LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2197, 2 November 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr McDonald, of Wellington, has taken up his duties as stationmaster at Eoxton. The Town Clerk (Mr W. Trueman), Avho Avas seriously indisposed last Avoek, Avas able to resume duty Yesterday.

The old favourite, Charles Ray, will he at the Town Hall on'Wednesday, in “Crooked Straight,’' his latest Paramount.

The'recent Hood waters spread over an area of 30,000 acres in the lower Manawatu in the space of 30 hours, at an average depth of 4, feet.

John Juft Foley, taxi-driver, was lined £lO and costs for travelling at 44 miles an hour on the Hiccarton road on a recent Sunday morning for a wager.

Figures compiled by the Census Department show that 1,205 Chinese entered the Dominion during the lirst nine months of the present year. Three hundred Chinese left New Zealand during a similar period.

Mr Rout, of the Foxton-Shannon mail service, continued the usual running yesterday. Despite Hoods, Mr Kent has rarely missed more than one day during (he period he has carried the mails. On several occasions he has jiad to commandeer a carl to traverse the Hooded area, and the public are indebted to Mm for the conscientious discharge of his duties.

During his recent visit to Rome a great honour was conferred upon Archbishop Redwood by His Holiness the Pope extending to him a private official interview at the Vatican. Th is is a high apostolic honour, as private audiences are only granted by the Pope to high dignitaries of the Catholic Church. In the “Eternal City” His Grace assisted in beatification ceremonies, being present, at the canonisation of Blessed Joan of Arc, and the beatilicalion of Venerable Oliver Plunkct. The scenes at these ceremonies were nothing short of marvellous, all Rome being, as it were, in sacred garb.

lii I lie past, during the lioi weather picnic parlies ami I lie public generally who visited the Fox ton Beach lor a- day's outing will remember iho difficulty ol.‘ gelling a supply of water for the necessary cup of tea. In order that this difficulty, should not continue, the Beach Improvement Committee leave recently erected two large tanks, over 1,000 gallons each, at the Beach Hall for the use of the public. The tanks are now full, so the supply for this season is assured. This convenience has been made possible through the generosity of Air Linklatcr, who gave one tank, Air Holben the greater part of the cost of the' other, the committee providing the balance.

A fiaxmill hand named Dennis Sloan appeared in the Palmerston Police Court' yesterday, before Air J. L. Stout, S.AI., in answer to a charge of having stolen an overcoat valued at £5, the property of John A. Alilchell. Accused pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Fraser stated that the owner of the coal was a passenger by a south train on the evening of October 20th, and placed Ins coat in (he rack of a secondclass “smoker.” Air Mitchell then went into another carriage to speak to someone, and returned when the train was at Makerua, and found that his coat was missing. On asking . another passenger if lie had seen the coat, the latter said that a man had takep it out, asserting that It belonged to him. The affair was reported to the police at Shannon, and a constable went to the mill the following day to find Sloan, who answered to the passengers description. The constable searched his room and found the missing coat rolled up in a bag. Accused had a loffg record and had. more than one conviction in the past five years. Accused Wets sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.

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The milled service will be held in the Methodist Church this evening! Alice Joyce appears at Hie Royal on Thursday in her great success, “The Third Degree.” The Headmaster acknowledges with thanks denations to the (School museum and library from Mrs F. and Master F. Procter.

The Levin-Greatford railway petition was “talked out” in the House last night. Full report will appear in our next issue.

There will he 2,500 emigrants leaving London for New' Zealand in November and December, including 400 domestics.

The following arc the vital statistics for Foxton for the month of October; Births 4, deaths 2, marriage certificates issued 5.

During (he month of October ruin fell locally on ten days, (be maximum fall b'eiug on the 251 h, when 1.98 inches was registered. From the 24th to the 27th the fall was -1.04 inches. The total for I lie month was 5.80 inches,

Mr James Murray, 8.A., A.N.Z.B.CL., M.N.Z.T.S., A.N.Z.1.A., civil engineer ;nul architect, of Auckland City, has entered on his duties in 'connection with the Foxton water supply ami sewerage, as the executive engineer for Messrs IT. W. Climie ami Son, consulting engineers, of Hastings.

Mr A. McPherson, of (lie local Bank of N.Z. stall, left for Ohaknne to-day, whither he has been transferred. During Ids residence in Foxton Mr McPherson has taken a keen interest in the local football and tennis chibs. His position on the Bank staff will lie filled by Mr Carmine.

Two £SO notes were picked up by u boy in Hastings on Show Day, The money was lying outside a shop door. ;ynd the boy look it in and left if with the manager with Ids name and address. Later a .Maori, who laid lost the amount, returned to the shop in a very agitated frame of mind. On the money being returned to him the native left £5 for the tinder.

One of the most important provisions of the Education Amendment Bill relates to the system of appointing and transferring teachers. It slates that position on the grading list shall be the guide in making appointments, “unless,* in the opinion of the board and the Senior Inspector, some other candidate is more suitable for the position under consideration.”

In the result's of the Victoria College annual examinations just published appears the names of Miss Winifred Harding (daughter of the Rev. A. Harding, of Foxton) as having passed in advanced English language and literature, and in Advanced Economics; .Miss Hope Mackie, of Foxton, also gained a pass in preliminary Education. W e congratulate these students on their success. Another of (he Dominion's early colonists, Mr George David Hood, died at bis residence, Island Bay, last Thursday, at the age of 84 ears. The late Mr-Hood arrived in New Zealand in 1858, and was for some time on the West Coast of the South Island, later residing for a number of years in Napier. He is survived by bis wife, son (Mr G. C. Hood, of Wellington), and daughter (Mrs H. A. Bagiev, of Masterton).

The Hood water in the Manawatu River is playing havoc with the sandy banks at Manawatu Heads. The erosion on the south side is enormous, also on the north side. The point near the signal stall’ has vanished, and what was a sloping bank is at present a steep bank eight feet high, well past high water murk. As Hood water is still coming down, the actual damage cannot yet be estimated.

The Government was asked by Mr E. Newman if it was prepared to make advances against but ter. stored by small business people awaiting shipment, and whether it would finance wool stored in the owners sheds and not sent to the shipping ports. Mr Massey replied that apparently the question referred lo smalt quantities of butter not intended to be sent to the Imperial Government, He was pleased to be able lo announce that the Imperial Government had bought the whole available export butler from New Zealand, their offer having been accepted from 'the whole of the Dominion. If these small suppliers came under this contract nobody would be better pleased than himself, and he would make no difficulties. As to the financing of stored wool, nothing delimits had been dope owing to the unsettled state of the world’s markets, but he hoped that something would be done by January Ist.

Mr J. Bolder writes us as follows ; —“On view in a local shop window is a huge poster advertisement of a ‘Monster Brass Band Contest,’ to he held in Danncvirke on February, 1921, with prizes amounting to £3OO, in addition to the ‘Boozy’ shield. As a set-off against the dispute between the local Baud and Council, someone has carefully written across the poster in large script : ‘My band will not be there. —Curley,’ an apt assertion given by the local Band secretary at a recent disputed engagement. The apt quotation on the contest poster has caused good-natured humour. It is to be regretted, however, that our Band is not sufficiently supported and encouraged to attend these contents, and enjoy the higher education of band mftsic as other amateur bands arc able to do/’