NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 97, 15 December 1931, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

Television Unpopular "Television is unlikely fco be a popular commercial success for another five years," said Mr- C. E. Forrest; managing director in Australia for the International Radio Coinpany, Ltd., who was a through passenger by the Sonoma from Los Angeles to Sydney. "The reproduction is still very unsatisfactory, the screen is small and the picture eomes out iike a small silhouette with little definition. Television sets are being spld in America and there is a great deal of talk about them, but I canpot see how they can b.ecome po.pular for a long time to come." New Zealand Deer Heads Red and fallow c|®er heads from New Zealand were 'prominently exhibited at the "Daily Mail's" Ideal Home Exhibition in the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, which, after running for a month, came to an end recently. New Zealand was iiot a participant in this exhibition, but tbese splendid evidences of .the sport to be obtained in the Dominion were offered.by- the Publicity Officer in London, with the approval - of Ihe High Commissioner, for inclusion' in the big game section. • The heads, yhich are two of the finest from the Wembley Exhibition collection-, attracted much notice. Government's Subtle Plan A reason for the increased eharges at the mental hospitals was suggested by Mr. E. J. Howard at Sydenham last'week. "After driving nearly all of us "ratty," he said, "the Coalition have raised these eharges in order to stop us from going to thq asylums and so increasing the cost to the country."

Helping Their Fellows Timaru teachers who are in permanent positions have esftablished a fund to help some of their fellow teachers who are out of work. Several teachers without jobs have been given some employment, quite unofiicially, in some of the scliools, some assisting with the class work and others with clerical work such as marking up the rolls. These teachers are paid out of the fund that the permanently employed teachers have established. hecord Eel. An eel of a size that has brpken the existing record for the Eltham disr trict was landed from the Waingongora River near Taumata Park. The evil-looking monster had a particularly sinister-lpokihg head, and turned the scales at 30 lbs; it measured over 4 feet in iength, and had a girth of 17 inches. It was secured by means of a short but strong gaff. No Money for Races. "You say you are not going to the races to-day? What is tbe matter?" our representative asked a district settler who has, to our knowledge, attended all the lp.cal meetings and many in neighbouring centres for a number of years, says the "Waipa Post." His reply was that he did not care to go merely to look on, feeling that a modest investment or two were a necessity, and he had not the means this season to indulge his fancy. "I suppose the Waipa Racing Club will miss my little bit — they seem sure to experience a decline in the totalisator turnover, and prpbably at tbe gates, too — but I simpiy cannot afford to go. If I went it is almost certain I would come home a Ipser, and that would make me uncomfortable for quite a while; whereas if I absent myself from the races I will have only the one day's regrdt." Dog's Long Swim. There is a fisherman at Lossieumouth, Scotland. who is so fond of his Airedale terrier that he even takes the dog to sea with him. Probably it would be truer to say the dog takes himself to sea, trots after his master, hops on board, and fike Nelson, turns a blind eye to all signals of retreat. Recently his comradeship sufferecl an interrupti'ori. When the drifter was seven miles from the Island of Eigg, on the West Coast of Scotland, a great wave washed the dog overboard and he diSappeared. Of cburse his master thought he would never see him again, and wished he had tied the dog up. at home before going ■ to sea. Imagine his astpnishpient when some five days later he learned that the dog was safe and sbund. Tiie dog swam the seven ftiiies to shore, and as it was swept exhaqsted on to the boach it had the great good foftune to be sden by a woman doctor. She cared fpr it- sp!well that it made a good recovery, and now the bfoken partnership has heeh renewed. ; - ■— - - ■ "