LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20815, 25 August 1937, Page 8

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Pipe Band on the Air The Timaru Highland Pipe Band, Dominion champions, are to leave for Christchurch on Saturday afternoon, and on Saturday evening will broadcast from 3YA from 9 to 10 p.m. Market Blown Up “We sold 43 tons of skim-milk powder in Shanghai last season,” said Mr W. Goodfellow, managing-director of Amalgamated Dairies, Limited, when addressing a meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, in Hamilton. “But lam afraid that that market now appears to be blown up,” he added. Placement Activities Placement activities in Timaru for the week ending August 21. 1937, were: Permanent 4, temporary 8, casual 5. Included in the above were four teamsters and three farm labourers. Since April 1, 1937, jobs have been found for 754 men as follows: Permanent 115, temporary 191, casual 448. Since the inception of the State Placement Service in Timaru, 2134 jobs have been found. The National placements to dale since April 1, 1937, total 16,065. Building of Lighters The keel of at 98ft Diesel-engined lighter for the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, was laid last week in the yards of W. G. Lowe and Son, Auckland. The craft will have a 145 horsepower engine, and will be used at Wanganui for the transport of frozen produce. A smaller lighter 40ft in length will be built after the powered craft is completed. It is ixpccted that the lighters will be ready for service in January, when one will tow the other to Wanganui. Wartime Commandeers “That in the event of war the farmers' produce should not be commandeered until all capital and industries were commandeered,” was a remit from the Whitford branch that was carried at a meeting at Pukekohe of the Franklin sub-provincial conference of the Farmers' Union. The mover said the branch had in mind that during the Great Wai- produce had been commandeered but other phases of economic life had been allowed to continue free of Government control. Th remit found ready acceptance by the conference. Kung for Last Time Old scholars of the Pakuranga District School, one of the four schools to be absorbed by the new Howick consolidated school, assembled on Friday, when they celebrated its closing by filing past and ringing the bell for the last time. The school was opened in 1860. Mr I. Mclnnes and Mrs J. Thompson, who were scholars in 1876 and 1869 respectively, led the procession of old scholars. Local residents provided luncheon for the visitors. Former pupils assembled in groups, and exchanged reminiscences of early days at the school. To Compete at Timaru The Amberley Drama Club, which secured first place in the annual festival conducted by the Christchurch-North Canterbury area of the British Drama League (N.Z. branch), at Christchurch, will now compete with the South Canterbury and Otago winners at the South Island Elimination Festival to be held in Timaru next month. The winner of the contest will compete with North Island teams at Rotorua in the National Final. The judge (Mr D. E. Dale) made his awards as follows: “Derelict,” presented by the Amberley Drama Club, 1; “Women at War,” presented by Hay’s, Ltd., Drama Club, 2; and “Love and Cousin Albert," presented by the Canterbury Repertory Society, 3. Mr Arthur Henderson Mr Arthur Henderson. 8.A., LL.B., M P. for the Kingswinford Division of Stafford, England, and well-known speaker for peace and the League of Nations, will arrive in Wellington to-day by the Rangitane. Mr Henderson will be in New Zealand until September 3, when he will proceed to the Australian International Peace Campaign Conference, to, be held at Melbourne from September 16 to 19, There he will represent the general council of the campaign, the headquarters of which are at Geneva. Organising Mr Henderson’s New Zealand tour is the recently-formed New Zealand Youth Peace Council, which is affiliated to the World Youth Congress Movement. This organisation is the junior counterpart of the body which Mr Henderson represents. Tame White Heron All the pride that is felt by many Christchurch people in the presence of a white heron in the city’s Botanic Gardens is eclipsed by the pride taken by one Hokitika family in another heron, which has taken refuge in their property, and adds tameness to its other virtues. Calmly confident of no harm coming to it, the Hokitika visitor feeds quite close to the house, makes no demur at being photographed at close quarters, and occasionally provides excitement by protecting itself strenuously from attacks by seagulls. So far the heron has proved an easy victor, its long neck and sharp beak giving it an advantage in fighting. A popular item on the heron's daily menu is a mouse, and friendly neighbours set traps to catch mice as food for the visitor. The heron shows no sign of wanting to leave Hokitika and has so far progressed in tameness as to' allow favoured persons to come close enough to feed it by hand.