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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 18 August 1937, Page 8

Although numbers of young single men are drawing sustenance in Auckland, the opening of the dairy season finds farmers in heed of hands and obtaining them only with much difficulty. The second death as a result of the hot pool tragedy at Ohinemutu over a week ago, when a Maori woman, Mi's Merana Konui, was badly scalded and died in hospital next day, occurred on Sunday, when the husband, Mr Panni Konui, who suffered severe scalds when he jumped into the pool in an heroic attempt to save his wife, also succumbed.

Chilled asparagus may figure shortly as a profitable item on New Zealand’s export bill. Mr' T. H. McCombs, M.P., in an address to the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, said that experimental shipments had been remarkably successful. NewZealand could command practically the whole English market for a certain period of the year, and the product could be shipped there for a good return and would arrive in very good condition.

Of 125 young men who have been trained as police constables at Trentham, four have been allotted to Hamilton. They are Constables D. T. Calder, D. M. Martin, L., A. Stacey and G. Tait. Constable J. T.-_McGrath, who for the last 16 years has been assistant clerk for the Hamilton police district, has been promoted to the rank of act-ing-sergeant and has been appointed chief clerk for the Hamilton district. Constable P. Watts, who lias been on plain clothes duty in the Hamilton detectivp office for several years, has been transferred to Kaitangata, Otago, where he will be in charge.

The secondary schools will close for the term holidays on August 20 and resume on September 6, stated a reSort presented to the High Schools hard last night.

Advice has been received by the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Palmerston North that the Court of Review will sit at this central commencing on August 26 for the hearing of appeals under the new mortgage legislation. Bright sunshine after frosty nights is doubly welcome by residents of Palmerston North and district, but gardeners with early crops do not appreciate the severity of the late frosts. On Monday night four degrees were registered, and one degree last night. A final check of the gate takings for the Rugby Tqst between. South Africa and New Zealand reveals an increase of £sl over the amount previously published. The actual takings were £BlBl 11s 3d, of which the Government will receive £929 in amusement tax.—Press Association.

"f “At the present peak of the boom, instead of ther§ being 37,000 unemployed and 22,000 men on sustenance there should not be a single unemployed person in New Zealand if Labour had succeeded in implementing all its election pledges.”—Mr Iv. J. Rolyoake, M.P., in an address at Otaki. Three shillings as conscience money were received by the management committee of- the Wellington Rugby Union last night from a first Test match patron, who admitted climbing from the western bank at Athletic Park, for which he had paid 2s 6d, to an enclosure seat worth 5s 6d. “An intersting arrival at the port of Foxton toKlay was the motor vessel Hokitika from Tarakohe. The vessel, which brought a cargo of 180 tons of cement, is commanded by Captain Nalder, under whose charge she has been engaged in the Wellington-West Coast trade for the past twelve months.

An unusual accident befell Mrs Jean Thorne, aged 26, the wife of Mr A. H. Thorne, a labourer, employed by the Public Works Department, at Te Akau, near Huntly, when she dislocated her neck while dressing. Mrs Thorne was taken to the Waikato Hospital, but her condition is not regarded as serious.

of the efforts the Minister of Finance, Hon. W. Nash, to promote New Zealand trade, not only with the Mother Country but also with Europe, Canada, and the United States of America, was expressed by the council of the Wellington Chamber of Comerce in a motion it carried last night. >/ The bell of the Marama, which is now on her way to shipbreakers in China, after 30 years of service, of which four years were spent as a hospital ship, has been presented by the Union Steam Ship Company to the National War Memorial Committee, who intend to place it, suitably mounted, in the carillon tower.

Huge sums of money passed through the totalisators at RUcearton and Addington in the six days’ racing of Grand National Week, which ended on Saturday. The total amount received in bets at the two courses was £303,616, an increase of £56,059, or more than 22 per cent, over last year. Though the figures are not a record, they approach very nearly to the peak.

Instructions to proceed with plans for a new Post Office at New Plymouth have been received by the architects, Messrs Messenger, Taylor and Wolfe.. The building will be of three floors and a basement and will include an automatic exchange. Building will probably not start until about the New Year. It is understood that the cost will be from £50,000 to £6o,ooo.—Press Association.

“All sections of the primary producers of the Dominion have now endorsed the compensating price campaign,” said Mr J. H. Furniss, honorary organiser of the campaign, when he returned to Wellington yesterday after a tour of the South Island. Mr Furniss said that successful meetings had been held at Invercargill, Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, Ashburton, Christchurch, Richmond and Roxburgh. Committees had been set up with the object of securing finance to organise the farming community effectively.

Because of a substantial increase in building costs, the Wellington Hospital Board has found it necessary to have prepared fresh estimates for the proposed new hospital block, nurses’ home and boiler house, states a _ Press Association message from Wellington. The revised estimates represent increases in the neighbournood of 25 per cent., raising the estimated total cost of the hospitals extensions and iprovements to a figure beyond that for which the loan authority was granted. Unless the tendering shows that the cost of the work, has been over-estimated, a fresh authority will have to be sought. '•’The Minister of Finance and Marketing, Hon. Walter Nash, passed through Miami, Florida, on bis journey to Panama. Noticing in one of the main streets a sign with the words “Tom Heeney” and a pair of boxing gloves underneath, Mr Nash entered the building to shake hands with Tom Heeney, the New Zealand boxer who fought Gene Tunney some years ago. He has been a cafe proprietor in Miami since December last and his business has been doing reasonably well. In conversation with Mr Nash he recalled Mr Semple and also the member for Gisborne, Mr D. Coleman.

A problem arising out of the .Education Department’s polioy of consolidation of schools has been causing concern to some teachers. In quite a number of cases recently the conditions of employment stipulate that the teacher must be able to drive the school bus. It appears, however, that, though the third-party risk covers others children in the bus, it does not apply to the children of the driver. The matter is engaging the attention of the New Zealand Educational Institute, which has had a legal opinion to the effect that, as the legislation stands at present, there is no means by which the children of the drivers can be brought within the scope of the third-party risk. The institute, it is understood, intends to ask the Government to have the position altered. Two graves overgrown with scrub were discovered in the bush by a roadman. Mr G. Hunt, two mdes on the south side of Jackson’s, West Coast, a few days ago. Mr Hunt was making a deviation to take off a bend in the main highway between Kumara and Otira, when lie noticed two big stones on which an attempt had been made to carve an inscription. On making further investigations, he found a red birch tree on which were carved the initials of three men, the year 1860, and the letters “R.1.P.” When the road to Otira was being constructed in 1864-1865, two men were killed by a falling tree; and the men were buried in the one grave. The fate of the other man is unknown. Mr Hunt communicated with Mr W. F. Harley, secretary of the Greymouth branch of the Automobile Association, Canterbury, and Mr Harley will make arrangements for a white fence to be placed round the graves.

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