Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3721, 24 November 1927, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The teaching profession are perturbed about the clause proposed to he added to the Education Art empowering Education Boards to impose a * tine not exceeding £lO on teachers who are guilty of wilful disobedience or neglect of duty. A circular was received by a I’oxton resident last week from .'England addressed: “Thynne St., Fox ton, Feilding, Palmefston North, New Zealand.” It appears to have reached its destination without delay despite the confusing array of towns mentioned on the envelope. No doubt the Postal authorities sent it. to the most important centre first I By 150 votes to 46 the Presbyterian General Assembly has reaflirmed its opposition to compulsory military training. During the debate, the Rev. Dr. Irwin ridiculed Dr. Gibb’s suggestion that the abolition of compulsory military training would have any effect on the nations of the world and would affect • the question of peace. Did anyone imagine, he asked, that the statesmen of the world were fools? Everyone was surely aware that the defence of the Dominion did not depend on the defence, system, but on the British Navy. He hated war as much as any other man, but had no sympathy with the cheap ‘‘clap trap” that had been talked that morning. What the churches should do was to get together and endeavour to form the opinions of their congregation to oppose war. Babies seem to flourish in London, where the infant mortality rate is very low.

For removing boundary pegs a Maxwell town farmer was fined £SO. The prize money won at the Summer Show of the Horticultural Society will be paid out on Saturday, at Mr. J. S. Hornblow’s Room, Ross’s building, at 3 to 4 p.m., and 6.30 to 8 p.m. Dr. 6. J. Blackmore, Medical Superintendent of the Christchurch Consumptive Sanatoria, condemns the use of rubber comforters or “dummies” for babies. “All sorts of germs must get on to these things, and they certainly should be abolished,” he says. Several small amendments have been made to the Government Railways Amendment Bill by the Railways Committee. The Principal alteration provides that no regrading of the First Division shall take place unless and until it has been approved by the Minister of Railways. Another amendment gives any member of the First or Second Division the right of appeal against any appointment made by the Minister. Mr. W. E. Barber, chairman of the Mapawatu County Council, opened the Rongotea Horticultural Show yesterday. Mr. Barber said he remembered Rongotea (then called Campbelltown) about 40 years ago when it was all in bush and very rough. He could remember old pioneers who had helped to build up the district to what it was to-day and enabled them to hold such a creditable show. He congratulated tlje president and committee upon the result of their efforts. J. L. Thomas, a single man, aged 48, a sawmill hand of Kaka, Nelson., died as the result of a fractured spine caused by a car he was driving over Spooner’s Range nosediving over a bank on Saturday afternoon. The other two occupants, W. Everett and R. Biggs, escaped serious injury. The deceased was learning to drive at the time, and an instructor was sitting alongside when the accident occurred. Recently in the House Mr. W. J. Jordan (Manukau) asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will make a statement on the usefulness or otherwise of vaccine manufactured by the Hamilton Company for the prevention of contagious mammits. The Hon. 0. J. Hawken, Minister of Agriculture, replied that the matter had been under investigation for some time and he would make a statement as to the results at an early late. Mr. J. Golder, of Foxton, met with a painful accident on Friday last when assisting in the erection of an iron fence at the rear of his property in High Street, Waipawa. It appears that Mr. Golder was using a ladder, which slipped, causing him to fall some 10 feet on to the railway line. In endeavouring to save himself, Mr. Golder was caught by a sheet of iron, which inflicted a severe wound on his hand and severed an artery. First aid was rendered by Mr. F. Bertoli and Dr. Anderson attended the injured man who was later removed to the hospital. In addition to the above injuries he was also cut about the face. The prices of dairy produce and vegetables in Sydney, as recorded by the Daily Telegraph in a recent issue were as follows: Butter, 2/1 per lb; eggs, 1/11 per dozen; cheese, 1/3 to 1/6 per lb; peas, 6d per lb; beans, 9d per lb; cabbages, 9d to 1/3 each; cauliflowers, 1/- to 1/6 each; tomatoes, 1/- to 1/3 per lb; lettuce, 3d to 4d each; carrots, 5d per bunch; parsnips, 6d per bunch; beetroot, 4d to 5d per bunch.; rhubarb, 4d to fid per bunch; new potatoes, 4d per lb; potatoes, lid per lb; white turnips, 5d per bunch; cucumbers, 4d to 6d each; celery, 6d to 8d per hunch; brown onions, lid per lb; white onions, 4d per lb. An inquest was held at Palmerston North on Tuesday, touching the death of Mrs. A. K. Mitchell, who died from injuries she received in an accident, in which a motorcar, driven by her husband, collided with a ballast train at the Deviation, just beyond the Palmerston borough boundary. There was a conflict of evidence touching the sobriety of deceased’s husband at the time of the accident. “Owing to the circumstances in this case,” said the Coroner in returning an open verdict, “I intend to make no comment on the evidence.” He then returned a verdict that deceased died from shock resulting from injuries received through a motoi'car driven by her husband, colliding with a ballast train at the deviation.