Snippets From Outstanding Talks of the Week.

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 8, 1 September 1933, Unnumbered Page

Snippets From Outstanding Talks of the Week.

MR. JOHN STANLEY, 3YA.° ALMON are the delight of every anigiler’s heart, and when they commeénce to run up the snow rivers of the South Island each year fishermen are inclined to contract what is com: monly known as "March Fever," a complaint which makes them haunt the rivér-banks and afterward tell rather tall stories. It’s expensive, too, for salmon brings a good price in the shops. Perhaps it would be just as well, before I start telling you fish storjes, to say that I am not a fully-blown angler. I fell down in the imagination trial. Away back in the ’seventies Hagley ‘Park must have been very much like a zoo. There were: deer there, emus, kangaroos, wallabies and éveu hares, hedgehogs, ferrets and guineapigs, none of which are natives of New Zealand. There were dozens of ditferent kinds of birds, including jackdaws, pheasants, magpies, partridges and nightingales--and the sparrow, of course, introduced because it brought back memories of England. Bven the earwig was carefully shepherded into the country. ‘ I HAVE discovered why. anglers lie, and why big game hunters don’t. A tigerskin can be stretched, so that @ niné-footer can easily havé a couple of fest added to its length. Fish, on: the other hand, shrink and lose weight when left out of water, so to square things up, the angler has to stretch his

tales. Quite fair, on the law of averages, DR. J. HIGHT, 3YA. HE nations must disarm before there is any remission of war debts, in order to escape the imputation that they would use the advantages coming from war-debt remissions to increase . armament expenditure, and secondly to carry out the solemn promises made to Germany in 1919. And disarma+ meént, to be effective, must be general and enforced by adequate administrative devices. : THD danger to Austria from the Nazis drove hér Chancellor into negotiations with Mussolini; Dollfuss was again in Italy early in June, just before the Economie Conference. There has been a revival of national feeling in Austria, but it is very doubtful if the Nazi danger will be overcome by the Dollfuss Government, which is by no means firmly based despite the re vival of Austrian. nationdlism. /PHE délegates to the World Conference should assemble in sackeloth and ashes, with humble and contrite hearts. It is, I suppose, well-nigh the fiftieth of post-war conferences, MR. G. O. BARNETT, 3YA. (CAMPING out in Borneois not a pleasant business, and it is often the survéyor’s lot as the rest houses or sinall hotels found only in villages

_ eh aoaad — and small towns. ' Sometimes one is lucky enough to be able to get a fairly clean room in a village nedrby, otherwise it méans camping out on the spot, which may be in thicls jungle, or, worse still, ina swamp. As soon as thé space for @ camping grourd is cleared, one’s cooliés at once build a hut made out of léaves and bamboo, just big enough to take one’s camp bed comfortably. A camp bed mosquito net is not a very high oné, so of course it is unbearably hot. Qné has to get undet ag goon as it is sundown, or be éatén alive by mosquitos and sandffies. ON my first day’s trip-in the virgin jungle I expected to hear the yoaring of tigers and of lions, trumpeting of elephants, and snakes swishing through the dead leaves-but everything was quiet... I think "furtive* degeribes it best. So much for the day. At night the jungle awakened. The voise is deafening and at times terrifying, Hundreds of monkeys sqnéajing, birds squawkins, pigs grunting, bugzing insects, and the occasiong! trumpet of elephaijts oy roar of gorillas, al} combine to make the night hideous. J HAVE been asked what prospects . there are in North Borneo for young men leaving our colleges... At the present time I should say there gre absolutely none. — Later, when things right themselvés, there will be openings "on platitations and in thé timbér industry, Which. is at present only ‘slightly developed. While there is not a, lot, of big game, the field open to the niturglist is huge, as the place is teemitig with thousands of species of small animals, birds and butterflies, To the toyrist there Will evér be an abundant source of interest, and to the explorer, unending adveutura,. -..-- ’