our Lord and His Children," and it is the work of the London artist, Mr. A. L. Ward, who was responsible for tho windows of the chapel at King's College. Auckland. Impressions oi Germany

"When in Germany during July, Dr. C. G. Simmers, of the Kclbum Observatory meteorological staff, who arrived at Wellington by the Awatea this week, heard little talk of war, although lie was struck by the large number of people in uniform. "I was very much impressed with the building activity in Germany," lie said in ail interview. "Big structures scented to be going up all over tlio place. There is still a good deal of 'Heil Hitler,' but I understand that it is considerably less than it was. The people seem happy enough, but tho farmers appeared to bo working too hard."

Educational Therapy The value of educational therapy was stressed at tho conference just concluded at Wellington of tho New Zealand Crippled Children Society, according to Mr. W. E. Burley, one of tho Auckland delegates, who said that this form of training crippled children, while occupying their minds, was also of such a nature as to exercise their muscles and, in addition, would lead to their earning a livelihood. Mr. Burley spoke at the conference, of the financial side of conducting flic Wilson Home, while Miss B. Carnachan, also an Auckland delegate, gave an address 011 tho general work of tho home.

Progress in Education Vast improvements in the standard of education and the attitude of the parent aiid child toward the teacher have been noted during tlio past 20 years by Mr. \Y. A. Service, chief inspector to the Canterbury Education Hoard, lie said at the opening of a refresher course for school teachers at Christchurch this week that once the teacher had his ideas regimented; now he was recognised as a person with a brain which ho was allowed to use. "There has been a great improvement also in tho attitude of the child toward school," ho added. "If a child is ill now his mother has the greatest difficulty in keeping him at home." Avondale Telephone Exchange As part of the scheme of reorganising the Auckland metropolitan telephone exchange area it is proposed to establish an automatic exchange at Avondale and to incorporate it in tho metropolitan network, according to a statement by the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, tho Hon. H. G. K. Mason, when speaking at the official opening of the new Avondale post office yesterday. He said the new plant would be accommodated in a separate building at the corner of St. Jude Street and Geddes Terrace, and tenders would be invited shortly for its erection. To meet demands for telephone service in tho meantime it was the department's intention to instal temporary automatic equipment.