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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18468, 6 August 1934, Page 6

Awakened n-bout 5 a.m. by the screams of her three-months-old daughter, Mrs. E. Jones, Wellington street-, Auckland, found blood streaming down the child s face from a bite on the ear inflicted by a rat.

During the Arbor Day observances at the College Street School, Palmerston North, Mr. .1. F. Field, of the State Forest Service, stated that the Dominion had 381 different native plants and trees. New Zealand, he added, can boast the largest timber-producing tree, as well as the tiniest tree in the world. “The. number of our criminal lunatics is creeping up,” states Dr. Buchanan, .superintendent of the Auckland Mental Hospital, in his report to Parliament. “Fitting accommodation for them is a matter of difficulty, and their supervision is one of grave responsibility. I still hope that a criminal lunatic institution will he established soon.”

A petition signed by over 200 Maoris of the King Country praying for the absolute prohibition of. alcohol in that area or a referendum as to whether licenses should be granted or not, was presented in the House of Representatives by Mr W. J. Rroadfoot (Govt., Wailomo).

Authority to proceed with enlargements to St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, to cost approximately £ISOO, was given by the management committee at ' e annual meeting of the congregation. The improvements will consist of an extension of the church, providing seating accommodation for 170 additional worshippers, also a choir and a minister’s vestry.

The State station at To Kauwhata, which has been producing wines for sale, is itself to he put up for sale in November, it was reported at a meeting in Wellington of the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Last year the association made representations to the Minister of Agriculture against the unfair competition with private vintners brought about by the le Kauwhata station in the production and sale of wines.

That New Zealand’s native trees included many that had exceptional heatproducing- qualities was remarked ou by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, in an Arbor Day address at Wellington College. The trees of no other country gave more heat as firewood than these New Zealand trees. In ordet- of calorific value (when in a dry state) they were the maire, the puriri, the rata, tlie manuka, the broadleaf, the kowhai, the tarniro, the tawa, the matai, and the various species of native beech.

“It, is a farcical position,” observed the president, Mr. R. P. Furness, at a meeting of the Marlborough Automobile Association, when a letter was read from a member complaining that, although July 1 fell on a Sunday, he was not able to register his ear on the preceding Saturday unless he paid the fee for June. As he particularly desired to use his car from July 1, and had not previously registered it, he made application for his plates to be issued on the Saturday before the registration department closed. This wns refused, and he was informed that the act of paying the fee in June would be taken as registration for June, and would necessitate the payment of the full fees. He considered that the regulation Was hidebound and oppressive, and called for liberalising along practical common-sense lines. The association decided to refer the case to the South Island Motor Union to take up with the department.