NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3655, 21 June 1927, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Auckland’s University students, deprived to the usual capping ceremony this year, held an unofficial one. They filled the Town Hal! to capacity and kept the huge audience amused for more than two hours with topical burlesques and raised about £IOO for the Auckland City Mission. Wanganui, fifth largest city in New Zealand, is also fifth on the list of wool-selling centres of the Dominion. Wellington tops the list this season with 106,378 bales sold and Napier comes next with 92,386 bales. Wanganui’s total is 61,033 bales as compared with 61,887 for the 1925-26 season and 57,547 for the 1924-25 season. —Herald. “The Churches are faced with new problems in a generation which is no longer content to accept unreservedly what in the past was taken for granted; which claims new liberty; which has ideas of its own, and is infinitely more critical and headstrong than its forefathers.” These words were used hv the Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) in his address at the laying of the foundation-stone of the Methodist Trinity Theological College and Hostel.

The Kawarau dam has been closed and the river has fallen two feet. Claim holders are maintaining a “wait and see” policy. Says the Dunedin Star editorially: Whether the Kawarau retains its secret during 1927 will depend largely on how far Nature will keep its turbulent tributary (the Shotover) in check during the next few weeks. The people of Thames are making extensive preparations for the entertainment- of pioneers of the mining industry, who arc expected from all parts of the Dominion for the Diamond Jubilee of the opening of the Thames goldfields, which occurs on July 30th, 31st and August Ist, The celebrations will extend over three days, and intending visitors should communicate with Mr W. D. box 33, Thames. McDonald l secretary, post office “It’s about time the spongers were cleaned up,” said Mr. A. E. Herbert, who is in charge of the unemployment relief depot at Christchurch. “There are far too many loafers among the Christchurch unemployed, who prejudice the genuine man in the eyes of the public. It is a common occurrence for such men to send their wives out to work while they attend demonstration meetings at Victoria Square.” Mrs. Herbert considers that imprisonment is too good for some of these mon and she threatened to have one man arrested for obtaining goods from the dopot by false pretences, unless he would agree to put in a day’s work to pay for his rations. The man thereupon began work.