General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 26 August 1936, Page 6

General News

Fishing Licence Returns. The returns for fishing licences issued in the Rotorua and Taupo fishing districts during the past season show that 4084 were issued for Rotorua and 5263 for Taupe-. Flight Over Mountain. Piloted by Mr. H. W. Lightband, Mr. Justice Ostler made an aeroplane flight over Mt. Egmont on Monday morning. Visibility was good and a splendid view of the summit and surrounding country was obtained. Value of Topdressing. “It would pay Australia to send some hundreds of her d,airy farmers for a visit to New Zealand to s'e the benefit derived fiom topdressing and proper management of pasture," said Mr. Percy Jonas. Mayor of Bombaia, New South Wales, who is visiting New Plymouth. Even in the best dairying areas in that State there was'little attempt at pasture ronir J and management, he said The Test. "They can push scrums over on Saturday,” commented Mr. M. J. Reardon, Conciliation Commissioner at New Plymouth in dealing with a suggested clause that no Taranaki butcher’s boy under IS years should be required to lift or carry any weight over 75’b. The employee-' representatives maintained that the hoys were now carrying too heavy loads at New Plymouth and an agreement was finally reached on tha clause. London’s Early Water Pipes. Days when engineering was al a very primitive stage are recalled by the exhibit in the Dominion Museum, Wellington, of four wooden water pipes which were once part of London’s water supply mains. The pipes are elm logs bored out, and the simple joints arc reinformed with iron bands. An adequate water supply for London was discussed as early as the reign of Edward 1., but nothing extensive was undertaken until 1609, when the Common Council granted High Middleton the power to construct the system of which the nines in the museum formed a part.

Trout Ova. Phenomenal yields of ova from female rainbow trout Jish have been obtained by Mr. F. W. Pellet, rangvt to tiie South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, in recent trips to Lake Alexandria to obtain eggs for hatching at Temuka. Mr. Pellet! said in an interview lhal the yields ol ova from the rainbow trout he l-.ao stripped in that area had been exceptional for lake fish. He instance I lite stripping of 40 fish in Scotts creek, a stream on lhe edge of Lane Alexandria, the resulting number et ova collected being 160.000, or an average of 4000 for each fish. Tl-is. he concluded, was phenomenal for female fish in lake walers.. Husband and Wife. It. is very rarely that an order of the Court, for the restitution of conjugal rights between husband and wife is obeyed, but such a ease was mentioned in the Supreme Court at Auckland last week, and was commented on by Mr. Justice Callan. Counsel asked leave to withdraw divorce proceedings because the respondent. had returned to the petitioner in compliance with an order ol the Court. His Honour said it appeared that the Court had had some part in bringing about this happy result. "I would like to think." he said, “that there are some occasions on which the Court procedure brings about the result aimed at.” Thyroid Gland Marvels. The marvels of the thyroid gland were described by Dr. John Guthrie in an address to the Christchurch branch ot the Royal Sanitary Institute last week. In early life, he said, the thyroid controlled growth, and in later life played an important part in many bodily functions. Children deprived of iodine on which tne thyroid's operation depended developed into cretins, or dwarfs, and remained dwarfs mentally and physically to their deaths, said Dr. Guthrie. In later life, .disturbance of the thyroid caused enormous obesity, the sufferer greatly increasing in weight, and becoming dull mentally and physically. But correcting the iodine deficiency, the sufferers became normal again. Mental of physical shocks were put right by the thyroid gland, rind it was the thyroid that caused the fever which helped patients to overcome such an illness as pneumonia. Without the proper operation of the thyroid, the sufferer would be completely without emotion.