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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4533, 20 November 1930, Page 4

A suggestion that congregations should listen to sermons from invisible preachers was made; in the report of the iCburch commission on the staffing of parishes, says a London cable. It suggested that services in isolated 'churches should be relayed from cathedrals and elsewhere. Thus the shortage of clergy would be met. A letter from the Internal Affairs Department, suggesting that the length of shot-gun cartridges should not exceed 22 inches, in view of the increasing tendency to lengthen cartridge cases, raised an interesting discussion at the meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. The writers stated that, while there was a doubt as to the sportsmanship of 22-inch “long range” shells, they had gradually come into general favour.. There were now 12-gauge guns which did not exceed 101 b. in weight, and therefore not contravening the regulations, .but which took 32-inch shells and Avere guaranteed to kill wild fowl at from 80 to 100 yards. Members were of the opinion that 22-inch shells were amply powerful for any sporting purpose. Longer shells permitted the use of heavier charges and a closer “pattern.”. “If a man cannot get his ducks with a 22-inch shell,” said a member who expressed the general opinion, “he should let them alone.”