IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 460, 18 June 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

a —<> C.OUNTIES AMALGAMATION. At to-day’s meeting of the Stratford j County Council it was decided to hold | ■ t ; meeting of ratepayers of the North, I South, East and West ridings in the Parish Hall. Stratford, on July 2, to ; discuss the question of amalgamation ; of counties. WHITEBAIT PLENTIFUL. Exceptionally heavy shoals of white- 1 bait have been reported by fishermen in the coastal waters of the Bay of Plenty. The sea off Matata on Monday was alive with the little fish, and gulls and shoals of larger fish > were | preying on them. Kahawai caught on ; the spinner were found to be full of; these fish. The huge shoals are in evidence everywhere along the coasL and the sea, birds can be seen follow- ! ing and taking heavy toll. Good catches should be on the market within , a day or so. TRIAL FLIGHT POSTPONED. A party of members of the Stratford Aero Club visited the New Plymouth airport yesterday expecting to witness the arrival of the new Lockheed Electra passenger plane en route from Palmerston North to Auckland. It was learned however that the test flight had been postponed until today. The Western Federation’s Miles Hawk monoplane was in the air, Mr and Mrs H. C. B. Scott making flights over New Plymouth, piloted by Mr C. Plumtree.

' POVERTY BAY ORANGES. ■ Prospects for the coming citrus ! fruit season in Poverty Bay are reI garded as exceedingly bright. In- ! quiries made recently showed that the i present crops are heavier than any in the past. Sweet oranges are just comi ing into full bearing in the larger ! orchards, and in the face of that, with favourable conditions from now on, a • better quality of fruit will no doubt be ■ nicked, as the older the tree becomes • the fruit gets sweeter and takes on a ; thinner rhind. The fact that trees in i this district are expected to yield bigger crops during the coming season will not, it is believed, have any 1 effect upon the market. i ’ PREVENTION—NOT CURE. “We are gradually developing, ■ gradually going into a kind of groove, 1 where our minds are continually i dwelling on disease,” declared the , Minister of 'lnternal Affairs, the Hon. , W. E. Parry, addressing an Auckland snort conference last night on the bbi iectives of the proposed National | Council of Sport. Hundreds of thoui sands of pounds, he said, were being snent on hospitals. He urged his hearers to join with him in creating an organisation that would help to bring into existence a state of health which would do much to prevent people from becoming ill. He was anxious that young men and women should know something about their own make-up; the more they understood 5 their own bodies the more would they .be able to realise the benefits of physical education.