NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 45, 6 December 1929, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NUTES FROM ALL PARTS* THE DOMINION DAY BY QAYo lIEIiE, THERE & EVEEIWHEBE, INTERESTING ASSOCIATION, An interesting history attaches to a wreath of poppies, laid on the Auckland Cenotaph last week by Mrs A. W. Avri'll on"'behalf of the Auckland Mothers' The wreath had also been laid o» the Unknown Warrior's tomb in Westminster Abbey on Anzac Day by Miss A. O'Neill, on behalf of the Union, ancj she brought it back to Mew "Zealand, regarding it as appropriate that) Auckland's Cenotaph should be so linked with the tomb in the heart of the Empire. 'GOD'S OWN COUNTRY." "Afte r being away from New Zealand for over 40 years I find it is at perfect paradise, and now that I am here I am certainly going to stay here." said Mr C. E. Lewis, who' rereturned to Auckland after a lengthy residence in New . South Wales. "When I look at the green grass and the fresh gardens of the suburbs, and think of I have seen dying alongside the railway lines in Australia, I am convinced that New Zealand is. 'God's owrt Country'. T have seen a.i-obd deal of the Australian countryside, and am thoroughly tired of the rievsrending procession of gum-trees." RECLAMATION AT WELLINGTON?

The work of filling the Thorndbn reclamation, Wellington, which, willl be incoroporated in the new railway yard, has been held Up pending the completion of culverts, to carry the storm water from the Hobson, street and other gullies. The smaller culvert has been completed for some; time. The larger will be finished early in the New Year, The Wei-. lington Harbour Board'i s driving the p.les for the temporary berth tor the dredge which will resume work; on the filling when the big culvert. is finished. "INDEPENDENT UNIT." A laugli was raised at the Hanv ilton Returned' Soldiers' "sraoko" to Sir Charles Fergusson last night. In true military- .style members ; rapped out_their names and, with mor e than a tone of pride in some; cases, the names of their units. Then cam ft the Vicar of Huntly's turn: "Bush-King, chaplain, in* dependent unit.' 1 (Laughteri. "" . GOING TO PARIS. Mr Gordon g. Troup, master at the Clvnstoburc'h Boys' High School, and son of the Mayor of Wellington, Mr G. A. Troup, has • tendered hia resignation in order that h<: may go to Pari s to take up a position as secretary for foreign students under the Students Christian .Movement, Mr? Troup's resignation, which was accepted by the Board of lalovernors of Canterbury College, will take effecr "from Januray 31 1930. It is understood) that one aspect of the movement that Mr Troup is to b Q associated with is the setting up in Paris of a very Targe host€-l for the accommodation of some 600 or 70Q students from all parts of the world. Mr Tronp is a talented linguist as well as a scholar, and it is his gifti for languages as well as his sterling character which has brought aoout the appointment. He was. partly educated in France, so he will be on familiar ground i n Paris. UNEMPLOYED. A statement that he had two sons one of 20 and the other of 21, both cf whom lived at home and w-ere unable to get work of any description, was made by a judgment debtor under cross-examination in the Napier Magistrate's Court. He went on to state that occasionally one of the young; men got one or two days' work, but they were not able to earn sufficient to keep them selves, "You mean to tell me that two a ble-bodi.ed young men are unable to support themselves?" asked counsel. "Yes, and there are dozens like them in Napier," came the reply. A FALSE ALARM. j... A story of mistaken alarajfrbeiflg raised in Napier i 8 now gouife the rounds. It is stated that a. number" of people passing the borough de*. tractor heard what they took to be the moaning cry of a young child, and fearing that a youngster had come to some harm, proceeded to investigate with all speed). Being xmable to enter the building from which the sijrh was cornea the worried! passers-by communicated with the engineer and also requisitioned the seiv vice of a policeman. Finally an entry was made fet the investigators were rather sumrised «nd at th* ■£■ time greatly relieved to find thatthe noise was « used W a lea C "one part of the machinery thj sound closely resembling that .JjJ child might make when » Borer* pain. ;