Trade With Canada.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 259, 30 September 1940, Page 6

Trade With Canada.

The trade agreement between New Zealand and Canada, which is due to expire at the end of this month, has been extended for a further year till September 30, 1941.

'Severe Electrical Storm. ' A severe electrical storm was encountered by the flying-boat Awarua when about 400 miles from Sydney on her way to Auckland yesterday, and an electrical discharge fused the trailing aerial. The machine was not damaged or otherwise affected in any way, and all that the passengers knew of the incident was a brief flash of light. West Coast Battalion.

To begin an intensive course of training, the Wellington-West CoastBattalion lias entered camp on the Wanganui racecourse. Lieut.-Colonel D. A. C. Lilburne, E.D., is in command. The second in command is Major B. McLeod, M.C., the adjutant Lieutenant L. G. Cross, N.Z.S.C., and the battalion quartermaster, Lieutenant It. P. U. Parnell.

Road Signs Damaged. Damage caused to road safety signs is causing the Wellington Automobile Association considerable concern. It is understood that vandals have been systematically destroying the value of night reflectors placed on the Pare-mata-Paekakariki route. The reflector is of a special type to indicate road limits, the unit consisting of a standard which holds three reflectors set vertically. Slogan Criticised. “Rationing in any case should stand on its own merits and use of the Government-controlled radio is a piece of colossal impertinence,” said Mr L. H. Mirams (Otago) when discussing petrol restrictions at the annual meeting of the South Island Motor Union. “ ‘Save a coupon, save a life’ is not justified under any circumstances. It is absolute hypocrisy and deliberate misuse of the public’s patriotic feeling.”

Uncommon Coincidence. To w'rite his name in a visitors’ book underneath the autograph of his father who had inserted his name in the book 25 years before, was the experience of Private W. T. Adam, who is in Egypt, son of Mr A. Adam, of Invercargill. Private Adam visited St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church at Cairo, Where he was asked to sign the visitors’ book. After looking through the pages; he saw his father’s name which had been written during the last war. Private Adam’s name was then appropriately placed 1 underneath. Boy Loses Foot. i Through a mishap with gelignite on a farm at llua Itoa, near Dannevirke, Neville Cowley, aged 14, received injuries which resulted in the loss of his right foot. A bag of gelignite was hanging in the cowshed, and it is understood that the boy removed a stick of the gelignite and lit it with a match. Taking fright, he dropped the stick on the floor and trod on it to extinguish the flame. The resulting explosion shattered his foot, which was later amputated in Dannevirko Hospital. Economy of Paper. The extent to which paper is being saved in Britain is shown by a letter recently received by a Palmerston North resident from London. An old envelope has been used, the front of it having a slip of paper gummed over it to obscure the former address and to permit the new address to be written on it. The paper gummed on the front of the envelope lias the address of the sender, the Royal Academy of Dancing, printed on it, and appears, to have been specially prepared for this purpose.

For Patriotic Funds. Two witnesses in the " Magistrate’s Court to-day, when asked if they claimed expenses, replied that they did, and desired that they be donated to the patriotic funds. The total sum was 15s.

Tree Planting By Ex-Soldiers. One hundred and ten thousand trees, of 'which the most matured are 10ft high and have been in the ground three years, have been planted out by the Roxburgh Returned Soldiers’ Committee, while 11.000 seedlings are ready for planting. Rolls of Troops.

The printing of, the nominal roll of the First Echelon of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force is now under way and the preparation of the roll for the Second Echelon is receiving attention. The defence authorities hope to have it ready for printing in . the near future. Soldier Patients.

There has been a general outbreak of measles at the Ngaruawahia military camp, and many cases have been admitted to the AVaikato Hospital. On Friday there was 71 cases at the Hamilton West School annexe, and accommodation at the hospital and annexe was fully occupied.

Induction of Deacons. At St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church an induction of deacons took place yesterday morning, ltcv. J. Hubbard, minister of the parish, performing the ceremony. The deacons are Messrs G. H. Gills, L. C. Hawke, C. A. E. Hyde, D. G. McLennan, J. Murray, E. Persson, G. C. Petersen, H. F. Wilson and W. Young. Vehicles Unlawfully Taken.

A small motor-van owned by Mr R. McCulloch, of Palmerston North, was unlawfullv taken from Coleman Place on Saturday evening and was recovered this morning at Kendall's Line, Linton. It had been backed into a ditch, evidently in turning, and abandoned there. Only slight damage was caused. O.n Saturday evening a car owned by Mr C. McLeod, of Fitzherbert Avenue, was taken from Tokomaru and was recovered yesterday at the Ngawapurua bridge, between Woodville and Pahiatua, where it had been, run into a fence. The vehicle was damaged.

End of Rugby Season. The curtain fell on the 1940 Rugby season in the Manawatu when tha final w'liistle sounded at the patriotic funds match at the Showgrounds on Saturday. This year the players in the later games have, in most cases, been favoured with grounds which were considerably softer than is usual at the end of the season, and they were luckier than in some other centres where matches were postponed more than once owing to wet iveather. In the Manawatu there were several occasions, throughout the winter, where very heavy rain fell in the mid-week, the weather clearing for the week end. At Wellington there were several postponements owing to bad weather. Wellington-West Coast Regiment v B Company of the Wellington -West Coast Regiment will proceed to camp at the Wanganui racecourse by special train, starting from Palmerston North, at noon to-morrow, and at Feilding will be joined by C Company of the same regiment. Following a period of training at Wanganui tile regiment will proceed to the new military camp being erected at Waiouru for the remainder of its term of training. The officers of B Company are Captain S. E. Gilshnan. M.M., Lieutenant J. Coley and Second-Lieutenants J. Goodwin, G. Steggles, and D. R. Orton, with Company Sergeant-Major W. H. Taylor and Quartermaster J. M. Penman. C Company is under the command of Captain Ferguson, who lias with him as offioers Lieutenants Loch and Fawcett and Second-Lieutenant Raven.