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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 6

Tempestuous weather in the South Pacific is continuing to. affect the schedules of overseas ships steaming to Auckland.

An indication of the impending close of the Supreme Court sessions at this centre was given hy the Chief Justice, lit. Hon. Sir Michael Myers, in the course of proceedings yesterday when he informed counsel that he wisfied to return to AVellington on Thursday. An invitation lias been extended to Princess Te Puea and a party of Waikato natives to visit Australia next year and take with them one of the war canoes which are now being built at Ngaruawahia for use at the New Zealand centennial celebrations in 1940.

The .engineer (Mr L. C. Pickering) reported to to-day’s meeting of the Kairanga County Council that the application for the employment of 15 men under the special subsidy had been granted by the Department of Labour, and the men had been employed in cleaning drains and watertables, giving direct benefit to the roads. “Very satisfactory work has been performed and in all 596 chains have been attended to,’’ concluded Mr Pickering. The national committee of the New Education Fellowship Conference, at a meeting last week, passed a resolution : “That the thanks of this committee be extended to the newspapers of New Zealand lor their very generous assistance iu connection jvith the New Education Fellowship Conference, .and that they be congratulated upon the high standard reached by their reports of the proceedings.” Tt was stated- at the meeting that all the overseas speakers had commented upon the honest and workmanlike reports of interviews and lectures, and the complete lack of any desire to indulge in cheap sensationalism. The newspapers throughout had genuinely tried to assist educational thought in the country. For this as well as for their generosity in giving publicity over the past twelve months, the committee was very grateful.

No further cases of typhoid fever have occurred in the native settlement at Catherine Bay on Great 'Barrier Island since the 87 residents of four villages were inoculated by officers of the Health Department.

The State Placement Service was responsible for placing 690 men in employment during the week ended last Saturday, making the total since April 1 14,476. In Palmerston North positions were found for fifteen men, bringing the total for the city to 593. “Although New Zealand’s centennial is three years away the many inquiries the Government has received about the event-to-be from overseas shows that other countries view the occasion in its full perspective,” remarked the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. W. E. Parry, in an interview last evening.

“They are all girls nowadays,” smilingly commented His Honour the Chiei Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in t the Supreme Court at Palmerston North to-day, when counsel appearing in a Family Protection Act case referred to the fact that both “girls were well advanced in years.” He added that they were aged 52 and 57 years respectively. ■/Esperanto as an aid to the learning of geography is being taught at the Hokowiiitu School to a class of about 15 by Mr C. J. Adcock, a member of the staff. The pupils of the classes are writing, in Esperanto, to children of other nations, the aim being to stimulate interest in foreign countries and thus have an additional medium lor the study of those countries.

Difficulties which sometimes arise attendant upon service on a jury were exemplified in the Supremo Court yesterday, when a message was passed to His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, that a person wished to communicate with a juror, asking him for a key to a certain cupboard. The proceedings of the Court were held up briefly while the juror selected the correct key and passed it to the person requiring it. “If there is a possibility of oil being found in large quantities in Papua, the staff of prospectors now drilling there will get it,” was the opinion expressed by Mr Edward S. Moss, a Wellington business man, while speaking of a visit to Port Moresby, when he returned-yesterday after a round trip to the Dutch East Indies. “Enormous capital has been raised and money is being spent like water to ascertain whether early indications of oil deposits will yield profitable supplies,” continued. Mr Moss. Increases in salaries involving an extra ,£3170 a year are made necessary by the application of the Local Bodies Officers’ Union award to employees of the Auckland Electric Power Board, according to a report received yesterday from the grading committee at a meeting of the' board. Other salary increases recommended by the committee and approved by the board by way of adjustments to officers who had lost seniority provided under the board’s grading scheme brought the total increase t-o £5050. —-Press Association.

Now that the report of the Electoral Boundaries Commission has been presented and maps showing the new provisional electorate boundaries are available', organisation is proceeding rapidly in the Otago and Southland division of the New Zealand National Party, embracing the 11 electorates south of Waitaki. For some months past the work of forming electorate and branch committees throughout the area has been carried on steadily, and there is now in existence a sound foundation on -which will be built a strong anti-Socialist party. Once one of the most flourishing coastal passenger runs in New Zealand and now one of the oldest services conducted by the Northern Steamship Company, the Auckland-Thames passenger trade has suffered an almost final blow, says an Auckland Press Association telegram. Unable to meet the fast road competition the company is withdrawing the steamer Kawau and replacing her by the Paroto, which will take cargo only. Only one passenger trip will now be made weekly, that taken by the Hauiti every Monday. It is probable it will bo only a matter of time before the passenger trade lapses altogether. The abnormally long spell of wintry weather has been responsible for many minor ills, both adults and children being affected in Auckland, says the Herald. The majority of the complaints are the common coughs and colds, with many suffering from sore throats, although doctors have remarked on the frequency with which they have been called on during the past few weeks to treat septic throats. In addition, there is a pronounced, although mild, outbreak of chickenpox, confined mainly to the more congested portions of the city, while influenza, in many cases in a severe form, is more general than was the experience of the various nursing services in the earlier months of the winter.

Viscount Horne, proposing the toast of “The Young Citizen” at a dinner at the Mansion House, London, said that the young men of Britain were facing problems greater and more difficult that those that had confronted the older generation. Quoting Disraeli’s phrase that “the youth of the nation are the trustees of posterity,” Lord Horne said there -were great forces operating against the influences that they tried to exercise. Dictatorships were superior to democracies in that they moved more quickly. The young citizen must work out a system whereby democratic government could act as swiftly as autocracies. He must take more interest in politics than previous generations.

The vice-captain of the South African . Rugby football team, Mr D. Craven, spoke to a number of young people on the value of religion in his life at the close of the service in St. James’s Presbyterian Church, Newtown, Wellington, on Sunday night. Mr Craven said he felt strongly that God was in everything that happened, and in all things he wished to feel the Divine guidance. Even on the football field he felt that he could rest in God’s care. Once after an injury he was told by a doctor that he could not play again. He felt he would rather die than give up the game, but then he realised that he eoujd live for religion, which was the greatest thing in Tile. Within a fortnight lie was able to play again. June in New South Wales brought the highest weekly average of car registrations ever known to the State, said Mr R. T. Vanderfield, a Sydney timber mere! i nt, who arrived in Leilington en route to the Pacific coast of America. He quoted that iact as a reliable index of Australian prosperity. A general statement to indicate the upward trend in the Commonwealth was also made by Mr E. CThcodore, for many • years prominent in Australian politics, who came by the same ship as a passenger for Suva. He said that unemployment figures were the lowest since 1929. Prices for meat, wool, and industrial products were very heartening to Australians. said Mr Vanderfield, and justified the belief that the coming two years would be good ones for the country generally.