NEWS OF THE DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11226, 3 June 1922, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

' In our report of the Park case, counsel .(s'made to say: “Af for the cancellation of Miss Park’s certificate, the Minister had made every reasonable inquiry before cancelling it.” It has been represented to us that this means that Miss Park’s certificate was actually cancelled. That could not have been counsel’s meaning, of course. Because Miss Park’s certificate has not been cancelled,, and the very object of the present proceedings is to prohibit the Minister from acting under a regulation under which he maims the power to ‘'cancel or suspend the certificate.” If, however, the report has led to any misconception or misunderstanding, we can only exp'ross our regret, and explain that the certificate has certainly not been cancelled, and that counsel never said or implied that it had.

A Palmerston North student of natural science wants to know how it is that no writer in the world has yet succeeded in spelling, even with approximate nearness to the sounds, a human laugh -or cry, the neigh of a horse, the crow of a cook, the cackle of a hen, the bark of a dog, or the song of a bird.

With reference to the outlook for the tea market in connection with the supplies from- Ceylon, a visitor who was m Colombo as recently as early in April, states that the Indian markets opening >t the end of this month might he large, and possibly have the effect of reducing the Ceylon prices to a small extent. He did not anticipate that the .present shortage would continue for any length of time.

The weekly intercessory service was held in the Concert Chamber, Town Hall, at midday yesterday, when there was a large attendance of citizens. Mr A Varney presided, and prayers were offered by Archdeacon Watson, Mr B. J. D. Hercus, and Mr H. W. KerslevScriptures were read as follows:—Genesis iii., by the chairman; Acts ii., by Mr H. P. Mour&nt; and St. Luke xviii., £>- 30, by Mr E. P. Hay. Several wellknown. hymns were heartily sung by those Resent. The service, which was earnest and impressive, concluded with the National Anthem.

Mr Will Lawson (editor) is to be heartily congratulated on the most intereating and varied character of the contents—both articles, and illustrations—of the second number of “The Forest Magazine of New Zealand,’’ the journal of the New Zealand Forestry League. With .this number the scope of the magazine has been considerably enlarged to embrace all hunting, fishing, and other wilderness pursuits in New Zealand.' The full title of the magazine is now “Forest and River— New Zealand Oilt-of-Doors.” “Henceforward (states the editor) it will be published every two months ; and it is hoped to make it a reflection of the forest and wilderness life which will be instructive to residents of this country and to countries overseas. In doing this, however, the purely forestry aspect of that life will not bo neglected or merged in other aspects; rather will the forest be shown in bolder relief and in truer perspective as the fundamental life-giving source of streams, the home of birds and fish, and the sanctuary of many treasures which constitute separately or collectively the lure that draws the townsman into the open.’ ‘

Owing to a temporary dispute, the Paparoa mine (Westland) was idle one day this week, but work was resumed on the next. The Customs revenue collected at Napier during May amounted to £lO,165 3s sd, beer duty to £1039 16s and miscellaneous £1214 3s 4d, making a total of £11,204 19s 6d. A sum of about £7O has been subscribed in Palmerston North of the £BO required to send out an additional missionary to China to assist the Rev. C. McDouall. Knowledge of this part of the world is evidently not a strong point in some of the American commercial institutions. A document has recently been received locally which was addressed - . “Wanganui, Melbourne, New Zealand. ’ “We have the sympathy of the public, and now that the elections are approaching we are assured of the sympathy of the Parliamentarians,” said Mr Bert Jacobs at the soldiers’ reunion at Palmerston North. During the five months of this year that have elapsed permits have been issued for building operations to a value of £71,901 at Palmerston North. 'Of this sum the permits for houses amounted to £37,254.' A young woman named Mavis Ramsay who ran away from the Salvation Army Homo in Christchurch two months ago while undergoing a sentence of twelve months reformative treatment, has been arrested at Invercargill. Tile remarkable productivity of the season is being maintained, and the Hawera Dairy Company is still turning out from fifty to sixty boxes of butter per day, which the “Star” says is an extraordinary output for this time of year. The necessary authority having been granted by the Government, authorising the trustees of the Invercargill 'Savings Bank to give a sum of £3OO towards the erection of the soldiers’ memorial at Invercargill, that sum has been paid over. “When the hanks and other institutions were crying out and buttoning up their pockets we kept going as usual,” said Mr J. C. Grierson, secretary of the Auckland Co-operative Terminating Building Society.' ‘ ‘ln spite of bad times and everything else we carried on, and can look with confidence to the future.” The mildness of the • autumn and early winter is evidenced by the fact that Mr E. McGowan, of Taihape, has an apple tree which is bearing a second crop, the fruit being now about cwo inches in diameter. Last week strawberries in a ripe state were picked from a garden at Ohutu. This week, however, has opened with three severe frosts.