LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21043, 20 February 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Winner of Singing Scholarship The result of the Myra Booth Entrance Scholarship (singing) was as j follows: Winner, Miss Nola Primmer, ITe Rapa; highly commended. Miss | Freda Murphy, of Taupiri and Mr R. C. Enright, of Hamilton. Council’s Sympathy A motion of sympathy with the ; relatives of the late Mr J. J. Ryburn, ! of Ngahinapouri, a prominent local body member, was carried at the monthly meeting cf the Waipa County Council yesterday. Band At Hospital Entertaining selections were played by the Waikato Regimental and Hamilton Municipal Band on Sunday j afternoon when it paid a visit to the i Waikato Hospital grounds. The con- | cert programme was appreciatively ; received. Heaviest Fish of Season After a fight lasting an hour, G. Wardell, a Hamilton youth, landed a trout weighing llilb at the mouth of the Waitahanui stream at Taupo, the fish being the heaviest from the area this season. There have been very few anglers at Taupo recently and a strong southerly has spoilt conditions. No Commerce Meeting The meeting of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, which was to have been held last night, lapsed for the want of a quorum. Before the next meeting the vigilance committee will be called together to discuss methods of stimulating interest for the meeting. Dog Registrations Notice from the Department of Internal Affairs received at the monthly meeting of the Waipa County Council yesterday stated that, owing to shipping difficulties occasioned by war conditions, the supply of hydatid drug for dogs would not reach New Zealand for some time. Regulations had therefore been issued further extending the life of the existing dog registrations until March 1. Rebates of Students’ Fees A decision to make rebates of fees to students who cease to attend lectures through entering upon military service was made at a meeting of the College Council yesterday. Proportional rebates will be made as from the end of the term in which the student enters upon service. At present no rebates are • made after the first term. 1 Service For Aliens The New Zealand Red Cross Society, acting with the consent of the New Zealand Government, is beginning a scheme whereby persons of enemy extraction domiciled in the Dominion may communicate with their relatives in enemy territory, j This method of inquiry is being car- ! ried cut through the International Red Cross Inquiry Bureau at Geneva. Special forms have been adopted, and will have to be used by those making the inquiry. Supplies of these will be available at the main post offices throughout the Dominion within the next few days. University Entrance The New Zealand University Senate had reaffirmed its approval of : the principle of entrance to the unii versity by accrediting and had j adopted a detailed scheme, but had | expressly stipulated that it be not ! brought into operation until certain ; conditions had been fulfilled, it was stated at a meeting of the Auckland University College Council yesterday. These included the appointment of specialists and liaison officers between the schools and university colleges. It followed that no date could be fixed for the commencement of I the scheme. When introduced it would be limited at first to schools of undoubted suitability and would i be reviewed after experience of its working. Visitor’s Impressions Dr. Halliday Sutherland, author of “The Arches of the Years,” ’‘Lapland Journey” and other well-known books of autobiography and travel, finds after six weeks in the Dominion no marked difference in temperament, or even speech, between New Zealanders and their cousins in the Old Country. Dr. Sutherland is at present in the Auckland district. “In New Zealand, the people speak very much like English or Scots folk,” said the visitor. “There is quite a marked Scots accent in some places. If any general tendency exists, it seems to be in that direction, but so far I have not noticed anything like a ‘colonial accent.’ ” The visitor found a marked resemblance between parts of the North Island and his native Scotland. The Waikato River near Horahora reminded him in every way of the River Spey.