Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3666, 16 July 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

•A new engine was installed on the Shannon punt this week, which is said to be working satisfactorily. r ihe death occurred at the Beach this morning, from bronchial pneumonia, of the infant child of Mr and Mrs E. Boyle, aged three and aha*lf months. The funeral will take place to-morrow. A song service with hymn sheets provided for the congregation will be held at the Methodist Church to-morrow evening. A brief address on “ a new song” will be given during an interval in the singing. Some 80,000 number plates will be required for motor vehicles in New Zealand next year. The new plates will be white, with brown background. With one small return to come in, the amount taken at the gates and stand on the occasion of the Iloro-whenua-Bush football match on Wednesday, was £56. Latest Palestine reports indicate that the recent earthquake was the worst for 1200 years. The death roll is a thousand, the majority being in Transjordania. There was no serious damage in Egypt.

John Bruce, a labourer, an early resident of Alexandra, was found dead on Thursday in a rear room at Chatto-Creek Hotel, Dunedin, with a 22 calibre rifle beside the body. The licensee of the hotel heard a report and immediately investigated. Deceased was 55 years of age, and had a wife nad grown-up family. The rifle was stored in a room b\ a hotel boarder.

The new school at Terrace End was opened on Wednesday by the Hon. R. A. Wright (Minister of Education), who announced that the Department had decided to erect a two-roomed school at Milson, the railway suburb, as well as to jiur(hase a new school site in Rusfeell street. This means that Palmerston North will shortly have seven primary schools.

At a meeting of directors of the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Company held on Wednesday it was an nouneed that a further payment of 2d per lb on buttcrfat supplied during the past season would be made, bringing the total payment for the season up to Is 4 9-10ths. The pay-out for butter-fat supplied during the month of June will be Is s|d per lb.

The New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, Ltd., Weljington, has been registered as a limited liability company. The “Mercantile Gazette” reports the following:—Members: Wellington — H. E. Gibbs, D. E. Fenwick, T. D. M. Stout, D. J. M’Gavin, E. G. Joseph, B. E. Wright, W. H. Johnston. Objects: To act as a corporate branch of the British Medical Association (incorporated in England), to promote-in the Dominion of New Zealand the medical and allied sciences and to maintain the honour and interests of the medical profession. Archibald Andrew Scott, aged 30, who received a sentence of four years’ imprisonment in the Auckland Supreme Court recently was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by Mi 1 . McKean, S.M., at the Auckland Police Court on Thursday on a charge of escaping from Mount Eden gaol on May 29, 1925. Senior-Detective Hammond said that Scott was serving a two years’ sentence in 1925 when he escaped. The crimes for which he was sentenced at the Supreme Court were committed during his two years’ of uslawful liberty.

Regulations issued by the Health Department, and which will come into force immediately, makes it necessary for every bottle of goitre remedy to bear a statement of its active ingredients, and also a prominent warning that the remedy should not be taken save under the advice of a medical man. Since the public has learned of iodine treatment, the authorities say there has been an alarming increase of the number of cases of exophthalmic goitre, a most serious disease,,.and that these regulations are the outcome of this increase.

He was always kissing and cuddling my daughter, and one night he kept her up after nine o’clock, so I kicked him out,” remarked a father at the Wanganui Court on Wednesday (says the Herald).

Rev. J. H. Wilson will preach at both morning and evening services at the local Presbyterian Church to-mbrrOw, Rev. W. H. Nicholas exchanging for the day and preaching at Tiakatahuna and Rongotea.

David South, aged 19, when riding a bicycle near Geraldine on Wednesday night, was run into by a motor car. He received severe head injuries, from which he died to-day without regaining consciousness.

Brigadier Macaulay (the Divisional Commander for Wellington Di vision), accompanied by the Levin officers, visited Foxton during the week and conducted well-attended meetings of both children and adults.

As a sequel to the police raid on Victoria Hotel, Auckland, William Edward Watson and Archibald Hodgson were each fined £1 for drinking during prohibited hours at Auckland yesterday. The former was fined an additional £2 for giving a false name. Nicholas Leslie Higginson, formerly a railway employee, licensee, and Arthur James Hickmott, barman, was fined £3 and £1 for selling and supplying liquor respectively. “By notice in the Gazette the Minister of Telegraphs has made it clear that every holder of a radio license must dismantle his set within 14 days of the expiration of the license, that is if he does not wish to renew it,” said Mr. Tudhope, who appeared for tile Department in two cases heard at Wellington yesterday. Defendants were fined £2. A fine of 10s was imposed on another defendant for erecting and using a set before a license was obtained.