LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2267, 23 April 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A general holiday will be observed by the whole of the schools in the Wanganui education district on Monday next, Anzae Day. Mr Colder wishes to notify that the Returned Soldiers’ Club, Levin, are asking for local bandsmen to amalgamate with the Levin Band to play in a returned soldiers’ procession ar Levin on Anzac Day. A conveyance for bandsmen will leave Mr Golder’s premises at 1 o’clock,

There was a good attendance of buyers at the local auction meat sales this morning. The Fox ton Auctioneering Coy’s, sales- realised 4s 6d to 5s fore-quarters, and 6s 6d to 7s fid hind quarters, beef averaged fid per lb. Bradeoek and Co. report mutton 4EI and SMI, beef Gd and pork Sd,

Two women in Auckland were this week granted land agents’ licenses. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr Homblow, J.P., John Kinley, convicted of drunken ess, third offence, was fined £2 .

It was stated at a recent sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland that the agents had received a wireless message from the steamer Royal Star, to say that she had 100 stowaways on board. She is due at the end of the month. Mr Thos. Henderson has withdrawn his nomination for the School Committee, which will reduce the number of candidates to twelve. The election will take place at the school on Monday evening next, at 8 o’clock.

Mr Dawiek, chairman of the Beach Improvement Committee, desires to acknowledge one pound towards the life-saving reel fund from Mr Dawson, at the Beach. Other donations will he thankfully received. The reel is now at the seaside, and money is required for housing it and providing accommodation for those who will form the corps.

Giving evidence before the Hospital.' Commission, Sir James Wilson, chairman of the Palmerston North Hospital Board, eulogised the skilled. medical attention and efficient nursing services given to patients in the .public hospitals, speaking generally,-and added that from his

observations he would personally rather go into a public hospital than into a private hospital. A remarkable snooker performance was put up a few days ago by the New Zealand professional champion, who accomplished what is considered a. world’s record, clearing the table in two cues. He was opposed by C. Roberts, a winner of the Crystalnte Cup, who broke the balls, and then Stephenson made a break of 3(5, when lie played a safety shot. Roberts failed to score, and then Stephenson went rin and cleared all the reds and colours, amassing 85. and bringing his total to 121.

A resident of Bulls who was in possession of a good month-organ posted it hack to the manufacturers in Germany to he repaired. This happened n few months before the war broke out. A month or so hack the instrument was returned from the Fatherland in perfect condition. The letter which accompanied it stated that they did not usually do repair work, hut seeing that it came such a long distance they had put ll’ieir best man to work on it. and they would make the owner a present of the work. Tn concluding they hoped that he would live long to enjoy his little German mouthorgan.

■‘.l want to say a word or two on that Hag,” said the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education, pointing to the Union Jack which was flown on the occasion of the official opening of the Napier Central School. “1 wish that in this country that flak was flying at every school every day in the year. I want to impress on parents and boys and girls the duty of loyalty to King, country, and school. You must he loyal to the King, not because he is a king, but because he is a symbol of our great and glorious and wonderful Empire. It is the duty of the Board of Education and the teachers to inculcate in ilioe young minds, which are as wax in the hands of the teachers, the duty above everything of being loyal i.i their country. There is too much pernicious doctrine preached in this and other countries to-day. The first tiling that should be taught in every school is that you have a country to be proud of, and a ruler whom you should be pleased to honour and obey. In America the children are taught every day to salute the (lag. I think it would be a good idea if, every day, the children saluted the flag and sang the National Anthem. Then, in a few years, they will be loyal and devoted citizens. Tlml is what is wanted —men and women who love their country and put their country first." The propensity of small boys to climb has been recognised and defended by the dignified United States Circuit Court of Appeals by awarding an eight-year-old child £2,000 damages for injuries sustained while climbing a railway trestle in an endeavour to capture a bird’s nest. The judge directed the jury to find the railway guilty if they believed that the company had erected a trestle work which might entice children to climb it and had not taken measures to prevent climbing. “Any.composition of matter,” said the Court, “which hires or attracts the confiding ignorance of childhood to its own harm must he safeguarded against, and troublesome boys arc entitled to he protected against themselves.” The injured boy had climbed to the trestle of a bridge over the railway, to secure a bird’s nest, when he noticed a pigeon on a wife near by. The wire was charged with high-voltage electricity, used for operating the trams below, and when the youngster touched it his arm was so badly burned that it was necessary to have it amputated.

Love of country or love of woman, which shall it be? See Viola Dana in “The Willow Tree,” Town Hall Monday.—Advt. On Wednesday next, at 1.30 p.m., the Foxton Auctioneering Company will hold a clearing sale of household furniture and effects, crockery, linoleum, garden tools, etc., on account of Mrs Ingram, on the premises, Jenks St., Foxton. Full particulars will be advertised Tuesday. With our next issue Messrs Robertson’s, Universal Providers, will issue a revised price list in their advertising space. Prices for groceries and other lines will be based on the lowest ruling rates, and an endeavour made to secure and hold the confidence of both new and old customers.

One of the National Bank of New •Zealand pound notes, a quantity of which were stolen some months ago, was passed to a Palmerston North tradesman this week. The notes when appropriated were unsigned, and the signature on the one in question is a clumsy one, and had it notfbeen rush time when the money was accepted, would probably have been detected.

The Wairarapa mail train from Wellington on Tuesday night was delayed for over three hours in the vicinity of the Summit, and the passengers had an unenviable experience, as the night was stormy and bitterly cold. A defect was discovered in the centre rail, which it was necessary to replace before the train could safely proceed on its journey. The train eventually reached Masterton in the vicinity of midnight. Considerable inconvenience was also caused, as the mails were unable to be sorted until next morning.

The effects of the drought in Hawke’s Bay are being keenly felt. The country has a parched appearance, and farmers liave had to dispose of stock at low price.-. In the southern portion of the district and towards the range- conditions arc more satisfactory. The outlook for the winter is apparently not so gloomy a- might appear, for according to some authorities grans will grow in Hawke’s Bay any time after two or three inches of rain, even if frosts have been experienced. If a fair quantity of rain falls in May it is considered there will be no serious shortage of grass.

Mr Gluts. E. Newham (kiuematographer) and Mr F. T. Moore (secretary of the New Zealand Moving Picture Company), of Otaki, were in Foxton yesterday, filming views of this town. .Some excellent river scenes were taken from a motor launch, and views of Foxton’s Main Street, with the soldiers’ monument in the foreground. Exterior and interior views of the public school were also filmed for the Otaki Company’s first picture to bo released in Wellington next month. Mr Moore informs us that this picture will he screened in Foxton soon after its release in Wellington. The pictureproducing business established in this Dominion by the Otaki Company appears to he in the hands of men who thoroughly understand what they are doing.

A preliminary count of the Dominion’s population will be made as the householders’ schedules are collected. The extraction of the exact census statistics is to he done by machine; but no return by this means is possible till the formidable task of punching all the record cards has been completed. There is no need to wait for that to obtain a count of the population. Each sub-enumerator is responsible for the schedules of a certain area, and as he collects them he will make a return of the number, of people registered. These returns will be collected, and the necessary additions made to obtain the population of towns, boroughs, districts, and so on, and in a few weeks the population of the Dominion will he known. This system lias usually been followed, and it is found In be quite reliable. The result will be used for official purposes till the machine count is available.