Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. JUNE 16. 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2594, 16 June 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. JUNE 16. 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Foxton Hortieultural Society will be held in the Plunkot Room on Monday evening next at 7.30 n.m.

Small quantities of whitebait continue to be netted in the Manawatu river. Indications point to the probability that whitebait will be very plentiful this season. A three-seater Buick, the properly of Mr R. P. Edwards, of Kimbolt.on, was stolen from in front of the Palmerston North Opera House last night. Sir James Wilson, chairman of the Manawatu County Council was at Wednesday’s meeting of that body appointed to represent it at the Counties’ Conference at Wellington next month.

“Do you know that motor lorries have been taking from Foxton loads of 200 cases of benzine, or about a 7-ton lead, over our roads?” asked Cr. Barber at the Manawatu County Council meeting. “They can’t do it just now —the roads are too bad," replied the engineer.

The rate of sick pay to tie paid by the Manawatu County Council was determined at its last meeting, when it was decided that, subject to the presentation of a docor’s ccrifieate, sick pay be allowed at half the rate of the employee’s average earnings with a limit of one moath. Mr •). Linklater, M.P. has advised the .Manawatu County Council that he heartily approves of a circular forwarded him by the council, condemning motor speed trials. He added that he would bring the matter before Cabinet at the earliest opportunity.

A motor car driven by Mr Braddock collided with a train at Palmerston North yesterday. Mr Braddock was severely cut about the face and the car considerably damaged. A high wind was blowing at the time, which probably accounted for the driver not hearing the warning bells.

A stranger to Koxton stopped oar represent at ve this morning and asked what "that lnit-rack arrangement” on the hill at the south end of the town was. On being informed that it was a water tower, he said: "1 thought it was some arrangement for the defence of the town!”

At last meeting of the school committee the chairman recommended that the old school residence be handed over lo the Hoard’s technical department to be used for woodwork and cookery classes. It was decided to a>k the Board secretary and architect to moot and confer with the committee on the subject.

At Fielding on Thursday the poll for the half-holiday, rendered necessary by the voiding of the previous poll, in which Saturday by a majority of about 25 votes, was declared the statutory half-holiday resulted in an overwhelming majority for Wednesday. The result was as follows: —\Vfedtnesday 1,102, Saturday 043, Thursday 1, informal 4.

At the annual meeting of the Manawatu Fatriotie Society, the balance-sheet showed the state of the various funds to be as follows: (leneral Account, dr., £247 15s Id; sick and wounded fund, er., £33,3.15 8s s<l; An/.ac Club fund, or. £14,1)83 3s (id; camp comfort and equipment fund, er., £151) 10s Id; interest account, cr., £2,143 Is lid; total credit £50,303 14s Bd.

An interesting ease of a partially blind woman recovering the full possession of her sight through the shock of a fall occurred aboard the Remuera on her voyage from England. Mrs Parker had partially lost her sight and two Scottish specialists had said they could do nothing for her. She fell down the ship’s gangway on the voyage out and fractured her leg. A few days afterwards, her sight was completely restored and this is attributed to the shock of the fall.

The master of the steamer Opua, on arrival at Greymouth, reported to the Marine Superintendent that he had sighted a dead whale floating thirteen and a-half miles south by east from Wellington Heads. Except for a few minor details the local fire station is complete and ready for occupation. The brigade and visiting brigades will be entertained at the opening ceremony next Wednesday evening. Parliament yesterday was occupied chiefly with references to legislators, who had died in the recess. Tributes were paid to the memories of the late Sir William Henries, the Hons. C. H. Mills, Arthur P. Seymour, Edward Pearce, and W. W." Collins.

The total number of patients admitted to the hospital at Palmerston North in May was 151, and the total treated was 237. During the month .129 patients were discharged, nine deaths being recorded. There were 98 patients remaining at the institution on May 31st, and the daily average numbered in the hospital was 92.35.

Tn connection with the Borough Council’s proposal to consider an increase in the Town Clerk’s salary, the Mayor points out that the Clerk’s present salary is £390 per annum and not £350 as previously slated. It may be pointed l out, however, that the extra £4O is paid to the Clerk as manager of the Town Hall pictures.

The lie mu era arrived at Auckland at 3 o’clock yesterday from London, with 214 assisted immigrants. All destined for the South are leaving by the Remuera for Wellington to-day, says a Press Association wire. The passengers include six Blueeoat School boys to enter farming in North Auckland as the headmaster stated, to “blaze the trail.”

A correspondent states that a car containing two ladies and two gentlemen got stuck in the new road formation near the Slmnnno bridge on Wednesday night. They spent the night in the car from 11 p.m. to 7.30 a.m., when they were towed out. The party was proceeding from Wellington to Wanganui and came via Shannon.

“Working Moil’s Wife” writes as follows: “Found Out. Thou shalt not steal thy neighbours clothes off the line. Will the person who, by the aid of an electric torch light, stole my husband’s socks off the clothes line, please call and get some wool to darn them and learn the Commandments., Residents of the Avenue beware of' night-birds with a torch.” Comment at the Manawatu County Council meeting on Wednesday on the bad condition of certain of its roads, drew from councillors some interesting instances. It was mentioned that one councillor’s car, up to the axle in mud, had been extricated by the aid of two horses; four men hijd been observed pulling a motor cycle out of a “sticky” patch; and the engineer had been “lectured” by two women in a gig on one of the poorly conditioned roads. “He bore it patiently till they moved off,” said the chairman (Fir -las. Wilson) «when jocularly commenting on the last mentioned incident. The death occurred on Tuesday, at Kare-re, at the age of 73 years, of Mr Marx Voss, a well-known pioneer settler of the district. Born in A pen rode, Schleswig, Denmark, he was compelled to serve in the German Army, and was a member of the army of occupation of Paris. He came to New Zealand in 18/4 in the “SI. Lawercncc,” a sailing vessel, which took 1 ()»> days to make the trip from Plymouth (England) to Lyttelton. From this port he journeyed to Foxton in the s.«. Wellington, and thence to Karen- in 1875. He was married al Foxton, the ceremony being solemnised in Hit* Presbyterian Church by the late Rev. Duncan, on May 8, 1874. A Greymouth correspondent states in an exchange: “There recently occurred near Gronadun one of the worst forms of cruelty. A valuable horse, in the pink of condition, was taken from a paddock. It bad been newly shod, and was left in a well secured paddock, but the shoes were removed by the miscreant to evade any trace of its exit from the paddock. Five weeks later the horse was discovered where it had been chained to a tree, it had c-aten the tree through, and had been living entirely on the wood. W hen found it was a mere skeleton, and its hoofs were worn past bearing shoes for some time. The poor animal had been taken seven miles from the paddock to where it had been secured with heavy chains.

humorous touch was given to the debate on the question of teachers’ appointments at the annual conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute by Mr H. E. Penlington, who related the experience of a certain rural school committee which desired to hit a vacancy on the staff of the local school. There were live applicants, and from those were selected a comely young woman who, within a short time of her arrival was carried off by a young farmer of the district and installed as the mistress of his abode. The position was again advertised. This time there was 15 applicants. The new appointee was a good looking specimen of her sex and within a few months she in turn fell a victim of the matrimonial lure of another young farmer. Again there was a vacancy. This time there were 28 applicants. The same thing happened —another marriage the district. The chairman of the committee in desperation, went to the Education Board office and said, “For heaven’s sake send us the oldest and plainest applicant you can get, and d— the grading list.

I am given to understand by the police that a good many farmers in the country are using their cars as taxis, hut have paid no license fees, remarked a councillor at Wednesday’s meeting of the Manawatu Countv Council.

The highest price realised at the Wairarapa Jersey breeders’ sale was 82 guineas paid by Mr W. H. Jenkins for a bull (Polgrath Petty Master), offered by IT. H. Sutton and Co., Longbnsh. The highest priced row was Mr Eagle’s Belvedere Bilberry, Daisy sold to Mr J. Badland (Martinborongh) for (35 guineas. The whole sole realised 2,400 guineas. Mr J. Linklater, M.P., has been unanimously elected patron of the Rongotea Horticultural Society and Mr J. C. ’Glover president. The society decided to hold three days’ show during the coming year, instead of five, as usual. The bulb show date was fixed for September 18, but the dates of the spring and autumn shows were left over to a future meeting.

The local advisory committee of (lie War Funds Council was held last, night. Present: Messrs Barber (chairman), the Mayor (Mr J. Chrystall), Miss Sewell, Messrs J. K. Hornhlow, Huntley, and the secretary (Mr Trueman). Apologies for absence were received from Mr Thomson and Mosdames 1-. Robinson, and MeMurray. Correspondence was read from the War Funds Council re fund administration matters. Matters in connection with outstanding loans were reviewed at length and the secretary was instructed to issue communications in connection with same and other routine business was discussed.