NEWS ITEMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 12

NEWS ITEMS

Pare fa Putu, who lives at Opuatia, in ' tho Kaglan district, and is in her eighty ' sixth year, is believed to bo the only 1 survivor of tho siege of tho Kangiriri pa, which took place at the commencement , of tho Waikato wars. ■ In tho Otorohanga Police Court Alcx- : under John McNamara, a postal official , employed in tho Otorohanga Post Office, i was charged with tho embezzlement of [ £72, the property of the Post and Telegraph Department. Accused was remanded. . Tho vast improvement that has been ; mado on what always had been looked . upon as poor gum country in North , Auckland astounded Mr. Dynes Fulton, j chairman of directors of the New Zealand 00-oporativo Dairy Company during his recent tour of tho district, j Barren fields, ho said, bad been turned . into beautiful, pastures of tho best Ehg- . lish grasses. 1 That substantial savings in tho cost of ’ the conveyance of children to consolidated schools could be made was ' emphasised by the Minister of Education, Hon. R. Masters, at Matakoho, 1 North Auckland. Conveyance costs had ■ been keeping up throughout New Zea- ' land and had been getting out of hand, 1 1 the Minister said. He had been trying to bring about reductions and had met : with some success. Already lie had been : I able to reduce the cost of this kind of i service by £112,000. On their own : showing, the Matakoho service had pre- ; viously cost £266 per annum and it was i now about £ISO. By reorganisation and ' the stopping of overlapping, in one largo < ' district he had in two days saved £IOOO. r.

The marketing of dairy produce is j expected to occupy the serious attention of tho Dominion executive of tho Farmers’ Union, which meets on April 19, j Advice received in Auckland from the j Oawthron Institute at Nelson stated 1 that up to the present no developments hud taken place with tho grass grub parasite, imported last year from South America, * owing to tho fact that tho parasite was still in tho resting, or cocoon, stage. “I am afraid that there are many men in local government to-day who cannot bring themselves to believe that Queen Victoria is dead and that high pressure water systems have replaced , the parish pump,” said Mr. .T. W. Maw- j son, late Director of Town Planning, in an address to Wanganui business ! men. ‘‘Thero exists such an intense feeling of local patriotism in this country that it tends to become mere parochialism. I think I can put my finger on tho weakest spot in the social and | economic fabric of this country when I say that we are over-organised and oyergoverned. Tho whole country seems to be organised on a sectional basis, each section being contained in a Watertight compartment. It is Capital versus , Labor, town versus country, primary ; industry versus secondary industries, ! importers versus exporters, and so on. i There are probably more parties, conn- f cils, hoards, commissions, unions, 1 societies and dubs to tho square inch , in New Zealand than in any other part of the British Empire, and we have got j , so into the habit of looking at any j ■ particular problem through tho eyes ; of the sectional organisation to which we belong that we are in serious danger 1 of destroying our perspective on broad j 1 national Issues.” j 1