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Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1930, Page 8

At mid-day on Monday three young Aucklanders were unconcernedly riding bicycles several hundred feet above one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares. At first sight, says the Star, this statement appears rather startling, but the . explanation that the cyclists were merely exercising their limbs on the flat roof of a seven-storeyed building brings it within focus. Roof tennis is not uncommon, but “sky-pedalling” is something in the way of a novelty.

Word has been received at Bluff that deer have, invaded the muttonbird islands near Port Adventure, and are considered to be a serious menace to the muttonbird industry. It is feared that the deer will trample in the burrows, which are generally covered with an inch or two of soft -peaty soil, and destroy the young birds before they are able to venture forth. It is expected that Natives, on their return, from the. .« islands, will seek permission to kill th,® deer if they believe that the presence of the animals on the islands is harmf’ the^i ndustry. Worshippers in the Anglican parish at Sydenham, Christchurch, were seen last week going to the three churches wit brown paper parcels in their hands. This unusual proceeding was due to the fact that in the spring, the vicar, Canon Mutter, had* distributed a seed potato to each person who would accept it with the idea that these were to 'be planted and the produce later on taken to the ■church and sold for the benefit of the Melanesian Mission. At the _ annual meeting the potatoes were sold in small lots to the parishioners and as a result the mission will benefit to the extent of over £3. One woman, from one potato, produced others to the weight of 101 b., and a little girl obtoined 171 b. from two seeds. The method of recording votes at municipal elections has always been a subiccWof controversy, and apparently it is not to be allowed to rest yet. The iLutetion representing the Mungal Association, which wa'ted “ p °” “ C p ll , Star ot Internal Affairs (the Hon. P. A. i« la Penclle) last week, asked that should bo pennitted O make a lar<re number of candidates, me Min ister “agreed to consider ':hc An incident which' occurred m Hastings on Friday /as somewhat S of the air patrol fHokrt forest areas in Canada, says Bay Tribune. A local pilot y o the’forest reservation on the Pak road noticed a bell tent pitched in the cent of the plantation, and saw. rising • It would have been quite pSlo tor either the s™»ke ” tent to have been seen flora tt The police were notified, but wne arrived the intruder had decamped.

- “Never before in the history of ZeaYand has every part of the country

A well-known English ma ” ufac^ ar9 who visited New Zealand a v y havo ago, writing to a Indusbeen all thiff week at tl e Bntis tries Fair. Such a crewd of 160,000 of them. Yet then 0 e disappointing, for there is yery in them. It seems as thou o nature of them had beci • ny . They are mainly skin and P P deftd< thing with any P rofit wo J ld? Can What is the matter Wlth * t re rs have it bo true that we that produced too much of beautimake the world interest!! „ . Qur ful ? Why is it that howei tor J stuff may be, nobody stores all seem choked g< There goods, and all waiting That indeed is where our trouble lies.. Wou ia i 9 the cause of unemployment that we could find a cure Then indeed England would ; come her own.” ... ... ,•