MORRINSVILLE NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 7

MORRINSVILLE NOTES

BLACKLEG AMONG COWS (Prom Our Own Correspondent) MORRINSVILLE, To-day. j The Auckland Education Board informed the Morrinsville School Committee on Monday evening that it had approved of the erection of two additional rooms at the Morrinsville School and would make application for a grant. The Morrinsville Fire Brigade lias received three calls during the past week, in two instances the cause being grass fires. In one case the brigade's promptitude saved much damage. A Tatuanui farmer. Mr. J. Clements has lost eight calves during the past two weeks through death caused by blackleg. They were purchased a fortnight ago at the open sale and four died shortly after they arrived on the farm. The others were inoculated but four others died. Xone of the balance show any sign of sickness. It is stated that there have been one or two other cases I in the district recently. CAPTURED WORDS

A French professor, lecturing in England, has been pointing out how strangely words borrowed from one language into another may keep* their meaning in the language into which they are borrowed but change it in the language from which they came. They may even be lost in the language in which they originated and bo preserved in the language that. has adopted them. English, for instance, has been a great borrower of words. It iias a very largo choice of them. Shakespeare is said to have used about 24,000 words, but Victor Hugo, the French poet and novelist who wrote 350 years later, used only about nine thousand words. Many words taken into English from French centuries ago. and used as English by Shakespeare, have now either been lost altogether in French or have changed their meaning, while in English they keep their old French meaning. Thus a French schoolboy reading French books written three or four hundred years ago finds worcs he does not know, or words whose meaning he mistakes because their meaning has changed but he would know them and understand them if he knew English, for they have retained their place and meaning in An English schoolboy can often understand Old French better than a French schoolboy because of the words English has absorbed and kept, but which French has either lost altogether or altered in meaning. ALLIED TO SCOUTS AND GUIDES In South Africa an interesting organisation, parallel with the Scouts and Guides, is being established among the non-white people of the Union. The boys take the name of Pathfinders and the girls that of Wayfarers. They do not seek incorporation with the Guides and Scouts as the colour prejudice is at present too strong for that, but they hope to develop on lines suitable for their characteristics, and eventually to become incorporated in a world federation of such movements. From both the Chief Scout and Lady Baden-Powell they have received much encouragement. The uniform, which is brown, harmonises with the wearers’ brown skins and the dry brown African veldt. FOR WISE HEADS Riddle-in-rhyme. ; My first is in day, but not in hour. My second is in sweet but not in sour. , My third is in shine, but not in glow. My fourth is in fast but not in slow. My fifth is in late but not in soon. My sixth is in star but not in moon. My seventh is in needle but not in pin, My eighth is in ankle but not in shin. My ninth is in yacht but not in mast. My whole is the name of a time that, is past. Answer to last week’s word square: Brand. Roger. Agree, Xeeds. Dress.