NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Maori Child Scalded Burns to the arms, lace and logs were received by Chi!!' Pihama. aged four, son of Mr. Manu Pihama, ol Matamata, when tiie child overturned a pot of boiling water on himself. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. Gisbornite for Championships The Gisborne Wrestling Association has received advice of the inclusion of A. Campbell in the Hawke’s Bay team for the New Zealand amateur wrestling championships, to be contested in Christchurch on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Campbell recently won the heavyweight title at the Ilawke’s Bay tournament, being one of three Gisborne amateurs who wrestled at that fixture. Ministers’ Petrol Allowance “When a man who goes about selling radios gels 100 gallons a month, and a minister who goes about among the people sustaining them in their sorrows is reduced to half the amount of petrol he was using, then I think that should be corrected,” said the Rev. T. W. Armour to the Christchurch Presbytery. Mr. Armour said he had jeen an announcement that, the allowance would be reduced by half. His motion that the property and finance committee should take (lie matter up. was passed. Woman and Civilisation His belief that woman’s homemaking instinct had been one of the greatest forces making for human progress was expressed by Dr. It. A. Millikan, the celebrated physicist, in a lecture at Auckland University College. The beginning of the process, he said, had been correctly dated by Kipling from when the cave woman first hung a wild horse’s skin over the cave doorway and invited her husband to wipe his feet before entering. Dr. Milikan added that foursevenths of man’s staple food plants were the descendants of wild grasses and tubers collected and cultivated by the American Indian squaw thousands of years ago. Praise for School Dental Service

“The training school for the school dental .service in Wellington is very efficiently run, and the New Zealand method of handling dental problems in school children is the most complete and effective one I have yet met with,” said Dr. Eugene Schmitt, a New York dentist, who is visiting Christchurch. Dr. Schmitt emphasised the need, which has lately been discussed by the New Zealand Dental Association, for pre-natal care, and attention to young children, to ensure good teeth. He said that there was a tendency to neglect the teeth of children, parents hesitating to pay the necessary dental fees. “But I doubt whether, under the present economic structure, the average man will ever get enough money to pay for adequate dental care,” he said. Mein Kampf “The pity of it is that in the last few years we have never paid sufficient attention to Hitler's Mein Kampf,” said Mr. L. K. Munro, speaking to a large gathering of members of the Auckland Grammar School Old Boys’ Association. "There was a book which was given t£> every German,” he continued. “It was a book which set out the whole policy of Herr Hitler. He writes as he speaks, jumping from subject to subject, but it is obviously the book lof a very powerful personality. He sets down his objectives, and it is one of the extraordinary things of reccn! years that statesmen do not seem to have credited him with the intention to carry out these objectives, .which go far beyond restoring the boundaries of 1914.” Threw the Butter The majority of Aucklanders have taken a philosophical view of the restrictions which have followed in the wake of the war, but here and there resentment is still expressed at the rationing system imposed by grocery firms. This was revealed in no uncertain manner by a woman customer in a suburban store last week. The customer asked for and was furnished with a pound of butter, and she then requested that she be supplied with a bag of sugar. Politely the shop assistant informed her that the maximum amount of sugar that she could purchase was 41b. He was given a thorough tongue-thrashing for his pains, and the irate woman, fired with sudden inspiration, rounded off her tirade by picking up from the counter the butter she had ordered and hurling it at. him.

Served in Spanish War At least one of the men who have enlisted at Napier for the volunteer force has had previous experience under war conditions. Tire applicant has only recently returned to New Zealand from Spain, where he served for nine months with the Government forces. Another applicant was a veteran of the retreat from Mons in the World War. Enlisting in 1914, he went to France with the British Expeditionary Force and served throughout the war, earning a M.C., a Mons medal and a D.C.M., in addition to which he was mentioned in dispatches and received the personal congratulations of two generals in the British Army. So anxious was he to secure acceptance for the new volunteer force that he presented himself at the Army Office in Napier armed with his decorations, framed “Mentions in Dispatches” and the congratulations of the two generals. Being outside the prescribed agelimit, however, lie was not permitted to fill in an enlistment form.

Aftermath of Collision Arising out of a collision between •i cyclist and a parked motor van near lire intersection of Stout street and Ballanee street, Noel Rees Jones, the owner of the van was charged before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., yesterday with parking an unlighted vehicle in the roadway. Evidence as to the collision was given by the cyclist, John Ilarkess, who refuted a suggestion that the vehicle had been parked close to the ditch and denied that he had taken any quantity of liquor. Harkcss said that he had informed Jones of the collision and the latter had taken him to see a doctor. Evidence was given also by Constables C. A. McCurracli and H. Jamieson, the former producing a statement made by Jones, in which he said that Harkcss had smelt strongly of liquor. Constable Jamieson told the Bench that in the area where the collision had occurred the visibility was very bad. The defendant alleged that the vehicle was visible at 150 ft., the distance required under the traffic regulations. The defendant was convicted and fined IQs and costs