NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

“Yisilot's to America are struck by the large number of hanks o|)crating. and each modest town has its own institution. A ehaiter can he obtained from the Government by depositing the regulation security. su there are tliotl-amls of different hanking institutions. During the recent depression in farming pursuits about 1100 tanners’ hanks collapsed. It is questionable whether the United States system (so much quoted hv advocates ol agricultural hanks in the Dominion) is sound, as the small institutions have not stilliciout capital to withstand had times. There is a great com|>etil ion amongst the rations banks, and electric s'gninform intending rudoiniTs "I Ibe ndniulagi" to he derived from doing business with the institutions concerned." |)r J*o|)e. of I'almerstoii North, who lias just returned from a trip to Amreica.

I'nder daylight saving in Scotland, it is possible to play the game of howls without artificial lighting as late as 11. SO p.m. according to Mr T. X. Horsley. who returned t.u Christchurch from a visit to the Hid Country. Mr Horsley mentioned that one night while ill (Moscow lie was writing a letter in hroad daylight, and. looking at the elm-!;, lie found it ; was twenty-live minutes (tost ten o clock. Ihe twilightin Knglaml and Scotland was much longer than in New Zealand, and lie believed that New Zealand was ninth more suited lor daylight-saving. I never heard a word uttered against daylight-saving in Kugland and Scotland." remarked Mr Horslev. “The |ico|ile seemed to regard the all eralion of the clock ns the natural thing in do. and everyone appeared to he thoroughly satisfied that daylight-sav-ing was a good thing.

Owing to (he ever-increasing cost if Australian hardwood poles lor use in c!c:t rival lelieulation. the Ashhili ton Hydro-electric Power Board iinds it neeos-arv to use New Zealand Muegums though i nly lor certain types of < oust ruction. if it hopes to complete its scheme at the it -t anticipated. In order to make irrtain the use ol hluegums in iertaiii conditions wi'l he ocnI.nmically safe, the engineer ro: cully telegraphed the Director ol Forestry, asking if In* eoir-idered tin* cutting ;1 hlueguin trees lor tnles while the sap was still running would seriously aflert the life of the pole, and also it it would tend to increase the .splitting ef the timber, 'flic dire dor has replied to the effect that the cutting of Mich tiros while the sap is rising will lint se; ioi'sly affect the life of the pole. lie adds that care is necessary, however, to ensure steady seasoning in order to obviate splitting. A disimlinn.tii.ii en the (.art of the Samoan natives to take to the hush is referieil to hy ilo- Administrator (Gen-eral’-Kiohardscn) in his annual leport. In considering the future requirements of laud by the natives he says, it must he borne in mind that the present g< nerntinn of Samoans will not establish new villages inland, where there is plenty of room for settlement. They insist on living quite (lose to tin* seashore. and would lidieule as infciiors these who lived in the hush. There are evidences of the previous existence of many old village settlements in the hush at some distance from the sea- < ia.st, indicating that in their early history the majority of the Samoan natives lived there, and not as they do now. practically on the beach.