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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1933, Page 4

A deputation from the various Douglas social credit organisations in New Zealand will wait upon the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, to urge the setting up of a select committee of the House of Representatives to inquire into the monetary system of New Zealand. The deputation will be arranged at the time of Major Douglas’ visit to New Zealand in February.

“I stopped smoking when I left school,” said Mr. W. J. Holdsworth, chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board, at a meeting of the board, when a small box, suitable for cigars, was presented to him by members. “I was caught smoking one day by my father, and he said I could start when he did,” he added. ‘‘He never started, and neither did I.” Mr. Holdsworth mentioned he could find plenty of good uses for the box apart from holding cigars.

The pre-war German flag, which was taken down from the Governor’s residence at Apia when the New Zealand troops occupied Samoa in 1914, and which is to be returned by the Wanganui Rotary Club to the Berlin Rotary Club, was produced at the “Ladies’ Day” luncheon at Wanganui. Dr. H. D. Robertson asked all members to sign the letter that will accompany it to Europe, and said that it was hoped that a Rotarian from London would take the flag to Berlin and present it personally.

Even an epidemic in a big school has its humours. Mr. R. J. Richards, headmaster of Christ’s College, caused much amusement at the prize-giving by his account of some of the sidelights of the outbreak of influenza which at the beginning of the third term resulted in the illness of some 100 boys and several masters. “There were, for instance, the house matrons bustling about like hens which had lost their chicks, and, again, there were the groans of disappointment when some master who was supposed to be sickening, would unexpectedly turn up for breakfast in the dining halL”