NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2764, 29 July 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Speaking at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Wellington, Mr D. C. Bates said a story had gone the rounds —but it. was not true —that a student once asked Miss Bales, his daughter, a question about the weather. Not being able to give, the information, the retort came: “But your father is the weather prophet.” “Yes,” his daughter was said to have replied, “hut we don't go by father,- we go by mother's corns.” St. Dnnstan cigarettes were handed round at the Rotary Club luni boon in Auckland and the director c( the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Mr Clutlm Mackenzie, said that by arrangement a revenue of fly(> per 1,000 cigarettes sold, went to the various funds for the blind. Already £429 had been realised in Mew Zealand, and of: this amount £(»« had gone to Si, Dunstnn’s Hospital in England, and a like sum to the New Zealand Commercial Travellers' Blinded Soldiers’ Fund. The balance, £284 had been handed to the Jubilee Institute.

Some interesting ligfiVes showing ;r comparison between New Zealand and Denmark were given by M. A. H. R. A mess (director of the Stratford Technical High School) in an address iff the business men’s luncheon at' Stratford recently. Denmark, he said, was roughly twice the size of Taranaki, yet it contained 3,500,000 people. The land there was, generally speaking, poorer than the average dairy land iii the Dominion, hut Denmark maintained over 1.000,000 dairy cattle. In New Zealand large areas were not fully developed, and 'certain tracts not at all. Despite its larger area and fertility of the soil. New Zealand only supported 1,250,000 cows at the present time.