Government Control of Roads.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1937, Page 6

Government Control of Roads.

Support for the declaration as a Government road of Ohura Road from Mangaotuku Road 'junction to the Stratford county boundary near Strathmore will be asked of the Nos, 7 and 8 District Highways Coyncil by the Stratford County Council, it was decided by the council yesterday. The length of road suggested includes the Strathmore saddle, for long a hindrance to the council because of the cost of upkeep. In addition the declaration of the road between Matau and Kiore as a highway will be requested. Sound Financial Position. Congratulating • Mr. T. R. Anderson, chairman of the Stratford County Council, on his re-election to the position at yesterday's annual meeting of the council, Cr. S. Pitt referred to the sound financial position of the county. In 1927 the debt on the county was £144,000, and in ten years it had been reduced to £101,000, he said. "We are gradually getting out of debt, but it is a question -whether we should make ourselves entirely free and hand over an unencumbered county to someone else," Cr. Pitt added. Old Days Recalled. Memories of the days when before the completion of the Main Trunk line the New Plymouth-Wellington express train formed part of the direct link connecting Auckland and Wellington were recalled yesterday, when railway travellers who have used the express train for the past quarter of a century found that the full length of the platform was occupied by the train. With two big AB engines, nine carriages, two vans and a luggage truck, the train was more than double its usual size, the extra five carriages and vans and additional locomotive comprising tlie special train accommodation for the Gladys Monerieff Operatic Company, which was going to Wanganui. Such trains were once everyday occurrences.

Endeavour's Chart. One of the most conspicuous features of the chartroom of the Admiralty survey ship Endeavour, which arrived at Auckland on Tuesday to begin a survey of the New Zealand coastline, is the replica of a chart of the Gallipoil Peninsula. The original chart was drawn by Captain H. P. Douglas, now ViceAdmiral Sir Percy Douglas, often called "the last of the hydrographers," a day before the famous landing by the New Zealand and Australian forces. The Endeavour saw 1 considerable service in the Western Mediterranean during the Great War and did much survey work during the Gallipoli campaign. Cockle Catches Mouse. A mouse or rat trap is tlie j usual method of imprisoning rodents thalj make raids on the family pantry, but a cockle from Kutarere did its work as a watchraan effectively in the pantry of a residence at Gisborne. It was found by the housewife that one of some cockles on a plate awaiting the morning meal had clamped on to the lail of a mouse. Though pinioned, the mouse liad taken refuge in a hole giving access to the pantry. It had been unable to drag tlie shellfish tlirough the opening. When an attempt was made to restore the cockle to tlie plate the greatly-surprised housewife found the securely-fastened nioiise. Sigiiificance of Emotion. "In recent years emotion has been taking on a new significance in the account which psychologj- endeavours to give of the mental life of man. Thro'ugh many investigations an ' many discoveries we have come to recognise the central place which emotion has in life," said Professor I. L. G. Sutherland when speaking on "Psychology and Literature" in a lecture at the Little Theatre, Canterbury University College. "This was long overlooked, since philosophers and academic psychologists tended to be almost exclusively concerned with the intellectual asppects of the human mind. All this is now changed. The emphasis has shifted and we see that emotion bears upon life at every point in both its normal and abnormal manifestations." |