Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2664, 27 November 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The proficiency examinations will lake place at the local Stale school to-morrow.

Tennis by night is one of' the attractions at Caroline Bay, Timnru, this year.

Mr Justice noshing, who is indisposed , has been granted twelve months’ leave of absence, fie is going to England. A locomotive that was completed by a. Thames firm last week is the hundredth that it has built for the New Zealand Government.

"When a new car was being opened up in Auckland the other day an American workman’s lunch was found packed with the car. The Salvation Army band, supplemented by several visiting Army instrumentalists, enlivened Main SI. on (Saturday evening with acceptable selections at (heir open-air meeting. A special all rad ion at (be Royal Theatre on Saturday evening was some well-balanced vocal items by Mrs Hamer’s choir, '('be items wero much appreciated by the audience and vociferously encored.

Viscount Leverlmlme, head of (be firm of Lever Brothers, soap manufactures, who is about to make a tour of the world, is 72 years of age. He is due to arrive in New Zealand next mouth. We are asked to remind ticket holders for the Salvation Army ■<jelly and ice cream supper” that the function will be held to-morrow night, instead of Thursday, to prevent clashing with the Anglican Bazaar.

The annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons opens in "Wellington to-morrow and will be presided over by His Excellency the Governor General as Grand Master. The local lodge will he represented by !-cvernl of its members.

George Bernard Condell Barnden, of Limvood, aged 1!) years, was killed at New Brighton on Saturday as the result of a head-on collision with a tramcar. Barnden was riding a motor-cycle which lie obtained only on Saturday morning.

At the Auckland Police Court, the proprietress of a dairy was charged with selling milk containing 14.54 per cent, of water. Defendant said she bad no intention of watering the milk, but put a lump of ice in it to keep it over the hot night. A line of .CIO was imposed. The. abolition of the spot light is a reform which the Wanganui Automobile Association is out to secure (says the “Chronicle”). The spotlight has decided uses, hut free play with it in busy streets of the borough is quite unnecessary. The matter is one, however, that can he controlled by a borough hv-law.

The “Daily Express" correspondent in Rome reports that Dr. Voronotr, t lye pn on key gland specialist, ]<*<•- fnring*at Turin, said he had received many complaints from women : “Asm have rejuvenated my husband, Imf T have remained an old woman.” He had, therefore, derided to devote all his energies to the rejuvenation of women.

The Board of Health is to discuss at its next meeting, on December sth, certain proposals which have been made for denting with sexual degenerates. [[ has already been announced that the Government is appointing a" committee to report on the question of segregation, or surgically I renting those who commit sexual crimes, especially against children.

A Syrian, Doctor N’aamc. who has been practising at Tunis, after 15 years’ research, showed the Paris Medical Association a remarkable cure for ulcerating cancer of flic breast, without an operation or Nrnys. He treated eases with thyroid mammary extracts, and assorts that cancer is due to the lack of balance between the various glands and is curable by restoring the glandular bn lance.

As evidencing the menace of shifting sand dunes, Mr R. A. Reid officer in charge of the Stale Forest Service division operating on the reclamation of the sandy wastes of the Oroua Downs, told a “Standard” reporter that, in the Chatham Islands, five miles inland sand dunes which had swept in from the sea coast, bad left only the tops of trees 25 to 30 feet in height, appearing above the sand.

As the dancer took his fair partner down to supper, she seemed to hypnotise the waiter told off to serve them, for lie seemed incapable of taking his eyes off her. At last the dancer could stand it no longer. “I say, my man,” he observed, “what makes your stare so rudely at this lady?” “It ain’t rudeness, sir, believe me, it ain’t,” returned the waiter. “It’s genuine admiration. This is the fifth time she’s been down'to supper to-night.”

The power of education boards to close schools is to be checked b.y a new regulation issued by the Minister of Education. Schools must be kept open for the number of days specified, unless departmental approval is given for their closing, owing to special circumstances. It has been found in the past that some education boards have been much more lenient than others in allowing schools to be closed, and it is the desire of the Minister that the practice should be made more uniform, especially with regard to the period of closing, It is felt that the interests of teachers, as well as of school children, will be fully considered under the new regulation.

Through the instrumentality of Prince of Wales, a tiger has been obtained from the Maharajah of Gwalior for tin* Wellington Zoological Gardens.

There was a large nlfemlnnee at the combined evangelistic service, held in tht‘ Town Hall on Sunday evening, and the address, deliverd by the Rev. Frank McDonald, was much nppreeinfd.

The first prize for single rose bloom .-uml champion in tile rose seelion at the recent show, was awarded to Mr Arlidge. of Palmerston X. r fhe exhibit was a magnificent specimen of the “White Queen.”

“If I saw a man slap one of my cows with his hand as she was going into the hail to he milked, I would feel like.slapping the man’s face as il is absolutely unnecessary,” said a witness in a sharemilking ease heard in the Maslorlon Court last week.

Tin* Union Casile Line lias ordered from Harland and Wolff what will he the world’s largest and most powerful twin-screw passenger vessel for the South African trade. It is understood that its Diesel engines. developing 20,000 horse power, will revolutionise marine enginecr-

In the course of a discussion oil gorse eradication at a meeting of llie Wanagnui Chamber of Commerce the president mentioned that Mr F. Moore, of Ratanui, had been successful in clearing his land of the pest by means of salt. He had been treating clumps with <his material for years, and had been successful in finally eradicating it. Gordon Stuart M'Lauchlan and Herbert Hall Webb, students, charged with forging an examination paper in connection with the teachers’ D. certificate have been committed for trial. Stewart Bell MacLenan, charged with . forging M'Lauehlan’s name on a slip with respect to a music examination, was also commil led for trial.

“Eua is not as bloodthirsty as some people would have us believe,” said the Rev. W. J. Gomrie at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand sessions. “He is a man of intelligence and a force among his people. When ii was proposed to erect a college at Waimana, he was the first to put his signature to the list of those who would give money. Of course we know he has a number of wives, hut then the Maoris do not approve of this.”

Sheriff R. L. Orr, who is a practised hand in ecclesiastical biography, gives on the authority of the Archbishop of York, a delightful story of tin l late Mr Andrew Carnegie. lie was talking blatantly one Sunday evening to his guests at Skibo on the subject of prayer. lie had everything lie could think of or desire: what was there left him t• > petition Heaven for? “I think there is one thing, sir," said Principal Marshall Lang, quietly; “there is the grace of humility.” ".Men excel in creative work, and it they can create better music, painting and poetry than women, they can also create better savouries and si nips,” said Dr. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser in a debate in London. She argued that cooking to men and hoys would help to solve main - of our social problems and improve the health of the community. Housekeeping, she said, was much more arduous work than journalism, public speaking or medical pi act ice, and t herefore men were more titled for it than women.

When the Napier express was between Te Horn and Waibanae yesterday afternoon, a mental defective en route for Porirua from Dnnnevirke, suddenly dived through a carriage window,. The escorting constable grabbed him, but was left with only the patient’s coal. The irain was stopped for the constable to dismount and after a search ho found his man hiding in the scrub. Except for a few scratches, lie was unharmed. A passing motorist conveyed the constable and patient to Olaki, whence the patient was safely escorted to the asylum.

Tlic <h->ire ri|’ many English school teachers In o})inin positions jn tlip Dominions :unl colonies was mentioned recently by Mr W. McCoy, Director of Education for South Australia, who is a through passenger lor Australia by the K.M.S. Makura after attending the Imperial Conference in London. Mr McCoy engaged 70 teachers for service under his .Government, and lie speaks of them as being of the best- type and well certificated. There seemed to him to lie a large -surplus of teachers in England and in calling applicalions for the positions open in his State, he received applications from over 300 persons, including women. However, he was authorised to take only single men. The question of more equitable distribution of wages, to confer greater benefits upon the man with a family and other responsibilities, was discussed at length by the conference of New Zealand Associated Chambers of Commerce, now sitting in Auckland. The subject was introduced in a remit by Auckland that in view of the fact that the statutory minimum wage was based upon the assumed requirements of married men with two children and other dependents, and that the responsibilities of threefourths of wage-earners were admittedly less than the scale adopted was designed to meet, Parliament or the Arbitration Court be urged to consider the possibility of relieving the community from the burden of such over-payment, thereby leaving a margin wherewith to provide assistance for those with larger families. Th.e remit was eventully curried.

“The London “Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent stales that the Baron and Baroness Do Montigny, who belonged to the old aristocracy, committed suicide together by blowing out their brains on the grave of their only son, who was killed in the war in 1918, and was buried at Choisv-au-Bae.

Janmna, Auckland's baby elephant, oil Thursday added another chapter to her many “pranks” this lime by biting off the top of the fourth finger of the right hand of her mahout, Ali. Jamuna, having finished joy-riding for the afternoon at the Zoo (states “The Post” Auckland correspondent), was having her daily plunge, when Ali, pieking nj) a peanut, gave it to his charge. She opened her mouth and closed it on poor All’s hand as well as the peanut, so that when Ali withdrew it the finger-lop was gone. The injury, however, is not serious, Ali being si Lie to attend to his duties :,s usual.

The interest some country school teachers take‘in their pupils was shown by a conversation which took place in a railway carriage south of Franklon recently between two farmers’ wives, who were dismissing the merits of the respective lady teachers iii their localities (stales the Auckland “Star”). One remarked that their teacher had become so interested in her boy pupils that she had learnt the rules of football so that she could act as referee for them when they played football and had acquitted herself well at the job. “Oh that’s nothing,” said the other, “onr lady teacher has learnt all the rules of boxing, so that she could teach the boys how to box and make them proficient in the art of self-defence.”

The modern theory of earthquakes, says the “Daily Mail,” is that they arc due to shrinkage in the earth’s crust, which grows smaller ns it contracts on cooling. In some cases, the shrinkage takes place at a great depth, and the disturbance may he almost explosive in its violence, affecting a large area. From causes which arc not yet clear, great earthquakes are usually accompanied by strange electrical and atmospheric phenomena. They are generally preceded by a period of stillness and intense heat, as before a great thunderstorm. Then comes a rush of wind, which may he of cyclonic intensity, accompanied by grinding noises and a sound like that of thunder deep in the earth. Before the actual shocks become perceptible, the animal world shows signs of distress and terror. The shocks rise to a maximum and then diminish, hut sometimes weeks pass before the area over which shrinkage is taking place ceases to tremble.