AROUND THE DOMINION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 347, 30 April 1935, Page 8

AROUND THE DOMINION

T *■ Moat Important Career. “Marriage alter all is the most important career for girls,,” said Mrs. Robert Gilkison, when speaking during the official reception at the New Plymouth Girls’ High School Jubilee celebrations. “ What is the use of being an efficient teacher,” .she said, “if there is no one to teavh?” Music for Farmers. The Broadcasting Board will shortly receive a request from farmers’ organisations in the Manawatu to extend the breakfast musical session beyond the present, closing time of 8.30 a.m. Their requests is based on the fact that many farmers with, large herds do not sit down to their morning meal until 8.30 a.m. and later, and would like a little musical entertainment. “First Health Officer.” The fact that sanitation is one of the oldest of sciences, for instance as old l as gardening, and had) been practised perhaps rather crudely, since the time of primeval man, was mcnioned by the chief city inspector Mr, J. W. Huggins, in an address to members of the Christchurch branch of the Town Planning Institute, “Even the primeval man, ’ ’ said Mr. Huggins, ‘ ‘ is known to have constructed his simple dwelling to derive most benefits from the sun and shelter from winds and rain. In/ fact, it can almost be declared that Moses was the-first health officer, fordid he not make laws relating to infectious disease, quarantine and disinfections?” ■

When the “Express” was Punctual. An ancient jest was effectively retold the othe r evening at the meeting held in Auckland, when the Birmingham and Midland Counties Ex-Resi-dents’ Association came into being. Mr. P. Lewis reminded the old ‘Brums’ present of the leisured, manner in

which the trains of the Ha.r borne branch line used to travel from Birmingham to its outer suburbs. The Harborne ‘ ‘ express ’ ’ had never been known to be punctual ,and regular travellers used to settle down for a comfortable snooze on their homeward journey, knowing that they would be awakened by fine' guard, ‘or dislodged from their on arriving. On one historic occasion, however, the train was actually half an hour ahead of time! The event was so sensational that it was at once decided to make a presentation to the guard and driver. A collection was being taken up when one of the residents inquired what day it was. It was the day after that on which the train had started, so the presentation was ‘ ‘ off. ’ ’ New Zealanders at Oxford. According to that 1 recorder of the doings of New Zealanders, the ‘ ‘ New Zealand News” published weekly in London, the Hohgi Club,■ the association of N6w Zealanders ' in Oxford, lias, during the last two terms, entered into a new phase of activity. Previously, says the “News”’ it was only a social club meeting once or twice a year for the purpose of introducing newcomers to those New Zealanders already in the university. Now, chiefly through the influence of J. A. Mulgan, of Auckland and Merton, it has been reconstituted as a discussion group which meets three times a term to discuss matters arising out of presentday conditions in New Zealand. The club has been addressed by Mr. R. Syine, Follow of Trinity, of Eltham, who spoke on his impressions as a Now Zealander returning after ten years in England; by I. F. G. Milner, 1934 Rhodes Scholar, on present political conditions in New Zealand; by M; M. Cooper, also one of last year’s Rhodes [Scholars on the recent agricultural policy of the Government; and by J. M. Bertram and J. A. W. Bennett, (both from Auckland, the former a Rhodes Scholar) on N.Z. literature. The (dub intends to hold a dinner during the summer term, and it is hoped that one of the official N.Z. delegates to the jubilee celebrations will bo able to attend, j <■;>