IN TOWN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 22730, 5 November 1935, Page 6

IN TOWN AND OUT

NEWS OF THE DAY Closing of Roll. The supplementary roll, available for all those who have become eligible to vote since the closing of the main roll on July 29, closed at six o’clock last evening. Registration is compulsory, and approximately 1700 additional names have been entered. The roll has now definitely closed. * * * * Water Lilies Flourishing. Again this season the water lilies planted in the lake at Queen’s Park in 1933 are making strong growth and should be very attractive when they bloom. They will be added to by lilies donated by the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. Hitherto the only live dwellers in the pond have been frogs, but next season the superintendent may experiment with placing goldfish in the lake. * * * * Guy Fawkes Day. By means of “Guys” which boys even in this outpost of the Empire will carry through the streets to-day is given a reminder that on November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes, an Englishman who had served in the Spanish Army, and Robert Catesby, the heir of a Warwickshire squire, just failed to blow up both King and Parliament. In England and New Zealand fireworks are closely associated with Guy Fawkes Day. To-day in Invercargill small boys will again celebrate the ancient anniversary of this event, which took place in the reign of James I. * * * ♦

Angling Competition. On Sunday the Southland Angling Club held the second competition for the present season on the Makarewa and its tributaries. When the fish were weighed in the placings were as follows: M. McAuliffe, 9 fish, 111 b 12oz total bag, 25 per cent, handicap 81b 13oz net weight, 1; W. D. Robson, 7 fish, 81b 4oz, scratch, 81b 4oz, 2. Other good bags were returned by G. Hoffman, 14 fish, 161 b 4oz, 50 per cent, handicap 81b 2oz; H. Halligan, 8 fish, lOJlb, 50 per cent, handicap 51b 2oz; D. Wishart, 9 fish. 151 b, 50 per cent. 71b 8oz; L. Whelan, five fish, 7Hb, 50 per cent. 31b 12oz.

The Mayor’s Remarks. Mr D. McDougall, M.P., speaking to a Times reporter yesterday, said that a wrong impression might be conveyed by the remarks of the Mayor of Invercargill (Mr John Miller) at the annual reunion of the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association at Invercargill on Saturday. In answer to a statement by Mr McDougall that . in the last war Labour had been pushed into the trenches, and the same would happen if Mussolini and Hitler came,” the Mayor said “it was nonsense to say only Labour had gone to the Great War.” Mr McDougall denied that he had said or meant that “only Labour” had gone to the Great War. “The word ‘only’ originated in the Mayor’s fertile imagination and when I rose to explain myself the chairman refused to allow me to speak as it was a social gathering,” said Mr McDougall. “Mr Miller is one of those liberal gentlemen who object to Labour getting on to the benches, but would not object’to their getting into the trenches.”