NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 47, 17 October 1931, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

j Judgment Day. m;,( | f A, splipRor not a thousand miles from Paeroa, who is well known as a, man of peace, is reported to havp repeived the following letter recently (states fhe Hauraki Plains Gazette).' Amongst other things, it invitfes him tQ i9Waey to his inevitable and long home: — "Dear Mester, — I got your letter about what I owe you. Now be pachent, I aint forgot you. Please wait. When the pool pays me, I pay 'you. If this was Judgmint day and you was no more prepared to meet your Master as I am to meet your amount, you sure would have to go to hell. Trusting you will do this, I am, Yours truly, — - — N.Z. Kauri Trees. Asserting that the kauri was the greatest timber-produeing tree in the world bepause of its almost parallel trunk, Mr. W. H. JoJliffe, of the StaEe" To'rest Seyvice, sfate'd in the;course of : an address at Masterton that one tree had yielded 30,000 feet of timber and took a mill ten days to cut it up. Trees of that size would not he ner-

mitted" in a commefcial' 'kauri forestj Mr. Jolliffe observed, as they would be milled when a diameter ^ pf two feet was reached, except cei;tain;; trees which wonld be allowed tq grow ,to larger dimensions for spe.cl'al ■ purposes. Dealing 'with the work being done at the State Eorest. Service's experimental cstation at Waipoua, he said that. the regeneration o£ kaqri seeding- operations and the plantipg out of nursery stock was proceeding and young trees were coming away well. Edible Snails. Edible snails are taken from ph-ance into London to the number of mofe than 2,000,000 every yearl . French snails are, speeially fed on vine leaves and lettuce". ' Effeciive Security. A United States million,air.e - who likes, to eat well has an unuspal system of tipping the table steward when lie crosses the Atlantic. He tears a ten-dollar bill in halves and .gives one half to the steward before t|ie voyage. • "You look after me- well," h.e says, "and you get the other half. If you do not, well, you don't." In tke Cause of Justice.

ihe ends of British justice must be served. ^ Following tHe brutal murd,er of a Chinese woman at Ocean Island, a pair of blood-stained ..trousers were sent to Sydney under. sea! — a distance of 1800 niiles — for ari analysis of the blood. The witnesses and the Chinpse accused were taken by stean^er frorii Ocean Island to Suva — 800 miles — for the trial. Dr. E. L. Mqrgan, microbiolqgist of the Health Department, Sydriey, who analysed the blood, returned by the Makura tbe

other day from Fiji by way of New Zealand, a-,distance of 240,0 miles, having given evidence at thq trial! The Chinese accused was acquitted'. Bnglish Nigktingale. While fishing in a quiet English lake at about 5 o'cloek orie afternoon, a few months ago, Mr. E. F. Steari, who j has just returned to Christchurch j from a tour of England, heard,' under the most f avourable conditions, the s°ng of a nightingale. He told the Press that he was satisfied, however, ; that the nightingale' could not compare, musically, with the songs of the New Zealand tuis and bell-birds. Test for Car Locks. There is no motor testing road in i Australia comparahle with the Stelcio I Pass, highest mountain road' in Europe. It ascends 9042 feet„ is over 17 miles long and has 44 acute hairpins. An idea of the driving difficulties irivolved is furnished by the f act that during the recent International Alpine Trial, D. Healey, a crack driver,' had to reversA LR Tn_

victa on eight of the hairpins. Even so, he did second fastest time.; Only seven of the 65 ca'rs finished the trial — 1500 miles — without loss of points '— Invicta, Talbot, Mercedes, Lancia, and three Austro-Daimlers. Drunk on Carbon Monoxide. Not the least serious of the charge s that are laid against carbon mpnoxide is a new one'— that it can produce a seemingly drunken condition. This ray of hope for drunken motorists — who, by the way, do not deservp it| — is produced by a well known English oil firm. In a leaflet they quote an authority in stating that one of the

earliest symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning is muscular weakness after J exertion. It may cause the indivij dual to be morally affected; pugnacious, sleepy, and finally dose away. Vomiting is a very ppmmon symptom, not at first, but shortly afterwards. War on Anachronism. ; Every reasonable man and woman must agxee that war is an anachronism, a relic of barbarism which every reasonable man should long ago have outgrown," said Canon Percival James at a meeting in the Wellington Town Hall in support of the cpming Disarmament Conference at Geneya, next February. The Christipn £Churches, he was glad to say, were now united in deelaring that moderp warfare was the most fragran£ violation of the principles qf Christianity. Eerie Concert Hall. . The deepest • and : eeriest cpncert hall in London lies 42 feet under the Thames- and extends for nearly a third of a mile. There is rarely a-

: audience, and the artists are a group of 10 cable workers from the Midlands who., because it is patural for them to sing, have .formed unofficially what may be -called the tube piple vpice phoir. They are busy in the tunnel, which will carry the great elecfric cables from the new London spower station at Battersea to the other side of the river. Railway t Construction_ , v Pertinent, :to thp stoppage of railway eonstrqption for a while i"p New Zealand is the f act that such tcpnstrfue--tion has been going on, more or less eontinuously, for a period of seventy years. Th'e first line" to bp. operied in New Zealand was the Dun [mountain railawy, in the. Nelson jdistript,. on February 2, 1962. The Invercar-, gill-Bluff line was opened on February 5, 1867. '' 4 V ; ' ' V. # "" j — ■ ' > Baby's weight. Keep a record^of Baby's progress free. We inyite you 0. ri'se p'f ori'r' up-to-dite" Scales and' pfesdrit ydu with a,'card to keep particulars on. Len Fisher, Ltd., Chemist, Fenton Street,* *'