Flaming Youth.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1938, Page 4

Flaming Youth.

There is a farmer’s wife not fifty miles from Hamilton who spent rather an anxious forenoon the other day. Her youngest son and a nephew were experimenting with a new rifle in the orchard. Another son was driving the family car for the first time on a main highway, and the eldest son was flying solo to a neighbouring town. As she remarked to her husband, “I shall be glad when lunch time arrives and they’re all round the table again.”

Use of Motor Spirits Tax. “The highways committee feels that nothing more can be done at the moment with the league’s proposal that the special tax of 4jd on motor spirits be diverted to the highways account, and it is recommended that further action be withheld until a more favourable opportunity,” said a report presented to the executive of the Canterbury Progress League. “It is not suggested by this that the matter should be dropped. Far from it, as there can be no doubt that the proposal is on sound lines; and with the large support that has been given to it from one end of New Zealand to the other it must be taken up again.” The report was approved.

School Library Service. Arrangements for the opening in February of the new school library service, by which parcels of books will be regularly distributed among the primary schools of Christchurch, are now well in hand. Already 900 volumes have been received and about 1000 more are expected shortly. Besides fiction, there are a great number of biographies, travel stories, and works dealing with engineering wonders and hobbies. All are attractively bound in the latest colour styles. The purchase of these books, Mr Bell explained, is financed from grants by the schools, while the organisation of the scheme is under the control of the public library.