Manawatu Herald TEESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2497, 24 October 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TEESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The school :ii the seaside was opened to-day. It is amicipaled Dial tin l session will end this week". Members are anxious to get baek to their constituencies and coninicnce their elect ionecring ca mpaigns. At All Saints’ Bazaar to he held in the Town Hall on Thursday, Air Basil Walls’ orchestra will contribute a number of items during the. evening and will supply the dance music. Amongst the wreaths placed on the Nelson column on Trafalgar Day (Saturday) was one of New Zealand Dowers, packed in ice. seal by tiic Wellington branch of tin' Navy League. Croftou School, a! .Marlon, which was rebuilt IS years ago. seating 70 pupils, was completely destroyed by lire on Friday night. Nothing wtis saved. The origin of the lire is a mystery. (4rent interest was centred in the Champion Elate by the presence of Gloaming who was not troubled to win by a length from Winning Hit. dooming received a great reception I rout Turf enthusiasts at Trenlham vesfordnv.

The recent heavy westerly gale practically blocked up the cutting leading to the river foreshore til I lie seaside with sand. A new entrance to the river foreshore is now being formed by a turn to the left coming out by the jetty. .fudging by he number of heavily laden motor lorries which pass through Eoxiott daily, going north .•.ml south llte railways mu~l be losing a considerable sum. There is no doubt I hit I this form of compel il ion has come to stay. A reminder is given of the auction sale to he held to-morrow at I p.m. by the A walnut Auctioneering Coy., under instructions front the Public Trustee, when the household effects in (lie estate of the late Mr W. Bock will be disposed of at tin' residence Lady’s Mile. A meeting of all interested in reorganising the local brass band will lie held in the Town Hal! sup-per-room at 7210 ~’ch.ck tit is evening. The meeting is being called In the local athletic (dub and it is Imped that there will be n huge ait endanee.

Appointments and resignations notified at the last meeting of Ilie Wanganui Education Board were: Appointments:—West hind, assistant, Miss E. L. Bigoti: Ashlmrsl.

assistant, Miss E. L. Shaw. Rest gnat ions:—M'iss T. Bowden, assistant, Terrace End and Miss K (Irani', assistant, (I raft on.

The Wanganui Herald stales: There is evidently a dflTieulty in gelling young men teachers to go into the country. At the Education Board's la.~l meeting the secretary read out a list of country schools where positions had been advertised, and in nearly every case ioilv one applicant had applied. “Dad turned me out of home, and told mother to gel out by noon the i,ext day or he would throw her over the fence,” wa.s the statement of a witness in a maintenance ease at the Auckland Magistrate’s Court. Another son, aged IS years, also stated he was ordered from home on i 2 hours' notice.

Representative meetings of supporters of the Reform Early were held last Thursday til Rongotea and Balls under the presidency of Mr Cordon Eliott. Both meetings were wry wclLailliidcd. and a brief out - line of the party's campaign was given by Mr •). Linkluler. Reform candidate for the Manawatu seal. At'Bulls those in attendance were given afternoon tea by tbc ladies.

Replying to Mr Holland, in the House of Representatives, the Hon. .1. G. Contes said the I’ublie Works Department never interfered between tlie workmen and their union, and no deparlmental ofiieer was authorised to prohibit workmen from taking an active part in the affairs of their union. The wages paid to the men on the East Coast railway were the standard wage paid throughout the Dominion. When an advocate in the Arbitral ion Court at Wellington was contending that women employed in restaurants should have more than ,me substantial meal during the day, Mr .lust-ice Frazer slated that he did not eat more than one substantia! meal a day, and did not think llnti more was necessary. “Half of what we eat goes to nourish flic body; tlie other half goes to nourish the doctor.” At the same time he agreed that heavy manual labour did require substantial food.

The recent high winds did a eon siderabie amount of damage to lo ca) gardens and orchards.

Hi conticcl ion with -VI! Saints Bazaar, there will he a sponge cake competition open to till and no charge will he made for entries.

A cricket match was payed on Victoria Bark yc-tenhiy between Uams representing llte local club and Shannon. Tlie visitors knocked up Hid to Box ton's 51.

There is an .epidemic of sickness amotig't children attending the Ashburton School, mostly confined P> measles and mumps, and tlie school was closed on Wednesday until ’dtlth October.

Report' from the Taranaki district state 1 hat as a result of the recent steady rainfall and stthse(jucni mild weaher. the grass crops re looking particularly well, and the milk yield is far beyond dial of recent years at this-scason.

The Wellington South Associa--l ion foot haliers, who met and defeated the local leant yesterday on lhe racecourse, arrived on Saturday evening and were hospitably entertained by the local club members and spent a- most enjoyable tinto. Friday's heavy gale was fell severelv in the Fcathersloii district, with the result that windows, chimneys, sheds, fences, trees, and gardens suffered. Motorists coming over the Feathorston hill reported a rough passage, and although there were clo~e shaves no serious accidents are reported. For some time past a elmir of forlv voices has been assiduously practising the sacred eontata “The Holy City” which is to he given in All Saints’ Church at an early dale. The assisting soloist will he Mr (L r. Iloosta u (bass), Miss M. Raeburn (coni rail o) and Miss Rumble (soprano), till o( B til in erst on North. Yesterday's holiday was marred bv a howling gale. The sky was overcast ami rain clouds were driven at great speed towards the mountains. The howlers spent a full day at I lie green and in the afternoon there was an association tooth,all match oil the race course and a cricket mulch on Victoria Park.

SixTv vein's ago, on October 2D, ISM2, the ship Indian Empire, 1..T1S lons. Captain A. Black, from London, arrived at Auckland, alter a passage occupying H>7 days, from the Downs. Included among the 257 persons on hoard were Mr John Massey, farmer, his wife. Mary Ami, and two children, John and Eliza Jane. Mr John Massey sen., was the father of the present Prime Minister, and his sou John is still ri sideiii at Mangere. Mr .W. K. Massey remained in lister.with his it rand fill her lo complete hi~ education, and it was not till ISiO, as a L.,v of l I. I hat he came lo Aueki;. (| on the City of Auckland. A young married woman had a remarkable escape from serious injury by a fall through a skylight in Gloucester Street, Christchurch, recently states the Sun. She went out on to the roof of a lean-to at the hack of tin l building to hang out some washing. While busy with the chillies she slopped hack on the skylight. .The glass gave way beneath her, and she fell through the gap until her (dhows met the steel sash bars on either side of the frame. She remained wedged in llte framework until men from a workshop below came up and extricated her. Il was found that she had suffered nothing worst* than a few scratches upon her arms and hands, and some shock. Captain Munro, accompanied by Mr .MillWiird, of the Canterbury Shipping Co., paid a visit of inspection to the local port on Thursday hist. In conversation with our representative, after the inspection, Captain Munro said the port was as good to-day as if was 30 or 40 years ago, although lit' noticed that the entrance was more to the south ihnn it was when he traded here in the early days, “Hive ns the water on the bar and we will give you Unships,” said .Captain .Munro. He said tlml Oft. was required on the bar to make it a workable proposition. lb' thought this could lie obtained by the expenditure of a certain stini by the Bottl'd. He said l here wa- every reason to believe that the local port had a good future before it.

Mr E. Newman (Manawatu) is a-king the Minister in charge of the Pensions Department the following questions: “Is the Minister aware that amounts of relief grants in ex-, cess of £52 per annum, in each ease 'made by the New Zealand Slieepowner-’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund to sailors of the mercantile marine in respect to partial or total disablement re,sidling from service under the British Ensign during the war period are regarded as income in del ei mining claimants’ pligibilly for old age pens,,ns ! Will the Minister introduce legislation this session to enable such grants to he treated in the same maimer as pensions payable under the War Pensions Act. H>ls; which are not regarded as income?” The New Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment- of Debt to British Seamen Fund trustees,” states Mr Newman, “have under notice the ,-ase of a man who litis been peimaneutlv incapacitated as the result of injuries sustained whilst a piisonei of war in Germany. This man, being a sailor of the mercantile marine, is not eligible for a war pension, and when a grant of £2 per week was made by the fund to him his old ago pension was immediately cancelled.”

A terrific nor’-Avesf gale blew down the framework of the annexe

of the industrial exhibition at Christchurch yesterday. The structure, which extended nearly across Cashel street for a distance of 120 yards, adjoining the King Edward Barracks, was being erected for supper-rooms, etc., in connection with the motor exhibition and industrial exhibition. A fortnight’s "work was completely wrecked, and it will take tt week to restore it. Nobody w;is working at the lime.

A motion respecting the publication of the names in deceased persons’ estates and the amount of the estate in which probate had been granted, was before the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, when a motion wits tiled by Mr E. M. Sladden, of Napier, asking that publication of the name in a certain estate he prohibited (states tile "Telegraph”). His Honour has now forwarded his judgment on the mill ter, and has held that the Court had no power to grant the motion. The application to have publication prohibited was therefore dismissed.