GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 3 October 1946, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Work of Bible Society. The first hundred years of any organisation were its most important, as it marked the solidifying of the foundations. The British and Foreign Bible Society was now 100 years old, and in that time had done wonderful work, stated the Rev. David Calder, E.D, 8.A., Dominion secretary of the society, speaking in Wanganui last night. During the last 21 years alone th? society had exoended £260,000 j i the distribution of Bibles throughout ihe world. Wanganui had played its part well in that work, he stated. Kaierau Visit to East Coast. Kaierau senior Rugby team on Saturday will be playing at Tolaga B .y on the East Coast 30 miles north ol Osborne. The team they will meet will be a representative one su’ected from five country clubs in the Poveity Bay Rugbv Union. Tie visit has been arranged by Kaierau sup porfeis living at Tolaga Bay town

snip. The expenses are to be shaved by both sides. The local team will leave Wanganui for their long journey at 4 a.m. to-morrow. The bus will be leaving from Fosters’ corner. One Against 365. “Thou shalt worship no other God but me,” was a Commandment that attracted the attention of the Chinese, for they had 365 gods, one for every day of the year, stated Miss Mildred Cable, a visiting missionary from China, speaking in Wanganui last night. From the interest this created they had many curious visitors who called to discuss this revolution | y creed, and who stayed to become Christians, she added. The Poetic Chinese.

“The Chinese say the same as us, but they have a more poetical way of putting it” remarked Miss Mildred Cable, one of the three visiting missionaries from China, speaking last night to Wanganui Centennial celebrations of the British and Foreign Bible Society. “Go like Fire” has the same meaning to the Chinese as

“Express Mail” to English speaking people. “The Gospel of St. Luke” is to the Chinese the “Happy Sound of St. Luke.” China Tea,.

China, generally regarded as Lhe home of tea, does not have such tasty tea as she has drunk in N.Z., Miss Mildred Cable, a visiting missionary from China, stated while speaking at the centennial celebration of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Wanganui last night. In China they drank “brick tea,” which was reputed to be the leftovers of the dregs of the tea used in the cities and made up for those in the country. It certainly tasted like it, she remarked. Brick tea comes in compressed lump form, and a piece is hacked off each time a brew is wanted. Convert-Seeking in China. A tie-up with a touring theatrical company played a large part in the campaign of m.ssionaries in the Gobi Desert, stated Miss Mildred Cable, one of the three visiting women missionaries, speaking in Wanganui last night. The missionaries travelled with the theatrical company and set up their tent next to the company’s stand. In China the theatre continues from early in the morning till late at night, and when the audience grew tired of playgoing they went to church. “We became good friends of the theatre people, and they used to notify us of their movements so that we could go along,” Miss Cable said. Disposal of Food Surplus*

“We must see to it, that if there is such abundance, or plenty, that it cre-

ates a surplus, then those surpluses do not depress our markets, in order to provide for bad seasons there must be a balance between holding abundant surpluses, and • emoving or transferring them to people on the basis of nuirim.-i&l necessity. We must also guard against too much processing in limes Oi abundant crops, otherwise in the jeng run, such processed surpluses might depress markets.”—This statement was made by Mr. B. U. Cooksley, Dominion president of Federated Farmers, ’speaking at the amaa conference i n Wellington. American Radio. Radio licences are unknown in America, and the cost of maintaining the broadcasting services there have not had to be met by the people in direct charges, which is the policy in New Zealand. American broadcasting chains are sponsored by private advertisers, who have to pay highly for the privilege. They find it well worthwhile, comments Miss Beatrice Brown, formerly of Wanganui, whorecently returned from a seven-year visit to America.” A surprisingly large majority of the American people have no money value, are very gullible, believing that because it is blared over the radio three or four times a day that a certain brand of article is better than its rivals,” she comments.