NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 89, 5 December 1931, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

[ Bets for Missionar.y Boxesi * Side bets ai • a hhoans of raising * fuhds for niissiOhary boxes w£re stat» ed to he very effective by a layman at the biennial meeting of the Taranaki Archdeaconry Board in , New Plymouth. " "We have - the "box on the mantelpiece,'j said the member, "and often the children have a dispute over somethijjg and het each other a penny that they are right. They come and ask me, and the loser puts his penny in the box. My vicar", added the , member, "approves of the idea." Te Anau Road. The road which is being constructed by the Public Works Department from Te Anau to Milford Sound is expected to be within four miles of Lake Gunh hy Christmas (states the Otago Daily Times). As the llumber 0f visitors to this district is expected to be large, instructions have been given for the linking up of the road with the paek-horse track to Lake Howden, so that horses can be used over thfe whole distance. Pheasauts for the Guns. Much interest is being shown in the experiment now being carried out hy the North Canterhury Acclimatisation j Society with regard to the rearing i of pheasants for liberation (states j the Christchurch Prfess). Mr. H. A. j Dawher, of Ouruhia, who is under- j taking the incuhating and rearing of] pheasants for the society, reports that j the first hatching, of 60 chicks, ap- 1 peared this week. The society supplies Mr. Dawhter with about 100 eggs a week, ahd will take deiivehy - of the young birds at six weeks of; age. There wili he weekly hatches •for some time to cottle, As the rear-; inging of pheasants with incubators and hrooders is In the experimental stage in New Zealand, it is difficult to • estimate the number of birds thati will survive; but the young chicks, j which are Being reared undel' what j appear to he ideal conditions, seeml stron'g and healthy, and show re- j m'arkable activity. Many Marriages. "These unemployment schemes at5e resulting in a good many marriages. Single men have stated deliberately that they are getting married in order to get three days' work a week, instead of two, and one man told me that it would not be long before he got four." (Laughter.) This statement was made by the ehairman of the Christchurch Citizens' Unemployment Committee, Mr. E. H. Andrews. Embarrassing Experience. Two Eltham .fesidents who visited Ohawe had an embarrassing experience. When they went for a bathe they left their clothes in the lupins. After their dip they went for a lengthy stroll, and when they returned found their clothes missing. It was not until they had returned horiie that they learnt what had happened. A Maori, finding the clothes in the lupins and seeing no one about, had taken them to a nearby house for safety. Flag of the Charlotte Jaiie. The gift of a small facsimile of the house flag which was flown at the truek of the Charlotte Jdne, one of the first four ships to anchor at Lyttelton with the Canterhury Pilgrims, has 'been made hy the Orient Steam Navigation Company to the Caiiferbury Pilgrims' Association (states the Christchurch Times). The gift was5 acknowledged at a meeting of the ' assbciatioh ahd the ehairman (Mr. E. R. Webb) stated that the fiag was being kept at Christ's College in the meantime. In a letter accompanying the gift, it was stated that the proprietors of the Orient Compatty (Messrs. Andersoh, Green and Company, Limited) took a keen interest in the Charlotte Jane. The vessel whs first owned by James An- | derson, George Thomson, and P. T. Thomson, of Billeter Square, London. They started as James Thomson and Company, and it was froxfi them that ithe preseht Orient Company had' J sprung. The proprietors hoped that the association would accept the flag as a mark of interest the firm took in the progress of New Zealand. The Charlotte Jane was built at Bristdl by William Patterson in 1848. She jYras 131ft 2in long, 32ft 2in beam, . and 21ft 7in draft, and of 663 tons ! gross register. The flag she flew had I a dark hlue backghound, with a white St. Andrew's Cross on it: The ehairman said that the flag would he interesting and valuable to have at the ; celebration of the ianding, which : Would be observed on December 16,