LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2290, 16 June 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Air McMinn has commenced operations on the concrete fence at the old cemetery.

Her Excellency Lady Jcllieoe will visit Palmerston North at an early date to participate in a run of tho Manawntu Hunt.

A coil of steel wire lying at the bottom of the river at the wharf, got entangled in the dredge yesterday, and hampered dredging operations for several hours. A Levin winter milker who is a supplier to the Wellington Corporation* has received a cheque for £22 10s, which represents five weeks’ supply from a herd of five cows.

Six Gisborne boys were this week put under probation for two years, and ordered to keep away from picture shows, on charges of breaking and entering business premises.

At Xaseby, Otago, John:,- Kenton, who was convicted for tlie third time for failing to destroy rabbits, was lined the maximum penalty of £IOO with costs.

During the week ended at noon on Monday, five cases of scarlet fever and one each of diphtheria, pneumonia and varicella, were notified in the Palmerston North hospital district.

There have been forty-seven football contests between the To Auto and Wanganui Colleges. Eoaeh school has won 23 games, and one was drawn. The coincidence is made more remarkable by the fact that they have each scored 213 points.

One of the remits to he submitted to the Auckland Provincial Conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union reads: "That all cases of criminal charges or otherwise pertaining to land and farmers, especially in eases of stock lifting, shall he tried by a jury of farmers and not by a common jury.”

"lii Now South Waif*, hoys and girls arc taught separately, from Urn time they leave the infant school, la Victoria, hoys and g'irls are taught together Ihroughout their whole school career.” comments the Director of Education in a report dealing with his visit to the two States. "Even in Melbourne High School, with tin attendance of eight hundred pupils, hoys and girls arc I a light Ingelhcr. There does not appear to lie any educational advantage in the separation of the sexes, sparticuJarly in primary schools, and I gathered that it was not defended on ediwa t ion a 1 grounds."

Whilst descending after a trial flight at the aerodrome in Napier on Sunday, the Avro tteroplanc nosedived with eonsiderahle violence. Lieutenant Tatton, the pilot, sustained a double fracture of the left arm, and was also considerably bruised. The aeroplane was badly smashed. The flight was made for the purpose of testing the engine, and at the time of the accident the aeroplane was only a short distance up.

Little girl (to Scottish housewife) : Please mum. ma mither lmsent me to see if ye would lend her yer beef bone to make broth we’. Scottish housewife: Well, my lassie, I eanna jist do that. Ye, see, we made broth wi' it oorsels on Monday, and we lent it to Mrs McAllister to flavour some hare soup on Tuesday, and we be using it the-day for cockieleekie oorsels; hut ye may get a boiling o’ it oil Friday, for Mrs •Jamieson has the promise o’ it the morn for some time strengthening soup, for her man's a invalid. A New Zealander who took up his residence in Queensland last October, and has since been engaged wheat farming, writing to a business man in the Manawalu, says; — “Things are bad here. Thousands are out of employment, and this (Queensland) Socialistic Government is the cause of most of the trouble. I bad a little faith once in labour administrations, but I am satisfied now from what I have seen that it is the greatest curse that ever struck ( this land for all classes. I intend to go hack to New Zealand later in the winter.”

The Palmerston Borough Council recently, declined to grant permission to Mr P. Eraser, M.P., to speak in one of the picture theatres on a Sunday night, on the ground that the proposed subject was not a Sabbath one. At the meeting of the Borough Council on Monday night a letter was received from Mr Rod Ross, applying on behalf of the Labour Representation Committee, for the hire of the Municipal Opera House on the evening of Thursday, 30th June, for the same address by Mr Fraser, namely, “The Crucifixion of Ireland.” The latter application was granted, and the question of whether the Council had legal power to refuse the first application was referred to the Borough solicitor.

The Foxton fourth grade football team plays Shannon,' at Shannon, on Saturday.

A local resident who has recently visited the Wanganui district says that unemployment is very marked there, and despite the closing of the local mills, Foxton has been more fortunate in comparison.

See “God’s Own Country” at the Town Hall to-night, and ertjoy “Charlie’s Capers,” produced in New Zealand. “Historic Otaki” tomorrow. —Advt.

We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of the British Engineers’ Association Classified Directory of Members for 1921. This is the official directory of the British Engineers’ Association, and provides a comprehensive list of engineers and engineering products of Great Britain. The classification is exhaustive and original, there being 51 groups and 631 sections in the directory, and is probably the best hitherto published. The directory contains information of real practical use to the business enquirer.

Cr. and Mrs Geo. Coley entertained a number of children at their residence yesterday in honour of one of their grand-children’s birthday. The little ones were catered for right royally by their indulgent grand-parents, and our representalime had the pleasure of joining them at the festive board. The house re-echoed with juvenile merriment, and it is needless to add that the children had “the time of their lives.”

At the inquest on the body.of Mary Lindsay, the late matron of the Greytown hospital, Mr John Lindsay ,of Palmerston North, stated that he last saw his daughter alivc <at Greytown hospital on tlu* morning of June Bth, when she appeared quite rational. He knew she had been suffering from illhealth — in_ one of her letters from Auckland she stated she feared a nervous breakdown, but later wrote in a more cheerful strain. He was quite satisfied she was being treated well. He was not surprised when he received word that his daughter was missing, as he had an idea she was mentally deranged, and anticipated something of the kind.

Apart from the low price of stock, matters are not too bright for some farmers in the Wanganui district this year. One farmer in conversation with a reporter stated that, fully 200 acres of his grass had lieen taken by grubs. He bad also broken up some now ground Inst season and sowed turnips. Tlu) crop came away splendidly, but now a rot had set in, due, no doubt, to some pest. Club root was also greatly iii evidence in some root crops this year. The farmer was of the opinion that every effort should be concentrated by scientists to endeavour to find a means to counteract the pests referred to above, as they were getting worse each year. At a meeting of the Palmerston Borough Council on Monday night a motion was passed stating that in view of the recent publications in the newspapers the Council is not prepared to continue the payment of an annual subsidy to the Technical School towards the workers' educational classes, and that in respect to Ijie above the committee controlling the institution be asked to give nn explanation. The Technical School Board also passed A motion stating that in view of the withdrawal of the Borough Council

.-iihsidy to the workers’ educational classes, and also to the present over-crowded state of the school, the Board regrets that the workers’ educational classes cannot lie continued at the Technical School after the 30th inst. Members of the Palmerston Labour Party, at a public meeting, passed resolutions of protest against the Borough-Council's and Technical School authorities’ action, and accorded a vote of confidence iji the W.E.A. tutor.

On the ground that dancing carries a risk of moral contagion, the Christchurch Y.M.C.A. authorities stopped the dancing of sailors from H.M.S. Chatham and girls who were entertaining one another at the Y.M.C.-A. hall recently, says an exchange. The result was that the man-a’-warsmen left for other parts almost in a body. The entertainment. was being given by the Harbour Lights Girls’ Club. Tea was to be followed by a concert, and the Y.M.C.A. orchestra was in attendance. The girls had been informed that dancing was prohibited in the Y.M.C.A., but when the orchestra struck up a few sailors tripped lightly out on to the inviting floor, and started a waltz. Mixed couples followed suit, until their license was suddenly quashed by the authorities. This was a great disappoint J meat to the men, but more so to the girls. Most of the men promptly set out for more pleasant pastures. A. Y.M.C.A. officer stated that the National Convention of the Y.M.C.A. sitting at Dunedin had banned dancing on moral grounds, I a king a lead from the. American Association. He added that it had been made quite clear to the Harbour Lights Club that dancing could not be a part of the entertainment.

The time is ripe to buy an overcoat, and the place is undoubtedly The C. M. Ross Coy’s Sale. Heavy English Tjveed Overcoats reduced from £9 9s Od to £5 5s Od. HydroHtes, £8 8s Od for £4 15s Od; £6 15s Od for £3 10s Od. Youths’ Coloured Tweed Overcoats, were. 46s 6d to 635, now all one price, 29s 6d. Don’t dwell, get in while the price is right. —Advt.