Passengers For Abroad.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 53, 31 January 1938, Page 6

Passengers For Abroad.

Shipping companies report that vessels bound overseas will be well filled with passengers during the next tew months, and there are prosnects that the number of travellers will be in excess of those for many years past. Rail-Car Service.

Rail-cars will be running between New Plymouth and Wellington within a few months, according to Hon. 1). G. Sullivan, Minister of Railwavs. The date the cars would be brought into service was inquired about during the course of representations made to the Minister relating to general railway facilities at New Plymouth. Ready For Big Flight. Preparations for the flight of FlyingOfficer A. E. Clouston to New Zealand and back to England are now complete. It is not yet known, however, when he will leave England in the Comet. All arrangements for his landing arc in hand at Motueka, and preparations have been made to meet his needs should he decide to call first at New Plymouth. , Damage to Plant. During the week-end considerable damage was done to the plant of the Palmerston North River Board, boats being interfered with, seats removed, wires cut and chains taken. “This is not the first occasion,” said the advisory engineer (Mr E. Fisher) in reporting the occurrence to to-day’s meeting of the board. “It has been going on for a long time.” It was decided to place the matter in the hands of the police.

Grass Fire. At 11.20 a.m. to-day the Palmerston North Fire Brigade was summoned to extinguish a grass fire which had broken out on a property at the northern end of Rangitikei Street. No major damage was done. Railway Picnic. Fourteen carriages were required to transport the 600-odd persons who attended the annual railway staff picnic at Paekakariki yesterday. The weather was fine and an enjoyable day was spent. Return to School. With the termination of the school vacation, this week, lor many pupils there lias arrived an extremely busy period for the Railway Department. Throughout Saturday large numbers or children left Palmerston North by rail, on their return to school, whilst a number also left the trains continually passing through the city. The numbers travelling to-day were again large. Manawatu River Works. Reporting to the Palmerston North Rive*- Board to-day, the foreman ot works (Mr A. Lane) stated that on Tuesday last the river gauge at ! itzherbert bridge had registered, 11 feet of water, which was the highest recorded since December 22, 1936. when the reading was lift Bin. No damage, it was stated, had been done to the board’s protection works by the flood ; in fact, the extensive deposits of silt between the groynes and in the willows along the hanks would have- very beneficial results. Chilled Beef Trade. Commenting on the chilled beef quota, in an address at Waikanae, Mr A. P. O’Shea, Dominion secretary of the Farmers’ Union, stated that it was futile for New Zealand to liave its quota increased while the chilled beer industry was not getting a fair spin at this end. If the watersiders continued their present tactics, it would be useless for New Zealand to obtain bigger quotas of the English supply for the industry was being strangled in New Zealand. Fruit Juice Industry. That the development of a fruit juice industry in New Zealand on the basis adopted in Europe would be most desirable was an opinion expressea by Mr F. S. Pope (Wellington), president of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, at the annual conference at Christchurch. In Europe, he said, sales had amounted to millions of gallons annually. Fruit of a relatively inferior grade and unsuitable for export was used for the manufacture of the juice, which was very palatable. Catholic Centenary. The celebrations in connection with the establishment of the Roman Catholic religion in New are to commence in' Auckland on Saturday, February 26. The date does not exactly coincide with the arrival in the colony of Bishop Pompallier, the First Vicar Apostolic of Western Oceania, for he first set foot on New Zealand soil at Hokianga on January 10, 1838, and celebrated Mass for the first time in New Zealand on January 13 of the same year, says an exchange. “No Bigger Business.” \ There was eno bigger business in New Zealand than that of politics, stated Hon. A. Hamilton, Leader of the National Party, when speaking at a garden party held at Rongotoa on Saturday by the party’s supporters. He added that no business, either, so materially affected the liberty and happiness of the people. Parliament, in the last Appropriation Bill before the House rose, passed £54,000,000 for expenditure. It was necessary that people used to handling big money by big business methods should see that it was wisely spent—and no more should be collected than was necessary. Schoolboy’s Distinction. An unusual'distinction lias fallen to Samuel Gilhooly, aged 12 years, son of Mr and Mrs H. Gilhooly, Pungareliu, Taranaki, *wlio will leave this week for Oamaru to attend St. Kevin Christian Brothers’ College, having won a scholarship which is offered annually by the college. He also entered for scholarships offered annually for the Sacred Heart College, Auckland, and St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream. He was placed second at Auckland and third at Wellington. The South Island scholarship was accepted in preference to the other two. He is a nephew of Dr R. Gilhooly, now living at Wellington, who also received his early education at Pungarehu and had a brilliant scholastic career.