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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 2 May 1925, Page 4

The annual rapping carnival of Canterbury College (Christchurch) will open on Monday, a week earlier than usual, with the students’ procession.

An Invercargill telegram states that the Southland Electric Power Board’s station .at Monowai was ofiioially opened in the presence of fully 1000 people, those present including the Hon o'. G, Coates, Hon. G. J. Andersoi and Sir Joseph Ward.

Shipmates who arrived in Auckland by the ship African, on January 29, 1860, celebrated their first reunion at Auckland on Thursday. Thoso who attended—many of them brought four generations with them —were welcomed by the Hon. G. J. Garland, M.L.C.

A public meeting under the auspices of the Order of the Star in the East was held in tho Theoeophical Hall last night, when addresses were given by Messrs J. G. Radford and J. H. Cooper, the subject of their- remarks being “The second coming of tho Master.”

A trial game prior to tho departure of the All Blucks to Australia on June 4 will be played, and it is understood that the recently returned All Blacks will be eligible for the team. The selection will, in view of the wapt of time to carry out an exhaustive series of tests, be made largely on last year’s form. A London cablo to the Australian Press states that New Zealand’s most impressive scene at Wembley vhis year is of .tlie thermal springs, viewed from Mount Tarawera. Steam shoots up at intervals, the mud has been brought from New Zealand, and every detail is exact.

A cinema actor, Mr Finney, playing the leading role in a Maori War picture being made at Rotorua, had the misfortune to break his left arm while doing some stunt horse riding ill rough country. The horse stumbled in a pot-hole, throwing its rider, who was conveyed to Rotorua by motor and attended by a doctor, Wilbert Stanley Clark, master of the Awahou, was charged at Auokland with allowing the vessel’s plimsol mark to bo submerged 2i inches. Tho breach was corrected immediately his attention was drawn to it by the removal of 17 tons of deck cargo. Tho court held that the offence was not serious and dismissed the charge on payment of costs. Tho Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union liao announced its preparedness to take tho Ranfurly Shield, of which it is tho present hoi dors, on tour this season, and will oppose both Wellington and Auckland in shield fixtures. It is, howevr, probable that the conditions governing the trophy’ will be amended and the former rules, giving the holders tho power to refuse to travel with the trophy, reverted to for next season.

In to-day’s issue the Railway Department advertises excursion fares to Hastings and Napier in connection with the Hawkes Bay races to be held at Hastings racecourse on Bth and 9th May. The 6.51 a.m. train from Palmerston North on Bth and 3th May will stop at Hastings racecourse to set down passengers. A new all-wool stocking for ladies in a superior quality is embroidered, “Gold Seal,” specially selected by the London house of Collinson and Cunninghame. It represents the greatest value in hosiery toddy, It is full fashioned with effective gold stripe, making it even more attractive and in all the new and popular colourings, they are selling very quickly. Price only 63 9d pair,—Advt-

“Christchurch has a very fair endowment of pessimists,” declared Archbishop Julius, speaking at the opening °f t'* 6 Christ's College Memorial Dining Hall. “The reason why there is so much pessimism, I believe, is that we are only nine feet above sea, level. If we were m ne D’ feet above that, things would bo totally different.”

A Napier family who contemplate settling m Australia purchased a new car, intending to take it with them when they left New Zealand, They have since d»' covered, however, that the freight, duty, and other charges involved in taking the car to Australia wilt amount to £2OO. Now they hove decided it would be "cheaper to sell the car.

The North v. South Island Rugby match will, this year be played at Invercargill, beihg succeeded by another important fixture —the trial prior to th© first test versus Now South Wales —which has-been set down for Auckland. The handsome cup presented by the Prince of Wales on behalf of the sportsmen of England has been allocated for the inter-island game, and it is proposed to place the trophy on exhibition for brief periods in the Venous union towns.

A burglary at Manaia was reported dn Tuesday, Mr C. Chong’s store and dwelling having been broken into on Saturday morning, Mr Chong kept his safe m his bedroom, and after closing business on Friday night deposited his cash in the safe, placing his keys in a pocket m lii3 trousers, whioh he hung alongside his bed. Mr Chopg retired about midnight, and in the morning he was surprised to find that the safe had been rifled and a sum of money, about £7O. was missing.

At th© annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union held at Wellington, 1" was announced that the new rules, which had been brought down at the conference in London in December last, would net be brought into fore© in New Zealand in the meantime. Although it is considered that the amendments will in due course be embodied in the New Zealand laws of the game, they have to be first submitted to the English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, South African and New Zealand Unions for approval. '

When asked in the Auckland Court how many children )io had, a judgment debtor replied : “Four, and I am about to adopt another.” The magistrate then remarked that if a man couldn’t pay his debts he ought not to_adopt another child. The debtor replied “Well, sir, his father went away and left the child with us. What are we to do? We don’t know wliero the man iB.” The magistrate said that it was doubtful if a Court would allow him to adopt a child when he could not pay his way-

The memorial gates the Eltham people aro to provide for tfio new schppl were shown the Minister of Education, Sir James Parr, when officially visiting that town during this week. The plan shows two separate gates, inscribed as follows: On one side: ‘They died for us,” and on the other “Honour their memory,” and below on each side of these will be a niarblo slab on which will be inscribed the name© of the, men who fell in the Great War. The gates will be a distinct asset and ornament to the school, states an exchange.

A dispute in connection with the loading of sand ballast on the Commonwealth and Dominion line steamer Port Augusta arose yesterday afternoon between the men engaged in. the operations and the local agents, s(|tcs a Dunedin Press Association message. Work proceeded without a hitch for a time, then the men intimated that they wanted an extra rat© for such work. As no agreement was come to between them and the agents, operations ceased. The matter has been referred to the local disputes committee. In the meantime the Port Augusta, is lying idle.

A weighty Romney Marsh lamb, one of a lot that Wcr© being driven from a saleyards, attracted by its reflection, and “pausing not to think upon the order of its going,” promptly a window in a street in Balclutha and landed sprawling inside Eipiong the “pbjets d’art’ of the furniture department. Broken, from top to bottom was the window and the whole of it will have to be taken out for replacement. As it has a superficial area of some 85ft (states the Clutha Free Press) the cost will be about £3O or £40 —rather an expensive ram’s freak, as th© owner will doubtless find.

Speaking at the opening of an electrical power station in Southland this Week, the [lon. J. G. Coates mid that the development of electricity would have a grout effect on the economio life ol: the people of New Zealand. The Dominion wm able to use unlimited ppwar. He spoke of tlm ambition oLfche Government in dealing witn liydro-elecfno schemes, and said the State schemes would be on a commercial basis. Ho was satisfied 3 hat in time they would pay a huge dividend, and the attractions of Now Zealand would be increased. With care and well-thought-out schemes, the country would prosper and attract capital from overseas

Three young men in Dunedin the other afternoon commandeered a. doctor’s motor ear from outside the hospital gates and careered at a, reckless pace, along King Street, colliding with two horses, one of which wob so badly injured that it had to be destroyed by the police. They then went at a reckless pace southwards, and when in Caversham collided with a shop verandah, which collapsed. But even fthis did not put an end to their capers, as the car - was seen travelling at a great pace still further southward. All suburban andnearby oouptry polioe stations had bean by. this time notified to keep a look out for the men, and .eventually they were caught iifid placed uider arrest by a constable wlien racing through a suburb at a high rate of speed. The car by then was badly damaged.

“The proper pla-jo for the children to clean their teeth is at home,” said the headmaster (Mr VV. A. Swinbourn) when asked by Mr E. V. West, chairman of the College Street School Committee, at last night's meeting, what was being done with regard tha toothbrush drill at the school. The headmaster went on to say that in the districts where he had been stationed he had instituted the drill and had found that it was for the good of the pupils—parents became interested, with the result that toothbrush drill became one of the home practices. Teeth might bo decayed, but their cleaning arrested it to an extent; and half the complaints of children were directly caused 'by bad teeth. The drill at College Street, instituted by his predecessor, Mr D; VV. Low, had been of advantage, though there was a certain disadvantage in having the utensils mixed, and since its c<jssat : on periodical inspections had been made of the pupils’ mouths, his last examination revealing that on the whole the teeth were >in ft very good condition. The whole tiling was to get the ohildren to clean their teetn. If they did not do it at, hpme then, with the committee's assistance, he would introduce once again the toothbrush drill. “The whole trouble is the sweet shops,” stated the headmaster, “thero are too many near the sohooi.” Miss Eidred, teacher of elocution, has returned to Palmerston North. Owing to the long and serious illness of her mother, Ml fa Eldred’s return was unavoidably postponed from time to time. Daring the month of April the estates of the following deceased persons in the Palmerston North district were accepted for administration by the Publio Trustee: Walter James Baigent, Joseph Hall, Samuel Frederick Smith, James Thomas Standen, Thomas Nicol. On Sunday morning the annual Church parade of the Wellington Regiment of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces will be held at 11 o’clock in AH' Saint*’ Church. The annual reunion of the regiment, is being held in Palmerston North over the week-end. The members will be joined by the South Afrioaa and Maori War veterans at the Church parade. At the service in All Saints' tho preacher will be Rev. H. W. Monaghan, vicar of Hawera. The Mayor and councillors have accepted an invitation to attend the service.

Ladies will be interested In tho new shipment of beautiful Paisley silks just received by the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd. Many of the designs are specially suitable for making into the fashionable scarves so much in request to-day. Width 33 inches price, only 8s lid at Palmerston's fashion centre. —Advt.