MANAWATU NOTES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 77, 24 December 1919, Page 8

MANAWATU NOTES

Sergeant-Major Capp, oE Pahuovston North, who hns recently been on duty with the Officers' Training Corps, Dunedin, has been transferred to Kotorua, to replace Sergeant-Major Dorizac, who is returning to civil life. Passengers by the second 3fatn Trunk express from Wellington to Auckland yesterday arc loud in their complaints as- to tlic manner in which the seatinsr accommodation was adjusted. ' Although the train was very sparsely filled, and was not to make a stop until it arrived at Pahnorston North, when tho passengers entered the first-class carriages they found nearly, overy seat had a reserved ticket on it, but nobody appeared to claim the seats. Porters came through tho carriages and, prevented people from occupying these seats, ami only a few places wen. , left vacant in the' worst portions of the carriages. Aa the wats ve.ro still unoccupied when tho train left some of tho passengers mndo an investigation, which showed that in one carriage all the reserved seats were marked "Morgan," in ono carriage, while in the next the niimo of "Todii" was affixed to all the scat backs. Tt would he interesting to know what this new move means, as on the train leaving Palmerston many of these seats were occuniod by persons who had not booke:l seatsAfter a warm day ' yesterday with light winds the weather became overcast last evening and during the morniiu: some fairly heavy ehowers fell, Imt il: cleared up soon afW noon, and tho afternoon was fini with a warm wind. This will do an intense amount of good to some of the later sown crops of rnpo, ni'H ivill considerably improve the strike. ' The Customs and Excise duties collected in Palmerslou for tho. December quarter amounted to close on £10,000.

The eavlv training during boyhood o{ King George V,, as a lioyal Naval Cadet, on board 11.J1.5. Hrilaniua, was referred to on the occasion of the celebration in the Auckland Town Hall o£ the last birthday of His Majesty. At this gathering, which was presided over by tho Mayor, some of the incidents of tho Kinif's life on the Britannia were related by Cnplain 11. Goodwyn Archer, who was the Term Superintending Lieutenant at that time. The Governor-General, tho I Karl of Liverpool, expressed a desire tliat (liese memoirs should be forwarded to the King, as a pleasant remembmnee of the past. Accordingly, Captain Archer's narrative, logetlier \!-il!t tin* newspaper account of the galhering of the veterans on His Majesty's Birthday were dispatched to Buckingham Palnro by His Excellency. The flovernor-General has since, received word from the Secretary of Rfate for the Colonics that the memoirs had been duly placed beforo His Majesty, who was graciously nloased to command that an expression' of his thanks for tho panic be conveyed to Captain Archer. Tho latter hns just received tho letter written in pursuance of the King's d> lira,