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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 7

Mrs. Grogan and Miss T. R. Grogan intend leaving on Thursday for Auckland.

The Hon. .1. Trotter, Suva, a member of the Fiji Legislative Council, arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi on a short holiday visit to New Zealand.

Mr. O. H. E. Yates, a former principal of the Masterton Technical School, has boon appointed an act-ing-inspector of technical schools.

Facial eczema has attacked dairy herds and sheep in the Opoliki district, but it is not expected that the trouble will become serious, as the Opotiki district did not suffer through a dry spell and there was a good growth of grass right throughout the district. The disease is only occurring where grass has been eaten well down enabling a new growth of young grass to appear.

Shipboard life as experienced by the members of the New Zealand Anzac Contingent during the passages to and from Sydney was decidedly care-free, the troops enjoying the sensation of travelling in a large force without the trammels of military discipline. A system of loud-speaker communication throughout each of the two ships of the contingent made it. possible 'to convey information to all quarters simultaneously, and much use was made of this system to organise unit gatherings. By this means, men who had not met since the Great War were brought together again, and old acquaintance renewed. This was the only form of organised entertain men! undertaken aboard the Maunganui and Monowai while at sea. but informal gatherings took place in all parts of each ship during which ex-soldiers sought to show their skill at the games which played an important "pari in the life of the "Silent Division" throughout the Great War. A gentle restraint was exercised upon games ol chance, but the inevitable stirring of the gambling instinct was nol roughly trampled by those in charge of the shins, who earned the warmest admiration from all ranks by their tactful control of a situation possessing latent possibilities of trouble.