Order Not Annulled.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 253, 23 September 1940, Page 6

Order Not Annulled.

That the Order-in-Council which prevented the sale of dairy cows in cheese districts had only been held in abeyance and not annulled was stressed by Mr F. W. Doidge, M.P., in an address to Matamata farmers. Motor,-Cars at Races.

Petrol restrictions did not prevent keen racegoers from attending the Marton Jockey Club’s spring race meeting on Saturday. A total of 725 cars were counted by the Automobile Association officers in the club’s parking areas, and upwards of 100 more were parked in the streets adjacent to the racecourse.

Mishap to Minister. Hon. H. T. Armstrong (Minister of Housing) was involved in a minor accident at an intersection at Huntly on Saturday, when his car, which, was travelling south, collided with another car travelling north as it turned into the intersection. Mr Armstrong suffered a slight cut on the forehead. Soldiers’ Good Deed. - The Ist. Battalion, Wellington Regiment, encamped at Wanganui, adopted the orphans from the city institutions for the day on Saturday. Between them tlie battalion raised £25 for the 111 children in the Margaret Watt Orphans’ Home, the Wanganui Orphanage, Goiivillc,' the hosint.il and ‘ health camp, who were each given a present and entertained at high tea. Beautification of Streets.

Speaking at the opening of the Palmerston North Horticultural Society’s daffodil show on Saturday afternoon, the Mayor'(Mr A. E. Mansford) said that he had. been handed a note written by Mr J. H. Stevens by tlie the chairman of the committee, Mr A. W. Just, suggesting that in the 16 streets in Palmerston North named after native shrubs and trees, such shrubs or trees should be planted. The matter had been'previously referred to the council, said the Mayor, and it had been found that in some cases these trees or shrubs were unsuitable. However, the subject would again be referred to the city curator (Mr P. Black). Babies’ Goods For Troops. Hundreds of infants’ feeding bottles, bales of diapers, and gallons of codliver oil have been sent to the base for New Zealand and Australian troops in Egypt, according to a letter received from Britain. The writer said that some time ago _ quantities of stores were assembled in Britain for the civilian population of Finland. When Germany invaded Norway, one consignment was: stored. Subsequently, a high official directed that certain goods in storage be despatched to the. Near East. Several large packing cases duly arrived at an army base in Egypt. Opening them, officials were intrigued to find almost everything the men needed -when they -were younger. False Propaganda. German propaganda in many overseas countries, particularly among those in North and South America, has produced an impression that it was useless sending orders to England, as goods could neither be made .there nor shipped, according to statements made in letters received from British manufacturers by Auckland importers: In comment,on the fact that it had suffered a withholding of orders from abroad because of this propaganda, a Bradford manufacturing firm remarked that it was surprising that the/German stories were believed. There was no chance, of course, that Germany would be in a position to stop Britain’s export trade, and there were very large supplies of raw materials in England.

National Daffodil Show. Tlie executive of the Palmerston North Horticultural Society decided on Saturday to apply for next year’s National Daffodil Show to be held in Palmerston North. Quality of Prayer, >

“Passive prayer ia not sufficient; it must be active,” stated Dr. Herbert Sutcliffe, when addressing an audience in Wanganui in connection with the 24-hour relay prayer movement. Prayer was the putting of all that was finest into human relationship, he continued. Prayer should not only be for victory, but for our deserving of victory. Scout’s Long Ride. Keen to attend the annual birthday celebrations of the Conville Scouts, a former member who is now working in Palmerston North, cycled through on Saturday and returned home yesterday, making light work of the 100mile trip involved. He started off from Palmerston North on a motor-cycle, which broke down after about ten miles. Tlie Scout hitch-hiked back to Palmerston North, procured his bicycle, and set out again for Wanganui, arriving shortly after noon.

Soldier Invalids. A statement that soldiers who "were permanent invalids would bo placed in institutions under,the Health Department’s administration was made by the Minister of Health (Hon. H. T. Armstrong), when referring to a statement by the Mayor of One Tree Hill criticising what he called the policy of the Government in calling upon local bodies, through the hospital boards, to carry a share of the cost of providing hospital treatment for soldiers. Farmers’ Dissatisfaction.

“The farmers feel nothing but a sense of frustration. Nowhere have the farmers worked harder than in this district. But every promise made to us has been cancelled out. I would ask the member for Tauranga to tell us if the Government is in earnest when is urges us to increase production.” This was a question put to Mr F. W. Doidge, M.P., after he had addressed a crowded meeting of farmers at Matamata on the subject of increased agricultural effort. A Lake’s Treasures.

People are said to throw away their money at race meetings, but they do not do so in the lake at Wanganui r;« ecourse. This lake, a reproduction in miniature of the Serpentine in liyde Park, has been drained and cleaned by the men of the Ist. Battalion, AVellington Regiment, encamped at Wanganui. It yielded up a penny and a halfpenny and a wrist watch from its depths. Now the men use it for a swimming pool. It is also used as a repository for social offenders against unofficial laws of the rank and file. Shelter for Exhibits. ,

Though it wwas considered unlikely that New Zealand would ever be bombed by the enemy, the members of council of the Auckland Way Memorial Museum Institute have decided to take no chances of Jiaving the most valuable of its exhibits destroyed. It was reported at a meeting of the council that three “shelters” wore to be excavated, each 6ft. by 4ft. by 4ft. They would have cement walls, protected by sandbags, and the doors would bo of steel. At the first suggestion of a possible air raid the most valuable exhibits in the museum would be collected and placed in the “shelters.”

The Vernal Equinox. The occurrence of the vernal equinox to-day confirms the promise of spring that lias been evident for the past week or so, for the day of the vernal equinox is regarded as the first day of the calendar spring, although tho actual season generally begins a few weeks earlier in New Zealand. The sun to-day was vertically above the Equator, with the consequent equality of day and night all over the globe from which the word “equinox” arises. What is of more importance to New Zealanders, however, is that for the next six months the sun will be on the southern side of the equator, with warmer and longer days in prospect. A United Nation. .

Speaking at the official opening of tho daffodil 6how of the Palmerston North Horticultural Society, on Saturday, the Alay'or (Air A. E. Alansford) referred to the people of Great Britain coming through their great ordeal “with their chins up and their heads thrown back.” AA 7 o were proud to call ourselves British people when in Britain rich and poor, young and old, bore each other’s burdens, fighting as one nation to win, not only to save the British Empire, but also civilisation, from tho Nazi philosophy. It behoved us to stand together and forget political differences. / It did not matter in what direction our political sympathies lay—if we did not win we would just .have to do what we were told. AA’c had all something to do and should do it in the best way possible to help to win and to shorten, the war.