NEWS ITEMS

Taupo Times, Volume 11, Issue 66, 22 April 1953, Page 1

NEWS ITEMS

Royal Geography. — The Waikato portion of the jig-saw rnap of Newr Zealand, which is to be presented to Princes Charles by the Girl Guides of New Zealand, disappointed mosf of the Rotorua Girl Guides, according to the Rotorua Post. The Waikato portion of the map had been adorned with a eow, a large tree, which appeared to have its roots on the shores of Lake Rotorua, and a Guide fishing in Lake Taupo. The Rotorua Guide Company would have liked to have had a pari in decorating its own portion of the map with something a little mort distinctive than the treey whose species was uncertain. However, as the Post remarks philosophically, his father and mother will be able to correct any misapprehensions His Royal HigiLness and his sister rnay form 'as to the geography of New Zeaand. X Public Library. — At the monthly meeting of the Town Board a letter was received from Mr N. A. Duthie stating that he wias relinquishing his subscription to the Public Library owing to the laek of alphabetical arrangernent oi the books under authors' names, which made it difficult to Hnd books. While books had, some time ago been arranged under different beaaings as to subject mat_er. there vas no elassification in the fiction section at all. In discussion of Mr Duthie's letter it was mentioned that at present an insu.rlTciencv of «taff vvas a difficulty. A resolution was passed that the fiction books be arranged in alphabetical order of authcrs as soon as possible. ic . . . like a diamond in the sky?'b — A corresponderit writes to the Times as follows: — "During a strikingv electrical \display on Saturday night, April 11th., a brilliant meteor or fFlying Saucer' descended in the southern sky. It appeared as a circlc of brilliant, bluish-green light, (whicih flickered on its way down leaving a trail of light behind. This 1 oceurred about 11 p.m. and lasted I for almost a minute."