NEWS AND NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1938, Page 9

NEWS AND NOTES

VARIOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Too Frigid. “I have never been so cold as this,” groaned a Queenslander, who has been in Christchurch for four or five weeks, as he motored up Papanui Road. He expressed his firm intention of returning to sunny Brisbane as soon as possible. “We get heavy downpours over there, but you are nbt frozen to the marrow with it,” he added. Visitor Impressed. Although he had seen gardens in New York and other parts of the United States, he had never seen anything there to equal the tidiness of the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, said Mr T. Andrews, at a meeting of the Christchurch Domain Board. They were a credit to the curator and the city. Birds on Aerodrome. * As the mail aeroplane was leaving Wigram aerodrome recently thousands of gulls and rooks were feeding right in its path, and the sky was black as they rose. As the aeroplane entered the mass it was seen that a very large seagull had a wing sheared off as if with a razor, but whether by a propeller or a flying wire could not be seen. It was noted by flying men that the sheep on the aerodrome were feeding down wind, with their tails to the gale, and the birds up wind, heading into it, a useful indication of wind direction in an emergency.

Paper and Real Values. To whatever party he belongs, a Chancellor of the Exchequer has to remember that it is worse than useless to go beyond the point at which the moneys and the credits that he is dispensing represent real values, writes Mr J. A. Spender, in discussing the British Budget. A Government may have a very fine programme, but if the goods and commodities necessary to carry it out are not in existence, or cannot quickly be produced, then the moneys or credits voted for them have simply a paper value, and to put them into circulation is to diminish the value of all the money already in circulation. This is the point to be watched in all modern Budgets, and we need to watch it rather anxiously when we are spending and borrowing largely on armaments. A skilful Chancellor of the Exchequer can do much to ease the nation's burdens, but the one thing he cannot do is create wealth.

New Zealanders Stranded. A mother and her six children stranded in Dublin, are to be helped to return to their homes on tile other side of the world, states an exchange. Their fares will be paid by the New Zealand Government, but repayment is guaranteed by Dublin folk. who have subscribed £lBO for the purpose Three years ago Mrs Roberts went to Dublin to see her father before he died. She travelled from New Ze.i land on single tickets with her child ren. hoping that she might find work for her ex-soldier husband. Iler rein lives helped her and her husband seul her money which he earned by temporary work, but eventually she had to apply for public assistance. At a meeting of the assistance board it was decided to make up the £2O bal.incc of the fares, so that the Roberts family could be reunited. Mrs Roberts met her husband in London during the war when she was a young Irish nurse and he a New Zealand soldier.

Tlic whirligig of Time brings many rtiauges in our social life. I'ifty years igo our old friend. “..Mr Punch,’’ in Ids hiiuiiiruus way, wrote: ‘‘Tlte ideal wife is one who allows smoking ail over the house.’' lii that day smoking w.-ci tabooed by most wives, and it hubby wauled :i wliiff lie usually had Io seek llie sitlusion of tlie summerhouse or (lie 1’0:11 cellar. lint must wives , smoke themselves now, and would lie : imply lost without theii c iga iel 11- -.’ Yes, we are living at a faster pace than they did in Victorian days, amt Iho ‘‘weed’' is more approil.’.’i ‘ ‘ I >i:i st ed, ’ ' with its beautiful flavour ami rate f r.’igrauee. There’s no ‘‘bile’’ in ’Toasted.'' Toasting takes it . lean out. and I tie tobacco is left as pure, sweet, mellow, coo! and comforting as it is possible to make it. Once you etuinge over Io Cut I'lug No. 10 i I’. u I Isl’.iad >, Navy Cut No. 3 (Hull idogi, <'a vend ish, Itiverlie.’id (told or Desert Gold, you’ll never lie content with ordinary tobaccos. “Toasted’’ I makes friends —and keeps them! 714