ANZAC DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12687, 8 July 1919, Page 4

ANZAC DAY.

RESOLUTION FROM R.S.A. The secretary of the Returned Soldiers’ Association has forwarded a resolution to the City Council, carried ah a recent meeting 'of the executive, taking strong exception to the suggestion of the City Council that Anzac Day should be commemorated on a Sunday in lieu of April 25. It was further urged that Anzac Day should be observed as a holiday. When this letter came up last evening) Councillor Agar said that the council would be very wanting in tact if it did not accede to the association’s wishes. He would move that the day should be observed as desired by the association.

Councillor Flesher said the .wish was to have _ the day a h’oly day and not as a holiday. Councillor Hunter thought that they should express a wish that the , day should be observed on the date desired.

Councillor Harper sunported this, and the motion, was carried. ■

A diamond is the* hardest mineral, but do you know the softest? Here are soma minerals in the order of their softness, the softest first: 1, tac; 2, gypsum; 3, calcite; .4, fluor spar; 6, npatijo; 6, feldspar; 7, quartz,; 8, topaz; 9, corundum; 10, diamond. Nos. 1 and 2 can be scratched by the finger nail; Nos. 3 to 6 with a knifo; No. 6 will scratch ordinary window glass; No. 10 can be ground or polished only by a product of itself —diamond powder.

THE CONQUERORS OF THE ATLANTIC.

Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown (left) and Captain J. Alcock (right). :tl>ei conquerors, of the Atlantic, who flew from St John’s, Newfoundland, to irpland, m a non-stop flight over the Atlantic, Their machine is a Vickers , m Jv’-lvous nas a range of 2440 miles, and a cruising speed of 80miles per hour.