Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2140, 15 June 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs Parr, accompanied her husband, the Hon. C. J. Parr, to Foxton this afternoon.

Accounts amounting- to £927 13s 3d were passed for payment at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council.

The box plan is now open at Mr Heaths’ for Hall Caine’s masterpiece attraction, “The Woman Thou Gavcsl Me.” No extra charge for hooking.

At last night's Council meeting applications from the Beautifying Society and the Dorcas Society for the 1-ree use of the Council Chamber in the day time, for meetings, were ■granted.

A schom.e for the control of distribution of supplies of cement and bricks for essential users has been approved by the Government, and regulations to give effect to it will be gazetted shortly.

The Wairarapa Teachers’ Institute, at its meeting on Saturday, passed a resolution hoping that upon review I lie Department'would revert to the main lines of the old grading scheme, whiqh has now obtained wide acceptance.

A manager of a retail store in PaJiiatua was charged before a Magistrate this week with having sold six reputed one-pound weight pats of butter purporting to be a total weight of tilbs., the said weight being one ounce five drams short. The Magistrate said he was satisfied that the vendors had acted innocently, and imposed a line of £5 and 7s costs.

To be comfortably clothed to suit the season of the year should be the aim of every man who studios his health. The winter months will require you to have a warm overcoat, and jn this respect A. N. Smith, the Men’s and Boy’s outfitter, has made provision for your requirements by importing a variety df tweed overcoats, in double breasted and single breasted 'effect, and which are beingoffered at specially reduced prices. A. perusal of his advertisement today will give some idea of the values and variety offering.®

At the inquest on (he body of Sydney Caleb Small, who was killed in a motor accident on A*lay 28th, when in Christchurch on his honeymoon, a verdict was recorded that death was due to fractured spine and internal injuries received from the overturning of a motor car. Shortly before the accident the car was being driven at a high rate of speed, hut the evidence on the point was inconclusive, though tin 1 fact that the car had skidded going through a waterhole, and the failure to reduce speed in lime io prevent (he skidding woiijd seem to suggest excessive speed and lack of vigilant outlook. Thursday last was (’he nineteenth anniversary of the landing of (he present King and Queen, llien Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, at Auckland, the first New Zealand port to he visited (hiring their lour of the colonies. The Royal yacht Ophir arrived in the harbour on Monday, 10th June, IDOL and I lie landing look place at two o’clock on the following afternoon. The Duke and Duchess spent 17 days iu New Zealand, the centres visited being Auckland, Rotorua, Wellington. Christchurch, and Dunedin. The Royal visitors left the Dominion on the evening of 271 h June, Lyttelton being (lie port of departure.

By means of a multiplex telegraph system such as that whiyh is shortly to he introduced into New Zealand, it is possible for one who has had no special training in the Morse alphabet to send telegraph messages, the message being signalled by depressing keys similar to those of a typewriter. Eight messages may pass over one wire at the same time, and be automatically typeprinted, at, the receiving station on the usual telegraph forms. Jn one system, at. the completion of a message, the sending operator depresses a switch which automatically turns over a fresh page at the receiving end, leaving a fresh page exposed ready to receive the next message.

The Auckland Education Board decided last week to ask the Education Department to authorise an expenditure from the hoard's funds of about £1,001). to provide a travelling cinematograph plant, and to find the necessary funds, about £7OO per annum, for the maintenance of the plant. A report from the Educational Films Committee .gave details of a travelling demonstrating set of motion picture apparatus and equipment for lecture purposes. This included a motortruck, generating plant with accessories, and motion picture machine, together witli a dissolving lantern, etc., to form one whole self-conta-ined plant, capable of being ta'ken by road to any school under the hoard's control, and enabling a lecturer to illustrate and demonstrate any subject deemed advisable,

“The Hoodlum" will be screened at the Royal towards the end of the mouth.

Portion of the report of last night’s Council meeting is, crowded out of this issue, and will appear on Thursday.

Wanganui is again agitated over a scandal involving a highly-placed individual. The birth of twins to a single girl let daylight into an unsavoury position, says an exchange. The complimentary concert to bo accorded Captain Coffin will be held on Tuesday, July 6th, not Thursday, July Bth, as stated in lasi, issue. The Rev. \\. H, Walton, vicar of the parochial district of Pahautamii, has been appointed vicar of-All Saints’ parochial district, Foxton. It is not yet definitely settled when the Rev. Mr Raine will leave for Marlinborough, to which parish he has been appointed vicar.

. Notice is given by the Department of Agriculture that registration of apiaries should he made during the present month. The Regulations provide that every person keeping one or mure hives of bees is mmired to make application to register same.

It is staled (says a Palmerston North exchange) that the Government. lias acquired, through the Public Trustee, an area of 400 acres for the new railway department outside Palmerston North; also that £7,000 was recently refused for an hotel license likely to be affected by the proposed change in the raihvay route.

Not only during tenement eases are the troubles ok the houseless ventdated at (lie Magistrate's Court. A witness in a maintenance ease staled at Wellington that she paid 15s per week rent i'or a small house, but received that amount bark from a married couple, who, with their live young children, lived in two of the rooms.

Owing to the unavoidable absence of Ihe Ma yor (Mr J. Chryslail), Cr. G. C. Coley received the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education, at the Council Chamber this afternoon, and accorded him a civic welcome. The Minister was accompanied by Mr Newman, M.P., and was subsequently entertained at lunch bv (he Council.

A letter was read from Mr G. Coley at last night’s Council meeting, advising that lie had disposed of his interest in (he. Cemetery Reserve to Mr IT. Berry. Mr Berry also wrote asking for an extension of. the lease for two years, for which period he was prepared to pay an additional four pounds per annum. —II was decided on the molion Pearson and Me Murray, that the transfer be approved, and that Mr Berry be advised that this Council has no power to grant an extension of the existing lease.

At last nights' Council meeting a letter was received from I lie Eoxton Chamber of Commerce, advising that it was proposed to hold a conference in .Foxton of delegates from local bodies and others interested in the ares a ffected to consider Ihe proposal of the Palmerston North Retailers’ Association to have a, suburban train area created around Palmerston North. —Crs. Walker and Me .Murray were appointed to represent the Council at Ihe conference.

The, Postmaster-General notifies that the British Government announces that, commencing from the let June, ,1920, the postage on Jotters posted in the United Kingdom addressed to all places abroad included in the Imperial postage system is raised to: 2d for the Ill's! ounce, and Id for each additional ounce. Postage rates for His Majesty’s ships and troops abroad remain unaltered for the present, but an early increase is in contemplation.

Though ihe formal appoint men! has not been gazetted, Urn Hun. E. P. Lee has now taken control, as President, of Board of Trade matters. There are olherCabinet changes to be made. For example, (be retirement of Sir William Fraser will leave the portfolio of Mines vacant, and it is considered that the Hon. J. G. Coates has more than lie can do justice to as Minister of Public Works, Defence, Public Trust Office, and Postmaster-General. It is probable that ihe rearrangement will relieve him of some minor portfolios, and possibly of Defence.

“The weak point about Ihe peopling of New Zealand,” says the French Mission, which visited New Zealand last year, “will be rather (he insufficiency of immigration. In the Jive years from 1909 to 1913 ■preceding (he war, the net average of immigration —i.e., excess of arrivals over departures—barely exceeded 7,000 persons, in the quarter of a century following 1870, New Zealand resorted largely to the system of assisted immigration, with excellent results, but this to a great extent was abandoned in the lasi years of the 19lh and the Ill's t of Ihe 201 h centuries. But. (here seems to be a disposition to revert to it. It is indeed probable that New Zealand will not, simply by the development of the birth-rate, attain a population worthy of her potentialities. One is considering, of course, a white population only. The climate is not suitable for the immigration of exotic races, and it is a white civilisation that the New Zealanders have mplanted in the Dominion." They wish it to remain a ‘white man’s country.’ ”

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs and Colds, never fails, 1/9, 2/9.

There were present at the monthly meeting of the Borough Council, held last night: The Mayor (Mr J. Chrysta.ll) and Crs. Coley, Walker'; Pearson, Me Murray, Hunt, Parkin, Kami, and Thompson.

Many years ago the colony was thrown into a great state of excitement by the massacre at-Matarawa of the Gillillan family by the Maoris, and yesterday (states the Post’s correspondent) the incident was revived in Wanganui‘by the gift of the site of the massacre to the Wanganui County Council. The donor (Mr T. Allison) suggested that the reserve, which approximated one and a.-half acres, might be used as a recreation ground or a site for a memorial that would commemorate the event. The council accepted the trusteeship.