NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

British Trade Number.

To-morrow the "Evening Post" will publish a British Trade Number specially designed to place before .readers the advantages which will accrue from the encouragement of trade with Great Britain. Much has been heard in recent years of our duty to the Motherland to give preference to British goods. That is undoubtedly a duty enforced by sentiment; but it has its business side as well. Britain is New Zealand's best customer. Her buying capacity is regulated by her prosperity. If we in New Zealand can aid her to recover prosperity wo must increase also her buying capacity. In buying British goods we cast our bread upon the waters, and it will most assuredly return to us. Telling facts and figures supporting the arguments of both sentiment and business p,re contained in the British Trade Number in messages and articles J from the Prime Ministers of Great Bri- j tain, Northern Ireland, and New Zealand, the Right Hon. L. S. Amery, the i Hon. A. D. M'Leod, H.M. Trade Commissioner for. New Zealand, and numerous leaders of British trade and industry, including Sir Eric Geddes, Lord Montagu of Boaulieu, Sir Max Muspratt, Sir Harold Bowden, and many others. A Full "Limited." Many people who had failed to book their seats by last night^s "Limited" to Auckland were unable to travel, as a large number were turned away. The large proportion of the Remuera's passengers going North helped to swell the crowd that besieged the ticket offices, many of them to be told that the train was full. Not of Much Good. Little faith is held by Mr. Justice Herdman in the effectiveness of an order granting one or other of tho parties- in a divorce action "reasonable access to tho children." When such an action was applied for in tho Auckland Supreme Court on Thursday, following the granting of a decree absolute, his Honour remarked that he did not consider tho orders were much good (reports the "New Zealand Herald"). "They are so wide and indefinite," he said. "But still, it is clone," he added as he made the order. "Equal Pay for Equal Work." Mr. H. Holland, M.r. for Christchurch North, has informed Mr. J. R. Brunt, registrar of the Canterbury Justices' Association, that tho Minister of Education (the Hon. R. A. Wright) has replied to the following resolution, carried at the annual general mooting of the association: "To recommend the council to approach the Government to provide suitable remuneration (out of pocket expenses) for the four ladies' who had been appointed in tho Dominion to assist the Magistrates under the Child Welfare Act." The Minister's reply is that he would not entertain such a .proposal. He asks: "Why should women assisting Magistrates be paid any more than Justices who give their time freely?" Decision about Maori Burials. A decision of considerable importance regarding the use of burial grounds attached to Maori Anglican churches was given by Mr. F. 0. V. Acheson, Judge of the Native Land Court, at Kaikohe. The majority ,of tho Kiakohe natives, formerly adherents of the Anglican Church, have become followers of Ratana and claim the right of burying their dead in the Anglican native churchyard with their own burial service. They alleged that' the service used by the Maori clergy in connection with the burial of nonAnglicans treated them as outcasts. Mr. Acheson said he was satisfied that the Anglican Church had had about 80 years of undisputed occupation, and [■both parties admitted that the land had been set aside for the use of the church, states "The Post's" Auckland correspondent. As tho burial service objected to was that used over all nonAnglicans, the followers of Ratana must submit to the Anglican control if they desired to bury their dead there. Whales at Stewart Island. | A feature of the stripping of a number of the small whales which came ashore at Mason's Bay, Stewart Island, was the shoals of blind eels that?" came i ashore (states the "Southland Times"). J Evidently they smelt the oil from thewhales and got too far in and were trapped on the sand. They are not edible fish —in fact, they are rather repulsive in appearance as they appear to almost dissolve into slime after being ashore. The work of removing the blubber was helped along in an unexpected way. In their dying struggles the whales worked themselves into the sand and it was expected to secure only half the blubber, as it wos impossible to turn the huge animals over, but .the high tides floated the carcasses further up the beach, and as one side had been stripped of blubber the other side containing the remaining blubber float- | ed uppermost when they were deposited | again by the tide. Planned for Christmas. A party of enterprising Wanganui sportsmen have a novel holiday in viow for Christmas of this year. They propose to traverse the Rangitikei River from its headwaters to tho mouth, a journey involving travel through little known mountainous country. Good sport along the banks is assured, but whether the party will come through without a ducking is another matter. Tho upper waters of the Rangitikei are turbulent and swift, and the stream is obstructed by many dangerous rarjids. Old Wanganui. The Wanganui Museum Trustees are at present endeavouring to establish an "Old Wanganui Bay" in the museum, and already have in their possession many photographs and relics received from different parts of New Zealand and even from Australia. The trustees have received a collection of very fine photographs of the old Collegiate School and grounds, the gift of Mr. V. B. Willis; many photographs of Old Wanganui, including a photograph of the first picnic up tho river at Kaiwhaiki, nearly sixty years ago; a copy of tho Wellington "Independent" for 28th June, 1848; copies of tho Wanganui "Herald" for 25th November, 1867, and 21st July, 1868, and a copy'of the Wanganui "Chronicle" for April, 1807, all tho gift of the trustees iv tho estate of the late Mr. A. D. Willis. Another gift is a. collection of old Wanganui photographs sent from Sydney by Mr. W. A. Rainbow, whose father was a well-known Wanganui resident, and an employee of tho Wanganui "Chronicle '' in days gone by.