NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4486, 2 August 1930, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

It is reported that the Ran on the public sale of fireworks, which was imposed by the Government last March, will he removed for one Year.

The total area of State planf-a-lions is now approximately 253,000 acres, a record for the Empire. Last year an area of 5(>,5(i() acres was .planted.

The Rest attempt to reach the North Bole by air was made in 1897. A balloon was used, hut the attempt, ended in tragedy, for if was never heard of again, and no remnant of il has ever been found.

The end of the work of the Earthquake Relief Eund Uonnniltee is now in sight, and it is anticipated that the. committee will be in a position to disband after two more meetings have been held. It costs something like £17,00(1 1,0 get the British touring team out to tour the Dominion and before the game at Gisborne over £33,000 had been received by the New Zealand Rugby Union. .11 is expected (Rat before the tour is completed this amount, will be doubled. “You never saw any wood so utterly destroyed as that. bit. of wood is," remarked the curator of the Wanganui Museum the-other day in commenting at a meeting of the irnstees on ilio recent, receipt of a piece of pinis insig'iiis riddled by Ibe deadly saw fly, which has made its appearance near Wlianganui. There were, lie said, several live larvae in the block of wood.

A record unparalleled has been created with the retirement, of Mr. C. E. l-’owke, of 'Christchurch, from the service of the Railway Department, after having been in its employ for JR years. His father, Air* T. Eowlce, who completed 41 years in the department's employ in 1 DOG, is still alive. A similar ease of father and son both being on superannuation from the department is unknown.

"It often happens that a man who is supporting both his father and bis mother is not entitled to exemptions from income tax, where a man who is supporting a widowed mother is," said Air. 'C. E. F. Lowland, Deputy-Commission of Taxes, when addressing the Wellington Accountant Students' Association. That was a position that should be remediedj lie added and lie thought it soon would be.