Pictures for a School.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1938, Page 4

Pictures for a School.

“We have always been picture-buy-ers,” said Dr D. E. Hansen, principal of the Technical College, in an address to the Canterbury School Committees’ Association. Sometimes, he said, he would say to the pupils: “It is time we gave ourselves another picture; what about bringing me a penny?” In some years £2O might be spent, mainly on originals by New Zealand artists. “We feel that there is more in them than in mechanical prints of works by great artists,” said Dr Hansen. Van Takes Fire at Pump. High Street, Hawera, was the scene of a spectacular fine recently, when a delivery van caught fire. The flames at one stage reached a height of more than 20 feet. The van’s tank was being filled at a kerbside pump when the petrol ignited. At one time there was a danger of cars parked alongside catching fire, but they were hurriedly removed to safety. Overflow petrol coming from the van’s tank and the feed of the bowser entered the stormwater channel and ignited, blazing for about half a chain along the street. The fire brigade extinguished the flames after the van had been extensively damaged.

Sydney Show Records. “We have the greatest show crowds in the world,” said Mr T. B. McFarlane, a member of the Royal Agricultural Society, Sydney, who arrived in New Zealand recently by the Niagara. He said the turnstile figures for last Easter beat all records. 1,011,241 persons being admitted in 13 days. The attendance was claimed to be the greatest of any show in the world. Accompanied by Mr A. W. Skidmore, assis-tant-secretary of the society, Mr McFarlane is en route to Canada, America, and Mexico to visit a series of shows and rodeos to get ideas and reserve performers for the next Sydney exhibition.