WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1922, Page 5

WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE.

LECTURE TO SCHOOL CHILDREN. MANY INTERESTING PICTURES. The Empire Theatre, New Plymouth, was well filled yesterday afternoon with scholars from the public schools and the Technical College, who listened most attentively to the Rev. Oscar Blundell’s lecture on the wonders of the universe. Mr. Blundell urged upon the children, as those who were in training for their life work as useful citizens, to cultivate the habit of large thinking; to look beyond themselves and the trivialities of life, and endeavor to realise that they formed a part of a system of tilings vastly nobler and more extensive than many people imagined. By so doing they would become educated, developed characters, taking wide views of life and possessing vision such as would enable them to help make the human race better and happier. An intimation was made that a member of the Astronomical Society was offering prizes for the two , best compositions upon the lecture from : each of the primary schools, one from i a girl and one from a boy. Mr. E. Johnstone, at the close of the lecture, expressed thanks for this generous offer. Mr. Blundell then proceeded to illustrate his theme by means of a very fine lot of photographs, drawings, and diagrams thrown upon the screen, and his young hearers sat watching with evident interest the pictures of vast sun storms, lunar mountains, planetary detail, astonishing comets and wonderful fields of stars and nebulae. It had been intended to include the pupils of the secondary schools at this lecture, but owing to lack of room in the theatre this had to be abandoned, and it has been arranged instead for Mr. Blundell to give a special lecture in the Assembly Hall at the Boys- High School for both girls and boys at an early date. On Tuesday next at 8 p.m. the astronomical lecture as advertised will be delivered by Mr. Blundell in the Empire Theatre. ’ Bookings for this may be made at Collier’s, and it is expected that a f large house will reward the efforts of the Astronomical Society. The society’s president, Dr. G. Home, C.8.E., will occupy the chair, and the lecturer will place his vast and intensely interesting subject in comprehensive fashion before the audience.