Tea in New Zealand.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 244, 12 September 1940, Page 6

Tea in New Zealand.

<< Kvei*ywhere I go in. Isew Sealant] people try to tell me that people in this country drink more tea than anyone else, but it’s all wrong. The people in the British Isles drink more tea than anyone else,” said Mr J. J. L. Logan, a tea planter from Dooars, 400 miles from Calcutta,) in an interview. Wanton Damage. v

Wanton destruction at the show grounds at New Plymouth, will entail considerable expense in repairs. Practically every window pane on the ring side of the grandstand and on the side facing the road has bean deliberately broken by rocks and stones, and there is also evidence of damage by pearifles. Girls Preferred.

It was stated at a meeting held yesterday for the purpose of forming a reception committee for British children when they arrive in Palmerston North that the applications for girls for private homes outnumber those for boys by nearly two to one. This appeared to be general throughout New Zealand. Auckland’s Centenary.

One hundred years ago, on September 12, 1840, the first overseas merchant vessel entered the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland. This was the barque Platina, one of the New- Zealand Company’s emigrant ships. She had been entrusted with the conveyance from England of the pre-built house that had been provided as a residence for Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson.

France’s Marching Song. After the singing of the National Anthem and the “Marseillaise” at the Auckland French Club’s meeting the president (Mr A. Thomson) remarked that the “Marseillaise” might now bo considered the marching song of Free France. It was unlikely that the singing of it would he permitted in fetter ed' France, though it would still be pulsing in the hearts of thousands. Higher Cost-Higher Fares. Proposals to increase tram fares on Sundays and holidays, and to revise the system of bus fares, were placed before the Wellington City Council last night. It was stated that, unless steps were taken to prevent it, in spite of the heavy exhibition traffic early in the year, a loss of £18,900 would be incurred on the last year’s working. This was attributed to the higher costs resulting from'the 5 per cent, wages increase.

Survived Torpedoing. Mr and Mrs A. J, Canning, of Whakatanc, have received the following cable from their son, Maynard, w-ho was a member of the crew of the armed merchant cruiser Dunvegan Castle, which was recently torpedoed in the Atlantic: “Happy landing. Writing.” Mr Canning expressed confidence that his son would he able to take care of himself until help arrived, as he was an excellent swimmer, and this has been happily borne out. Regimented Life.

“I know wliat it is to live under the Fascist regime,” said Lieutenant-Col-onel W. A. Ebbs, the new Chief Secretary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, in a interview. “I was over five years in Italy under Fascist control, and know the degree of regimentation that exists—regimentation applied to one’s thinking, reading, and culture, exerted by propaganda and direct law; so 1 can sympathise with the puzzlement that transplanted Latins in America may have. Generally speaking, I should say tiiat the people of the United States have warm sympathy with the British Empire in its present struggle, hut at the same time there is a very strong feeling that America should not enter the war, in the sense of sending men away to fight in Europe.”

New Hospital at Raetihi. A tender lias been accepted for the building of a new maternity hospital and nurses’ homo at Ilaetihi. Naturalised. “I met a lady who was wondering whether anyone in the country would be found willing to take care of her two dachshunds for her. ‘They were both born in this country,’ - she said anxiously, ‘and so were their parents. They are really English dogs at heart!’ ” “Atticus II.” in tho Sunday Times (London). Relics of Old China. To his previously valuable collection of Chinese antiques given to. the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Captain W. P. Colli ik, of Southern Rhodesia, has now made further gifts of a lead figure and bronze silhouettes of tin Han period, which-ranges from 200 B.C. to 200 A.D., and a set of lead sleeve weights of the Tang period, about 800 A.D. Four Foremen For 14 Workmen.

It was stated at a meeting of the Foxton Borough Council that there were four foremen for 14 Scheme 13 men. The council decided to dispense with two of the foremen, returning them to the ranks of the workers, and to notify the Government that-, the council can find work in future only for men whom the department is unable to place. A number of men have already been absorbed on tho Moutoa flax scheme. Family’s Good Record.

A Turua family has a splendid record in the matter of serving their country, says an Auckland correspondent. Two sons of Mr and Mi’s P. Olsen entered camp with tho Third Echelon, another son has been notified to enter camp at Burnham, and the fourth son, now living in Tauranga, has enlisted and is waiting to bo called in to camp. Thus the only four eligible boys from this family have enlisted for service. Now a Private.

A General inspecting Home Guards asked an elderly man in the ranks his civilian occupation. The man replied: ‘‘Nothing in particular. I’ve knocked around a good deal.” The General moved on and commented to the officer accompanying him: “That’s a pleasant-spoken man.” The ofiicer, keeping a straight face replied: “Well, sir, he ought to be. Ho is tho Duke of St. Albans.”

An Anniversary. A correspondent recently wrote to the Loudon Times: Napoleon surrendered on July 15, 1815, and it seems opportune, on the 125th anniversary of that historic event, to give publicity to his letter of surrender: “A prey to the factions which divide my country, and to the enmity of the greatest Powers of Europe, I have terminated my public career, and I come, like Themis tocles, to seat myself at the 'hearth of the British people. I place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most .generous of my enemies.” Political Barometer.

A portrait of Mr Winston Churchill which once lay in the cellar of the National Liberal Club now occupies the position of honour in the smoking room. A lamp has been placed over it to illuminate the Prime Minister’s features. The portrait has been a kind of political Barometer registering the changes in opinion of Mr Churchill. Years ago. when orthodox Liberals were very displeased with Mr Churchill and Mr Lloyd George, their pictures were taken From the walls of the club and consigned to ignominy below. There they lay. almost forgotten. Time softened the Liberal wrath, and in due course the pictures were restored to their places near the portrait of Mr John Burns and the axe with which Gladstone felled his trees. Wary Censorship. When a letter containing used postage stamps is posted in New Zealand to an address overseas the sender is liable to have the stamps returned with the following note: “The accompanying postage stamps are returned at the direction of the censorship authorities for the reason that it is not permissible to forward used or unused postage stamps to foreign countries. The letter has been released for transmission with a suitable note explaining that the stamps were abstracted and returned to the sender.” The view of the authorities is that used postage stamps generally have paper on the back, and it would be quite possible to convey a message abroad by means of a few words, apparently there by accident, on the back of used postage stamps. The censors have not time to scrutinise the backs of hundreds of stamps. They allow small numbers of unused stamps through.