Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1926 LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A number of local people attend ed the races at Levin to-day.
Cherry and gooseberry picking commenced in Grevtown this week.
Mrs Lesly Gardiner, a London society beauty, has been sentenced k six months’ imprisonment for stealing dressing cases. Mr 11. Billens, of Palmerston X. will conduct both morning and evening services at the local Presbyterian Church to-morrow.
The announcement of the successful queen candidate will be made at the concert to be held in the Royal Theatre on Tuesday (‘veiling.
Kenneth McLeod, a recipient of charitable aid, for assaulting the relieving officer at Auckland yesterday, was sentenced to seven days imprisonment.
A Pahiatua telegram reports the death of Mr Alfred Ed: Verry, aged on, a resident of Konini for many years, president of the A. and P. Society, and prominently connected with farming and other institutions.
A young people’s service will be held at the Methodist Church tomorrow 1 , morning, to which both young and old are cordially invited Mr P. W. Goldsmith, of Levin, will preach in the evening, and Miss Chalk will sing a solo. Paul Linklater was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital at 1.30 a.m.'on Thursday,' suffering from gunshot wounds in the chest. Tie escaped from the hospital at 3 o’clock yesterday morning. Linklater is 3(5 years of age, and came from Kaiapoi. Probate of the will of the late Sir Arthur Myers has been granted, the estate being sworn at under £(300,000. A sum of £SOO is bequeathed to the Auckland Hebrew Congregation for the relief of poor Jews in Auckland, and £2,000 for the purchase of pictures for Auckland. The remainder, with the exception of some small outside legacies, goes to deceased’s family.
A man who was wanted by the police had been photographed in six different positions during a previous bout in gaol, and the prints were sent to the chief constable of a small country town, where it was thought likely the fugitive was in hiding. After the lapse of a few days, the following reply reached headquarters. —“Sir, —1 duly received the portraits of the six miscreants whose capture is desired. 1 have arrested five of them, and the sixth is under observation, and will probably be secured shortly.”
Robert Oswald Blake (aged 15) a son of Mr J. A. Blake, of Waiuku, was drowned at Ocean Beach, near Waiuku yesterday. Three secondary school boys who were supposed to be at school, went to the beach instead, and while bathing, Blake, who was unable to swim, got into difficulties. The efforts of a companion to rescue him alive failed, but eventually the body was recovered.
“Recently a brand new Baptist Church has been erected in my district,” said the Rev. L. H. Hunt (Mount Eden) at a meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Wellington recently. “I have no objection to that, for I believe in a fair field for all; but at the opening of the church disparaging remarks were made about the Presbyterian doctrine. I didn’t- say anything at the time, although I could have said quite a lot, but I made a secret resolve that I would give that Baptist minister a run for his money.” (Loud laughter and applause.)
The statement that American cedar timber was being admitted to New Zealand riddled by the borer insect, and otherwise of inferior quality, was made by Mr F .E. N. Gnudin, at a meeting of the Takapuna Borough Council recently. The council passed a resolution directing that a by-law should be framed prohibiting the use of cedar and Oregon pine timber in Takapuna buildings.
The agricultural instructor reported to the Wanganui Education Board that the Stuart Wilson Cup. a Dominion Challenge trophy, has been awarded to Harold Dorn A ol the Kelvin Grove school. The award is made by the Department of Agriculture for the most meritorious boys and girls’ club work in the Dominion, and though it was first awarded in 1919 this is the first occasion on which it has been won by a pupil of the Wanganui Education Board.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr M’Uveney, is arranging for alterations in the police uniform, with a view to reducing its weight, and smartening the appearance of the men. Included in the change will be the replacement of the helmet by the shako for day- duty in fine weather. The type selected is commonly known as the officer’s shako, and is somewhat similar to that used in New Zealand many years ago, with a flashing! to prevent rain getting in at the junction of the peak and the top. During the past week explosives have been used in connection with the slip on the railway line in the Manawatu Gorge and has resulted in (he removal of the concrete wall which lias in consequence freed the threatened slip at another point, and precipitated the debris into the river below. In addition a fresh intake of water for sluicing purposes has been made, and generally conditions arc much improved for the task of washing away the mass of earth.
A Hamilton shopkeeper was very candid in expressing his opinion of the door-to-door system of collecting funds for charitable organisations (says the “Waikato-Times”). The poor shopkeeper falls in every time, he said. “A collector comes in with a subscription list for a Sunday school picnic, or for funds to pay off the debt on the public hall at some backblocks village, and finds the shopkeepers’easy game. Each one expects a contribution, and sometimes where a tradesman becomes somewhat irritated and refuses, he is met with the inevitable rejoinder that the collector has done business with that particular shop for the last ten years and why, therefore, should the request of a small subscription be refused? It gets on one’s nerves,” he added. “If the collector happens to have dealt with a particular shop for that length of time you can bet it was to his own advantage to do so,” was his parting remark.
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