NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 100, 6 September 1929, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

I | NOTES FROM ALL PAhIS. | THE DOMINION DAY BY DAY. I HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE. WHOSE FAULT? “The Scout'’movement is not the influence among the boys of New. Zealand that it ought to be,’’ sail! the Rev. A. 11 McO Acheson at the conference of religious education at Christchurch, “and it does not co--operate well with Church work. There are many causes, but I think that the fault is more with the Scout movement than the Churches.” A WORD FOR PRINTERS. “New Zealand printers are reaching such a high standard to-day that they are neairly at the point where every class of printing required in the Dominion can bo done in New Zealand by New Zealand workmen, and in a manner equal to the work in any part of the world ” said Mr, AV. F. Soper at a meeting of the Canterbury Advertising Club. “In • the actual designing of colour work they yet have something to learn, however, but ’ere long tha,t would also be overcome.’

i A DRY DISTRICT. Rainfall in Gisborne last month reached the lowest aggregate for August during the past seven years, the total being only 2.69in.s (on 12* days) as against the average for the month of 4.95m5. during the last s{) years. The driest August on record wa,s that of 1922, when only .61 ins fell, while the wettest was in 1898 when 1.60 ins. was recorded. During tire eight months of the present year the total fall has been 32.02in5, ais compared noth, 36.25 ins in 1928 and 31.51 in 1927. AN INGENUOUS LAD. Artifices of youth to ensure that authority's edicts be followed are often forked with ai delightful ingenuousness. A well-known GisJborne business man and his wife, says the “Times,” had been greatly amused by the method adopted by their son and heir. This lad had the habit of helping himself freely to a store of .special biscuits, kept on. a cupboard shelf, and designed for the particular dietetic needs of the patcrnal relative. On Sunday the hoy received a long and stern lecture on the error of his ways. Later he came dashing into his parents and proudly displayed his hands. On the back of each, inscribed in letters as big as the space- Svould permit, was the word -“No”. Asked to explain, the resourceful child replied; “You see, when I go to -the cupoard and reach for your biscuits, Dad, I’ll see that word and, no matter which hand I use I’ll know I’m not to touch them.”

A SHOCK FOR DUNEDIN. . The accustomed solemnity of Dunedin was rudely disturbed on Saturday by Southland’s sensational and merited win in the Itanfurly Shield j match at Carterton, says the Invercargill “News”. The “Star” announces the victory in bold black heading, followed by three marks 'of exclamation, indicating that the result came as an electric shock. The “Otago Daily Times” devotes a leading article to the event ; in the course of which it advocates that the competition should be abandoned on the ground that it has become commercialised with a, view, of securing business for the centre bolding the shield. Inferentially our contemporary forsees a diversion of trade, from Dunedin to Invercargill, hut this should cut both ways. Though Dunedin has not yet succeeded in “bringing home the bacon’’ there is no occasion for despondency and when success crowns their efforts, if the argument advanced is sound, recovery of lost trade should be assured. Seriously however, most folks will consider/their fears groundless.