LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2029, 16 September 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Constable Woods desires ns to warn the public- that the white crane which has made its appearance here is an indigenous and protected bird, and is therefore protected.

Sir Francis Dillon Bell is the new Minister for Education, a portfolio he has previously filled. He is wellversed in the needs of Education, and is not the type of man to be bulldozed by alleged experts. If the Party to which he is attached is returned to power there will be vital amendments to the present Education Act.

One day while waiting by the “’phone” To send a message of ray own, I heard across the lines a call, In urgent? anxious accents fall — “Is that you, Central? Hurry, do! Please put me on to 2-0-2. IPs closing time, Fm late, I’m sure: I’m after Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.” 19

Mr Massey, replying to the suggestion to hold u State art union for house building, stated he was interested in the suggestion, and had referred it to the Workers’ Dwellings Board.

A special meeting of the Masterton Borough Council is to be held shortly to discuss loan proposals. The proposals embrace £27,000 for extension of the gaswoi’ks, £37,000 for footpaths, kerbing and construction, and £37,000 for river protection works, making approximately £IOO,OOO.

The Financial Statement is not yet quite ready for presentation to the House, and it is not likely to make its appearance this week. The custom of the Government is to distribute copies of the Statement by post, for delivery to all newspaper oliices simultaneously. The scanty (rain services mean delayed mails, and the circulation of the Budget under present conditions will occupy several days.

■ “Would you sell your Jam! at £2O per acre?” asked counsel of a witness in a compensation case at the Masterton Supreme Court. “Most certainly I would,” was the emphatic reply. “Don’t you know that some land in the locality recently changed hands at £37 10s . per acre?” continued counsel. “The man must have had more money than brains, and is certainly courting the Bankruptcy Court,” came the answer quick and positive.

Teachers who haw accepted appofhlments under the Wanganui Education Board are as follow: — Kinibolloii, head teacher, Mr T. B. Haydon; Eit/.herbert East, head teacher, Mr W. E. Gilligan; Pakihikura, sole teaclior, Mr A. C. Nicol; ATanuiuu,,first assistant,-Mr E. It. Taylor; Wanganui Central Infants’, fifth assistant, Miss 1. IV. Ait ken; Victoria Avenue, eighth assistant, Miss E. E. Arnold; Newbury, assistant, Miss H. Dove; Queen's Park, fourth assistatit, Miss E. Homeman; Linton, second assistant, Miss A. T. Carrulhers; Rangataua, first assistant, Miss H. I. Treacy; Tailia;)c, acting second special assistant, Mr 11. J. Clennmce. The death at the age of 103 is announced of Mrs E. (I. Hill, of Oaumru. Airs Hill, whose maiden name was Alary Little, was born in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1810. Her lirst husband, Mr James Little, died when her only child was eight years of age. Subsequently she married Mr Frederick George Hill, with whom she came ovd to New Zealand in the sailing ship Dunlillan. Airs Hill and her second husband sell led in the vicinity of Anderson’s Bay, Dunedin. Of later years, Air and Airs Hill lived a life of retirement. Latterly bronchitis restricted her activities, and to this ailment she ultimately succumbed.

A very regrettable incident occurred at the West Coast competitions, and is reported by the local papers. One of the competitors in the pre-pared-speech question dealing with a New Zealand subject, gave it as his opinion that there was only One remedy for matters, and that avus “to haul duAvn the Union Jack and hoist'the,(lag of republic Ireland in its stead.” lie was promptly rebuked and disqualified by the judge, Air Farquhar Young, of Christchurch, avlio said it avus an insult to Avar-stricken parents' present, and a sentiment lie Avas sure no decent Irishman in the audience Avould associate himself with.

The Taranaki representative football team had an exciting experience on the Paekakariki hill on the return journey from Wellington. When within a few yards of (he summit the big char-a-banc commenced to reverse, and so immediate were the prospects of the whole vehicle going over the hillside that many of the occupants, amid shouts of warning, dived headlong overboard, while others sat still awestricken. Fortunately the driver was able to remedy the mistake before the worst happened, but it was Mime time, before the passengers wore able to breathe calmly again, and (the Stratford Post relates) the scare received by some in the scramble for safety will not disappear for a day or two. Mr Massey told a story at a diiir ned in Wellington on Saturday evening about his first coming into Parliament twenty-five years ago, and how ho got the news of his election. He was elected for a back-block constituency, at a.by-election. The political centre of the district was forty miles from Auckland. On the night of the pull the returns were not ye* complete —he had a lead of u hundred, and there were thirty returns to come in—and he set out the next day to ride with a friend to Auckland, still in doubt as to the result. lie reached Devon port, on his way to Auckland, and was by*this time very keen to learn the best or the worst. On the lArry bout there was a man reading the paper, and he asked hint what had been the result of the election. The man, who did not know Mr Massey, replied, according to Mr Massey’s way of telling about it: “That fellow Massey is in.” Only he didn’t say ‘fellow,’ ” Mr Massey explained.

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Heavy rain fell throughout the district last night. The Rongotea Horticultural Society’s Bulb Show is being held today. ' ' • It is stated that Mr J. Payne, member for Grey Lynn, does not propose to contest any seat at the next general election. . > . The flood waters from the Mannwatu are still across the ShannonPox ton road, but are rapidly receding. During the recent flood one of the stop-banks at Moutoa gave way and the water overflowed on the adjacent property. Sir Robert Stout delivered an address in the Mastorlou Methodist Church on Sunday night on the subject, “What docs Self-sacrifice Mean?" The church was crowded. At the Christchurch Magistrate's Court (wo men were lined £2 and costs for playing a game of chance at Riccarton last month. The evidence of (lie police showed (hat ac-’ eased, with two others, were playing “two-up” <,m a road late at night. The induction of the Rev. Halliday to the Foxtoa Presbyterian charge will take place in the local church on Friday evening next, at 7 o’-clock. After the induction service a welcome will be extended to the Rev. and Mrs Halliday in the schoolroom.

AVhen Air Wm. Ross'arrived at the Poplar Afill during the recent Hood, lie heard cries for help from across the river.. In company with the mill manager,. Air Ross rowed across the river, and discovered a man isolated upon a flax bush. He had a dogY under each arm, as he was afraid they might get drowned. The man, had lie not been rescued, would have probably suffered great privations until the Hood waters had receded. After (pioting Francis Gallon on the influence of heredity in crime, the report of the Prisons Board stales: “Surely society may reserve the right to control those who show themselves to be unlit "for civil life, and hence the right to impose indeterminate sentences? And, to ensure its own protection, society may have to go even further. If, as seems to have beeen proved, criirdv. or the want of power to resist crime, is hereditary, we shall have to take steps to prevent (he breeding of the type to which our criminals apparently belong. There are in our prisons to-day many instances of criminals who have descended from criminals, and of different members of the same family who have been convicted of crime. Whether we should adopt the system which has been instituted in some of (he States in America, or whether the habitual criminal should be prevented from breeding by being imprisoned for a part of his life, is a question , which (he people of this must decide.”

Mr E, Newman, M.l*., has been pressing (he Government to lake early advantage oil Hie bequest oi' the Smedley estate id! 8,000 acres in Hawke’s Bay, to establish in this Dominion an agricultural college oil a similar type to the Ilawkesbury College in New South Wales. In reply to a question on the subject, the Hon. Mr Nosworthy (Minister of Agriculture) informed Mr Newman on Wednesday that it is intended to take early steps to establish an Agricultural Educational Institution, in accordance with the terms of the bequest of the late Mr Josiah Howard, of Smedley station, and legislation necessary for giving effect to this is under preparation for presentation to Parliament during the present session. In the planning of this institution, and the educational methods to be adopted in connection with it, is is proposed to embody, as far as possible, the best features of Hawkesbury and other agricultural colleges.

In the annual report of the chairman of the 'Wanganui Education Board, it is stated that at the close of the year there were 202 main schools and four side schools open in the district, as well as six district high schools. ■ The number of children on the roll was 15,026, of which 140 were in the secondary departments. The Board employed 451 teachers, excluding the pupil teachers and probationers. The 1 number' of uneertificated teachers was 107. Despite the provision made by the Board by means of Saturday classes and winter schools to assist uneertificated teachers to pass the examination, the percentage of uhcertilieated teachers remains high. Almost 40 per cent, were in charge of grade schools. Many of the schools in this grade were situ- ' atod in remote parts of the district, and the utmost difficulty was experienced in keeping them open. It was not to be expected that teachers with several years’ experience a.ml holding certificates would accept appointments in schools of this class. It appeared, therefore, unless boiler inducement was offered to experienced teachers to take up such positions, the percentage of uneertificated teachers in this district would remain high. ••

GOT THEM THROUGH THE ‘

WINTER

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At Wellington on Saturday afternoon the return football match was played between Manawatu and Wellington, resulting in a win for the Wellington team by 18 points to 14. Mr Henry Ford, the Detroit motor ear millionaire, has fared badly in his libel action against the Chi- . eago Tribune, from whom he claimed £IOO,OOO damages. The jury awarded him 10 cents —-exactly sd. A significant remark was made by the Prime Minister during the debate on the Board of Trade Bill. “The consumer,” he said, “will not have to pay more for his butler in the future.” At a farewell “social” tendered to the Rev. T. Holliday and Mrs Holliday at Lansdowne, the former was presented with a silver inkstand and set of gold sleeve-links, and the latter with a solid leather handbag. The death has occurred of Mr Hans Peter Jensen, an old resident of Dannevirke,. and pioneer ■of southern llawkcs Bay, aged 82 years. He is survived by a widow and one daughter, Mrs Charles Erieksen. Edgar Craddock Street, 20 years of age, a cadet at the Havelock Post Office, was drowned at Blenheim on Sunday. Deceased was swimming out to a launch in the river, when, presumably, he look cramp. The body has been recovered. Street belonged to Metliven-. Mr AVilliam Frederick Allen, a Crimean naval veteran, died at Ashburton last week in his 80th -year. He came to New Zealand 55 years ago, and had lived for more than half that period in Ashburton and district, and engaged in farming and as a dealer in fat sheep and lambs. For several years he had been living in retirement.

During the welcome, in Melbourne, to the Federal Prime Minister (Mr Hughes) there was an interesting interlude. Among the soldiers were several veterans of the Crimea. One old man aged 92 attracted attention, and an impromptu collection was made for him. Mr Hughes paused before replying to Ins welcome, and in a few words of praise handed a. bucket of money to the old men. The collection totalled £O2 13s,

The accommodation of the Lansdowue Presbyterian Church was taxed to its utmost on Sunday evening, when the Rev. Thomas Halliday preached Ids farewell sermon. During’ Hie course of his address the preacher mentioned that Lansdowue had been his first charge in New Zealand. He had completed live and a half years of work among them, and though he regretted leaving the district he felt it Ids duty < to accept the call to Foxtou.

The Loudon Board of Trade has issued its first order under the Profiteering AH, which became effective on lllh September. The list of scheduled goods includes articles of clothing, household utensils, furniture, building materials, and many line on t roI led ;f oods t u!Vs, particularly bullied, tinned and dried and patent foods. Six hundred local authorities are establishing antiprolil coring commit lees.

Germany is a broken nation, both in body and spirit, and a long lime will elapse before tbe efficiency of her people is restored, it is declared in a report of British scientists on food conditions in Germany, issued in the form of White Papers recently. The war-time semi-starva-tion of the people is responsible for the slowness with which recovery will be effected, according to these authorities.

Mr* Bodcn, lion, secretary of the Crippled Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Hostel Society, Wellington,-has received a cheque for £545 15s from the trustees in the estate of E. and E. Short, being the net amount of stakes won by the racehorse Has tie, which was donated by Mr Short, of Parorangi, to be raffled in aid of the hostel funds and to be run in the interests of that institution until won in the art union. The latter realised £lB3 14s lOd, which, added to the stakes, makes the handsome sum of £729 9s lOd,

“Are we going to have Germans .sending their goods here under [irewar conditions? If not, how are we going to slop thorn? I honestly think it is a mailer for ourselves. What we have to do is to be determined to push only those goods which bear the British trade mark,” said Air Charles Rushbrook, at the Welling! on Commercial , Tra vellers’ and Warehousemen's Association’s dinner on Saturday evening. An interjection of “A genuine one!" and the loud applause showed plainly the feeling of I lie members.

A proposal which it was considered would case the acute shortage iff' houses has been made by the Palmerston North Borough Council, which Ims referred it to die local bodies for consideration. The proposal briefly was that the Government, when making grants for relumed soldiers for the purpose of enabling them to purchase homes, should only, give them on condition that the money was utilised in the establishment of new homes, and not for the acquisition of dwellings already in existence. The Palmerston Council considered that if the above proposal were carried into effect, it would considerably relieve the present shortage of houses, and would prevent returned .soldiers from paying extortionate prices for house properties, some of which were not in the best of condition, and also prevent the present occupiers, who have no protection, from being turned out and finding themselves without accommodation.

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The total of exports from the-four principal ports of Now Zealand for the twelve months elided duly 31st show that the value of produce sen| from Auckland was .€5,71-1,051, from Wellington £5,020,123, Lyttelton £3,737,008, and Dunedin and Bluff {combined) €3,204,977. The grand total for the Dominion was €29,007,734, as against £20,894,404 for the previous year. '