NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 37, 20 June 1927, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

HOTSES FROM- ALL PARTS, THE DOMINION DAY BY DAY. I Present Day Children. “1 do not admit that the children if the present day are spoilt,” said Dr. Lawson, professor of education, in the course of an address at the Otago University. “The present-day child is more open and frank than when 1 was a youngster, and lie js having a more enjoyable time, there not being the same need for repression.” «w « « Picked by Conscience. Following a police investigation

into the theft of £6 odd from Mr Sharpe’s bakery, at Whangarei, on Saturday week, what i s believed to be the exact sum taken has been returned through the post. Addressed in handwriting obviously disguised, the envelope contained a £5 note, a £1 note, sixpence, and a halfpenny. «9 « r More Than Could Chew. When the log of the steamer Ngapuhi was taken on board as the vessel reached Tauranga from Auckland, a bright piece of ivory -was found iiij the cylinder. A closer examination revealed that a shark had evidently attempted to swallow the 'ug. an in the process had lost one of its teeth The cylinder was full of voter which, accounted for the log running slow from the Old Man Rock to Tauranga. • • » Nice Quiet, Place. Transit by vehicular traffic through tire native village of Ohinemutu (Rotorua) lias been stopped by means of posts erected in the centre of Pip. road. The entire village i? more or less active and all parts arc- not equally safe or desirable for heavy traffic. A cauldron of boiling black mud, throwing eft pungeiU fumes, recently renewed its activity within a few feet of the road much frequented by motors until the thoroughfare was closed. • * ¥

End of Hie Wanaka. One day this week the ex-Union steamer Wanaka is to make her last voyage from Auckland—at the end of a tow-line from the tug. Te Awhina. Recently the vessel passed through the hands of the shipbreakers, and last week berthed at Auckland to land her salvaged gear. It was then thought that the old trader might be unk as a breakwater at an East Coast port, but the project has since fallen through, and it has now been decided that she will be towed to sea and sunk. On a day when the weather conditions are favourable the Wanaka will be towed out of harbour and outside New Zealand territorial waters, several miles past Cuvier Island, and there sent to the bottom. Explosives will be used in disposing of the old ship. t m f « m Glory of 'Sealhern Alps. “New l Zealand has more charms to the square mile than any other country in the world, but New Zealanders do not always realise that fact,” said Professor R. M. Algie in the course of an address on “Mountaineering,” which he gave at Auckland (reports the New Zealand Herald). In this respect the mountain scenery of the Dominion was excelled by that of no other country. Directing his remarks mainly to the attractions of the Southern Alps, Professor Algie said ft was gratifying to know that all the big peaks of that system had been conquered in the first place by New Zealanders, who had learned mountaineering in their own country. In saying that, he was not belittling English climbers with Swiss guides, who had done remarkably well.