NEWS OF THE DAY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 22, 18 August 1932, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Hominy Pigeons A hatch 01' homing pigeons belcng. ! ing to the New Plymouth Pigeon Club! was released in Stratford uii Monday j Euchre Parly al Cardiff There was a. fair attendance at the I Cardiff, eiiohr.e party on Tuesday.! Prizes wpr« won! as follows: Ladies,' Mrs. Aagaard (Pembroke Road), 1; ; men, Mr. Wallace Brunton. Mr. 11. 15.; Limmer had charge of the evening. | Not Coming Before Court In the Supreme Court at New Ply l mouth yesterday it. was announced J that the action <;f Francis Kirkwood j against T. A. Sullivan (a claim foi j possession of land under mortgage i and an injunction for the removal oi | surplus stock, etc.) would not conic j before the court. j School Starting Ago The Taranakj Education Board sees \ no reason to depart from the prac. j tice whereby teachers may admit i pupils at the commencement of the j term in which they attain school age provided they are not placed on the! roll and the head teacher lias thej t.ecessary accommodation. A motion! bo that effect was unanimously passed j by the board yesterday on the motion! of Messrs. W. 11. Jones and J. A.;' Valentino. i Business Brightens A definite improvement in business over the past month and an increase] in cash takings was the experience I of two of the leading Stratford linns! dealing direct with the farming com. j nuniity. One business man told "The Stratford Evening Post" that lie considered the outlook was much brigh.j 1-jr. He was agreeably surpiised that! business had commenced to pick up j so early in the season. Seven Times Chairman "I have to thank you for fleeting] me chairman for tlie seventh time! in succession, seven times in as many; months, which must be a record for] the Dominion," said Mr. E. F. Hem- j lugway, when taking the. chair at j yesterdays meeting of the Wangauuj i Education Hoard. Owing to the proce. j dure of the board it was always ne-j cessary to elect a chairman at each i meeting while the late chairman (Mr. j W. A. Collins) had been absent; through illness. At yesterday's meet-! ing Mr. Hemingway was elected j chairman for the ensuing two years.;

Tears of Joy The. attention which is being given' to the unemployed is revealing some] domestic tragedies which in normalj times would not come under the nn.i tice of the public. In this j Week eight children in one family were being equipped with clcthing. j Among the clothes provided was an j entirely new frock which fell to the j lot of a little givl, seven years of j age. On being informed that she was; to be the recipient of the dress the i child broke into tears, overcome withj joy because, for the first time in her] life, she was to wear an entirely new j frock. i Morbid Interest in Murder Trial A resident of Loudon, willing to ai friend by the last mail, says: "Wei have been hearing far too much of | the sordid case in which Mrs. Barney j is charged with the alleged murder j of Michael Scott (she was subse-j quently acquitted). The scenes at thej I pening oil the trial 'reminded me j very much of a Hollywood first night. I People fought outside the Old Bailey J to gain admittance to the; court-! room. The police had to disperse ai qu'eue, that; i">ul gathered sit eight j o'clock the previous night. Think of it'" , Up-to-date Steamers Some interesting facts regarding! steamers well-known in the New Zea-J land trade were related by Captain j W. J. Keane when speaking at the! smoke concert of the Company of! Master Mariners at Wellington on Saturday evening. He remarked that; the latest edition of Lloyd's Register, showed that there were only 24 ships! that were listed as being faster than j the Wahine. The Rangatira was described as the finest cross-channel I ship of her type, and he understood j that there were only twelve ships! which could beat her speed. It wasj not generally known, said Captain '■■ Keane, that the Niagara was the hrst j oil-burning ship to have a passenger-! carrying license. Those facts went to j show how enterprising and up-to-date! the New Zealand shipping companies i had been. j

Courageous Rescue A courageous act and one that merits recognition/ is reported to have been performed at the Waitaki li'yldro-'eloctrie wjurks last Saturday when Mr. James L. Johnston, a car. punier, plunged into the river to the assistance ct a fellow-worker, Mr. It. Grimwood, and helped him to safety. The men were working in a punt. Mr. Grimwood was leaning over the sale releasing a snag, and when the snag suddenly gave way he fell into the liver. Without a moment's hesi. u;lion, Mr. Johnston, fully clothed, plunged into, the rushing waters to uis oompansion's rescue, at the same. time calling out words of encourage mem and telling Grimwood to keep bis head up, The rescuer caught Grimwood 9U or 10 J yards downstream end assisted him to safety. It was a in, st courageous act, aid one which only a powerful swimmer cou.kl have accomplished. Particulars have been forwarded to the Loyal Humane Society of Now Zealand, ".he rescue wa.s accomplished in a vater tempera, lure of only ;!5 degrees.

Ship's Pet Dies When the Swedish motor shijj Tis- j naren arrived at Auckland on Satur-j day afternoon, one of the most popu-j lar members of her company was not j aboard. Mell, the Airedale terrier tilal ; had been the ship's mascot and Cap-1 tain Lilliestierna's closest friend for the past ten yeai's, died at sea early; this year, and was buried off Aden, j Although an Australian by birth, Mell< was well known in her adopted country, Sweden, as one of the most travelled dogs in the world. Captain Lil-j liestierna got her in Sydney as a three! weeks' old pup, and fed her during j her first sea-going days on warm j milk out of a beer bottle fitted with a rubber teat. With him she travelled all over the world. When the Tisnaren was in Australia on her last voy-j age Mell underwent an operation, and' sailed on her last voyage still swath-1 ed in hospital bandages. She. did not I live to see Sweden again, but died and was buried within three weeks! qi leaving her native laud.