Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3665, 14 July 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The price of flour was advanced on Tuesday by southern millers by 10s per ton. It is now 111(5 5s per ton f.o.b. South Island ports, for Wlellington. At the funeral at Grey town of a lad, Joseph Moy, following the Chinese custom, two Chinese stood at either side of the path at the cemetery and as each mourner left they were handed two pennies and a bag of lollies. Commander Byrd, the conqueror of the North Pole and of the Atlantic, announces that a crew of between 30 and 40 will accompany him to the South Pole. He will set Out by water from New Zealand. A second aeroplane will carry fifty sledge dogs, with Eskimo masters. The following resolution has been carried by the Wellington School Committees’ Association: “That this association asks the Minister of Education, in view of the persistent rumour that education boards are to be abolished, to state definitely the intention of the Department in this matter.”

On Monday Ernest Leslie Elvy (aged 30),. a clerk employed at the Newmarket (Auckland) railway station, was arrested on a charge of stealing £33 10s belonging to the Government on February 28. When Elvy appeared at the Magistrate’s Court Chief-Detective Cummings, in asking for a remand till Tuesday next, mentioned that accused had made restitution. About 20 other charges were pending, involving a total of over £IOO. Elvy was remanded for one week, bail being allowed. Under an anonymous signature a payment for quite a considerable sum was received by the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board last week under unusual conditions. The sum enclosed was £35, and under the signature of “Ex. patient,” a covering letter was brief and very much to the point. The letter stated that the £35 was the balance due to the Board for treatment received in the hospital some years ago. Being now in apposition to meet his obligations, it gave him great satisfaction to do so. -

The summary jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in respect to indictable offences is extended by the Justices of the Peace Bill introduced into the House of Representatives on Tuesday. At present justices have jurisdiction in theft cases where the value of the property involved does not exceed- £5. The. new measure proposes to increase that amount to £2O. The consent of the accused person will still be necessary before the justice can proceed to hear the case.

At the meeting of the Diocesan Synod at Wellington on Tuesday, a motion by the Rev. Canon Fancourt, “that in the opinion of this synod the tenure of vicars of parishes should be the same as that of vicars of parochial districts,” was carried by 40 votes to 10. At present, he said, a vicar of a parish was removable only by an ecclesiastical tribunal. He was really a fixture. The passing of the resolution would not affect any vicar now in any parish in New Zealand, it would operate only from the date of adopting the motion. Mr. Hadfield said if the resolution would strengthen the hands of the bishop, he was in favour of it, since one of the evils which might creep into an organisation such as the church was the difficulty of removing a man who ought to be removed.

There was a very heavy fall of snow on the Tararua ranges yesterday, the lower spurs being covered with a white mantle. The weather is very cold with a biting wind from the south. A Bill dealing with the import, export, possession, manufacture, sa]e, ja.n,d distribution of certain drugs which, are classed as dangerous was introduced in the House of Representatives on Tuesday by Go-vernor-General’s Message and read a first time. The Bill which has consistently made its appearance in the legislative Council for several years past introduced by the Hon. G. M. Thomson, having as its object the prohibition of the use of captive birds in all shooting carried on under artificial conditions, is being brought forward again this session. The funeral of the late Mrs. Mantell took place yesterday afternoon. The ball hearers were prominent business-men and the cortege included representative citizens. The casket was covered with beautiful floral tributes. The ceremony at the home of deceased and at the graveside were conducted by the Rev. \V. H. Nicholas. A deputation of Ashburton unemployed, when waiting on the Deputy Mayor on Wednesday, remarked the majority of the men there were “jolly good workers.” One added that it was no good going to see the County Council for, he stated, “it is like going to see a lot of cackling old hens. They will exploit your labour, and they will heat you down on contract work to eighteenpence.” The teacher was testing her scholars’ knowledge of the Ten Commandments.- Coming to' the' last one, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet they neighbour’s wife,” the teacher asked: “Can anyone tell me why Moses wrote down ‘house’ before ‘wife’?” “Because a house is harder to get!” replied a small hoy. At the annual meeting of the Ilorowhenua branch of the N.Z. Education Institute held at Levin on Saturday a discussion took place on (lie suggested abolition of Education Boards.- The general opinion expressed was that Boards served a very useful purpose. They gave that personal touch between the schools and the Department which it would be most inadvisable to lose. Ultimately the following resolution was unanimously adopted: —“That this branch is of the opinion that the abolition of Education Boards is not in the best interests of either education or the children.” The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. J. G. Coates) informed a “Post” reporter that the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Li €. M. S. Amery), accompanied by Mrs. Amery, will leave England for South Africa on Friday, 22nd July, as the first stage of a visit to the Dominions. During his stay in South Africa he will visit the High Commission territory and Southern Rhodesia in addition to the Union. Leaving Capetown on 23rA September, Mr. Amery will visit Australia (10th October-17th November), New Zealand (22nd November-20th December), and Canada, which he will reach about sth or Gth January. Mr. Amerv’s staff will consist of Mr.' G. Whiskard, C. 8., Assistant Secretary in the Dominion Office; Mr. G. Huxley, a member of the Empire Marketing Board; and Captain W. Brass, M.P.

The abbreviation of the Fifth Commandment in the Communion Office of the Revised: Prayer Book does not meet altogether with Dr. Sprott’s approval. “One of the most pressing needs,” he . said, “of our ' time is the redemption of national life from secularity and its inevitable concomitant—materialism, which makes nationalism so great a menace to the world’s peace' that many people would abolish nationality altogether. I therefore think it is a pity to weaken any witness to the essential spirituality of! national life. For this reason I could have wished that the Fifth Commandment had not been abbreviated. It is perfectly true that reverence for parents does not insure long life to the individual. But I think it is true (and this is what the Commandment really meant) that the nation which has lost its reverence for rightful authority on which parental authority is the source and natural symbol, and for its past, to which it is linked by the parental relationship—that such a nation has no future. Its career may he merry, but it will be brief.” An English tourist while “doing” the Waikato recently was surprised and disgusted to notice so many Maori women enjoying their pipes. On his return to Auckland he mentioned the matter to an old colonist, remarking that it was a sure sign of the degeneracy if the Maori race when their women smoked pipes. Said the New Zealander': “Well, if that is so,, the Irish women of the working class must have been degenerating for a good while, because I remember seeing them smoking clay in Dublin when I was a boy.” The tourist said no more. There is nothing wrong with pipe smoking for man or woman so long as the right tobacco is used. Choose

a brand as free from nicotine as you can. That’s all. Our New Zealand grown tobaccos contain only a trifling percentage of nicotine, and you can’t beat them for flavour and aroma. You can smoke them tor hours and they won’t do you any harm. Ask for “Riverhead Gold,” mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium; or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), full strength. 41.

An Auckland paper states that a telegraph linesman, troubled with an aching tooth, coolly took the pliers from his belt and wrenched out the offending molar.

The Marlborough Power Board has manufactured 5358 concrete poles for its own use, and they have proved a great success. It is predicted that the example in eliminating wooden poles will be emulated all over the country.

Miss Billie Andreasson has been elected “Miss Auckland 1927” and Miss Hildred Graham will be her maid of honour in the finals for “Miss New Zealand 1927.” Miss Andreasson was crowned by the Mayoress of Auckland (Mrs. Campbell) on Saturday night.

Fearful and wonderful are some of the interpretations given by school children. In a recent test in history (the Reformation period) a boy who attends a Te Awamutu school wrote that “'Bishop Latimer was taken and burned to a. steak!”

The unofficial referendum taken among parents of the ten schools surrounding Huntervillc, on the Religious Exercises in Schools Bill resulted in 119 votes being recorded in favour and 20 against the proposal. While cleaning the Heathcote river in Canterbuiy, two workmen were surprised when the grubber disturbed a large eel. After a vigorous fight they succeeded in landing it on the bank. The eel was just on sft. long, with 16-jin. girth, and weighed 251 b.

Following on the recent heavy rain, another slip came down in the Manawatu Gorge yesterday, causing a complete suspension of road traffic. It is anticipated that the highway will be cleared sufficiently to-day to allow traffic to be resumed.

Visitors to an Auckland institution where a number of old people are housed intervened between two elderly men who were having a hot argument. One of the old chaps, who was stone deaf,, got in the last word, and said: “I don’t know what the other fellow is saying, but if he says it again I’ll punch his head.” As a mark of disapproval at the existence of a number of pot holes in one of the Greymouth streets, a number of the taxi-drivers were noticed one morning sailing a miniature boat in one of the holes which was filled with rain water (says the Star). It was remarked that if the holes were allowed to get. much larger, it was proposed to hold a miniature regatta.

The Eltham County Council passed the following resolution at its last meeting: “That this Council strongly supports the Taranaki Local Bodies Association’s remit re the elimination of the clause in the Arbitration Act regarding the preference to unionists, and that all counties should be exempted from the operation of all industrial awards.

A young married woman, Mrs. Kathleen May Burke, aged 34, a resident of East Brisbane, was electrocuted while using an electric iron in the kitchen of her home on June ID, while alone in the house. Shortly before 11 o’clock a neighbour, Mrs. Louisa Camp, heard a thud, followed by moans. Bushing in, she found Mrs Burke on the floor apparently dead, with an electric iron beside her and the current turned on at the switch. With another neighbour she tried to restore animation, and at the same time had medical aid summoned. When a doctor ar-. rived, however, JMjrs. Burke was found dead. The deceased woman’s husband was absent at the time at Ayr, North Queensland. She had no children.

Under the will of the late Charles Clarke Woods, of Hawera, whose death was recorded a few days ago, the following legacies have been bequeathed, the sum in each case being £100; Salvation Army of New Zealand, Commercial Travellers’ Association, Fund for Blind Soldiers, Hawera Hospital Board (to provide for the comfort of the nurses at the hospital), Dr. Barnardo’s Homes (London), vestry of St. Mary’s Church (Hawera), to be used for the religious and moral training of the youth of the parish; Hawera Borough Council, for the development of the Tururu Moka reserve, to be applied towards the erection of a monument or other memorial to perpetuate the names of those who fell in defence of the redoubt in 1868.

Several eases of the disease which is at present attacking: the canine tribe have been reported throughout the district. In the Auckland province anxiety is still felt by farmers in consequence of the epidemic, which in some respects resembles distemper. However, young dogs are not alone affected. The symptoms seem to be the same as a severe cold, which weakens the animal and causes a loss of appetite. In one farming district between thirty and forty dogs died within a few days of each other. Some humour was introduced into a rather long and dry debate upon machinery clauses in the Offertories Act at Wednesday’s session of the Anglican Synod (states the Wellington Post). One .speaker said that the proposed regulations reminded him of a famous picture respecting the manufacture of raspberry seeds for jam. One saw first giant forest trees being felled, then dragged to the mills and cut up. After several more processes had been depicted there was shown a man carrying five small raspberry seeds —the sole result of much labourious work.

The Queen’s Hotel, at the corner of' Manchester and Cashel Streets, Christchurch, has been sold for over £30,000. To commemorate the 50th birthday of the Wellington Working Men’s Club and Literary Institute, six cheques for £25 have been handed over to charitable institutions in the city.

In certain spots in the flower beds of the Government Gardens at Rotorua, pipes have to be let into the ground on account of sulphur fumes. They have proved to be almost perfect traps for the blowflies (says the Chronicle). The flies come along, get a whiff of the sulphur, and drop down to explore. That is the end of them, for within two or three seconds they are asphyxiated. The effectiveness of the traps can be gauged by the fact that when one of the pipes was removed lately, there were found at the bottom of it enough blowflies to fill a three-gallon bucket.

A teller of one of the Christchurch banks found his cash £l9 short the other day and immediately he made up the balance out -of his own account (says the Sun). The error was made by his passing out a £2O note for a £1 note. Several days went by. Then a Chinese sidled up to the grill with a bundle of notes. “Here, you give me too much money.” There was £l9 in the bundle. That teller handed back one of the £1 notes that the Chinese brought, for hint to spend in any way that brings joy to a Chinese. The teller thinks now that the Chinese are a splendid race.