General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 186, 7 August 1936, Page 6

General News

Gift to Museum The gift of four panoramic photo graphs of Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, the work of Mr N. Vaniman in 1903, is to be offered to the Dominion Museum, according to a decision made by the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. I Pointed Answer “Do you agree that sticking pins in a man’s arm is a pretty effective way of telling whether he has sensation in it or not?” asked counsel of a medical witness in the Auckland Supreme “ Court. “Up to a point,” was the cau- ; tious reply. “1 thought you were going to say up to the head,” re--1 marked counsel when the Court had become solemn again. Bear for Auckland Zoo i Brought over from Sydney in a heavily-barred cage on the boat deck, ' a polar bear for the Auckland Zool logical Park arrived at Auckland by r the Marama, apparently none the ' worse for the voyage, which discomI ffted many of the passengers. The i bear has been obtained from the Ta1 ronga Zoo, Sydney, and is one of sev- - eral importations planned to provide 2 more attractive displays at the park. Not Strongly Capitalistic ’ “A general impression seems to exist that institutions such as this are strongly capitalistic—in reality they r are to a large extent repositories of savings,” said Sir James Gunson, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Insurance Company, Limited, at the annual meeting. “An analysis of the shareholding of the company discloses that one-third of the 2565 shareholders hold 100 or less shares each, and more than 75 per cent, hold individually less than 500 shares,” said Sir James. Bridging the Tasman. “It is not enough to bridge the Tasman with ships and air-liners. It must be bridged with understanding as well, and with a realisation of the close common interest of Australia and New Zealand,” said Dr. Frank Louat, of Sydney, when referring in an interview to the urgent need for closer co-operation between the two countries. Dr. Louat advocated a frequent interchange of visits by public men of both countries, including those in charge of these policy matters. Evidence of a Chinese “Whatever may have been said about the tortuousness of the Oriental mind, I have seen persons of un- ’ disputed European ancestry who have ‘ comported themselves with equal .ingenuity in the witness-box,” said Mr ’ Justice Callan in the Auckland Supreme Court following remarks by z counsel concerning the evidence of a ? Chinese. Whether or not the Chinese - mind was to be regarded as particu- - larly shrewd, His Honour said he did . not know, but the matter was one > for the jury to consider Modern Youth ’ “In all essentials the youth of today is very much the same as the youth of any other age,” said the Rev. W. Bower Black in an address at St. ‘ David’s Presbyterian Church, Auck- ? land, during a special thanksgiving service in conjunction with the jubilee of the Auckland Young Women’s Christian Association. “Our youth is 1 not a new species on the face of the earth, before whom elders stand aghast,” added Mr Black. “A new r language there may be, new habits 3 and independencies, too, but, these are largely externals. Youth, there- ■ fore, has reason to be tired and irri--1 fated by what is often said against r I Useless Resolutions. “In ninety-nine cases out of a hun- - dred, such resolutions by creditors are i useless,” remarked the Official AsI signee, Mr. S. Tansley, at the hearing [ of some bankruptcy proceedings in i Wellington yesterday, when one credi- ) tor suggested that bankrupt’s diss charge should be opposed until he paid - twenty shillings in the pound. The 1 Court, he said, did not pay much attention to such resolutions, and when a bankrupt applied for his discharge i what was taken into consideration was his ability to pay and not what his creditors thought he ought to pay. “I don’t know how many such ■ resolutions I have on my files which have been of no effect,” Mr. Tansley added. Cawthron Institute. The establishment of a Cawthron I Institute Association is at present being organised. Mr. T. Rigg, director I of the institute, has forwarded to various bodies a circular which states that , with a view to establishing a more direct constact between the institute on the one hand and primary producers and the general public on the " other, it has been decided, if sufficient 1 support is forthcoming, to form sucn f an association. It was thought that many who had received advice or benefit from the institute in the past would be desirous of keeping in touch with the work of the institute and of ? helping forward its research actixities. Membership of the proposed asr sociation would be of two grades—or--1 dinary membership, subscription £1 s per annum, and full membership, £2 c per annum. The matter has already ' come before the Riwaka branch of the c Farmers’ Union, which decided to ‘ | join, the chairman paying tribute to ’ the work of the institute in the inn terests of farmers. Ia Making the Immigrant Useful “We cannot get immigrants of the - British agricultural class. We have tried and failed,” declared Mr Hastings Doering, of Sydney, in the course n of an interview on his arrival in Auckland. “The farm labourer is bete ter paid and better housed in Eng- ]_ land than he is in Australia or New ;s Zealand; he can live cheaper there r than here, and does not have to work so hard; and, moreover, he is pasj< sionately attached to his own soil and cannot be coaxed away from it. His lf l class would be a real asset, for he knows his job thoroughly, but we cannot get him. The class of immigrant that is coming to this side of the world is the man who has stood at a lathe or a loom all his working life, and comes seeking a similar job here, with better pay and better living conditions for himself and his S' family than are obtainable in the Old Country. He does not want to go on the land; he would be a failure t* he n ’ did. because he knows nothing ’t all 4- of farming. If we want him to come e " here, and do not want to have to keep v - him in idleness, we must have secondid ary industries to put him into, while n-1 our own population looks after the prim 3*- industries.”