Town Talk

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 270, 15 November 1932, Page 6

Town Talk

“The fanner has to buy at the ;Kce he is asked and sell at whit he is given,” said Ur. IL G- Birch at the Waitotara County Council meeLug jesterday. Douglasism at Mangamahu. Settlers in the Mangamahu district were much interested in the explanation of the fundamental principles of tho Dougins Social Credit System when a meeting was held there on. Saturday evening. They were addressed bv Messrs A. Bullock, S. Nolan, and B. Bullock, each of whom claimed that there was an easy and practical way out of the present depression. It is expected that a study group will be established at A[nugamahu and in other localities. Whitebait Season Closes. To-day marks the close of the whitebait season .Although there were a few good intermittent runs in rivers along the West Coast, for the greater part of the season whitebait were not plentiful. 'rhe Waitotara and Patea Rivers l ave yielded good catches on accasions, but the Rangitikci River, usually a good river for whitebait, has not produced tho usual quantity. Fish which have been caught recently in the Rangitikei Rivet have been gorged with whitebait and smelt. Government in Business. At the Waitotara County Council meeting yesterday a circular from the Alatamata County wa s received suggesting, among other things, that as the control of ragwort had got beyond the power of individual owners of laud and of local bodies, the Government .should make it a national question, confiscate the sodium chlorate now in existence and take control of its sale at cost. Cr. L. T. Jones questioned the wisdom of such a proceeding. “It woul.l be better,” he said, “to ask Mie Government to sec that there is no exploitation It is all very well for us to sit here and ask the Governme.it to step in and confiscate sodium chlorite. The merchants have imported it. Why should the Government step in?” The matter is to bo considered by the Counties’ Association. Pixie Z»ulu Race

The Zulus were, in his opinion, the finest native race in the world, said Commissioner Cunningham, speaking at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Rotary Club He said he did not know of any natives who could compare with them. They were line, big, strong men, athletic, and would always play the game if they were treated fairly. When asked what was tho reason of their physical perfection, Commissioner Cunningham said that it was ‘ ‘ maize and milk.” The Zulus placed the milk straight into a calabash. They did not clean the old milk from the calabash in any way. The older milk then acted on the new, and there had grown a germ in the milk that was now being sold all over the world. South African Government

In numbers the Boer population exceeded that of the British in South Africa, said Commissioner Cunningham, commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, speaking at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Rotary Club. The British population was more centralised in the cities, while the Boer population was to be found more in the smaller towns and in the country. The Boers managed to out-vote the British, and thus they were the governing people. He thought that such a state of affairs would continue for a long time yet. With regard to any feeling between Boers and British, he thought that intermarriage was solving the whole problem. British men were taking Boer wives and Boor men were marrying British girls, so that in a generation or two they would have a nation that was neither pure Dutch nor pure English. A Garden of Remembrance.

Inspired by the Maxwell Women’s Institute the Waitotara County Council is carrying to fruition plans to have laid out, round the county War Memorial. a beautiful “Garden of Remembrance.” Already, the area, which lends itself to the scheme, has an attractive appearance. Cr. J. Cameron and Mr T. Dix (engineer), of the AVaitotara County, have co-operated with the Women’s Institute. Mr Cameron, who is a landscape gar loner. has planned the lay-out and the work has been handled under Air Dix’s supervision . “We must sec that the scheme is carried out properly,” Cr. Cameron said at yesterday’s council meeting. “We want something bold, something that will bo both striking and attractive.” The council placed on record its appreciation of what was being done, and tendered its thanks to the Women’s Institute, Cr Cameron and the engineer, leaving matters in their hands with power to act. “Army” in South Africa.

In South Africa the Salvation Army was held in high esteem, said Commissioner Cunningham, speaking at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Rotary Club. The Salvation Army had commenced its work there some 50 years ago. There was do poor law in South Africa as in New Zealand, and no system of hospital board aid, so a groat pan of the work was undertaken by the Salvation Army, and its social work activities were very extensive. Outside many of the larger cities they had farms on which were placed those who had been unfortunate and those who might be too strong in their liking for ! ; quor. Those who had just come out of prison were also placed. On one of the farms with which he had been connected for a long time, said Commissioner Cunningham, they had a fine herd of Friesian cattle, and had supplied the best of milk to city residents. Not all the men were failures, there were some very intellectual types among them, and he quoted cases where men had returned to a better life through the influence of the Salvation A rmy.