Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4410, 4 February 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The schools throughout, this district, re-opened after the summer \ u'catiou yesterday.

The crowd which patronised the local seaside on Sunday was considered to he the largest that has been seen on the beach this sea-

The mine manager at Mahakipawa reports that: the two completed bores give every indication of gold-bearing wash. No. !) bore was bottomed at 138 feet, and the last foot drilled through yielded 27 grains of gold, equalling a return of £0 1/0 per cubic yard (says the Pie.lon Press). At the inquest in collection with the death of Francis Eugene Barry, who was killed in a motor accident near Tokomaru Bay Inst Saturday night when the ear he was driving went over a bank, the Coroner found that the accident was due to Barry being momentarily dazzled by the lights of an approaching ear.

The local Presbyterian Church will celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the commencement of the Presbyterian ministry in Foxton towards the end of next month. Arrangements are being made to fittingly celebrate the occasion. Special services will be conducted by the Moderator of the General Assembly (Rev. Geo. Budd), the Rev. GY K. Aitken (the first minister to follow the late Rev. das. Duncan) and others. The Wjangamyi Harbour Board has been more than successful in floating' its loan of .105,000 for repayment, of an old loan of £1.00,000. Approximately £85,000 has been offered, alt hough Ihe loan has only been on the market Cor fourteen days. Auckland is the biggest subscriber, with Wanganui second, and Dunedin third. This .confidence thus expressed in Wanganui is most gratifying to the Wanganui Harbour Board and the city generally. A little bov had been sent to the sloenl chemist to get some liniment and a special kind of china cement. “Do you want the two things in separate parcels ” asked the assistant as soon as he had attended to I lie boy’s demands. “Yes, please," answered the little fellow, “t think it would be as well. The cement is for mother; she wants to mend the teapot. The liniment is for father. Mother broke the teapot over his head.”

A. fine of £1 and costs was Imposed on a farmer, ran the Magistrate’s Court at Manaia for failing to drive liiis motor ear slowly when approaching - and until past some cows being' driven along the high - way. The magistrate mentioned the responsibilities of motorists in meeting' travelling stock. He suggested that the principle might he tested in regard to the defendant’s witnesses’ cows, the oncoming' car keeping pace with (lie cows as they increased their speed until the, animals dropped out. Although had handwriting, careless typists, and American ignorance of New Zealand geography are responsible for some strangelyaddressed correspondence, the ingenuity of the postal officials is at most times equal to the occasion. In the last American mail a letter from the Chicago University arrived with the typewritten address : “Crack land Stock Exchange, Ci’uc'kllaud, N.Z.’’ Insult was added in injury with the addition of the words in red ink: “Try Auckland Stock Exchange.” The destination proved a correct one (says the “New Zealand Herald”), but members are amused that such an unwitting reflection upon their integrity should originate from Chicago.

At Chicago on Saturday Camera (20!Ht>.) knocked out I lie Canadian Riotix (210lh.) in I lie first round of ii. scheduled ten-rounds fight, which lasted 47 seconds, daring which Rioux dropped lo the Hour live times. The final punch waa u sI rntig'lil rigid cross of terrific pow er, under which Ituniv doubled up and collapsed in u heap.

('oiuiiienl was mi ade by I lie <to \ eni iiii-ii I. Auditor, hi conned ion with the ha la are shed of 111 e Grey iii<iul it Borough Council for Urn year ended March 31, 11)2!), lo Ihc effect llial. the amoiml. of sundry oiilslandling aeeoiinls wui-i c.vectt sivc. T-lic lown clerk slated lloil Ihc tot.‘il was £314, Inil some of llicse aeeoiinls had been oulslnml i ll o- for one year only.

In limes of stress a humorist is 'worth his weight in gold. A Wan ganui farmer tells an interesting story relating to the big Kangilikei f!oo<l of 1907 (says tin.* Ohroniuh*). Everybody was downhearted. That was only- natural under the circumstances. All Bulls settlers were apprehensive regarding the safety of their homes. One man, whose fourroomed house was tottering on its piles and was about to leave for the open sea, seemed not a whit disturbed. “People don’t know when they are well off,” he remarked to friends. “I’ve been away, and came home to find the larder well filled —a carcass of mutton in the parlour and a fish In my bed."

ITis Excellency the GovernorGeneral says lie would like to see a conference of the country’s best brains convened to deal,with the evil of unemployment.- Sir Charles appears to forget, that a conference of what are generally’ claimed lo he the best brains in the country is already a regular affair. If opens every year, usually on the last'Thursday in dune, and slay’s in session for some months, after which, in recognition of its noble work in the interests of humanity, it votes itself a £IOO bonus and goes' home. It is an excellent idea to convene gatherings of representatives of the country’s best brains —as long as the selection of those brains is not conducted on an elective basis. —Auckland Sun.

A story in connection with a wellknnwn Waimarnma sheep farmer and his lazy collie is told in the Hawke’s Bay Tribune. It appears that the owner, with his dog, was mustering his sheep on a recent particularly’ hot day, so hot. indeed was it that the dog decided to retire from litis duties and established himself in the shade of a neighbouring hill. The angry farmer was now forced to continue his work dogless—and in the midst- of his perspiring labour lie was accosted by a stranger who desired to see him on business. “Are you Air. A?” asked the stranger politely. “No, I am. not Mr. A,” roared the wrathful pastoralist. “There’s Mr. A sitting' up on Hie hill, and I’m Hie dog.”

On Sunday the Palmerston North brewery employees held their second annual picnic at- Fox ton beach. Over 400 adults and Children made the trip and a very pleasant holiday was spent at the heti'ch. The kiddies were catered for with sweets, ice creams and soft drinks and participated in a sports programme run during the afternoon. The picnic committee, under the chairmaiishiip of Mr. L. Wisehnewsky and with ALi ss G. W'lisehnewsky and with Miss G. no pains to ensure the success of Hie outing and all arrangements functioned without a hitch. Before the cars left on the homeward .journey’, Air. \Y. AleKegg, on behalf of those present, asked Alias 1 Wisehnewsky to accept, an attache case as a small mark of appreciation of the work she had done in connection with the outing.

The pronunciation of many syllabled Maori names is one of the most difficult duties required of the crier at the Napier Court at various times, and a constable, who only recently arrived in the Dominion from Scotland, was faced with a tongue-twister during a. recent sitting of the court, states the Napier Telegraph. The clerk of the court made a. heroic effort to pronounce the name of a Maori defendant, and tiha man in blue, with a broad grin on his face, moved out side the door and carried on the good work in the passage, in an endeavour to rouse the defendant, if he was in the vicinity of the court. By the time it had passed through two months, the name had altered perceptibly and the constable himself seemed to have some doubts on the 'matter, for after ejaculating the customary, “No appearance of defendant Your Worship,” he moved across to the only member of the Native race present in the back of the court, and in accents that smacked of his native heather, queried in a stage whisper, “Is that your name, Jock?” A warning notice has been erected on the ocean beach advising bathers not to enter the watef south of the point defined which is just above the hole which is apparent at low water and in which a number of bathers got into difficulties on .a. recent Sunday. Despite this fact, however, and with I lie tide dead out a party of bathers entered the water again last Sunday 'afternoon heedless of a warning from a beacli resident. Another party, however, declined lo take the risk when warned and bathed in safety higher up the | beacli. it is surprisinli, though, the number of people who will not take any notice of a warming, but they are for the most part strangers to the beach. 'There is always the •risk, however, that with such people on the beach that a drowning fatality might occurr or even a scare, both of which have the effect of putting people off the beach,

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“Generali y speaking, I loiuid 11 1 ill gs very sal isl'iM'lnry,” said the ('omiiiissioucr nl’ Polieo (Mr. W. B. ,Mi- 11 vimkiy ) when asked at W'elliiiff(on yesterday to comment on his irefill lour of police stations in the North Island, “I am very proud to say thm during the whole tour, 1 did not receive one signlc complaint, '* lie declared. Mr. Mellveney •has yet to visit stations in the "‘Napier and Gisborne districts and hose in the South Island. An interesting sight, was witnessed in a local garden on several evenings recently. A little grey .warbler was noticed darting hither and thither among the shrubs and tree's and returning swiftly to a tree wherein was perched a newlyhedged shining cuckoo, which kept up a monotonous squeaky chirping. The little .foster 'mother was attempting to appease the apparent voracious appetite of the cuckoo with insects which il greedily took from the warbler's beak. The difference in I lie sizes of the two birds was most marked and the energetic little warbler seemed proud of the monstrosity she had been fooled to hatch and watch over.

The Commissioner of Police, in explaining why detectives are to share in the reward of £250 offered for the apprehension of the Christchurch “firebugs,” says (heat. Constable Gillum “merely arrested'' the men, and “did not know that they were connected with incendiary tires.” But nobody knew, and least of all the detectives. It was their job to arrest somebody, and they might have been forgiven if they had arrested the wrong man from time to time on the prospect of stumbling across a favourable fingerprint. Bui whatever they did behind the scenes did not constitute anything in the nature of a “drive,” and on the contrary the ineffectiveness of their methods seems to have encouraged the incendiaries to carry on with their work. As things have turned out, the arrest was.not only difficult, but highly dangerous, and if the men who willingly take risks to arrest such criminals are to he told that they arc not to get full credit for their enterprise, they may be pardoned for holding hack when dangerous work is afoot. If the Commissioner is wise he will pay the full reward to the arresting, constable. —Christchurch Star.

Tn the course of an address at the Sanitation Conference at Christ church, Lieutenant-Colonel Dawson said that outbreaks of dysentery during the past year, which were of a bacillary type, were a. warning to the public. The surroundings of many modern Maori pas favoured the spread of dysentery. Back of protection of the water-supply, the absence of proper methods of disposals of ex're I a and other refuse, the overcrowding at tangis and other functions, and the presence of debilitating diseases, such as tuberculosis, also the Maoris’ indifference to and ignorance of disease anti its prevention, made that race particularly liable to epidemics of the bacillary type. If was a bad day for the Maori when lie left his raupo where on the top of the hill end imitated the European housing and clothing. Measures of prevention became anti-fly measures and protection of water and food from pollution, and satisfactory disposal of excreta should he carried out in an energetic manner. An inspector who could win t he confidence of the head of the pa, and impress on him that importance of defence against 'that seourage had won more than half the battle. The Maori nurse and the medical man in charge of the Maoris could lie looked on as (lie greatest ally of those who were lighting disease in New Zealamj,