HERE AND THERE IN NEW ZEALAND

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 311, 17 December 1936, Page 3

HERE AND THERE IN NEW ZEALAND

Air-mail At London. -■ Air Sil from Wellington on kbVtinibAr 24 arrived at London on December 10.

Running Water. “It is all your running water which surprises us Australians,” said Mr C. Hungerford, a Sydney accountant, yfho la a passenger on trie Maunganui on her first tourist cruise direct from Australia to the South Island. It was the mountain streams, waterfalls and rivers of the Sounds 6ounand .Otago which impressed, him mbßt. “We see so little of it in Aiisfie -said, adding with a smile, “it ifiikes bur mouths waiter.”

Jjland Trips In The adve'nt oi the Union Cbmpariy’s MaJa in (fie New Zealandfifouth Sba iSland trade is having a disti&ti? efec" oh the ttruHit iraifac. As a rule {he traveling public of JiJew Zealand reserves fti Isliind frffifiifig iifitil the WiritfcT time, blit now there s such 5 comfbrtable atfict vessel iri that service, vdyages to the Islands in the summer are attracting attention. It Id Understood that most of the accommodation for both the December and . January -trips has been booked.

: KEYS HEE POSTAGE I STAMPS .-•- O : TYBEB THAT SQUEAK WHEN PUNCTURED' Burgers, motorists and mathematicians w.ere among those specially interested in the Twelfth International jixiiiintion of Inventions, which was field recently at the Central Hau, London. F6r the former the exhibition was a fiuiniliatirig experience* since among ifiiS many inventions on view 'were keys, thin and flexible as card’ itaf, fbr use with a lock claimed to fiti

‘“I have spent some years perfecting them,” the inventor, Mr. Buchanan Woolaston, of Ipswich, told a-Morning Post representative. Unlocking a ponderous demonstration door with a key- which looked like a postage, stamp, Mr, Wollaston continued: “I claim that one can carry dozens of these keys about in the space tlyit one of the i present-day-tyj»e would take up; tfiat one can get ffeiiß ttttetf made in ia few minutes, and that .tfid arrangement of any lock can be altered several times.” »For the motorists there is an at> tachment which makes tyres squeak obligingly when they are punctured, While mathematicians were intrigued by an offer of £20,000 if they could sol+e a- newly invented code. There were’toothbrushes that disinthemselves; electric torches fitted with a rear lanfp for pedestrians to >nd electrically driven hedge-LriliAz*Lva-S 'aj-XXlr'

GLEANINGS OF DOMINION NEWS.

CARS AT TITAHI Thfe roads roiliid Wellington, and wifhin 100 miles of it, are to see a wonderful stream of motor traffic on Sifritlays and holidays this summer. Dustless roads were fully appreciated last Sunday by motorists, and something of this value was borne in upon pedestrians on all unsealed routes. Titahi Bay' had 51G cars parked’ on its beach, while there were well over 150 parked in various parts of the village. The national v. ireiess mast probably drew many of them, who could not resist a visit to the beach afterwards.

Physique Of New Zealand " Children.

The opinion that there exists no need for raising an alarmist cry of physical deterioration in .the present generation, was expressed by Mr F. Marbyfi Renner, principal of Rongotai College, at thb bfeaking-up ceremony. There were, of course, individual cases of malnutrition and under-development, he said, but records at the college proved quite definitely' that fully 90 per cent, ol the pupils either conformed to the average or, in very many instances, exceeded • the average in height, weight and chest expansion. There werb cases of bad posture, but relatively ■ very few. He thought New Zealand children were comparatively better developed and freer from the effects of undhr-nourishment than almost any other children in Other parts of the world.

MAN AND ANIMALS. -7 -O '■ ; Agriculture Needs Combination of Both. In an age when the onward march, of the machine invades even agriculture, the oldest of industries, it is attractive, remarks the Manchester Guardian, to cdine on an essential task that still depends,, as it has done from the daWn of history, on a combination of human and animal skill. Huy may be mechnically dried and cows mechanically milked, but a man and a dbg fire still the effectual means of gathering sheep. The competitors at Liverpool in the eliminating contests which settled the English team for the International Sheepdog Trials to be held this year in Scotland were practising an art that has changed little througlv the centuries. Yet ,long though its history is, it has never become completely stereotyped, either in the aspect of the dogs used or in the methods employed to guide it. Some oncefaanous types like that magnificient fellow the Old English sheepdog are now more ornamental thau useful, and in Britain the best working dog is recognised to- be the Border collie whose sires were trained on the flanks of . the Cheviots. But eveiy sheepdog has its temperament, every master his method and nothing in the relationship of man and animal is more praiseworthy than the long and arduous course of kindly discipline with which the master passes on his lore to his latest ally.