A Good Result.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 5 June 1940, Page 6

A Good Result.

A queen carnival organised in aid of the ltotorua primary school realised nearly £IOOO. , Paekakariki Hill Road. An endeavour to have the Paekakariki Hill road kept open is to he made by the Wellington Automobile Association. Central District Enlistments. Enlistments in tbe Central Military District at the end of May totalled 13,690, of whom 9036 had been'passed fit, 1605 had been classed as permanently unfit, and 7284-had been sent to camp. The temporarily unfit at the end of the month was 728. The Patriotic Fund. ' Donations to the National Patriotic Fund now total £119,015, including £15,000 as the fourth instalment from the Fighting Services Welfare Appeal, £1250 from the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand, £4OO from the Post and Telegraph Association, and £lO from the Oroua Downs Social ClubThe total expenditure to dale is £65,000. Homes For British Orphans. In response to the suggestion recently made by the Mayor of Napier that New Zealand should provide homes for 25,000 British orphans, the Mayor of Palmerston North (Mr A. E. Mansford) has had a number of inquiries and citizens have already offered homes for about a dozen children. The matter has yet to bo olaeed before the City Council. Children’s War Effort.

Schools in the Wellington district are playing their part in the collection of money for the Sick, Wounded and Distress Appeal Fund. Yesterday the Wellington Girls’ College handed in £7O, every penny of which had been earned by the girls themselves. They have done jobs for their mothers, and have cleaned their fathers’ cars. They even cut their teachers’ hair. Officers Called Up.

A proclamation calling out the following for military service as from June! for the purpose,of the defence of New Zealand was issued yesterday by the Governor-General: Officers, war-rant-officers, and non-commissioned officers of the rank of sergeant and above,' and two corporals for each .platoon of the Ist Battalion, Auckland Regiment (Countess of Jlanfurly’s Owki) ; Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington’s Own) and Ist Battalion, Canterbury Regiment.

Member’s Ruse, A‘smile went-round the room at yesterday’s Wellington. Rotary Club luncheon when Sir Charles Statham, speaking- of the duties of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, said that at one time while he occupied the chair there was a member named McDougall. Mr McDougall always sat well to the right of the Speaker, and' to see him he had to half turn round. As- surely as he did that when the member was speaking Mr McDougall would say quite involuntarily, “I withdraw that.” He was known to have told his constituents in the far south that lie knew very well how to deal with the Speaker—and he did. The Benign Adolf. Can it be that the announcement of a new 'Hitler postage stamp for April 20 had any connection with the attempted assumption of new “protectorates”? a6ks “Lucio” in the Manchester Guardian. It is reported that the stamp in honour of the Fuehrer’s fifty-first birthday is-designed to show that “Hitler-is a kind man who loves children,” and it exhibits him as “bending down over a little girl.” Perhaps the “little girl” was intended to represent unhappy Denmark, or even the small nations generally ? It remains to be seen whether the finished article will give the desired impression of Hitler’s benignity ; it may convey an entirely different message to many of his subjects and to those who have reason to dread liis desire to “protect” them.

Coal Shortage. Though there has been a slight easing in. the shortage of coal in Wellington, dealers are still being rationed severely and have in' turn to ration customers. Keeping Fit At 95. Surprisingly alert in mind and active in body, Mr William Wilson, of Grey Lynn, Auckland, celebrated his 95th birthday by having a cold bath at five .o’clock in the morning and spending the greater part of the day on Cheltenham beach. A Wet Season.

The Middlemarch correspondent of s the Otago Daily Times says that, with a rainfall of 3.34 inches on 11 days, last month was the wettest May on record, only 43 points being recorded for the driest May on record. For the five months ended May 31, 13.70 inches were recorded against 6.05 inches for the same period last year. Demand For Houses.

“Certain classes of public buildings in,-Various parts of New Zealand will have to give way to the more necessary demand for homes,’ ’'• said the Minister of Housing (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) yesterday. He added that the amount of money which was-likely to be available by way of State advances was likely to be somewhat limited on account of the war; Return To Spinning Wheel.

Days of the spinning wheel and the distaff may'be revived in New Zealand as a result of the shortage of knitting wool for making garments for the troops. At the Wellington Chamber of Commerce meeting last- night, the suggestion was made that women should be encouraged to spin wool into worsted for knitting. A comrpittee was appointed 1 to look into the question. General Practitioner Scheme.

A plan for the introduction of the general medical practitioner scheme under the Social Security Act has been prepared by the Health Department for submission to the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. “Now that our plans are ready for submission to the 8.M.A.1 have no doubt that further negotiations will take place,” .said the Minister of Health (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) yesterday. Schoolboy’s Injuries. Edwin Berrv,' aged 15, eldest son of Mr and Mrs E. J. Berry, of 40Ashley Street, who suffered serious injuries in a collision in Grey Street yesterday between the bicycle he was riding and a motor van driven by Mr Thomas Reginald Deakin, carrier, of 26 Andrew Young Street, underwent a minor operation in the Hospital., He was reported to-day to be seriously ill. The victim is a pupil of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School. Acoustics in College Hall. During his address at the opening of the sheepfarmers’ week in the Massey College hall to-day the chairman, Professor G. S. Pereu, was interrupted by a member of the audience, who was sitting half-way down the hall, with a complaint that he could not hear. Professor Peren said that this was due to the acoustic'properties of the hall, and hearing would be much better if the hall was filled. However, lie obtained a strip of carpet to stand on while speaking. The sound waves passing through the body of a speaker standing on carpet, were absorbed, he said, and there was usually an improvement for the listener. He also said that he could not speak too loudly because the echo would then make matters much worse.

A Death Feast in Papua. Sir Hubert Murray has received an honour after death from the people of Papua that he would have valued more highly than any honour that a Government could have paid him in life (observes the Manchester Guardian). The Papuans have held a death feast' to commemorate him ; the first ever held for a European. The speaker at the feast said, “Governor Murray died on duty in February and we remember him and weep. Me are thinking of him, and, will always think of him, because he glided us well.” Iti would be difficult to describe the spirit and the success of Murray’s noble experiment more happily or more simply. The scene calls to mind a contrast. In 1594 the Danish explorer Scavenius was making his way along the river Tana in .East Africa and he wrote, “The natives were terrified at my white face, for the last white man they had seen was Dr. Peters.” Peters was a German colonial governor whose cruelties were exposed by the German Social Democrats and punished by the German Colonial Disciplinary Government. Peters was dismissed from his office. He was before his time, for his methods were those that the Nazis admire. They have now rehabilitated his memory and made him a hero With what 1 contempt would they regard Murray, whose death made his subjects weep because he had spread love instead of fear?