NEWS OF THE DAY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 499, 22 July 1932, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Splendid Short Film A splendid short Him, amongst, an: excellent array of supports at the| King’s Theatre last night, showed the development of flying from ancient days until the present. The Him depicted man’s earliest, desires tt j emulate the birds and detailed the • plans that were evolved. Actual! Hints taken years.-ago when the first; machines rose into) the air were j sh wn, these giving an idea not only! of the progress made in aviation, but | also in cinematography. I Comet Geddes Observed • Comet Geddes was observed on Tuesday evening at the New Plymouth Observatory, using the large telescope. It was quite close to. the Ini,ght star at the foot, cf the South, orn Cross, and :s moving toward the! star at the top of the cross, along a| path almost parallel (Jo a line joining; (he two. It was not visible in a fairly! powerful telescope of three inches; aperture, owing to bright moonlight,! and is not yet bright enough to be seen with binoculars.

Groci Dairy Herds “Some people would think that 1 j am a super-optimist, but I do think! that it would lie possible for us to j raise the average production of but-j terfat per New Zealand cow to 300 j pr unds,” said Mr. C. M. Hume, Do- j minion supervisor Vif HiertV Testing j Federation, speaking in Wanganui. If all the authorities and executives of the dairying industry in New Zea. j land combined to work for a com-1 mon objective lie thought that tliei 300-P'und average could be reachedi in five or six years. '

Helped Himself A certain petty pilferer got more j than he bargained for recently and; as a result became seriously ill, says | lire Wanganui Chronicle. Seeing a “baby” car parked on a country road, be investigated it to discover what be could take away. He found a full b 1 tile of whisky. Evidently he must', have swallowed the contents, for he j was found the following morning in | a drunken stupor after remaining ex-! posed to a frosty night. He was! brought to Wanganui and it is un. l derstoed that ho is progressing as j well as can be expected. ;

Faced With Starvation Ftifteen million Chinese must die i of starvation in China this year, ac cording to figures supplied by the American Red Cross, ami quoted by Mr. 11. M. Rushworth, M.P., in an address at Christchurch. It was an absurdity to say that this was due to over-production. The fault lay in the sphere of distribution and in the* monetary systems of the world. “Wit have starvation and poverty in oun; own cities,” said M'i‘. Rushworth, “and i even in this country there are thkn. ] sands insntliciently clothed and fed | The Government, is doing its best — that is the tragedy lof the whole business.”

“The Child is Father ” “Farmers in the Ohura were of the opinion that the locality did not suit mangolds, hut one hoy’s father is convinced from his son’s effort (in the boys’ and girls’ clubs’ corn petition), a Crop averaging 103 tons per acre, that concentration on a limited area of mangolds is the best srlu. Mou of his supplementary food problem.” This passage was contained in a report to the Taranaki Education Hoard today by Mr. D. Mackay, senior instruct r in agriculture. “That son of thing is happening all over Tara, t.aki,” said Mr. P. J. H. White . One Ear One War One of the anniversary paragraphs in the June number of The P.L.A monthly is reminder of a war that was waged on account of an amputated ear, “Bound from Jamaica to Loudon, the Rebecca was hoarded off Havana by Spanish coastguards who plundered the vessel and cut off icne of the ears of the master,- Captain Robert Jenkins. On June 11, 1731, the Rebecca arrived in (he Thames and popular feeling ran high. Jen, kins had audience of the King and later exhibited his amputated car to (he House of Commons. This iucL dent was an important factor in bringing about the war with Spain the following year.”

Wanted —More Cultivation In the course of an interesting conversalii' n a Wairarapa News representative had with a veterinary surgeon who calls on farmers from Auckland to the Bluff, he maintained that the only prosperous farmers lie had called upon were * those who had stuck to the horse. He considers that New Zealand’s future is wrapped up in the realisation by farmers of that fact, and that the sooner Farmers’ Unions tackle this question •he better. lie claims that only by intensive cultivation will this country recover, and that this is only possible with the aid icf that cheap and efficient labour the horse pro., vides. He said that throughout New Zealand there are thousands of tractors lying idle on farms on which not a furrow has been turned for ages. He also claims that the return of the horse for farm work would set the wheels of industry going again in all directions, and absorb a great portion of cur unemployed as since the coming of the tractor, wheel, wrights, saddlers, blacksmiths and others have been thrown; \out of work. Safety Starting Handle An ingenious safety device, which, . it is claimed, will eliminate the bugbear of all motorists who have oc- 1 fusion to use a starting handle —the ! danger of a sprained or broken wrist j through (he engine backfiring—has | recently been patented by two Dun. | edin inventors. Messrs. J. W. Chis. ■ holm and P. IT. Winter, who gave a j successful demonstration of (lid attachment to officials cf the Otago I Motor Club and several interested | motorists. Forming a connection between. the starling pinion and the handle, the device incorporates a thread similar to (hat on a hemlix drive and a d"g clutch, so that im. mediately a backfire occurs the motion of the engine immediately throws the handle out of gear, making am injure to (Tie motorist impossible. Tried on a two-ton truck the inventkn showed (bat it has decided possibili ties, as, even with the spark so far advanced (hat the engine kicked back to the extent of half a dozen revolutions, the handle disengaged at the first sign of any backward move, ment.

Piunket Carnival The Piunket Baby Queen Carnival closes to-morrow at 10 p.m. Various last minute activities have been arranged by the committee. The shops have kindly consented to dress “baby ’ windows for the day.

Sever* Frost Last n’ghl. was particularly cold, and this morning Mr. A. W,. Burrell recorded 10 degrees of frost, the most severe he has so far recorded in Stratford. The thermometer in the open air showed a temperature of 22 degrees, which is 10 below freezing point.

j Cheap Stock There is a farmer at Glenbrook, i near Waiuku, who is strongly of the | opinion that stock is remarkably j cheap at the present time. He sent a bull and five cows and heifers to a lOmnlry sale, and his financial return i was exactly 24s 3d. The bull, a. two j year old animal, went for 2s 6d. He I had the misfortune to lose another heifer in a swamp, and as a climax to his troubles hurt his leg, so that ho will be incapacitated for about six weeks. A Cruel Hoax A certain Stratford lady received a ; telephone call yesterday inviting her | to afternoon tea at a well known hos- ! tess’ home. Although she had never I previously visited the lady in fines, lion, the invited one decided to go and, in due course, presented herself at the door. Blank surprise on the part of both ladies followed. To the visitor's explanation her “hostess’’ denied ever having telephoned or issued any invitation and it was finally decided that some unknown person with a peculiar sense of humour must have been responsible for the hoax, which was a despicable and contemptible action to say the least. Contrasting Conditions Taranaki again experienced a heavy frost on Wednesday morning, it being more severe 01 the higher land nearer the mountain. There was, however, a bright sun which soon warmed the atmosphere, and the annual meeting of suppliers to the Ox. ford Dairy Company was held al fresco, instead of in the cold store, p om There was a decided contrast at Punih o Road when the suppliers to the Brooklands Dairy Company met. A cold south-easterly was blowing, and owing to alterations at the taelorv, it was found necessary tA hold the meeting in the residence of Mr. S. S. Wells. At the conclusion of the meeting afternoon lea was j served bv Mrs. Wells.