GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19862, 27 July 1934, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS

Protection of Native Birds. The Education Department is cooperating with the New Zealand Bird Protection Society in a campaign against the growing practice of trapping and caging native birds by publishing a series of articles in the “School Journals.” Surprise Felicitations. Before the commencement of business at the annual meeting of the South Canterbury Jockey Club last night, the president (Mr D. Grant) sprang a surprise on a prominent member of the club by extending congratulations to him on having that day reached his sixtieth birthday. The member concerned acknowledged the chairman’s good wishes, and said he hoped other members would feel as fit as he did when they reached his age. Danger to School Children. A complaint of speeding by motorists across the intersection on which is situated the Upper Waitahi School was made to the Automobile Association, South Canterbury, last night by the Geraldine County Council. It was stated that speeding motorists were a source of great danger to the school children. Mr J. Palliser said that the work of preparing suitable notice boards was ill hand and they would be erected in due course. Cruelty to Dogs. Reporting to a meeting of the committee of the South Canterbury branch of the Society for the Prevention if Cruelty to Animals, the inspector (Mr G. Gliddon) said that he was still being called on to deal with dogs wh’.cn had been run over by motor-cars, and which had been left on the roadside in a maimed condition. It was very hard, he said, to understand the cal - lous action of these motorists, and every effort was being made to secure the opportunity of ventilating such cases in the proper quarter.

Cradle of Religions. In the small area of Palestine things had happened which had moved civilisation, the Rev. J. D. McLennan Wilson told his hearers at the New Plymouth Round Table Club. Palestine had been the birthplace of three great monotheistic religions of the world— Christianity, Judaism and Mohammedanism. Its territory extended only over a distance equivalent to that from New Plymouth to Marton, while in its narrowest part it was only 26 miles wide —the distance from New Plymouth to Stratford.

Cyclists’ Mudguards Painted. As a result Of the activity of the patrol officer of the Automobile Association, South Canterbury (Mr F. Owers), a majority of cyclists in Timaru have the rear mudguards of their machines painted white. In accordance with the Automobile Association’s safety first policy, Mr Owers has painted nearly 2000 cycles in the town, his largest tally for one day being 28, when he visited the Timaru Boys’ High School He reported to last night's meeting of the Association that only two cyclists had refused to allow him to paint their machines. Raid on Motorists. As part of a Dominion-wide raid on motorists operating vehicles with faulty brakes and dazzling headlights to be made between August 1 and August 2, the Automobile Association, South Canterbury, at its meeting last night appointed its president (Mr J. M. Jenkins) and patrol officer (Mr F. Owers) to co-operate with the Borough Traffic Department in arranging a testing ground for members of the Association. It was suggested that on a suitable level stretch of road, lines be drawn by which motorists could check the effectiveness of their brakes. The regulations stipulate that a vehicle at 20 miles an hour shall pull up within 40ft. when the foot brake is applied, and Within 75ft with the handbrake. A Door from the Sky. An aluminium door which had fallen from an aeroplane crashed on to the roof of a house at Epsom, England, recently. The door dislodged some tiles and then fell into the street, where it narrowly missed two motor-cars. No one was hurt. The door bore no identification marks and the machine from which it fell has not been traced. At the time, there was no sign of an aeroplane overhead, and it is thought that the door must have glided for a, considerable time. A visitor said that when she saw the flashing object twisting earthward she thought it was a kite. “After it had crashed,” she said, “I examined it, and came to the conclusion that it had been wrenched off. It weighed about six pounds.”

“ Galloping Jack.” A veteran soldier of the Empire, Brigadier-General J. R. Royston, C.M.G., D. 5.0., of South Africa, will visit Melbourne for the centenary. The Australian soldiers knew him in Palestine as “Galloping Jack.” An invitation was sent to him by the Bth Light Horse (A.1.F.) Regimental Association, and he has replied that he will arrive on October 5 by the Ceramic. Brigadier-General Royston commanded the 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade in Palestine in 1918. Although aged nearly 60 when he fought at Romani (Sinai Peninsula), he was noted for his disregard of danger and for his endurance. He had earlier become famous as a leader of men against the Boers. He served in the South African campaigns of 1878-9 and 1899-1902.

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