NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Is Rugby a religion? Judging by an event which occurred at a town in the Bush it is, for an important municipal function was postponed for half-an-hour jji order not to clash with a football match which was being played in ail adjacent paddock (says the “Wairurapa Age”).

A now use for the bagpipes lias been found. A Highlander who owns a sheep farm in a mountainous district of California is in the habit almost daily of playing his pipes over the ground. The skirling has had the effect of scaring eagles out of the locality, in which these birds of prey had formerly done considerable damage by carrying off lambs and even grown sheep. i

A school teacher who is noted for her sodateness, caused something of a sensation i u the Oainaru Station platform the other morning in her efforts to catch tin; Kurmv express (says the “Oam,• iru .Mail”). Sprinting along the platform she upset a, large gentleman who was spreadcngled on the ground gasping with astonishment, and made after the train at full tilt. Sad to relate she missed it. but a friendly motorist enabled her to appear before her pupils up to time.

“I found New Zealand quite different I rum Australia,” declared Archbishop Duliig on his arrival in Sydney, after attending Archbishop Redwood's jubilee celebrations. “The people, I think, regard themselves as much nearer England than Australia. According to present prospects, the Dominion is not likely ever to become part of the Commonwealth. It surprised me to find that the spirit fostered over there could hardly lie described as friendly. Indeed it was rather anti-Australian.”

The significance and origin of the salute was referred to by a military officer, while instructing a company of territorials the other night (says the “.Manawatu Times”). “The salute.” lie said, “first became a practice in .Julius Caesar’s time when he was invading the English shores. Various attempts were at that time being made on the Roman loader’s life, and in order that he might ascertain whether .3 man approaching him had any designs on his life, the latter had always to hold up his right hand showing that ho had no weapons. From that day to this the salute had always been observed, nowadays to pay respect to the King’s officers.

Professor F. \V. Bitrstall, Doan of the Faculty of Science in Birmingham University, in an address to the Women’s Engineering Society at Birmingham said women might find a big field for activity in the direction of applying science to the comforts of life. The had learned to fly, but dishwashing was still done in practically the same way as in the clays of .lames Watt, 1730-1.819, the inventor of the forerunner of the modern steam engine. 'Women could find openings in research work, and they made precise measurements, involving a great deal of hi hour as well as exact anil patient observation, much better than men.

Dr Richard Hnrte, of Philadelphia

(J.S.A., speaking at the Rotary Clnh luneheon recently, stated that tho Wellington Milk Supply Department was doing magnificent work, and the children of the rising generation would largely profit by it. He bespoke for those engaged in this work tho hearty support of the Rotary Clnh and of citizens generally, for if a proper milk supply was assured, with our fine air there was no reason why tuberculosis should not bo practically stamped out, and this made the healthiest place in tho world. After a great fight, he had succeeded in getting all the milk supplied to Philadelphia, with the exception of a small cjuantity of “certified milk,” pasteurised; and that was the way to fight tuberculosis. At Heidelberg, in Germany, the tuberculosis death-rate was very high indeed, far exceeding any other town in the country. But a Afr Strauss (an American of Semitic origin) noting this fact, offered to present a pasteurising plant to the city, if the authorities would pasteurise all the milk. His offer was immediately accepted, and in a very few voars the tuberculosis mortality there dropped lower than that in any other city in 'Germany. (Applause). As ■Wellington city grew, added l)r Harte. we would ho confronted by the difficulty that our sources uf milk supply would ho driven further and further out. But that difficulty could ho got over by the use of ice ns in America, where the milk supplies for big cities like Philadelphia came from as far as 200 miles away. Ice was cheap enough as they could make IS tons of ice out, of 18 tons of coal. (Applause).—“N.Z Times.”

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