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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 4

<A. six-roomed farmhouse fit Pimi was burned to the ground on Saturday. At the time of the outbreak, the owner, Mr. F, O’Connor, who purchased the farm only a month ago, was, with the assistance of his wife, attending to stock at some distance from the dwelling. Two young children, who were ill in bed, were rescued only just in time.

“In these days women are pretty shrewd in keeping tilings in their own names; in the average household (lie inhabitants keep the tilings in their own names,” remarked Mr. Justice Blair in Hie Palmerston North Supreme Court the other day. It was quite common, he said, that in a household, with a number of sons and daughters in the family, each Ifeld bis or her own little insurance policy on personal effects.

“What would be the position if an agreement was- reached here, and one of the parties repudiated it before it was ratified by the Arbitration Court?” asked Mr. A. W. Nesbitt, employers’ advocate, at a Conciliation Council meeting in Wellington. The commissioner, Mr. M. J. Reardon, replied that in his opinion such a course would he wholly improper. The council had the status of a judicial body, he stated, and Ids view of it was that its powers were legislative.

“Tn the isolation of every vitamin, carefully controlled animal experiments have been a necessity,” said Dr. Melville, of the Wheat Research Institute, in ail address upon vitamins at Canterbury College recently. “Without such control it is unlikely that any of tlieso materials would have been discovered' this century. I have- no idea how many rats have been used! in arriving at amr present scanty knowledge, but T should say the number is well over 1.C00.0C0 and approaching the eight-figure mark.”

An allegation that harshness was caused by the Fair Rents Act was made at the annual meeting of the Canter-bury-Westland branch of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand. “Owners are prevented from obtaining increased rent for their houses during the currency of tho present Act up to September 30 next year,” the annual report stated. “It is felt very harshly in many cases, where owners have, because of sickness or hardship on tho part of the tenant, agreed to accept a reduced rent. They now find themselves unable to increase this except by recourse to a magistrate.”

The growing popularity of Now Zealand as a tourist resort for Auslralians was commented upon bv Mr. It. ,1. Auvvyl, of Melbourne, .manager of Thomas Cook and Sons for Australia and New Zealand, who arrived at Auckland this week from Sydney. “In broad terms,” said Mr. Anwyl, “it is being realised by the holiday traveller tlmf the Dominion is not for the round-the-world tourist alone, but is within the reach of everyone.” A visit to New Zealand was comparatively inexpensive, and 1 , on account of the fast passenger vessels now running, need not take much time. Mr. Anwyl said the amount of tourist traffic to New Zealand from Western Australia last year was remarkable.