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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 120, 23 April 1925, Page 4

The honorarium of the Mayor of New Plymouth for the ensuing year has been increased from £l5O to £250.

A Greytown horticulturist has taken 5601 b of onions from a piece of ground eight yards long and six yards wide (remarks an exchange). At the Police Court at Auckland, Air J. W. Poynton, S.M., suspended for u year the licenses of two motorists charged with travelling at an excessive speed

The plans for a new Presbyterian Church estinu ed to cost £4300 and hold approximately 300 people were approved ut a meeting held at Knox "Church, Dunnevirke.

Last Thursday night some person or persons unknown entered two business premises on the top floor of Wuldograve’s Buildings and after thoroughly ransacking them departed with several articles of clothing. The police have the matter in hand.

At tho Magistrate’s Court at Oamaru, Sampson Robert Cleland pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and the theft, of £42 5s 6d at the Pukewi railway station on April 13th. Ho was committed for (sentence at the next sittings of the Supreme Court ut Dunedin.

A big rat was responsible for cutting off electrio power through the Taranaki Power Board’s area from Inglewood to Eltham, excluding Stratford, last Friday evening. Tho rat got in bohind tho switchboard, and by damaging the wiring caused a fire, which destroyed some of the connections. The value of buildings erected or authorised in Wellington during the financial year ended March 31, was ogapi over a million (£1,060,137), but wbb nevertheless, £300,000 below that of the previous financial year (£1,361,584), when a record for the city was established.

The monthly newsletter issued by the State Forest Service draws attention to the utter disregard of many people of survey pegs when building fonces or houses. In many cases, states the periodical, houses are built on road reserves, while in some cuses their fences often tuke in the centre peg of a road survey. In tho course of his remarks ut the rowing dinner given at Blenheim to tho Marlborough rowing representatives who recently visited New South Wales, Dr. R. Noble-Adams, who witnessed the fifth cricket test match in Australia, remarked that Griminatt, the so-called Australian, was the first New Zealander to represent tho Dominion us a test match cricketer, Unfortunately, the people in Australia never mentioned that ho was a Now Zealander, the fact being studiously ignored. Dr. Noble-Adams stated that he had taken it on himself to write to one of tho Sydney papers pointing out that Grimmett was born at Caversham, Dunedin, but for some reason his letter was not published. Mr C. A. E. Ferguson expresses appreciation of tho prompt settlement of his claim by tho Atlas Assurance Company. Have you a Thermos flask they keep ten, cocoa, coffee, soup, baby’s food ami nil liquids steaming hot for hours. They aro also useful for motor trips and picnics. Just fill them up the night before and next morning you can have a hot drink. Prices 6s 9d, 9s 6d, 17s 6d, 21s to 27s 6d with four drinking cups. Wo can also supply extra refills. Collinson and Son, Broadway and King street, Palmerston North.—Advt

Tlio flag was flown from the Post to-day in commemoration of St. George s Day. Apart from the banking 1 institutions, few business firms observed the day as a holiday. “I can remember when this hospital was run by the Putmans,” declared Mr I aul Hunter at a meeting of the Waipawa Hospital Board. “There were the man, the wife, and the daughter and none of them qualified. The man did the cooking anti the woman attended to the patients.

Upon the occasion of the birthday of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the Dominion headquarters of the Bov Scout movement sent a radio message of congratulation to their chief. The task of transmitting the message was undertaken by Scoutmaster Slade, of Dunedin, who successfully achieved his object.

The contractors for the construction of the 1 Kalikati-Tepunu. section of the ltast Coast Main Trunk railway are making good progress with the work. About 280 men are employed on the line, which lias to be handed over to the Government completely equipped and in running order not later than idle end of March, 1927.

At a recent meeting of tho Dominion executive committee of tho Boy_ Scouts Association, tho following resolution was passed: —“That no Boy Scout or Sea Scout- shall curry out any exercise in the use of weapons, and no military uniform or accoutrements whatsoever will be permitted to be worn by scouts or officers.

An increase in wages of 8d per day has been granted to first-grade engine-drivers in the New Zealand railway services, the increase being retrospective to April, 1924. A further concession has been granted m so far that the period in which locomotive men may reach the maximum rate of pay has been reduced from twelve 10 eight years.

Amongst those who followed the hounds yesterday from start to finish were two quite young girls—Mi9s Phyllis Davidson and Miss Lora Meads. They both rode splendidly their ponies jumping well and their performances were much admired by those who were present. Miss Myra Benton, on Chummy, was also among the followers.

An unusual impounding incident was reported at a recent Hawera County Council meeting. Some months ago a horse of better quality than usual was impounded and when sold it realised £22. ‘lhe owner was found and he claimed tho residue over and above expenses. It was resolved that this be paid, less a commission of 5 per cent for work done.

On Saturday next (Anzac Day) Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt, chairman of the Hawke’s Bay-Manawatu Methodist Syrnod, will conduct, a service in connection with the unveiling in the Hastings Methodist Church of a brass tablet in memory of eighteen young men of that congregation who laid down their lives in the Great War, during the period when Mr Pratt was the minister of that congregation.

“I have heard, though I am not positive of the figures, that it would cost about £40,000 to deviate the water supply pipe lino to.inereaso the pressure,” said Mr P. W. Hubbard in tho course of his address ut Terraco End last night. “I would require the opinion of more than one engineer on that point,” ho added, “because I don’t think that the work mentioned would make a great deal of difference.”

The first self-propelled steam coach in New Zoaland bus been inaugurated on the Wellington, Lower Hutt, Melting service, making six additional trips a day, foul 1 of .which .are vo Moiling (slates the Dominion)., By the innovation of this coach, a half-hourly sorvico is now practically established between Bower Hutt and Wellington. The new coach takes about eighteen minutes to cover an eight mile journey; in which there are three stops.

Tho fire hazard was greater this year than has so far been experienced in Westland since the inauguration of the service, states tho monthly newsletter issued by the State Forest Service. More co-opera-tion is, however, being shown between the service and others, particularly sawmillers. Had the old state of affairs reigned as in previous years, lire would have proved a menace not only to tho forests but to homesteads as well.

It is the intention of the PostmasterGeneral (Hon. J. G. Coates) to issue a new stamp in three denominations in connection with the New Zealuid and South Seas Exhibition, which is to be opened at the end of the year in Dunedin. The denominations will bo half-penny, penny, and four-penny, all the one design, _ but in different tones. The design is being drawn bv Mr 11. Linley Richardson, R.8.A., a Wellington artist (states the Dominion). When Mr D. Butler (Customs Landing Inspector) and his searcher staff boarded tho Sydney passenger stjame- Maheno on her arrival in the stream at Wellington they instituted a search for the prohibited drug—opium. Their enterprise was rewarded by tho discovery of four tins bidden in the second-class passengers’ quarters. The opium, which is valued at about £BO, was seized and forwirded to the Collector of Customs. No clue as to its ownership could be found.

Attention waa drawn to the work of the radium and deep therapy department of the public hospital by the chairman of the Canterbury Hospital Board (Mr 11. JOtley) at a meeting on Monday. “I would like the public to know that now we have this radium we are going to do a great deal of good,” said Mr Otley. “If wo are going to do good, however, we would ask the peoplo -to come here in the early stages. My idea is to get the patients early, so that they will not be afraid of radium.”

Every year at Sydney Royal Show a number of children aro lost by thoir parents. On Good Friday this year sixty children became detached from their guardians and were cared for by tho police until they were claimed. Two policewomen were in charge of tho lost children’s branch, and they bad a busy day. It was after 6 p.m. when the lost little wanderer was restored to liL mother. In crowds (says a Sydney paper) it occasionally happens that grown-ups become separated from their friends, and police assistance is called in. The other day an elderly woman reported to the showground police that her father, aged 70 years, was missing. While she was detailing his description to the officer in-chargo, the old man himself bustled in excitedly to report the loss of his daughter.