LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 149, 21 June 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Two Crops of Potatoes This Year. A local resident (Mr B. A. Baigent, of Reservoir road), who is a gardening enthusiast, has been enabled,- aided by favourable weather conditions, also excellence of the soil tilled, to grow two good crops of Dakota Red potatoes this year. The first sowing was carried out on New Year’s Day and the potatoes were available for use at Easter. The follow-on crop is now being consumed. Social Evening at Elsthorpe

A very pleasant evening was spent in the Elsthorpe Hall recently when the residents of the district assembled to welcome home Mr and Mrs Tom Ryan, who have returned from their honeymoon ,and are making their home in Elsthorpe. Dancing was indulged in to music supplied by Les Henry’s orchestra, extras being played by Misses Cheer, Nelson and Hayden. During the evening, Mr T. Priest, on behalf of the settlers, asked Mr and Mrs Ryan to accept a handsome canteen of cutlery, with many good ' ,f

wishes for their future happiness. Mr Ryan suitably replied, thanking all for the present and good wishes. A dainty supper was served by the ladies.

Herbertville Women’s Institute The Wimbledon-Herbertville Women’s Institute held its monthly meeting recently. Mrs N. Speedy presided in the absence of Mrs Herrick. There was a good attendance of members and two new members were welcomed. Several members of tho Waipukurau Institute, including Mrs Turner, president, paid a visit, and Mrs Turner gave a very interesting demonstration of glove making, and was watched with great interest by members, several of whom are going to make some for themselves. Tho competifion was puff pastry, Miss Kerr coming first and Mrs R. Hales second. Hostesses for the afternoon were Mesdames N. Speedy, W. Herbert, Wall, Watts, and Miss Fisher. Word Waves Won

The efficiency of two methods of attack wag discussed by Dr. C. C. Farr, while addressing the Canterbury College Scientific Society (reports the Press). One could hurl bricks at a man, he said, or scarify him with words—that is, by wave motion. “I remember using this latter method very effectively once upon a Chinaman,” he remarked. Dr Farr said he had had an argument with a Chinaman over some washing and on that occasion, having doubt of his own effective supply of wave motion, made use of three pages of Milton’s Paradise Lost, which was running through his head, to the discomfiture of the laundryman. “At the end of my oration,’’ he concluded, “punctuated as it was with liberal interspersion with wild gesticulations, he was like the Queen of Sheba —he had no spirit in him! ”

Importance of Geography Teaching of geography in the English universities was carried on to a high, degree of excellence and each one of the 17 universities in England, Scotland and Wales, had a permanent professor of the subject with a staff of assistants up to seven in number, said Professor J. Macdonald Holmes, professor of Geography at the University of Sydney on his arrival at Wellington recently by the Mataroa from London. Professor Holmes, who has been Home for domestic reasons, is on his way back to Australia. In an interview Professor Holmes said that geography was regarded as an important study in Australia, embracing as it did both physical and economic aspects, and at his own university there was a full time professor and three assistants. Last year there were approximately 100 day students and 100 evening students.

The Cost of High Exchange “My attention has been directed to a statement which is being published by the New Zealand Importers’ Federation and which contains fantastic miscalculations as to the allegedly enormous financial cost of the exchange rates adjustment,” stated the Minister of Finance, the Rt. Hon. J. CL Coates, last night. “Regarded as awhole the calculations are in fact so fantastic that they carry their own condemnation, and it is needless to comment generally. The Federation has also made an obvious blunder in simple arithmetic,’’ continued Mr. Coates. “The direct cost of the transaction they allege (quite inaccurately) to be To this they proceed to add £1,800,000, being the proceeds of taxation which they argue’ to have been made necessary by the transaction. For what reason these figures have been added -together it Is impossible to conceive.”.