NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2962, 14 November 1925, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

Tristan da iCunha, the loneliest part of the British Empire, set in the wide solitudes of the Sputh Atlantic, has 26 dwelling-houses, one church, five boats 25 feet long, and ten others 14 feet long, 29 wagons and 28 wheelbarrows distributed among its 133 inhabitants. A Lille workman claims that he has invented an apparatus to save the crews of sunken submarines. He has issued a challenge to all maritime nations asking to be shut up in a submarine and sunk to any depth, and declares that he will get out in less than thirty minutes.. As the result of experiments lasting six years, a new system of wireless telephony is now installed in trains on the Hamburg-Berlin line. Passengeis while travelling are able to call up telephone subscribers at any of the exchanges and can themselves be called up.

Cotton-growing might be tried north of Auckland on what is now waste gum land, considers the Hon. Crawford Vaughan, “father of the Australian cottongrowing, industry.” Mr. Vaughan (says the “Star”) points out that the Auckland Peninsula is within the latitude in which cotton is successfully grown in the United States, and the only question is whether the temperature and soil conditions here are suitable. An important aspect was the use that c-ould now be made of by-products of the cotton plant —cotton seed cake, which Australia was exporting in large quantities to Europe, cotton oils, and various kinds of lards. Greece and Japan were now growing cotton, and the northern belt in Europe had reached the 42nd parallel of latitude. An interesting experiment to test whether bees will produce two crops of honey in the one year is about to be carried out. The Niagara, from Vancouver to Auckland, brought a consignment of bees, aggregating about 135,000. These (states the “Herald”) will be worked in Auckland during the present

season, and if they take kindly to the change they will be shipped back to British Columbia in time for the start of the next season there. Recently a Wanganui land agent was requested by a Springvale resident to dispose of one of his sections at a tempting price (relates an exchange). The agent mistook the location of the section, and placed the “for sale” notice on the property of another man who holds a section out there and who resides in Wanganui, but visits Springvale during the week-end to till the cabbage patch. During last week he learned that the agent had a section for sale in the locality, and being of a speculative turn of mind, he made inquiries from the latter. The price tempted him, and he was given first chance to complete the deal, when to his astonishment he learned that he had been negotiating for his own section. The bonds of matrimony, making two people as one, are severed in the polling booth, as well as in the Divorce Court. A married couple caused a little excitement at one of the Greymouth polling booths (relates an exchange). The husband considered he was entitled to accompany his better half behind the screen where she went to register her vote, and resented the intervention of a poll clerk, who pointed out the ballot was secret, even unto married coupels. The situation had threatening possibilities, but trouble was averted by the action of another official at the booth, who called in a policeman. The irate husband pocketed his grievances and allowed himself to be escorted into the fresh air. According to Mr. J. Wl Whelan, orchard instructor, Palmerston North, great success has attended the introduction by Dr. Tillyard of a natural enemy of the woolly aphis —aphelinus mali (states an exchange). "Wherever the aphelinus mali has been released, he'States, and notably in the Manawatu- district, there has been remarkable diminution in the amount of aphis on the trees and as the pest used to attack new growth it was very serious menace. It was of interest io note just how the mali attacked the aphis in such determined fashion. The female laid 50 to SO eggs, each one in the body of an aphis. The aphis, naturally, was killed, and when the eggs hatched out the insects continued the operation on such of the aphides as remained, and so j the cycle went on. It was just another example of the success attendant upon research work in the direction of fighting diseases in the most efficient manner —by employing enemies to do the work. City-bred men frequently make good on Canadian prairie. Out of twelve Canadians who have won an annual prize offered for the best wheat grown in North America, el even hailed from Britain and nine of these were city born.

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