NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2773, 19 August 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Recently, a Chinaman applied for entrance to (ho Carpenters’ Union in Dunedin, but lias not yet been <>flir-ially received. The applicant bails, from Burma, and has references of which any New Zealander might lie proud. A i\fn start on fire brigadesma n a few days ago aeensted a lady in Queen street and pointed nut ihar !.er umbrella, which she was carrying rdosed, was burning. Evidently some careless smoker had dropped a cigarette butt into it.

\\lhore do these remits go to when they are carried by the Dominion Conference?" asked a mem-

ber of the Whim rn pa Provincial Executive Farmers’ Union. The sec-

retary reported that they were referred to the respective departments of the State and reported on. "And kept steadily in view." rejoined a member.

There has been quite a run of whitebait in the Crey River lately. ••There are ldO.Odfi children in New Zealand of school aye who are not mi the roll of any Sunday school," said the Rev. A. T. Thompson ni Maderton. A great army, lie said, was being handicapped at the base of operation.

The Wellington Rugby Union has voted ,C2;> towards entertaining the members of the representative teams playing in the primary schools tournament to he held in Wellington at the end of this month.

“I’m still in the Royal Navy," remarked Lord Jellieoe at a gathering of ex-service men at Christ - church. “My connection with the Xavv goes on till "December Dili next, Fm thankful to say. when the age limit catches me. T will then go on among the sere and yellow. A Nelson resident received the following from a friend who was in Essen ('Germany); "For lunch Pi-daV T ate an apple (with of course, other things), which 1 bought from a mail in the market from fl box with a nice coloured label marked “Nelson.’

“I smoke something like ten eighties a day, and each time 1 take i match from this holder I will be reminded <>f the returned soldiers if Christchurch." said Lord -Telliroo, in acknowledging a presentation of a greenstone match-holder, made to him at the ex-service mens’ farewell.

A unique feature in connection with a recent christening ceremony at Grovef.own (reports the Marlborough was the fact that, live generations were represented, the infant's mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother being present. The baby representing the youngest generation, was Air and Mrs Oswald Freeth’s infant daughter. It is a mistake to regard the British Government at present in power as the first of its kind. There was a real Labour Government in office 270 years ago. during the Commonwealth. One of Cromwell’s councillors was a draper, a second brewer, a third a man servant. A fourth bad been a link hoy who guided pedestrians through the ill-lit streets with his torch, a fifth a pnvuio soldier, a "sixth a carpenter, a seventh a tailor, an eighth a drayman, and a ninth a c-ooper. Cromwell himself was a gentleman farmer, and most of his assistants in the government of the country were drawn from the working das-