In Town And Out

Southland Times, Issue 23548, 30 June 1938, Page 6

In Town And Out

Godiva Up To Date The legend of Lady- Godiva found its way into the debate between the visiting American negro students ana Auckland University College; Mr H. George, one of the Auckland speakeis, in arguing that history repeated itself only in broad principles and not m detail, remarked that it would be most interesting if the incident in which Lady Godiva was concerned— assuming it to be historical—were repeated today, but he thought such an event unlikely. This led Mr C. W. Gilton, one of the visitors, to point out that so far as Lady Godiva was concerned there was no need to wait for a repetition of history. It was only necessary, he said, to go to the New York stage. Early Anemones

The paragraph printed yesterday announcing that an Otatara resident had sent an unusually early anemone bloom to The Southland Times led Mrs E. Lloyd, of Esk street, to bring a welldeveloped single bloom to the office last night. She said her plants had been in flower for three weeks, having been grown in a sunny situation.

Not to be Shot “I do not wish to enter into a controversy, but I think the marine shags at Stewart Island should certainly not be shot by persons who go to the island with the intention of shooting them simply because they are shags.” This was the opinion expressed by Mr G. M. Turner last evening at a showing of films in the United Friendly Societies’ Hall. In Northern Electorates

During a fortnight spent in the North Island, Mr James Hargest, M.P., addressed meetings in the electorates of two Ministers of the present Government —Waimarino, the electorate of the Minister of Lands (the Hon. F. Langstone); and Raglan, the seat held by the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin). In both electorates he found that the liveliest interest was being shown in the approaching elections, members of the. National Party being most optimistic. Both were mainly farming districts and the steep rise in operating costs, together with the difficulty of procuring efficient farm assistance and domestic help, had cheated a great deal of hardship, he said. Rotorua’s Wet Half Year

Steady rain in Rotorua on Tuesday, which for ten hours up to seven o’clock that night to 1.90 in, brought the total rainfall for the period of a few days less than six months up to 51.50 in., the heaviest total for any six-monthly period for the past 15 years. The rain was accompanied by a fairly strong north-westerly wind, and the surface of the Rotorua lake was quickly lashed into a fury. Most of the pleasure craft which suffered so severely in the storm of a few weeks ago have now been moored close in to the shore or pulled up on skids for thewinter and were secure from further damage. Artificial Lighting

It will be a long time before human needs in artificial lighting are fully met, according to Mr E. Hitchcock, general manager of the Municipal Electricity Department, Christchurch, when addressing the Society for Imperial Culture. “The human eye is designed for daylight, which has an intensity of about 10,000 foot candles,” he said. “Most domestic artificial lighting has a strength or intensity ranging from two to five foot candles. Is it any wonder that we have become a bespectacled people? It is claimed that visually we are a race of cripples, and that 80 per cent, of all people suffer from impaired vision. This fact is beginning to be known and heeded.” Dominion Medical Standard

High praise for New medical practitioners was expressed by Dr G. Brookes, a Sydney ophthalmic surgeon who passed through Auckland on Monday by the Mariposa on his way to Canada.for a holiday. He said that that New Zealand medical men were held in the highest esteem in Australia. Indeed, it could not be said that the Commonwealth had anybody better. Trees as Memorials

, The desirability of a tree-planting scheme as one of the means of commemorating in Wellington' the centenary of New Zealand was advanced by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hoh. W. E. Parry, in an address at the annual meeting of the Wellington Beautifying Society. The planting of trees in (commemoration of the Coronation had Been given effect to throughout the country, and excellent use had been made of long-living native .and exotic trees, said Mr Parry. A similar proposal for the centennial celebrations had been enthusiastically taken up by centennial committees, local bodies and others in- different parts of the Dqminion, and definite schemes of planting were under consideration or were actually under way.