NEWS AND NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1939, Page 6

NEWS AND NOTES

♦ VARIOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST. False Start. Matrimony made a false start in a disconcerting fashion after an Invercargill wedding recently. The ceremony was all over, the wedding breakfast ended on' the usual cheery note and the happy couple went to have photographs taken before leaving. The car was parked in a city street, and when the pair came out of the studio they dodged a crowd of well-wishers, entered the car and quickly drove away. When they had travelled some miles the bride turned to get a handbag from the rear seat. There was a scream of dismay—there was no luggage! The brakes went on with a screech, and the husband discovered that he was driving, not his own car, but a similar model. Back they went to Invercargill, to find a group of people waiting to see what would happen when the mistake was discovered. The bridegroom hastily bustled his wife into the car where the luggage rightfully was, and made a second start on the interrupted honeymoon. Two cars of the same make had been parked side by side. Films of Centennial. i Complete moving picture records of the New Zealand National Centennial celebrations will be undertaken by the Tourist and Publicity Department next year. This announcement was made by the general secretary of the New Zealand Centennial Council (Mr A. W. Mulligan) at a meeting with Akaroa centennial authorities, in answer to a question from the Mayor of Akaroa (Mr F. R. E. Davis), “A complete survey of the centennial will be filmed and photographed by the Tourist and Publicity Department, which has two mobile picture sets,” Mr Mulligan said. "There will be a full record. We have got to think of 100 years hence in these celebrations.” He also added that several motion picture companies would doubtless be represented at the celebrations. including those at Akaroa. Summertime Changes. With English summertime commencing on Sunday, April 16, and New Zealand summertime ending a fortnight later, radio listeners will have to do some calculations to arrive at comparative times for Dominion and overseas broadcasts. New Zealand is now two hours ahead of Australia, but will be only an hour and a-half in advance when the clocks are put back on April 30. The conjunction of English and New Zealand summertime in the fortnight April 16 to April 30 calls for a little concentration. At present the Dominion is 12 hours ahead of London. When the English clocks are advanced an hour to their summertime on April 16, the Dominion will be 11 hours ahead, and when this country reverts to winter time it will be only hours ahead. Those who like to play with American stations will still have the confusion of allowing not only for differences in times, but also for the international date line which always puts New Zealand a day’in advance.