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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 122, 27 April 1925, Page 4

An Auckland message states that a young Maori named TI. Marshall, sustained a fractured skull tnrough being struck by a tramway cenircpole when looking out from the platform of a tramcar in Svmonds street.

The parishioners of All Saints’ Church have decided to place a stained glass window in the chapel as a memorial to the late Mr James Mitchell. The subject of the window is to be St. Columba, and the wiork has been placed in the hands of a London firm.

It is stated at New Plymouth that an investigation into the present conditions of work on the waterfront there is being made by the Labour Department with the view to taking legal action against the watersiders, the allegation being that the Arbitration Act is being broken by the employment of “go slow” tactics, which for some time have been delaying work at the port.

The type of immigrant on board the Athenie favourably impressed Sir John Luke, M.P. In conversation with a Wellington reporter Sir John said that the Dominion was to be congratulated on the class of immigrants it- was receiving. Those on the Athenie gave every promise of making good. At Wanganui on Anzao Day, Sir Maui Pomare unveiled in Moutoa Gardens a memorial erected to the memory of Maori soldiers from Wanganui district who laid down their lives in the Great War. The memorial takes the form o'f a high tower of shellrook surmounted by tire figure of a Maori soldier. At the four corners of the base is a receptacle containing soil from various battlefields.

At the monthly meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board held at Palmerston North on Friday it was decided to send a letter of appreciation to the Minister of Railways (Hon. J. G. Coates) for the courtesy extended the board, and congratulating him on the success of his administration of the department. Mr llolben remarked that if the railways hud been commercialised years ago there would not now be the competition with the motor lorries. The assistance given by the present Ministry was so considerable that it did not bear comparison with that of the old administration.

Warm approbition of the work of the Manavvatu Patriotic Society wis expressed at the sacred concert at the Opera House on Saturday evening by Mr B. J. Jacobs, president of the Palmerston North R.S.A. It was often the case, h*i said, that most ungenerous remarks vere mado about the society, but he wanted to say publicly that the organisation was absolutely genuine and that the R.S.A. was more than satisfied with the administration of the society. The latter had, in fact, adopted a policy recommended by the R.S.A. The speaker, as president of the last-named body, was c\ the society’s committee, and personally handled 99 per cent, of the soldiers’ cases dealt with.

Some time ago it was announced thatan arrangement had been arrived at with the Fiji Government for the concentration of all lepers from British colonies in the Pacific at the Mokugai leper station, Fiji. On Quail Island, Lyttelton harbour, there are nine leper’s consisting of four Maoris, two Chinese, and tlrreo Europeans. The Minister of Health (Hon. ■ Sir Maui Pomare) stated last week-end that it had been decided to close the Quail Island station and transfer the lepers from there within the next two or three months. The cost of their maintenance at Fiji would bo borne by the New Zealand Government. All the patients had consented to go to Fiji.

Ratepayers are reminded that Messrs Hubbard and Canton will give an address in tlie West End School at 8 o’clock this evening.

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A Gisborne message state :’ rl^ t nL the Maori hui at Tikitfti on A ac Da? w sum of £2IOO was contributed to the of the Memorial Church. At the Police Court at Auckland .a Chinaman was fined .£3O. f° r t u ers & we re possession of opium while four oth fined £5 each for smoking opium* A smart rescue was effected ® tie Wellington waterfront on Friday evening, when a girl aged fourteen fell mto harbour as she was about to etep , hußt Adderley alongside the Ferry whar . John MacDonald, a foreman in tne i employ of the Union Steam Ship Company, lumped into the water and supported girl until they were both hauled up on the wharf.

A man went to an Auckland chemis > s shop .with a prescription for eyedrops, containing a considerable amount of a certain form of opium (states an exchange). On tl|e chance that the buyer was a drug addict, however, the chemist rang up alt the other chemists in the vicinity and tola them what ho had supplied to the man, whose 'description ho gave. . ltlnn to minutes the man had called at three shops to ask for the same prescription to be made up. In no case was he supplied.

“The Mnnawatu Patriotic Society is paying £1450 per annum to the dependants or soldiors in Palmerston North alone, earn Mr It. ■J. Jacobs, president of the local branch of the R.S.A., when speaking at the sacred concert on Saturday evening. Tho society, lie added, had a fund designed to meet the exigencies of the future. Those responsible for the administration had displayed great wisdom, he venturea. He thanked the public very much for their support of the R.S.A., the members ot which wei'o bound together by a common tie and doing their best as worthy citizens of the Dominion.

At a meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board held at Palmerston North on Friday afternoon a letter was read from Messrs Goldingham and Beckett, Ltd., stating that a Berious position had cropped up with regard to the alteration in the tariff on benzine by the Railways Department, and asking for a definite reply as to what- charges the board would makewhen it took full control of the wharf from the Railway Department. Mr Holben stated that F’oxton port’s charges were the cheapest in New Zealand and they could not afford to treat anyone at the expense of the port. Considering what they had done in the past lie did not think they should make any alterations in the port charges. The chairman (Mr Linklater) remarked that the charges would be raviewed after six months’ working. After further discussion, on the motion of .Mr Holben it was decided that the firm be written to informing them that at present no changes in the charges could be made, but as soon as the handling of goods was started the board would be pleased to see what revision could be made. Mr Holben remarked that they might make a “cut” and then want it back again.