Under the Totem-Pole Chiefs and Braves

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 439, 22 August 1928, Page 6

Under the Totem-Pole Chiefs and Braves

Duaio iwwcr. Greetings to Dusky Rover, whose name is now deeply inscribed on the Totem Pole. We of the Wigwam are delighted that you are now in our midst. I shall keep space for your account of the Ngaruawahia function. Dancing Moonbeam: This Papakura Guide has reached the Camp of Redfeather in safety. A warm welcome from our friendly tribes. I was most

DETECTING EARTHQUAKES We have long understood the mechanism of earthquakes, and there are delicate instruments called seismographs which record and locate their tremors, though we have rarely been able successfully to foretell them. * But four years ago Professor Evans pointed out that theoretically the actual convulsive wrench of an earthquake must be preceded by a tilting of the surface of the earth’s crust where it is undergoing stress and strain, and last year Professor Imamura. of Tokyo University, demonstrated that such a tilt could be actually detected and recorded from half an hour to five hours before the earthquake A tilt-detecting instrument has now been invented by a Japanese scientist. Professor Ishimoto. who calls it a Clinograph. It is so delicate that it will record a tilt Of one part in a million. It would be quite easy, as Professor Evans has suggested, to fit to this clinograph a bell that will automatically ring when tilting occurs. A clinograph will give from half a minute to five minutes’ warning of an impending earthquake, time enough, in most cases, to enable most of the inhabitants of a city to escape from their houses into the open: and the Earthquake Research Institute of Tokyo University is instituting a network of stations equipped with clinographs.

tmeresteJ in your letter and hop* yon will find as much happiness in thiadsb as in your “Scatterjoy'' days. You wer* wise to link up with the Guides onyonr arrival at Papakura. Hawkeye: Many thanks for your report. Your secret seal is now quite wtf known to me . Greetings from the Wigj warn to your troop. Flower of Dawn: Another new face a: ! the Wigwam fire. Greetings to this Si Peter's member. I hope T shall soot have an opportunity of meeting yoc. Silver Heel, I notice, has been soundi ing her clarion again. Lone Dreamer: Many thanks for yocr two letters. On reading the first I left that I was a guest in that seaside Psch. so rich with associations. I hope jut will have a happy holiday and tlu: Little Swift Canoe will be able to Jes you. Firefly: Your guess is correct Blue Eve stands confessed. Thank y&* very much for your Russell GukL4 news. Yellow Bird: I am very sorry to be«? that Captain is ill and trust she w soon recover. Please speed a goodwk* to her from the Wigwam. lo?r repor". has joined the great scroll. Red Star: So your tepee Is with posies from the lap of Spring? 7b*: surely was a windfall from the country I, too, liked the last poems by Harves: Moon and Little Swift Canoe, and wot* like to see your Wigwam scrap-boot And Blue-fringed Moccasin still rtsf; bers that field day beside the Waikato I. too. I was glad to have her me**** and also the one from Greenwood Rove* Flying Cloud: Did you turn monej when you saw the new mw faintiy pencilled in the sky? It was* fair sight this time. I shall be loom forward to that promised visit from T Ol and Little Swift Canoe and Flyw Squirrel. A winged wish for my * the Great Out-doors. Little Rover: The name of Little Be*: ver is already on the Totem Pole. *» • have found one for you as like n ■ possible. 1 hope you will find near friends among the warriors who at the Wigwam fire. Greetings and P*** wishes to this new member. Sun Cloud: So great pow-wows D* been the order of the day? * lighted that you have met so d**"* | the Hami'ton Braves. One day. *** ’haps, you will find your way r o the ww" of Little Red Star, who is very ! all of them. I shall be looking , ? rw rL ito meeting Moccasin Maker and j friend on their way to Otimat vio • jof Dawn has already paused Jude. Totem Pole. vjj Sun-flecked Shadow: Your report ~ ; reached me safely, and will appear early date. The Company SanW" I is an excellent idea, and 1 an progressing so well. My St. John’s Company and our Sun-flecked Shadow. € ggg Si'ver Heel: A 1 In! her name »- on the Totem Pole, and thank* need to inscribe It afresh .JJ*v g-sve* for hrimrimr those down the trail. T shall look • meetfnrr them Pleas- *rreet ton members for me at vour Evening Gold: The was certainly a mean* R of mv Braves together. ” must have been maklntr fresh ■?*•»** ” G.ttemnq Leaf: Th. Wrt-g, tg was a hanny function ' - • An* and T -moved reading nbooM ***• red Sliver W:terfall when Please give her my greeting