Music Scholarships.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 258, 28 September 1940, Page 6

Music Scholarships.

The creation of a capital fund of £2400, to be known as the Centennial Festival Music Scholarship Fund, which would be under the control of Auckland University College, was decided on at a meeting of the metropolitan executive of the Auckland Provincial Centennial Council. Pupils Injured by Explosion. An explosion occurred at the Tauranga High School in the course of an experiment for the collection of hydrogen. One pupil, Russell Stevens, suffered a severe injury to an eye from flying glass, and several other pupils received scratches. The boy Stevens was taken to Hamilton, where an operation was performed in an effort to save the eve.

Financing The War. Additional contributions of interestfree loans and donations for war purposes-, bringing the total received up to £2,585,246, were acknowledged yesterday by the Minister of Finance. The members of the New Zealand Workers’ Union have forwarded a cheque for £I2OO as a gift to ihe War Expenses Fund, and it was indicated that this would be followed by a further substantial sum. Loans include Anonymous, Canada, duration, £2250 15s lOd. Lepers Discharged As Cured. A Medical Board has just completed an examination of the patients at Makogai, with the result that another 43 of their number are now free to return to their homes. We may imagine tile joy_ of the mothers who are to be reunited with their children, some of whom may not even recognise them, says a statement issued by the Makogai Lepers Fund. The kindness of many New Zealand friends has kept the patients in a cheerful and hopeful frame of mind. This has considerably helped in the cure. Dr. C. J. Austin, the medical superintendent, is loud in his praise of New Zealand’s assistance, ill bringing about this splendid result. Comforts For Soldiers. “Some letters which have come under notice recently show that apparently there is still some lack of appreciation of the position in respect to comforts for the First Echelon of the N.Z.E.F. in . Egypt,” says a statement issued by the secretary of the National Patriotic Fun Board (Mr G.' A. Hayden). These men had been supplied by the board with sports gear, games, writing materials, song books, radio sets, coffee and milk, lemons, soda, water, pianos, hooks and magazines, for use on the voyage, as \ ell as goods to be awarded as prizes on hoard ship, and other articles intended for use on disembarkation, including tinned fruit marquees and mockery. Sums totalling £6735 in New Zealand currency for fit men and £6050 for sick and wounded had also been remitted to Egypt. It was most regrettable that the follow-up in the nature of gift parcels, 5000 cases of apples, and more books and periodicals did not arrive in Egypt, because of the diversion to the United Kingdom of the Second Echelon, with whom the goods wore sent, but as soon as this position becanio known steps were taken to meet it.

Gift of Ambulances Pharmaceutical chemists throughout New Zealand have raised among themselves during the last few months £1467 10s 6d for the purchase of two ambulances for service with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Trinkets Given Away.

A great variety of articles is being received in Wellington’s scrap metal collection. There are toy lead soldiers by the thousand, gold rings, silver lever watches, pewter, white metal and silver articles, in addition to the more eomm'on metals.

Commercial Travellers’ Appeal. The Palmerston North Commercial Travellers to date have raised over £4OOO for patriotic purposes. Of this amount £IOOO has been donated to the Spitfire Fund and the balance will be handed over-tb the Mayor, Mr A. EMansford, for the fund for rehabilitation of soldiers. Gift of Military Pay.

The following letter has been received by the First Battalion, Wellington Regiment, now at Wanganui from an ex-member: “I have to thank you for your letter enclosing pay warrant for £1 4s 8d out of camp pay. As I was discharged from the regiment 1 did not feel entitled to this money and so I sent it to the Spitfire Fund ’in Wellington.” Batttery For Camp. Members of F. Troop of the Fourth Battery, Second Field Regiment, who have been in training in Palmerston North for the past month, will enter camp at the Foxton racecourse on Tuesday next to continue their training. There will be about 80 men from this centre, and they will be augmented by 110 from the Napier area. A draft from the ballot for service is expected to bring the strength shortly up •to 270. Centenarian’s Death. The death has occurred of Mr Jonathan Hadfield, a Maori, of Takaliuc, who was believed to be 112 years old. Mr Hadfield was a well-known figure to members of the early missionary families and was a grown man when' many of them were small children. Though an adult, he attended the Pukepoto Native school when it was first opened, and after leaving there was further educated at St. Stephen’s College, Auckland. On the Soft Pedal.

When giving evidence in an action in the Auckland Supreme Court, a Maori witness, who thought he .would be about 67 years of age, in answer to counsel, .said it was true that in the early days Maoris at Taupo had more than one whare to live in. He explained that when the fish came in plentifully, the Maoris would live near the lake. “But, I suppose I shouldn’t say it,” he added, “when the pigeons were plentiful, the Maoris lived in the whares near the bush.” Maori Measurements.

“The Maori never had any idea of distances from the pakeha viewpoint,” said Mr C. T. Newton, native interpreter, giving evidence in the Auckland Supreme Court. “He never had a set idea of miles or chains or anything like that. He remembered his distances solely' by the natural features.” In answer to Mr Justice Faij-, witness said the Maori did not use any measure of distance like a stone’s throw or a spear’s throw, but would sometimes speak of the two arms outstretched to represent about 6ft. The Maori never had any idea of an acre, lie added. VRailwayman Injured. Serious injuries were sustained by a railway surfaceman, Robert Stanley Hill, of Boundary Road, Palmerston North, married, aged 32 years, when he was struck by the engine of a train proceeding towards Runnythorpe and dragged for a distance of about two chains, yesterday afternoon. Mr Hill, who was a member of a railway gang employed about 400 yards from the Kelvin Grove crossing, had just ceased work. He was removed to the Palmerston North Hospital where one of his legs had to be amputated. The Hospital authorities to-day described his condition as serious.

Anglican Church Anniversary. To-morrow is St. Michael and All Angels’ Day, and it is interesting to recall that on the corresponding day 65 years ago the foundation stone of the first Anglican Church in Palmerston North was laid —on September 29, 1875. The ceremony was performed by the late Mrs G. M. Snolson, and the late Rev. Henry Bevis was the priest in charge of the district, which at that time extended from the Rangitikei River to the Manawatu River. The name of All Saints’ was not given to the original church, but to that which succeeded it. Airmen’s Gallantry.

To receive the Distinguished Flying Cross with which Pilot-Officer F. AV. Tacoil had been decorated and later advice that lie had been promoted to be flying-officer, was thj experience of his mother, Mrs E. R. Tacon, of Hastings, this week. The citation accompanying the award stated that two officers, Pilot-Officers Tacon and G. Edwards, a Canadian, while flying together, acting as pilot and navigator alternately, made most daring reconnaissance flights in search of , a German cruiser. They attacked three flagships and scored many hits in the face of heavy anti-aic-raft fire. A few days later they made a reconnaissance of Haugesund and took photographs from a height of 50ft. On the following day they made a reconnaissance rf Frederieksliaven, and flew so low over the harbour that in the moonlight they were able to make snre that a warship' for which they were searching was not there.