Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 12 April 1948, Page 4

Local & General

The "Near North" It was" wrong to refer to East Asia as the "Far East," said Mr. F. H. Wood, of the Chureh Missionary Society and Hangchow Hospital, in an address, to tlie ChristchurchBusinessmen's Cliib- In New Zealand it should be ^eferred to as the "Near North." Man's Skeleton Fbund The pai'tly clothed skeleton of a nian was found o'n a farm ' about eight miles from Waiuku. It was lying on the edge of a raupo swamp close to a boundary fence and w&s discovered by the owners of the prcperty who were engaged in clearing blackberry. The discovery was reported to the police and a det'ective and the Auckland pathologist, Dr. Walter Gilmour, have left to make investigations. Brighter MaLe Attire Clothing worn . by passengets aboai'd the Marine Phoenix, which called at Auckland yesterday, suggested that the "New Look" in male . a'ttire is nioie highly devejoped. ifL the IJnited Staies ' than iri' New Zealand. "Loud," clashing colours were f avoured in ' ties and shirts, while many men wore variations of the lumber jacket, some in felt or leather and some in -dazzling plaids. A few "zoot-suits" in which the coats of lounge suits hung beiow t"he knee were also ih evidence. Fighting Frigafes A New ZealandCr, Mr. D. L. Hazr ard, now in business as an accountant in Hamilton, served during the war as.group navigating officer and senior " staff officer in the Loch Shin, one of the six frigates to be purchased by the Government for the R.N.Z.N. Tjhej- Loch Shin was jthen leader of the 19th Escoft Group, and she took part in many actions, Mr. Hazard writes. In one affray, the groiip.was credited with two U-boats sunk and one "probable." Modern Bible One of the biggest and most.important literary tasks ever tackledi has just been begun, and when it is completed' an entirely new Bible' will be available, a modernised translation in present-day English, printed in up-to-date style, and presented in the formdt of a bestseller, states -Church and People." The preparation of this new versioh of the Testaments has already been sanctioned, and. experts will sodn be producing , it. Church leaders feel that the time-has come to give the world a Bible-,. which avoi'ds archaic phraseology and ancieht spelling. They believe, too, that it is now opportune to present tlie Scriptures in a form enabling therti to be read as easily as any other book. The new Bible, will includfe dialogue; it will substitute currCnt phrases and words for those which have fallen into disuse, and the Psalms will be printed as poetry.