NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 73, 22 June 1928, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NOTES FROM ALL PARTS.

THE DOMINION DAY BY DAY, The New Cook. In the course of the holidays, oh a Canterbury station, the head cook was taken ill, go the second cook took his place. For dinner he thought he would boil rice. There were forty men to cook for, and the head cook said each man could eat a panuikinful of rice (cooked). So the second cook put on 40 pannikins of raw rice, and when he went to the stove the rice rose to greet him. They had to harrow it out. That was one experience. Another was when the new cook was giving the men eggs for breakfast, and asked how long to boil them. The first cook said, “Three minutes each.' So his substitute put twelve eggs in a pot and said, “Three minutes for

one 'egg,, thirty-six minutes for twelve,” and acted accordingly.

The Right Time.

There will be no excuse in future for owners of wireless sets not knowing the exact time. At present they are given the time to within a few seconds by the broadcasting announcers, who get the time from the Post Office clock. This .timepiece.

however, is frequently a few seconds slow, as it loses at the rate cf onefifth of a second per day. v ln the near future the standard clock at the Dominion Observatory, Kelburn, will be used for the broadcasting of

time signals, ensuring greater accuracy. Signals will be transmitted daily at 3.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m., consisting of a dash at exactly the half hour 1 , followed by similar dashes one and two minutes afterwards. The exact minute will he denoted by the beginning of each dash, which will sound like a hight pitched buzz. *, tt Wireless Success. Gisborne is by no means the only part of the world which is indebted to the local wireless experimenters, Messrs R. J. Patty and Ivan O’Meara,.

for th e first news of the success of the trans-Pacific flight, says the Poverty Bay Herald. After seeing the results of his all night vigil into print, Mr O’Meara immediately returned home, and on going to his wireless set found innumerable amateurs on the other side of the Pacific asking for news of the flight. His first move was to com-

municate the news to the New York

Times, and thereafter sent out a call to all stations. The result of the flight was then broadcasted several times at intervals. When Mr Patty reached home a little later in the afternoon, he, too, found American amateurs anxious to learn the result Of the great adventure . Within a very short time he had a number of enquiries. It was explained that the Americans had kept in touch with the aeroplane until it was within 200 or 300 miles of Brisbane, when it ceased sending short-wave signals.

The Best Barracker. The loss of 3d at Athletic Park (Wellington) the other Saturday was, to the little girl'who lost it, a mat-

ter of sufficient importance to call

for the attention of the Wellington Rugby Union (reports the Post). In. a letter addressed to the secretary she brought her less to the notice

of the unions Management Commit-

tee this week in the following manner : _“Dear Sir,—l wish to let you know that your seat needs patch-

While at the match on Satur-

day I lost the whole of my money because your seat needs patching. When you pull the old stand down

you will find the threepence under

seat 24. Do you mind sending it back to me, —Your best abrracker,

To the union’s “best bar-»

racker” the secretary (Mr A. E. Neilson) has sent the following happilyworded reply:—“I was very sorry to learn front your letter that you had

the misfortune to lose all your money through a crack in seat 24 at Athletic Park on Saturday last. You

must have been very excited to throw your money about like that. . We are not going to pull the grand stand down for a whle, so your 3d cannot be recovered for the present; however, I hate to think of our best harracker being without funds so I am pending 3d enclosed

in this letter, and I hope you will be very careful not to let this one slip down a crack in the seat. Perhaps

until we can get a patch on to number 24 you had better occupy another seat or else keep your money

in your purse while y° u ai ’e "watching football.”