Long Mid-day Train.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 4

Long Mid-day Train.

Tlie northbound mid-day express from Palmerston North to Napffir was an unusually long one to-day owing to special carriages set aside for tho Don Cossacks Choir and the Taranaki tourmg Rugby football team. The latter detrained at Hastings, but the iootballers coiitmued 011 to Napier. Cheap Air Travei in Japan. The low price of travei by air in Japan was one of tlie things that impressed Mr A. M. Robertson, of Canterbury, who has returned to Christchurch after a visit to the East. He said that the cost was only about a tliird of that in New Zealand. A great many pilots were being trained, and many of them seemed very young, almost boys. High Gost of Oranges. "You try to persuade your friends to take offi this ridiculous embargo on citrus. fruits," said Mr Justice O'llegan in the Arbitration Court at Auckland, when Mr P. M. Butler, eecretary of the General Labourers' Union, referred to the high price of oranges, which were often necessary for children. The remarks were made during the liearing of workers' arguments in connection with the fixation of standard wage rates. Oral English, "I think that tho teaching oi good oral English is a matter of example and of careful and constant early training. All teachers themselves should possess certain proved qualifications in this regard and should be a living example of correct oral English and digmty of expression, no matter what the subject matter being taught," said Mr W. G. Black in his presidential addiess to the Dominion conference of the Federation of Bchool Committees Associations at JNew Plymoutli. Versatility Required. "Which would require to be tne more versatile, a mechanical engineer in Scotland or England, or on© working in New Zealand?" an expert witness was asked in the Arbitration Court at Auckland. The witness, who eiaimed 46 years' mechanical experience in Britain and iu New Zealand, responded at once that the man here would fequire to be much more versatile. In tlie Old Country, be explained, the mechanical engineers . were specialists, and he had known such a man doing oue job for 20 years. "Here," he said, "you never know what work you wili be called 011 to do, and you have to be versatile." Hard- Working Japanese. "A bappy, kealtby, iiard-working, clever, energetic people," was tlie inipression formed of the Japanese by Mr A. M. llobertson, of Hillsborough, Canterbury, iviio has returned from a visit to the East with Mrs Robertson. He said that business went 011 all tlie tane; the shops were open lrom 6 in the morning tiil liiidniglit, and there* was 110 observance of Sunilay or auy correspoiiding day. Althougli wages were low tliea-© was no sigu of discontent. Every incli of the countryside was intensely cultivated, even the sides and tops of the mountains. The children were drilled every day in the scliools, and the army officers whom Iir saw impressed him by their smart bearnig. t Health Stamps. New Zealaud's 19d7 iasue oi health stamps wili be on sale from October L. to February 28 1938. In keeping with previous issues, the main figure in tlie picture is that oi a youth. Bearing a resemblance in coiour and sliape to the Anzac stamp, which commemorated the 21st anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli, the new health stamp will be twice the size of an ordinary postage stamp and printed a nch rose coiour. It is claimed ior the new design that it has the merit of boidness and simplicity, with an absence of unnecessary detail. Against a light background of clouds, wkich fills in almost half the picture, is placed tlie figure of a bareheaded boy, clad in shorts, looking ont from a mountain top, his right arm stretched over a rock. At the foot of the panel appear the words "ld Postage — ld Health." This is the fourth occasion on which youth has been the subject of a New Zealand health stamp.