General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 154, 2 July 1934, Page 6

General News

Women Reprimanded. A stentorian voice ... ■ moment proceedings at the civic recep tion accorded at Auckland to the not.,'-, visiting preacher, Dr. I’. W. Norwood,last Monday. The council chamber in which it was held was more than liilc . and the surrounding passageways were packed with a crowd from which cami ■ n continuous buzz of women’s voir. s. 4 ’Will you women stop talking?” came suddenly in a tremendous voice from a . member of the audience near the doorway, and from then on there was’ silence. Name of Racehorse. The latest tribute to the Auckland ; airwoman. Miss Jv;.u Batten, takes the : form of au application to the New Zea ’ Land ICaciug Conference by Mr. J. O ’Donnell, of Buuuythorpe, for the name Jean Batten lor bis rising two-year-old Lilly by Colossus Gum Great Effort. Mr. O Donnell owns the racehorse Land Tax, who also is aptly named, being by Acre from Great Ei fort. I'he Just flight by an airwoman from England to lustralia was commemorated in the naming of numeiouhorses such as Amy Johnson, J .ymg Amy, Amy’s Flight, Amy’s Jason, and [ Johnnie Jason, the last named winning the Sydney Cup in 193*-’. No Over-production of Butter. ••There is no over-production of! butter in the world. but too much <■! it is going to Engiaini,” staled .Mr. William Goodiei.ow. addressing a ; large public meeting at Hamilton. Mr. i Goodfellow added mat in the past considerable quantities of New Zealand and Australian butter had been bough; on the London market for Continental ; consumption. Extreme financial stiiti-, gency hud restricted that consumption. , but he considered that before long I Continental purchases would be increasing and relieving the glut on the Eiig , fish market. The Cutty Sark. Every now and then rumours abound i in Cornish and Devon ports that the famous oid clipper Cutty Sark is again to be put into commission. Such a re port spread a few weeks ago, but the owner, Captain Lowman, said it was jus* another sailor's yarn that made its appearance •■very year when the oh! ship was under her annual overhaul. It was 65 years ago that the Cutty Sark was launched on the Clyde, and her '.♦resent owner, who saved her 'rom foreign hands, keeps her, in outward Appearance, a- she was when she made Melbourne in 7') days, covered 363 utiles in one astonishing day’s run, ami look part in the historic races with her great rival, Thermopylae. On one occasion she actually overtook and passed the P and O. mail steamer Britannia when both were heading for Sydney. Captain iDowman bought her back from the Portuguese, and the Gutty Sark now remains in security in Falmouth Harbour, serving as a training ship for boys entering the navy and the mercantile service. _