Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3036, 15 May 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sir James AVilson lias hocii reelected chairman of the Palmerston X. Hospital Board.

A shop day is being held to-day in aid of the funds of the Girl Guides. Good business is reported by those in charge.

The death of Mr. Christopher Smith, principal of tlie firm of C. Smith, Ltd., drapers, occurred yesterday at AVellington.

Mr. “Johnnie” Golder, manufacturing jeweller and watchmaker, is now carrying on business in his own premises. Main St., recently occupied by Mr. Rider, bootmaker. The Borough Council, with commendable promptitude, have tilled in the ruts on the roadway leading into the borough on this side of the railway crossing.

Ernest Taniwha Sutherland, charged with the attempted murder of his wife, appeared before Mr. Page, S.M., at AVellington yesterday, and was further remanded till Mav 21st. '

A demonstration will be given in Main Street this evening between 7 and 8 o’clock of AA T -a tty’s Patent Dimmible Headlights. AH motorists are invited to witness the demonstration.

A lorry-load of furniture crashed through a bridge at Konini on the main road near Pahiatua on Wednesday. The two men on the lorry were not injured. A new bridge is in course of construction near the one which collapsed.

The Palmerston Hospital Board has decided to erect a maternity ward at the hospital, provided the money publicly raised for a St. Helen’s hospital is transferred to the Board. A meeting of subscribers to the fund will be held shortly to discuss the matter.

In the Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday William' Ashdown, for negligent driving causing bodily harm, was sentenced to six months’ hard labour and his license was suspended for two years. The Judge described him as a callous driver.

At the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, Stella Redcliffe, charged with keeping a common gaming house, was convict ed and fined £25 in default one month’s imprisonment. It was stated in evidence that accused was the agent of a prominent book-maker. “It is deplorable that human life should be held so cheap on the road,” Mr. Justice Adams said at Christchurch yesterday when summing up in an accident case. “Persons indulge in liquor, as at least one man did in this case, and then drive cars on the rdad, to the peril of people on it. J do not make the suggestion as applying to the accused. In any case, it is lamentable that the consumption of liquor immediately before men drive a dangerous vehicle such as a motor car should lead to accidents.”

Miss Muriel Mullaney, who has resigned her position on the staff of the local District High School, was entertained yesterday at afternoon tea by her fellow teachers and presented with a beaten p'ewtcr time-piece as a token of the esteem in which she was held. The headmaster (Mr F. A. Mason) in making the presentation, referred to the quiet, conscientious, hard-work Miss Mullaney had put in during tier year’s stay in Foxton and on behalf of her colleagues, wished her success and prosperity. Miss Mullaney suitably replied. Miss Mullaney left for Christchurch to-day.

It is always pleasing to hear of the advancement of young New Zealanders and! in this connection we are pleased to mention the name of Mr John M. Frankland, who last year won honour at Yale University, he having been awarded the Barge Memorial prize for the best sophomore paper in mathematics. The award carries a bronze medal and a 250 dollars cash prize. Mr J. M. Frankland, who is in his 20th year, is a son of Mr Herston Frankland, of New York, and. grandson of the late F. W. Frankland, an eminent actuary. (Both parents and grandparents of the young man have relatives in Foxton and were also well-known and highly esteemed erstwhile residents.

The Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co.’s payout for butterfat supplied during the month of April will be 1/6 per lb. The recent storm was felt very severely in the Marlborough district where’ considerable damage was done throughout the countryside.

At Thursday’s meeting of the Palmerston N. Hospital Board, the Medical Superintendent (Dr. .J. L. Fraser) reported as follows: —In hospital at the end of March: 133, admitted during April 180, dismissed 177, deaths 5, remaining on April 30, 137, average 131. During the month 101 operations were performed.

To-morrow is being observed as Youung People’s Sunday throughout the Methodist churches of New Zealand. Special services will be held at the local church. Mrs Peryman will conduct the morning service, and Rev. S. Peryman the evening. At the latter service Mrs Yeo will render a solo and the choir an anthem.

The first frost of the winter was experienced locally last night. 1 o all appearances at a. late hour last night a heavy frost would be experienced in the morning. Rain fell in the early hours, however, and prevented this. Nevertheless two local residents reported ice on the water outside their residences this morning. Sleeplessness can be cured by painting large imaginary figure 3’s on a large imagined black wall with imaginary brush aild can of white paint (says Dr. Farrow in the Journal of Neurology and Physochology). It is almost impossible to remain awake, says this authority, after three figures have been painted. He usually falls asleep aft r he has linished painting only one or two figures; but, il not, almost invariably after the third one is completed.

Children of the Manchester street (Fcilding) school yesterday, farewelled Mr. P. G. Jacksan, who, after having been for four years headmaster of the school, is leaving for AYanganni. On behalf of the parents and the children, Marjorie Taylor, in some appropriate words, asked Mr. and Mrs Jackson to accept a large cassarole dish in a, beautiful silver frame, to help remind them of their connection with the Manchester street school, and in appreciation of the great care Mr. Jackson had taken of the children. Mr. Jackson expressed himself as deeply grateful for the gift. He regretted leaving this school, where his associations had been so happy, and thanked the teachers, the children and the committee for their kindness to him at all times. Mr. 11. Mclntyre (chairman of the committee) thanked Mr. Jackson for the help he had given on every occasion when the committee needed it. —'Star.