IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 443, 26 May 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

INDOOR BOWLS. Following the meeting of the ' Druids’ Lodge last night, foiir rinks look part in a game of indoor bowls and the members keenly enjoyed the innovation. A competition will he insti uted ! hortly and tile game j promises to become very popular. HOSPITAL INQUIRY. Although no official information has I been received by either the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board or Hon. W. E. j Barnard, M.P.. from the Minister or the Department of Health, it is under- i stood that the Magisterial inquiry in- j to Ihe administration of the Napier j Pul lie Hospital will begin in Napier , on Friday, June 4. GOVERNOR-GENERAL AS PLAYER For a short time last night the ' Governor-General Viscount Galway, | adopted an informal role, that of a j pool player. The incident occurred ; during a brief visit to the Auckland j Young Men’s Christian Association by his Excellency. When he was in- j specting the billiard room he was I handed a cue and straightaway proceeded to break up the balls of a newly set pool table. , CHEAPER ORANGES NEEDED. | The question of cheaper oranges for children was introduced at a meeting addressed by Labour members of Parliament at Northcote. Auckland. • Rev. A. H. Nordmeyer, M.P. for Oamaru, said the whole idea of penalising Australian oranges because the Commonwealth would not take New Zealand potatoes was stupid. Tho Customs authorities should think of something else to penalise Australia, as we needed oranges, and ( children should be ensured of a supply of citrus fruits essential for their 1 health. NEW ZEALAND’S POPULATION. Unless the Dominion increased its i population. New Zealanders would I not be able to hold their country, said ; General Sir Andrew Russell at a func- ‘ tion of the Returned Soldiers’ Assoeia- ( tion, held in Christchurch recently, i New Zealand would, he said, reach its ; maximum population jn four or five [ years, and from then on the position ' would grow worse, not better; and j it would be doubtful whether New ! Zealanders would be able to keep I from their shores uninvited people q whom they had no desire to welcome I in their midst.

father to Hid people. The wonderful response that has been made to the King George- V. Memorial Fund and the purpose for winch the money will be used were mentioned by the Governor-Gone:11, Viscount Galway, during his speech at the Empire Day dinner at Auckland. “I can imagine no better memorial to the memory of a King who jvas a father to his people,” said his Excellency. BOY LABOUR. The effect pt the demand for boy labour on the attendance at Wellington College is commented upon in tho annual report of the Old Boys’ Association. “The extraordinary large I number of 296 pupils left Wellington College during or at the end of 1936, I nearly 100 in excess of those leaving in any other recent year,” says the | report. “The causes of this great I efflux were the tremendous demand bv employers for boys, and no doubt , the operation of the basic wage.”