Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4405, 23 January 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

When two horses fell in a rare Ml Ashlings! yesterday, one of the jockeys, Alex Dick, was admitted to the Palmerston North hospital, llis' injuries, however, consisted only of. hrnisos and his condition last night was reported to he satisfactory. A. A. AfeDp.mell, who was Severely injulred as a result of a fall from a haystack on his farm at Rongotea on Tuesday, passed away shortly after'being admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital. He was a well-known pioneer in the Manawatn and Rmigiti'kei districts.

Over two hundred Brethren assembled from all parts of the district and even from as far distant as Auckland and Wellington at. the local Gospel Hall yesterday. Religious services were held in the morning, afternoon and evening. The address in the evening was delivered by Mr. Hayward, of Sydney. A number of local swimmers participated in the Levin Swimming Club’s Carnival on Tuesday evening. P. Burns annexed the men’s 50 yards, W. Harrison secured second place in the men’s 100 yards and tin* Fox ton B team (J. and 11. Hiriiii, A. MACorkindnle and P. Burns) came second in the relay race.

The members of the local branch of the Plunkef Society held a successful shop day at thr* local seaside yesterday in an endeavour to raise funds. The effort was quite successful. Prize winners were as follows: —Dinner, .Mrs. Gray, Palmerston North; chocolates, R. Judd, Pox I on; stockings, J. French, Fox ton; shirt, D. Christie. The day was concluded with a dance in the beach halt.

A large number of local “sports" visited the races at Wellington and Ashlurrst yesterday while others spent the holiday at the seaside or motoring. The local Bowling green was well patronised. Hundreds of people were 'attracted to the Beach f rom all pails of the district. The weather was ideal and surf bathing was velry popular. Pox ton itself presented a very deserted appearance.

iTho following* New Zenlnmlors have secured fellowships from the Trinity College of Music: —Pianoforte: Doris Bausgrovc, Sybil Sober, Ruby Wallace, Mary Crawsliaw, F'lileeu Wood,field, Myrtle Chote, Doreen Curly. Singing: Dorothy Cronin, Mary Paid, Una Pope, Jeannic Craig. Elocution: Sadie Yates, Ivan Oran, Elsie Brlidgeinan. The mi.v. Poxton is at; present stuck in the river a little below RoJiinson’s bend, owing to the recent Hood altering the channel in this locality. The vessel brought in a full cargo and in addition carried a deck eairg‘o of chaff. Lightering operations were commenced this morning and it is hoped to get the vessel off to-night.

The funeral of the late Messrs Clarence Eggleton and Bert [lazlehurst which took place on Tuesday afternoon, was one of the largest ever seen at Bunnythorpe and was evidence of the great sympathy that, was felt by all for the bereaved families. Many beautiful floral tokens were Indd on the caskets, which were buitied side by side in the Bunnythorpe cemetery.

While ploughing a paddock at (he south side of what was once Jlone Hoke’s pah at Ohaeawai, but now a cemetery of the Ngatirangi tribe, Mr. J. IT. Woods discovered two fairly large cannon balls, a bullet as large as a pullet’s egg and two musket halls. At (lie time of the battle the British forces were stationed upon a hill known as Fort Walker, due north from the pah. As the relics were found on the southern sidjei of Hebe's stronghold two chains from the earthworks, it is presumed that they must have travelled over the pah in their flight. These interesting souvenirs of Ohaewai’s battle are on view in Wkangarei.

“We don’t want them in New

Zealand,” said Cr. Goldsbury at •the last meeting of the Waitotara County Council, referring to the use of three axle heavy motor vehicles. He objected to the introduction of the vehicles, and said that the Dominion had its own railways to provide (transport facilities.

A tragic happening occurred in the Kaipaki district, eight miles from Cambridge, on Tuesday, when John A. Goodwin, aged 19, the youngest son of Air. and Mrs. A. Goodwin, old residents of the district, was killled in the harvest field on his father’s farm through a stacker boom falling on ldm. His neck was broken and death ensued twentv minutes after the accident.

Torrential rain fell in Auckland on Tuesday morning, two inches being .registered in one and a half hours. Water accumulated rapidly in the business area at the hot-, tom of Queen Street and the basements of many shops were Hooded. The most serious damage was caused at the drapery establishment of .John Court, Limited, where stock suffered to the extent of several hnndireds of pounds.

Last season close on £12,000,000 worth of dairy produce was sent away from the Waikato and Thames Valley districts. This year it has been ollicially stated that production is already up by 8 per coot., and given good dairying weather it is confidently anticipated" l Iml lasi season's tigures will he surpassed. In the 1928-29 season all previous records were be’aten by 10 per cent.

An American, whilst sailing down the Clyde, began talking to the commander ftf the steamer about the superiority of the rivers in the Slates. lie extolled the Hudson, the Mississippi, the Ohio, etc. “Aye," said the old Scots skipper, when he tired listening to the eulogism, “ye line grand rivers, uae don’t, but ye maun linin’ that God made the rivers ye speak o’, but wo made the Clyde."

In these days of mechanical tiansport one would hardly expect to see the primitive bullock dray used for conveying milk to the factory. Yet this is a daily sight on the Taranaki main south road, where a dray and. two bullocks -are used for this daily task. Not so speedy its the popular motor-lorry, the bullocks plod steadily along as unconcerned about modern progress as were their ancestors ot half a century and more ago. Farmers who built haystacks between llie heavy showers in the pasl month are exhibiting concern a I the incidence of tires caused by spontaneous combustion (says an Auckland paper). In the past few days four stacks have been reduced to ashes between Morrinsville and To Aroha, while six tires are reported from other parts of tLie Thames Valley, Oases of spontaneous combustion arc not uncommon after hay making, but; Ibis year there, is likelihood of more damage than usual.

’What is thought to he a record performance in mountain climbing by a young woman was established a few days ago by Miss Dorothy Carr, of New Plymouth. Leaving Dawson Falls hostelry at (i a.m. .-die ascended Mount Egmonf, descending on tho northern side and reaching the North Fgmont hostelry at 10.40 a.m. She left North Egmont at 11.10 a.m., ascended the mountain, and descended to the Dawson Falls hostel, arriving there at f> p.m. She thus completed the double ascent of the mountain in 10 hours.

“There is absolutely no truth in the suggestion whatever,’’ said the Prime Minister (Rf. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) when interviewed by a “Domlinion" representative prior to his departure for Rotorua last night regarding a current rumour

I hat Parliament; would ho called together next mouth so as to enable Sir Joseph to attend the next Imper in 1 Conference. The Prime Minister said be had not yet had occasion to consider the fixing of a dale foir the session or of considering the question of New Zealand’s representation at the Imperial Conference. As far as he knew the conference would he opened on September 30 next, bill that date was purely tentative.

Rather an unusual experience was that of a Thames man who noticed a pigeon alight in his yard daring the heavy winds which characterised the holiday period. Lt was evidently exhausted and he easily caught it, (lading that it bore a ring and a number. After feeding it for two days he noticed that: it ■kept trying to escape, so he tied a nole to its log, briefly setting forth the circumstances in which he had 'found it and let it go. It headed south at once. 'What was his surprise to receive a week later a letter of thanks from a Christchurch pigeon fancier who stated that (lie bill'd had been liberated at Woodville during the holidays on a (light aiid had evidently been carried to Thames by the gales, lt had taken only two days to reach Thames hut had taken four to lly from Thames to Christchurch.