IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 455, 12 June 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

HOUSING SHORTAGE. While pointing to recent big property sales as striking evidence of the confidence of financial institutions in the future of the city. Sir Ernest Davis drew a contrast last evening in the serious housing problem in Auckland. An inquiry from 18 leading land in the city had shown thrt there was not one house at rental between 15/p.ni 22/6 —a rate suitable to a family. There were a few IWs here and there at Onehunga and Ti irangi. but none within the city. BFITAIN’S REARMAMENT. - Diving '"’sits to the Continent, saul •Professor R. M. A Ivie in an address last night, he had been told repeatedly thp wo’drl needed a policeman, and ib-t C’-p.nt Prit°in was. the only nation fit to take the position. He hid r<Y'-•■>(■! q wide confidence in her no war. and 4iad beep asked why she did not assert herself as much as in the pa*t. Therefore her new policy of sensible rearmament w°s welcome. It showed that New Zealanders had not been “backing the'wrong horse.” FL’ES ANO RUBBISH Tl°. Complaining of a rubbish dump nuisance adjoining her properties at n. Christchurch landlady declared that flies were swept off the walls and ceilings of a house beside the dump with a cleaner overv eveninsr. “The stench is abominable,” she said. “Even the builders ’’’n-vjr.rr pn f] lP bungalow comnlained. It is especiallv bad when a nor'-wester • s Mowing. The mrfn who bought one i'vn<r-4o’v from me would not have made the purchase if he had known cf the flv nest. th n re.” This was the man who swept the flies from the walls with n cleaner.

There is evidence of a particularly i°rge attendance at th? W.D.F.U. ball to b? held at the Town Hall on Tuesday next. Vlnsen’s Ambastrdors’ band has been engaged, and a most attractive supper has been plan, ned. A cell will be made on Tuesday on those who have promised donations of cakes, etc , for supper.

The Mayor has called a meeting for Monday night, when candidates for the forthcoming election will speak.

iNOT WRONG—JUST DIFFERENT. I Statements have been made, but ! without the slightest foundation in I fact 'that the heads of the King and Queen on New Zealand Coronation. ! stamps are the wrong way about — ! that the King should be on the onlooker’s left of the , Queen. Now that the British Coronation stamp has arrived, says a Press Association message from Wellington, and shows the I two heads the opposite way round to the way they are placed on the New Zealand stamps, support at first sight seems to be lent to the theory that the. New Zealand stamps are wrong. ’As a matter of fact they are not wrong, states the “Evening Post,” of ; Wellington, since there is no right or i wrnra abo”t the matter and no hard > ■’nd fast, rule. WOMEN DRIVERS. Women drivers are increasing ran-1 idlv in number and efficiency in the j United States, according to Mr j Hobart F. Smith, an automotive eng-1 : who was a through passenger i yesterday on the Monterey. Mr Smith I =spiri manv American wives were now! driving their husbands regularly to • ; ’"ork and calling for them again in ■ pirpnjnjr. This was to oveito’ne • the difficulty of parking. It was im-> . rrvqifiip f or business men to park 'fipir npn r their offices in the of the large cities of America. ■ «o the onlv course was to send them i home again, and wives or daughters stented into the breach as chauffeurs. I Tn other cases a family often had two : f or husband and the I ’■‘♦•her for the wife or other members. Thus nearly every American woman whose husband had a comfortable in- , noniA had the opportunity to become ’ a driver, t