BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 April 1935, Page 4

BREEZES

On Parade. Illuminating remarks of a sergeant instructing a party of young cadets in burial drill: — “On the command ‘Fix,’ the right’and man of the front rank will not — I said Not—take three paces forward; and for why? Because if ’e did ’e’d fall right into the grave and break ’is bloomin’ neck. Stop laughing in the rear rank, please, Mr Fletcher. “And that brings me to another point. The cortege will proceed in a stately and orderly fashion. The party will assume ’appy yet sorrowful countenances — s appy because their late lamented comrade ’as departed to ’appicr lands, and .sorrowful because ’e’s gone without paying ’is mess bill.”

Where Canada Buys Onions. More than half of the onions imported into Canada during 1934 came from New Zealand and Australia.

Altogether Canada imported 13,113,283 pounds of -,.Jnions, of which New Zealand headed the list with 3,807,016 pounds, followed by Australia with 3,183,370 pounds. A total of 2,414,391 pounds came from the United States; 1,681,130 pounds from Spain, and 766,803 pounds from Bermuda. Other countries exporting onions to Canada were Egypt, Chile, Japan, the United Kingdom and Yugo-t Slavia.

Medicine Ousts Medicine Men.” Bottles of paleface medicine are crushing the age-old prestige of the Redskin “medicine men” of Western Canada. ;

In the opinion of Mr W. Murison, Saskatchewan inspector of Indian Affairs, the influence of the medicine men is on the wane. The older tribesmen still believe in the supernatural powers of the witch doctors, but the younger men prefer to take a chance with the paleface medicine when they are sick. Mr Murison says that often medical men have difficulty in persuading old Redskin warriors to take medicine, however. Witches, voodoos and black magic still linger in the forests of the north, says Mr Murison, but slowly white civilisation is overtaking the ancient aboriginal beliefs. * * * * World’s Most Precious Metal. Radium is the world’s most precious metal, and is worth about 40,000 dollars (£8000) a gramme. Canada’s chief field is located at Great Bear Lake, in the Far North-West of the Dominion, through which euts the Arctic Circle. In 1934 this field produced 6.1 grammes of radium from 61 tons of ore, giving an average content of one gramme of radium to ten tons of ore.

Although this is one of Canada’s newest industries—only having been exploited during the past, few years—it is now firmly established. The valuable pitchblende is transported a thousand miles by air, and then another three thousand miles by rail to the refinery at Port Hope (Ontario).. Other deposits have been discovered at Hottah Lake, some distance to the south of Great Bear Lake. The prospector who made the discovery was the first man to “smell” a mine. He smelt the pitchblende ore from a distance and was thus attracted to the spot.

.■ -■*'.»-y.' undertaken and coining one of the the 'Wellington province. The management of' the tournament is in the capable hands of Mr D. Falloon (secretary) and Mr C. Percy (club captain), and the large number of players were despatched promptly. The following are the results of the qualifying founds (over 36 holes): — J. Bell ipf C. Percy 15ffMR. Boys 159, J. Broad 163, T. FallojS 165, T. Wickens 167, E. Einain 17ufzL Esau 171. This eight play off for the Upper Taueru Championship. J. Donald 173, D. Falloon 173, Budd 173, F. Candy 174, E. Wrigley 174, B. Craike 176, M. Rawlins 177, P. Colvin 178, S. Falloon 178, H. Bell 180, S. Burridge 183,, G. Falloon 185, W. Percy 188, R. Falloon 191,- H. Smith 193. This sixteen play off for the Easter Handicap, Hedley 196, Cook 199, Kay 201, O’Keefe 217, Dixon W. Oliver 269. This section play off for the Bideford Handicap.