NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 14, 8 September 1931, Page 2

NEAR AND FAR

What Brand? A rather unusual request eame over the phone to a reporter of the Wanganui Herald recently, from ' a small voice. "Could you tell me," aslced the inquirer, ."what hrand of whisky the searchers rubhed Mr. Addis with when they found him?" The reporter could not supply the information, but told the inquirer that if he was really anxious to know he should eommunicate with Sergeant Sivyer, of Taumarunui,, and that officer, no doubt, would' do his best to obtain the information. "Thanks. I will do so," said the inquirer, and the reporter now presumes that he was an. interested memher of the trade, and no. doubt full details of that brand will appear later in an advertisement. Sea Lion at Taranaki. Discovered on Inaha beach, Taranaki, on Sunday, a young sea lion snarled viciously at Messrs. Drake and Baker, of Okaiawa, says a "Dominion" special service message froih Wanganui. The mammal was found about 50 years ahove the high-water mark, and when driven down the beach entered the sea and swam away. It is stated that this is the first time that a sea lion has beeti seen on South Taranaki beaches. Self Help Club. Although inaugurated only this month, the Stratford Self Help Club's scheme of community gardening for married unemployed already has 'been well established, and 74 families in the borough have undertaken the cultivation of vegetable plots to assist in tiding them over next winter. Dr. Doris Gordon, the originator of the scheme, informed a Star representative that if only 40 of the families made a success of the scheme the estimated saving in relief costs to the town would be £600 next year, on an estimate that each family would be able to provide themselves with vegetables for eight months of the year. Extra Weight. "All travelling teams put on condition when they come to the Dominion," said Mr. F. T. Evans, in welcoming the Australian Rugby team on behalf of old players at the civic reception in Christchurch. "The South Africans all put on extra weight, and blamed it to the quality of our butter, ultimately, the manager had to put them on rations." "We have all put on condition since coming to New Zealand," said. the manager, Mr. T. S. Davis, in his response, "and were wondering what was the eause of it." Charity Staraps. Although the previous campaign was not a success, it is proposed to make a further appeal this year by charity stamps, the purpose of which is the establishment of permanent bases throughout New Zealand for health eamps for improving the health of ill-nourished and debiliated children. Last year the gros reeeipts were £1730. The small response is attributed by the Post and Telegraph reP°rt presented to Parliament to the

nnancial depression and to a less extent to the design of the stamp being practically a replica of that of the previous year. A new design had been ordered from England, but an unexpected difficulty in engraving had prevented the stamp from Teaching New Zealand in time for the launching of the campaign.

Great Progress. "In spite of the ruin wrought by the earthquake of June, 1929, the people of the Murchison distriet refused to be dismayed, with the result that to-day, two years after the catastrophe, no one who visits the distriet can fail to be impressed with the progress made toward rehabilitation," said an Aucklander who spent several days on the West Coast last week. "Almost every building has been repainted, and a large store which was wrecked has been re-established on thoroughly up-to-date lines. Murchison, in fact, looks like a new township. Of course, the scarred hillsides_ and the great Matakitaki slip are silent reminders of the big earthquake, and the top of Morrell's homestead still lies at the spot whence it was earried by the landslide. However, most farm lands are being worked normally. Indeed, with the exception of a few settlers in the Upper Maruia distriet, all the farmers have returned.

They Come Back The Arabs says, "Drink of the Nile waters and you will come back to drink them again." Something similar seems to happen at Mount Coolc, even to those who confine themselves to the small climbs. "A day's clambering on the lower hills and ieeflows (writes Mr. James Cowan, in the New Zealand Railway Magazine) usually convinces the tyro that a 10,000 or 12,000-foot peak is not for him this season. He is captured, however- Once he sets foot on the mountain, samples the peculiar joy of chipping steps with an ice-axe on the clean, hard, bottle-green or blueshadowed ice, or descending some snowslope, on the dizzy ski — even if he lands nose-down and feet up in the proeess — the mountains have him in their grip. He— -or she— will return again, and again."

The Tariff WallA "The chief reason Germany to-day is near bankruptcy, and thus near revolution and war, is the world tariff wall. In the long run foreign debts can only be paid with exports. The tariff wall blocks those exports with which Germany would pay the former Allies and with which the former Allies would pay their debts to us. We are largely responsible for that would tariff walls^ Our part of that wall is the highest and ours in turn has f orced others to build higher. Until that tariff wall is scaled down hv

us and others, international trade cannot flow- freely again, international health cannot be regained. Therefore we hope Congress will grant the proposed debt moratorium, hut not only that. We hope Congress also will initiate the reduction in world tariffs upon which peace and prosperity wait. Inter-Governmental debts and reparations cannot be dealt with alone. As a cause of this world crisis, they move along with Tariff conflicts and preparations for war." — "The New York World Telegram."