GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20105, 11 May 1935, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS

English Mail by Monowai The Post and Telegraph Department advises that the air mail which left London on April 27 is on the Monowai, which left Sydney for Auckland at 4 p.m. yesterday. Radio Listeners Every year there is delay by some radio listeners in renewing their receiving licenses on March 31, but the renewal position this year discloses a marked improvement compared with previous periods, possibly an indication of better times and appreciation of the reduction of 5/- in the license fee. However, there are some listeners who, even at this date, have failed to renew their licenses, a matter in respect to which the Post and Telegraph Department proposes to take early action.

Land for Ex-Soldiers A scheme for the settlement of 25 ex-soldiers or sons of ex-soldiers on the land has been instituted by Mr F. W. Burley, of Hamilton, by the offer of the Waverley Islands Estate of 2483 acres in the Eureka district, to the Waikato Returned Soldiers’ Association. The offer has been accepted by the association and arrangements will be made to further the scheme. The Waverley Islands property comprises three hills, totalling 600 acres of improved farm land, and the balance of the area is swamp land, a considerable proportion of which is capable of development. The hill sections are valued by Mr Burley at £2O an acre. About 800 acres of the swamp area are ready for occupation. Mr Burley intends to transfer the property free of debt to trustees, and has laid down a condition that the land must not be used for speculative purposes. More than £12,000 was paid by Mr Burley for the estate. Insect Pests. The necessity of exercising the strictest biological control in New Zealand was emphasised by Mr J. Muggeridge, B.Sc., of the research laboratory of the Agricultural Department at Palmerston North, in an address to members aof the Palmerston North Rotary Club. He said that the transference of insect pests from one part of the world to another was not nearly so great in the days of sailing vessels. With much shorter journeys by steamer, the danger of introducing insects harmful to live stock or crops increased. Now that it was proposed to make 12-hour trips from Australia by aeroplane they would have to be constantly on the watch. There was, for example, the malarial insect—the mosquito. = If he once got in they might not be able to control him biologically.