News in Brief

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1931, Page 8

News in Brief

Afforestation and Unemployed. A scheme for placing unemployed men on afforestation of waste lands was brought before the Canterbury Progress League at its meeting last evening by Professor A. 11. Tocker. The scheme was adopted by the League, and will be placed before the Unemployment Board. Boys’ Gordon Hall. For the past year a committee has been working and has now completed arrangements for a re-union of old boys of the Boys’ Gordon Hall. The function will take the form of a social, and will be held in the Y.M.C.A. concert hall on August 15. The Boys’ Gordon Hall was founded in 1593, and linked up with the Y.M.C.A. in 1908. The work has grown tremendously. More Understanding. Dr P. Bruce Thornton, formerly of St Paul’s Church, Winnipeg, who is at present on a tour of the Dominion doing church work, said when he arrived in Christchurch yesterday that a better understanding between the different parts of the Empire was needed. “ I do not think we know each other well enough,” he said. “ I think one of the great needs in the world at the present time is a new spirit of sympathetic understanding between individual and individual, class and class, nation and nation.”

Wheat Growing Prospects. Following an address on the activities of the Wheat Pool, given at Hawarden by the chairman of the Wheat Growers’ Association (Mr W. W. Mulholland) last evening, a meeting of wheat farmers passed the following resolution: ‘‘That this meeting is of the opinion that the proposed cut in the price of wheat is ruinous in its severity and it respectfully urges the Government to fix the price at 4s 9d on trucks, March-Febru-ary deliver}', leaving the sliding scale as at present.” “ A Bit of a Nightmare.” After a motion of confidence in his candidature was carried at his election meeting at Kaiapoi last evening, the Rev J. K. Archer said that the Second ballot for the selection of the Labour candidate for Kaiapoi had been a bit of a nightmare to him. He had not sought nomination and was surprised when he was selected as he really thought Mr H. C. Revell would be certain to win. he was glad that there was now unanimity regarding the matter as he had a great horror of anything that might damage the Labour movement. With him the Labour movement came first every time, and the individual was only a secondary consideration: Perfumes and Essences. Dr John R. Ilosking, who has been in Samoa for some months, will return shortly to New Zealand after having spent an interesting and, it is believed, profitable time in those islands. At the instigation of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research he has been engaged in distilling plants and flowers found in Samoa with a view to extracting oils for perfumes and essences. He has been successful in obtaining some promising material, which has been sent to manufacturers of scents in Europe. Similar work on other Pacificislands has resulted in much profit to those concerned, and it is thought that quite possibly the luxuriant tropical vegetation of Samoa can be turned to good account. Hat Passed Round. Election campaigns cannot be conducted without money, and the sixty electors of Kaiapoi who attended last night to hear the opening speech of the Rev J. K. Archer, the Labour nominee for the seat, found themselves faced with an earnest appeal to contribute towards the candidate’s election expenses. The first intimation that the hat was to be passed round the hall was given by Mr C. Morgan Williams, who said that on account of the hard times the Labour Party’s campaign fund was now only about a third of what it was at this stage prior to the last election. After making his appeal he took his own hat round the audience and secured a moderately good result, though there were several pennies and threepenny pieces contributed. Tasman Yacht Race. The yacht Teddy is being overhauled on the slips at Devonport, Auckland, and will be ready for sea in a month or six weeks. Captain Tainbs intends to make one or two week-end trips, and then go to the Islands. He will remain there four weeks, after which he will make a leisurely return to Auckland, to be ready to take part in a second trans-Tasman race > in January. He said the first race had evidently done more than merely stimulate a passing interest, for he understood that at least one man was building a small schooner for the express purpose of trying to* win the T cup. After the sailing of the ocean race Captain Tambs’s plans are somewhat indefinite.