In the Dominion

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 286, 2 December 1929, Page 6

In the Dominion

Confusion Over Name. As there is an Edendale in the south as well as the Auckland suburb, there is frequently confusion over letters which go wandering about from one island to the other looking for an owner. A number of old residents of the Auckland Edendale met recently, and decided that steps should be taken to have the name of the suburb changed to Sandringham. It was pointed out that the existence of two postal districts with the name of Edendale led to much confusion and loss of time and monev.

A Matter For Experts. “I often think that these questions of identity might be decided by an expert,” commented His Honour, Mr Justice Blair, at the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, when summing up in a case of alleged sheep-stealing. “Some farmers may be able to tell one sheep from another,” he added. “I have difficulty in picking one cow from another, or one Chinaman from another. It is a peculiar thing that some people can establish identity by a certain characteristic which they are not always able to describe.”

Money From The Skies. A liftman in Auckland received a great surprise recently. He left his cage for a moment and strolled out to the footpath for a breath of fresh air, and was amazed when his meditations were broken into by a little shower of strips of coloured paper fluttering to the ground about him. Despite his surprise, he had the presence of mind to collect the slips, and the explanation was given by an agitated typist from the fourth floor of the building. It. appears the girl had been making up her banking slip at a desk by the window when, her attention being momentarily distracted, a sudden gust of wind swept away the neat pile of cheques and bank notes and scattered them to the winds. The liftman, however, had made a good save, and it was a greatly relieved clerk who made her way back to her desk with her charge intact.

The Higher tho Better. “If I were crossing Cook Strait,” said Wing-Commander Grant-Dalton, in his address at the Wellington Chamber of Commerce luncheon, “I would for safety’s sake cross it at a height of 6000 to 8000 feet. One would be across in a quarter of an hour, and even, if the engine cut-off halfway across at 6000 to 8000 feet, one could easily get down to land, and at 10,000 feet It would be surer still.” And it was nicer to be aloft, well aloft, because it was “bumpier” down below. But by climbing one could get out of the “bumps,” which gave one very much the same sensation as the sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach that one experienced when a lift suddenly seeiped to drop away under one’s feet. The Imperial Airways planes used to fly at 500 feet across the English Channel. but the people hated it, because the “bumps” made them seasick. His motto, therefore, was: “Keep well up; the higher the better. ’ ’