NEWS OF THE DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11972, 29 October 1924, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

The cheese exhibits at the Wairarapa show, which opens to-day, are said to bo the best ever seen in Wai-' rarapa, 15 factories competing, The Wairarapa Licensed Y ictuallers have donated a very line cup for competition. . A cordial invitation is extended to all interested in the work of the Wellington Society for th Preevntion pf Cruelty to Animals to attend the annual meeting, which is to be held in the secretary’s office, 105, Customhouse quay, at 4 p.m., on Wednesday, October 29th, 1924. Mysterious marine disturbances w ere observed from Herbertville about i tour miles off shore, and about .three (miles south of Cape Turpagain. ’ A huge volume of water shot in the air about 20 feet. Anotner shot occurred a few minutes later, and. a third, less spectacular, the sea being discoloured over a considerable area, showing that tjie ocean bed had been disturbed. Immediately upon his arrival at Palmerston North, on the morning of Tuesday, November 4th, the GovernorGeneral, Viscount Jellicoe, will lay the foundation stone of the war memorial which is to be erected in the centre of the Square, to perpetuate the me mory of the soldiers of Palmerston North and Manawatu district, who gave their lives in the Great War. A guard of honour will accompany His Excellency from the station. A special inspection of the Taupo [Totara Timber Company’s railway from Putaruru to Mokai and the route for the Putaruru Taupo Railway Board’s proposed deviation from the 19-iilile peg onwards, has been, made by two ; consulting engineers from Wellington, : Messrs Vickerman and A. C. Koch. ; Mr Vickerman is a member of the firm !of Messrs Vickerman and Lancaster, j who axe preparing a report under instruction from the board. Mr Koch is | making an inspection on behalf of the timber company. “t wish you would stop chewing,” said Mr Dola n: to a witness at the Napier Police Court, “Right-oh,” responded the witness, adding; “I’ll take it out and stick it here.” Witness then took from his mouth a putty-like looking substance, which appeared to be chewing-gum, and carefully placed it on the ledge of the witness-box. “It won’t get lost there,” he remarked, in a satisfied'tone. “Don’t be cheeky,” said Mr Dolan. “Right-oh,” returned witness, who on leaving the box carefully so-adjusted his “chew” in the side of his mouth. “In the middle age 9, wages were regulated by Act of Parliament,” declared the' Rev. Father Holbrook, at a Labour demonstration at Auckland, “and though they may seem small compared with those of to-day, in. comparison with the cost of living, I venture to say that the social conditions of the thirteenth, century compared more than favourably with our own.” In support of his contention the speaker stated that at one period during that century a yard of russet bioadcloth cost Is Id. the finished coat 2s 6d, a fat sheep Is 2d, and a fat goose 2id, He brought his illustration, however,, to a hilarious climax by adding that the best English ale in those days cost Id per gallon. “May those days come again,” he added, a sentiment which was almost lost in thunderous applause. In introducing His Majesty’s Trade Gommissipner, Mr N- Elmslie, to a gathering of business men at Gisborne, Mr C. G. Bloore said that it would hardly have been thought ndoessary to have a man specially appointed to fostgr the ideal of trade within th©, Empire, but experience had proved that the work was an absolute necessity. He had, while taking Mr Elmslie round to see some of the business people, come across an instance of the thoughtlessness of buyers. A man had told him he had bought a pair of scissors '‘made in Germany,’’ because they were (Reaper than English ones. Prior to the war Germany, sent out i lot of cheap goods, and wo bought them, but to his mind the purchase was merely a deposit; We had paid the balance during the war. . (Hear, hear.) At the conclusion of Mr Elmslie’s (His Majesty’s Traded Commissioner) address at Gisborne, one of the aurlienoe said that prior to the war a. large amount of machinery was being made in Germany and sent over to England to be assembled. It was then Sent out to the dominions as British made. Ho would like to know whether that sort of thing was still being done. Mr Elmslie said that he did not think that had ever been,done. Certain classes of goods were partly manufactured in Germany and sent over.‘to England to bo completed. In many cases the chassis of a car was made in Belgium, or. Germany and the body in England, hut the oar was never sold as an English one. New Zealand was prevented from suffering as suggested, because all goods had to bear a certificate of the country of origin, and had now to be 75 per cent. British to come tinder the .preferential tariff.

A sharp earthquake was experienced . at Wellington at 8.44 yesterday even- ! ing. I 1 Mr G. Maclean Wilford has presented to the library of the Technical College a set of volumes containing the proceedings of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of which the college had none. Mr M. Roulston, of Pongaroa, who has conducted the Pahiatua-Pongaroa mail service for the past eight years has been advised by the postal authorities that his tender has been accepted for the ensuing term of three years as from January Ist, 1925. The Director of the Technical College (Mr J. H. Howell) reported to the hoard last evening that replies favouring the formation of a parents’ association have been received from 113 individual parents. The board authorised the formation of an association,. “That Rotary is destined to be a world power,, if it keeps its ideals where they are at present and uses the same means as at present to bring them about, is beyond doubt.” —Rotar-ian-Preeident D. A. Ewen at yesterday’s meeting of the Rotary Club. The contractors of the Dunedin Exhibition are well ahead of time with the buildings, on which 106 men are now employed. The total area of the buildings that are partially erected, exclusive of the concert hall, is twelve acres; An autographed photograph of his Excellency the Governor-General has been received from Lord Jellicoe by the secretary of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association. It is to be suitably framed and will he hung in the Jellicoe Hall at the Association’s club rooms. Blaeklfeg in. cattle has made its appearance , during the last fortnight in the Cambridge district. There have been two cases at Fenco-urt and two at Monavale, all proving fatal. It appears that these were isolated and proved to, be the only cases known. The inspector visited the farms, and all precautions have been, taken. New Zealand requires about 7,000, 000 bushels of wheat each year. An idea of the great quantity of this cereal grown in Canada may be gathered from the fact that at Point Edward, a few miles from Sarnia, Ontario, it is proposed to erect a 10,000,000 bUßhei elevator to handle “a portion of” the 1925 crop. , In connection with the Kaiwarra trackless car and tramway services concession tickets will be oir sale at the following places: Tramway offices at Lambton, 'Mr Ohas. Bowden’s store at Kaiwarra,- and Mrs F. Prescott’s shop at Kaiwarra. The tickets are available for transfer rides between Kaiwarra and'Lambton Station, and Kaiwarra and Cuba street. Owing to the high price of feed, 1 poultryJceepers in Wanganui are having what one of them has termed “a rough spin-” Many good birds have lost their heads of late, and there is a tendency with the average householder who kept 20 or 30 fowls to reduce them to about half a dozen in order to bring the feeding within the limits of the household scraps. A Wanganui apiarist vouches for the truth of the' following story:—On a board in front .of one of his hives a small pool of water had collected, and in this a bee that, had been out foraging got partly immersed. The insect turned over oh its back and was helpless. Its plight was noticed by another bee,-' which immediately waded in, turned its companion. over, and helped it out.—“ Chronicle.” Mr R. A. Wright (chairman of the A to L Public Petitions Committee) reported to the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon that the committee recommended that the petition of Wm. Saunderson Cooper, of Wellington, praying for reinstatement in the public ■ service of New Zealand, oi for adequate compensation in lieu thereof, be referred to the Government for favourable consideration. The report was laid on the table. It is a hundred years this month since Joseph Aspdin, a Leeds builder, obtained a patent for what is called Portland cement, because the artificial stone it enabled him to produce so closely resembled 1 tihe famous natural stone of that name. The centenary will be celebrated by the erection of a memorial in the city of his' birth, although Wakefield as the place of first manufacture, and Kent as the scene of its. on a large stole have, also laid claims to he associated with tiie invention. A. few days ago a Wanganui resident found that his cat had caught a fan tail. He rescued the bird, and despite the fact that it had lost some of its tail feathers and had an injured wing, it managed, when released, to flutter into the branches of a tree, where it was joined by its mate. Next day the. injured bird! was still there hut it was visited tit frequent intervals by its companion, bringing it food. The following day, however, the eat caught the injured bird and killed it. Lovers of animals, and more especially dogs, may ibe interested to learn that in the course of his sermon at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Auckland, on the humane treatment of animals, Canon Percival James said that, while he did not expect others to .agree with him, be personally believed in the continuity of the life of animals 'beyond the phenomenon called deatn. He said there was nothing in the Scriptures to preclude the idea that animals might not pass on to an after-life, and that thought had been expressed by many of the world’s greatest thinkers, writers, poets, and statesmen. Mr H. .F. Ward, a former student of the Technical College, has presented two gold medals for the best hobby work done bv a boy or girl of th© Technical High School. Much more interest is being taken in hobbies this year than ever previously, according to the director (Mr J. H. Howell) and the number of pupils who have entered for the awards is far greater than ever before, the total for all classes reaching 125. Authority was granted by the hoard to expend a sum not exceeding £5 in providing awards for the most meritorious work, independent of the gold medals. The subject of the conservativeness of the British manufacturers was mentioned by Mr Elmslie in his address at Gisborne. It was an admitted fact that many of the British manufacturers were conservative, hut their policy had brought them success. While it might be true that years ago they were unwilling to manufacture goods to suit the overseas markets, but made the markets absorb the goods they wanted to sell, such no longer held good. As an instance of this he could say that last year, more British manufacturers visited New Zealand than in five previous years. They have recognised that they must know what goods New Zealand wants, and how she wants them. This was a good thing and would improve trade relations of tho two countries