GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2145, 29 June 1920, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

‘‘l have found there is a very pronounced Scotch element in New Zealand, and 1 am rather surprised that a good deal of fun is poked at the Scotch folk because of their alleged meanness and inability to appreciate a joke,” said Air T. J. Irwin, a magistrate of the City of Glasgow, who is on a visit to New Zealand. “The hospitality of New Zealanders, however, is something to be remembered/' Air Irwin added: “Twice while walking along roads, passing motorists have invited me to ride in their ears. You never see motorists do that in Scotland.”

A large number of applications have recently been received by the

Minister of Internal Affairs from relatives of victims of the influenza epidemic of 1918, for permission to remove (he bodies from the graves in which (hey were hastily buried to family plots. The Minister has given this matter very serious consideration, and, after consultation with the Health Department, has declined to take the responsibility of ■allowing any interference with the bodies at present. In the course of a few years any danger of infection will probably have disappeared, and applications for removal can (hen be renewed.

A correspondent in lasi night's Palmerston Standard, writing in reference to the new proposed railway site, writes; —“I would respectfully ask citizens who are interested in the railway removal question to ;sn and view the proposed site now, and to remember that the Borough Council lias been lighting the Kawau for years, and ibis is the result afler the expenditure of a great deed of die workers’ hard earned cash. 1 wonder if those who agitato for the removal of the station will provide ferry boon: free of charge for transpoii of workers’ goods and pa.--.cn-

gvrs (hiring Ihe wei season. After ail, is ii mu bis! lo deal with the “devil we know” in preference to the “devil we don't know.’

“New Zealand (remarks Hie Yorkshire Evening New.-;) may, without any ofu.nce, he said in have been born in Newgale Prison, h was while scrying a term, of imnris.mmenv there for illegally running awav with an heiress that Edward Gibbon Wakefield thought out a new and scientific scheme of colonisation,, which, alder In-' release, he elaborated into a bool: that aliracied. considerable attention, and resulted in an attempt to pul his principles into practice in founduig a colony in New Zealand. The plan worked excellently, am! Wakeiiehl Imuscii emigrated to tiie new colony, and took a leading part in its public life.”

A few davs ago deputation, consisting of Messrs \\. Mollait, Roto tc Rang! and J. Fitzgerald, representing Mere Kiki liiki, ehietiaiuess of local native tribes,'waited upon the .Mayor of Palmerston N, (Mr J. A. Nash, M.P.), and presented turn with a framed address, and also two Maori mats, one for himself and the other for the Mayoress, in recognition of the arrangements ho made on behalf of the Maoris in connection wilh the visit of Ilis Royal ll!ghne-s the Prince of Wales. Ihe mat- are while in colour, interwoven wilh wok a feathers, and have been in possession of t lie tribe for a very long period. —Times.