NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 36, 5 October 1931, Page 2

NEAR AND FAR

■ ! * h* ' The jCulti-Mulcher.., . ( . I The culti-mvlcher, -a fiew farm implementy.. wlxich does four 4obs .'at ohce, has been dfemonstrated b'efore Government ofiicials of the Uhited States. The new machine eombines the old spring-toofh harrow, the roller, and tlie grain1 drllll By going once round a • field, • a- f armer may loosen the soil, put in the fertiliser, seed the land, and leave it rolled free of all luiiips; In the' "past three or four trips were necessary to 4> this work. The soil is l.eft packed just sufficiently to preverit the escape "of moisture. " The machine is pul|ed either with a team oi 'horses or a tractor. Rapjd Growing Fungus. . • . So rapid is the growth of a mpsh-room-like fjingus ipund in Hawiaii that' the human eye mhy see it fqcrease in sizd. Probahly the fasfestgrowing plant in the wdrld, ' its stalk reaches a height of several inches in One niinute. Salmon Skin Gloves. The chairman of one of the largpst salmpn cannihg factories in !§ritish tlbiumbia states that experimepts have ,been successfully carried'"'qut in the use of sdlmon • skin leather. When treated, the skin of the larger fish is equal to the finest kid, apd cpn be made up'. into handbag^, ^lpves, ppcket cases and shoes: If it is proved that salmon leather can be produced commercially, this new use 'will prove Very berieficlal to the'Can^dian industry, 'which is suffdring; acutply just now from the keen competitipn of the JapaneSe ahd' Rhssiah cannipg factories. The time may come' when the young man who kills his monster Salmon will 'have the skin "mp|e up" into some presenb for kdyj;just as the. big-game shot turns his skins into rugs.

The Blame of the War. On his'return'to London from Ger? many, where for two inonths he wtas in close contact with .the people on terms of linguistie equality,' Mr. Axthur Hirst wrote to tlie ' Times : "Xs a result of steady and elever propaganda, supported by the force of the wish that is father to the "thought," the vast mass of the Gerihan people passionately believe that Germany was entirely guiltless of the war in 1914." ' ' " Even Witnesses Taxed! With the exception of expenses fpr medical and exp'ert witnesses in the Supreme and Magistrate's Courts, the unemployment t'ax of '3 d in the £ is to be colleeted on witnesses! qxpenses, Jurors will also he affeetad. The deduetions will be made by the court when ekpenses are paid. ' •

Cheltenham Fljer's New Record. The_ "Cheltenham Flier" is tjie champion of the railroad. One day recently the express"' captured the world's start-to-stop record by ' covering the 771 miles from Swindpn to Paddington in one hour dead. The next day, as if to show- it could d® b'etter, it knocked a jninute off its own time, covPring the distance at an average speed of slighty over ^9 miles per houi*.

Italian ^eaplane Record. A new Italian seaplane, with an unnamed pilot at the coritrols, achieved 394.33" miles an. hour over, Lake Garda. The distance and conditions are not mehtiohed. The official world record is 357.7 m.p.h., establishdd In 1929 by Squadro'n-Leader Orlebar over a set course and under strict supervision. New Zealand Cuckoos The long-drawn caii of the shiningback cuckoo, or, as the Maoris call it, the pipiwharauroa, has been Heard during the past fe wdays iri tHe Cambridge district. September is usualty the period when the shining back cuckoo, also the _koheperoaV.br lohgtailed cnckoo, makes it appearance in thp Province. Last seaspn the long-tailed cuckoo was seen by several members of the B.pwling Club in a willow heaf tHe Pavilion. Most of the cuckoos leave New Zealand iri' the autumn of the year to spend the winter in the South Sea" Islands. There are oqcasional laggards who stop in the liominion all the year. Not Enough Leaders. "Every thinking man regrets that we have not enough" leaders," or good enough leaders, in this rather ragged democracy of ours," said" the riew headmaster of " Newington "Gollege (Sydney), Mr. P. R. Le Couteur, at a lunch given in his horiour a' few days ago, "All' our schbols," Mr. Le Couteur said," "must stand shoulder to shoulder agairist the mass of Philistinism. The task before us is immense. We have to show Australia that leaders must arise 'arid mus't'be obtained. This is one of the tksks before me, and I mean to do it as well as I am able. I hope thaf Newingtori wilj .go on supplying 'men of | character and ability."

A Young Enthusiast. A youthful aspirant of Oamaru for an entry in the Waimate- Christchurch road fiaee 'had his ambltions curbed when his father wrote to the executive of the North GanterbUry Ceritre of the New Zealand Athletic, Gycling and Axeman's Hnion, ..forhida|ng his son's entry on'the grojjnd of parental disapprovall At a meeting of the cenfre ori /Rfonriay eveping, tne matter was tfeateH as a joke until it was learned that the boy, whP lives' in Orimat u, *wasr6nly fiffSen years oFage, thbrigh'full o'f erithusiasm. Then it -was decided to write to the father thankirig him for his action. Manufacturer o£ Deer Tails. .• .'.S, «... c-'-. » ; An mterestmg case is to be brought bef6re"the Blehheim Magistrafe" at the next' sitting Pf the Court; when a charge will be' heard pf "aliegedly defrauding the Stock Department of the sum of " £54 by ' manuf acturing deer tails and sellirig them'as the genuine article. The allegation of the prosecution is that the defendant Ingeniously cut " bides ' into strips and made 'such' iniitat'ions" of tails as to | deceive the receiving officeiV * 4