LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2579, 12 May 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will lie held on Monday evening next at 7 o’clock.

Ten cases of infectious disease' were treated at the Palmerston N. Hospital during April, viz.:,Scarlet fever 4, diphtheria 5 and puerperal fever I.

The Awaliou Auctioneering Co. will conduct a horse sale at their yards, Hall Street, on Monday next at 1.30 p.m. The horses comprise heavy and light draughts, hacks and light harness horses.

The many Foxton friends of the Rev. A. Doull, who is critically ill at Dunedin, will regret to learn that his condition shows no change for the better and is causing his relatives grave anxiety.

Sir James Allen announces that the New Zealand loan was fully subscribed on the first day and when the list was closed the following day 1 he amount of the subscription was between £(3,000,000 and £8,0.00,000.

At the meeting of the Wellington Presbytery the Rev. Dr. Gibb said it was very desirable that the type of immigrants should be raised. “I am afraid we have been getting a lot of (rash from the Old Country,” lie added.

On April 1, there were 05 patients in the hospital. During the month 125 patients were admitted, 127 were discharged and seven died, leaving 8(3 at the end of the month. The daily average number of palicnls was SS.3. Forty-four operations were performed.

An enterprising move has been made by Air C. H. Warden, headmaster of the Queen’s Park School, Wanganui, who has arranged to in - stnl a wireless set at the school, a departure that should prove both instructive and interesting to the scholars.

A considerable quantity of drift wood has been brought down by the recent fiood in the Alanawatu and a number of local residents have secured big hauls along the river hank. A certain amount of skill and daring is required in capturing and hauling the drifting logs to shore.

To-morrow at the Salvation Army “Mothers’ Day” will be celebrated by special meetings. A mothers’ meeting will be held at 3 in (be afternoon, at which special songs of home and mother will he sung. Each mother will be presented with a card and -lower. The idea is to inculcate in the children’s minds love and reverence for mother and home.

A wning woman at her first dinner party after arriving in India, was alarmed when the sporting subaltern who had taken her in said suddenly: “Oh, I must show you my lum-tum after dinner, I have just had it painted black and yellow.” It didn’t occur to him that she could be ignorant of the fact that a tumtum was a dog-cart.

A Palmerston North firm of builder.-. Ims just received an invitation to submit a tender to a firm in Sydney for the. supply of a shipload of pumice and flax tow, to be used in the manufacture of building material by a process for which the local linn referred to Judds letters patent. This opens up the prospect of a new industry of great importance to the Dominion. As a result of a motor car accident in Queen Street, Auckland, on Tuesday evening, when a widow, Mrs Bessie Sharpies, sustained fatal injuries, Sydney Murphy and Thomas Laurence McQuid, were charged in the Police Court with manslaughter. The original charge against the accused was of causing actual bodily harm. Both were remanded for a week, bail being granted in £SOO for each. In moving the re-election of Sir James Wilson to the chair of the Palmerston North Hospital Board at Thursday’s meeting, Mr J. K. ilornblow mentioned that Sir James at the termination of the present term, would have occupied a seat on the Board for 25 years. He had always treated the members of the Board with the utmost courtesy and his enthusiasm and interest in the institution had never waned.

It is well known among anglers that the inoki is one of the hardest .fish in New Zealand waters to catch upon a line. Recently at Pukerua several large nioki were seen swimming in the channels between the rocks, and a lady, in simple guilelossness, attempted to catch one of these large fish by means of a stout line to which she had attached a bent hairpin baited with the contents of a sausage roll. Surely optimism has no wider bounds than this.

English oak used in building Westminster Hall, London, was felled between 1303 and 1300.

The following brief but pointed let teir from a country settler has been received by the clerk of a Nelson local body: “Find enclosed postal notes for 3s Id penalty due on rates to your hard-up council. I am certain the council have a helluva nerve to extort rates at all on this God-forsaken place.” “That the Dairy Farmers' Union approach the Government with a view to placing purebred cattle at. the disposal of the farmer on payments to he made through the dairy factories for a term not exceeding three years,” was the text of a remit carried at the Dairy Farmers’ conference.

The teacher at a district school was exasperated at the inattention of her class. The lesson had been on machines, and Edison’s inventions had been mentioned. “Now, then,” asked the teacher impatientIv, “from what was the first talking machine made?” After a lengthy silence a voice from the back exclaimed. “Please miss, a rib.’

"It is good to have a wife’s O.K. on your religion,” remarked Dr. French E. Oliver, as lie related to a Gisborne audience an amusing incident of a man who rose in a revival meeting and thanked God he had not sinned for 12 months. Rising from the audience his spouse remarked: “John, I’m here.” John collapsed. “She had the information,” added Dr. Oliver as the laughter subsided.

Up-country runholdres who are continually losing money by the ratages of kens, will be glad to learn that various sportsmen who went deer-stalking this year decided to try the kea for food purposes, and they found it quite good. The discovery that the kea is as good to eat as a pigeon should do even more to eliminate it than the price which is upon its head, says a Southern exchange. Fourteen minutes between Levin and Otaki might seem more like an aeroplane record than a motor-ear achievement by road. Cr. Parker informed the Levin Borough Council that it was the time occupied by a ear during a recent speed test between Wellington and Auckland. The remark was made apropos to a letter from the Stratford Borough Council to co-operate in endeavouring to put a stop to speed tests on the public highways. The Levin Council accorded the proposed action its full support.

From the thirteen districts of the Palmerston North Hospital Board’s area, 1,704 patients were admitted during the year. The following return presented at the Board’s meeting on Thursday shows the number which came from each district: — Tlorowhenua County, SO; Palmerston North Borough, 750; Kairanga County 171; Kiwiten County 30; Oroua County. 99: Manawatu County and Rongotea. 82; Pohangina County 15; Feildnig Borough, 143: Levin Borough. 03; Otaki Borough, 7: Foxlon Borough, 07: Shannon Borough, S 3; other districts, 00. Total, 1,704.

A deputation from the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association waited on the Postmaster-General I Hon. (!. Coates), at Wellington, yesterday and discussed with him remits passed at the recent conference. Among the questions dealt with were the retirement of postal officers with more than forty years’ -,-rvioo. the reinstatement of returned soldiers, and the conditions as they affect returned soldiers who resigned and joined up again; also certain regulations affecting the service. .The Minister promised to consider on their merits all the matters referred to.

“I think the training of apprentices should form a part of our education system, and that the Government should give this matter its serious consideration,” .said the president of the Auckland Industrial Association at the annual meeting on Tuesday. The securing of suitable apprenliees was one of the chief obstacles with which manufacturers had to contend, continuM the speaker. Already, owing to the lack of apprentices during the past few years, great difficulty was being experienced, in obtaining good operatives for a number of industries, and unless this difficulty was overcome, the country could not expect to progress as rapidly as it otherwise would.

The resemblance between the Prime Minister and Archdeacon MeMurray has been remarked upon more than once. An excellent opportunity of observing the likeness) states the Auckland Herald) was afforded at the Presbyterian anniversary celebration gathering at the Town Hall recently, when Mr Massey and Archdeacon MeMurray told a story of a remark made at the Narrow Neck camp three years ago, when the soldiers there were shown a photograph of the speaker wearing a surplice. “Why, there’s Bill Massey in a surplice," was the exclamation of one of tin l “irreverent rascals.” The Prime Minister and all present enjoyed the joke, especially as the cause of the observation was made evident by a glance at the two jovial faces on the platform. There’s a nest for rest in winter Where the glow of welcome gleams, And a world of warmth and gladness In “My Little House of Dreams.” There’s a dear one waits to meet me All my fond hopes to assui-e; And when colds prevail to greet me With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 8

The Manawatu Competitions Society’s competitions, including music (vocal and instrumental), elocution and dancing items, commences on Monday, 11th June’, 1923. tries for all classes close with the ’ secretary on the 18th May. A representative of a Southern lirm operating on the leather market in Taranaki informed an Eltham Argus representative that business in his line up that way seemed now to have settled down to steady trade. “Last July,” he said, “the depression was so acute that one felt ashamed to go into a shop and try to sell anything. But conditions gradually improved until November was the* best month I have had up this way, and now things .seem very steady and the outlook is good.” Visitors usually find considerable difficulty in pronouncing Maori place names, and Mr Julian Grande s pronunciation of Waikaremoana or Paekakariki should he worth listening to. During a lecture at the Wellington Town Hall lie essayed to pronounce only one Maori word, and a fairlv simple one at that. He desired to refer to the Tararua Tramping Club, but Tararua tripped his tongue badly. Ho called it “Tow-row-row-row,” and obviously dissatisfied with his attempt, he gave it up. To the nine titles held by the Prince of Wales has been added by the birth of Princess Mary’s baby, the unfamiliar but none the less pleasing one of “Uncle David”—a title which makes a strong appeal to the Prince’s frank boyish manner. His Royal Highness has always the abbreviated name given in the family to the late Duke of Clarence, bv his seventh Chrsitian name of David, and not as “Eddy,” as. some people seem to imagine. That was known to the members of his family and since his death it has not been used. “Why does the schedule in the Workers’ Compensation Act differentiate between the loss of a leg below the knee and the loss of a leg above the knee?” asked Mr Holmden of Mr Justice Frazer while aro'ning a ease at the Arbitration Court at Auckland recently. His Honour replied in the Scottish fashion by asking another question, namely, “Why does it differentiate between different fingers on one hand?” The Judge asded that the schedule was apparently based on the War Office schedule, states the New Zealand Herald. A medical witness mentioned that plaintiff in the ease before the Court, after having his leg amputated was limited to substituting the old Crimean kneeling stump or a peg leg until he underwent a second operation. His Honour said the Act - did not eon- M template any particular form of mechanical appliance, and these did not affect the percentage of loss. A wonderful improvement in the condition of the rainbow trout at Taupo is reported by Mr Frank Dyer, who recently returned to Wellington from a fishing trip in the Taupo district. Mr Dyer’s party, consisting of three rods, caught an Slh. average and fish up to 121 b. and 131 b. were fairly plentiful. Other anglers in the same camp got fish up to 151 b. in weight, the whole catch being in the pink of condition. While in the Tokaanu district, Mr Dyer was informed by natives that a great haul of pigeons had been made recently, no less than 1,700 being killed and preserved to be used at the native feast to commemorate the unveiling of the monument to a deceased chief. Mr Dyer stated that it seemed absurd that the natives, almost everywhere, shoot pigeons indiscriminately, while the European sportsman is debarred.