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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4530, 13 November 1930, Page 4

A total of 43 applicants have been received for the position of assistant-town llenk to the Napier Borough Council. “Only 18 lines are given to Robert Raikes, the founder of Sunday schools, in the latest encyclopaedia,” stated the Mayor of Christchurch (the Rev. J. K. Archer) at k civic recognition meeting recently. “To Napoleon, that wholesale murderer, it gives .13 columns. Yet Raikes’ work was of 7000 times the Value of Napoleon’s, and the world would have been ten times better off if Napoleon had never Jived.” A. return published in the Ga-. .'zette showing the estimated population of New Zealand, states that tin; total, including dependencies >and mandated (territory, is 1,555,■3!)!> (males, 004,115). The estimated population of Western Samoa is 44,000; Cook Islands, 14,812 and Tokelau Island, 000. The estimated population of New Zeaalnd, excluding. Maoris, 1,427,035, and the Maori population is 07,503. A mistake made in the spelling of tlip Maori equivalent for “Smith” necessitated the rescinding of a resolution passed by the. N'ew Plymouth Borough Council at a meeting on October (fill. It was then decided to name a reserve in Mangorei Road, donated bv Mr. S. .1. Smith, “Amiti Park,” it 'being understood this meant “Smith Park.” It was then found that the name should he “Te Mete Rafik.” The resolution correcting the mistake was accordingly passed at the last Council meeting. Wjild pigs are. increasing in the Omoami district, near Eltliam, Taranaki. Much havoc has been wrought among lambs on the properties of settlers in the district, and the pigs are becoming such a menace that it is almost impossible to breed and raise lambs. In referring to this extensive mortality among lambs anjd the consequent serious losses toi the settlers, a farmer expressed the opinion that the bounty of one shilling a snout was not only sufficient to encourage hunters, 'but it was barely enough to meet the expense of ammunition.