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Shannon News, 18 August 1925, Page 3

Whilst Mr S. B. Macdonald and Mr W. B. Steel were on their mission to Central Otago, as representing the Oitago Expansion League, the Upper Clutha Railway League took them for a cruise on Lake Wanaka as far as the neck, which (states the Wakatipu Mail) will some day be the site of a great power house. At the neck the water of Lake Hawea is distant only three-quarters of a mile from - Lake Wanaka, and there is a fall of 180 ft. between the lakes. This volume represents 9.0,000 horse-power. Such a super-giant will not be allowed to sleep. It is one of the sure things of the future that it will be put to use and made one of the very big hydro-electric installations of Now Zealand. . * The colloquial term for an American seaman in his own country. i> the short but forcible word, "gob," but according to an officer in Christchurch, the men do not approve of it. "A wrong impression," says this , officer, "is that our sailors like to be called 'gobs.' As a matter of fact, the older men resent it. I have heard a senior officer reprimand a junior officer for referring to the men by that word. He said that they should be referred to as. sailor, blue-jackets, or simply as men. The word came into use before the war, and was more generally used during the war, but it never has been anything except a term of derision. Young fellows may say they like it; old and experienced sailors, who are proud of the service, certainly do not."