NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2760, 19 July 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

So far this season the whaling party at Tory Channel lias captured 25 whales.

Plaslerers are so snm-c that building operations pretty well all over New Zealand are being held up because contractors were unable 1 i obtain them.

Valued at .€15,000, a wonderful ;icw telescope has been made for ii:c Russian Government by a British firm. II contains a mirror-40in. wide, SAin. thick, and nearly 10001 b. in weight, which took more than a veav to make.

“London is the only city in the world where they do a thine- like lliat,” was an Australian woman’s comment when a policeman held up six streets of traffic in Trafalgar Square while tin l (Irand Hotel cal sedately crossed the road with a kitten in its month.

“After a' tour of America and most of the countries of the Old World 1 am satisfied that there is no Postal and Telegraph Department anywhere in the world as efficient and economical as that of \ r ew Zealand," said Mr A. Tyndall, an officer of the Public Works Department. “New Zealand is a wonderful little show,” says an English resident in a letter received in Napier “the meal: and butter being superb. We all sat down-and bad a Hawke s Bay apple each. The different woods make a brave show, and. of course, the wool also.” This seems to be the strain of all letters on the subject received from rlie Homeland. It is evident 1 hat the house shor- 1 (.age is still very acute in Dunedin. In the Star the following advertisement appeared: “To let. 4-roomed , ottage, conveniences, central, cheap rent.” Replies were received almost immediately after the paper had gone lo press, and replies eon tinned jo stream in, no fewer Ilian On being received within 24 hours. Mr Christopher Smith, formerly conductor of the famous Besses of the Barn Band, and more recently conductor of the Adelaide Tram wav Band, has been appointed by the Auckland City Council as bandmaster of the proposed Municipal Band. There was 2-8 applicants from England, Australia and all parts of New Zealand. It is intended to organise a lirst-class military band of 40 instruments, to be in operation before the end ot. I in: present year.