Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2293, 23 June 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The yenr ended March 31st last was ;i record one for the Government Tourist Gilre;iu in Auckland, over 21),000 tourist.-? passing throng)). Despite Ihe inclement weather yesterday, it. large number of people from this district visited the Palmerston Show. The local school was closed for the day.

Miss .Joplin, the victim of the motor accident in the Otaki Gorge on Sunday, died on Tuesday afternoon, in the Otaki Hospital, without regaining consciousness.

Auiuiun-sown pasture has made splendid growth as a result of the generous rainfall of late. Ordinary spring feed should he largely supplemented by this means this year. “The Yellow Typhoon,” featuring Vnita Stewart, to he screened at the Royal shortly, ran for three consecutive, weeks in Sydney at increased prices. It will be shown in Fox ton for (id and Is Id. —Advt. Dick Arnst was IDst. 41b. in his clothes in Sydney when lie decided to come back to sculling, and he had to come down to 14st. (ill), in bis clothes by the time of bis race with Hannon.

Portions of the Foxton-Palmer.--lon road are very rutty, and owing to the (hit surface of the grade, pools of water cannot get away and form large pot holes, which are enlarged as traffic proceeds through them. The worst portions of the road are between Bainesse and Rangiptu and along the “Half-crown” bend.

At the inquest at Kopuralu (Thames) on Tuesday into the death of Norman James Waite, aged twentynine, a single man and a farmer, who was found dead on his farm with a gun beside him. the Coroner returned a verdict of suicide, and stated that deceased had been despondent over the stock -market fluctuations.

If youjiave never had a big thrill in your life, “The Best of Luck/’ the Drury Lane melodrama to be screened at the Town Hall on Saturday, will give it to you.—Advf. Such reports as continue to come out of Russia —even from Soviet official sources —indicate a constantly accelerating demoralisation of industries. The system of labour control which has been established evidently constitutes very real wage slavery, and has- resulted in seriously decreased output per capita, and .also driven great numbers of workers from industrial towns to the agricultural districts. We have been asked by a resident how long it is since the railway service between Boston and Wanganui was first opened. We cannot give a definite answer, except to say that it was in the late seventies. The files in our possession of 1880 give the railway time-table between the two towns. But railway communication was prior to that year.

Mr C. R. Barringer, Government Inspector of Explosives, visited Foxton to-day and conferred with retailors and the local authority re the storage of benzine, etc. In future, licenses will be issued for the storage of benzine and kerosene, both by retailers and private holders.

C'rs. Boss, Whibley and Smith, and the Town Clerk, proceeded to Patea by motor car yesterday to inspect an engine under offer to the Council for the water and drainage scheme pumping plant. After inspection it was decided to purchase the engine. “The last time I made a speech I got 15 years; I have nothing to say this time,” remarked a man named Edward Donovan, when he came before Mr Justice Salmond at Wellington to be sentenced for breaking and entering and theft. He was sentenced to three years on each charge, concurrent with the term lie is at present serving. At the combined meeting of the Beautifying Society and Borough Council on Tuesday afternoon' a vote of condolence was passed, on the motion of the Mayor, to Mrs F. Robinson and family in their recent bereavement.

“For a man to make money out of his country when his country is at war —of course, all can do it if they wish —seems to mo to be a rather low down thing to do,” said Sir Andrew Russell, in the course of bis address on the National Defence League at Christchurch. “It is a most unfortunate thing that anyone will make money out of the misfortunes of his country.”

Some straight talk was handed out to the members of the National Dairy Association at: the meeting at Palmerston on Tuesday, by Mr McFarlane, of the Riverbank Dairy Company. “The trouble with the coekv,” said he, “is that he is afraid to put bis hand in bis pocket.” A voice: “Take it out, you mean.” (Laughter). Mr MeFarlane, continuing: “He won't do anything for himself, and wants everybody to spoon-feed him.”

In the course of the Levin Borough Council meeting on Monday night, the Mayor referred to the recent raising of the rates. Four of live years ago, he said, a Council that did that would have be ofner that did that would have been forced to resign, but so far he bad not heard a single complaint from ratepayers. He took it that the ratepayers were satisfied that it was absolutely necessary to do something to meet the high cost of tilings. The Prince of Wales celebrates his twenty-seventh birthday to-day, June 23rd, and, in consequence of coming under the public eye of all part:- of the British Dominions during late years, will receive congratulation.- the wide-world over. Edward Albert, who was created Prince of Wales on his sixteenth birthday, lias won the esteem and affection of Britishers in every corner of the world, and has rightly been designated as a glorious mode! of an English hoy —without fear aiid without reproach—a gentleman in every sense of the word. To the most carefully worked out engineering plans, Nature often declares an undeniable veto, and such has been the case, in one instance at least, at Mangaliao. hydro-electric works. The original plan provided for the lower or main dam stretching across at a narrow section of the stream to a jutting spur at the opposite side of the hill face. Trial bores, however, soon proved the fact that the spur was realty only a superstructure of rock upon a bed of shingle that could not possibly withstand t he pressure of water behind it. Consequently the dam will have to he carried to the solid rock beyond the spur, at an additional cost of about £50,000. This formation proves that the bed of the Mangaliao has at one time been pushed in by a fall of rock from the hill above.

MLfoi'lune again dogged the footsteps of the Borough Council on Saturday in connection with the lighting system when it was hoped that fight could be supplied from the hydro plant, says the- Patea Press. On starting up. however, it was found that owing to the dampness of tiie power-house and its surroundings, the current continued to make a succession of short circuits, with the result that the attempt to use the hydro plant had to be abandoned, and the town was left in darkness on Saturday and Sunday nights, the gas-plant being also out of commission. As soon as it was known that the light could not be obtained, his Worship the Mayor made arrangements for the drying of the powerhouse. Mr A. Broadbelt, of Feilding, who owned considerable savmilling interests on the Main Trunk line, died suddenly at Taihape on Tuesday morning. He was attending a meeting of the Raugitikei Sawmillers' Association, and was entering the sawmillers’ premises, when he collapsed from heart failure. He was 71 years of age, and leaves a wife, three daughters and one son. Mr Alfred Broadbelt, who was born in Yorkshire, England, 71 years ago, came out to New Zealand 42 years ago. For the past 25 years he had been engaged in the sawmilling business, and was one of the oldest members of- the Rangitikei Sawmillers’ Association. He was of a retiring disposition, and did much good in a quiet way. His daughters are Mrs G. 11. Lowe (Hastings), Mrs W. R. Anderson (Taihapej, Mrs John Chrystall (Foxton), and one son, Mr E. S. Broadbelt (Ohakune). Much sympathy is extended to the widow and her family.