Manawatu Herald THURSDAY. APRIL 12, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3778, 12 April 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY. APRIL 12, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Eleven express trains left Aucklantl last Thursday, seven leaving during the evening.

About 200 Austrian partridges for liberation in Auckland Provinces were landed at Auckland day from the lonic.

The local Silver Band played a programme of music in Main Street on Tuesday evening, which was much appreciated. No criminal cases were dealt with at the Master ton Supreme Court last session, and two civil cases only. The Commission appointed to enquire into the position of Ota,hi Borough will sit at 10 a.in. on May Bth.

In the past three months 12 bankruptcies were recorded in the Waikato banlmictpy district, compared with 11 in the same period last year, 'Of the 12, six werp farmers.

The Stratford Post states that a payment of d per pound butter-fat over the whole of last season’s supply has been made by the Ngairc Dairy Co., bringing the pay-out for the season to lflfd, which is claimed to be a record for a cheese factory for the season.

The ratepayers of the Laemington district (Waikato) recently carried a loan of £2,350 for the purpose of providing reticulation in order to draw water from the Cambridge reservoir. A pleasing feature of the poll was that two-thirds of the number on the roll east their vote.

A botanic freak is to be seen in a Masterton garden. Two conifers grew side by side for many years; so closely that the branches touched. One tree died but its foliage still exists at the ends of several branches of the living tree. There is no similarity whatever between the two foliages, A taxi-driver, Angus McDairmid, of Balclutha, met with an accident when driving back from Hillend on Sunday with two male passengers. At Bishop’s the car overturned and somersaulted twice down a bank. The passengers were unhurt, but McDairmid suffered a broken arm, bruises, and cuts, and-was taken to the Balclutha Hospital for treatment.

Geoffrey Monerieff Gilchrist, aged 7, died at Dunedin on Tuesday presumably as the result of injuries received when knocked down by a motor-car on March 12. At the time of the accident the boy was taken to the Dunedin Hospital where he was placed on the dangerously ill list. His condition improved and on April 2 he was allowed to go home, where he again took ill and died.

The Carterton police were advised that an old man named Thomas Remmington, was found dead in his bed at Glenburn Station, East Coast, on Tuesday morning. He retired to bed the previous evening, apparently in good health. Deceased was 68 years of age and had been employed on the East Coast for upwards of forty years. An inquest will be held at Glenburn and the body will be brought to Masterton for interment. It is unnerstood that deceased has a brother in Palmerston N. and a sister in Australia.

Mi' Robert Yewen, a Sydney businessman, who was in Christchurch last week, found out very regretfully that he had been misled regarding the scenic attractions of the South Island. “I asked at the Tourist Bureau in Wellington,” he said, “and they told me I would not see much in the South Island; that Ihe scenery was far better in the North Island. Therefore I made a few business arrangements at Auckland and Napier, whereas I could have done so just as easily at Dunedin.” 1

At the Christchurch hospital there are six positive cases of infantile paralysis under treatment.

A Queen carnival at Greytown in aid of the Memorial Park and Fire Brigade realised £SOO. The value of new buildings and reconstructions in Wellington during the 1927-28 period reached the record total of £2,024,291.

Two or three schools in the country districts of Canterbury have had to be closed owing to scarlet fever.

Some 150 applicants for positions as recruits in the Samoan Military Police were interviewed in Auckland.

The local Fire Brigade wishes to thank the ladies who kindly provided refreshments for them on the morning of the. fire.

Motor vehicles numbering 14,500 have been registered at Auckland for the current year, but 4,500 owners have so far neglected to make application.

To obviate the necessity of sounding the siren during night fires, the Hamilton Fire has decided to instal private alarms in the ljomes of volunteer firemen. A sum of £7,810 was realised during the past year from articles manufactured by inmates of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind at Auckland.

A caucus of the Reform Party will be held in Wellington on Tuesday next to consider matters of organisation and internal policy generally. The usual monthly meeting of the Methodist Social Guild was held in the schoolroom on Wednesday, the hostess being Mrs J. Chrystall. A most enjoyable time was spent by .all present. In the Nelson Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Norman Francis Sandbrook, aged 20, a stranger to Nelson, pleaded guilty to the conversion of a -motor car to his own use. He was ordered to be detained in a Borstal Institute for two years.

Eighty-one applications were received for the positions of three additional inspectors required by the Christchurch municipal electricity department for the increased inspection work now required by the new regulations.

Hawks are very numerous in Southland at present. At Otapiri the hawks have changed their diet, having been consistentSy fowls’ nests, much to the perturba-\ tion of -the [liens. Hunger hasprobably made the hawks bold, for they recently ousted from a paddock near Makarewa the countless number of seagulls which are usually assembled there.

While motor cycling on the Fox-ton-Koputaroa road on Saturday morning last, Mr Frank Graham, of Koputaroa, sustained a very serious injury through his motor cycle skidding in loose metal near the Paiaka road junction. He was picked up is an unconscious condition and removed to the Levin Private. Hospital. A medical examination revealed severe head injuries; but though his condition is such as would cause his relatives much anxiety, he is showing a slight improvement.

Something unusual in the history of the Mataura paper mills occurred last week, when the turbo generator was found to be running at low speed. The engineers were at a loss to account for the trouble as the water supply was ample to keep the turbine running at full pressure. Investigations revealed the fact that hundreds of eels had blocked the gate and the smaller ones, passing through a grating came in contact with the turbine and were torn to ribbons. The turbo-generator was shut off for about two hours, -during which time hundreds of eels, varying in size, the largest measuring approximately five feet in length,' were gaffed by the mill hands, The gate the following morning was piled with eels and presented a unique sight.

The roseate view of £lO a day for the drying of peas held out by a dehydration authority is quoted by the “New Zealand Smallholder.” He says 101 b. of spring peas in the pod are equivalent to 11b of the same when dried, and that lib. of shelled fresh green peas will yield 4oz. of dried peas, worth 1/-. At this price a good local trade could be built up, and New Zealand spring green peas could become a worldfamous product. The output should be truly tender young peas, at lid per lb in the pod and selling the dried shelled product at 1/- per quarter pound, a man could produce 2001 b. of dried peas daily with a small dehydrator, and make a profit of £lO per day. , .

There is quite a controversy going on in the Christchurch papers about- airplane noises on a Sunday. One writer says: “I would like to ask the correspondents who complain of airplane noises if they have eyer lived in the vicinity of a church where a bell clangs every morning at seven. I do not think they have or they would not worry so much about the trivial noise from the clouds. Heaven alone knows why it should be considered necessary to bang a bell from 50 to 100 times to announce to regular attendants—who should need no reminder—that it’s time to “shake a leg.” I consider an airplane much of a necessity—good luck to the intrepid occupants; the other is nothing but a relic of the dark ages, and an example of custom run wild. I say: Leave the bird-men alone, there are worse pests nearer the earth.”