Street Precaution.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1938, Page 6

Street Precaution.

A novel but successful method of keeping a party of small children in a compact group while crossing Quay Street, Auckland, to the ferry buildings was adopted by a woman in charge of a number of boys and girls. She provided a length of light rope, which each child was obliged to grip firmly, and then took one end, leading the party safely across the busy street. The procedure was watched with interest by people in the vicinity, including a traffic officer, who held up vehicles to allow the party to pass. Large-Scale Asparagus Farming. Asparagus farming oh a large scale, as practised in New South Wales, is described in a report by Mr J. W. Hadfield, Director of the Agronomy Division of the Department of Agriculture, received at a meeting of the Plant Research Bureau. He says that asparagus culture is regarded as important in view of the possible development of it in New Zealand. “In New South Wales,” he says, “asparagus is passing rapidly out of the luxury class of vegetable and is being marketed and consumed in increasing quantities. The largest producers in New South Wales are Messrs Edgell and Sons, and the magnitude of their undertaking may best be appreciated when it is pointed out that the 500 acres which they are growing represents 900 miles of asparagus rows, all of which have to be cut daily during the season”

Prevention of Accidents. The fact that accidents were preventable had been shown by the experience of the last nine days, the Ministei' of Transport (Mr Semple) stated last evening. Only one period of more than six days free from a fatal road accident had previously been recorded. Nine days had now passed without a fatality on the roads and this record was still unbroken. "May I hope as a supreme expression of motorists’ goodwill to one another that the same freedom from serious accidents and mortality will be seen during the Christmastide and New Year holidays,” said the Minister.

High Quality of Wheat. The quality of. wheat harvested in 1938 was the best for some time, Mr H. F. Nicholl reported to the annual meeting of United Wheatgrowers (N.Z.). Ltd. He was pleased to report that the wheat produced in New Zealand was more than able to hold its own with any of the imported wheat which arrived in the country this year. During the year, two meetings were called by the New Zealand Standards Institute'to discuss the establishment of wheat and flour standards. The board of United Wheatgrowers was reprseented, and after a full discussion it was considered that the institution of permanent wheat and. flour standards was impracticable and the suggestion was therefore abandoned,