General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 163, 13 July 1933, Page 4

General News

Honey and Ice Cream. At a meeting of the South Canted bury Beekeepers’ Association, which was held last wook, an address was given by a Timaru business man on th® manufacture of ice cream, in which honey was used in place of sugar for sweetening ami flavouring (says the Timaru Herald). Members visited the factory and saw experiments carried out. ami they were greatly impressed with the results. This was the first known occasion on which honey (in. this instance white clover honey) has been used in ice cream, and it is considered that the new method would prove popular on account of the food value of honey. The New Southern Cross. The motor ship now being built in England for the Melanesian Mission is Lo sail for New Zealand on September 16, : Zording to advice received by th® Amreiml office of the mission on Monday. 'rhe vessel will be dedicated by the Bishop of Liverpool, probably two days before sailing. The new ship is being built to take the place of the Southern Cross which was wrecked on Aneityum island on her maiden voyage to the mission fields a few months ago. Details of the vessel now under construction have nut been received in Auckland. althougn""it is known that she is to be larger than her unlucky predecessor. Rats by the Thousand. A total of 4585 ruts has been caught in the Ashburton County since the Ashburton Borough and County Councils increased the price paid for tails from 3d to 6d. Since February 8 this year, the borough council has paid out £4O ss, representing 1610 tails, while th® county council has expended £74 7s 6d buying 2975 tails. For the four months before Alarch, only 140 tails wero collected by the county council. Fellowship in th© Air. “There was no bitter hatred to b® scon in air fighting during tho war.” said Squadron Leader J. L. Findlay talking to boys of Christ’s College, Christchurch on Saturday evening. “There was a remarkable spirit of camaraderie among the airmen of both forces. Often if a British pilot wore brought down in the German lino the Gorman pilot would drop a note on our aerodrome saying so. He might also drop some of tho defeated pilots personal belongings. British pilots would do the same, too, for Germans. This shows how fatuous it all was for so many mon to be fighting just because of arguments among politicians?” Use of School Slates. A couple of breakages in a year would make slates more expensive than paper, said the headmaster of the Eltham School. Mr. R. E. Thomas, when a committee member reported that parents had asked whether slates could be used more in school work. Air Thomas said only four threepenny exercise books were needed in a year. Fads enabled the children to observe the progress of their work and gave a higher standard of work. Air Thomas said he did not object to a certain amount of slate work in the primers, but not from standard two upward. A woman mem-, bcr of tho committee said she considered it an advantage that children could take their work to the parents. Vision of the Pioneers. ‘‘l have sometimes wondered whether wo to-day have the courage and vision of the early pioneers,” stated the Mayor of Timaru, Mr. T. W. Bat> terthwaite, in a recent speech. “1 don’t think we have,” he added. Mr. Satterthwaite illustrated his remark by commenting on the fact that when Timaru was created a borough, tho early councillors had had the courage to go to London and raise a loan of £60,000 for a water supply for tho town, making themselves personally responsible for' its repayment. “That shows you what belief they had in the future of the district, }> ho said. ‘‘To-day wo ar® benefiting by their pluck and enterprise and have in Tiniaru one of tho finosf waterworks in tho Dominion, for the sizo of the town.’’ Effect of Epidemic. An interesting effect of the influenza, epidemic of 1918 was mentioned by Dr. A. B. Pearson, pathologist at th® Christchurch Public Hospital, during an interview on Saturday. When he first came to New Zealand, he said, h® was impressed by the fact that, in exringing specimens, th c presence of the influenza bacillus was u rarity. Probably not more than 4 per cent, of the specimens showed thc bacillus, but in England every other specimen revealed, it. Thon tho epidemic came, and since then the proportions had been much th® same as in England, approximately 50 per cent, ot thc specimens showing the bacillus. This proportion was still being maintained. English Public Schools. “After my recent trip to England I came back absolutely convinced that tho finest things of education arc th® creative traditions of thc English public school we seek to reproduce at King’s,” said Rev. 11. K. Archdall, headmaster of King’s College, Auck« land, at the reunion dinner of King’l College Ohl Bovs at Hamilton recently (states the Waikato Times). “Some people say there is no place in New Zealand for such things so wonderfully English,” said Mr Archdall. “The more w t » can transplant those old world traditions here thc more we can keep; this country thoroughly British and not; American. It is wrong for modern education to contain individualism on the one hand and mere intellectualism un the other We cannot split>a man’s life into sections and train for mere intellectualism. 1 hope we will turn out gentlemen and not snobs, men tilled with a sense of duty to Church and State. Ours is an inclusive ideal. It is the heart of the thing. Our ideal ui so big, so strong ami s sensible that it will outlive all other claims. It is for us to see wo are not completely unworthy of our forefathers.”