NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2821, 9 December 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The sittings of- the Supreme Court at Palmerston N. have been arranged as follow: February 3, May 5, August 4, November 10.

“At present only about a third of our people are producing,” said the Hon. R„ F. Bollard at Raglan on Saturday. “I want to see all the people producing. We have the land and I say to the hard-working New Zealander, ‘There’s your chance to become a producer. Take it!’ " “The only thing you can say about England generally, is that it is good to be back in the colonies again,” said Mr A. Taylor, of Christchurch, in speaking of his experiences abroad fox* eight months. “People out here have no conception of the conditions existing in England to-day, continued Mr Taylor. “England appears to have barely recovered from the wai\” •

At a meeting of the Otago Hospital Board an anonymous letter was read from a body of students. Ihe letter was as follows: “Enclosed please find 4/-, the proceeds of an anti-swearing pact lasting a fortnight. The treatment having been successful, the parties being Scottish, there will be few, if any. further payments.” The letter was ordered to he received and handed to the Press. Thus the President of the Standard Corporation of New York (Air V. C. Divine) : “It is time more retailers began to get the long view that advertising is the great ally in building up their business. They will then make more people believe in their publeity, and rely upon their advertising, not only for the items advertised for that day, but tor whatever they may want, year in and year out.”

Rounding up the poultry is the pastime indulged in by a singularly well domesticated cow in a certain property in Palmerston N. A resident keeps his house row in a paddock. The other day the owner came out and saw the cow carefully rounding the fowls up one by one, and driving (hem into the run through I lie hole in the fence. One rebellious hen. which escaped momentarily was quickly headed off and corralled with the remainder and the cow, having accomplished her task, returned to graze contentedly in the paddock at a convenient distance from the run. —Exchange.

A visitor from the south recently inspected a block of hush within an hour’s walk of Te Aroha, and so pleased was lie with the result ol ; h<‘ inspection that he has taken up a block of a thousand acres which contain milling hush sufficient for probably twenty years’ cutting. Jt is estimated that the aphis common to turnip does damage in Xew Zealand to the extent of £1 per acre. This is equivalent to £l,000,000. Included in the estimate is the loss caused by tin* rot (if swedes, which is undoubtedly spread by these insects,” says Mr J. J. Stevenson.

A lifeboat which, when .fully loaded, with 85 souls, one man can lower to the water from'a sinking ship in a few minutes, is now being put on ocean lners for the first time. A party of shipping representatives from London have jimt viewed a demonstration on the new motorship Aorangi at the Fairfield yards on the Clyde. By releasing a lever the boat automatically drops to the promenade deck, where passengers can quickly embark, following which it is lowered to the water. The first vessel to he fitted with the new apparatus is the Aorangi, which is due o leave London shortly on her maiden voyage to New Zealand and Australia. The Aorangi carries 15 of the boats, two of which arc tilted with wireless, including a mo-tor-boat.