NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3887, 22 December 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A movement will be made next winter to secure the establishment of municipal golf links at Palmerston. It is probable that Mr. Alan Wilkie and his Shakespearean company will open <a New Zealand tour in January or February next. There are now 7947 consumers of power supplied by the Wanganui Rangitikei Electric Power Board, of these 5304 being in AVanganui City. There was an increase of 112 consumers last month, 69 being in the city. _ - The 'membership of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association has shown a big increase during the past two years, and at present there are 1280 names on the register. An unusual position was created at the annual meeting of the Manawatu Boy Scouts’ Association when an unfortunate contretemps arose and the executive virtually disbanded. Now that women are to become feminine, once more, says the cynic, it is obvious that the modern girl’s daughter will never be the man her mother was. The first national Chinese boxing and wrestling tournament has opened at Shanghai. Chinese boxing regulations permit hitting or kicking in any part of the body, and in fencing genuinely sharp swords and spears are used. 'Stated to be £4OO in arrears in respect of a maintenance order in favour of his wife, Frederick Orange,. 29, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court at Auckland.

- A cuckoo has made its appearance in the garden surrounding Mr. R. C. Hughes’ residence, New Plymouth. For several summers a cuckoo has regularly appeared in these grounds and it is presumed it (is the same bird which has made its home here each season.

The up-to-date agricultural machinery at Ratana would do credit to any modern farmer (says the AA'janganui Herald). The Maoris, who undertook to cultivate a large area at Ratana this year, procured the best modern equipment, even to reapers, and binders. The wheat crop is making excellent growth, and the same applies to the potatoes.

, The American army authorities have been very anxious to find out just exactly what does happen when a man falls frorii a great height. They have decided that he •is conscious till he hits, and also ithat his pace is about the same as 'that of a racing motor. Using a • dummy of a 1801 b. man, it was found that it fell 1200 feet in the first 11 seconds, and then developed a steady velocity of 118 miles per hour.

An authoritative ruling on the question “What is a hogget?” was supplied at the meeting of the A. and P. Association in Masterton in the following letter from the secretary of the Lincoln Longwool Sheep Breeders’ •’ Association, Lincoln, England: “I am in receipt of your letter and beg to inform you that a Ihogget is a sheep that has not been shorn and a Gimmer is a yearling ewe that has been shorn. A lamb is termed a hogget when it is about eight months old and some are distinguished by the teeth. Lambs lose their sucking teeth and develop two broad teeth at about ten months.”

Early next year an undertaking which -has been planned by the British and Foreign Bible Society will be put into operation in the Dominion. The object of the society is to place Bibles in the bedrooms of all hotels throughout New Zealand. An announcement to this effect was made by the Rev. D. Calder (Dominion secretary of the society) at the annual meeting of the Otago (Bible Society on Tuesday. Mr. Calder mentioned that this decision had been come to after much thought and careful inquiry, and he added that the Bibles were now to be found in hotel bedrooms in America, 'Scotland, and Australia, and occasionally in New Zealand. The society was 'assumed of a fair amount of success in its undertaking’. The Bibles, one of which was presented to Mr. ltosevear by Mr. Calder, are reported to be substantial volumes, and are printed in very clear type.