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Southland Times, Issue 20205, 16 June 1927, Page 6

The Government Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates) last night issued the following forecast:—Present indications are for variable breezes, east to south-east ruling northward of Farewell Spit and Kaikoura and southerlies to westerlies elsewhere. Weather fair to cloudy generally but unsettled at times about Foveaux Strait. Glass shows little movement. A cave, apparently of considerable size, was discovered by the workmen engaged in blasting rock from the toe of the hill in Clifton road, Whakatane, for harbour reclamation work. A quantity of rock had been blasted away, and a cavity a few feet in diameter was found. On investigation, a passage was discovered under the hill and a little below the surface level of the road. Nobody has as yet ventured into the cave. A meeting of the Southdown Society of New Zealand yesterday decided to grant £3O to the Royal Agricultural Society and also to affiliate with the Natioanl Sheep breeders’ Association of Great Britain, reports a Press Association message from Palmerston North. It supported the suggestion of the Royal Society that the Royal Show be shifted to Autumn and awarded six gold medals to the North Island and six to , the South.

“Do you think the car was travelling at four miles an hour?” Mr A. E. Jull was asked by counsel when- giving evidence in a Supreme Court case recently (reports the Poverty Bay Herald). “No, certainly not,” replied Mr Jull. “It would be had up for loitering if it was.”

At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Patriotic Fund yesterday, it was decided that the Government be asked to take into consideration the advisability of restricting or prohibiting the capitalisation of soldiers’ pensions, states a Press Association message. It was stated that in many instances, the Pensions Department had capitalised pensions and that this had been to the detriment of the ex-soldiers concerned.

The other night Constable Shields, of Stratford, met with a painful accident (says the Post). He was cranking his car at his home and, the lever being in gear, the car leapt forward, pinning him against the end of the garage, severely dislocating one of his knees. Constable Shields freed himself with difficulty and reset the dislocation without aid. Later he received medical attention, but will be off duty for a fortnight.

A letter recently received by a Stratford resident from a friend in Denmark contains the following message (says an exchange) : Danish papers have been commenting lately on the crash that the New Zealand Butter Control Board has experienced, and it appears that Denmark was once invited to form a ring with the New Zealand producers. Denmark was wise, and turned a deaf ear to the whispering, and now reaps the benefit of her wisdom.

At a meeting of the Patea Harbour Board recently the chairman, Mr A. T. Christensen, stated that during the year recently closed more dairy produce had passed through the port of Patea than at any previous time (reports the Star). It had been found possible to reduce the amount passing through Wanganui to 22 per cent., which was less than ever before. The chairman mentioned that 22 per cent, of the Dominion’s cheese for export passed through Patea.

At a meeting of the Howard League for Prison Reform held recently, the method of examining mental patients who are waiting to be charged in the courts was criticised. The provisions for examination were regarded as inadequate, and the opinion was expressed that the public or mental hospitals would be a more suitable place for examinations to be made. A resolution embodying the foregoing views has been forwarded to the Ministers of Justice and Health.

“The fact that Australia fears the competition of New Zealand butter on account of its quality, should be made known by the Dairy Produce Board throughout the world,” said Mr A. G. Lunn, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, when addressing the Advertising Club, recently (states the New Zealand Herald). No organisation in the Dominion, he added, was more keenly desirous of furthering the interests of the farming community than the Chamber of Commerce.

Illustrating the fact that there arc still some old editions of early literary publications scattered around the globe, Mr C. H. Eggleton, of Wanganui, states that last month he purchased two volumes of Pope’s Essays, published in 1754 (reports the Wanganui Herald). The title pages are in two-colour lettering. The purchase was made for a few pence at a local auction mart. Mr. Eggleton states that he also found an edition of Wordsworth’s poems printed by Didot, Paris, publisher to his Majesty the King.

The grass grub is again much in evidence this year (says the Hawera Star). The party following the root judging at Okaiawa found ample appearance of its ravages. Mr Deem explained that there were two grubs —a large brown and a small one. The former, he said, was nocturnal, and ate the leaves of the grass, but the small one was more to be feared because it ate the roots and was responsible for the bare patches in the pastures. Feeding out to stock, so as to trample the ground, was the best remedy, while rolling, or anything in fact, to harden the surface soil was good.

A cat played a prominent part in a little comedy-drama one morning recently in the shop window of a well-known baker (reports the Ashburton Guardian). Puss had contrived to enter the forbidden territory, and, highly pleased with herself, began a devastating attack on the cream cakes. She was soon seen by the wrathful shopkeeper, however, however, and a battle royal resulted, puss proving more than a match for the wielder of a broom and two Irish terriers. The climax was reached when, with a crash, the broom went through the plateglass window, and the cat escaped by means of this very convenient emergency exit.

During an address on his botanical expedition to the Nelson district to members of the Philosophical Institute at Christchurch, Professor Wall referred to many interesting features in connection with the fauna and flora of the district. One area, known as the Douland Downs, was unique, for it appeared to be the home of the kiwi and kakapo, those rather rare New Zealand birds being fairly numerous. Rare botanical specimens were also obtained from this area. He was also impressed by the prolific growth of nikau palms, especially in the neighbourhood of the Heaphy River. At the mouth of this river these palms flourished in luxuriance reminiscent of the South Sea Islands of the Pacific.

Some interesting samples of wheat have been received by Mr W. G. Gallagher, of Ashburton, from a West Australian farmer who recently visited New Zealand (says the Guardian). This wheat was grown on sand plain country, the purchase price of the land being 5/- an acre, spread over a term of 20 years. The average return was from 10 to 15 bushels an acre. The varieties of wheat are: Hard Federation, Bold Early, Balotta Wonder and Mabama. In order that their suitabifity for this district may be tested, the samples have been handed to Mr McKay, of the Ashburton Experimental Farm, who has consented to conduct experiments. It is interesting to state that in Australia the wheat is obtained by stripping, and that the straw is not handled.

“Americans,” said Mr. J. B. Merrett, manager of the Australian Egg Export Federation, who arrived in Dunedin on Wednesday from Melbourne, “are spending £2,000,000 annually in touring Europe. Tens of thousands of pounds are being spent by different countries to attract them. With the rich wealth of scenery in New Zealand we should be doing more to attract people to its shores. As one travels one comes in contact with people who declare New Zealand can show them more attractions of Nature than any other country of its size. There are many advantages, such as cheap travel and good hotels, that should be made known. It would pay the Government handsomely to allow the New Zealanders to send illustrated papers and post cards of our scenery free of postage to their friends in all parts of the world.”

A further means of bringing New Zealand before the American public has been provided in the formation of an Australian and New Zealand Club at San Francisco. In advising the Government Publicity Office of the establishment of the club, the president (Mr E. Nixon Westwood, formerly of Wanganui) states: —“As time goes on, we hope that the club will be the means of bringing together all Australians and New Zealanders living in this State, as well as the means of forming a Reception Committee to meet citizens from these two countries. We are desirous of making known the wonderful opportunities New Zealand has to offer Californians and other Americans in general from a tourist point of view, and we will be glad if you would approach your Minister with a view to assisting our object by forwarding printed matter, pictures, etc., for distribution through our organisation. We will be grateful if you will also arrange to supply us with two or three New Zealand flags, as when we hold functions of any kind it is necessary to borrow a New Zealand flag from the mail agent in this port, and it is not a very good-look-ing specimen.”

Many spurious coins are apparently tendered to tram conductors in Auckland. An item in the tramways balance-sheet that claimed attention when the accounts came before the City Council the other evening was, “Spurious coins, £4 13/3.”

“The population of China, the country of which we have been hearing so much lately, is 400,000,000. Every fourth person on the earth is a Chinese,” said the Rev. George McNeur, preaching at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church the other night (reports the Christchurch Press).

A middle-aged man who was found in a condition of helpless intoxication on the Gore-Mandeville road on June 8, was convicted and ordered to pay £1 12/3 (in default seven days’* imprisonment), at a sitting of the Invercargill Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M.

The ban limiting the number of street collections in Auckland to six a year was lifted by the City Council the other evening (states the Herald), when the resolution to that effect passed in November last was rescinded, and it was decided that each future application should be dealt with on its merits.

A considerable area of land in the South Taieri plain is being cleared of tussock and made ready for cropping and grazing. This is one of the results of the river embankment work. People are confident that the embankment will serve its object and keep the water within bounds in time of flood, and it is said that the area now being dealt with is not the only one that will be prepared for agricultural purposes in the near future.

A suggestion by Cr. M. W. Grace that all kerbside petrol pumps should be required to be permanently lit was thrown out at a meeting of the Blenheim Borough Council (states the Marlborough Express). Ho stated that some of the pumps were an obstruction and were dangerous on a dark night. The Mayor welcomed the proposal, and went on to suggest that the council might be able ti alter its by-laws so that it would get a good deal of free street-light-ing. Perhaps, he said with a twinkle, it would compel the Power Board to light its poles and the Postal Department to light the telegraph poles. Cr. Grace’s suggestion was referred to the By-laws Committee.

During the past month a length of 12 chains of experimental road has been constructed by the Main Highways Board on the Paparua County section of the ChristchurchDunedin main highway near Hornby. The whole of the work has been carried out in bituminous concrete, but a number of varying conditions have been introduced—namely, one length of road has been constructed using broken stone as coarse aggregate. Another section involved the use of crushed gravel, while in the third section uncrushed pit gravel was utilised. A number of different methods of surface finish were also used. The road will be periodically inspected and carefully watched under traffic conditions.

“The most princely gift yet made to a public institution in New Zealand,” was the phrase used by the chairman of the Victoria College Council (Mr R. McCallum) at the capping ceremony the other day, in referring to Mr A. Weir’s endowment for the erection of a male students’ hostel (reports the Evening Post). It was expected, he said, that in a year or two the hostel would be an established fact, standing on the Martin Kennedy site near the college. “But the hostel scheme is not well balanced,” Mr McCallum remarked. “We want near it another hostel. There is a gap to be filled so far as the ladies are concerned, and we hope someone will come along and provide means for the erection of a women’s hostel. We have a small one already, but we do not call that a proper university hostel.”

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