Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2569, 19 April 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Duke of York’s marriage will Like place at 11.30 a.m. on Thursday, April 2(>.

The number of candidates (sixteen) nominated for the nine positions on tlie Borough Council constitutes a local record.

The sudden death look place at N’o. 2 Line, Wjnnganui, last week, of Mr •). R. Crane, father of Mrs E. Healev, of Koxton.

A number of local sports were in attendance yesterday and to-day at the Manawatu races.

John Tulii, convicted of the murder of Herbert Knight, paid the supreme penalty of the law at Wellington this morning.

The meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce, to have been held this evening, is postponed till a later date.

The “Daily Alnil” announces that the Duke of York will be appointed to a Dominion Governor-General-ship.

The local road staff for some time past, has been employed in Main St. with the result that Main Street road is now tarred from the Town Hall to the .junction at: the south end with Union Street.

The Rev. A. Harding, who will leave Pallia tun. this week, intends to take up his residence at the Lower Unit. The Rev. Harding was for several years in charge of the Foxton Methodist circuit prior to transfer to Pa hint ua.

A number of local Masons were present at the Installation of the W .M. and investiture of officers of Lodge Manawatu Kilwinning at Palmerston North last night. The attendance of Masons from all parts of the district constituted a record.

At the Invercargill Magistrate’s Court yesterday, John Ryan was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment on a charge of being found by night in. the Southland Hospital grounds. He had been playing the role of “Peeping Tom” near the Nurse’s quarters. Six charges of theft, involving the sum of £SB 11/2, were conferred against the former manager of the Boys’ Training Farm at Weraroa (Levin), Frederick Marry at, in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Marryat pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence and was sent forward for trial.

While most of the churches are

acknowledging; a shortage of students for the ministry (states the Sydney “Telegraph”), the Salvation Army the world over liuds the capacity of its training colleges taxed to the utmost, with eager young men and women desirous of qualifying for work, us Salvation Army officers. This, despite the fact that inducements are few and salaries low, while hardship is inseparable from that service. At the request of the local ranger of the Hound Bush National Sceuic lies or vc, Sir James Wilson, a member of the forestry Board, has consented to make an inspection of this magnilicienf piece of native bush, possibly oil Saturday next. The object of Hie visit is to consider a proposal to enclose the bush with a belt of shelter trees and to discuss fencing proposals. Owing to

the lack of fencing, stock are wandering in. the bush and causing a good deal of damage to the young trees. It is reported that certain acts of vandalism have taken place, which is under investigation. A.n amusing account was given at Auckland by M. Schwartz at the reception at the Women’s Club, of how, when, lie landed at Vancouver he saw an advertisement promising lo teach jazz music in ten lessons, and when he lauded in Auckland he heard of someone who was offering to teach the violin in two. It interested him very much, as he had been trying to learn the blamed thing all his life. It was pathetic that intelligent people could believe such tommy rot, and send a child to a music teacher who talked of teaching in eight lessons without hard work, it was a tragedy that these poor souls were spoiling the education of the next generation.

In response to representations inside by Ensign Huston, the Salvation Army headquarters have decided to paint the local Army hall and offieers dwelling. The work of painting the hall has been entrusted to Mr Admore and the dwelling to Mr Cowley. The Army has its own .-tall of workmen but owing to the liberal response bv the local public to the Army’s activities, the work has lieen given to local tradesmen.

•‘Drainage is a cheap matter except in the actual swamps” remarked Mr P. E. Baldwin in the course of his lecture on the reclamation of sandy areas given to members of the Palmerston Philosophical Society. “In the swamps,” lie added, “a large quantity of buried timber and the softness of the soil necessitate hard work, and it is a recurring expense as the drains till up with vegetation and sandy silt, but all other draining can be done by a swamp plough and a drain grader at probably 3s a chain.

The belief that the dried milk industry would one day come into its own was expressed by a company official when giving evidence before the Arbitration Court in the dairy workers’ dispute. Tie said that dried milk was having a hard struggle for existence, but those interested were looking to the time when the industry would be firmly established. He added that travellers were creating a market around the Pacific and he believed the industry, which had been established at heavy cost, would eventually come into its own.

A Hew Zealander, Air E. J. Wilson, of Devonport, Auckland, has been doing remarkable acrobatic and balancing feats in London. He balanced himself on his hands, with his feet in the air, on. the very top of the Y.M.C.A. building in Tottenham Court Road. He has even walked on his hands on the edge of the coping of a six-storev building —a feat which naturally commended itself to the movies, and has been filmed in one of “Round the Town” (Gnumont) pictures. Air Wilson will tour England and Scotland and other countries before his return to Hew Zealand. At present he is appearing at. some of the halls of the Aloss and Stoll circuits.

Another Hew Zealander, Air D. Ruchanan, of Palmerston Horth, a well-known cattle breeder, expressed disappointment at the quality of the Ayrshires and Friesians exhibited at the Royal Show, Sydney. He considered them far below the Hew Zealand standards in these classes. Similarly, the draught horse exhibits were not comparable with what Hew Zealand could show. The light horse breeds had deteriorated very considerably since be visited Australia 20 years ago, but Hew Zealand had nothing to crow about in this respect. Breeders seemed to be concentrating on producing an animal of far too light a type. Hew Zealand could learn a great deal from Sydney in show management.

“It was 2!) years on Wednesday last since I was first elected to Parliament,’' said Mr Massey in the

course of some remarks at Levin last week. “That is an unbroken period. I have not been defeated though one never knows what may appen in the future. I have seen marvellous surprises at election time, hut my Waterloo has no! yet. come. 1 don’t know whether I shall wait for it to come. That remains to be seen. I am the father of the House at present. There are men in Parliament who were there before me, hut their record is not unbroken. Either I am up to Mr Seddoli’s record or very close to it. So far as his office was concerned, he was 13 years Prime Minister. Up to the present I have been Prime Minister 11 years, or 1 shall have been by the time the House meets again,”