Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3528, 24 August 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Whitebait has made its appearance in tin 1 Otaki streams and small quantities were caught yesterday, r.avs the Mail.

A very artistic setting of the pho tographs of the four queen candidates in the swimming baths carnival is on view in Mr Corn’s shop window.

A parcel of 37 tons of greenstone, which have been stored at Kumara for several years, was shipped last week Germany (says the Marlborough Press).

We are informed that the Fibre Queen Carnival Committee has secured the services of a talented Maori concert combination to give an entertainment in Foxton at an early date.

For being found in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-cycle, at Nelson on Saturday, William was lined £lO and his license cancelled till April next. “Although it is too early to make any definite statement, appearances would seem to suggest that the coming tourist season will be a record one as far as New Zealand is concerned,” said Mi - . R. M. Firth, of the Invercargill Tourist Bureau. “He would come home very full at night and could not eat his food properly. It would fall off his knife,” said the respondent in an appeal case taken before Mr. Justice ITerdman in the Supreme Court at Auckland.

It is reported that the Kawarau dam will be completed within the next day or two, and feverish anxiety is being shown by the hundreds of miners who expect to find gold nuggets of all shapes and sizes in the bed of the waterless river. The Town-Planning Bill was passed in the House of Representatives on Saturday morning, after defeat by 53 to 3 of a motion that the Bill should commence to operate in 1928 instead of 1927. The Licensing Amendment Bill is expected to come before the House this week.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, at 07 is still an enthusiastic lover of cricket. To this fondness is attributable a part of the name of the most famous character he invented. It is known that when he decided to break away from the Dickens idea of giving sleuths such names as Sharp and Tracker and so chose the simple name of Holmes. Then, one day in the dim long ago, he scored 30 oft' the bowling of a cricketer named Sherlock. Hence the world-renowned combination of Sherlock Holmes.

The best of the general strike stories is of an undergraduate en-gine-driver, which has been circulated ' in many forms but surely may be accepted in a version coming to us straight from Oxford, where he doubtless belongs. He was put in charge of a non-stop express from Cardiff to London and brought it through well under schedule time. The passengers were profuse in their congratulations, but not so the officer who called him to account at Paddington. “The fact is sir,” the young man explained, “I didn’t find out how to stop the d— : —d thing till I reached West bourne Park.” The run from Cardiff, we may explain,'is 145 miles, and 144 of them had been covered when the train passed Wes t bourne Park.' The profits of Mr Henry Ford, his son and family from the manufacture of motor cars were officially disclosed last month ’for the first time. In an action brought against the Ford firm for the recovery of £200,000 for alleged violation of patent rights it was testified that the gross profits of the Ford Motor Car Company for the seven years 1917 to 1924 amounted to £175,235,000 and that the net profits, all of which went to Mr. Ford and his family, amounted to £105,300,000. Mr. Ford’s greatest profits were made in 1922 when he and his family netted £23,159,000.

A magnificent specimen of a white pine tree, 130 ft. high was felled recently in the Upper Waitotara district (says the “Patea Press”). The big stick was Bft. through at the base and sft. 4in. at the first limb (50ft. from the ground. It is calculated that 18,000 ft. of timber will be cut from the tree, quite apart from firewood.

The secretary of the Horowhenua Rugby District Council, Mr J. Casey, has received a letter from the Hawke’s Bay Union, which states that in return for the Bebbington Shield match played about three years ago, the Eanfurly Shield holders will play Horowhenua before starting on their Northern tour. The date of the match has not yet been arranged. Following a raid at Wje'llington on Sunday night, on a Haining Street house, 28 Chinese were each fined £2 in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday for being in a common gaming house. Another who had been previously convicted, was fined £3. Charges of keeping the house and assisting against three

Chinese were adjourned for a week, bail in £SO being allowed.

Acting on behalf of the constable who was:’recently dismissed from the police’force, after a Police Department inquiry into allegations of having used undue violence against a civilian, Mr. A. J.Mazengarb has appealed to the Minister of Justice against the decision. Police appeals may be heard bv a Magisirate, a police officer of superior rank to the officer concerned, and a civilian, all being appointed by the Minister.

Motor cars share the fate of Dobbin and Daisy in the United States so far as pounding is concerned. At a meeting in Palmerston North the other day Mr. M. A. Elliott said that in New York, the police impounded cars improperly parked. That is, the parking officer had master keys. When lie found a car parked on the prohibited roadside, he just got in and drove it to the pound, where the owner could get it out by paying the fine.

Before throwing away “Tatt’s tickets,” it is as well to carefully peruse the sheets of prize winning num|>ers, which are usually dispatched to ticket holders as soon as the drawing is made. One Greymouth resident, throwing away a ticket deemed to be worthless, is now wiser for having committed a “tactical error,” through which he has dispossessed himself of the pleasure of collecting a prize which runs close to £IOO. A bystander, with an “eye to the main chance," seeing the disgust ed % speculator throw away a ticket, made a sporting offer of “two bob” .for the ticket, which turned out a winning number, an expansive smile appearing on his face when he discovered the “dud” was worth £IOO.

“Wo want a bolter mail service between Foxton and Montoa,” said one settler at the public meeting at Montoa last night. Since the bridge has been washed away, he explained, their mail service had been reduced to one per day, run in the early morning in connection with a newspaper delivery which was unsatisfactory. He said that during the flood period the Moutoa mail had been left for a fortnight at the Marotiri post office. Mr Newton, in reply, said any complaint in this connection should be immediately communicated to him for investigation and remedy. It was decided that the Chamber of Commerce take this matter up in conjunction with the member for the district and local postmaster.

A Waimate woman purchased a duck at a saleyard some twelve months ago for Is, intending eventually to. place the bird upon the table on some special occasion (says the Daily Advertiser). However, upon arrival at its new home the bird immediately made its firstcontribution towards its keep, an egg being found in the yard. It was then decided to postpone the duck’s execution indefinitely, and this act of clemancy has well repaid the bird’s owner, who, for the past 305 days, without exception, has gathered an egg each day from the duck —-which must be something in the nature of a record —and the bird is still gpiiig strong. Many poultry breeders have tried to obtain this wonderful bird, one man offering £1 as an inducement to the fortunate owner to part with her bird, but, needless to say, the offer was refused.

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The Manawalu Drainage Board lias decided to have an aerial survey made of its area. A Press message from Dunedin announces the death of the Rev. Alexander W. Kinmont, a retired Presbyterian Minister, aged (55.

Local Territorials left by train this morning en route for Trcntham, where they will undergo a fortnight’s continuous training.

It is reported that one local eye ling enthusiast is entering in the one hundred mile road race to lie held at an earlv date.

Last week there passed away at his residence, Linwood, Christchurch, Mr W. G. King, for many years a well-known stationmaster at Carterton.

“As most of the milk supply to the .Shannon factory comes from Moutoa, it is a pity that the factory is not located at Moutoa,” said a speaker at Moutoa last night. He added that the cost of extra cartage of cream would meet interest and sinking fund on the structure.

Mr Steel, a divinity student, of Wellington, conducted the services at the local Presbyterian Church on Sunday. lie will conduct the services next Sunday. Arrangements are being made to appoint a minister to the vacancy by the Wanganui Presbytery.

“I notice you arc making an effort to liquidate the debt on your very fine hall,” said Mr D. Christie at the meeting at Moutoa last night. “T will endeavour to get the Foxton Chamber of Commerce to bring out a concert party to assist you.” The suggestion met with the hearty approval of the settlers.

It was stated at last night’s meeting at Moutoa, that the only tradesman who maintained a service with the Moutoa settlers during the tlood period was a Shannon butcher, who used a boat to convey his supplies of meat to the settlers, and lie never missed a round during the whole of the Hood. Parliament will have a very busy time ahead if the Prime Minister is to leave New Zealand by the 31st inst. There are a dozen Government Bills yet to be dealt with, and the Public Works Estimates, the Supplementary Estimates, and the Washing-Up Bills have to be put through.

The timber for the Town Hall construction has arrived and the woodwork' is now being proceeded with. The plasterers are also at work on the front facings of the building. ‘The roofing of the main hall will be commenced next week.' Tt is anticipated that the hall will be completed by the end of November.

When visiting Winnipeg on Friday, Sir James Allen, who is en route to New Zealand, urged closer trade relations between Canada and New Zealand. .He declared that- the ships which conveyed the Dominion’s products to Ins country were forced to return in ballast. United States vessels carried to New York the very goods which Canada later purchased at United States prices.

The third reading of the Hon. L. M. Issitt’s Religious Exercises in Schools Bill was defeated in the Legislative Council by 14 votes- to 12, the division list being as follows yes: Craigie, Gow, Ha 11Jones, Hawke, Isitt, Mitehel, Moore, Newman, Rhodes) Sinclair, Snodgrass and Thomson. Noes.: Barr, Carrington, Clark, Cohen, Earnsliavv, Fleming, Guthrie, lianan, Lang, MacGregor, Malcolm, Rikiliana, Scott, Witty.

A conference of local bodies of the district, convened by the Mana-watu-Oroun River Board, is to be held in Palmerston N. to-morrow for the purpose of going fully into I lie scheme of flood protection which (he board proposes giving effect to in the Manawatu and Oroua districts, at an estimated cost of £450,000. The Commission appointed by the Government will sit in Palmerston N. on August 30, for the purpose of hearing evidence both for and against the proposals.

A string of misfortune seems to have encompassed the outing yesterday of a motoring party from Wellington. Between Wellington and Levin they mended four punctures, the car ignition system caused a half-hour’s delay at Ihakara and they had proceeded not more than a mile from the factory when a big car crashed into them and smashed one of the front wheels. By a saving element of good luck the Wellingtonians had a spare wheel and they managed to crawl on to Palmerston N., where the car had to be docked, so vs the Chronicle.

Tf one has reasonable intelligence and about £-10 to spare, it is as simple in Sydney to-day to learn to fly as it is to learn lo drive a motor car or play golf. Among the 20 or more pupils already enrolled in the new living club established by the Aero Club, are glaziers, architects, estate agents and a barrister: Seventy others are only awaiting the provision of the necessary facilities before they learn to fly. The aim is not only to try to popularise aviation from a national standpoint, but also to enable those qualified," after a full course, to go out to the aerodrome of a Saturday afternoon for example, and go for a spin in the air just as people now jump into their ears for a run, and go down to the golf links for an afternoon’s pleasure. The Federal Government has pronounced its blessing upon the scheme by erecting a club house, loaning the aerodrome for instructional purposes, giving a grant of £2O for every pu-

pil who qualifies for a flying certificate, and presenting the club with a couple of machines.