News From All Sources

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 132, 30 May 1932, Page 3

News From All Sources

Large Meat Consignment.

What is probably the largest consignment of meat ever shipped from New Plymouth, will be taken by the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Tainui, which is due here about July 15. The shipment is one of 34,000 freight carcases, nearly 1000 tons weight, for the Home markets. If not actually the largest,' the consignment is certainly the largest for a very long period.

Ex-Servicemen’s Song

“Now that Flock House is used for the training of the sons of ex-service-men for farming,” said Mr Hope Gibons, speaking at last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Empire Veteran’s Association, “those exservicemen who send their sons there or can be instrumental to sending a boy to the institution, will be doing not only a service to the boy, but to Flock House as well.” The cost of the training for eight months was nil, said Mr Gibbons. The boys had to pass a severe medical test to gain entrance, and it was no use a boy going there if he did not really mean to become a farmer. Wanganui, said Mr Gibbons, had nominated the first boy to go to Flock House under the new scheme. When the boys left Flock House they were treated exactly the same as the boys from Home had been treated. A Cut in Gum Serious complaints are being made of the lack of gum on the twopenny postage stamps (says the Dunedin Star). This brings to mind a little episode which occurred to one of our citizens possibly 35 years ago when he was a boy. He was accosted by a man who rode up to the post office on horseback and requested him to post a letter. Before doing so he noticed that the stamp had been stitched on with a needle and white cotton, and underneath was the remark “If this letter arrives without a stamp, well I have done my best to make it stick on.” It is not suggested that such a proceeding will now be necessary. A Star reporter saw the Postmaster-General, who was in Dunedin, and asked if he knew of the poor gumming. Mr Hamilton answered that he had already inquired into the complaint with the result that the department’s officers will do what they can to ensure the proper use of good gum. Patriotic Vow Recalled Responding to the toast to the N.Z. R.S.A., at the reunion recently, Mr W. Perry, of Wellington, a Dominion vice-president, said: “The association must and will endure if only for the purpose of ensuring that the nation kept its vow to the men who went away. ' This vow,” he added, u was proclaimed by statesmen in New Zealand to the accompaniment of the plaudits of the people. It was first proclaimed by the Rt. Hon. Mr Bonar Law in September 14, 1914, in a speech at a recruiting meeting in the Guild Hall in London. The Minister said: ‘Let us not as a Government merely but as a nation, make a vow and keep it, that no dependent of any man fighting our battles shall go hungry while we have food to cat. ’ The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, ” continued the speaker. “May the nation keep that vow and may there always be a vigilant R.S.A. to sec that it keeps it.”

“N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic” The piece de resistance of this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review’ is the striking coloured supplement of the ever popular cowboy hero of the films, Tom Mix mounted on his trusty steed and boys both young and old will be delighted with this superb presentation of their idol. Winter racing at Te Rapa during the Waikato Racing Club’s meeting is the subject of two well-reproduced pages that will afford the reader a superb review of the spectacular events. Two prominent Great Northern candidates, Standfast and Make Up, have received special pictorial treatment in the way of fine half-page portraits, and also of particular appeal to sportsmen will be the exclusive page of portraits of leading candidates for the Derby at Epsom (England) on June 1. The double pages are reserved for photographs of talented young New Zealanders who figured as prize-winners at the Napier competitions. A frontispiece of Gloria Stuart, a charming lady of the screen, a page of humour and numerous stage, screen and society portraits lend a very atractive note.