LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2456, 20 July 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr F. Roydhouse, physical instructor,, visited the local State school to-day.

A special meeting of the Foxton Fire Board will be held to-morrow afternoon when estimates will be considered and other business of importance transacted '>

Mr Jas. Aitken, headmaster of the Moutoa school, is organising a big variety entertainment in aid of the Moutoa Hall fund. Mr Aitken has t}ie chorous work well in hand.

The name of J. Christie, a local player, was ommitted from the Junior i‘ep. team published in last issue to play Manawatu at Palmerston on Saturday.

The headmaster of the local State school (Mr Banks) is organising an instructive lantern entertaineiuent in aid of the school sports fund, to be held in the Town Hall early next month.

A careless individual left a handbag containing’ over £IOO on • the counter of the Christchurch City Council office. It was discovered by the officials and returned to the owner. The Viceroy has cabled from Delhi to the Governor-General of the Commonwealth acknowledging the cordial reception of Mr Sastri, and the spirit in which Mr Sastri’s suggestions were received made India confident of a satisfactory solution of all outstanding difficulties between India and Australia.

“When you get into a 40 h.p. ear on an American road, with an American '■ driver, there is nothing that is a patch on it in the ‘movies’,” said thcliev. It. S. B. Hammond in a lecture at Tiinaru. “I was taken by an American to see something of their country roads, and the speedometer went up and up, until it was jigging about sixty marks, Then the driver turned to me and said ‘I think she’s knocking!’ ‘Ho, said. I, ‘it’s my knees that ap knocking.*’

Mr Ed. Newman in the House on Tuesday night, raised the question of educational facilities for the children of the workers at Manga-' imo. The "Minister for Education replied that he was satisfied that some provision was necessary for these children, and the Minister for Public Works believed he could set aside a hall for the purpose. Otherwise this was a case where a portable school was most suitable. The responsibility of providing these facilities rested with the Wellington Education Board.

Dunn and O’Sullivan, the murderers of Sir 11. Wilson, have been sentenced to death. Mr Geo. Huntley, borough foreman, who has been seriously ill is progressing satisfaetoriy towards recovery. Commissioner Hoddef, of the Salvation Army, is due to leave New Zealand about the middle of August, .when he will proceed to Canada to take up his new work with headquarters at Winnipeg. It was stated at the Horowhenua Rugby Union on Tuesday evening that a player 59 years of age was playing iiXjr-Otaki district, and that he was good for another ten years’ play. A member: “He could beat some of the young ones now.’.’ Members considered it was a credit to the veteran in questibn, and wished him well.

A line of 14 prime bullocks from Mr B. Gower’s farm at Foxton were trucked to Wellington from Levin yesterday. They were in charge of Mr Walter Ryder, who expressed lhe opinion that the iiue was the finest he had handled in his experience. This is a fine tribute to the quality of the fattening country at Foxton. —Chronicle.

Mr Massey last week, told the House of Representatives that the Government was doing its best to meet unemployment. At present they had 7,000 men employed on public works, and that was not a had record when rigid economy was absolutely necessary, for we would never get round the corner until we brought the expenditure within the limits of the revenue.

Mr V. H. Potter, speaking in the House of Representatives last week, during the debate on the Address-in-Replv, denounced the Bolshevik tendencies of the extreme Labour Party, whose doctrines, he said, were poisoning the minds of our yqttfths, particularly the younger members of the Post and Telegraph Department. These people, said Mr Potter,..were a dangerous element in society and the Government would have to deal drastically with I hem r, the public interest.

The Horowhenua-Taranaki vep. football mat(‘h is to be played at Shannon. The management committee decided to fix rep.. matches where it considered fit, independent >f club delegates recommendations. /A deputation of Poroutawhao residents, introduced by Messrs Ed. Newman and W. H. Field, M.’sP., waited upon the Minister for Education yesterday and were successful in getting a grant for a school in the above locality. A sale of work and social will be held by the ladies of the local Presbyterian Church in the schoolroom Imorrow aftenoon and evening. Afternoon tea provided free, admission, silver coin. In the evening an admission change of fid. Community singing and competitions. The make stall will he in charge of Mrs A.lex. Ross and Miss J. Ross; Produce stall, Mesdames Whitehead and Hopkins; jumble stall MesdamFalkner and Perronu ;* refreshments, Mrs Jno. Ross and helpers. An enjoyable time is promised all who all end. Are neople in general still afraid, of walking under ladders ? If statistics gathered in London are to he irusted. Hie answer is in the affirmative. • Out of 100 persons passing n ladder reaching- well out across l he pavement in the Strand, so that if was necessary to step off the kerb 1.0 avoid walking under, only 11 of them defied file superstition. Of these valiant, souls one was a women —the rest belonged to the less adventurous sex! Out of 50 passers -by in a highly, respectable street in St. John’s Wood, 47 avoided the mystic peril, but the daring three 'yore in this case all women. “The defendant is a married map with a young family; otherwise he is well behaved,” said the police representative when, prosecuting an offender against the liquor law at Dunedin on Monday morning. The “bul'l” created a laugh, which became heartier when it was seen that the officer did not readily grasp the reason for it.j Even the court orderly was amused, and forgot - to shout “Silence!”