IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 454, 23 June 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

TO WELLINGTON—FOR THE TEST A football-miuded Auekand office is making the journey to Wellington to the first Test match. New Zealand v. South Africa, on August 14, practically en masse. About 30 young men have made arrangements with the Railway Department for a whole carriage to themselves, and although the match is nearly two months away poker fours are already being arranged, as it is anticipated there will be little sleep on the way down the island. In Wellington the party has engaged 20 rooms at a city hotel. The matter of seats at the match is being left to chance and the gods of the weather. TRAIN ARRANGEMENTS. To enable country residents an opportunity of seeing the Rep-esento. tive Rugby Football Match, Ohura v. Taumarunui, played at Taumarunui. and then attend the. Taumarunui Win 1 er Show in the evening, the Railway Department has -arranged to delay the usual 6.0 p.m.. Saturday Taumarunui-Stratford train to leave Taumarunui at 9.30 pm. on Saturday, 26th. June. Particulars of train arrangements appear in our advertising columns of this issue.

| LICENSING OF SALEYARDS. Auctioneering firms in Stratford will in future be required to apply for a license for their saleyards and to pay an annual fee of £2. Although the Borough Council has hot in the past collected any tees the regulation requiring payment is not a new one. WINTER MILESTONE. In a manner different from the inI stinctive indication offered by frosts ! and fog and cold feet, New Zealand is reminded by scientific evidence this week that, winter is here. Monday, or j yesterday, as some have it—it is the . subject of long-standing controversy, though to the man in the street that makes little difference—was the shorti est day. The sun lias reached the most northerly portion of its annual i track, the southern hemisphere is experiencing its minimum possible hours of daylight (a matter of see- , onds), and winter has officially begun. , In actual experience it is not so stub . den as all that. Any Aucklander will i tell you that winter has been going on | for about two years, comments the j Auckland Star, reaching its peak of dampness at Christmhs time and its I limit of cold towards the end of July. , Apart from that yesterday—or the j day before—was a definite milestone, i and, having passed it, you may look I pleasurably ahead to the Springboks, j the Labour Day week-end, springtime I and—maybe—summer.