GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20284, 6 December 1935, Page 10

GENERAL NEWS

Money to Bum. At least one Labour supporter in Matamata refused to make money out of the recent victory at the polls. Having been promptly paid a bet by a friend, in the form of a cheque, he took out a match and lit and burned the valuable piece of paper.

University Examinations. The University entrance examination which began on Monday will come to an end n-::t Wednesday. Throughout Tew Zealand 5061 candidates arc taking part in it, 589 of them being in Wellington. Simultaneously 296 postmatriculation students in New Zealand, 19 being from Wellington, are sitting the competitive examination for the entrance scholarships.

Butter for New York. New York interest in New Zealand butter has revived during the last few days and as a result of a number of sales having been made, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Tekoa Was yesterday definitely fixed to call at New York en route to London. The Tekoa will load more than 10,-)00 boxes. The purchase price is said to have been lid per lb f.o.b.

Very Disappointing Team. A Hamiltonian at present in London, writing by this week’s mail comments oh the All Blacks as follows—" Hearing that the All Blacks were to play the Combi: -d Services on Saturday, I went down to Aldershot to see the game. You will know the result 6—5, and also I suppose that the game was more like trench warfare than football, and it was tile Army— not our fellows—who tried to open it up and make it interesting—a most disappointing exhibition, with the New Zealand team apparently trying to win with a minimum expenditure of effort.”

Jerry-built Houses in England, Many of the new houses being erected in the suburbs of London are jerry-built compared with houses being erected in Timaru, Mr G. F. Smythe, who returned recently from a visit to England, told a reporter of “The Timaru Herald” yesterday. Mr Smythe said that many large estates were being subdivided and built on, one unfortunate aspect being that all the houses were of one design. The houses were worth about £7OO or £BOO each, but f hose which he had inspected were not nearly so substantially built as dwellings of the same value in Timaru. Chance Encounter. There are maily trite sayings about the smallness of the world but a striking example of the “smallness” of the surging metropolis of London was quoted by Mr G. P. Smythe yesterday when he remarked to a reporter of “The Timaru Herald” that during his recent visit to the hub of the Empire he had encountered Mr Robert Wilson in the British Museum. Both Mr Smythe and Mr Wilson played prominent parts in tennis administrative circles in Timaru before they left on their respective trips abroad. Mr Wilson is at present visiting relatives in Yorkshire. Medical Aid fey Air. “On two occasions during the month I had occasion to get outside help,” stated Dr. W. A. Anderson, of the Lake Hospital (Queenstown), in his report to the Southland Hospital Board. “On both occasions Dr. McNickle came up by ’plane at short notice and in quick time to assist me. It is a great boon to the local people that such experienced help is readily and so speedily available.” The board’s secretary, Mr T. Pryde, said this had now become a common practice, and was a great saving to the board. Members commented favourably on the use of an aeroplane by the medical superintendent. A Sign of the Times. A clear indication of the improvement which has taken place during the last two years, when compared with the conditions ruling during the depth of the depression, was to be seen on Monday in the large number of new motor cars lined up on the roadside in the vicinity of the Drill Hall, Napier, where the first wool sale of the season was in progress. There were hundreds of cars outside the hall for the greater part of the day and a brief survey revealed the fact that more than three-quarters of them were models which had obviously been on the road only a few months.

f-ifts to Art Gallery. A magnificent oil painting called “Peace in Her Loneliness,” the work of the well-known artist S. J. Lamorna Birch, has been presented to the National Art Gallery by Mr George Shirtcliffe. This is a painting of the Lledyr Valley in North Wales and shows a bridged stream flowing through rugged country. This fine example of Lamorna Birch’s work, exhibited at the Royal Academy this year, will not be on public view Until the opening of the new art gallery. Another gift is a fine portrait of the late Sir Robert Stout, painted by Mr A. F. Nicoll. This has been given by Dr. Duncan Stout on behalf of the family.

Favourable Prospects. Though he could not say whether success would attend the efforts of the Art Collections Loans Society to send a collection of famous pictures from the National and Tate Galleries to New Zealand in time for the opening of be National Art Gallery at Wellington, Mr G. Shirtcliffe, a member of the board of trustees of the gallery, who returned to Wellington yesterday by the Tanlaroa, said that when he left England the prospects for such an exhibition seemed to be favourable. The Art Collections Loans Society, he said, was working very hard toward the sending of a collection here. I£,its efforts were successful, the pictures would probably be exhibited throughout New Zealand and Australia.