Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2910, 16 July 1925, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A heavy fog enveloped Foxlmi and district yesterday morning. The conference of local bodies, to discuss matters in connection with llu* Shannon Bridge, to have been held at the bridge yesterday, was postponed until Wednesday afternoon next.

Colds wore prevalent among the Councillors at Almidtu night’s meeting, hut the Mayor thoughtfully provided a large bag of ‘•cough drops" which were distributed aliiong the City Fathers.

A very pretty wedding was Solemnised in the Methodist Church last Tuesday, the contracting parlies being Mr William Signal. ;jnr., ami Miss C. llmuue. A full report will appear in our next issue.

The engagement is announced of •Joyce, youngest daughter of Airs •). I. Fox, Aorangi, I'eilding, and the In I o Walter Robinson, “Herrington," Foxion, and Ceorge, only son of Mr and Mrs 0. .Mareliant, St rent ha in Hill, London.

Still further drastic ••cuts" have been made on millinery at The ('. M. Ross Coy’s. All that remains of their models are to be cleared at just two prices, Ins (id and ills, special sale price-,. Assuredly this presents the opportunity "of the season. Sec island window.—Advt.

The Presbyterian Ladies' Social Guild held their usual monthly meeting in the Sunday schoolroom on Wednesday afternoon, July Slit. There was a record attendance of thirty-four ladies and seven or eight children, and a most enjoyable time was spent by everyone present.

A. fascinating midnight recreation known as “stiowdropping" is reported to he popular in some quarters just now, more than one Foxton resident having cause to lament the disappearance of clothes left on lines over night. The “snowdropping’’ artist has excellent taste, selecting the best of the linen I'r'om the lines, and leaving that which is not quite up to standard. Housewives will be wise to observe caution in leaving dollies out niter dark.

For the fourth lime the Christchurch City Council has refused to grant a. site in Cathedral .Square for a war memorial column, to erect which the people have subscribed I'fi.OOll. Councillors criticised the persistency of the memorial committee in adhering to the one proposed site after the council had held Unit the congestion of the square made it impracticable and sonic even said that the design of the column was "agres-ivcly pagan" and “harsh, hard and aggressive." One of the greatest obstacles the film producers had to contend with was censorship, not censorship as New Zealanders knew if, but im possible conditions imposed by oilier countries, Mr C. Sheehan, a visitor from America told the Wellington Rotary Club. In Java one was not allowed to -bow a film in which there was any suggestion of a riot. In .Mexico, if the Spaniard was not shown in the best light, then the Government-told them that they did not want the production. A peculiar criticism had al>o risen in ,(apart in connection with Dante's “Inferno," in which it was pointed out that there were no Japanese to he seen in [lell.

On Saturday niglit. at Wellington the New Zealand h’ailway Olliecrs' ln.sliluic made a jprescnta I ion to Mr i{. \V. McYilly, laii' (leneral Manager of the .New Zealand Railways, Referring to his critics, .Mr Mc- \ illy said: —“.I do not mind being criticised for liio things 1 have been aide to do, but have not done, but when one is kicked, lied about and slandered for what one has not been able in do by those who have prevented him that is when it hurts. 1 have always had the courage to do the right, thing when permitted and have tried to meet the staff squarely and fairly and hold the scales with equal poise. 1 regret to say that 1 have on occasions had to refuse requests which I have not been permitted to grant."

When felling lmsli near Kinohakti recently (states the Kawhia Settler) a party of Imshmen, in the course of their work, stripped away a screen of tangled scrub, disclosing a limestone cave of some size. Examination of the interior revealed the presence of a number of old-time .Maori skeletons, presumably placed there many years before the advent of the white man.

During the last Hood three of the pontoons made to support the pipe line to carry spoil from the dredge “Heiinessy" to the shore, stacked up at the jetty at the beach, were swept away and carried out to sea. The Marine Department was immediately notified of the fact as it was thought the rafts would constitute a danger to shipping. The secretary of the Harbour Board has now received word, however, that the pontoons are on the Uokio Beach.

A let ier was posted in Bunnyihorpe in April, 191>7, and reached its destination in Levin on July lOlh, 1 1)25. This long delay in deliver! was due to the envelope becoming. lodged ill a crevice ot the posting box at Buimylhorpe. The addressee was “Miss O. (1. Saint, <'llian, and her astonishment was the more complete on receiving the 18-vear-old letter since the postal officials had to seek her under her married name' (Mrs <S. Ralston, jun.) (says the ('hronielej. Except for a slight fading in the colour of the stump, the letter was in perfect condition.

Although..a considerable quantity of timber is still being imported into I lie Dominion, there appea rs to have been a slight falling off during May, as compared with the previous month. During May the imports included 727,715 feet of Oregon pine, 580,938 feet of cedar and 1,(578,150 feet in round and undressed poles, all timbers representing sawn and rough timber amounting to 4,203,000 feet, as compared with 0,583,585 feel for the previous month. Export of New Zealand timber was 3,035,1.100 feet of which 2,183,811 feet were white pine and 513,594 rough sawn kauri.

General regulations have been gazetted for the protection of life and property in ships. These provide that every harbour hoard shall supply and keep readily assembled on every wharf which is under its eonliol, and on, or from which cargo is loaded or shipped, a stretcher for use in case of accident in the hold or holds, of any ship berthed thereat. The stretcher shall be constructed tu the specification of St. John's Ambulance Society, and provided with -lings so as to enable it to be safely lifted from the ship's hold 1)v the ship's nr shore, lifting gear, and no injured person shall be lifted bv any nther means.