Music and Earthquakes.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1938, Page 4

Music and Earthquakes.

“Indeed, some of the musical performances were so moving that I felt the very seat beneath me was trembling.” With these words, the Very Rev Dr Dugald Macfarlane, ex-Moderator of the Church of Scotland, commended the girls of lona College, Hastings, at the prize-giving ceremony in the college assembly hall, on the talented performances given on the concert half of the programme. His reference to the trembling, of course, was to the earthquake. "It was an experience I had. never had before, and I hope to goodness I never do again,” he added. War-Time Experiences.

Amusing experiences encountered in the Officers’ Training Corps at New College, Oxford, were related by Mr J. K. Moloney to the Christmas tea gathering of Christchurch returned soldiers. “There were all sorts of underground passages and ways out, and the Australians were never in,” he said. The coal always used to disappear, and he heard that before long all the furniture had been burnt, too. Mr Moloney had met celebrities during his training, including Rudyard Kipling, who had "shouted” him in a hotel in Bath. Naomi Mitchison, the novelist, and the famous Dr. Spooner, whom he passed every day at Oxford.

A Sportsman’s Conscience. It is not only the Government that receives conscience money from people who have defrauded it. The North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society has just received from London an English Treasury note for £1 (worth £1 4s lOd in New Zealand), which was sent to the secretary (Mr G. L. PomfretDodd) with the following note: "The sender of this brief note spent four weeks in New Zealand during May and June this year. One day he was out rabbit-shooting on the Canterbury plains, when some quail got up, and he shot two of them. As he is a Christian and has a conscience, he feels that he ought to make reparation for his breaking of the law, and he herewith encloses a one pound (£1) Treasury note to make amends, and would beg to sign himself. "For Conscience’ Sake.” Mr Pomfret-Dodd said that he could not recall a similar remittance to the society,