LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 18, 14 October 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

umplres waik Home, "We might suggest that the winning side should give the umpires a lifV commented Mr. H. R. Billing at a meeting of the North Taranaki Cricket Umpires' Association when it was stated that players ofton drove away in motor-cars and left the umpires to walk. Another member suggested players' action might depend on the Umpires' interpretation of the l.b.w. rule. Further Membershlp increase, Despite the fact that the annual survey of transfers and eaneellations, taken during the month, has lost 113 members to the Automobile Association (Hawke's Bay) the new members gained during the period has enabled the associafion to maintain the steady niembership increase during the ycar. At August 31, last, the niembership was 4683, and with 113 eaneellations and 122 new members f ihe roll nqw stands at 4692. Four Christian Napios. During recent years there has been a tendeucy to restrict tlie number of christian names to two, or even one, but there is a Maori boy, who was born recently at the Hastings Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, wlio in years to come will probably find embarrassment when he fxlls in his income-tax form and other documents. He has been given four Christian names, two English and two Maori, while in addition his surnmae is an unusually lengthy oue. The two English names are "Edward, Windsor." A Popuiar Pastime. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Golf Association in Wellington it was stated that the affiliated clubs totalled 300, with an aggregate membership of 27,146 (North Island 18,919, South Isiand 8227). The association hoped this year to institute a scheme of insurance to cover oaddies. The association has a considerable sura jn hand and in referring to this the president (Sir Alexander Roberts) stated that it was proposed €o hojd a big tournament in the centennial year | (1940), and if this were done all pos- | sible funds would be needed, What Is a Mlllibar? The term "millibar" used in hroadcast weather reports for air pilots has created a certain amount of curiosity among listeners, and the following definition will no doubt be of interest: "The 'millibar' is the international unit for pressure. The 'bar,' which is approximately equal to the normal air pressure, is 1,000,000 dynes per square centimeter, and the millibar therefore 1000 dynes per square centimetre. The dyne is the unit of force in tha centi-metre-gram-second system of units. An idea of the inagnitude of one dyne can perhaps best be given by stating that the earth's gravitationai ottraction on a oue ouuce weight is approximately 28,000 dynes. PraisB for New Zealand Newspapers. "As a country we ought to be awaro of the seryice the newspapers are doing to keep up the gtandard of our hves," said Miss Ethel Law, uationa) general secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association in New Zealand who is at present visiting Christchurch after spending six years in Canada as travelling secretary for the uiovement in that country, In an interview Miss Law said that the newspapers of the Donimion in their choice of headlines and the prominence given to dilfereut subjeots were far ahead of most Canadian papers. She was disagreeah'ly surprised, however, with the standard of many papers widely circulated in England, which she had seen on a recent vi-'iftto that country. An IRdustrial Opportunity. "Thero is an industry in New Zealand worth £6,000,000 annually simply gomg'to waste," said Dr. G, B. Chapuian in the course of a Jecture gt the Old Grammar School at Auckland recently. "The trade in seaweed in the IJmted States of America amounts to some £30,000,000," he wept on. "It has been stated by a competont aufhority that mariculture qr aquiculture, which are the terms used td describe the cultivafion of edible seaweeds, will one day be as important and valuable an undertaking as agriculture," The minerals in seaweed' were perfectly halanced for human consumption, and seaweed was therefore a valnable food. It was greatly used by the old-time Maori and by many people in other parts of tlie world, he said. Rall-cars For Taranaki. "The Railway Department hopes to operate rail-cars on the New PlymouthVVellington route in regular service by next March," said the General Manager of ltailways, Mr. G. H. Mackley, in an interview with a Taranaki Herald rejporter. Mr. Mackley, in company with other prominent officers of the department, arrived at Stratford from Frankton in oi'der to coufer with representatlves of Stratford authorities regarding improvements' to the railway facilities at Stratford. Mr. Mackley said tliat the department was still being held up through delay in getting necessary equipment for the cars from abroad. Most of the material, he explained, was to hand, but a certain amount having a direct bearing on the date of the completion of the cars hqd not yet been received,