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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20276, 10 April 1934, Page 11

The hut which was built in the Ashburton riverbed for the use of itinerant men had been a great boon, stated Mr W. G. Gallagher, chairman of the Ashburton Hospital Board, in his review of the past year’s activities at the meeting of the board yesterday. The erection of the hut. he stated, fulfilled a long-standing desire on his part, and it was particularly gratifying that it should have been built during his period of chairmanship. Night after night the hut was occupied, sometimes over a dozen men finding shelter there. The present arrangement had proved to be both an economy to the board and a blessing to the men on the*road.

“It is merely due to the lethargy and the slow conductivity of the human mind that the question is still asked ‘is evolution accepted as a fact?’” said Dr O. 11. Frankel last evening, when he spoke on variation and inheritance at Canterburv College. It was established that evolution was a fact and scientists concentrated their efforts on the details of the theory.