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Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 44

Tlie opinion that, in the future, the standard of a nation’s culture would be judged not only from its books and its works of art, but also from the quality’ of its national broadcasting, was expressed b.v Mr J. E. Strachan at a meeting in Christchurch. He said that, in a few years, by’ listening to the material broadcast from a nation’s stations, a fair idea of the standard of culture of the nation would be obtained. Mr Strachan is a. pioneer radio experimenter, and has, since the earliest days of broadcasting, taken a keen interest in that subject. About a year ago the Palmerston North Citizens’ Lunch Club handed over to the district probation officer £5 to be lent at his discretion to boys in need and looking for work. It was reported at a recent meeting of the club that this £5 had been loaned and reloaned no fewer than 20 times, and in every instance the money had been refunded. About 9s was owing on the last loan, and that amount the probation officer expected to have returned very shortly. In reply to a letter received at the meeting of the Bluff Harbour Board on Thursday on the subject of the Stewart Island service, the board announced that it was not going to enter into this srevice at all. The board had approached the Government for assistance, but as the latter had not felt disposed to help, the matter was now one for the islanders themselves. To discuss questions arising out of any proposal by them to- establish a new service, the board appointed a committee to meet the Steyvart Island residents.

A party of nine constables spent the greater part of Sunday patrolling the edges of the Tomahawk Lagoon and the nearby beaches in search of the little girl, Valda Shirley Eggers, who has been missing from her home at Tomahawk since August 18. No trace of the child was found, and the search is being continued, a policeman being kept continuously on duty in the neighbourhood day and night.