Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2418, 18 April 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Special services were held in all the local churches on Easter Sunday.

Mr IT. C. Pal ter,son and family-in-sert a thanks notice elsewhere in this issue.

Mr O. P. Robinson, of Elthain, has in captivity an albino kiwi, captured in the Moeroa district.

The local branch of the Plunkct Society held a successful shop day at the seaside on Saturday. The season for the shooting; of game opens on May Ist. Good sport is expected in the Manawatu district.

The Prince of Wales is having a gorgeous reception in Japan. The enthusiasm of the Japanese is unexampled.

The death took place at Taihape yesterday of Mr James Miliar, aged 8(i years, one of the oldest residents of Palmerston X. Deceased will be buried at Palmerston to-morrow.

Mr F. S. Moorhouse, local manager of the X.Z. Shipping Co., leaves for Auckland to-morrow, where he will temporarily relieve the accountant in the Auckland office.

A couple of burglars were captured by the police and a civilian at Wellington last night, when attempting l<> enter Aldous’ tobacconist shop.

Though the bodies of Sir Ross Smith and Lieut. Bennett have been embalmed, with a view to shipping them to Australia. Sir Keith Smith has not yet decided whether to bury them in England or in Australia. ll is announced that the executive of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association is to meet in Wellington to-morrow morni.ng, to consider the refusal of the Government to allow the association to affiliate, as decided by the ballot recently taken, with the Alliance of Labour.

At Palmerston North yesterday iii'lernoon Detect ive-Sergfi. Quirkc and Detective Culloiy arrested Robert William Davidson at Palmerston North on a charge of keeping a common gaming house. Accused was remanded till Monday‘next, bail being allowed in himself in £IOO and uiic >nret v of £IOO.

'fhe London Times, in a tribute to the dead airman, says: “Sir Ross Smith, great hero of adventure, has row been called to rejoin the men of his old troop at Gallipoli. Let us think of his great, soul soaring onward through heights That confessed him conqueror, away from the envious earth that dragged him down. He saw afar, and realised that the hazardous paths he followed must one day be the highways on a new age of imperial unity. In that faith with bis brave companion he takes his place in the advanced guard of human progress.”

Questioned'as to the severity of the wave of influenza in New Zealand, the Minister for Public Health (the Hon. C. J. Parr) informed a reporter at Christchurch that its effect had been felt much more in the North Island than in the South. However, the trouble was not of the notifiable type, and as far as he could learn its threatening features bad now almost disappeared.

Poppy Day will be celebrated in every hamlet, village, town and city in New Zealand on Monday, April 24111. Red poppies, made, in Northern Prance will he sold as symbols of remembrance of dead soldiers. The proceeds of their sale will he devoted to the relief of unemployed soldiers in Ihe respective districts in which the money is raised. There died at Stratford the other day a veteran of the Maori Mar in I lie person of Mr Hamilton AY. F. Carter, who had reached the ago of 74. Born at Ferobepore, India, the deceased -vas a son of an old Indian Aimy ollicer, Captain J. C. Lambton Cartel - , 44th Regiment of' Foot, and later second superintendent of Hawke's Bay, and grandson of tin. late Colonel William Carter. Mi Carter came to New Zealand .n 1851, and bad lived in Stratford for IS vears.

A memorial service on behalf of the late Mrs IT. 0. Patterson was held in the local Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning, before a large congregation. The minister, Rev. Thomas Ilalliday, made eloquent and appreciative reference to the Christian life and active church work of the deceased. He stated that one of the late Mrs Patterson’s chief desires was to regain her health that she might he permitted to carry on her work among the younger children of the Church. The hymns were appropriate to the occasion. An unusual experience hotel a Mount Albert resident in Auckland citv on T hursday. W hen transaetng business in a hank he found a cheque for over £/9 lying on the floor. Tie took it to the firm whichhad issued it, and, without 'any que.st.inns being asked, and, although lie hail had no previous dealings with the firm, was handed the full amount in cash. He then explained how the c-heque came into his possession. Inquiries wore made in the office, and he was informed that the cheque had been lost by ihe person to whom it had been issued; the firm had been notified, and payment had been stopped at the hank. Instructions. however, had not been given to the office staff (says the Herald). The finder was cordially I hanked.

The death occurred at Wniknnae last week of Mr Alfred Williams, a well-known and popular figure in the district, at the early age of for-ty-five years. The late Mr Williams, who was part-owner of the Waikanac Co-operative Stores, suffered an attack of donble-pneunionin about a week ago. His genial disposition won for him many friends, "and his death will lie deeply regretted, not only by his close friends, hut by local Freemasons, in which order he had held high offices. He leaves a widow and two voting children. All L. R. Freeman, of Poxton, is a brother-in-law of the deceased. The Masonic funeral ceremony was conducted by the brethren of Lodge Otaki. The Rev. Kendrick, vicar of Paraparanimt, conducted the Anglican service.

Paris “scrub ladies" have risen in wrath at being expected to polish 'floors and clean windows, and have now formed a trade union. As is usual, their first step was to issue a manifesto setting forth their rights and wrongs. The new Magna Chart a demands 1 franc and 50 centimes an hour for work on all floors tin to the third, and in apartments of which the rent is not more than 8,000 francs a year; 2 francs an hour for higher floors and in apartments where the rents are higher. For bringing tip coal the new charge is a centime for each floor, or for cadi 10yds. of horizontal distance, in- load to exceed- 201 b?. They demand a three-hour day on Sundays and holidays when scrubbing otherwise than with a broom and brush is prohibited. The employer is to provide all tools: no clothes are to be washed. Extra pay as agreed is demanded for cleaning silver and glassware for dinners and receptions.