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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20693, 31 December 1938, Page 6

Music and the Emotion “ Music should not be looked on merely as a recreation, but as a very valuable and necessary part of education,” said Miss D. Blackmore, principal of the St. Hilda's Collegiate School, Dunedin. “ Music forms an excellent channel for emotional outlet, and the only way to combat the present wave of rowdy jazz and monotonous sentimental crooning is to learn to understand and perform good music one-sell." Less Demand for Fruit High prices were blamed by Wellington fruiterers yesterday for a large decrease in the sale of cherries and strawberries in Wellington during the Christmas period. Wet weather had affected the quality of cherries, they said, and this was a contributing factor making for decreased sales. Moat of Wellington's strawberries came from Auckland, and high railage charges made prices far too high. Feast for Opossum Attracted by two floodlights throwing a 2000 candle-power beam on t© the large slip in the Manawatu Gorge the lights being kept running during darkness as a safety measure), an opossum found his way precariously down the scarred hillface on a recent night and discovered a Christmas dinner in the thousands of moths whirling about the floodlight bowls. He scampered across the road and tried to climb the iron legs of the lights, failed, and then scaled the fpnee with the object of jumping to the lights. This failed also, so he next went up ,t near-by power pole. Again the ittempt was unsuccessful, he hi*'d himself to the foot of the lights and there, disregarded passing motor cars in his enjoyment of the moths. For once at least food was in abundance, and it included the hug© green mountain moths