WATER-LILY FROM THE AMAZON

Southland Times, Issue 23767, 15 March 1939, Page 6

WATER-LILY FROM THE AMAZON

LEAVES SEVEN FEET IN DIAMETER A water-lily from the Amazon River with leaves up to seven feet in diameter and flowers measuring 12 inches across was one of the sights in the famous Kew gardens seen by Dr J. G. Macdonald on his recent tour abroad. Describing his travels at the annual meeting of the University Association of Southland last night, Dr Macdonald said that in Cambridge motor traffic was allowed to park on the opposite sides of the main streets on different days. On “even” days parking was permitted on one side and on “odd” days on the other side. At no time were cars parked on both sides of the streets. Blackpool, the famous watering place, was the playground of a big area on the west coast of England. Each centre spent a week at different times at the resort—if they all went at the same time there would be insufficient accommodation, he said. It was a standing arrangement. He doubted if there were greater facilities and temptation for spending in any other place in the world. Enormous revenue was extracted from tourists, and, because of that, Blackpool was probably the low-est-rated place in the country. There was an extraordinarily large number of seaside resorts in England; there were so many that one thought there could not be sufficient people to patronize them. There were huge numbers of boarding-houses and restaurants at those places.