NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 21, 17 September 1931, Page 2

NEAR AND FAR

State Lotteries. The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce has decided to support '"J»na cheme originated at Putaruru^ ahd how before the Lahds Board/ for State Idtteriel - in :the Soiith Auckland district forr the purpo'se of sfecuring" finance for ^ettling suitable uhemployed ihen ori Ihe land, it was considered the Government would be justified in sanctionirig tbe scheme in view of the large amount of money that was sent out of the Dominion : for lotteries and art unions -overseas. Octopus at Onehunga. An octopps with tentacles 3ft 6in long was f ounded stranded on the beach at Onehunga last week. It Was endeavouring to * rdach deep • water, but was quickly killed. 1 • Cheap Taxis in Whangarei. People requiring the use of taxicabs in Whangarei are in a fortunate positio'n);;for' fhere is a "war" m pr&f gres's. The reduction of ihe rate Yo 6d a mile was recently instituted: by one firhi; whieh was followe'd by artother firm redueing the rate to fed a mile,. A third firm refiuced its fares to 3d a -mile. Fares from Whangarei to Auckland by • service car have also been reduced by t^o firms to 15s single and 30s returii. _ i Eggs a Dozeii*. .. J Writing to "a friend in Balclutha a Waimate resident' .st'aies That e^gs ! there are pfocurable at 8d a dozen, and that it , was expeeted ,that the price would be reduced to 6d a dozen , , this week. * " •» Gojld from Sand. A scheme to extract gold by means - of mod'ern hydrauiic machiuery fr6m the sea-beach near ■the' mouth- of the Rakaia Rjver, is now .under yeview hy fwo Wellington men, Messrs. 'F. W. Manton and Godfhey Magnus. An application by them for :a special sea Beach claim was refus'ed recently !on a technicality by the W'arden, Mr: C. R. Orf -Walker, S.M., whp said 'hei did so with regret as the.iiidustry was j one to be encou'raged. It:is probable tbat/ the applichtion . will be renewed, however, in a mann'er to overcome the previous objeetion. Self-Destruction "Justified," "If ever there is a pa'se where self- , destruction is justified "'it is where a man is suffering in such a f ashton as this," remarked the coroner at the inquest on Mr. Thomas Judge, 64,' of Gregson-row, Leigh, who drowned himselfj The widow stated that her husband had been medically atteAded for cancer, and had said that the j pain was so bad to bear that he wi'sh- ; ed he was out of it. "Whiie in pofeit of law one is justified in saying tfiat Mr. Judge was temporarily of unsound mind," added the coron'er/ "one.'s common sense inclines one' to say that he did bripg his mmd t'd bear. on it, and, rightly Or wrongly,' decided that he was takin'g the b'est way out of his troubles." A verdict of suicide Whil'e Of unsound mind was recordedl' ' ! " ' Victorian Hustle. r ' Someone suggests that for all our transport revolution people travelled quicker in London in Victorian' "days than now. Tliis remarkabie assertlon is based ou Lady Gwendoline CecWs' life of her famous father, the ikte Lord Salisbury: His great preoccu- , pation was, by means of a specfallytrained horse ahd his private brougham, to get from the Foreign Office '■po' King's Cross to cateh the 7 p!m. ■ train to Hatfield. For this he allowed himself seventeen minutes. Without any speeially-traihed horse, or even a private car, anyone can easily beat that performaiice to-day. Any ohdinary taxi, picked up in Whitehill, would get you to King's Cross ' at that quiet time of the traffic day in : eight or ten minutes. The Victorians had the big statesmen — we have the sixty m.p.h. super-taxis. * : Youthful Precoclty. "It seems nowadays that any youth ■ who shows a tremendous inter'est ! in bolting little strips of steel together, or in exploring the mysteries of a motor-car's interior, appears, in the eyes of his parents, to be a heaveninade engineer," writ'es Mr. Ed^ar Wallace in 'the S.uhday News. "Thpse unfortunate yotitlis go put from th'e ; Universities equipped' for the pr'ofes- ' sion of electric and other hinds 1 of engineers, only to discover that the , best off er they receive is one ffom.a firm of motor-car "manufacturers, who are prepared to take them as apprentices", on wa'ges which will hardly cover the cost of their cigarettes, for a limited number of years. N.Z. in London. At the London Rotary Club Juncheon on July 22, Rotarian .Maurice Cohen, Palmerston North, gave' a most interesting talk pn the.earl/y dis- ' covery of New Zealand and the characteristics of the Mabri. Th'e meaning of "Maori" was said to he '"fehe Children of the Hour." ."Aroha," one of the most beautiful words in any • language, meant "Farewell." "My Love to you," "May God be with you"— indeed, anything that was beatiful in sentiment. New Zealaiid, he cpritinued, was .'96 per ceiit. British, and its development during the last 90 years was most marvellous. Loy- , alty to Great iBritain was the great desire of the people. The language of the Maoris was very poetic, for they were all born orators. . Mr. Cohen quoted a story of a Maori father saying to his dying son: "Go, go, my son, farewell j ydii gp.Ky the mornihg tide and I will follow by the evening tide." This was retold by a man who prided. himself on his knowledge of the Maori language/ But; his version was: "Go, go/ my sbn, farewell; you go by the inorniiig tide ahd I will scramble through the. ferice." The H. Liners. Croydon Aerodrome is steadily recruiting its fleet of new giant linbrs. Built by Handley-Page people and driven by four 2200 h.p. engines, all the'se huge. majlers are given classical names beginning with the letter H. They will no doubt be known as the H liners. There are to be eight of them altogether, and three are al-* ready in commission, Four are to ;be what is called the Western .and four of the Eas.tern type, the former carrying thirty-eight and the latter eighteen passengers, with additional room in their case for mail bags. Their fuselage is 86 feet long, and they combine every known safety device, including slotted wings, tri-; plex glass, and ih'dependent wheel.. brakes. It is claini'ed that insulatioii makes their engines no noisier than an express train's.