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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 16 August 1937, Page 6

The sum of approximately £4O, which was stolen from the premises of the Napier Club, on the Marine Parade, recently, lias been recovered. The money was found within a few hundred yards of the club building, where it had apparently been hiden by the thief.

When his motor-cycle skidded in loose metal early on Saturday morning Gordon Larking, aged 25, a railway employee, whose parents reside at Marton, received a severely crushed leg and was admitted to the Wanganui Hospital. The accident occurred near Nukumaru on the main road to New Plymouth about 18 miles from Wanganui. The motor-cycle became unmanageable, and fell on Mr Larking’s left leg.

_ A curious situation has arisen in the timber industry owing to the demand for heart material and the neglect of ordinary building timber. At a representative meeting of sawmillers operating along the Rotorua line, and in the Bay of Plenty and Taupo districts, it was decided that unless the demand for ordinary building timber improved, the question of producing less timber by the shortening of hours worked or the reduction of hands would have to be considered. With the death at Christchurch last week of Mr Randolph Harper at the age of 87 years there are" now only seven of the Canterbury pilgrims—the founders of the province of Canterbury—still living. All of them are at least 87 years of age, having arrived at Lyttelton in the First Four Ships in 18S). Mr Harper was the youngest of the remaining pilgrims, having been born on board one of the First Four Ships, the Randoli>h, after which he was named.

Rough weather in Foveaux Strait has caused a serious shortage of fish in Invercargill and blue cod, groper and trevalli are practically unprocurable.

With the idea of making it a centre of Maori arts and crafts, the Hastings and District Progress League is investigating the question of permanently preserving a reserve at Waipatu Pa.

On Saturday the two boys who escaped from the Weraroa Training Farm on Friday were re-captured and returned to the institution. One of them, however, has since made a second escape, in company with a third boy.

An old identity or Christchurch and an attraction of many years’ standing, Percy, a tuatara, died in the city a few days ago. An inhabitant of Johnson’s Fish Ponds, Woolston, for about 70 or 80 years Percy was offered for sale a few months ago when that amusement park was discontinued; since then he had been a great source of attraction in the roof garden of a city shop. The perfect weather experienced in Palmerston North during the weekend was enjoyed by a large number of residents. The sunshine yesterday was of appreciable warmth, and made it a pleasure to be out in the open, signs of an early spring being everywhere apparent. The promise of further fine weather given by the clear, cold night was fulfilled in another beautiful day to-day.

The golden jubilee celebrations of the Napier Baptist Church are at present taking place. Former ministers attending are Rev. M. W. P. Lascelles, secretary and treasurer of the New Zealand Baptist Union, and Rev. J. K. Archer, of Christchurch. Rev. J. J. North, D.D., principal of the New Zealand Baptist College, and Rev. W. S. Rollings, of the Baptist Missionary Society, are also participating in the celebrations.

After a campaign of eight weeks, the Levin queen carnival, which wos organised to raise money for borough improvement, has concluded. The result was a win for the Maori candidate, Miss Joyce Winiata, who secured a majority of 2551 votes over the sports candidate, Miss Molly McLean. The borough candidate, Miss Margaret Blenkhorn, was third. The final figures were: Maori, 26,988; sport 6, 24,437; borough, 23,177. The sum of £932 was raised.

While dealing with oyster poaching prosecutions in the Police Court at Auckland, Mr F. H. .Levien, S.M., related an amusing account of how oysters were obtained at any time of the year by European residents at Russell. He explained that there was an oyster bed at Russell, which was reserved solely for the Maori population. Maori domestics were therefore in demand, he said, as they could go to the beds and collect sufficient oysters for their employers’ meals whenever required to do so.