Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18512, 2 June 1932, Page 2

Local and General.

King's Birthday. To-morrow, being the King’s Birthday, the “Thames .Star” will not be published. Time Inopportune. ‘This is not the time to raise fees,” said Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., chairman of the Thames Licensing Committee, yesterday. When the question of fixing the fees'for accommodation licences for the ensuing year was raised.

The Longest Way Round. Quite a number of people when they read in the Herald about the ashes from Chilean volcanoes being carried to New Zealand doubtless looked at an atlas and estimated the distance that the ashes must have travelled. If they reckoned this distance to be (RiOO miles, the approximate shortest distance between NZ. and S. America, they were wrong, for the ashes, owing to the prevailing air currents, travelled the other way, a distance of quite 12,000 miles. No reports ( of the effects of the volcanic dust in the atmosphere. have been received as yet from Australia, which country would be affected by the cloud before New Zealand. But possibly Australia'is father far north of the line taken ”b'y the cloud. The effect of the dust in the high regions of the atmosphere wad again visible last night at and! after sunset.

Bowlers on Tqur.

Two rinks from the Thames Bowling Club left to-day to compete in the Onehunga Bowling Club’s winter tournament, which commences tomorrow. These are composed of Messrs J. Buchan, G. Twentyman, A. Delamore and F. Adamson (skip), and Messrs J. Boyle, W. D. Bennett, W. S. Clark and W. Gordon (skip). These are strong teams, and should do well.