GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 5 April 1926, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

A cable message from Paris says that Woolf Barnato, an amateur, driving a British car, broke all world records from 50 to 2000 kilometers, at the Monthlery track, averaging 101 kilometers per hour for 16} hours. • '

The sports at Ashburton on Saturday in connection with the Methodist Bible Class camp resulted in the Can- 1 terbury Bible Class Union winning the New Zealand banner, which was held last year by the Auckland'Union.

The report of the Paris police for eleven months of 1925, shows that street accidents caused’ by vehicles numbered ■ 3560, and there were. 348 persons killed, 3212 being injured. Of the fatal accidents, 237 were caused by motor cars, 48 by tramcars, 18 by motor omnibuses and 28 by liorse-drawn vehicles. . .

The spsuial train which will run to Fail-lie to-day for the show which is to bo held there, will leave Timaru at 9 a'.nr., and will leave Fair-lie on the return journey at 5.30 p.m. The special train from Timaru to Tenrrrka, for the Tenruka sports, will leave Timaru at 10.35 .a.m., and it will leave Tenruka' on the return journey at 5.35 p.m.

A Press Association telegram from Invercargill says that at the Dominion conference of churches on Saturday, it was decided to take over the Otago Church'of Christ property, at'Dunedin, for the purpose of establishing a college. Arrangements will bo made for the establishment s of a College of the Bible forthwith.

Under the scheme by .which license: foes for heavy traffic are apportioned, as between the local bodies, from Ashburton to Waimate, the Pleasant Point Town Board has received one penny' from the Ashburton County Council, The cost to the Ashburton County Council, however, was"'Rouble this amoujit, as a penny was required to stamp the envelope in which It was sent.

At, the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Referees’. Association the following motion was carried: — ‘‘That it be a recommendation, to the various R.ugby Unions that in appointments for interprovincial matches these be made by the appointment board in the district where the matches are played: further that the appointment of referees for ordinary championship.,matches should he made by an appointment committee consisting wholly of referees.

About fifty of his supporters paid a surprise visit to Mr George Barclay (the unsuccessful National candidate for AYaitaki). recently in order, to ..make a presentation to him as a token of their appreciation of his work during, his election campaign. Mr George Dash (Mayor of AVaimate) presented Mr Barclay with a gold albert and medal suitably inscribed, and to Mrs Barclay he handed a cose of silver (teaspoons. Mr Barclay suitably replied.

For some time it has been apparent to all engaged in the industry that the wool sales held in Australia and New Zealand are amongst the most important in the world. AVliereas 35 years ago 60,000 hales of wool were sold in the Dominion and overseas buyers numbered four, today 500,000 bales are being sold in New Zealand each season, and overseas textile manufacturers are represented by 60 buyers.

After the last few bright days Christchurch seemed to him a city of dreams, a real garden city of dwellings and shining faces, a city that many who dwelt in the smoky by-ways of England would bo glad to come to, said Bishop AVest-AVatson in responding to the public welcome extended to him at Christchurch on Thursday. People in England had told him .Christchurch was beautiful and very English. AY lieu lie and his family had readied Christchurch they found that half had not been told. He was impressed with, the provision made for the young people, in the noble buildings that had arisen as an offering at the shrine of youth to equip them to be better men and women. He assured them that any help lie could give to the city would be gladly given One of the principal advantages of milk recording is that it is a sure test of the quantity of feed necessary for each cow in order that the maximum yield may be obtained. On this subject, Professor G. Scott Robinson, D.S.C., of Queen’s University Belfast, delivered a lecture on the subject of "The Feeding of Dairy Cows.” In the course of his address Professor Robinson said that the steady growth of the milk recording or cow testing movement is a clear indication of the importance which the farmer attaches to the dairy cow. Success in the keeping of cows cannot he attained without adopting a system of milk recording, and it would he difficult to find a progressive farmer to-day who is not prepared to admit that milk recording is the basis of profitable milk production. It is universally recognised that the gradual weeding out of the poor milking cow is the immediate economic advantage which should, and does, follow the adoption of cow testing. A still greater benefit is secured when the results obtained from the keeping of milk records are applied to the problems associated with the breeding and feeding of heavily yielding cows. A constitutionally poor milker cannot be converted into a heavy milker, no matter what food is given. . AVithout testing it is impossible to tell whether either the breeding or the feeding has been successful.

The New Zealand draughts championship in Dunedin advanced a further stage on Saturday when the preliminary rounds were co'mplpted. The sectional winners to go into the championship round are—Messrs G. A. Brown (Christchurch), H. Morris (Invercargill), James Scott (Mossburn, Southland), W. McKinha (Gore). The remaining twenty players will go into the handicap dabs.' It'is expected to finish the tourney on Tuesday night.

A resident of Dunedin, writing to a friend in Auckland, 'concerning the Exhibition, says: “Generally speaking, the Auckland court is disappointing for a province like Auckland, so wealthy and with such a large population. To quote the words of one of our notable visitors, ‘ when you get tired of looking at things you can go into the Auckland court and sit comfortably without, the worry of having to look at. qny-,. thing.’ ”

At the ceremony of switching'on the clc-ctric power at Waitati . and Palmerston, Mr A. G. Aldridge (engineer-manager of the Otago- Power Board) delivered a, useful little homily to the school children, assembled. They must remember, he said, that wires carrying electric current ~ were always dangerous, and ho wanted to impress on them not to touch any wire whether on the pole or lying on the ground. They should know that behind all wires connected with the Power Board’s reticulation lines lay a tremendous power—the power of Waipori, and they could never tell by*'merely looking at a wire, whether this • power were coursing through it or not.- .The speaker also warned the children against using the insulators 'Us . targets for road metal or pea-rifle or : catapult pellets, and pointed out the danger that might ensue from a wire falling from a broken insulator. The rapt attention given to Air Aldridge’s advice by the children showed that his werds had sunk home.