In Town And Out

Southland Times, Issue 23675, 25 November 1938, Page 6

In Town And Out

Southland Summer Show Confidence that the Southland summer show this year would be equal to the best of previous years was expressed yesterday by Mr A. L. Adamson, the secretary of the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association. “Although there was poor competition at the Otago show this week,” he said, “we are far from pessimistic. In fact, we are confident that the standard- at the' Southland show this year will be as high and the number of entries as big as ever they were.” Reference To Press

“There is a saying, ‘Even a cat may look at a king,’ but it is a. most dangerous thing for a cat to look at the Press,” said Mr G. R. Herron, organizer for the Southland Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, when commenting on the publicity he had received from the Press at a travel talk given by Mr Ernest Nichol, of Invercargill, to a combined meeting of branches of the Farmers’ Union in the Heddon Bush Hall. “I have made many friends since I started and few enemies, although it may not seem so by the Press of late,” he said. He said he hoped the meeting would be the forerunner of many such meetings and emphasized the greater need than ever for the farming community to keep together.

Installation Today The radio installation ceremony in the Southland Hospital at Kew will take place today at 3.30 p.m. when the plant will be handed over to the institution 'by the contractors and switched on for service. The plant provides for three separate receiving systems with independent output and tuning controls. This makes possible the simultaneous distribution of three different programmes to the various wards. There are 42 sets of headphones and two loudspeakers in the women’s ward and veranda. Sixty-eight sets of phones and five loudspeakers will be used in tire men’s wards and verandas. No headphones will* be used in the children’s ward, but loudspeakers have been installed. Wharf Labourers

“We must give credit to the wharf labourers in the South Island in comparison with the men in the North Island,” Mr C. B. Tapley, stated at a meeting of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr Tapley, who was in Auckland during the shipping hold-up, said that it was sad to walk along the wharves and see ' all the work stopped. The hold-ups were serious matters and the Government should make an early start in tackling the problem. Several other members also referred to the workers on the wharves in South Island ports and one remarked that the further north one went the worse one found the labourers.

Busy Tourist Season Ahead Southland should this year have a busy tourist season and one equally as successful as that of last year. This opinion was expressed yesterday by Mr W. A. Pickford, manager of the Government tourist bureau at Invercargill. Already, he said, a number of reservations had been -booked for Southland tourist -resorts, and of these many came from overseas. Australia was naturally well represented, but there were also bookings from England and the United States of America. On December 18, the Maunganui was bringing 60 persons, including parties from Los Angeles and London, who had reservations booked in the lakes district of Southland. Moths In Southland “The larvae of the diamond-back moth took a heavy toll of the field crops and the vegetable gardens last summer, but it has not yet made an appearance this year,” said Mr J. H. Sorensen, director of the Southland Museum in a paper on “An occurrence of Dasypodia selenophora in Southland” read at the meeting of the Southland branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand last evening. The moon moth (Dasypodia selenophora) had appeared in many parts of Southland within the last six weeks and his conclusion was that apparently it was not a native of New Zealand but must have been introduced from Australia. The larvae fed on acacias which were growing in many parts of Southland. Holiday Motorists Although the holiday season is several weeks away there are signs that there will be a big exodus of motorists from Southland during Christmas .and New Year. Many inquiries have been received at the office of the Automobile Association (Southland) for particulars of road routes, scepic resorts and camping grounds in both the South Island and the North Island, and judged on the number of inquiries already received it is expected‘that the number, of Southlanders taking a motoring holiday will be greater than that of last year. Attracting Visitors The necessity of continued agitation to bring overseas visitors to the South Island was emphasized by Mr W. A. Ott at a meeting of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr C. B. Tapley also deplored the attitude taken up by residents of the North Island, some of whom had told visitors that they could see all they wished to see in .New Zealand in the North Island. Addition To State Building A State contract has been let to Mr Andrew Fletcher for £150,000 for an addition to the State Fire building in Lambton Quay, Wellington, involving the demolition of the Arcadia Hotel.— Press Association. Maoris And Drink That members of some Maori councils in North Auckland are among the greatest offenders in the drink trouble among the Maoris was a statement made at a conference of all Maori councils in the north held at Kaikohe. It was decided that the offending members be removed from office.— Press Association. Gift Of Gas Cooker The City Council has agreed to present a de luxe model gas cooker to the Southland Technical College in place of a gas range it gave the college to mark the opening of the new domestic science wing. Advice to this effect was received at a meeting of the Technical College Board of Managers last evening in a letter from the city gas manager (Mr W. B. O’Toole). The principal (Mr C. A. Stewart) explained that the kitchen in the domestic block was to be renovated and modern equipment was wanted for it. Members expressed appreciation of the City Council’s gift. Efficient Brakes The efficiency of the brakes of modern . motor-cars was convincingly demonstrated late yesterday afternoon. Four cars approached the intersection of Kelvin street and Gala street and reached it at the same time, each from a different direction. Brakes were hurriedly applied and the four cars stopped with only a few feet separating bonnet from bonnet. J