NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3799, 31 May 1928, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A man in Carlisle workhouse has asked that his wife be allowed to go out and look for work while he stays in with the children, Charlotte Bronte’s bedroom is to be restored to its old condition in connection with the museum now being arranged at the Old Parsonage, Haworth. The Bristol churches have formed a limited company, which has bought live old houses for £IOO, and converted them into modern tenements at 2/0 to 3/- a room. “Some folk only remember their mothers in time of their own trouble, and then turn to her for help,” said a speaker at a church function at Wanganui on Sunday afternoon (says the Herald), “and that is also the way many treat God, which reminds me of the story of a man working on a steep roof, who lost his hold and began to slide off. As ho was going down he cried, ‘Oh, Lord, help! Oh, Lord, help!’ and then, ‘lt doesn’t matter now, Lord, my pants have caught in a nail.’ ”

Regarded as one of the world’s authorities on the subject of the mineral content of pastures, Dr. J. B. Orr, Director of the Rowell Institute, Aberdeen, is to arrive in New Zealand next week. He has been spending some months in Australia, and for some time the Department of scientific and Industrial Research has been trying to arrange for his visit to the Dominion, but without success until recently. How long Dr. Orr will be able to remain in New Zealand has

not yet been decided, but while here he will go into the subject with Mi'. B. C. Aston, of the Department of Agriculture, who is at present making a special investigation into ■ the mineral content of pastures. “I cannot say whether the advantages are greater than the disadvantages or vice versa,” said Miss Maude Royden at Auckland the other evening, when a member of the audience she was addressing in the East Street Hall asked her whether she favoured prohibition. Miss Royden referred to the experiment of prohibition in the United States, and said that cus a result of it the whole level of the working class life had undoubtedly been raised. On the other hand the graft and corruption were appalling and the violation of the law was a very serious thing. “I think we should give the United States a generation, say another 30 years, to sec if prohibition can 'be ‘put over,’ as they say,” added Miss Royden.

A number of photographs of 'George McQuay—the former New •Zealand soldier who has just returned to the Dominion after having lost his memory for nearly 13 years —which were taken in Sydney recently make it obvious that he made wonderful progress toward normality in the three weeks after his mother’s arrival at the Sydney Hospital. The earlier photographs depict a shrinking figure, but later views show the young man speaking animatedly, sitting at ease with friends and strolling . with confidence in the open air. Near views are particularly inter-

esting for McQuay’s lined and anxious expression of three weeks previously has almost disappeared, to be replaced by smiling countenance. The vacancy in the eyes has waned and the features have undergone a change for the better.