NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20103, 9 May 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

To-day at 1.30 p.m. Messrs Runciman Pryor Ltd. will hold an auction sale of roofing iron, building material on section corner of Wilson Street and Clifton Terrace. To-day at Mr R. C. Littlejohn’s residence, Beverley Road, Morton and Co. will sell his modern double brick residence, also high class piano by John Brinsmead and Sons, superior carpets, chesterfield suite, dining and bedroom furniture and large amount of sundries. Particulars appeared in last Saturday’s issue. A cattle pumpkin, weighing 2361 b., is on view in Ward Street, Hamilton. The pumpkin was grown from broadcast seed under ordinary field conditions by Mr A. Edwards, of Horsham Downs. It is one of the largest pumpkins known to have been grown in the Waikato, and will be exhibited at the Waikato Winter Exhibition. It was stated at the annual meeting of the Wellington Film Institute that the Wellington public libraries noticed a great demand for books on any subject when that subject was dealt with in a notable film being shown in the city. Dr. J. W. Mcllraith, Chief Inspector of Primary Schools, who later addressed the meeting on films, in relation to education, expressed interest in this fact which, he said, showed that films stimulated among adults a demand for a wider education. A cargo of scrap metal is being despatched from Auckland to Japan by the Japanese steamer Mataram, She is a steamer of 3331 tons and was recently sold by Burns, Philp, Limited, after she had been engaged for a considerable period in the Pacific Island trade. Over 30,000 tons of scran metal have been shipped from New Zealand to Japan during the last three years, but the Mataram is the first vessel to load a full cargo during the past 12 months. She loaded a quantity at Wellington and completes her cargo at Auckland.

The necessity for dairy farmers delivering fresh cream at factories if it is desired to improve the standard of New Zealand butter on the Home market, was emphasised by Professor W. Riddet when addressing dairy factory managers at Massey College, reports the Palmerston North correspondent of the “Evening Post.” He pointed out how stale cream meant high acidity and consequently poorer butter, and how no juggling in methods of manufacture could undo the harm. The Dairy Research Institute, under whose auspices the conference was held, has taken every opportunity to impress upon factory managers the necessity for keeping up quality, and lias pointed out the many ways in which off-flavours can develop.

Members of the Council of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society were very interested in the description of a bird caught by Mr L. B. James while out duck shooting. Mr James stated that the bird was not as big as a starling, about the same build as a Maori hen, and was brown on the back with dark markings on the feathers. It had a green beak and green legs, and a red eye with a black pupil. Mr James added that he had consulted books of reference, and had come to the conclusion that the bird was a swamp rail. These birds had been found in the Chatham Islands in 1871, but were extinct there 10 years later, and the only place where they were usually found was in the Auckland Islands. He proposed to liberate the bird in the next day or two.

“I am a great admirer of female beauty in whatever land I have found it, but it was minus in New Zealand.” says a correspondent of the “Isle of Man Examiner.” “The girls I met had thick, coarse, yellow, leathery skins, wrinkled and lined prematurely through screwing up the eyes to minimise the effect of sun glare. But they are magnificent swimmers. Boys and girls of all ages are so much in the water together that this is undoubtedly responsible for the fact that New Zealand girls have all the mannerisms of men.”

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