Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2412, 1 April 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Foxton’6 rainfall for March was 5.04 inches. On March 2nd 2.18 inches was registered. Mr and Mrs Mudford, of Taikorea, and Mr and Mrs P. W. Brown and family, insert a thanks notice elsewhere in Lhis issue.

The relatives of the late Messrs 8, M. and P. Baker, the two brothers who lost their lives by drowning on Sunday last, insert a thanks notice in this issue.

The vital statistics for Foxton for last month, with quarterly returns in parentheses, were: —Births 4 (13), deaths 3 (7), marriages 2 (6).

“Education is better than money,” said the Minister of Education when addressing the children at Martinborough. “Your money can be stolen, bul nobody can rob you of a good education.”

To-day is All Pool’s Day. The usual license was taken by youngsters to fool their elders —although present-day precociousness on the part of. the rising generation is not restricted to one day in the year.

During the storm on Monday night, a large tree.close to Mr Emmett's house, at Olaki. was cut oil fifteen feet from the ground by lightning, leaving a shattered stump. The inmates were naturally much alarmed.

The X.Z. Shipping Co. notify that the rate of freight on casks of tallow and pelts is reduced from £7 2s (id per ton (with 10 per cent, primage) to £<> per ton (with 10 per cent, primate) from New Zealand to America, Canada and United Kingdom as from April 3rd.

Mr Claris, late of Messrs Levin and Co.'s Foxton branch, has been appointed to the responsible position of bead foreman of the firm’s Wellington branch, in succession to Mr IT. Bullock, who has retired after 34 years’ service. Air Claris’ many Foxton friends will ba pleased to hear of bis well-merited promotion.

We are asked to make public protest against the irreverent haste with which the local gravedigger commences his task of tilling in the grave after the burial service. This procedure has been adversely commented upon on two occasions recently. It would save the feelings of relatives' if he postponed his operations until they were away from the scene.

Tin 1 seniors of Moiiioa arc endeavouring to prod a hall in llioir locality. Tin* school is the only place whereat the settlers forefather for social enjoyment, ami accommodation is somewhat cramped. A concert party will give an entertainment in the local Town Hall at an early date, in aid of the fund.

The Greyinoutli branch of the Hibernian Society, at a largely-at-tended meeting this week, unanimously resolved: “That the St. Patrick’s Branch, No. 17, of the Hibernian Society, desires to express its loyalty and devotion to Bishop Liston, of Auckland, and its sympathy with him in the bitter attacks that have been made on him, and in the misrepresentation to which he has been subjected, and desires also to assure Dr. Liston of its cordial support.”

An iniporfant circular has been issued by the Director of Education in regard to sick pay. He says: “The question has been raised sis to whether teachers on sick leave are entitled to full pay during holidays, and I have been directed to say that if a teacher is on sick leave both prior to and subsequent to any school vacation, and returns to work immediately the school resumes, salary is payable only from the l ime of recommencing duties, unless he submits a medical certificate from a practitioner approved by the Board showing that lie was fit-to resume work at an earlier date than the re-opening of the school, ff this evidence of fitness is sent-to the Department: and found satisfactory, favourable consideration will he given to an application for the payment of sala rom the dale when the teacher is shown to be fit for duty.” « , ! . One of the finest collections of fossils in the world will shortly come into the possession of the National Museum of Wales. It consists of 16,000 specimen- of places, .-hells, and low animal forms which lived in Glamorgan when Nalure was forming the great Welsh coal measures. The assembling of this array of fossils is the achievement of Mr David Davies. At the age of 12 he was working as a collier boy at the (lie Penrhiweeiber eolleries. He served for a quarter of a century with the Cambrian combine, his present position being that of agent at the Britannic Merthyr Colleries, Gilfneh Gocli. Six months ago the Welch University conferred upon Mr Davies the degree of Master of Science, the Royal Geological Society having previously elected him to its fellowship.