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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 217, 13 August 1937, Page 6

It lias been decided that the South Island Miniature ltifle Association’s championship will be on the Robert’s target and not metric as previously announced, states ft Press Association telegram from Timaru. Under trees which have been carrying masses of golden wattle bloom for the past few weeks, the ground in many parts of Auckland is strewn with a, carpet of fading gold. It is the last phase of the wattle srason. Since early in July the trees have been one of the beautiful features brightening the surroundings of many an Auckland home, says the Star. “We are becoming a race of wanderers,” Professor J. Shelley told the Wellington branch of the League of Nations Union yesterday. “Released, by the development of rapid means of communication, from the necessity of remaining in one place to reap the fruits of our labour, we are reverting to our nomadic habits of 12,000 years ago. Our present system of civilisation is'breaking down, and with it will disappear most of our finest institutions, if the situation is not faced.”

The Court of Review, which had to suspend its sittings at Palmerston North owing to the lengthy duration of the Supreme Court session, will probably resume at this centre on August 26.

A subsidy of £2OOO has been granted by the Government toward the cost of the erection of the new municipal theatre at Napier. This is on the basis of 10 per cent, of the total cost of the building.

Complete settlement of the wire workers’ dispute was signified at the sitting of the Arbitration Court in Palmerston North to-day,- when an application for an award to give effect to its conditions was granted. During Rev. 13. Gina’s mission at the Nelson Methodist Church, it was announced that Air Samuel Gorman had given donations amounting to £SOOO towards sending a doctor to the Solomon Islands Mission. —Press Association.

“Registration of union rules does not make them valid if they contravene the Act,” stated His Honour Mr Justice O’Regan when the validity of rules was being argued before him in the Arbitration Court at Palmerston North to-day.

With over 5000 people going to Wellington by special trains alone for the Rugby football Test, the Railway Department expects to handle record passenger traffic for one day. Jif teen specials will swell the total of passenger trains arriving between 5.25 a.m. and 1.49 p.m. to 31. A well-attended meeting was held at Obau, this week, when a resolution to form a branch of the New Zealand National Party was carried. Mr J. D. Brown was elected chairman; Mr S. C. Saint, hon. secretary'; and Messrs A. M. Colquhoun, K. R. Kirkcaldie, li. Murray, P. A. Page, E. J. Petersen, and H. Rowland, the committee. An innovation will be introduced at the Royijl Show to be held in Palmerston North during November. In conjunction with the Palmtlston North Horticultural Society, which will supervise the arrangements, the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association will conduct a horticultural competition for private enthusiasts as well as a section for a trade display. Following representations to the authorities by the Wellington branch of the British Medical Association, there is a possibility that the Bowen Street Hospital, Wellington, which was recently purchased by the Crown will continue to be used as a hospital for some little time after October 21, the date on which the Government was to take possession of the property. ■ It was announced in the Gazette last night that two scholarships'valued at £35 a year, tenable for two years, will be offered for competition this year among Maori boys under the Te Makarini Scholarship Fund. One will be a senior scholarship for Maori boys under 10, and the other a junior one for Maori boys in regular attendance at native schools and under 14 years of age. The scholarships will he decided by examination. —-Press Association. New Zealand teams will be concerned in international contests on four fields of sport next Saturday. The Dominion’s Rugby team will meet the visiting South African side at "Wellington, the touring cricketers will begin a match against England at Kennington Oval, London, the New Zealand hockey team will play Australia at Sydney, and at Auckland Isew Zealand will also be opposed by Australia in a Rugby Lague Test match. A striking example of the efforts to sell tickets for seats at the Test match at Wellington to-morrow, between the All Blacks and Springboks, is afforded in the advertising columns of newspapers. In one paper over a hundred advertisements have appeared offering tickets for sale. The ruling prices for grandstands seats for which the Rugby Union charged £1 when they had them available for the public, start at 30s and soar as high as £5 apiece.—Press Association.

Th results of the inter-club photographic competition for the Bledisloe Cup are announced from Invercargill as follows: Dunedin Photographic Society, 1015 points, 1; Wellington Camera Club, 1005 points, 2; Christchurch Camera Club, 994 points, 3; Auckland Camera Club, 953 points, 4; Invercargill Camera Club, 937 points, 5; Camera Pictorialists (Auckland), 922 points, 6. The championship of the exhibition was awarded to Miss J. Nevill, Dunedin society, whose study was the head of a boy.—Press Association.

Comment that the rules of industrial unions were essentially an integral part of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and that each word must be weighed carefully, was made by Mr P. M. Butler, of Wellington, in the Arbitration Court at Palmerston North to-day, when lie said the “man-in-the-street” definition of general labourers could not loosely be accepted, and the position must be safeguarded by specific designation according to the associations of their employment. His Honour Mr Justice O’ltegan suggested that “grafters” might he the most general term that was applicable.

“The return to the 1931 wage-levels in the freezing industry has meant an additional cost to meat producers of about 7d for each carcase of lamb,” stated a report presented to the annual meeting of the Canterbury Sheepowners’ Union by the executive. “This industry stands out as a clear example of the way in which any additional wage cost is brought back to the source of production for export, the farmer on the land. It would appear to be questionable how long the prices received overseas for our exports will make it possible to meet the heavy internal costs of production for export in New Zealand.” “Procedures specifically enjoined by the Act cannot be called formalities; they are essentials,” commented His Honour Mr Justice O’Regan in the Arbitration Court at Palmerston North, to-day, after the opinion of the late Mr Justice Chapman had , been quoted to the effect that “there is in this country happily no difference between Courts of Law and Courts of Equity, and however this Court may he classed, not a word can bo found in its constitution to suggest. that, in a manner affecting its jurisdiction,. ii can, under the name of dispensing with mere formalities, set aside the expressed will of Parliament.” The completion of the Napier-Wai-roa railway, with the provision of better transport for fertilisers and stock, may help considerably in developing the farming potentialities of that part of Hawke’s Bay, Mr R. P. Connell, of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture, Palmerston North, told the annual conference of the New Zealand Grasslands Association, at Dunedin yesterday. Mr Connell, who, with Mr I. L. Elliott, has been making an agricultural survey of the province, said there was evidence that the production of the extensive volcanic soils in the area served by the railway could be increased considerably. There was also evidence 'finch, while not conclusive, suggested that the production of other portions of the same area might be increased profitably.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for children’s backing cough.—Advt.