IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17745, 15 January 1926, Page 6

IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

NOTES AND ANECDOTES. serving twenty-five years in the Railway Department and rising from the

position of cadet to that of Assistant General Manager and member of the Board of Control Herbert Henry Sterling resigned on Tuesday to become general manager of the New Zealand Cooperative Dairying Company, at Hamilton. Mr Sterling, who was born in Christchurch in 1886, was educated at the Normal and Richmond primary schools and the Christchurch Boys’ High School, Otago University and Victoria College. While in the District Traffic Manager’s Office in Dunedin he attended Otago University and graduated LL.B. in 1919. He was transferred to the head office, Wellington, in the same year and was made Assistant General Manager on January 1, 1924. (JOI'NSEE for the Anti-Saloon League of America, Wayne B. Wheeler, declares that prohibition is a success. “National constitutional prohibition has proved itself to be an admirable investment,’ * he wrote recently. “ During its five years of existence it has paid excellent dividends. Reliable data supports the argument that no . other social policy has ever brought so many positive benefits in its train; indeed, it will bring even greater benefits as the effectiveness of enforcement increases.” I N Paris to-day one of the cleverest young men is Jean Cocteau, who recently published a book “The Grand Ecart.” In the cafes and studios of Paris he is a übiquitous figure; his name is on all lips as a synonym for the latest and most daring innova- . tions in the seven | arts. Into his brief span of years he has crowded a remarkable variety of activities; he has managed a theatre and a cabaret. pla} r ed in his own jazz bands, lectured on aesthetics at the Sorbonne, written two novels and a play, published poems, criticisms and a book of drawings, and composed several ballets, including “Le Train Bleu,” which was recently performed ip London. nf engaged on breaking world’s records on the Montlhery track near Paris during November, E. A. D. Eldridge, driving his Eldridge Special, crossed while travelling at 123 miles an hour. The tyre came ofE and wound itself around the steering gear- The car skidded off the track and then climbed back, hut did not capsize. The driver escaped without injury and the car was not damaged. Mr Eldridge is the first driver- officially to reach a speed of over 120 miles an hour, in a car of 1500 c.c., the usual size of the engine of a small runabout. His car is remarkable in design, being built to cut out wind resistance. He has broken a dozen world’s records and is soon to attempt some more. * » JT was back in 1911 that Bobby Leach, in a barrel, rolled and tumbled in the torrent for a little and then plunged over mighty Niagara Falls in ' a welter of foam. Spectators gazed fearfully, certain that he would never survive. Then the barrel bobbed up beneath the falls. Leach had succeeded where others had failed and given their lives. Now, no longer a young man, Leach declares that he is going to attempt another crossing of the Falls in the coming summer. This time he will make the journey in a specially-constructed rubber ball.