Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2764, 29 July 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“At the end of the year there were in force .44 junior and 13 senior scholarships of a total annual value of £835,” states the annual report of the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board.

London has become a cit y of talk. Eight conferences, seven banquets and several lectures and political meetings were held one night recently. It is estimated that there was a total of (i(j hiiurs’ talk, sufficient to fill 390 columns of the “Daily Mail.”

“Is there any boy in all tin l world who knows enough to wash behind his ears,” said .MV.- l.eyoa in the course of a lecture at Dunedin. “And Mien are as had," -he added, “for I have known plenty of women to complain that they have to inspect their husbands* necks.”

Michael Whelan, a married man, aged 45. was admitted to the Taumarunni hospital with a fractured spine on Sunday. While travelling on a trolley at the rear of a goods train while ascending the spiral at Raurinm, lie 10-t his balance and fell, being -truck by the axle in the small of the back.

The' Oha■’)<•!lenlmrg Sports Gluli has invited tlic foremost Olympians to compete at its August meeting, paying all expenses. Porritt lias accepted. The London ‘‘Evening Standard" say.- that E. IT. .Porritt's (New Zealand) achievements stamp him as one of the world's host three sprinters. n

Owing to lack of accommodation (here will he two sittings at tonight's complimentary dinner to the visiting Chinese University students soccer team at Whyte’s Hotel. The team and residents are (lie guests of the local Chinese. Mr T. Winstanlev, president of the Manawatu Association Union, will preside at (he function.

At a meeting of committee of the Fox ton Bowling Cluh it was derided to carry out the expressed wish of the last annual general meeting of members, and hold a dance in the Town Hall on Tuesday, August 12th. The date as previously announced, has been altered to the foregoing on account of the absence of a number of young men of the district at Trentham Camp, as from to-day.

Several complaints have reached the Wanganui Chronicle concerning potty thieving from graves in the Wanganui cemeteries. In one case a family plot was stripped of a number of vases which relatives were in the habit of regularly refilling with (lowers. At the Aramoho Cemetery a woman was seen taking ribbons from wreaths. The informant states that when a bystander ventured to voice a remonstrance the woman coolly retorted: “I’ve a family, of four or live girls to provide hair ribbon for and this suits me heller than buying it.'’ Dr. Charles U. Mayo, the noted American surgeon, made the following statement recently in the course of an interview at New York: “New Zealand has the linest race of men in the world to-day, physically and menially. They have been drawn mainly from British stock and the immigration system is highly selective. The New Zealanders live out of doors to a great extent and their lives have few artificial ■elements. They are-strong and healthy, clean of mind and body, and far outrank their progenitors in the British Isles.”

The annual report of the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board states that voluntary contributions received during the year totalled £2,301 13/(5, an increase of £570 over the previous year. The main purposes of the contributions were the improvement of buildings and ground-, the purchase of pictures and special equipment, and the establishment and enlargement' of school libraries.

“During the past year," -tales (be annual report of the chairman ~f the Wanganui Education Board, “new school- were opened at Marton Junction and Monknliu. The Eaten -ebon] was re-established as a dist riel high school. A special school ai the Wanganui Uublie Hospital was opened. The schools at ICawautalii Road, Maramaratotara, Matahiwi, Pungafana. Waipnru, Tlihilahi. aud Groflon and Ornfton Side were closed during the year.” The chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, Mr \Y. A. Collins, in hi- annual report, staled that new schools were erected at Hokowhitu, Minton Junction and Rapanui. At Sanson the school was dismantled and re-erected on modern lines. The Tuntkina School was replaced by a new building. At Kiwi tea the building was remodelled. A manual training building was erected at Palmerston North out of materials from the old Campbell Street school.

The will of the late Mr William Taylor, who died in Dunedin recently. has been lodged for probate. In addition to several family bequests tbe deceased has made the following public bequests: The Presbyterian Orphanage at Dunedin £IOO, Ross Home £IOO, St. Andrews Church Mission funds £IOO, St. Andrew’s Church Bible School, £SO; the Sailor’s Rest, £SO; and the Patients and Prisoners’ Aid Society, £SO. All these bequests arc subject to a life interest in the estate.

The death took place at Palmerston X. on Saturday of Mr Owen Haycock, aged 79 years. Deceased was born at Spring Cove, Nelson, in 1845. He moved to the North Island about 45 years ago, residing in the Wairarapa and later in Palmerston N. He is survived by his widow, three daughters and two sons. They are: Mrs F. W. Plummer (Tasmania), Mrs E. C. Gillanders (P.N.), and Miss S. Haycock (P.N.) and Messrs T. 0. Haycock (Martinborough) and S. L. Haycock (Rotorua).

The unenviable life of the eomniereial traveller in Xew Zealand in winter time was aptly epitomised by Captain It. C. Hammond, manager of the Northern Steamship Company, at the annual dinner of the Auckland Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen’s Association on Saturday evening. “The commercial traveller,” he said, “lives practically in a suitcase, he is up to his knees in mud, he travels where lie can and puts up with I Invery worst of accommodation. In fad, his life is worse than a sailor's." The speaker (states the X.Z. Herald) paid a high tribute to the unselfishness of the commercial traveller in organising benefit entertainments, particularly it! the country districts. As .J. Wakeman, a mail contractor, of Pahiatua, was passing Mr 1{ Knox's residence oil Opaki road oil Wednesday 1a.4, with six passengers in his ear, ho collided with a gig being driven in the same direction by Mr •). Daly. The gig was badly smashed. After the collision the ear swerved into a concrete telegraph pole, which was snapped, the.ear also living damaged. Mr Daly's horse careered away towards Ma.stert.on, with portions of I lie gig attached, while an old man.' iu the adjoining paddock fell dead of fright. None of! the occupants of the ear were hurt, nor was Mr Daly, whose escape was very lucky.

According to the annual report of the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, the number of adult teacher,s <>u the stall at the end of the .year, excluding 20 relieving teachers, was 433, of whom 114 were uueertiticated, seventeen of the tmeertiticated teachers were in charge of grade 0 schools, 35 in charge of grade 1 schools, 14 in charge of grade 2 schools and 1 in charge of a grade 3a school. Forty-seven were assistant, a large proportion being located in country schools. The number of uncertilicafed was 12 less than at the end of 1922. There were 27 male and 25 female pupil teachers, and 15 male and 41 female probationers, totalling in all 108 on the stall's. Compared with the previous year, the number of mules shows an increase of 12 and the females an increase of 2. The majority of the applicants for appointment were well prepared educationally and of a good type physically. In the days of Auld Lang Syne a N.Z. grown tobacco made its appearance on the market but failed to get a hold on the smoking public. The leaf was alright, but there was something out. A much more recent attempt to solve the problem resulted in the production of the National Tobacco Co.'s brands, now (irmly established in the favour of the smokers. The secret of this success is said to be due to the new toasting process which the manufacturers are now applying to their tobacco and which has resulted in a most remarkable improvement in the smoking quality. The dill'or once between the toasted and the liontoasted product, is as wide as a

cooked potato differs in taste from a raw potato. Any smoker can easily convince himself by trying just a few pipes of any of the following brands; Riverhead Gold, very mild; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) of medium strength and Cut Plug No. 10 for those who prefer a full body. 9.

Xiuotoen local Territorials left by train this morning for Trentham where they will undergo a period of t raining.

There were in Prance last year 7(11,8(51 births and 66(5,fifiO deaths. The births were 20.15 and the deaths 22,277 highdf than in 1022. The local school committee desire In acknowledge the sum of J.'tl (>/•-, the percentage of proceeds from lhe recent pantomime organised by .Mr Le.-der Sinclair and Miss l.a Fra nee.

At last night’s school committee meeting the acting headmaster's ite-t-1■ ii in refusing to allow pupils to absent themselves during school hours to attend entertainment practices wits nnanimoii-dy upheld.

The visiting Chinese University Miceor team who arrived from Palmerston N. this afternoon by motor cars were met at Sorenson’s corner l#v 1o«*nl oil izens un<i t o the Borough Council Cham., where they were accorded a civic welcome by the Mayor. They then proceeded to the local State school which they inspected and subsequently got an insight into the flaxmilling industry at Messrs Ross, Rough and Co.’s mill. Afternoon tea was dispensed at Mr Raikes’ poultry farm at Oroua Downs. The visitors return to Palmerston X. this evening where they will be entertained at 8 o’clock.

The solidity of the newspaper press of Dunedin was perhaps never better exemplified in a practical form Ilian when the mail van attached to the 5.10 a.m. goods train from Dunedin to Balclutha on July 15 was partially derailed. The mishap occurred a little while after the train left Allanton but the train kept on its way until it reached Henley, where it was found that by some means the van had practically left the rails and caused some damage t<> the sleepers. An investigation showed that the trouble bad arisen through a bundle of newspapers which had been thrown out at Allanton, and which, instead of falling on the platform, had struck tlie rail, forming a skid and eventually lifting the wheel off the rail. The bundle contained a large number of copies of the Otago Daily Times.

During her remarks on “Citizenship," in Burns Ilall, Dunedin, on Tuesday evening last, Mrs Beyea mentioned that not many old ladies were seen nowadays. “When I am walking behind a woman I cannot tell whether she is 1(1 or (JO,” she said. “It is also possible now to buy eyelashes by the yard, snip iliem into pieces and paste them on. They can tic any colour too. Somelioilv told me onee.” she continued, “1 hat there was no difference between the modern flapper and the Caster egg. for they were both hand painted on the outside and hard boiled inside." (Laughter). The speaker added that she could pieluro i|iii(e a number of girls in the audience saying: “Now. isn’t she the old wowser." but she bad learnt by experience that if a red nose was .subjected to white powder a lavender effect was produced. A paragraph which appeared in Autocar last week, regarding Xew Zealand roads is amusing, if not accurate (writes the London correspondent of the Otago Daily ’limes). Dr Cera Id Russell describes a journey by road from Wellington to Auckland. In one section of the route, lie says, great holes and lumps abound everywhere. Time after time it was necessary to pull lip dead. He met a. new ear with all the water boiled out of its radiator, due to a slipping belt and I be owner pouring in ginger beer and lemonade, much to the chagrin of a weeping child, whose favourite beverages were thus disappearing. Of another portion of the route he says: “Imagine a clay track for 12 miles up hills with a surface as if dozens of men had deliverately set out with spades to dig holes every yard. In some places the holes were sufficient to capsize any car. There is no room to avoid them. One must stop dead, and drop in and clamber out. In one hole 1 could see nothing by the sky as 1 clambered out, and my wife had to get, out and see whether the next hole was immediately iu front or at the side.”