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Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1933, Page 6

t r>rimarv school Rugby football at P New Plymouth yesterday, V.tesXMet E ” d by 17 Po ‘" lS *° S -

“Some day, when we become prosperous' Si get Douglas Credit, we may he ’ able to appoint an engineer, and SmSitt.« could up to Swito the boat’s Mr R. G. Young, when a suggestion that a finance .committee should be appointed was being discussed at a meeting of the Taupiri Drainage and River Board. “It has been said of Rembrandt that he only painted SOO pictures in the course of his life, of which only 200 remain, said Professor J. Shelley, in a lecture 'on “Science and Its Relation to Art, delivered before the Scientific Society of Canterbury College. He went on to explain by lantern slides the difference between copies and genuine paintings by Rembrandt, as shown by the results of X-ray and violet-ray research. The influx of would-be gold miners to the Cromwell district from all parts of the South Island is causing considerable concern to the Vincent Mining Committee, and the chairman (Mr. J. Ritchie) told a Daily Times reporter that his organisation was at a loss to deal with the large number of applications for assistance that it is receiving daily. Many of the applicants arrived with nothing,' and as there >is ho work for them they consequently become a charge on a community that is already hard pressed to deal with its own local relief problems. Mr. Ritchie expressed the opinion that the present boom by no means justifies the rush that is taking place, and he considers that those who are in poor circumstances would be well advised to give Central ’Otago a wide berth, as the prospects there of employment, let alone sudden wealth, are not encouraging.