Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2710, 20 March 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Prime Minister slates ihat the State Advances Department

must slow down until the present aiTears have been overtaken.

The first New Zealand Royal Show will he held at Palmerston N. this year on November 4th, nth and fith.

A dance in aid of the Mouloa Football Club will he held-, in the Moutoa Hall to-morrow night.

Several racing ears passed through Foxton on Tuesday, making north, and evidently on their way to the Muriwai races, to he held on Saturdav.

The first poll of Rotorua ratepayers held on the proposal to borrow £30.000 for street improvement was carried by 34b votes to 30. 'flic number on the roll is 1387.

The blight Ihat i< ravaging the. blue gum plantations in the Waipukurau district i> attacking the native bush in 'Wanganui, the ngaio being parteularly susceptible to it, savs the “Press.”

For disfiguring the Palmerston N. footpaths, as a means of advertising a function, a Salvation Army officer was fined £2 and costs at the Palmerston X. S.M. Court on Monday.

“The biggest curse against the worship of Hod is the motor car.” That: (says the “Sun") was the statement by Mr <!. Sheat, which caused a flutter at the Christchurch Methodist Conference. Mr Sheaf said that the church had to face the fact that church attendance had decreased and that was largely owing to the motor car. Those who would otherwise go to church went for motor drives into the country on Sundays,

Xcw Plymouth people it re Mocked by the death of Miss Lillian May Whittle. She was fhe successful candidate in the recent <|uecn carnival and her friends were looking: forward to the crowning: ceremony. She caught a chill, which was I allowed by nn attack of pleurisy. She rallied a little last Thursday morning, hut died in the afternoon. She was only twenty years of age and was exceedingly popular. Her death lias created wide-spread gloom.

A luminous body was seen m the south-west part of the heavens on Saturday night, ami appeared to the observers to lie a cross between a comet and a shooting star (says the Auckland “Star”). A party of visitors at Blockhouse Hay saw the phenomenon about 10 o clock. It was travelling rapidly in a smiilierlv direction through the sky, which was dear at the time, ami its tail of a dull red colour, trailed ncross the heaven.-. Those who saw it suv that flic comet-like stranger was visible for fully a miimlc. The following are a few of the interesting statistics that appear in the last annual report of the British and foreign Bible Society. During the year the society issued 8,(579,384 copies of the Scriptures, comprising 881i,31S Bible-, 1 ,()(>;>,- 9(5(5 New Testaments, and fi.727,1hh smaller portions containing not less than one complete honk of Scripture. Toward- I lie cosl i>J' Irunslating, printing and distributing: this vast quantity of hooks the -um of C3(i(i,ooo was raised, including about £140.000 from the -ale of copies of the Scriptures, and £220,000 from free contributions. Mr I*. J. Mails is on a brief visit to his daughter, .Mr- Cowley. Mr Muirs who has been connected with the Methodist ministry for upwards of 25 years, part of which lime he spent in charge of the Paxton circuit, retires next month. Of late he Im.s been in charge of the Paraparaunni circuit and it is his intention to take up his permanent residence there. During his residence in Poston, Mr Muirs was md only a faithful and devoted servant of his church, hut lie look a keen interest in the welfare of Po.vloa and its people and was esteemed by all classes of the community who will wish him every happiness and prosperity in his retirement, whch however, will not menu a cessation from activities in other directions.

The quarterly meeting of the Fire Heard will he held on Friday afternoon. it has been decided to send a haka team and a team of poi dancers to the Empire Exhibition. In acclimatisation circles there is considerable interest in regard to .the prospect of quinnnt salmon making a run in the Wanganui and adjacent rivers. Recently at the mouth of the Rangitikei river quinnat salmon could be seen playing ahout, and it is believed the fish have also entered the Wanganui, although definite proof on that point is being eagerly awaited.

The British authorties have been for some time in possession ( >f a contrivance similar to a German one for putting out of action the magnetos of aeroplane engines by wireless. Experiments have been conducted with this contrivance and it lias now been ascertained that by providing for- the insulation of magnetos its effect can lie counterbalanced. In the near future when British aeroplanes have been fitted with the insulation their engines will he proof against the German rays.

It was in a town twice the si/.c of Elthnm, says the “Argus.” A motor car agent had been trying hard to sell a car to a printer but was unsuccessful, the printer purchasing a car in an adjoining townTiic motor man was angry and berated the printer for “sending his money out of the town." Then the printer got in. “I purchased my car at because you always get your printing done in Wellington; I have as much right to send my monex out of town as you have. When you set the example of patronising tradesmen in your own town you may profit by it.”

At Tuesday's meeting of the Horowhenua Power Board, the chairman (Mr Monk) took exception to the Mayor of Otaki putting words into his mouth when he stated that he (the chairman) had promised that Otaki would be the first place in the district to receive power. What he had said was that lie was on his honour to see that. Otaki was not behind the other townships in the district in receiving eletri'-ity He had meant by this that the power over the whole district would be turned on at the same moment and to this statement he held. He objected however, to having statements which he had never made, fostered on to him.

What is believed to he an Australian hardwood borer was discovered by a railway employee in a truck containing hardwood piles, at the Palmerston N. station yards, says the “Manawatu Standard.” The specimen found is of the moth species. The body is about four inches long and about an inch thick, and the wings from tip to tip span, roughly, six inches. The moth is believed to lay eggs which hatch out into the borer grub which feeds on the pole finally emerging from the chrylis stage to a full grown moth. The cavity in the pole from which the specimen was removed, was large enough to allow of a man’s thumb to tie inserted. The moth, which was placed in a glass-covered box bv its captor, is now awaiting identification.

A compliment, unique in its character, lias been paid to Mr Massey bv a Belfast firm of manufacturing warehousemen (Messrs Robertson, Ledlie, Ferguson and Co.) who have issued on line art paper, a calendar in folder form illustrated with views of Ulster and also depicting Mr Massey’s Ulster visit in a series of eight views, three of which are of Limavady, the New Zealand Premier’s birthplace, including the school where he received his earlier education. The inner almanac sheet carries a descriptive account r.f Belfast together with nine views of the city. The outer sheet comprises four pages descriptive of “Premier Massey’s Ulster Visit,’’ tln> leading features of which are covered in an interesting letterpress summary, illustrated by the eight views already referred to. The outer page carries Mr Massey’s portrait with the inscription underneath “Our Mr Massey will be with you soon." and printed statement that “Speaking at the Ulster Reform Club luncheon the Right Ihm. Mr 11. M. Pollock referred to Mr Massey as the greatest commercial traveller in the Mrilish Umpire, one who believed in pushing Umpire goods for Umpre consumption: trade within the Umpire,” The alumnae forms an exceptionally interesting souvenir of Mr Massey's second visit to his native countrv,