Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2502, 4 November 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Vi' art- ini'oi iliai an agitation is afoul In 11 |w(i |he Kuxtoii Harbour Board to have a wharf constructed at (lie Heads. Mr A. E. I’orritl, son of Dr. Porrill of Wanganui, has been definitely selected for the Rhodes Scholarship. lie is all old boy of the Vanyan lli Collegiate School and a stiideni of Otago University. * The average aye of the Xew Zealand man when lie marries is between 11(1 and .‘ll years. The average aye of brides is between 2(i and 27 years. In both cases the average lias arisen fairly steadily within the last 20 years. Although Pox ton did not observe half-holiday for the .Manawatu A. and I’. Show yesterday, a I a rye nmiibi r of' local people were in attendance during the afternoon. The weather conditions were excellent for t he out iny. ’file Chief Electoral Officer announces that the writs will be issued <• 11 Thursday. November l(i. This means thal the secondary supplementary roll and linal roll will be closed at (i pan. on that day. Tile Prince of Wales was riding ai the lludminion Hunt at Malmesbury. when his horse slipped on the yrensv road, the Prince sustaining contusion of the tinkle, hut his Royal 11 iy luiess's engagement's will not be interrupted. “I am certain to win a bet which I made with Sir Thomas Liplon,” -•■aid Sir Harry l.auder before he hit London for a trip in America and oilier countries a few weeks ayo. “Sir Thomas is going to America by another route,” he added, "and Inis bet me !hl to 4Ad that lie wili reach the ITiited States lirst." Meiidiers and- friends of the Presbyterian Ladies Social (iuild were eniertaineil by Mrs TTowan at a most enjoyable afternoon in the Sunday school room on Wednesday. Vocal and iiisi rnmenlal items were yiven by Miss Chalk and Miss V. Easton and were very mneh appreciated. Local residents were nwakened al an early Itour this tnorniny by bauds of children, hawkiny some awful lookiny efliyies of poor old “(!uy'’ whose “gunpowder plot” nnniversary was put forward a day. Toniylit the usual fireworks will ho exploded. In this connection a warning is yiven that il is an offence to let off lireworks In a public place. Lionel Ernest Archer, ayed 27 veal's, a Wellinylon Irani conductor, met his death last cveniny in somewhat unusual circumstances. His Irani, a special one, was proceeding down Hamilton Quay, when Archer leaned, out, presumably I" ascertain if the destination number was right, hut he leaned too far and his head struck a pole carrying' I lie wires. His -bull was fractured and he died in I he hospital. So piiitycni are some of the -lapenese savings that our equivalent seems Hat in comparison. For example, where we say, “Accidents will happen in the best of families," the .lap' have i! “Even a monkey will sometimes fall from a tree.” “The more haste, the less speed.” becomes “If in a hurry, go round." And where we say, “Oil and water will not mix," they say “Von can't rivet a nail in a custard." The total amount taken for Unpeoples day at I lie Palmerston show yesterday was £B.ll 11s 7d, as again-t £7Bl 12s 9<l last year. The taking' for the lirst day were £74 11- (id? a decrease of Aid 19s (id on last year's takings. The tiguros for the second day were £3211 Os (id a- against £342 14s 3d. The total teeeipls iii the conclusion of UnShow were £1,21') 3- 7d, compared with £1,212 18s last year, an increase of £2 7)s 7d.

la his annual report on the lire brigades of (he Dominion, the inspector. Mr T. lingo, slates that the total lire loss through on I the tire districts for the year ended .July 30, 1022, amounted to £.1.83,(510, as againsi £394,704 for the previous year, tt decrease of £211,085. The three heaviest district losses occurred in Auckland (£24,810), Hamilton (£23,530) and Dunedin (£lB,■142). The insured loss throughout the Dominion for the year ended December 31, 1021, amounted to £730,310. This exceeds by nearly £200,000 the loss for 1017 (£578,021), the heaviest annual loss of previous years. The proportion of the loss throughout t lit* lire districts for (he corresponding 12 months amounted to £253,88/. D 1 531 fires nine were reported to be due to incendiarism.

The Wanganui Borough Council I has raised a loan of £5,400 locally at 101, the interest offered being (I per c(-nt. The loan t was oversubscribed. The Premier announced in Parliament Hi! Tuesday that His Majesty the King had given orders that a two minutes' silence be observed in: Armistice anniversary day. November 11, as in previous years. A noticeable exhibit at the Manawatu Show was a collection of woodwork by the boys of (lie Otaki Native College. It consisted of a varied collection of mortise, inlaid, and oilier work, and is a line example of the handiwork of the scholars at the Otaki College. \ notice in the “(ba/.elte” makes il obligatory after Ist .lamiarv, 1923, for every registered chemist keeping open shop and every enrolled manager to display bis certificate of registration in his pharmacy or dispensary in a prominent position in full view of the public. “Tln-re are 1,300 teachers in New Zealand," said Mr 1). \V. Low, at Palmerston, “and 25 per cent, of these are unecriideated." It was impossible, lie said, to get an adequate number of certificated teachers; if they could, those without certificates would have to go. There were at present many pupil teachers who were doing the work that should be done by lirst assistants. “The profession,” Mr Low declared, "is not snfficeitnly attractive now to induce an adequate number to take it up." Tints the Marlborough Express: On Siiturday evening sounds weird enough to curdle one's blood and engender thoughts of diabolical murder .-ittmeted a crowd of whitefaced, tear-stricken people to the neighbourhood of a certain laundry in the town. There was lirst a bang and then a shriek of mortal agony, followed by a gurgle of maniacal laughter. One of the crowd, more vent u resume than bis fellows, investigated and discovered that it was another ease of national music —a duet sung by two Chinese artists, accompanied by the grotesque instrumentation of the Flowery Land and produced per medium of ;i gramophone. Invercargill can probably lay claim to having produced the first “aero-ear" made in New Zealand (-tales the Southland “News.”) Imbued witli the idea of making a very light car with no gears or differentials. a youthfnl enthusiastic mechanic, L. Tatiorslield, son of Air .1. 11. Ta l lei-sfield, garage proprietor, set to work, and after painstaking experiments, was successful ’u earning his idea into effect. The body of the ear is an ordinary plain, light, wooden chassis, with -tiering wheels. The “motor” force >- derived from a fonr-blnded propeller driven by a twin-cylinder motor cycle engine, both of which are attached to Hie rear end of the ear. The propeller, which is made of New Zealand birelnvood, was built by the young inventor. The whole structure weighs only 2ewts„ and carrying two passengers, can reach a -peed of 45 miles an hour. The machine when completed will be marketable at a price which will compare more than favourably with an up-10-date motor cycle and r.

Because New Zealand is a rich little country, there is an unneei.s--nry tendency on the part of some people to exaggerate the wealth of it- resources. An instance occurred the other night when the Labour candidate for Dunedin Central told a gathering of elector- that the “known" resources of coal in Xtw Zealand represented “the enormous figure of 2.0110,800.000,000 lons.” “Enormous" would indeed, la- the right word if these figures even approached the truth. A- it i- they are ludicrously incorrect: the speaker must have slipped in three nought- too many, and then doubled it. The highest scientific estimate of the amount of coal proved to exist in the Dominion is that of Mr I’. (1. Morgan, Director of (ieologieal Survey wlm has put it at 1,082,000,000 tons. Professor Park has calculated the total of our probable and proved coal resource.- to be 3.380,0011,000 ton-, or about one-liftli of the amount that Mr (lilelirisl, the candidate referred to, declared was known to exist. Our thousand million tons does not look very large in the light of Ihe fact that it is airly equal to the amount produced in America in l\Vo vears.