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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 208, 3 September 1934, Page 6

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Mr T. W. Mitchall, of Victoria, the Australian and New Zealand ski champion, was a guest at Foster’s Hotel (luring the week-end. He leaves New Zealand for Sydney to-morrow. Mr J. B. Hogg, chief agricultural instructor of the Wanganui Education Board, is at present in Gisborne. News was received in Wanganui last night that his mother had passed away. Mr. R. M. Barres. M.Sc., of Masterton, who last year was awarded the 1851 science scholarship, has been elected a Denman Baynes research student of Clare College, Cambridge, where he is engaged in research and experimental work. Mr. Barrer is a graduate of Canterbury College, and a special distinction has been conferred upon him by this award, as he is not yet a graduate. Some of his experimental work is in connection with heavy hydrogen. Mr David M. Tombs, M.Sc., son of Mr. and Airs. Harry Tombs, Wellington, has boon awarded a Robert Blair Fellowship in Applied Science and Technology, tenable for a year, to enable him to carry out his studies in research with Professor IDr. Zennech, at Munich, into short-wave propagation and reception, with special reference to tho problems associated with the short and ul'trh short-waves that are likely to be used for television. Mr. Tombs gained his M.Sc. at London University, and for two years has been engaged iu the research branch of Messrs. Siemens, Ltd., Woolwich. Dr. Alexander Hodge, 8.A., B.D. with his wife and four children, left London by the Rotorua on August 2 to take ,up the position of pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, Auckland. Dr. Hodge who is about 37 years of age, studied alt Spurgeon College, London, and at King’s College, London University, where ho received the degrees of 8.A., 8.D., anil Ph.D. His first charge was the Baptist Church at Faversham, Kent, and then the Bethesda Church in Sunderland, where he remained for seven years. At this church ho followed Dr. Scroggie. He left Sunderland for Fillebrook Church, Leytonstone, where he succeeded the Rev. John Maeßeatli in 1931, HOTEL LISTS. V'eek-end guests staying at Spriggens’ Hotel include the following: Miss M. Way, Mr C. H. Ashbridge, Mr J. Booker (New Plymouth); Mr F. Williams, Mr AL O'Brien, Air J. Wooton, Air K. Duncan (Wellington); Air K. Tovey (Blenheim). Guests registered at Foster’s Hotel over the week-end include: Dr. and Mrs G. N. Guthrie, Air lan Guthrie, Aliss Iley (Christchurch); Mr C. V. Wilkinson (Eltham); Mr F. W. Mitchell (Australia); Mr Llewelyn Hunt, Mrs Kelsey, Aliss Kelsey, Airs Evans, Mr L. J. Clark, Air Thos. B. Clark, Mr C. R. Kerr (Wellington); Mr and Airs F. R. Parkes (Birmingham, England). New arrivals at the New Rutland Hotel are: Mr and Airs A. McDonald, .Master AV. V. Shannon (Palmerston North), Mr G. F. Yerex, Air V. MvWhinney, Mr John O’Shea, Air L. 8. Drake, Air H. S. McAlurtrie (Wellington); Mr and Mrs R. Burton (Christchurch; Alias J. Rudaii, Aliss D.'Holmden, Mr K. Rudall (Auckland); Air R. McGregor; Air J. T. Riki, Mr C. F. Hartland (Waipuk ran). Quimxat and Trout. The contention had been held, said Professor Percival, addressing anglers at 'Wellington, that quinnat salmon were inimical to the. welfare of trout, both on the spawning beds and in the competition for food, but it was found that the spawning of the salmon was finished before that of the brown trout began, the spawning of the brown troult was finished before that of the rainbow trout began, that there was no sign of interference by one of these fishes with the others during spawning or in the immediately prior period, and that the young quinnat left the streams in a body while very young, so that they i were quite removed from influencing the trout. River Road’s Importance. Evidence given before the No. 5 Licensing Authority at the Magistrate’s Court al Wanganui indicated that the Wanganui River Road, which was open to traffic, between Wanganui and Pipiriki for the first time last summer, would result in increased production by farmers all along the route. It was stated that, due to the road being opened up, 500 acres of gorsecovered land at Ranana had been cleared already and was now producing. It was anticipated that the herds of stock would be increased, which would mean that more carrying would have to be carried out. Strawberry ' growing was another branch of production being taken up extensively. The coming summer was expected to give a ’ good indication of the service the new . road would be to the settlers. . The Slump of 1888. Forty-five years ago the iDominion I had not a third of the population i/t has . to-day, but times were bad, and there • was an unemployment problem. A . Government return at the time showed that the number of men out of employment in New Zealand was 237, as against 779 in August, 1888, a year before, This satisfactory resuDt was attributed to the development of the flax industry, the refusal of the Govern- , ment to put single men on relief work iu the, towns, and the extension of industries of various kinds. It was at ■ this time that the colony suffered a loss of 10,000 of its population who left chiefly for Australia. It was a sad commentary for the colonists-to realise that the surplus of emigration over immigration for two years was 9580. It L was said at the time that when things improved every person who had gone ’ away would bring back two with him. and that the country would go forward ' by leaps and bounds. That was true to , a very large extent, because hundreds of those who left New Zealand, in a ’ year or two found their way back here. • and by going into the backblucks and 1 taking up land, which the Government offered at 30s per acre, became prosper- ■ ous. The settlement of bush areas iu 1 central Taranaki in from Stratford, on ‘ what was called the East Road, is one ‘ of the romances of our colony’s deveLopL ment, because from that time on till ‘ recent years prosperity was assured to ‘ those who were young enough to take : the plunge and do some of the finest • colonising ever done in this country.