NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20851, 6 October 1937, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Organised by the Ladies Guild, a spring fair will be opened at St. John’s Highfield to-night by the Mayoress at 7 o’clock. The fair will be continued at 2 pan. and 7.30 to-morrow, and at 7.30 a children’s fancy dress party is to be held.

H. Allchurch and Co. advertise particulars of a very valuable property situate 30 Wai-iti Road, which they are selling on Friday, October 15, at 2.30 p.m. at their rooms, under Instructions from the executrix of the estate of the late Thomas Black. This property is beautifully situated, being very handy to town and Bay. Fuller details will be seen in the auction columns.

“We are dependent on the newspapers, for In this world, no progress can be made without publicity, and the newspapers give us the publicity we want,” said Mr H. P. Bridge at a meeting in Christchurch on Monday of the committee of the Canterbury Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, when members were discussing the exposure, through the newspapers, of Information contained in reports presented to the meeting. The writer of a report presented recently was complaining that confidential facts intended only for the society had been in the newspapers, and trouble had been caused. It was decided that unless the reports were marked confidential, or were taken in committee, no blame could be laid on the newspapers.

Considerable progress should be made this year in Taranaki with the eradication of ragwort under the scheme of local body control and Government assistance put into operation last season. This year the scheme has been brought into operation early, enabling local bodies to undertake the work before the ragwort flowers. Already local bodies have taken the matter in hand. The Clifton County inspector notified the council that a start had been made on the scheme, 30 tons of sodium chlorate and lime having been mixed and some already applied. Arrangements were being made to assist farmers who were unable themselves to check the spread of raguort on their land.

A tribute to the service given by the newspapers of the Dominion was paid by the Hon. J. McLeod (Taranaki) in the Legislative Council. The Prime Minister had said that the Government was going to give an internal and external news service, so that the people would not have to wait for the news from the newspapers, but surely he was joking, said Mr McLeod. New Zealand was a country of newspapers. Nowhere else in the world was the public so well supplied with news. “It surely cannot be his idea to give one of . the biggest secondary industries in this country a knock,” said Mr McLeod. “I think the newspaper and printing trades is a secondary industry. At any rate, it is an Industry. Does the Prime Minister know that the newspapers and printing offices in New Zealand employ 6000 hands and pay over £1,000,000 a year in wages?” What was going to happen If broadcasting wiped out the newspaper business. Mr McLeod asked. His view was that no broadcasting in the world could compete with the newspapers. The people could not assimilate news from the radio in the same way that they could from the newspapers.