LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2341, 13 October 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A slight earthquake shock was felt at eleven o’clock last night. Mr J. Senior, an erstwhile resident of the Beach, is on a visit to Foxton.

A party of local Masons proceeded to Bulls last night to attend an installation ceremony of Lodge Rangitikei. The Fire Brigade desire to publicly acknowledge a donation of £1 Is Od from Air W. Nye, for their services on the occasion of his recent fire.

Mr E: A. Oxley has disposed of his local grocery business to Messrs Thorpe and Tongs. The latter will take possession at the end of the month.

The Manawatu Daily Times may be obtained at 10 o’clock each day at Heath’s. The Times contains the latest sporting news, cables and telegrams, and is always newsy and bright. As a result of the local picture entertainment given by Messrs Hamer and Son, the Fire Brigade funds will benefit to the extent of about £l3. Mr Perreau, on behalf of the Brigade, thanlccd Messrs Hamer and Son for their successful effort.

Mr Linklater, chairman of the local Harbour Board, took the wheel of the Board launch on the trip to the dredge yesterday, and if he can guide the destinies of the Board as efficiently as he steered the launch, then the prosperity of the port is assured.

The Miniser of Education stated at Featherston on Saturday that there are over 2,000 schools in New Zealand that have under two acres of land, and 100 schools that do not possess an acre of land for playing grounds. His ideal was nothing less than four acres.

A Chinese reform association, which is petitioning the Shanghai Municipal Council to make the road regulations more severe, asks that chauffeurs found guilty of killing pedestrians should be locked in a room with the wax image of the person killed.

A tennis court is being eyustructed in Hawera of a mixture of a new cement and sawdust. The cement is being manufactured in Taranaki, and will mix’ easily with paper, garden soil, rubber, and almost any other material.’ The full extent of its possibilities has not yet been plumbed.

It has been suggested that the local Harbour Board take steps to license whitebait fishing stands clong the river, between high and low water mark. Tf this were done, the licenses would prove, a source of revenue to the Board, and promote more harmonious feelings among those engaged in the industry.

“I guarantee that if the average Australian consumer were shown a complete list of all the articles being made in his country he would stand amazed;in fact, the shock would probably be too much for him,” slates a correspondent of the Australasian Manufacturer. The same remark can he applied to the average New Zealander iri regard to the Dominion’s manufactures, but the “shock” would be pleasant. It is confidently anticipated that the “Made in New Zealand Exhibition” this month will give the public a proper pride in the quality and variety of New Zealand's manufacturers. —N.Z, Times.

One of the eliarticleristies which Hie Mayor of Wellington attached Io the Prime Minister when speaking at the civic reception to Mr Massey was “dogged determination.” This was taken up by Mr Massey later. When Mr Wright had referred to him as a fighting man, he said, it reminded him of what happened at Vancouver. When he arrived there he was afflicted with a lioil, and a Vancouver paper in describing his arrival, said: “When he came ashore, with his neck swathed in silk handkerchiefs, Mr Massey looked exactly like a retired prize-fighter-—or a prizefighter who has not retired.” Referring to the execution of Te Kalin for the Ongaroto murder, Dr. Riston, Roman Catholic Coadjutor Bishop of Auckland, says: “Now that Tc Kahn has paid the penalty tor his crime against society, it seems time to say that he owed little, if anything, to society. He was brought up wholly outside the refinements of society and the restraining and ennobling influences of religion. Indeed, until a fortnight ago he barely knew there was a God to whom he was responsible. What prompted the condemned man to ask to see a priest just two weeks ago Ido not know. So Te Kahu received instruction in his own tongue about his Maker, heard for the first time the story of the God-Man’s tender love and boundless forgiveness, was baptised a Catholic, found and asked pardon, and was followed to the end by the consoling ministrations of the Catholic Church.”

A deputation left Foxton this afternoon for Wellington, to wait on the Minister of Finance, with a view to increasing the annual instalments of the loan for the water and drainage scheme.

All prize-winners at the local Spring Show are notified that the Seeretai’y of the Horticultural Society will be in attendance at the N.Z. Shipping Coy’s, store on Friday afternoon, to pay out prizemoney.

According to the Gazette, it is proposed to change the name of the district “Gumtown,” on the Coromandel Peninsula, to “Coroglen.” It is sai(l that the residents of Wharekeraupunga are also desirous of having the name changed, as several cases of lock-jaw have occurred there of late.

Von Ludendorff, who, as Von Ilindenburg’s Chief of Staff, was largely responsible for the death of 2,000,000 German soldiers in the war, was appointed honorary Doctor of Medicine of Ivonigsberg University recently. The wording of the diploma, with a touch of unconscoius irony, runs; “You who, by a master-stroke of strategy, saved the lives of so many German soldiers.”

The Otaki paper states that Miss G. Ashton-Warner, late of Te Whiti school, but now of Lyall Bay’ Wellington, walked, together with 50 other ’Varsity students, over the Orongorongo ranges, sleeping in tents and having camp fires at night. They saw from the top of Alt. Matthews, Lake Wairara-pa, Greytown, etc. They are going to walk over "the Tararuas on Labour Day week-end, and come out somewhere near Alasterton.

The Government has appointed the Acting-Chief Justice (Air Justice, Sim) as a Commission to inquire into the charges made by Air R. Masters (Stratford) in the House of Representatives with regard to the agreement entered into between the three cement companies operating in New Zealand. As this is a Royal Commission, the order of reference has to be signed by the Governor-General. Until it has been so signed no details will be available.

Alfred Larsen, a resident of Freemans’ Bay, Auckland, was having tea on Alonday, when a man, stated to be under the influence of liquor, entered and attacked Larsen. A struggle ensued, and a sergeant and constable were called in. They had a desperate struggle Avitli the intruder, avlio had to be handcuffed and leg-roped otving to his violence. He Avas removed to the hospital unconscious, Avitli his head, arms and body badly cut through glass from a broken door.

His Excellency the GovernorGeneral (Viscount Jellicoe) and Lady Jellicoe Avill leave Wellington on October 25th for Wanganui. On October 27th Their Excellencies Avill motor to Ncav Plymouth, and on the afternoon of Friday, October 28th, Lady Jellicoe Avill perform the official opening of the Clarke Alemorial Hostel. While in Taranaki, Their Excellencies propose to visit IngloAVood, Waitara, and Alount Egmont, and they Avill leave New Plymouth for AVellington on October 31st. Probably Foxton Avill he visited "at the commencement of the above itinerary.

Speaking at Featherston on Saturday last, at the opening of a new school, the Minister for Education (the Hon. Mr Parr) said he trusted in these times of retrenchment it would not he found necessary to put the pruning knife too deeply into the education system. Pruning had to come in all Slate Departments as I lie balance-sheet covering the first five months of this financial year showed.the country was 4J million pounds on the wrong side of the ledger. Cabinet was that day considering retrenchments. He was sorry the Education Department, with others, would have to suffer, hut he trusted in not a manner to impair efficiency. The meagre clothing of Sydney’s fair six is thus described in Melbourne Argus: “The girls in Sydney have nothing up their sleeves, because they have not any. The young woman who appears in the street with her arms covered is likely to he stared at. Also, ;nost of lliejn know that they have wellshaped shoulders, and they make sure that the public will know it, too. A filmy something that covers but does not conceal, forms the usual attire from about the level of the heart, curving in a graceful sweep of cool transparence to the small of the back. The story that a flapper on being asked whether she should have her new frock sent home, decided to take it with her because there was plenty of room in her purse, is not very much exaggerated.” /

Most people live in anticipation of getting a rise, but most fail to realise their most cherished hope. People often talk of what they would do if they were left £5,000, and the decisions are as varied as the thinkers. Some people lose their heads, and others their hearts, but only a few seem to do the right thing. This was done by a young man living not a hundred miles from Napier. He was advised that if he presented, a certain piece of paper which he held he would be given £5,000. He went to bed. Next morning he came to town and quietly walked into a bank and said, “Will you kindly collect this amount for me?” The clerk looked at the papgr and nearly fell dead. However, he managed to say he’d do his best, and then went for a reviver, and he needed it, for he had a share in the next ticket. —Napier Telegraph. __ . __