NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 288, 6 December 1939, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Appearance* Deceptive. rNot What They Expected. -If the possession of a motor-car is A light on German knowledge of an indication of wealth, then, from the conditions in Britain is given in a appearance of the streets. New Zea- letter received by a Wellington resiland would be a country of million- dent from his sister relating the story dices,” said Mr. Justice Northcroll in of the aeroplane which was brought the Supreme Court. Christchurch, le- down recently near Edinburgh. She centlv. He promptly added that Iha writes: -—heard from a farmer whose true position was otherwise. wile was beside the German plane ihat the man not wounded asked if he One People might be allowed to write to his wite The traditional ta<•' ot the Maori before he was shot. Two others who rangatira in expressing himself in . a were being led along Prince’s Street way befitting the occasion was in evi- as prisoners could not believe their deuce at Taipoiohenui (Taranaki/, eyes when they saw people going when a young Maori was given a fare- a bout as usual, and asked if they were well on leaving to join the Army. Ihe • shopping. They had been told we chief said he would not ‘’draw a line' were starving here. between Maori and pakeha, tor we are i one people and members of one Em- 'Another Sentry Who Dropped it. pirc.” while the them*' of another ' A story is going the rounds of the Maori speech was "Fear God and hon- i troops stationed on the North Shore our the King.” I concerning another sentry -'who dropped it." It happened onfc stormy night Station Interlude. iwhile the sentry, equipped with rifle Farewells on the New Plymouth an d bayonet, and wrapped in a groundstation the other morning were sitfl-jsheet cape, was keeping waten and denly interrupted shortly before the| wa rd. With true sentry-like quickness exores* was uue to lease ny a crash i o £ vision he "spotted" a “tin-hat" and and the sound of breaking glass. The (decided that he would do things with glass from the station clock had fallen true martial spiiit. After the chaiout, and dropped 9ft. or 10ft. to the Henge and response he came to the platform, landing within several feetpj rsl position for the -present.” His of groups ol people. Someone face- bayonet caught in his cape, tightened liously suggested that H had witnessed round his neck and threw him off a farewell too touching for a public if LS balance. He dropped his rifle. plac«. [ What next In a moment of panic iie .... responded to misguided instinct and "'■ •O ... u l.ad> > l-ur,e .- , ai ,‘ ed his hat. Very mysterious to mere man is «• lady’s purse at any time, and what she ; is able to secrete there is amazing if Town Over a < oal Mme. one is able Io judge from the resuk , Commonplace to the townspeople of oi a competition which helped lolHuntiy, but of interest to those aiwhile awav thf time at a certain tending the sitting of the Royal Cornsocial gathering in the city of recent (mission in the local town hall, is tiie date. The winner, on emptying the I fact that the hall is directly over the contents on to a table, found that the (disused Ralph’s mine, where 43 miners articles, whicn varied from receipts to iwerc killed in an explosion on Sepmoney and cosmetics, numbered -108. tembei 12, 191 i. Below a shop imme(iiately to the northward of tne vesti- \\ li.it Bumper* An* lor. j bule was one of the main shafts of A description of the methods whim the mine, and where there is a lawn many American motorists adopt when at (|-, e sl(te ot - the hall, a second shaft incy found there w as insufiicient space I al one time w as in lull working older, to park their cars was given by Mr. D. Miners said at a sitting of the ComA. Ewen, district governor of Rotary | mission that practically the whole lox - New Zealand, in a travel talk to (township oi Huntly was honeycombed members of the Invercargill Kotaiy w itn drives and snafts. Club at a dinner at Te Anau. "If lher • . ; tor his car, a Giants —Old and New. motorist will charge into the car ! "One is always being told of the m i/ont until he has made room. ’ said (giants of the old days —or the stalwarts Mr. Ewen. When he questioned ihis irom the Wakarapa who used to be in habit he was tola: That is what I the fifteen, and one is told that the bumpers are for. physique of the present-day boy does (not compare witn the old days,” re\i< < -Kcgal I isii.iig i any. marked Mr. W. A. Armour, principal Foor conditions for irom L’hhmg o f jbe Wellington Boys’ College, at a have been experienced since the Gov- gathering of old boys. But facts seem-emor-Generai, Viscount Galway, ac- t o beiie lhesi assertions, he said, vornpanied by Captain Lord Dormer, (be present time there were in the aide-de-camp, at Lived at Fulljamcs co u e ge 14 boys 6ft. tall or over, the fishing camp, i'aupo, late on i/riday. tallest being 6ft. 24in. in height; and However, in spite of the unfavour- 14 b oys weighed 12st. or more, tne able conditions on Saturday, w hen heaviest being lost. 81b. in w eight, and heavy rain tell continuously, His Ex- f our others being over 13st. celiency secured a limit catch of 10 good average lish. During the day Value of Team Work. His Excellency took lour lish on the A striking instance of the value of wet Uy, and duung the evening rise team work was quoted by the secrehe hooked the remaining six fish on tary of the New Zealand Swimming the nymph, Lord Dormer look five Association, Mr. Baxter p’Neill, speakfish. Conditions were greatly improving at the annual meeting of the asyesterday which was sunny, although sociation, when receiving a presentatempered with a moderate south-west- tion to mark the completion of his erly wind. Fishing was satisfactory in 21st. y ear in that position. The strong sheltered waters. position of the sport to-day, he declared, was due to tne co-operation of oliiHow Many Can Swim cers of the association throughout the A feature of school life even in com- country an d not solely to the work of Daratjvely backblock areas in Taranaki an in dividual. Evidence of the cois the provision ol up-to-date swim- operation that had been forthcoming ming baths, and in this respect that was be seen in the activities of the province is well ahead of many more educational officers. Before the appopulous areas. Perhaps as a result of po jntment of those officers the yearly diis swimming there is a very live j ssue o f certificates was 5000, but in spoils club and live-saving societies first y r ear of their ahutment the flourish. Despite this and the 'learn- number reached 15,000. a hen came the to-swim weeks held annually, an depression, and lack of necessary finenormous number of adults could not ance When he educational officers swim, Mr. H. G. Dickie, M.P., saiu at found themselves able to function Mokcia. He related that in the normally once more the number of Great War a tally taken on a trans- certificates reached the remarkable port carrying 1300 men in a submarine total of 32,000. it had since increased area proved that not a third of the and in the future, no doubt, would number could swim. I show an even greater advance.