General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 8

General News

Sisters Athanasius and Mary Blanche, formerly of the Boston House, of Marist Missionary Sisters, arrived* in Wellington on Sunday by the blaunganui from San Francisco to join the New Zealand house of the order in Aurora Terrace, Wellington. Sister Mary Blanche a few years ago was working in the South of France, and Sister Athanasius was born in the Rhineland. No arrangements have been made yet. but they will probably be sent to work in the Makogai leper station. Tastes in Water.

Some interesting ptefcrences in the type of water used for drinking were mentioned by Mr. R. S. D. Harman in an address to the Royal Sanitary Institute at •Christchurch. He said *hat in a country district in England a well had been sunk near a house. The woman of the house had said that she found it very convenient for drawing water, but that her husband found the water from the river better for drinking. In some places it used to be customary to draw water from the village pond, and if the water became too green the recipe for clearing it was to throw in a dead dog. Whales in Antarctic. There are still plenty nf whales in the sea, in spite of . the wholesale slaughter of the leviathans. This is tho discovery made by the research ship William which has arrived al St. Katherine Dock, London, after seven months of watching and marking whales in the Antarctic. Sometime# the ship passed 200 whales H day. They j were each given a mark, so that months ! or years hence those killed by whalers ; might be recognised and their migra- ! lion movements traced. It was a I lonely task. Between leaving Cape- | I own and ret urning there the ship was I out of sight of land for 120 days and | travelled 17,500 miles. Refuelling was carried out with the help of wha.ing 1 factories afloat in the Antarctic soasx [ The Unkindest Cut. Apologising for the absence of Mr.' Walter N:tsh. M.P., from the post- I poned Arbor Day celebrations held at 1 the Hutt Y alley High School, the principal, Mr. J. N. Millard. said that Mr. Nash had informed him that he had desired to speak on “What, we owe to I trees.’’ “When.’’ said Mr. Millard.’ “I looked round the room, 1 was sur-| prised to find how much we really did | owe to the trees. Almost everything owed something to trees, even the cane I in the corner.’’ (Laughter.) Lat.ji. i Mi. J. W. Andrews (Mayor) referred' to this statement as “(he most unkind !| est cut of all.’’ A Winton Fanner’s Surprise. Having driven a light motordorrv to I \\ inton on a recent evening, a district i farmer was surprised to have his atten- ! tion drawn to three fowls roosting on j the back axle of the vehicle (report the Southland Times). The farmer had driven Ihe vehicle out of its garage al his home at Forest Hill, and the birds had apparently made a “camp” on the rear axle. On this perch they were driven to Winton, unnoticed and undisturbed. The birds were inspected with interest, when noticed of Winton, but were permitted to remain on their unusual perch, and made the home journey without anything untoward happening. '