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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 19 August 1937, Page 8

A request was received by tlie Wanganui Education Board, at its meeting, yesterday, from the committees of the Palmereton North schools for the payment monthly in advance of school committee allowances. The board decided to pay the allowances monthly to schools of Grade 4 and upward. School committees have to budget ahead, and in many cases are compelled to raise overdraits,'’ said Mr M. H. Oram. “I think this is the fourth time in succession that the annual report has been adopted without any discussion,” remarked Mr N. Campbell, the chairman, at the annual meeting of the Awahuri Dairy Company yesterday, when the report and balance-sheet' was adopted without question. Mr Campbell commented that he did not know of any other similar company in New Zealand wherein such had been the case.

Early next month the new wireless transmission beacon on Baring Head will guide ships into Wellington harbour in all winds and weather during the hours between darkness and dawn, said the Minister of Marine (Hon. P. Fraser) in a statement, yesterday. In addition, when fog shrouds Cook Strait and the -waterway to the capital city, an electric eye will automatically warn keepers at the lighthouse station to switch over immediately from the clear weather programme to one indicating dense mist. —Press Association.

The opinion was expressed by Mr J. Muggeridge, entomologist attached to the Plant Research Bureau, who recently was transferred to Nelson, some time ago in an interview he gave a “Standard” reporter, that this spring the white butterfly might be expected to make an early appearance, and the experience in some city gardens already appears to bear but that expectation. Two have been killed in one garden, where there are icabbages, and four others have been seen within the last week, the fine days evidently bringing them out.

Cabinet met yesterday for the first time since the return to New Zealand of the Minister of Finance (Hon. W. Nash), states a Wellington Press Association message. At the conclusion of the meeting the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) explained that Mr Nash had reported to Ministers on his mission .abroad and the results of his negotiations for trade agreements with o+ber countries. Another meeting of the Ministry was to be held to-dav. he said, whefi it was hoped to fix the date for the opening of the coming session. In view of the fact that Mr Nash, "a' l ' Minister of- Marketing, had yet to examine the position regarding the current season’s guaranteed prices for dairy produce, it w.as unlikely the Government would be able to make a pronouncement in this connection for a few days yet.

Believed to be the same gang as carried out a number of burglaries in Masterton and surrounding district for several months, cojnpletely baffling the police, thieves on Tuesday night or "Wednesday morning broke into five different premises in Carterton and unsuccessfully attempted to enter another.

With only two dissentients, the Wellington Education Board yesterday, on the motion of Colonel T. W. McDonald, formally confirmed the resolution passe dnt the July meeting adopting a new by-law to permit of devotional exercises in schools. There was no discussion.

Travellers passing the site of the old Awahuri bridge on the main highway now find that the portion to be rebuilt, has been removed down to the water’s edge, only the concrete “feet” of the old structure remaining. Pile-driving apparatus has been erected at one end of the site of the new reinformed concrete bridge, and a commencement has been made with the erection of the new section. '■'The fact that nurses were sleeping in tents at the Masterton Public Hospital because of lack of accommodation, was revealed in the matron’s report submitted to the meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board. It was setated that two more rooms in the nurses’ home had been converted into double rooms to accommodate the four nurses sleeping in the tents, as the beds in the tents were discovered to be damp. An intimation was given yesterday from the Education Department to the Wellington Education Board that £SOOO was being provided this year for school and class libraries and that the hoard’s share would be £O3O. It was decided to write expressing appreciation of such a handsome grant. The chairman, Mr W. V. Dyr, said it was a wonderful step forward as it was a matter in which the board had been in difficulties for years. Libraries were one of the essentials for schools.

Speaking in reminiscent mood at last evening’s meeting of the Manawatu Racing Club, Mr L. A. Abraham, who has resigned from the committee after close oil 50 years’ service, 6aid that once he was prevailed upon to buy a racehorse. “It seemed alright to be an owner, you know,” he added, “but that horse had the record of never winning a race either at Manawatu or anywhere else.” Mr H. R. Cooper interjected to the effect that the horse once won at Ashhurst. “Oh, yes,” agreed Mr Abraham amid laughter, “but that was just after I had sold it.” “I am very pleased with the class of man we have as dairy factory managers in New Zealand,” remarked Mr N. Campbell, chairman of directors of the Awahuri Dairy Company, speaking at the annual meeting of shareholders yesterday afternoon. Mr Campbell was referring to a meeting at Auckland between representatives of the dairy factory managers and the employers, at which a complete agreement for the formulation of an award governing factory employees in the Auckland and Taranaki districts was arrived at. “The managers are all of a fine type,” 6aid Mr Campbell. 1 Among the several authorities on economics who have visited New Zealand in the past six months and more to 6tudy our new legislation and its palpable effects upon internal trade and living conditions generally is Professor Jesse S. Robinson, who arrived at Auckland yesterday on a vocation that will include an observation tour of the Dominion to note the effects of what lie calls our “New Deal.” He emphasises the point that he is not here as head of the department of economics at Carleton College, Minnesota, but as an unofficial observer, like those who came before him. The fact that a motor driving license which gives the right to drive a truck does not extend this right to any person under' eighteen years of age in the case of a truck weighing over two tons was stressed by Senior-Sergeant G. Sivyer, in the Hasctings Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when Russell William Spencer was charged that, being under 18 years of age, he drove in a public place a trade vehicle the unladen weight of which exceeded two tons. Senior-Sergeant Sivyer added that this provision in the law was apparently not generally known. The offender was convicted and discharged. Speaking before the Arbitration Court in Palmerston North, Mr E. W. Vickerman, who appeared for New Zealand Woolpack and Textiles, Ltd., drew the attention of the Court to an aspect of the .universal Saturday halfholiday proposal which has not hitherto been considered. “If a universal Saturday half-holiday is introduced it will bring about a drop in power consumption,” said Mr Vickerman, “and as power boards in this country purchase their power in bulk on a ‘peak’ load over a certain period they will find themselves in a serious position. _ If another day is to be introduced into the working week in addition to Sunday on which no power is to be used by the industrial concerns, then it is obvious that the power boards will be seriously affected and will in all probability have to take back some of those concessions which they have already granted to the private consumers in order to restore their .financial balance.”