Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2591, 9 June 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Very severe frost* were experienced locally on several mornings this wed,.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will he held at 7 pan. on IMonday.

Wattle trees are in hloom locally, which in the opinion of some people, indicates an early spring. The Ilutt Park Committee has passed a resolution prohibiting the playing of organised games on the Ilutt Park on Sundays.

Bright interesting meetings all day Sunday at the local Salvation Army. Community singing and solo: ‘•Where is My Wandering Boy To-night.’’

Mrs M. A. Ross has been appointed relieving' teacher at the local State school pending the appointment of a successor to Miss Strand and will take up her duties as from Monday next.

The eonlfactors for the erection of out-ollices at the local school are making good progress with the work and the buildings should be completed and connected with the sewerage system within the nexi three weeks.

While cycling home from work at f> o’clock last night, at Timaru, Thomas Berry, a workman in a flour mill, was knocked down and run over by a motor-car driven by H. P. I,nice, who is employed hv a firm of land agents in Timaru. Berry expired soon after. lie was about sixty years of age.

The following answer to a correspondent appeared in the Opunake “Times":——“The literary staff of this paper consists of one only, and lie is general reporter, sporting writer, sub-editor, and editor. ITe possesses a straight right and a long reach, and cannot run. Call in at your convenience.'’

“I hope the time will come when those lung-murderers will he thrown away and you will have a pipe each." said the Rev. Mr Fielden Taylor when addressing a gathering of hoys at Wellington. “I am one of those men who are prejudiced to the cigarette habit. Any decent fellow will tell you that the cigarette is had.”

Referring at the Te Aroha Borough Council meeting to the bequest, of £I,OOO made by the late Sir William Harries to Te Aroha Borough for beautifying and town improving purposes, Mr Hedge suggested that if approved by the Public Trustee, about half of the amount should be used for the erection of a ladies’ rest room in the main portion of the town.

The Archbishop of Canterbury in a letter to the secretary of the Imperial Alliance in defence of Sunday, deplores the growing tendency towards Sabbath games. He says that those in a responsible position ninsi have their eyes opened to the d; timer of the unintended progress from innocent recreation to the encouragement of great competitive games. A word of warning was gravely needed to the whole country, and to public bodies particularly. If Sunday was devoted chiefly t o pleasure-seeking, I lie price would be deplorable.

The work of erecting the poles for the reticulation of Palmerston North iu connection with the supply of electricity is proceeding satisfactorily, and so far about 200 have been placed in position in the northern end of the town. Altogether about 1,500 poles and 300 miles of cables will be required. The whole of the reticulation will probably be completed early next year, hut it is expected that nearly all the main portion of the town will be ready to receive the electricity by the end of this year.

John Chinaman, with his inscrutable sphinx-like features, and his unconsciously droll manner of speech, is generally regarded as a source of innocent merriment by the average person (says the Christchurch “Sun”) His peculiar style of nomenclature offers plenty of scope for the humorist, and very often the name of the Celestial gentleman who deals more or less genttlv with our collars and cutis, or attends to our vegetable supply, seems rather too funny to he tine. We frequently find, however, that Mr How Soon or Mr Go Hang, as the case may he, is an exceedingly canny individual and is well on the alert for a brisk deal. The following brief story bears out this characteristic trait in the Chinese who live in the big cities. One of them, whose lfe was well insured, met with an accident serious enough to necessitate a gathering of the family clan. After solemnly deliberating the situation from every point of view, the unfortunate Chinaman’s relatives wrote the following letter to the insurance company:— “John half dead—like® half money.”

At a meeting of ladies held in the supper-room of the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, a local branch of the W.C.T.U. was formed. A report of the meeting will appear in our next issue.

The clay bird championship of New Zealand shot under the auspices of the New Zealand Gun Club Association at Hamilton yesterday, for which there were 39 competitors, resulted: H. Clinch (Horopito) 23 kills out of a possible of 21, 1; B. Burgess (Marton) 19, 2. Seven tied for third place with 18 kills.

“It is to be hoped that your expectations will be realised,” commented the chairman (Mr J. Linklater, M.P.) of the Foxton Harbour Board at the monthly meeting of that body when there was under consideration a report from the secretary regarding the prospect of a certain sc-ow calling at the port.

The draft of a Bill to he introduced at the next Parliamentary session, empowering the Foxton Harbour Board “to borrow money for the purchase, hire, building, or chartering of steam and other ships or vessels, or for subsidising other persons in the hire or chartering of such >hips to trade with the port of Foxton,” was considered at Thursday’s meeting of the Board. Messrs j. A. Nash, M.P., and Chrystnll objected to the term ‘purchase’ in regard to ships, and were supported iu this by the majority of the members, though it was agreed that subsidising was a correct procedure.

To-day the population of Palmerston North was 18,000, hut he made bold enough to say that within a few years the population would have grown to 25,000, remarked Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., at a conversazione given in recognition of his long services as Mayor. The geographical position of Palmerston N. assured this, and the potentialities of the district would eventually see Palmerston North the Christchurch of the North Island. The first function lie had to attend after being elected Mayor was the opening of a church bazaar and the second was as judge of a splendid lot of babies. It wave him all the more pleasure to think that one of the babies who had won one of the prizes had handed him an orchid that night. Long before Mr C. H. Warden, headmaster of Queen’s Park School came to Wanganui (states the Herald) he was noted for his initiative and organising capabilities both in the field of sport and in other spheres. It is not surprising then, to find him setting the lead to primary schools in the Dominion by being the first master to realise how essential it is for pupils to obtain a knowledge of wireless. Queen's Park school is now equipped with a modern onevalve plant, which will be in full working order within the next few days. The installation will give a big impetus to both the staff and pupils, and as the success of the innovation is assured, it will probably not he long before other enterprising masters in other parts of the Dominion are following the lead set. bv Mr Warden.