Manawatu Herald TUESDAY NOVEMBER, 4th, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2806, 4 November 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY NOVEMBER, 4th, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev. 0. Y. Woodward conducted the services at All Saints’ Church on Sunday and preached to !a l'e-e cougrega ti<»iis. Local people who had to visit Shannon yesterday were compelled to travel via Kongo tea and Palmerston N., a distance of about 55 miles. Train communication between Buxton and Palmerston N. was resumed this morning. The damage to the permanent way was repaired yesterday. The Minister of Immigration provides for £51)0 on the immigration estinn-ties .for passages and other expenses for immigrants returned its undesirable. The Rev. E. McDonald is still conlined to his hed. it is anticipated that he will have to recuperate for several weeks before again taking up his ministerial duties. it is anticipated that it will he several weeks before a new span is erected to replace the one washed away at the Shannon Bridge by the recent tlood. In the meantime considerable inconvenience will be caused to settlers who desire communication with Shannon.

A trial supply of the current from Mangahao was sent through Boxton on Saturday night. The street and shop illuminations were very favourably commented upon. The permanent supply came through yesterday and is much appreciated by consumers. The West End School Committee decided last night to forward a letter of appreciation to Miss D. Browning for her assistance to the children both in the class and in the sporting sphere of the school. Miss Browning was recently transferred to the local State School.

Elsie May Lane, the girl who wa.s reported to have disappeared from the Supreme Court at Auckland, on Wednesday, called at ML Eden gaol yesterday and stated that she had been safely housed by the Salvation Army. She was to have been an important witness in a criminal case from Waihi, but her evidence was unnecessary, as the accused man pleaded guilty.

The funeral of I lie lute Mr Flei(dier (liibitcs took place on Sunday. The Rev. W. 11. Walton conducted the services at the home, All Saints’ C'hvm-li and graveside. Bv Ibis morning's fra in 21 trucks of hemp were railed in Wellington, pari of a consignment of 40 trucks. The balance will go through tomorrow. The Prince of Wales' arrived at Southampton aboard tin- Olympic, from America on Saturday, lie sent a message to the press, saying be had had a wonderful holiday, but v.as glad |o get home again. He paid :i tribute to American and Canadian hospitably. Owing to the damage to the Shannon Bridge and the Hood waters covering the Levin road, suppliers from M out on to the Shannon Dairy Co. had to setjd their cream per motor lorries, via Rongotea and Palmerston X. to the Shannon factory. Special arrangements fire being made by (lie Shannon Eactory to feirv the cream supplies over the river at. Moutoa as soon as the flood subsides. A cablegram recently announced the success of surgical- Ireatment by which a New Zealander in Philadelphia bad a button tvmovod from his lungs. An operation of a similar nature., it Ims since been learned, was reently performed at the Napier Hospital (says the Telegraph) when a Napier doctor removed a piece of crayon from a child’s lung, a remarkable achievement.

Apologising for tfie use of slang, a New Yorker says in a letter-to a Hamiltonian: “You know here in the United States we don’t speak English —we wouldn’t be understood! The scholars talk and write about the evils of slang—how it is destroying, twisting, deforming the beauty of our language: but the flappers and youth of the other sex keep on inventing new words every minute! Ain’t it the cal’s whiskers !” “The ragwort menace, which created much concern in the King Country some eighteen months ago, is now dying out,’’ writes a le Kuiti correspondent. “Last summer this pernicious weed, which was to he seen in every part of the district, jvas attacked by a grub, which worked its wav through the pith of the plant and destroyed its vitality. So far this season there seems to he scarcely any growth of ragwori.” “If the New Zealander of the future is to lie a good citizen, physically and morally, we must introduce something of the Spartan idcals into our national life. If wo do noi we shall lea\Vio posterity no -glory that was New Zealand, but instead the rusted remains of motor cars and concrete buildings—unsightly for the most part- -as relics of a civilisation based on greediness and indulgence.” With the above words. Dr. A. Clark, schools medical officer, concluded bis report to tlie Hawke’s Bay Education Board, wherein lie referred to the excessive eating on the part of school children.