Dance Champion.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1938, Page 6

Dance Champion.

New Zealand will soon have an opportunity of welcoming England’s first “ambassadress” of dancing. Miss Phyllis Haylor, former world champion' of ballroom dancing, and examiner of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, will sail from London this month on a world tour. She is taking ’ with her 30 pairs of size 4 shoes, all with slender heels three inches high. During her tour, which will last at least four months, she will hold examinations for dance teachers overseas on behalf of the Imperial Society. Honest Community. I

There is a place in New Zealand where the residents have a unique reputation for honesty. That is at Leigh, on the East Coast, north of Auckland. On the main road just outside the township is a fruit and vegetables stall, laden with produce. There is no attendant, but the prices of all goods are marked, and in some cases made up in bags. A notice over a tin invites passers-by to help themselves and put the payment in the tin. The man who runs lhe shop states that he has experienced little trouble with dishonest people. Restlessness and Motoring.

“Motoring has brought a restlessness and activity into life,” said Sir Stenson Cooke, general secretary of the Automobile Association of Great Britain, at a recent address to the Auckland Rotary Club. "There are some who regret it, but I do not. It is an activity that is more than physical, it is a disturbance and awakening of mind and spirit. Travel, contact with new scenes and new people awakens an intellectual curiosity. This in turn leads to a thirst for education and information that is characteristic of a living and vigorous people.” Gandhi is to be proposed again this year as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. Ninety tons of Harrar coffee arrived recently in Hamburg from Abyssinia as a contribution from Signor Mussolini to the German Winter Relief Fund.