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Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1934, Page 4

“Dentists should be of great service in the discovery of singing talent,” smilingly remarked Mr. T. A. Harvey, tenor singer, at Christchurch the other day. “A dentist with some experience of voice production,” he said, "could tell from the manner of the opening of the patient’s mouth and the position in which the tongue lies whether the patient has been trained and whether the singing voice would come through smoothly from the right place, or merely be manufactured in the throat. There is nothing more painful than to listen to a -singer straining with a voice produced from the throat.”

The publicity department of the New Zealand High Commissioner’s office in London is making ths most of the opportunities the Melbourne centenary celebrations offer it. An attractive pamphlet has been issued inviting visitors to the centenary celebrations to “step across to New Zealand and see one of the most beautiful, remarkable and interesting countries in tlto world.” It describes, together with attractive illustrations, the alps, fiords, and lakes of the South Island, and the caves, rivers and thermal districts of the north, assuring the tourist that probably no country in the world —certainly not within the same limits —can display such “lavish adornments.”

Several soda springs have made their appearance at the quarry on Mr. I. Tolich’s property on the Remuera settlement, North Auckland, from which stone is being procured for the metalling of the Kaikohe-Omapere section of the No. 1 main highway. The largest of the springs is estimated to flow at the rate of about 60,000 to 70,000 gallons a day. The soda is warm and on some days almost boiling. It is evident that the fissure from which these hot springs take their rise runs from Lake Omapere to Ngawha, about five miles off. The rock being quarried is of a peculiar formation and construction, and the appearance of the springs solves the mystery, the mineral in the water having gradually built up a miniature white terrace. Three light aeroplanes that have been flown from England to Australia were seen in company at the Hamilton aerodrome on Wednesday morning, when Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand girl flier arrived from Mangere in her own machine. Two of the local aeroplanes flown out to meet Miss Batten were the Auckland Aero Club’s blue Moth, ZK—ACK, formerly owned by Mr. Oscar Garden, and Mr. S. J. Blackmore’s Desoutter monoplane, originally the property of Flying-Officers C. E. Kay and H. L. Piper. Both the Moth and the Desoutter, as well as Miss Batten’s silver machine, have contributed to the history of aviation by being flown successfully from England to Australia. Visitors to the aerodrome were particularly interested to see the three machines flying together and also in company on the landing field.

An ingenious egg grader suitable for use by producers or in stores was demonstrated by Mr. P. B. Stevens at a meeting of the Woolston branch of the New Zealand Poultry Producers’ Federation, Christchurch. The grader, which was invented and has been patented, was said to be able to deal with 30 or 40 eggs a minute. The action is simple, consisting of a runway over a piece of glass, under which is a strong electric light bulb. The egg stops over the light to be “candled” for blemishes, and then is moved on to sensitive scales which when pressed down by the egg, make contact and light up a small bulb working off a dry battery. This bulb can be set to light up at any specified weight. The figure used in the demonstration was 2oz, anything under that weight failing to affect the bulb. From the scales the eggs are placed in two runways, one for those of the correct weight or over, and the other for those under the weight. Blemished eggs, of course, are not tested further after exposure by “candling.”

Buyers of the famous “Summer Breeze” printed haircord fabric will be relieved to know that the price remains the same as last season, namely, 1/9 yard. This remarkable cloth is enjoying a tremendous vogue, and Scanlan’s Ltd., the principal distributors, are already showing many pretty advance designs for the coming season.®