Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. MARCH 22, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2711, 22 March 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY. MARCH 22, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mi- Young, tho rot iring Wanganui District Tr.-iHir manager. iii'i'iiiii--1 >: lll i<■<! by Mr .!. <!. Roekerhy, his successor, visited Foxton vestordnv.

Mr IF. Kimiii<>iif 1 . of \\' .- 1ii”;11111i . v, Iki is I<■:i<li l1 *4" fot the little C'li:iiiij>idiishi|>, was relic’. inj>' slationmnsIcr at Fdxtdn <liiring ilic slnlionlnasicr's recent In>li<!a\- leave. Electric 1 i.iirii t ing is to lie installed in all carriage- run mi the .Main Trunk express train-, and material I'nr Dial purpose is lIH\V enining Id ha nil. Mr 11. (). Burlier, v. Ini recently returned In New Zealand from a six months trip In the United Stales, Canada, England and the Cniit imud is spending a lew .lavs with his brothor. Air W. U. Burlier, prior to reluming to Auclcland. The hydro-electric pidc-crecl ill” stall' were busy ‘•reeling poles in Main St. yesterday. The expeditious manner in which the stall carried out their work wu- favourably commented upon by interested groups of spectators. “He is in arrears -to the extent, of .C-422 10s and In- ha- threepence with which to start paying it," .-mid a senior-sergeant at the Bda-e Court at Pnlmel'sion North when a man was remanded to Christchurch in connection with arrears of ma'itt enanee. Successful (lights have . been made with German folding mo'orless air gliders, weighing SSlhs and costing .Co. Attachable to a cycle the glider ha.- a lmiinspar running front and hack carrying small moveable triangular plane.- tor steering, two wings giving support. Side bv side in bed- 111 one ol the wards at the Wanganui Hospital arc two veterans, both well past the a Hot ed three -core and leu vrars. Both were born in the same street in London and although they went different way- in their lives, t lie v are once more re auiied. and pass the long hour- In recounting incident- of their youth. “I know of one Chinese umiieslerv where I lie silver ottering'- are melted down to add to tin’ treasure store, which the abbot -aid was a huge lump of silver a- big a- a Chinese house- —and thee are mu small. The wily nature of inis method is slmwn by the tact that Ihe huge amount of -ilver could not be removed by uu enemy. \\ hen the monastery needs money a piece is cliiped or melted oil',” said .Mr M • (). Phillips when speaking on Chinn at Palmerston North la-1 week,

Mr 0. O. Harbor -bowed us u million murk null* which In* Imi! bought while visiting < J<• i’ill;in\* I’m' 1 S. The* pre-war vuliii* of tlir nuti* would be ,tT)(l,000.00(1. Si ji riu”■ a- tin* figures appear, those mi a liniehemi bill which tin- visitor brought buck as a souvenir are more ama/.ing. The ilociuiienl shows llml ihe charge was 1(2.750,000,0(1(1 marks, then equal to only aboul 2 It in Knglisli currency. In I h<* presence ot a very la rye assembly ol' mourners, .Miss Lilian May Whil tie, queen-elect of Ibe Pnkektiru Park queen carnivai. was buried at Te Henui Cemelary, says a New Plymouth paper. The funeral cortege contained representatives <>f all the sport iny and other bodies with which Mr. K. Whittle (he young queen's lather, is associated, and also a full attendance of those who had been working will' Miss Whittle and the other queen Candida les in the carnival. < tut of j (-sped for Miss Whittle, practically all the spoils functions arranged for .Saturday were cancelled. The hotels of New Plymouth also closed their doors during the funeral ceremony.

The Carnival promoted by the Dannovirke A. and P. Association realised .'.'.'127.") in aid of the improvement fund. Miss Evelyn (lieseii won the <|ueen contest.

In tiie (.lisborne Supreme Court, Lawrence Herbert George Gwilliam, for sending a false telegram, Was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within two \ ears. The resignation of Mr. D. M. Low head teacher of the College Street School at Palmerston North, was accepted by tin* Education Board with regret, and a general tribute was paid to his long and faithful work as an educationist. Mr Low commenced ns a pupil teacher at the Maverlcy School, over 4U years ago.

.Messrs .). A. Na-li. .1. Liuklalcr, K. \Y. Dalrymple, and S. R. Lancaster were appointed delegates from the Manawntu A. and P. Association to the Conference of the Council of Agriculture, and Messrs Nash and M. A. Conway, delegates to the conference of tin- North island Agricultural and Pastoral Associations on -tune Ittth.

"Napier has the dirtiest streets of any town 1 have seen in New Zeaand." was the remark passed by a visitor to Napier to a Telegraph reporter. "Paper and other rubbish mn v he -een in the gutters and on the roads. Your town i- very pretty and your streets are well formed and it should m>l be a difficult mailer lo keep them clean," he concluded.

[l i- understood Dial a native named Rikiana, who al one time had a cycle business in Te Kttili. i- now on the high road to fortune through the invention of an electrical device for the detection of -lips on railways. Rikiana’s clever invention is the outcome of the railway Iradgedy at Ongarue last year, wlieli led him lo experiment until sueees.- has crowned his ef-

"Reader" writes to the Wellington Po-t: "A correspondent in your last issue, referring to pronunciation nt Newtown, should come into the city and hear school children inquiring for ‘Gographics. ‘Na tlase-.’ ‘Cylopiders,’ and ‘dorin’ Boogs." lie might also hear grown up- talking about ‘l-’elmary,’ “Libm v.' ‘Libnrian,' ‘Secelary,' etc. I*o.-sil.dv, as a city Father recently observed, it is the more popular way of talking."

Tlie usual united meeting for intercession was held in the Presbvlcrinn Church on Tuesday evening last. The Rev. U. McDonald conducted the meeting, and an address from Psalm 84. v. 11 was gives l>v Captain Stevenson of the Salvaliou Army, and several persons engaged in prayer. The meeting on Tuesday next will he held in the Methodist Church, conducted by Rex. .;. Boothroyd, and the Rev. F. McDonald will give the address.

An old man of 72 years, Walter Edwin Pill, was reported to have been missing since Friday last from a rc-idenee in W"elleslv St., Auckland. and fears were entertained for his safety. Yesterday Die Palmerston X. police informed a pressman that the missing man is at present mi inmate of the Palmerston X. Hospital. Mr Pitt is a resident of Dunedin and was on a visit lo Auckland when he disnppeavod. The Dunedin police have been com municnied with.

It. is reported that the Maori leader, Ratana. accompanied by a pnrtv of do other natives, intends to leave for the British Empire Exhibition, sailing from Wellington on April lltli for Sydney, en route for England. It is understood that there is opposition in some native ip.arler.- to Bt,tana's proposed visit, and lo contributions from North Is ■ land natives being devoted to tin purpose. Mr Pita Moko, Raianas secretary, was in Wellington last week making the arrangements for the trip.

A scheme that eanic to nothing was referred to al a meeting of Die Wanganui Education Board on Wednesday. Some time ago an Auckland tirin offered to supply free exercise hook.- which were lo conluin :i certain aneuini of approved advertising mailer. The hoard gladly accepted the offer when

A wa.- made. "You ought to have known better" -aid Mr. Hemingway v. hen it wa- intimated that the scheme had fallen through. "Some of the schools got the hooks ’ -aid the scerelarv. "As -ensible

min you should have seen that it was an impossible business" replied Air. Hemingway.

.Mr Wi11.,,,. 1 ';t r,-i until, writes 1,, i in- <)l:iki .Mail : "While musleisheep farm. Miiungiik.it - uktit ukii Y’alley, I’arapanmmu. we; had I lie novel experience nf bringiue a wild pig into the yards among the sheep. Tile pig- had been not - jeed for some days before tallowing the sheep for company, and when mustered in paddock for dipping purposes he refused to be separated from his woolly companions. Keeping well among the mob hi came a distance of between two or three miles to the yards, eattsing us a deal of trouble as some of the dogs were as well tip in piglitmlittg it- sheep work and could hardly keep from slicking him up, whilst the sheep kept mistaking him for a dog and scattered from him. However, right to the yards he eame and yarded up among the sheep as if it was quite the usual thing for him to do. lie showed m> great concent at the strange surroundings on nearing the homestead, and took it hath in a spring as lit; came along. Bather unfurl--lumtely lie could not he kept, and was not wanted running at large so had to he destroyed, - ’

Farewell Spit, a strip of sand, 12 miles long and half a mile wide, which has gradually silted up from the sen, is to he oeered by the Government for occupation lease. H has for some time been temporarily held for grazing carrying about 7(1 head of cattle. Interesting plans for binding Die sand and for al't'oreslating the spit have been made Leaving out the reserve on the extreme headland, where the lighthouse is, there are 4897 acres which are offered at an upset unuttal rental. It shall he compulsory for the successful applicant to plant annually uu area of not less than ti*n acres with marram or other sand-binding grass or clover, and lo acres with lupin, to he fenced off and protected from stock. There is no permanent water, but. there are numerous pools in the hollow.-.

In a motor car the other day (writes a correspondent of the Stratford Post) two men in the front seat were telling the experiences in tin* United States of America. Each related hi- travels by laud and -en, and in different towns and steamers. One told about n certain big steamer that was overrun by rats. He said that the ves -el was stripped 1 and nil available places where rats could get were laid open. Later a large number of cats were let loose oil hoard, and not very long after it was discovered that the whole of the cats placed on board were dead. A roar of laughter rang out from the buck scat passenger.- who had been listening- and the story-teller turned round to them and said: “You may laugh Iml It is true.” A devout professor in the United States had the reputation of interpreting Scripture with literal exact ilude. If it was in Holy Writ, I him it was so. That was his simple rule, explained Dr. U. P. Emerson. of Boston, nt the Auckland Rotary Club’s luncheon on Monday (stales the "New Zealand Herald”). Some students tested the professor almost to the point of doubt. They pasted together sonic printed quotations from the Bible, which were made to read as a continuous narrative. The story was that Moses took unto himself a wife made of gopher wood. 20(1 cubits in length, AO cubits in breadth, and 20 cubits in height, and pitched within and without with pitch. This rather disconcerted the prolessor. but niter momentary reflection, he said: “It just shows that we are fearfully and wonderfnHv made.”