NEW SOUTH WALES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 137, 11 June 1937, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES

ITEMS OF INTEREST BY MAIL. Lord Wakchurst. An enthusiastic welcome was given to the new Governor of New South Wales (Lord Wakehurst) and to his wife and children when they landed in Sydney. Everyone was impressed by Lord Wakehurst’s tall, weli-set-up hgure and there was more than formal warmth in Press welcomes to him as fellow-soldier with the Anzacs, as author and traveller and as a man experienced in political life in Britain. Tributes were paid to him as one of the most versatile State Governors wno lias ever come to Australia.

Iron and Steel. Construction will shortly begin of a new blast furnace, with a rated capacity of 1000 tons of pig iron a day, at the Port Kembla works of the Australian Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. The new furnace wiil have a capacity 52 per cent, greater than the furnace now in use and there will be storage provided for 120,000 tons of iron ore, limestone, phosphatic rock and coke. Australia Not “Down Under.” The New South Wales Government Astronomer, who is supported by the President oi the British Astronomical Association in Sydney, suggests that globes of the world should be used in Australian, New Zealand and South African schools which show the southern hemisphere uppermost. The Government Astronomer said that the present conventional globe showing the northern hemisphere uppermost was calculated to make school children think that they were living | “down under” on the bottom of the earth and this might have a bad effect on the nation in producing a sort of ! inferiority complex. There was no I reason why a reversed globe with the printing in the right way should not oe manufactured. New South Wales Hospitals. The Minister for Health has pointed I out that the hospitals of the State, I including mental homes, cost £3,000,- ! 000 a year in maintenance, of which | the public contributes £1,000,000 directly and £750,000 indirectly through the weekly State lottery. The Premier (Mr. Stevens) has refused a request by the Hospitals Association to run yearly one mammoth lottery of £1,000,000 in £1 tickets which it was argued would attract much money from overseas. .Making Films In Australia. The Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Stevens) says that the suggestion that American cinema film distributors were considering withdrawing from New South Wales because I compliance with the Film Quota Act jof 1935 was uneconomic would not j deter his Government from their determination to encourage the establishment of the cinema film produc--1 tion industry in the State. There was 1 nothing unduly onerous in the Film Quotas Act which had been deliberately modelled on the British Act.