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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 8

The Auckland Y.M.C.A. appeal for £12,000 yielded £12,165. —Press Association.

“I don’t think wo need worry any further about it,” remarked Colonel J. H. Whyte at last night’s meeting of the College Street School Committee when reference was made to the taking of the buildings for an intermediate school.

The £65,035 10s put through the totalisator at Riccarton yesterday was the largest amount recorded since Grand National Steeplechase day in 1923, when £65,921 was invested. In 1920 the total was £64,330, and figures for the other years were: 1927, £63,202; 1928, £61,094; 1929. £62.086; 1930, £42,565; 1931. £34,105; 1932, £26,562; 1933, £34,301; 1934, £37,768; 1935, £41,814; 1936, £53,307.

In the course of his report to the monthly meeting of the Mannwatu County Council yesterday the engineer (Mr H. V. Bond) stated that under the •agreement made recently with the aet-ing-Minister of Labour (Hon. P. C. Webb) 20 men were engaged in straightening the Foxton-Shannon highway at Marotiri. The men; who are from Foxton, had commenced work last Monday week, a new line altogether having been laid out by survey. Addressing , the Grand Jury in 'lie Supreme Court at Wanganui, His Honour Mr Justice Smith made it clear that in every case where a motor vehicle is involved in an accident there is a duty on the - motorist to stop and enquire whether,'anylwdy has been injured. He said that the law had been altered last year making it an emphatic duty on'the part of every motorist involved in an accident to stop as there was that additional duty on him to ascertain whether another person had been injured and that dutv could not be fulfilled if the motorist did not stop and inquire.

A fender of £15,485 has been accepted by the Napier Borough Council for the erection of a new municipal theatre building. A heavy fall of snow, varying from four inches in depth in the town to 18 inches in the country occurred in the Queenstown district on Friday night. All week-end sporting fixtures were postponed. A 'drive against shags in the Central Hawke’s Bay district will be undertaken by a party of sportsmen within a few days. Operating from Otane, the party intends to traverse the riverbeds in the district and -spread out in order to kill as many birds as possible. Money to support her in the event of war is now being contributed to China by her subjects all over the world, and it is stated that so far in New Zealand, where there are between 2500 and 3000 Chinese, the sum of approximately £IO.OOO has boon collected. A positive case of infantile paralysis was admitted to the Whangarei Hospital yesterday, the patient being a boy a"ed 41 years. A preliminary diagnosis shows that paralysis is present in one leg. This is the first case which has occurred in the north for over two months.—Press Association.

It is 97 years ago to-day since the British flag was hoisted at Akaroa by Captain Stanley of the Britomart, forestalling the French frigate L’Aube by two days. The French vessel Comte do Paris arrived on the 16th with fiftyseven emigrants who were intended to form the nucleus of the French colonisation of the South Island.

After a close season last year ( opossum trappers are out again in the East Coast and Waiapu acclimatisation districts, Reports indicate that very, fair success has been achieved by trappers, and skins have conic in very well during the past fortnight. The number of skins received so far suggests that the early part of the season has been as good as that two year's ago. A petition with over 1000 signatures, including those of members of local bodies, miners, farmers and others, has been forwarded to the Prime Minister (Bt. Hon. M. J. Savage) from Westport urging the appointment of Mr H. 11. Young to the Legislative Council in view of his special knowledge of geology and of mining generally in the Buller district.—Press Association.

Though the Government deer-culling operations would be continued in Southland during the summer it was doubtful if it was the intention of the Government to concentrate on moose and wapiti with the idea of killing the animals out, said a member of the Southland Acclimatisation Society, commenting on remarks made by Mr C. Lane at a meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. The Southland member said-that the wapiti herd was completely isolated and inhabited country that was wild and rugged.

The Mataroa, in which the Minister of Finance (Hon. W. Nash) is returning from England, has been further delayed by severe weather and will not now arrive at Auckland until noon on Saturday. As a consequence, the civic reception to the Prime Minister (Bt. Hon. M. J. Savage) and Mr Nash will be tendered on Saturday night at 8 o’clock instead of on Friday, as first planned, states an Auckland Press Association message. Mr Savage is coming to Auckland to meet Mr Nash, and is also making his first visit to the city since his return from the Imperial Conference.

News of the travels of Mr W. E. Barber (chairman of the Manawatu County Council) came beioro the members of the council • yesterday in the form of a short letter from him, written a.t Townsville, in Northern Australia. Mr Barber is on a visit to Japan, accompanied by Mrs Barber and Mr and Mrs A. Hopwood. Mr Barber advised that the next port of call was to be Itabaul (where there were violent volcanic eruptions a short time ago) and there was on beard a party of professors who intended to descend into one of the major craters. There were also on board 70 polo ponies, being shipped from Townsville to Hong Kong.

Suggestions that instead, of providing a foot-path and fencing on Kawa Kawa Hoad, at Feilding, which was estimated to cost £260, half a mile of the road be tar-sealed were placed before the monthly meeting ot the Manawatu County Council yesterday by Cr. D. W. lieid. He 6aid that while the council might not be able to underbake the whole cost of sealing the roadway it might bo able to entertain the matter if contributions were received from the ratepayers interested. He offered to make preliminary inquiries to ascertain how the proposal would be received, and how much might be forthcoming toward its realisation. The council received the suggestions favourably and Cr. Reid is to proceed with his inquiries.