Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4419, 15 November 1934, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL

There were no fewer than 1910 motoi; cars at Milson aerodrome yesterday, according to check taken by the Manawatu Automobile Association which had charge of the parking arrangements. There were no accidents and a minimum, of delay, facts which satisfied the motorists.

Concern at the continued practice of stealing stock and woo! from farm premises by night was expressed by members of the Hawke’s Bay City Council at their monthly meeting. It was decided that the transport of stock by lorry at night should be prohibited, except by special permit.

At the Magistrate’s Court at Timaru yesterday, fines totalling £55 were imposed on two Waimate men for breaches of the Gaming Act. John Joseph Ryan was fined £ls and costs on the first charge and £lO on the second; and Richard Yesberg was fined £2O on one charge and £lO on other. As a result of being kicked and bitten by a stallion which he was leading from a horse, Charles Vincent was admitted to a private hospital at Feilding on Tuesday. The stallion bit him on the knee and kicked him after he had fallen' to the ground. He was rescued by a passer-by and taken to hospital after receiving medical attention. His condition is reported to be satisfactory.

An important conference to promote further co-operation and coordination between Australia and New Zealand in matters of defence will shortly be held in Wellington. Australia will be represented by Sir George Pearce, former Minister of Defence. The conference will synchronise with the visit to the Dominion of Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary of the committee of Imperial Defence.

A railway employee, Charles Gibson, was run down by an express train near Oamaru station on Tuesday and killed instantaneously. Gibson was cutting grass with a scythe, and was seen in the middle of the main line with his back to the express, which was approaching from the south, looking towards a shunting engine with a ralke of trucks approaching from the north. He was injured on the head, limbs and body.

After a retirement of two hours, a jury in the Wellington Supreme Court on Tuesday, returned a verdict in favour of respondent and co-respondent in the (rase in which Edward Morgan, Olympic champion boxer, sought a divorce from Norma Morgan, and at the same time sued Rangi Marsh, a well-known jockey, who was cited as co-respondent, for £SOO damages. The petition was dismissed accordingly. Costs on the highest scale were allowed Mrs Morgan.

“There is too much of this hanging to the centre of the road by motorists and not allowing other people to pass,” commented Mr .1. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court, when fining a Napier resident for failing to keep as far as practicable to the left of the centre-line of the highway near Shannon. Another motorist who passed on his wrong side (after sounding his horn and beingkept back over a lengthy distance) was charged with a.breach of the regulations, but was only obliged to pay the costs of the prosecution.

This week’s New Zealand Free Lance maintains the paper’s reputation for illustrations. Amongst the subjects featured are the Wanganui Jubilee, the Canterbury and •the Carterton Shows, the Riccarton races and theN.Z. Trotting Cup Illustration is also a strong point of the graphic letter-press, which incudes articles by F. T. Badcock on cricket, Don France on the English tennis players and the Melbourne Cup. An account of the arrival of-McGregor, the airman, at Melbourne, an article on the air passage of the Pacific and the first instalment of a New Zealander’s travels in Europe by Mr John Hardwick 'Smith, of Wellington, are other very interesting features.

An elderly woman, Mi's Esther Josephine Rooney, a widow, was knocked down by a car driven by Percy George Stevens in Timaru yesterday and died in hospital last night. The driver has been arrested.

An increase of 5 per cent, in all salaries as from October 1, and a liscontinuahee of rationing have been decided upon by the Auckland Harbour Board. The increase, in salaries will mean an additional expenditure of about £2,(500 a year. The thief or thieves who on recent Sundays have removed a number of guinea pigs from cages at the Cook Hospital, Gisborne-, possibly secured more than they bargained for. The guinea pigs are kept for experimental purposes, and the discovery that their number had been diminished caused a certain amount of concern among the medical staff, for the animals have been inoculated with various diseases such as tuberculosis, and persons handling them are liable to contract disease. Apart from the danger of infection, the removal of the guinea pigs has occasioned grave inconvenience to the hospital authorities, and it is stated that the recovery of some of the patients may be retarded. Mr J. W. S. McArthur’s 80-ton schooner-yacht Morewa is now being prepared for the AucklandMelbourne yacht race, which starts on December 8. The* distance is 1(530 miles. The big mainmast was being stepped in the yacht at Auckland yesterday afternoon and later this month she will have new sails made of Egyptian cloth, the same material as was used by the Endeavour in the America’s Cup contest. Other entrants for the race are: Captain S. Dibbern’s Te Rapunga (which is expected at Auckland to-day from Napier); Mr J. Wray’s Ngaaki (which is reported to have left Tonga for Auckland); Mr N. Parker’s Queen Charlotte (nominated by the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht dub), and the Suva yacht Seafarer, now on its way to Auckland. Struck by bales of wool that were being carted through it on a lorry one evening last week, the top half of the soldiers’ memorial arch at the entrance to the Kohukohu (Auckland Province) wharf collapsed and most of it fell into the harbour. One marble plate, bearing the names of about 50 soldiers, was smashed beyond repair, and several blocks of stone were damaged. The keytsonc of the arch, weighing about 2ewt., fell on to the bales of wool, the driver of the lorry, Mr D. Cureen, having a very narrow escape. In addition to the stone work, some of the bales of wool were thrown into the water, and. a length of railway on the wharf and a pontoon were damaged by the falling debris. Buoys have been attached to the sunken wool bales to facilitate their recovery. The monument, which was erected in 1927 at a. cost of £SOO, bore the names of about 100 men of the district who served in the Great War. It will be an expensive matter to repair the damage. According to the annual report of the Fire Brigades’ Inspector, Air R. Girling-Buteher, the population of Foxton is 1740, the rateable capital value £251,056, insurance companies premium income £151(5, number of fire calls, 4, fires involving loss of property 3, insurance on property involved ip fires £9082, insured fire loss, etc., .65341, uninsured fire loss £6712, authorised expenditure £391. The figures for Levin are: Population 2800, rateable capital value £759,576, insurance companies premium income £3398, number of fire calls 14, fires involving loss of property 5, insurances on properties involved in fires £1390, insurance fire loss, etc., £lOBl, total fire loss £lOBl, authorisedl expenditure £531. Otaki figures are: Population T 660, insurance companies premium income £1854, number of fire calls 3, fires involving loss of property 1, insurances on property involved in fires £I3OO, insured fire loss, buildings and contents £SO, authorised expenditure for the year ending 31st March, 1935, £366. “I’m quite convinced,” the wise man said, “Though coughs and colds abound, There really is no need for this, They should not be around. Don’t suffer coughs and colds at all, Be from them quite secure, Drive them away for evermore With Woods Great Peppermint Cure. 21.