Fly-Casting Record.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 125, 26 April 1940, Page 6

Fly-Casting Record.

To cast a fly 97ft.. Gin. on two occasions was the performance of Mr F. Lord, Rotorua, at the annual fly-cast-ing tournament of the Hamilton Aclinmtisation Club. Hockey Players’ Gesture. A decision to lend the Government £2OO free of interest for the duration of the war and six months alter was made hv the New Zealand M omen s Hockey'Association at its annual meeting. The chairman (Mrs W. H. Moore) said that it was not only men but money that mattered. Tasman Air Service. An announcement that the inaugural flight of tho trans-Tasman service lrom Auckland to Sydney woidd ho made on Tuesday, April 30, was made on Wednesday* by the Prime -Minister. Passengers and airmail would be carried. The return flight from Sydney would he made later in the week. The Enemy At Hand, , Reference to “the enemy in our midst” was made by the hcadmastoi, Colonel A. B. Charters, during his address at the Lyall Bay School Anzac Day service at Wellington. “A most serious position is the enemy in our mfeist—those persons now professing the various isms. Any person who, in time of war, endeavours by persuasion or by propaganda to prevent our young men from enlisting is an enemy, nay, more—a traitor,” he declared. “Magnificent Parade.” Prefacing his address at the Anzac Day commemoration service at the Showgrounds yesterday, Rev. Gardner Miller, of Christchurch, extended congratulations to Palmerston North on the magnificent parade of returned soldiers, troops, Red Cross nurses and school cadets. The scene about him, lie said, looking at the vast congregation which filled the two grandstands and extended round the oval, was a glorious and colourful sight. Less Tonnage Handled. ■ Substantial decreases in the tonnage of trading vessels arriving and the manifest tonnage of cargo handled are Shown in tho .shipping and cargo statistics of the Port of Wellington foi March compared with March last year. Jn a statement at the meeting of the Harbour Board the chairman (Mr M A. Eliott) said shipping arrivals decreased by 110.025 net tons. from 441,670 tons to 331,654 tons. The manifest tonnage of cargo handled had decreased from 247,048 tons to 167,0>. tons, or by 79.987 tons. Remembrance of Anzac.

“1 am rather afraid that many of the citizens of the Dominion have forgotten the story of Anzac,” said Rev. Gardner Miller, of Christchurch, at the Anzac Day service at the Palmerston North Showgrounds. “if Anzac Day does nothing more than to remind those who have forgotten what was done for them, then, I say, may the Anzac Day services go on for ever and ever.” He advised the members of the congregation to secure John Masefield’s story on Gallipoli. It had still thrilled him profoundly on re-reading it recently.

X-Ray For Soldiers. The Palmerston North Hospital Board’s outpatient department has so far N-rayed no fewer than 700 men for the Defence Department. Roadside Memorial.

The Wellington Provincial Centennial Council has received permission from the Main Highways Board to erect a memorial to Te Wharepouri on the Hutt Road near the Ngahauranga Gorge. Winter Snow. The Ivaweka and Ruahine Ranges, hounding Hawke’s Bay, are now covered with a heavy mantle of snow, which appears to be the first permanent fall of the season. A frost of 3} degrees was recorded in Hastings on Wednesday morning. Memorial Tree. Efforts are being made to strike some cuttings from a pohutukawa tree at Eastbourne, which is said to have been the first Anzac memorial established, for presentation to the States of the Commonwealth of Australia and to the Federal Territory. Petrol Rationing to Continue. Ho did not see that there was any chance of the rationing of petrol being lifted while the war lasted, said the Minister of Transport (Hon. It. Semple), at a meeting of the New Zealand Road Safety Council. The blatter of the supply of petrol was determined overseas. Homer Tunnel Traversed. After wading through water up to their armpits, Mr and Mrs N. C. Berndtson, Milford Sound, succeeded in getting through the Homer tunnel and are the first residents of Milford to reach Invercargill by that route. Mrs Berndtson is the first woman to pass through the tunnel. Trentham Band’s Visit. The Trentham Camp Band is at present visiting Palmerston North and will lead the Maori Battalion in their farewell march through the city. The band is in the charge of Lieutenant C. Pike, who was conductor of the Palmerston North Garrison Band before the outbreak of hostilities, and Drum-Major S. M. Thomson. formerly of Palmerston North, who was associated with the Palmerston North City Silver Band. Wartime Anzac Day. Perhaps as cogent a reason as any for continuing to hold Anzac Day services in the schools was given by Mr W. G. Black, chairman of the Central School Committee, at yesterday’s service at the school. “I feel it is necessary at a time like this that we should demonstrate our faith in the spirit of Anzac and faith in all those things we hold dear,” remarked Mr Black. “We should use this day, to display our faith in liberty and to commemorate the sacrifice made by men and women twenty-five years ago.” The War Issue. “We are faced with an issue in which to stand aside is to invite a worse setback than war. Wo call our civilisation still a Christian civilisation. If those ideals against whcli we are ranged were to trumph, then Christian thinking in world affairs would bo disloyalty, Christian speaking, treason, and Christian action practically impossible,” declared the Anglican Primate and Archbishop of New Zealand, Most Rev. Dr Campbell West-Watson, of Christchurch, in his address at the Anzac Day service in Wellington yesterday. German Leaflets Go Astray. •

A German aeroplane which passed over the Charleroi district dropped anti-British propaganda leaflets, evidently in error, as they seem to have been intended for France, writes the Brussels correspondent of the London Times. The leaflets contained four pictures, illustrating the Burghers ol Calais, 1547, Joan of Arc at tne stake, Napoleon guarded by a British sentry at St. Helena, and a British Tommy calling to a French poilu who is going the top towards the Siegfried Line, “Forward, Comrade!”

Game Plentiful. Indications are that there should be plenty of game in the Manawatu district when the shooting season opens. Reports indicate that pheasants are present in the district in fair numbers and numbers of quail are increasing. Ducks are very plentiful, especially the mallard strain. An unusual occurrence is reported in the presence of black swans and paradise ducks on the Manawatu River. These have been seen on several occasions lately. There is also reported to be plenty of fish in local rivers tor the close of the fishing season. Little Infectious Disease. “There has been very little infectious disease in the Palmerston North area during the past 12 months,” stated the medical* superintendent of the Palmerston North Hospital (Mr J. H. North) in his report which was presented at the annual meeting of -the Hospital Board. “The diphtheria figure is a very low one for a district the size of ours. This may well be the result of effective inoculation treatment by the Health Department within the last lew years. The cases that have occurred have been sporadic, no one district having a high proportion of cases. The other infectious diseases show an equally satisfactory state of affairs. The number of cases admitted during the year was: Diphtheria, 10; scarlet fever, 11; typhoid fever, 1; infantile paralysis. 1. Germans’ Queer Tricks. The London Times’ special correspondent with the French Forces, describing a visit to a group of French scouts, writes: I heard a queer story that lias been confirmed from several sources. One foggy night a detachment in an advanced position were amazed by the appearance in the sky of a figure of tho Virgin Mary. It appeared again the next night, when it was found that the Germans were using a powerful projector to throw it against the mist. This at once suggests ail explanation of another strange tale of the war, according to which several men,, who may have heard a local legend, insisted on separate occasions that they had seen the ghost of the Duke of Marlborough mounted oil a white horse. One would have thought that the Germans have too many spectres of their own without playing with magic lanterns. National "unanimity. In these days, when the nation’s existence is at stake, a voice lrom the Royal Navy echoes down the years, a voice from one of Nelson s “band of brothers” (says a correspondent of the London Times). Wrote Admiral Ooilingwood: “Excellent, off Cadiz, January 26, 1798: In short, there never was a time that required so much the unanimity of the nation. The question is not merely who shall be conqueror, with the acquisition of some island or colony ceded by a treaty, and then the business concludes; but whether we shall any longer be a people —whether Britain is still to be enrolled among the list of European nations —whether the name of Englishman is to continue an appellation of honour, conveying the idea of every quality which makes human nature respectable, or a term of reproach and infamy, the designation of beggars and slaves . . . The contest must decide whether they shall have anything, even a country, which they can call their own." As it was in the day of Napoleon, so is it in the day of Hitler.