AROUND THE DOMINION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 225, 21 April 1933, Page 8

AROUND THE DOMINION

j Radio Interference ; At it meeting of the executive of the Hawke's Bay Radio Society, the Society's plans for the elimination of ) interference with reception were adj vanced a further stage by the decisj ion to immediately purchase a quanI tity of condensers which, as soon as ! they arrive, will be installed on I motors known to be causing interference, :' Damage by Deer Reports are frequently received of j tile increasing numbers of deer and i chamois and the damage caused, particularly by the latter, to the native i flora, states the animal report of the Arthur's Pass National Park Board. The difficulty is to discover some; practicable scheme within the means of the board to check the menace. Fruit From Gisborne This season Gisborne has exported approximately S6OO cases of fruit, almost entirely apples, with a few pears. The remainder of the season should produce a further 3000 cases of ap pies to bring the season's total exports up to 12,000 eases, or only about half of last year's tally. The last shipment to leave Gisborne was last Thursday when SO6 cases of apples were loaded for the United Kingdom and 47 cases for the Continent. The main varieties in the United Kingdom consignment

were Stunners and Granny Smiths, with also some Doughertys, Rome Beauties and SJmnionds' Winter, while the small quantity o: Continental apples comprised Doughertys and Sturmers.

New City Theatre Mr. M. J. Moodabec, governing director of Amalgamated .Theatres Auckland, has completed arrangements with M.r. C. J. B. Norwood, of Wellington, for the erection of a palatial picture theatre in the Empire City, reports the Auckland StaV. Plans have been prepared for a building which will be the finest one-floor theatre in the Dominion. It will have royal boxes, and be reminiscent of ancient English architecture. This theatre will complete a chain which gives Amalgamated Theatres a theatre in every city and town of importance in the Dominion. Inquiries made showed that the site for the proposed theatre would definitely not bo that at present occupied by the showrooms of Dominion Motors Ltd., in Courtenay Place.

A Boyish Rejoinder Two small boys were gambolling about on the lawn at the Riverton racecourse on when a collision occurred and one came off second best, his nose commencing to bleed profusely. The elder boy, without demur, immediately took steps to help his Unfortunate playmate and laid him flat on the grass, at the same time taking his< handkerchief from/ his pocket to stanch the blood. A young lady who happened to be an onlooker of the incident, impressed by the method of the boy, evinced an interest in the happening and knowing from her experience of first-aid work that this procedure was the correct one, went over and asked the boy if he were a Boy Scout. "No," replied the little fellow, "I'm a boy Walker."

Studying Medicine at 15 Master L. R. Jury, of St. Paul's Street, Randwick, who has not yet attained his 16th year, has the distinction of being the youngest undergraduate in the faculty of medicine at Sydney University. Young Jury is the son of a former Thames resident, Mr. Bert Jury, and the nephew of Mrs. Mulcahy of Thames. He was born at Randwick on June 15, 1917, and was a pupil at the Randwick Public School until the age of nine, after which he attended the Coogee Preparatory School. He then attended a city coaching college, and later was instructed at Sydney Technical College in science subjects. He matriculated in February, passing in Latin, English and modern history at the higher standard ,and in French and mathematics at the lower standard.

Prospecting For Gold . j "It was a groat experience, saicl I a Wellington carpenter who has just ! returned from over 12 months spent at his trade in the gold mining areas of the West Coast. "And what impressed me most was the extent to which the whole district was thoroughly combed over by the gold miners of the early rushes. You may penetrate many miles into the hills and think- you have reached a spot where surely nobody has ever sought gold, luid on rounding a corner you will see birch trees nearly a loot (hick growing up through heaps of tailings that must have been deposited very many years ago" he slated. "In other places neatly piled heaps of big stones show former activities. The indefatigable nature of the work done -is -hown bv traces of miles and miles of water" flumes in the most inaccessible places. One township that once supported 11-000 miners and nearly a dozen hotels, is deserted and overgrown with only a few people about. I know a man and his wife, however who went a little deeper in an old working than the pioneers, and tney were averaging £8 a week over a , considerable period. Quite, a lot oi | the men are making wages.' |

! Bitten by Rat Awakened by the screams of her ten-year-old son at three o'clock on Wednesday morning-, Mrs. Olson, of Pratt Street, Auckland, was horrified to find blood streaming from his face. The chil,d was pacit'ijrd , and : takeninto bed with its parents, but three hours later it again aroused them, and this time blood was running from its hand. The sleeping infant had apparently been attacked twice by a rat. Cases of rats biting sleeping people, usually children, have occasionally been reported, and a circle of scratches on the face of Mrs. Olson's child, and more on the first finger of its left hand, are obvious evidence of the attack in this case. The infant was sleeping in its pram, and it is thought that the rat was atracted at first by crumbs of broad. There were two other young children, aged three and four, in the house, but neither of them was troubled. Though the child's wounds hied profusely, and its face and finger were swollen, it showed no other ill-effects.

j Morrinsville Valuations The gross ratable value of the 1 borough of Morrinsville has been considerably reduced by the recent general revaluation carried out at the request of the Morrinsville Borough Council with a view to removing anomalies which had crept in since the last general valuation in 1926. Figures supplied by the town clerk show that the total value has been reduced to £121,000, compared with £223,000 in 1926, and £187,000 a year ago. Recently ratepayers wore notified of their now valuations and given an opportunity of lodging objections, which will bo heard at the next sitting of the Assessment Court. It is understood that a number of objections have been lodged. Until the Assessment Court has finalised the valuation roll the cou'ncil will not know what is the total ratable value on which it can strike its rates. In any case the average rate in the £ will be from 50 to 100 per cent, above lust, year's, but most ratepayers will pay the same amount.