News in Brief

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 735, 12 April 1933, Page 8

News in Brief

An Unsolicited Advertisement. It is difficult to imagine a better advertisement for Dominion products than this unsolicited tribute appearing in an article in the London “ Times ” of February, 1933. Writing on “ The Science of Keeping Fit,” the medical correspondent of the journal adds: “ Our bodies should be helped by good, rich food. Now is the time to buy the excellent and delicious butter of New Zealand and Australia, which is bringing to this country the stored-up strength of the summer sun.” It indicates also the consistent policy of this great paper, which, to use its own phrase, “ thinks Imperially.” Farmers and Union. A note of criticism was struck at the South Auckland conference of the Farmers’ Union, when Mr J. E. Martin, of Rotorua, said: ‘‘l am tired of these conferences. We get the same old remits year after year. The union needs reorganising. When I return home, I intend to form an independent settlers’ association in my district. We got more good done before we joined the Farmers’ Union.” The chairman, Mr J. H. Furniss, replied that settlers’ associations were only good for building halls and laying out tennis courts. National action was needed. Mr D. W. Norman: “We must have co-operation.” The meeting then went on to discuss other subjects. Poaching Native Birds. Reports of poaching and vandalism in many parts of New Zealand are being received by the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society. The society this week issued the following statement: “ The administration of our conservation Acts falls far short of being efficient. We hear of such things as wholesale shooting of godwits, stilts (a protected species) and any sea bird available, from motor-cars on the Ninety-Mile Beach, despite the recent regulation prohibiting shooting from motorcars. On Stewart Island poaching and the disposal of the proceeds is reported, while in the more northern districts pigeons and kiwi are still being illegally killed in numbers.” Public Sun Dial at Napier. The erection of a sun dial at the southern extremity of the Marine Parade, Napier, is to be commenced almost immediately. This sun dial is to be the gift of Mr J. R. Kirk, an ex-Mayor of Gisborne, who is taking considerable interest in the progress of Napier’s reconstruction. A new design has been completed for the sun dial, and has been approved by those who have the matter in hand. Around the base will be a footpath 2ft in width. The base, over 10ft in diameter, will be circular, and from the centre there will be a rectangular column. The face of the sun dial itself will be of marble, raised two or three inches from the slab to allow space for inscriptions on the four sides. On the main column will be a plate acknowledging the source of the gift, and around the circular base there will be indicators pointing out the direction of the chief capital cities of the British Empire.