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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18625, 3 May 1932, Page 3

Carillon Music and Traffic. —It is not much use giving carillon recitals in the daytime unless arrangements are made to divert wheeled trafiic from the streets surrounding the Mount Cook area (says the Wellington Dominion). This was evident when, during tile noonday recital by Miss Gladys Watkins, the music of the hells was interrupted almost continuously by tlu> hooting of motor cars negotiating Buckle Street and the adjacent corners of upper Tory ami Taranaki Streets. When such recitals are given in Belgian towns (rutile in tiie city square is barred, and motorists wtio wish to move about the city have to proceed by way of back streets.

The Governor-General of the Belgian Congo lias forbidden hunters to slay more than one hippopotamus a year, to prevent the extinction of these animals. Milk which is supplied in British schools to Bf)o.(.)ii(i children at the rate of one-third of a pint each day is sold to the schools at 2s a gallon,