MANAWATU

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 150, 20 March 1919, Page 8

MANAWATU

The Palmersjon North Borough Council is arranging to advertise the beauties and resources of the borough to the outside world by means of the ititiematograph. At the last meeting of the comic;! a special committee reported that the.y had consulted with Councillor H. li. Bennett, who is interested in the theatre business, and he had slated that the projected film would cost X 75.

At the last meeting of tho Borough Council at Palmerston tho Philosophical Society wrote stating that the noxl Scicnce Congress was to be held in Palmerston North in January, 1921, ami asking the council to co-operate in tho arrangements for Entertaining the somo 50 odd delegates who would bo in attendance.

Councillor Spencer, of Shannon, at the request of a number of citizens, has consented to stand for .the local Mayoralty. Councillor Carter will not 6eek re-election.

At a public meeting held at Shannon to make, arrangements for the peace celebrations the- attendance was not very large, but good work was done. A committee consisting of Messrs. Spencer, Gunning, Carter, W. Brown, Hughes, Watterson, .Murray, Hook, and Bovis was appointed to draw up a programme and submit it to a fuller meeting at an early date.

The prospects are good for the establishment of tho Workers' Educational Institute in Shannon. A class will be started shortly and tho subject will most likely be economics or industrial history.

Mr. G.'G. Kelly, of Shannon, has been asked to stand at the forthcoming general election,, but luis not yet made any definite statement. ~

Mr. A. Dron, of Pahiatua district, who is returning to the South Island to reside. was tendered a smoke concert by the fanners and townspeople this week, and presented with a travelling rug. 011. Tuesday the Bunnythorpe Patriotic Society tendered si welcome home social and dunce to Corporal 0. Jepsen, liitleman C. Bowling, Privates A. Proctor, S. Print, N. Greenblow, and E. Hills, and Trooper 1!. B. Crocke.

Sergeant P. .1. Hice, of Waituna AVcet, has been granted the Meritorious Service Medal. Corporal H. Smithers, of Pahiatua, lias won a similar honour.

Private Ken' Stevens, youngest and only surviving son of the lato John Stevens, of Palmerston North, is expected to return to New Zealand early next month.

Mr. John Ellis, of Palmerston North, has received cabled advice that liis Youngest brother, Sergeant-Major J. P. Ellis, who was attached to the Canadian Forces, had been accidentally drowned while 011 a visit to Scotland.

The Palnjerston North Borough Council . will shortly be ,in possession of a roll of honour giving the complete list of all Hie men who went lo the war from the district. The Mayor (.Mr. J. A. Nash,• M.l\) (old the council on Tuesday night that Captain Cosgrove was working at the roll in Wellington and be was making a. job of it. Tie (the Mayor) believed that Palmerston would tie the only town in New Zealand lo possess a complete roll of all its soldiers.

Sergeant 11. Sc-lby and his brother, Trooper J. Sclby, after a very lengthy r'av at the Iron I, were welcomed home this week at Scarborough (Pahiatua), and on behalf of the local' residents each' presented with a ehetine. Dannevirke was 011 Tuesdav enveloped in I ho smoke, ol' bush fires.'and it has been a very anxious time for the sol Hers out at Una l!on and To Tfehunga. Some of them hurried to Dannevirke and reported that great danger confronted their holdings, lino Una was covered in smoke, and settlers on the Top Gras* Road unit other localities wore out all night lighting Iho llnmes. It is reported that the log and grass fires there have done considerable damage, houses, ha.vslaeks and stock being burned. Further, that the rcsidcnce' in coursc of con-

filruction for Mr. Ciiesen at Run Boa and the working men's camps have been destroyed. La to in the afternoon llio wind moderated somewhat, and in tlio evening a heavy raififull stopped further damage.

The death lias occurred at Dannevirke of Mrs. Isabella Flora Sitoninn, relict of the lato Jacob Siteman, of Wimbledon, nt the afro of 74 years.

Tlio sheep-guessing competitions at the recent Pahiatua Show wero won by Mrs. E. Geaiigo, Messrs. C. .T. Robinson. A. Bissett, Hugh Mlvny, J. Exley and .Donald Eraser.

Mr. J. Thompson, of Quec'ii Street (Levin), has a bovine curiosity in the shape of a cow with nine teats. The first pair of the extra set are situated between the ordinary teats, ami the remaining couple are on the back portion of the udder. The cow is an excellent milkjr and one of the best in (be herd.

Miss Mathews, of Maiigahao, has presented her thoroughbred marc Yaletta for sale on behalf of tlio local Roll of Honour Fund.

Advice lias been received by the Palmerston North High School Board from Ba«! Records that Lieutenant J. Murray, who was recently appointed Rector of tlio High School was due to embark for New Zealand, therefore, noted the It was presumed, therefore, noted tho Director of Base Secords, that Lieutenant Murray was now en route.

Passing reference was mado by tlio chairman of tho Board of Directors (Mr. T. R. Hodder), in the course of his annual report, to tho part the Palmcrston North High School had played in tho war. Over 450 old boys represented tho school at the front, of which number fi9 had made the supreme sacrifice. Shortly a suitable memorial would be erected in honour of their'memory, Many of tho High School boys had' won distinction in the war. As far as could be .ascertained the decorations had 'been awarded as follow;—D.S.O.: BawoYiclongh, Hardie, E. Gardner, and Baker, Military Cross; Barrowolough, llardio, J, L. Gardner, Cook, Golduigham, Lflviuo, Leary, Porter, Bowater, Buchanan, and Luxford. Military Medal: M'Millan, Jlichter, De Ltien, and Gray. Croix de Guerre: Barrowclough. To these old boys, as well as their relatives, Mr. Hodder offered the hearty congratulations of the board.

Referring to the death of tlio late rector of tho Palmerslon North .High School (Mr; Vernon) in the course of his annual report, tho chairman of the board (Mr. T. It. Hodder) said that tho school bad suffered an irreparable loss. Mr, Vernon was not only a Christian gentleman, but a mail of great scholarly attainments, who had' the gift of imparting his knowledge to his scholars. Ho was held in the highest esteem by tho- Board of CloverHoi's, the teachers, scholars, and by all who know Jiim, ami it was not too imich to say that tho success of the school generally, the high standard of scholarship, and the excellent tone pervading the school, were largely due to the personality of tho lato esteemed rector.

Though the biddy-biddy, or burr, causes much aunoyauco when it comes in contact with.one's clothes, there is no doubt about its valuable medicinal properties. A farmer informed a Levin 'Chronicle" representative that ho knew of a case where a herd of GO cnlvcs was badly attacked with scour, and all would probably have died hut for treatment wilh biddy-biddy.' The plants were pulled and boiled, and about liall'-a-pint.was given to each calf, with :i similar quantity of milk. All the calves were saved but three. Tho plant is very well'known to the natives tor ils medicinal propertics,

A visitdr to the Hokio beach 011 Sunday discovered a ship's dinghy among some limber just about high water marl: at a point- about: midway between the Hokio and the wreck o p the Hyderabad. The boat, which is in a fairly good slate of preservation, is partly filled with sand, and bears the name "Merry Duchess" on its starboard bow, From its appearance tho boat has been washed up within the past six months, and ftolll its beam is undoubtedly a ship's boat. The discovery has been (.ommunicated to the local- police, who say that the matter had not been previously reported. Tho funeral of the late l!ev. ,T. White took place at the Weraroa Cemetery 011 Monday in the presence of n few personal friends of tlje family. The services at the house and graveside were conducted by the h'ev. 31.', Bawden Harris, assisted by the Pev. .1. H. M'Keuzie, of Nelson, in his official capacity as clerk of the General Assembly of "New Zealand. The latter also gave a brief resume of the career of the late Mr. White, after which the deceased gentleman's favourite hymn and his favourite passages of Scripture were read. A memorial service is to be held in the Presbyterian Church 011 Sunday-morning.