General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 143, 18 June 1936, Page 6

General News

Anzac Stamps for King. When the Anzae commcmvratin stamps were first issued the New Zea , land Returned Soldiers’ Associatioi sent first-day covers to His Majesty j King Edward VIII through the Britisl |s Empire Service League. When tht (| annual conference of the associatioi d opened yesterday a cablegram wa: received from the league stating tha ' the covers had been handed to Hi: a Majesty’s secretary. The league a Ist asked the association to forward £J n worth of stamps to it. 11 n Infectious Laughter. t “Is that a sale inference? Laughter ; is very infectious,’’ said Mr Justice e (Julian in the Supreme Cour’ when i the course of the re-trial of Mareo. the s Crown Prosecutor, Mr Meredith, suggested that because a patient laughed tit stories told her she must have under- . stood them. “Have you never had a ease,” continued His Honour, “or „ person who joined in the laugh but does not know what the joke is about?” “That is very common in Court, sir ” vr-mmented Mr O’Learv. “Yes,” said His Honour. “It depends on who’ 1. the joker.” Earthquake Resisting Buildings. As a result of correspondence with Mr Clarke Freeman, of Provident Rhode island, America, a copy of a translation of I’rofesor Tavhu Naito’s ( “Earthquake Resisting Construction” t has been donated to the college library, stated a letter from the acting-Professor s of Architecture, Mr S. Irwin Crook. . jun., received at a meeting cf the conn . oil ol the Auckland Univeisitv Co'lcge. j Mr 8. Irwin Crookes said that the , volume was a most valuable publication > on the subject with which it dealt He B added the author had been engaged . in the rebuilding of Tokvo after the ; earthquake there. The council is tn j send a letter of thanks to Mr Freeman. e Olympic Catering. •So elaborate in the matter of food r are the need uf athletes » ho will be taking part in the Olympic Games at i Berlin this year that special courses of r instruction have begun for (he chefs i who wil serve in the Olympic vi.la-c 1 Huge kitchens in the Berlin Zoological ■ Gardens have been taken over lor the puipose. .Special study is to be devoted ' to the preparation of uon-alciiholie drinks. A special course ol physical ■ tiaining has ueen arranged tor the ' to the games. The National Asociation tor Promoting Physical Exere, sts in Germany has organised these courses to take place immediately after the games, and interpreters will t.e • available fur foreign visito s. The Bledisloe Medal For Art. 1 . Flic honour of winning the Bledisloe , landscape medal has this year fallen Io Miss I. G. Eise, or Auckland lor 1 a panning, “ Maugaotnki It’ve-.” ' Ti, e > work is at present hanging i„ the annual exhibition of the Auckland Society ' ol Arts The funner Govcri.or-Geriiera'l & avc the medal with the object of en- ’ couraging the painting of New Zealand landscape, this being defined a . natural landscape of an uncultivated nature.” The competition has been held annually for the pa-t. five tea/' -Miss l-.ise studied at the Flam Sehoul Art during t] lc war UM( | er m p p,]. ward Tristrom. «he has simi-ialised in landscape work, and in 1934 and Hid.) she exhibited work in the annual British Empire Exhibition at Loudon. She will do so again this year. Proposed Air-mail Drive In an endeavour to popularise the air mail service and establish a feeder survive between Invercargill a nd Dunedin, it is proposed to begin an air mail drive soon among the business houses of Invercargill „nd Southland, air I . Linton Hodge outlined th • idea to members of the Invcreirgill Chamber of Commerce and sought the chain het 's support. He referred to the enIhusiasm of a member of the Southland Aero Club who considered that if more mail was available for the service Iher,. would be little difli u'ty i„ etablishing feeder services to end from Dunedin. ‘‘At the preset time *i'ive the sorry spectacle of fiom 30 to 10 letter a day carried in fh P air mail as against about 14,000 in 1h c train fiail.” said Mr Hodge, “It is ludicrous and something should be done to improve the position.’’ Zuyder Zee Reclamation. “Jn their quiet way, the Dutch arc very proud cl the reclamation of the Zyder Zee,’’ reinarkvd Miss 1.. \l. Cranwell at a meeting of the Auckland Institute when she was giving some impressions of the recent Amsterdam Congress. Miss Cranwell said that a -’6-niile dyke had been built across the entrance to the Zuvder Zee ami j ? had been renamed the Ysehnver, after the river Ysel, which flowed into it. Ihe river water was making the Yselmeer less salinv, so that, in a lew years, that part- that was not it claimed would fo-rni a fresh-water lake. On parts that were under the sea only two years ago, crops were already being raised, which was a great triumph for the combined efforts of the engi neers, soil experts, and botanists. Many .fcwi.Ji refugees from Germany had been temporarily established l»v the Dutch Government on these reclamations to learn the rudiments of agri culture before settling m Mesopotamia. “Thanks for the Buggy Ride.’* A north bound motorist, who had read how Horatius had kept the bridge, found recently a cow keeping the Bulls Bridge quite as effectively as Horatius had done. The cow had apparently sat down rather hard on the frost-covered surface of the bridge, right in the middle of the line of traffic. Like a follower of Gandhi, it adopted a policy of passive resistance, and deaf to all exhortations, declined Io move. Ihe line of waiting traffic gradually lengthened, but despite all manner of kindness (and abuse) it decided tn emulate the great Sitting Bull, who planted himself before an advancing American railway line and could not be persuaded to get out of the way of traffic. Arms were waved and strong things said, but the animal would not be cowed. After much cogitation, an ingenious mind suggested that the cow should be carried. Two planks were obtained from a waiting lorry and manoeuvred under the animal. The willing helpers bent their backs to the strain, but the ccw could neither be lifted nor shifted. When all hope seemed gone, a truck of relief workers arrived, and with assistance on all sides the cow was reverently carried to thp other side of the bridge. As the bearers gently lowered the animal to the 'round she shook herself free and, "with a twinkle in her eye,’’ she almost seemed to say “Thanks for the buggy ride’* as she contentedly walked away.