NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 32, 8 February 1929, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NOTES FROM ALL PARTS THE DOMINION DAY BY DAY. HERB, THERE, AND EVERY WHER TOBACCO CROP DAMAGED. Keen disappointment has been ox perienced by those responsible foi the experiment in tobacco culturt in Poverty Bay, through the complete ruhi of the best efforts obtained in the course of their effort: (says the Herald). Half nan-acre o: well-grown tobacco plants at Puhj

had been regarded with some satis-B faction until the cud of last week,M for. apparently the plants had beenM doing well,- and there, was apros-M jpect of a fair crop, but & hail,stonnH late in the week cut the'leaves ofH the plants to ribbons, and in someM cases .left nothing but ing from the. stalks. Other crops in the district suffered, the Maoris' pumpkin plantations being ed to an unusual. degree^.,,, AN OCEAN SWIM. Two enterprising and well-known Christchurch swimmers, are making plans to swim round Sumner to Taylor's Mistake, and will pro-' bably make the attempt this month. ;says the "Lyttelton Times." The actual distance is nothing to boast of—about three miles—but great care will have %a be taken to keep' sufficiently far out to avoid, the, rocks that continue into the sea from Whitewash Heads. Once uppn a time there was planty of kelp thiat showed the location of the,, rocks that were close enough te the surface to be dangerous, but the,,recent storms have cleared the rocks of all vestige of that useful guide. As regards currents it is generally understood, that the general trend, immediately in that neighbourhood, is in a southerly direction past , the Lyttelton Heads, dut to the eddy created in the corner where Banks Peninsula meets the mainland J>y the' main current from the j\ south. strong summersfisihouki be able to negotiate it. Of "bourse, in this instance the swimmers will \ he accompanied by a boat. Their pjans are. not quite definite yet.

NEW ZEALAND'S EXPORTS TO

BRITAIN.

In the course of an address at a dinner given in his honour ati Weilington jby.the Britisib. Manufacturers' Association of New Zealand, Mr. • L .B. Beale,' His Majesty's Trade Commissioner, said that New Zealand supplied the United'/ Kingdom with 23 per cent, of her imports of wool; ? 24 per cent, of her imports of butter- 52 per cent, of her imports of cheese; 48 per , cent, of her imports of frozen mutton, and lamb, and 11 per cent f of her imports of frozen _ beef.. So excellent.had been our progress in both quantity and quality said Mr. Beale, that to-day New Zealand's share of the total imports of Great,' Britain was 40 per cent, greater than in 1913, and forth* ■■ first nine, montihs of last year. New Zealand was the sixth largest supplier of all goods to the United , Kingdom; exceeding Canada and Denmark, and was within 1 per cent of Australia. ASCENT OF MALTE BRUN. Another climbing success was achieved in the Southern Alps last week, when two Tvelbngton timbers, Messrs. J. B. Wright andi • H S Fyfe, made the ascent' of Malte' Brun, 10,200 feet. Starting from their base camp at de la Becne. comer late last Tuesday morning, tao pair were able to commence t-eir ciimb from Malte Brun but by noon. Thev found the mountain giacicr otfered quite good going. From the snow slope the climbers decided to try out what appeared to be a short eut on to the main ridge, via a long , sloping slope which led up for aphowever, eventually turned out quite .sensational, especially over the tart, 50 feet, where the shelf sloped the wrohg way. Once this part Was overcome steady progress to tb»summit was made via the long kntf*' lyike ridge, the topmoet peak .being reached in 2 hour, from glacier. The view from the top .was [magnificent, disclosing row peaksi as far as the eye could see, w!thSefton standing out Uke a gigantic spire, the most -AmpOßms of therm all. No time was lost i* tf* descent to the vicunty «**•££ (From there the two men made their way across the Tasman Glacier, to their camp site. <