Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2617, 9 August 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day’s southerly wind is the coldest so far experienced this winter.

The monthly meet ing of the local State school committee will he held this evening.

The condition of Mr Geo. Coley is improving and yesterday he was able to see a number of friends.

The local footballers intend to wind up the season with a ball. The details are in the hands of an energetic committee. When asked if lie would deal with Easton Park at Tuesday night’s meeting, the Mayor said that he would not touch that matter until there was a full council present.

Mr E. Healey leaves Foxton today on a business trip to Australia and will be absent about six weeks. During his absence’Mr Fraser will act as locum .in the dispensing department.

The cost of education has greatly increased in recent years. Mr Massey says that whereas before the war the average annual cost was £IOO,OOO the present expenditure was £430,000.

The engagement is announced of Major R, A. AYWson, D. 5.0., late R.G.A., second son of Sir James and Lady Wilson, Dulls, and Doris, second daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Crackcoft-Wilson, “Cashmere,” Christchurch. A Parliamentary return shows that level crossing railway accidents have increased heavily in 1 lie last few vears. In 1920, there were 32; in 1921, 44; in 1922, 57; and for the first half of the present year 40.

At a recent valedictory social our genial Constable O’Donoglme in response to many kind remarks and expressions of regret at bis departure, said he would be pleased to extend hospitality to his Foxton friends at Kaponga. Some wag interjected that he would require to extend the two-cell accommodation provided in that township. At the Wanganui Presbytery meeting on Tuesday, the call by the Terrace End congregation to die Rev. J. Bredin of Maraekakaho, was sustained. Prior to accepting a call to Maraekakaho, the Rev. Mr Bredin -was in charge of the Foxton Presbyterian parish and his old friends will be pleased to know that he is ministering in a neighbouring parish. A rabbit’s head with a curious teeth malformation, is to be seen in one of the offices in- Invercargill. The under jaw teeth have grown to a large size and stick out like tusks, growing upwards and backwards, while the principal teeth of the upper jaw have grown inward. How the animal managed to live was remarkable, but when captured he was in excellent condition, and did not appear to have suffered from his curious teeth growth. The following simile has been used in road-making: A man builds a house, and on completion paints it to preserve the costly material used in construction. In roadmakiug the most costly item is the metal and wise engineers say once good metal is laid down, why not, by tar sealing, preserve this instead of allowing cars and lorries to scatter it on the roadside. Times have changed, and road construction conditions have altered. When a girl looks nice ad knowns it Pride impels her to display And she swanks around and shows it In a most flamboyant way. But when influenza sears her She looks mournful and demure; And the only thing that cheers her Is Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 21

A full attendance of members of the Hunt Cluh Ball committee was hold in Perreau's rooms last night when several recommendations in respect to music, catering, date of ball, etc., wore passed, to be considered at the general meeting of the various, bodies to be convened.

At the Dunedin Supreme Court yesterday Rosina Sarah Mac Fie, a popular philanthropic worker in the city, and who has been a member of the Otago Hospital Board for several years, was found not guilty of attempting to dissuade the principal female witness in the ease against .James Reynolds Hayne and Elizabeth Simpson Tnglis from giving certain evidence.

Those present at Tuesday night's Council mealing were; His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. Chrystall), and C'rs. Smith, Ross, McMurray, Walkin', Adams, and Parkin. Apologies for absence were received from Crs. Coley, Bryant and Thorpe. On the suggestion of the Mayor it was decided to send letters of sympathy tc. Or. si ml Mrs Coley, Cr. and Mrs Bryant and Cr. Thorpe.

A deputation from the local Presbyterian Church waited on the Wanganui Presbytery at Wanganui on Tuesday with a request that a grant he reinstated from the church extension fund to the charge for church extension work in the out-dis-tricts After the matter had been discussed at length Ihe request was unanimously recommended by Presbytery to the Committee which conirols the funds. The local delegates were Messrs Hornblow, Jno. Ross and the Rev. F. McDonald.

ITenry Sullivan, an American, has succeeded in swimming the English Channel. Ho covered a distance of approximately 50 miles and arrived al Calais in 26 hours 43 minutes. Sullivan’s is the third successful attempt to swim the Channel. Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover to Calais in 21 hours 45 minutes on August 24 and 25, 3875 and Thomas William Burgess swam from shore to shore in the same direction on September 5 and 0, 1911, in 22 hours 35 minutes.

An old Christchurch landmark, the steeple of the German Church in Worcester Street, has been pulled down recently. The elmreh was erected over fifty years ago, and the steeple contained a peal of bells presented by the Kaiser’s father. Those bells, containing metal from captured French canon, were melted down and sold for old metal during (bo early days of the war. For years the church was hold by spiriInalisls, but has been now taken over by the Evangelical Lutherans who are remodelling it.

“There has been a substantial falling off in the number of members of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Service,” says the permanent secretary in his report to conference, according to The Katipo. “This is chiefly due to the effort of the Department to stampede members into reversing their decision to affiliate with the Alliance of Labcur. I am glad to be able to report that in the iast few months, the tide lias set the other way, and we have been a veraging 79 new members per month. The thanks of (be organisation are due to the collectors, who, in the main, look after this side of our activities,”

In reference to the somewhat frequent interruptions on the Power Board’s transmission lines on the Peninsula, Mr F. A. Lewthwaite, resident engineer-in-t'harge, expresses the opinion that opossums are largely to blame (writes an Aknroa correspondent to the “Ashburton Guardian”). Dead opossums have been found lying across low tension wires, others at the bottom of poles, badly burnt. The little animals have spread on certain parts of the Peninsula and here and there in'the Kailuna district for instance, they are so numerous as to prove quite a nuisance to the farmers. Mr Lewthwaite intends taking such steps as will prevent even those nocturnal prowlers from climbing anymore of the electric light poles. Mr and Mrs J. O’Donoghue were entertained by the St. Mary’s congregation in the school-room on

Tuesday night. There was a good attendance, presided over by Mr M. B. Bergin, who at a suitable .juncture presented Mr O'Donogluie with a gold mounted fountain pen, suitably inscribed and Mrs O’Donoghue with a silver flower vase and case of silver afternoon tea spoons. Mr Bergin expressed regret at Mr and Mrs O’Donoghue’s departure and conveyed <o them the host wishes of the congregation for their future. Mr O’Donoghue suitably replied. Vocal items were rendered and dancing was indulged in followed by supper. The gathering concluded with the singing of “For they are Jolly Good Fellows.”

Writing in the “New Zealand forest Magazine” Mr Frank Morton says: —“1 am not a New Zealander, and 1 am essentially not a patriot, bat I have seen scraps of your surviving New Zealand hush and it is beautiful enough to safe. It is a bush of slow growth, and if you mean to save any of it you must get to work now. Trees make the glory of every English landscape. France is a beautifully timbered country. There is splendid forest in Germany, Spain and Italy are full of romantic woods. But New Zealand —the youngest country, the country that calls itself God’s Own and the country that has so definitely determined to be greatest and best in the world’s eyes—New Zealand looks on docilely while ravaging hordes make of it a treeless waste. This thing will go on to the wicked end unless some of you begin to get really uncomfortable about it.”

Among the many new and interesting pictures shown by Bishop Averill in the course of his lecture on Palestine at Auckland, was an amusing photograph showing one di the Auckland Mounted Rifles floating on his back in the Dead Sea, reading a book and holding an umbrella over his head. He said that the waters of the sea were the saltest ever known, and they were so buoyant that horses were puzzled in swimming, because they were practically unable to sink. Another amusing picture was one showing excavations made by "the ’Turks in the English Church at Jerusalem. It appears that the Turks heard there were canons connected with this Church, and these excavations were made with a view to discovering them. “Denmark began cow-testing much earlier than New Zealand. In fact, I believe some Danish dairymen were weighing the milk of individual cows before Wellington was founded in 1840. They started their first cow-testing associations in 1895, and in 1921-1922 tested per milk-recording societies some 230000 dairy cows out of their total of 1,184,000, showing that 20 per cent, of the whole of the milch cows were under test. New Zealand lias this; (1922-23) season tested 84,000 out of 1,138,000 or 7.35 per cent.”—Mr AY. M. Singleton, Director of. the Dairy Division on herd testing. The Dannevirke Chamber of Commerce intends to hold an industrial week for the display of New Zealand manufactured goods. The Wellington Provincial Industrial Association lias promised its support.