Sheep’s Strange Behaviour.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 40, 15 January 1938, Page 8

Sheep’s Strange Behaviour.

A sheep which saw its face reflected in the window of the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd., in Ruataniwha Street, Wapukurau,'yesterday afternoon, charged the plate-glass at full speed, causing a loud report. The firm’s premises are near the saleyards, and this is the third time that one of its windows has been broken in this way. Railway Earnings.

A working profit of £39,546 is shown in the railway accounts for the fourweekly period ended December 11. This represents an increase of £7609, compared with the corresponding period last year, when the working profit was £31,937. The gross receipts for the four weeks were £601,874, an increase of £10,568, while expenses were £562,328, an increase of £2959. After 49 Years.

To receive a cheque for a legacy which was left him in his? aunt’s will 49 years ago was a pleasant surprise for an Invercargill resident recently. When his aunt died in Aberdeen m 1888 he was left an amount of money which was to come to him when he was 21. Many o'f ,the papers of the estate went astray with the result that as the yea.rg passed the money was forgotten until recently the man received a letter from a firm of English lawyers who advised that while going through a 40-year-old box of papers of a deceased lawyer they had come across the papers which had been lost. It took the lawyer’s letter nine months to reach its destination, but after a. delay of nearly half a century the man has received a - cheque for three times the original amount.

Angler’s Success. Tlie distinction of catching the first mako sharks from the Wanderer 11. at Whangaroa for this season has fallen to Mr F. Slater, of Palmerston North, who is on holiday in the north. Two of the sharks weighed 3151 b and another 2951 b. Peculiar Offence.

A plea of not guilty was entered by Reginald Childs, a car. painter, when charged before Mr J. H. Luxford in the Magistrates’ Court at Wellington yesterday with placing stickers on the window of a shop without the permission of the owners. The stickers bore the words ‘Help China, Refuse Japanese Goods.” Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs.

Dannevirke Hospital Expansion. After long consideration, the Dannevirke Hospital Board has accepted a tender for the building of two new blocks at the Dannevirke Hospital, the contract price being £35,215. A tender of £3138 14s for the heating installation was also accepted. ' The increased costs will necessitate the raising of a loan of £19,000, in addition to £25,000 already borrowed for the work. Hospital Costs.

Increased wages costs totalling £4OOO were incurred by the Taranaki Hospital Board last year owing to the introduction' of higher pay and additions to the staff required to do the work in the shorter hours. This year the increase is expected to be £6OOO on the old wages bill. As the total maintenance expenditure is £66,000, the severity of the effect of the increased wages cost can be easily seen. Vocational Guidance.

Under what is to be a national scheme, vocational guidance is to be included in the activities of the Auckland youth employment branch of the Placement Service. It will apply to members of both sexes up to 18 years of age. Already a woman member of the staff of the Seddon Memorial Techical College has been appointed vocational officer. Her task will be to attend to the girls. A male vocational officer has yet to be selected.

Cycle and Car Collide. In a collision outside the Palmerston North Hospital shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday, between a motor-cycle he was riding and a motor-car, Dennis Sullivan, aged 17, of Manson Street, Palmerston North, suffered a broken leg. The ear, driven by Mr H. M. E. Dymock, of Ruahine Street, turned into the gateway of Mr Dymock’s home and the motor-cyclist, following a short distance behind, swerved to avoid a collision, but just failed. Neither vehicle was seriously damaged. Unusual Pet.

For two years a farmer at Springburn, Canterbury, Mr T. H. Stevenson, has had as a pet on his farm, a hind which he captured when a faun at Cloudy Range, Mesopotamia Station, and which, during the holiday period, has attracted much interest among campers and visitors from Ashburton. The deer is now so tame that it will follow its owner round, and to prevent it from being a trouble, Mr Stevenson has often to keep it on a chain. In spite of its rather unnatural conditions of life, the hind keeps in excellent condition. Praise For Press.

“We in New Zealand are very fortunate in our newspapers, because 1 had the benefit of a diligent perusal of all kinds of papers in England and have come to the conclusion that 1 prefer the paper which makes a serious attempt to give news impartially,” said Mr Justice Blair, who has returned to Wellington after twelve months’ leave of absence. In every town in New Zealand one could find such unbiased papers, he said, but the difficulty in England was, that, unless two or three papers were read daily, one was inclined to get one’s outlook a little narrowed. Power Board Workers.

A further meeting of the Conciliation Council considering a new award referring' to the work of power board authorities in the Wellington district was held this week under the chairmanship of Mr M. J. Reardon, Conciliation Commissioner. At their previous meeting the parties had made certain recommendations as to clnuses in the proposed new award, but in view of the fact that a pronouncement had recently, been made by the Court of Arbitration concerning wages, the commissioner called the parties together again. Finality was reached on practically all points except wages, which are now being referred to the Court. Clerical Workers’ Award. Claims are to be filed next week foi a new Dominion clerical and office staff employees’ award. All districts in New Zealand will be included with the exceptions of Canterbury and Nelson, where existing awards do not terminate for some months. In other districts awards have been in force for 12 months and in some cases for a longer period. The union’s objective is to secure an award covering the whole of New Zealand, and including Canterbury and Nelson. The claims of the workers provide for increases in both minimum and maximum wages. An increase in the commencing rate from 15s to £1 a week is sought, and a maximum of £6, compared with £5 ss, provided for at present is claimed. For females 26 years of age and over a minimum of £3 15s a week is sought. The workers claim a 40-liour week.

Vandalism at Marton, Several serious cases of theft and vandalism which have occurred on the Marton Jockey Club’s property during recent months were the subject of discussion at this week’s meeting of. the committee. Recently the committee demolished a portion of the corrugated iron fence and allowed it to remain lying on the ground. Thirteen sheets of corrugated iron disappeared and a little later twelve more sheets were removed. The totalisator, house was entered, tickets and stationery to the value of about £ls being removed and destroyed. Prior to the recent summer meeting, the flower-beds were ransacked and the plants pulled out. This was done after an enthusiast had spent several months preparing the beds and attending to the flowers. Windows in buildings on the club’s property have been broken. Even after the roadside fences had been repaired, fresh -entrances were made bv the vandals.