Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MARCH 4,1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1946, 1 March 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MARCH 4,1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Harvest r l'hn nl< s-”i vi i iv; services will lie held in All iSaiiils’ Church tomorrow. The offertories al All Saints Church to-morrow will be mi behalf 11 T the Melanesian Mission. Mr ,]. Coomhe. oL' the Palmerston Standard, has hern circled vicepresident oil the New Zealand J'ress Assoidatioii. A mail hap; was sent by train from Auckland pos) office to Papaknra on Monday, hut on arrival I here two hours later it was found to have been robbed of cash amount in”' to about £(!().

A special meeting of the Pox lon Borough Council will be held on Monday evening; next, al 7.30 o'clock. Business: To adopt district electors’ list; to discuss peace celebrations.

Representative men were gathered together at. Shannon yesterday to inspect the site of (he proposed hydro-electric scheme, from Wa'ngauui, Rangiligei, Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa. All expressed the opinion that the scheme should be flushed mi by (he Hovernment without de-lav.

"When we approach the Minister for Public Works," said Mayor Nash, at: Shannon last night, "on any public matter connected with his department, we always know where we stand when we have linished with him. His opinions are not trimmed for vote catching purposes."

At a meeting’ of the Waitaki County Council, it was unanimously decided to support the Ashburton County Council in objecting to the installation of any form of territorial military service not emanating from the people through the ballotbox, and urging that the (lovemmeul he requested to abolish the present territorial system.

The Hon. Sir W. Fraser, Minister for Public Works, who is in his eightieth year, inspected the site-of the headwurks for the proposed Mangahao hydro-eleelric scheme yesterday. His activity in negotiating the rough journey was not surpassed by the youngest inember of the pa f ,rty present. After the strenuous outing he was as full of vitality as any one at tile festive board during the evening.

Wo noknowledge £1 from Mr T. Bowo, Marotiri, in aid of the Palmerston Distriet Hospital.

A meeting of eroquet players will be held in the howling green pavilion next Thursday afternoon.

The world-famous French soprano, Antonia Dolores, will appear for one night in the Town Hall 'next. Tuesday. Mr Byron Brown informs us that he will be a candidate for the Otaki constituency at the next general election.

The secretary of the Feilding Croquet Club has telegraphed, inviting the local players to accompany the bowlers to Feilding next Wednesday.

Madam Dolores, the famous French soprano, who appears at the Town Hall next Tuesday, will be the guest of Mr andjMrs D. Christie during her slay in Foxton. « It will lake three year.- before the electrical supply from the Mangahao scheme is available for general (distribution, says Mr Parry, chief Government electrical engineer.

The otlicers of (he 'Salvation Army, Adjutant Herring and Lieut. Smith, have received orders to farewell from Foxton, and will conduct their last public meetings tomorrow, in (he Salvation Army Hall, Avenue Load.

A garden party. with silver coin collect ion, in aid of St. Alary’s Home for Children, at Karori, AVellinglon, will be given by Airs F. Robinson, at her home, Beach Road, on Tuesday afternoon next, at 3 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to be present.

At the Christchurch Magistrate's Court yesterday, Harris TJiomas Hunter, of I tie mail-room stall’ of (lie Christchurch Rost Office, was committed for trial on a charge of C'loalm!'’ n poslal packet valued at £ll -Is, the porperty of the Postmast er-Cleneral.

At (lie Palmerston North Police Court yesterday morning, before Air \V. F. Durward, J.P., the Alaori, Kimura Hairua, of Aloluiti, appeared on remand, charged with obtaining goods and money to (he value of ,07!) Ids lid, from Fdnunid Osborne, draper, of Palmerston North, by false pretences. Owing to accused’s counsel being engaged at (lie Supreme Court, (he ease was further remanded to March 7, bail being granted as before.

That I lie electrifying of New Zealand will make for closer settlement was pointed out by the Chief (fovemmeiil Fleetrieal Fugiueer (Mr F. Parry) in Ids address at Palmerston on Thursday night. At present, he said, it would seem that (he main use of our roads was to facilitate the transport of the people from the country |o the (owns. The (lovernmeiit, however, hoped by means of its hydro-electric scheme lo divert the trend of population in the opposite direction, hack to the land.

S)>t'-a!•:In:r about opposition to public seidimenl, :i( (lie public nieeliny on Tuesday niyhl, Mr Uornhlow said it was mu ibc first lime lie bad stood ou! ayainst i( when a mailer oj.' principle or riyld was a( slake, lie (ben reeallod the ease of a. lieadmasler who, when appended lo Ibe loeal scliool, round lhal the elassllma I ion of the scholars hy his predecessor wus not up (» I he standard, alllionyh such classification had been endorsed hy (be inspector, lie re-elassilied (he scholars al'ier (wo examinations, and (here was a howl of protest J'roi® parents. Subsequent events proved (hat not only bad (he headteacher aided within his rights, hut: that the standard of class-work was raised.

Interesting reference was made hy Mr M. Parry, Chief Government Mleel ideal Knyineer, in his address at Pa)mer.-ton io the fael that the discoverer of the possihililies of Manyahao as a sonree of hydroelcelrieal supply was Mr Jiekel, borough engineer of- Palmerston. Guile a number of years aye, Mr diekel had seized himself of the latent wealth of waler-power (lint ?danyahao eonlaim'd while lie was looking around for a sonree of power lo supply Palmerston Xorlh. Mr .liekel's seheme was not quite the same as the Government’s project, as tie did not require for Palmerston tin* same amount of pawer as it was now intended to develop, hut nevertheless. remarked Mr Parry, it was interestiny 10 place the fael on record.

The sudden piling-up of I wcnly or thirty motors in ihe .Maim wain Gorge ou Wednesday night awakeued I lie liveliest npprelieiision of u gruve mishap. As ear after ear drew up, the passengers hurried forward to a turn of the road, where a. big grey limousine .was seen to be 'loaning partially over a precipice, with a el oar drop of 100 feet over the river. Down below the figure of a naked man was to be seen. Tie bad been diving for a front wheel of the ear. The onlookers then took in the whole situation. The ear had route round the corner sharply, the outer front wheel had been wrenched off, and had gone flying into space. and the ear's nose dived into the roadway with sneh foree as to embed the springs fn the grave) within a few inehes of the edge ‘of Ihe bank. It was the closest of calls for the motor party. One sport tersely summed up the situation with (he remark (hat “The whole lot of them ought to buy a ticket in Tats.” When last seen the diver had secured a rope and was preparing to make an excursion into the depth of the river in search of the lost wheel.

The Mayor (Mr Chrystall), Crs. Henderson and Hurley, the '[’own Clerk (Mr Waters), and Mr Horiiblow represented Eoxton at the smoke concert tendered to the Hon. Sir W. Fraser l*y the Mangahao Hydro-Electric League, at Shannon last night. The Mayor, during his remarks, referred to the hcnclits which would accrue to Shannon and Fox ton when the hydro-elect rie scheme was established in simplifying and cheapening the cost of water schemes for both boroughs.

In coupling the names ,of the Mayor, of Fox ton (Mr Chrystall) and the Chairman of the Otaki Town Board (Mr Byron Brown) with the toast of “the visitors.” at the complimentary hampiel tendered to the Hon. Sir W. Fraser, at Shannon last night, Mr Hennessy referred to Dir Byron Brown as the chairman of “the Otaki Marhour Board.” Mr Brown, in reply, said that Otaki had a harbour, and lie would convey (he honour conferred upon him by Mr Hennessy to his fellow Town Board Commissioners.