“Bait” for Lord Nuffield.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1938, Page 6

“Bait” for Lord Nuffield.

A splendid sample of a striped marlin, 12ft. long and 2841 b. in weight, has been secured by Mr L. Adams, of Whangarei, to be forwarded to Viscount Nuffield. Mr Adams is a keen deepsea fisherman, and for some years has been striving to interest Lord Nuffield in the sport during his visits to New Zealand. So far he has not been successful, but he hopes the' specimen that is being sent will make Lord Nuffiield decide to accept an invitation to sample the sport during his next visit to New Zealand. Mastertonians Abroad. Writing from Edinburgh on July 28 to a friend in Masterton, Mr I. I. McGregor, formerly Postmaster at Masterton, said his.trip so far had been wonderfully interesting and enjoyable. Mr and Mrs McGregor visited the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow, the Burns Country and travelled through the Highlands by way of Inverness and Perth to Aberdeen, and then to Edinburgh. They were proposing to return to London some days after Mr McGregor wrote.

Campers to be Ejected. Stated by Mr W. P. Coles, solicitor for the Hutt Park Committee, to have lived with his wife and four young children in two tents at the park motor camp since November 28, 1937, J. Scorringe, labourer, was fined £1 with costs £1 Us, by Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court,. Petone, yesterday, for occupying a tent as a camping shelter at Hutt Park for a period in excess of four weeks. These were unfortunate cases, said the magistrate, but the Hutt Park committee had a duty to the public. Scorringe could not remain living in a public park, and he suggested that if he could not find a house he might get into touch with some owner of private land with a view to camping there. Oil at Paritutu.

The opinion that the key to the Moturoa oilfields lies in a small circle on the seaward side of Paritutu, New Plymouth, and that the area in which any bore should be located should be on the south-western side of Paritutu, is advanced in a special report submitted to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research by the geophysical survey party comprising Messrs N. Modriniak and Ml A. F. Barnett. The circle is bounded by the well known Sugarloaf islands, known as Paritutu, Mikotahi, Moturoa, Saddleback and Seal Rocks. “On account of the regional dip, the western part of the circle offers better possibilities for the accumulation of oil, and were there no restriction placed on the choice of boring sites, because of the sea, a point would undoubtedly be chosen in the neighbourhood of the small island of Koreuanga.” states Mr Modriniak.

Burglars in Auckland. Mounting a ladder alongside a lift well, forcing holes through a heavy fibrous plaster ceiling and then dropping 11 feet on to the floor below, thieves combed the premises of three firms on the upper floor of the Sunday School Union buildings, Upper Queen Street, Auckland, on Tuesday night. Sums of money were taken in each case, but no attempt was made to interfere with valuable lines of stock that were stored. As the vestibule of the building was closed at 11 o’clock on Tuesday night by the locking of a heavy iron grill, it is thought the burglaries may have been committed at a comparatively early hour in the evening. A caretaker resides on the premises, but the work of breaking through the ceiling at three points, although requiring considerable time and effort, was performed so efficiently that it attracted no attention.