NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2451, 8 July 1922, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A boat carrying kerosene to the Dominion is due at an early date (states the “Wanganui Herald”). It is rumoured that with the arrival of this shipment a. further drop in price is likely to take place. There appears to have been a cut war between certain oil companies of late and when one firm dropped (id per case the other went one better and made 1/- reduction. Included in the grants made this year by the Board of Governors of the T. G. McCarthy Trust are the following:—All Saints’ Children’s Home, Palmerston North, £100; Brigidine Convent, Foxton, £SO; Catholic Convent (St. Joseph’s), Feilding, £4O; Convent of Mercy, Palmerston North, £75; Manawatu Willard Children’s Home and Orphanage, Palmerston North, £100; St. Mary’s Church Day School, Levin £25; St. Patrick’s Parochial School, Palmerston North, £6O; Sisters of St. Joseph’s Convent, Levin, £25.

“I have a great appreciation for the drinking prohibitionist,” remarked the Rev. R. B. S. Hammond at the conclusion of his prohibition address at Palmerston on Tuesday night, when asked by Mr J. A. Mahon if he considered it was a fair and proper thing for a man who was a member of a chartered club in Palmerston North, to attend a prohibition meeting and assist in taking up a collection in aid of the cause. Mr Hammond went on to state that ■i man might he a member of'Xelub not because it sold liquor,/Gut because of business reasons. That man might consider his club would be better for the elimination of liquor, and if he came boldly forward —not surreptitiously—there was nothing to be said against his action. The gentleman in question had acted in good faith, had every right to be present at the meeting, and personally the speaker was rather inclined to be proud of him. An examination of the wood infested by borer, which was forwarded to Mr David Miller, the Government Entomologist, of Mr A. Cummings, of Otahuhu, showed that the grubs were in a very young stage, and not long hatched from Ihe eggs (states the Auckland Star). The shape of the holes, combined with a microscopic examination of the grubs, tended to show that the insect was one which is already causing very extreme danger to buildings, so much so in fact that infested parts collapse. Mr Miller said the insect was of the “lm lm” type, but smaller. As the grubs grow they spread in all directions throughout the world, travelling for many feet if the hoard will allow. The infested wood becomes honeycombed and - greatly weakened. When full grown the grub measures about three-quarters of an inch in length, and transforms to the pupa within the wood. From this the adult beetle, a narrow-bodied insect about the size of the grub, emerges by cutting through the surface of the wood. Tn conclusion, Mr Miller remarked that this insect is included in a work lie is shortly producing and is one of the species on which be is working.