NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 226, 18 May 1932, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

Hot Water Spring. Mr. T. R. Anderson, at the quarterly meeting of the National Park Board recently, referred to the hot water spring found on the Arawhata Road near Opunake, and expressed the opinion that it might be developed with advantage. There was no doubt that the water had medicinal advantages — analysis had proved that. He suggested that members of the board should visit the locality and inspect the spring for tbemselves. ' They wonld find it most interesting. More Poultrykeepers. More and more people are turning to poultry-keeping as a sideline to assist them in carrying on over the. difficult period, for the reason that the price of eggs has not been affected to the same extent as that of other primary products, said the secretary of the New Zealand Poultry Assoeiation (Mr. J. N. McLean), speaking in Christchurch the other evening. Farmers, farmers' wives in particular, and suhurban residents were contributing to this state of affairs. Under existing conditions no section of poultry-keepers was exploited to the same extent as the farmers and this would continue until all poultry-keep-ers who marketed eggs were protected and assisted hy incorporation in one solid organisation. Special legislation had been enacted to assist practically all primary industries, with the exception of the poultry industry. Interesting Expei'iences. A buyer of gold who has been doing the rounds of New Zealand, in conversation with a reporter, states that he has some amusing and interesting experences when calling on householders, and has learned more about the individual history of the various families than most travellers. He will be told, for instance, that this brooch belongecl to a great grandmother, who was related to some I great "gun" at Home, and so forth and how the family were loth to part with it, etc. "However," he said, sentiment does not run in my line of business, for I am after the gold." "I felt sorry recently for an old farmer who had seen better days and who brought out the medals won hy a prize eow some years ago at various shows. The old fellow told me that he was selling the medals now to help to buy feed for the progetry of that once valuable cow." Had to Spepd It. He was a married man, with four children, but because he had £500 saved and in the bank a man weo came before the New Plymouth Unemployment Committee a year ago could not be granted relief work. The man returned to the committee this week (reports the News) and said he had spent all the money. With most of it he had bought a house and property in the borough on which he had to pay £26 a year in rates. It was rather unfair, said a member of the committee, that a man had to get rid of his savings before he could get relief. Message from Lord Jellicoe. "I do hope that New Zealand will" be on the road to prosperity," wrote •Lord Jellicoe, ex-Governor-General of New Zealand, in a letter which was read at a meeting of the Navy League in Wellington. Writing from Madeira, Lord Jellicoe said that he had been there for a mouth, and it had done him a great deal of good. He believed that when he returned to England, after a further week, he would be very fit again, although he felt he could not exp'ect to enjoy the health he had eight years ago. Lorry Hopping. Two temporary residents of a Government institution situated on a hill not far from Waipukurau thought they would lilce a little liberty, so they set off, entirely without leave, in the hope of finding some kind motorist who would give them a ride to town. The expected kind motorist soon came along and she willingly gave them a lift. Next morning the twto men saw the car in the grounds of the institution. They recognissd the car as belonging to the doctor in charge, and they discovered (and so did the doctor) that it was the doctor's wife who had given them the lift. It would not perhaps be a rash guess that the two men were old soldiers experienced in the art of lorry-hop-ping. Maori Rugy Team. With a view to assisting country Rugby Union has decided to send a representative Maori team on a tour of the North Island this season. The Maori players will assemble at Palmerston North to play the annual match for the Prince of Wales Cup on July 9, and the North Island tour will follow immediately afterward, the Maoris playing in turn at Wairoa, Poverty Bay, East Coast, Bay of Plenty, Thames Valley, North Auckland, King Country and Waikato. The match against Wairoa will be played on Wednesday, July 13, and thereafter the matches will be played on Saturdays and Wednesday s. Flock House Scheme Concern was expressed by members of the Christchurch R.S.A. executive at a recent meeting regarding the slow response to the Flock House scheme for training New Zealand boys for farm life. It was stated that though the scheme was adopted several weeks ago, only one boy had been admitted to Flock House up to the present. This matter was referred at the annual meeting of the Gisborne Returned Soldiers' Association, when 'it was mentioned that the age limitations adopted were proving a handicap in the inauguration of the scheme as there were comparatively few sons of New Zealand soldiers in the age group between 141 and 161 years. This position will he remedied, jpf course, with the effluxion of time, "n " bv next year it should not he difficult to find suitable nominees for Flock House training. M. — C. — B. — S. — Means Malcolm's Cash Boot Store, as everybody knows, It also means more cash banked securely by saving money on your footwear from us. This is easily proved by giving us^'a trial for your next footweai\ Low prices with us do not mean poor quality. Our quality is the highest and our prices are the lowest. — Malcolmn's Cash Boot Store, Tutanekai Street, near Railway Station*