Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2641, 4 October 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The monthly meeting of the loeul Chamber of Commerce will be held at 7.30 o’clock this evening. The bedding will lake place at Wellington next week, of Miss Blandford, of the local Stale School staff and Mr Franks, of Taranaki. Miss Edwards, of Ihe local State school teaching staff, underwent a minor operation at Wanganui Ibis week which will incapacitate her from duty for a few days. Sir James Wilson, Ihe chairman was on Tuesday appointed the Manawat.u County Council’s representative on the Alain Highways Council.

His Excellency, Ihe GovernorGeneral, will attend a Masonic function at Palmerston North to-mor-row night in his capacity as Grand Master. He will attend a similar function at Wanganui this evening.

During a discussion iyi heavy road traffic at yesterday’s'deputation to the Alinister at Foxtoji, Mr Hornbtow said the point which governing bodies hail to consider was whether roads are to be made for traffic or traffic for Ihe roads. In his opinion motor road traffic, had come to stay. Mr Furkert said while that was so the authorities had the power to regulate the load and in America such regulation was strictly enforced and if a lorry had half a hundredweight, over* liny nllolod load it had to come off before the vehicle could proceed. On the .journey from Palmerston North to Foxton yesterday, the lion. Air Coates was impressed with Ihe capacity of the sand-hills from t lie forestry point of view, and ventured the'opinion that- the huge plantations of pines were an indication that properly managed, the sanddunes would he the most prolilnble land about, here, if systematically planted.

Asked to make a statement in reference to the Palmerston railway deviation at Palmerston North, yesterday, Air Coates said tie could say nothing just now. lie explained that lie-was going through the whole of the Domnion preparing a programme of works and placing the various matters in their order of urgency, “i have formed my own opinion,” said Air Coates, “hut I cannot say anything now.” The crafty Chinese take some beating (states the Wanganui Herald). It will he -remembered some little time ago a number <s£ Chinese vendors of vegetables were Jined at the local Court through having spring balance scales not weighing correctly. Evidently the Chinese thought it was no good wasting their time attending the Court and paying tines, so the simple gentlemen who deliver the vegetables at the door now sell by measurement instead of weight.

A reminder is given to all members of the local Tennis Club of the annual meeting to he held in the Town Hall at 8 o’clock this evening. « Benefits derived from intercessory services in Rt. John’s Pro-Cathedral nl Napier, in connection with the forthcoming Hickson Mission have already been reported. One outstanding ease is that of an elderly lady,' who, though almost totally deaf for eighteen years, has had her hearing restored. Numerous cases of relief from nervous disorders are reported. Five hundred pounds is offered by Mr Ecbliens Harden'of Sydney, for the “man or woman who shows most ability in mastery of the air in a safe, cheap machine,” as Inputs it. Mr Hordern is one of the sons of the late Samuel of that ilk, and has been a considerable airman himself. His purpose primarily is to encourage familiarity with air navigation, leaving defence Hying to come afterwards in due course.

A compliment to the teachers in the primary schools was paid by the Minister of Education-at a conference of senior school inspectors on Tuesday. Air Parr said that the teachers of New Zealand are showing- a praiseworthy zeal and vision in studying educational problems. “They establish committees of investigation, and their reports are always useful even though one may sometimes disagree,” he added. “It is our duly to give a lead. In this respect anyway Ihe teachers show us rather a good example.”

While MaoViland has been jubilating over a great engineering feat in Ihe Olira tunnel Ihe completion of the greatest aerial railway in the world—the si eel ropeway across the Columbian Andes in South America —is due to the engineering skill of a Mnorilander, Janies Ferguson Lindsay. “Don .Jamies” constructed many i»ono : railwnys in Spain prior to tackling the big South American job. His father was a schoolmaster in Oamarii, where he was horn and educated and acquired his first 1 hirst for engineering.—Exchange.

An autographic hunter of the most original and persevering type is Air Reginald Bray, Forest Hill, England, whom it would he no misnomer to term the “Autograph King.” It"!probable that he owns the largest: collection of modern autographs in the world. At any rate, the number lie has secured —10,000 —is a record which is not easily beaten. Air Bray has obtained his autographs — and bis collection includes those of the majority of celebrities of to-day —without any special pleading, influencc oi* payment of any Indeed, in the majority of eases Insole expenditure has been Id for a picture postcard and Ad for a stamp.

Afueli favourable comment, baleen heard in connection with boiii the catering and decorations at the recent Tennis Clubs ball. The Gluo which has benefited financially liv (lie event, desires to thank those who attended and helped to bring' Ihe undertaking to a successful i--sue, Whilst extending thanks to all (hose who assisted in the work, the. committee especially desire to thank Alesdames Head, Pearson, Ilea small, and Procter, and Messrs Stevenson and Nat trass who devoted so much lime and labour to the decoration of the hull and the preparation of the supper together with general work in connection with Ihe hall.

Mrs Thompson, wife of Air Thompson, of Ihe China Inland Alissiou, was entertained by a few personal friends at the residence of Mrs J. G. flonore, Avenue Road, yesterday afternoon and presented with a token of esteem. In making the presentation, ATrs ITonove wished the recipient. God-speed and said all hough Ai rs Thompson would soon lie -epavaled in a distant land from them, she would not he forgotten. Mrs Thompson feelingly replied. Air and Mrs Thompson leave Foxlon next week for Auckland cn route to China. Mr Thompson lias made a splendid recovery from a recent serious operation and it. is hoped that ihe sea trip will fully restore his health.

Under the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement. Act regulations the Government may advance up to j.ToO for stocking and improving open land, and up to £1,250 for hush hind. An Ordcr-iu-Couneil has been passed providing that the Minister may. on the production of evidence llmt. the advances previously made are insufficient, for the successful working of a farm, authorise advances up to such limits and for pitch purposes as ho deems it. I his will enable additional advances t" he made in necessitous eases, and I lie. new arrangement has been made in conjunct ion with the concessions granted under the amending Act passed last season to give relief tn soldier son of the land.

A warm compliment, is paid by Truth (London) to ihe Dominion. The journal remarks: “New Zealand has her troubles, hut she has an honest Treasury, trading classes who are trustworthy, farmers who increase population, and workmen who are at work. Her people can point to industrial peace, improving trade and px-ices, and a general measure of well-being, in which all classes share with, at any rate, an approach of equity, 1 ox- many sears the over-seas trade has given a. substantial surplus of exports, except iu the year of March, 1921, when imports exceeded exports by over £19,01)0,000. In the following year there was an excess of exports over imports of £7,072,000 and in 1022-23 the export surplus was £B,081,000. in March 1022, New Zealand for the first time for many years, failed to balance her Budget, but the lapse was brief.”

The experience of the Palmerston North resident in recently digging

up a golden hoard in his garden recalls a ease of discovery of treasure trove in W anganui a couple of yearago, says the Chronicle) when, for obvious reasons, as little as possible was said about the matter. The lucky person was a local lawyer who purchased an old building in the Avenue, formerly lemmled by Chinese, and when Ihe structure was in lhe process of demolition a ginger jar was found in a recess near the chimney containing Chinese coins and 150 sovereigns. Search for treasure is always of interest, and reports ol success are decidedly -limulaling. A Durie Hill resident who was delving industriously m his garden the other day thought his luck had changed when he discovered in a trench in quick succession, a half crown, a shilling and couple of pennies, hut his feeling of gratification was short lived seeing that he also found that the “source of supply” was a large hole in a trousers pocket. While Spain has been pouring out millions in Morocco for ten years past, Ihe Spanish people seem to have reached an amazing pitch of misery,. A writer in the Fortnightly Review a year or two back declared that in the Las Ilurdes region of the Estremadura, in “Sunny Spain," I here are human beings herding like savages in holes and caves —lm If-starved, clothed in mile skins, without doctors, churches, or schools. Such statistics as they collect in Spain show that. 1.2 millions people out of the 21 bullions in the country can neither read nor write, nor calculate the simplest figures. Nearly half the small (owns and villages are without even roads. Half the area of the country is uncultivated. The army has been in revolt against the incompetent General Stall' for years, and lias juntas or committees which issue orders to which the Governments have either to agree or resign, as six or seven have done in as many years. “Our country,” declares Senor Jose Ortegany Gassett, “is rotling carcase in the last stages oi decomposition.” And the defect of Ibis unsavoury comparison, from all