Swimmers Caught in Current

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23064, 15 December 1936, Page 8

Swimmers Caught in Current

Caught in l a strong current parallel to the beach, three young men had considerable difficulty in regaining the shore at Kara Kara, near Auckland, on Sunday morning. During a strenuous swim one man tired, and his companion began to assist him while S. Odlin, a strong swimmer of the Life Saving Club, swam to the exhausted man, who on reaching the shore collapsed, Artificial respiration was applied successfully. A large crowd applauded the rescue. ,

New Airliners The three Lockheed Electra passenger aeroplanes to be put into service by Union Airways between Auckland and Wellington about the middle of next year will have the registration letters ZK-AFC, ZK-AFD, and ZK-AFE respectively. As with the company’s machines in the Palmerston North-Dunedin service, the new aeroplanes will be given native bird names. Officials of Union Airways visited Mahgere last week to discuss arrangements in connection with ground facilities for the machines. Trading in Game

A proposal that legislation should be brought down to prevent trading in game .by providing substantial penalties for selling game or shooting for profit, and a reward for information leading to convictions was received from the Auckland Gun Club by the Council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. 'The president (Mr F. E. M’Kenzie) said it was well known that game could be bought from hotels throughout the country. Only heavy fines and substantial rewards for information could stop this commercialising of the sport, and the matter was already being urged by the society.

Large Timber Deal Negotiations for the sale of a large area of timber country, some 4000 acres, were recently completed at Tokaanu to prominent King Country millers. The estimated cutting is near 80.000. log measurement, and the price payable to the Native owners will be in the vicinity of £170,000. The area sold is portion of the 40,000 acres of the finest totara, matai, and rimu timbered area in New Zealand, known as the Tongariro timber blocks, and owned exclusively by members of the Tuwharetoa tribe. The total area is estimated to contain over 1.000. of timber, and the stumpage value has been assessed at £3,750,000. Mr J. Asher, of Tokaanu. represented the Native owners. Joseph Conrad Sold

Advice was received in' Auckland last week that the small full-rigged ship Joseph Conrad, which arrived at New York from Tahiti via Cape Horn on October 17, after a passage of 106 days, has been sold by Captain A. J. Villiers to an American yachtsman. The vessel, which was the last fullrigged ship to fly the British flag, visited Auckland in February.' The British flag was hauled down '• on November 10, when the ship’s new owner took possession and replaced it with the Stars and Stripes.- The'■crew of 20, who joined the vessel at Ipswich, England, three years ago, went home by steamer after a farewell dinner tendered by Captain Villiers, who is remaining in New York. The ship is now at Newport News undergoing a thorough overhaul. She is to be fitted with a 300 h.p. Diesel engine.

Centenary of Roman Catholic Church " Efforts to attract visitors, not only from all parts of New Zealand, but from Australia. Canada, and the United States to the centenary celebrations of the Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand will be made soon,” said Bishop Liston at a meeting of committees organising the celebrations. Negotiations were now in progress, he said, for the chartering of a vessel to convey to New Zealand the Australian delegation, which would include the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Panico. of Sydney. Organisation has already begun for the celebration of the landing in New Zealand of the first Vicar Apostolic Bishop Pompallier. at Hokianga. A notable Maori assembly is assured, and a Pontifical High Mass will be celebrated on the site of the dwelling of the late Thpmas Poynton, the settler who was host to the missionary bishop.

Radio Foundation Hay Commemoration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of Marconi’s wonderful achievement of successfully bridging the Atlantic Ocean from Cornwall to Newfoundland on December 12, 1901, with wireless signals was made on Saturday .by the sending of his historic but simple message of the letter S repeated four times around the globe. Arrangements for the function were made by the Institution of Radio Engineers (Australia) to send the message from Sydney to London through Bombay, Tokio, Buenos Aires, New York, Montreal, Melbourne, ba-k to Sydney. Marchese Marconi, in an address associating himself with *he ceremony, paid tribute to other pioneers in the field of wireless invention. mentioning particularly Mr E. T. Fisk, to whom the British Empire and Australia owed much for their, efficient system of communications. It gave him particular satisfaction to realise that it was this assistant of his earlier work who had been responsible for the efficient wireless network that operated daily throughout the Western Pacific.

Completion of Education “ If any industrial legislation compels employers to take boys from school at an early age, then something must be done to meet that difficulty,” said the Minister of Education (Mr P. Fraser) when speaking at the prizegiving ceremony of St. Patrick’s College, Wellington. . “I rule out,” he said, “ the plea for early specialisation, whether in school or out of it, for two reasons: first, the demand for narrow practicality is self-defeating; secondly, it is dead against the standard of our national culture. My fear, then, is that many lads will become inefficient ii} their employer’s eyes when they become 21. We must have patience, Rome was not built in a day, and I recognise that many of the difficulties are difficulties peculiar to a transitional stage. When the new legislation is in full force, and appeals against dismissal become an accepted thing, then I sincerely hope that there , will be little patience with the. plea of an inefficiency of, the type that comes from lack of a sound general education. A lad does not have to reach his twenties for that defect to show up.”

Profitable Exchange The Aucklander was resting quietly against a local bar and watching the bubbles froth.. Presently (says the Star) the vacant space next to him was filled by another, who was evidently the second or third officer of a visiting overseas ship. His order was a bulk one—to be taken away—and when it had been wrapped for him he tendered the barmaid ah English 10s note. “ Oh," said the barmaid,” but I’ll have to charge you sixpence exchange On that.” The officer began to fumble for a sixpence in his deepest pockets until the Aucklander stopped him. “Here,”; he said, “give me that note of yours. and I’ll give you a New Zealand one.”. After examination of watermarks had proved satisfactory, the exchange was made, the purchase completed, and the officer departed full of gratitude. The Aucklander finished his and went back to the office.' “ What’s this thing worth real- money? ” he asked the cashier, with the English note extended. The cashier gave him 12s 6d.

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