PRINCE HENRY'S VISIT

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1934, Page 6

PRINCE HENRY'S VISIT

PREPARATIONS APPROVED NEW PLYMOUTH ARRANGEMENTS. BIG PUKEKURA PARK GATHERING. ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMME IF WET.

Arrangements in connection with the visit of the Duke of Gloucester to New Plymouth on January 3 were approved by the New Plymouth Borough Council last night. The royal party will leave the train at New Plymouth at 9.45 a.m. and will depart from New Plymouth at 11 a.m. In case of wet weather an alternative programme at the Coronation Hall and Opera House has been arranged. A plan of the sportsground at Pukekura Park is to be prepared showing the position of the guard of honour, veterans, returned soldiers, school children and other bodies. The whole of the playing area will be utilised for this purpose so a* to obviate the erection of barricades. A special stand will be erected for the party and seating accommodation will be provided on the lawns for invited guests, parents and widows of soldiers who died in the Great War. Special provision is to be made near the eastern gate entrance for invalids in cars. Special permits will be issued for this privilege. Mr. R. Day, borough inspector„has been authorised to confer with the Taranaki Education Board authorities with reference to the control of school children, the feeding of children and the desirability of each young child wearing a small label bearing the child’s name and address. A depot for lost children will be established. The council will take necessary steps to prevent vehicular traffic on all streets through which the royal party will pass, while the municipal trams will not run through Devon Street central from 9JO a.m. until 11.30 a.m. on the day of the visit. ... The following wet day programme will b® submitted for the approval of the Minister of Internal Affairs:— Coronation Hall: Open to general public; presentation of address and reply. New Plymouth Opera House: Returned soldiers, veterans, returned nurses, South African veterans, parents and widows of soldiers killed in the Great War and holders of tickets for official stand. (Owing to limited accommodation this win not be open to the genera 1 public). Children: Devon Street from Egmont Street to Brougham Street to be roped off, children to be formed up under the shelter of verandahs leaving a passageway along the centre of the footpath, the Duke to walk through the way thus left.

Search parties were organised at Sydney lately to search, for a three-year-old boy, who was missing from his home for more than three hours, ne was missed at 5 o’clock and he was not traced until 8.30 p.m., when he was seen riding his tricycle past a shop, about eight miles from home. He was. de.ained until his parents arrived for him.

A remarkable coincidence occurred in a Timaru resident's home. When the household was listening intently over the radio to London’s Big Ben striking 9 o’clock Monday morning, the local town clock simultaneously struck 9 o clock Monday night, affording striking. proof that New Zealand summer time is exactly twelve hours ahead of English time.

The lofty wireless mast at Henderson, Auckland, which will most likely be completed this week, promises to become a permanent centre of attraction for visitors and Sunday The major part of its oQOft.. length is visible for some miles in various directions. Yesterday afternoon many cars were parked in the vicinity of the mast and new radio station buildings, while visitors appraised this new ieature of the landscape.

The appearance in Hawke’ Bay of a new menace to graziers, yclept tanzie, was referred to at a recent meeting of th® Hawke’s Bay County Council by Mr. T. J. Dooney. Mr. Dooney characterised the new menace as a type of , wild carrot, which grew in some places to. tne height of 15ft, and which proved poisonous to stock. It had appeared at Taradale and Meanee, he stated, while some plants had also been noticed within the Napier borough. He suggested that the council consider declaring this species a noxious weed. The matter is to be investigated by the council.

‘W first acquaintance with New Zealand was the receipt of my mail,’ said the Rev. Dr. James Moffatt, of New York, on Saturday, after his arrival by the Mariposa. “The first letter I opened was one from your commissioner of taxes, formally reminding me of the requirement to make a return of my income while in the Dominion. That, to me, was rather amusing. I have come here to spend money. I suppose it is just one of those formal notices one receives. They gave me one at Sydney. I thought I had left taxation commissioners behind me.”

Pea growing is one of Marlborough s staple industries, worth anything up to £190,000 in an average season. And it holds out every promise of easily reaching that figure this year, states the Marlborough Express. Between 9000 and 10,000 acres will be under this lucrative cereal crop, and there should be an average yield of 30 bushels to the acre, which is the usual return, although not approached last year on account of the drought. That experience cost the pea growers of Marlborough probably £70,000 through short deliveries. This year, however, they should be recompensed m good measure for their crop failures last season.

“Luck played a big part in the success of the first machines in the race,” said Flying-Officer C. E. Kay in describing the Centenary air race to an Auckland audience. “For instance, the Dutchmen, who crossed the Timor Sea on one engine, might well consider themselves lucky that the other one kept going. Then they landed at Albury, in a place where no military pilot would dream of landing. That and' their successful takeoff might never be done again with such a plane at that place.” Waller and Jones had also been fortunate on more than one occasion. Mr. Kay praised the performance of McGregor and Walker in an open machine, and said that with a bit more luck they might have “pulled It off” in the handicap event,

The whitebait season on the Waikato River has closed. It opened on July 1, and for the first few weeks the. catches were small, which was disappointing both to those who engaged in the fishing and to buyers. There was a good demand from many parts of the North Island, but it could not be filled. With the coming of the warmer weather the whitebait began to work up the river from the sea in much bigger shoals, and the weight of the catches increased greatly. However, the range for marketing was then drawing in. By the end of the season last week there had been heavy “runs” of the fish, but practically all was going to the canning factory on the southern shore of the river below Tuakau. The launch from the factory was making the round of the fishers every twp hours collecting the