SPECIAL FEATURES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 130, 25 January 1932, Page 4

SPECIAL FEATURES

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A Race at Tanforan. A correspondent forwards an interesting souvenir of Tanforan, the race course about 25 miles from San Francisco> to which Phar Lap has been taken. The souvenir is a picture postcard of the "world's greatest aviators, Beachy and Francis, playing leapfrog, Tanforan, 25th to 29th December, 1919." The picture shows the aviators and two aeroplanes of the earliest models. The correspondent attended the aviation meeting on Christmas Day, 1912. ' "One of the items on the programm.e (he writes) ■vyas a race between an aeroplane and a motor-car. The car won. What chance would a car have to-day? Income in Matrimony. Unemployment as a cause of matrimony has been discussed by the Marlborough Unemployment Committee, when it was said that hasty and unconsidered marriages had followed the curtailment of work for single men. It was moved, and carried, that the committee disapproved of excluding single men from benefit of the relief schemes. A single man getting two days' work weekly at 9s a day would, when married, get three days weekly at 12s a day. Thus the single man's pay is doubled when he "has a girl along." Several marriages for this reason have taken place in Blenheim, where relief workers see an income in matrimony. Taranaki Pastures. A well known Taranaki pedigree stock breeder, who has just returned to New Plymouth from the North, stated that the - pastures and the general condition of farm lands in Taranaki were much better than those in the central and northern parts bf the island, where the grass lands have suffer ed much from lack of rain. Another breeder who was recently in the South Island stated that the land in Southland was in good heart and feed was plentiful in the dairying parts of the country, but Canterbury was literally burnt up. It was the opinion of both men that Taranaki was the greenest spot in the Dominion at the present time. Serious Plight. Some dairy farmers in the Dannevirke district are in a serious plight in respect to feed, or rather the almost complete lack of it, and in some eases milk yields have fallen away almost to nothing. Shortage of water is also adding materially to their troubles. Where feed is scarce, the feeding out of some supplementary form of fodder can always be resorted to, but lack of water is a far more serious consideration since water in good supply is an absolute necessity to the average dairyman. Seagull Rookery. A few miles north of Hukatere and adjacent to the Ninety Mile Beach, is a huge seagull rookery. At the present time, says the Advocate, the young birds, unable to fly, are running about on the sands and being fed by their parents. Visitors to the vicinity get a noisy reception. Thousands of the adult birds fly backwards and forwards, occasionally swooping down towards the intruders with the hope of scaring them away, and muttering almost continuous cries of disapproval The little fluffy young birds lie flat on the sand, many of them trying to hide under a few leaves of shore-grass or rushes. Altogether it is a most interesting study — one of the wonders of the shore. In Touch with Germany. A Wanganui wireless enthusiast, Mr. H. R. Robinson, 18 Millward St., has made a practice of writing to Various stations he has been able to communieate with. He managed to raise a station in Germany in September last, aiid, to ascertain particulars, he wrote to them. Just recently he received a reply in German addressed to Herr H. R. Robinson, Neu Sealand. A marked programme has been enelosed and from that he is able to determine that the station he was in touch with was at Hellsberg. He intehds to have the letter translated.