Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL .

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 30504, 29 June 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL .

Mr. F. G. Cray has been unanimously elected 'chairman of the Levin Fire Board.

The Magistrate (Mr. .J. L. Stout) has set aside July 14 as the dale for hearing local bodies, and apportioning fees in connection with heavy traffic licenses. The friends of Air. Duncan Gilbert, of Moutoa, will regret to learn that owing to an old-standing trouble he had to enter the Palmerston Hospital yesterday for medical treatment. We are pleased to state that he is progressing satisfactorily.

Replying to Mr. P. Fraser (Wellington Central) in (he House, the new Minister of Public Works, the Hon. K. S. Williams, stated that 12 Italians were working on Mangahao hydro-electric works. Most of them had been there four years, and no discrimination had been made.

Although influenza of a mild lypo and colds are prevalent in Auckland just now, so far there is nothing aproacliing an epidemic of pneumonic, influenza. During the month to date only six eases of pneumonic influenza have been reported in the Auckland health district,-two in suburbs, and four in South Auckland. The winners of the weight-gues-sing competitions at last Saturday's shop day were as follows: — Dinner, H. Fee, who guessed 1 Oil) 120 z., the exact weight being 10!b 9oz. Cake: exact weight 311). ltloz., Mrs Scadden, Mrs Yeo, and Miss Symes tied for this, each guessing within 2 ounces of the correct weight. The cake was divided up between these three ladies.

Mr. T. F. Marlin, counsel to the Municipal Association of Now Zealand in reply to a request for an opinion in regard to petrol pumps, slates that a Council should not consent to a “container” being placed under a footpath, on the ground of the rule of law that any person who allows any dangerous thing to be brought on his property is absolutely liable for damage caused thereby, whether he has been been guilty of negligence or not.

At the evening service at the Presbyterian church on Sunday, the Rev. P. McDonald stated that he had received a “call” from the Pahialua Presbyterian Church, which had been sustained by the Wairarapu Presbytery and would in due. time be submitted to the Wlanganui Presbytery and to himself for acceptance. He said he had laboured in Foxton for .(he past four years and it had been pointed out to him that there were opportunities for him to build up the Pahiat.ua charge. He was not an old man by any means, he said, and was willing to place his services where they could be of the greatest benefit to the church. In making up his mind, however, he wanted to feel sure that the call was of God and in this connection be asked for the prayers of his congregation. “It should never be forgotten that the kauri tree is perhaps the finest tree in the world," remarked Sir Janies Wilson, in .the couse of an address at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Forestry League. “I stood beside one not very far from Auckland, and was amazed at the gigantic proportions, although it was said to be a small one. Mr. Trounson’s gift of a kauri forest and Sir Francis Bell’s purchase of the adjoining forest make a very valuable reserve. We still have the Waipouo forest of kauri, but there is much land in the Auckland province where the regeneration of this noble tree is going on at present in scrub covered areas. Much of such land has been disposed of by the Government, but the league would do well to keep continually before the authorities. the wisdom of repurchasing much of the land as a heritage for future generations.”